Musical memories
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plonqLet me preface this by saying five words that probably don't belong together in a sentence: Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke. Overall not as sweet as I was expecting. The vanilla flavour is definitely more pronounced than the black cherry taste. I don't mind this stuff at all, but I think that it's going to appeal to a very narrow palate.
Anyway, on to the main topic of this post.
It's odd how some songs trigger specific memories. The song that I am listening to as I write this (see header) recalls memories of playing Doom 2. While many songs carry memories with them, some have especially strong links.
Nine Inch Nails - anything off Downward Spiral
Doom 2. Any time I listen to a cut off this album, it just doesn't seem complete without the grind of a chainsaw, or the thunder of shotguns and screaming monsters. Back when I was playing Doom 2, I would drop this CD into the drive and crank the volume on both this and the computer so that the whole place was shaking. I'm surprised that the neighbours didn't complain. Curiously enough, Lyle Lovett - I Love Everybody conjures similar memories.
Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Counting Crows - Mister Jones
Both of these songs give me flashbacks to working late nights in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. They had a radio in the yard office tuned to a pop-40 station that had a 2ish hour rotation. In the 6 weeks that I worked in that office, I heard these two songs played back-to-back four times a night, every night. The Cranberries - Linger makes me think of the fleabag hotel where I was living at the time. I had purchased the CD earlier in that summer, and I often listened to it while I read away the boring evenings before work.
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
These songs are best heard blaring on a tinny AM radio while playing pool in the basement of my parents' house during the summer. Good times. My pool game has not improved a whit since then. Some of us were not fated to have hand-eye coordination I guess.
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Back into the parents' basement for this one - though a different house and a different time. This still goes back a few years, to the last time that we ever had the whole family together for Christmas - including nieces, nephews and grandkids. The house was overflowing with people, and my younger brother and I got relegated to the heated crawlspace under their house. We hooked up a set of self-powered Denon speakers and a CD player, hit play and killed the lights for the night. Lying there in pitch black, listening to this ethereal music echoing hauntingly from all sides is a memory that I won't soon forget.
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
I had just bought The Plonqmobile the year prior, and this was the first time that I had taken it on a long road trip. While most might not consider this to be "driving" music, I found it apropros for the time. I had to crank the volume on this one in order to hear it over the roar of the wind through the open windows and sunroof as I flew at inappropriate speeds through the Thompson River Canyon. I don't think I ever felt more unfettered in my life than I did that day.
Any of you out there in Livejournal land have any songs tied to memories, good or bad?
Anyway, on to the main topic of this post.
It's odd how some songs trigger specific memories. The song that I am listening to as I write this (see header) recalls memories of playing Doom 2. While many songs carry memories with them, some have especially strong links.
Nine Inch Nails - anything off Downward Spiral
Doom 2. Any time I listen to a cut off this album, it just doesn't seem complete without the grind of a chainsaw, or the thunder of shotguns and screaming monsters. Back when I was playing Doom 2, I would drop this CD into the drive and crank the volume on both this and the computer so that the whole place was shaking. I'm surprised that the neighbours didn't complain. Curiously enough, Lyle Lovett - I Love Everybody conjures similar memories.
Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Counting Crows - Mister Jones
Both of these songs give me flashbacks to working late nights in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. They had a radio in the yard office tuned to a pop-40 station that had a 2ish hour rotation. In the 6 weeks that I worked in that office, I heard these two songs played back-to-back four times a night, every night. The Cranberries - Linger makes me think of the fleabag hotel where I was living at the time. I had purchased the CD earlier in that summer, and I often listened to it while I read away the boring evenings before work.
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
These songs are best heard blaring on a tinny AM radio while playing pool in the basement of my parents' house during the summer. Good times. My pool game has not improved a whit since then. Some of us were not fated to have hand-eye coordination I guess.
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Back into the parents' basement for this one - though a different house and a different time. This still goes back a few years, to the last time that we ever had the whole family together for Christmas - including nieces, nephews and grandkids. The house was overflowing with people, and my younger brother and I got relegated to the heated crawlspace under their house. We hooked up a set of self-powered Denon speakers and a CD player, hit play and killed the lights for the night. Lying there in pitch black, listening to this ethereal music echoing hauntingly from all sides is a memory that I won't soon forget.
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
I had just bought The Plonqmobile the year prior, and this was the first time that I had taken it on a long road trip. While most might not consider this to be "driving" music, I found it apropros for the time. I had to crank the volume on this one in order to hear it over the roar of the wind through the open windows and sunroof as I flew at inappropriate speeds through the Thompson River Canyon. I don't think I ever felt more unfettered in my life than I did that day.
Any of you out there in Livejournal land have any songs tied to memories, good or bad?
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Date: 2006-04-06 01:51 am (UTC)We used to play their albums nonstop while playing (muting the game's music of course)
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Date: 2006-04-06 05:35 am (UTC)The first vinyl music album I bought, and there have been few since then, was Oxygene. I was looking for the background music that was used in The HitchHiker's Guide, and I had the scripts, which mentioned music credits. What I didn't realize is that there were several versions of the radio serial, so what I was looking for was not on the album. But man, that was an intense album for me when I first heard it.