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Post by The Escapist on Nov 30, 2018 16:03:48 GMT -5
So obviously certain songs can "take you back" to different points in your life, whether because of the tracks distinctive mood and lyrics, or simply because you listened to it a lot at the time. This thread is where you can post such a song, and describe the time/place/moment of your beautiful existence that it takes you back to. I'm gonna start off with one I just listened to, Blood Bank by Bon Iver: This track takes me back to the early blue hours of the morning only a few months ago when my girlfriend broke up with me and I was, to say the least, devastated. I had never previously been that fond of the track, but at that moment Justin's voice and the warmth of the guitar, combined with his beautiful lyrics, was like a fire in the cold, and I honestly must have listened to it about twenty times in a row - learning the lyrics, enjoying the instrumental, and eventually singing along. There's a kind of Christmassy pain to it that I love, and the twist in the tale is that me and Her are now extremely close again, so the track has taken on a great mix of joy, pain, and melancholy for me. So, does anyone have any other such tracks/moments? They don't have to be as self-pitying as mine, I'm sure many a happy memory is conjured up by the sounds of Oasis
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Post by matt on Nov 30, 2018 20:27:24 GMT -5
Ah but these songs and explanations are usually ‘self pitying’ as the song provides much needed comfort! Quite an appropriate thread as all that Coldplay talk, and particularly the X&Y discussion, made me revisit them in the last week for the first time in an age. And I said Talk was the best song on X&Y and it may be purely nostalgic reasons as I thought back to the time I first heard it in late 2005.
I’d just turned 15 when I first heard it, and it was released around December 2005. And the island I grew up on, as beautiful as home is, I can only remember the utter bleakness of the winter up north, with raging storms causing power cuts, leaving many nights in candlelight while hearing the world outside howling. And daylight, for how dim it was at that time of the year, only seemed to last a few hours. Combining that harsh isolating environment with teenage angst and lyrics like ‘I’m so scared about the future’, ‘in the future where will I be?’ and ‘nothing’s really making any sense at all’ struck me really hard. Not poetry but simple and direct and it was the first ever song that resonated with a sense of anxiety and dread that before that age personally never existed before then.
That was then, and 13 years later, that ‘future’ is now so listening to it today feels like I’m at the other end of a journey through space and time, and the only reason I feel that has come full circle is because I don’t get those feelings of anxiety or dread anymore. Physically I’m a long way away from that now living in London which is another world from 13 years ago, and emotionally too, there’s always special people in life I can rely on and I nonetheless always find a sense of purpose without any sense of dread.
The song itself, aside from the relevant lyrics, I can’t really explain it. Maybe it’s more meditative than I realise. Maybe it’s that ability to take the haunting motif from Computer Love by repeating it over and over again (with both guitar melody and vocal melody) and extracting every drop of melancholy from it more than Kraftwerk did themselves. Out of curiosity, I’ve looked at the YouTube comments and the one constant comment that comes up is ‘nostalgia’. Weird then to think that it’s just one song that offers that same sense of reflection - yet to so many unique and individual experiences.
The thing is, it’s not the most original song, its not groundbreaking in anyway and it’s not saying anything unique, yet for some reason it has more impact than songs deemed of greater value. But such is the mystery of music you just have to submit to your subconscience and admit there must be some higher truths that defy explanation.
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Post by htd78 on Nov 30, 2018 20:43:13 GMT -5
This is a nice topic. I was actually listening to “Unemployed Boyfriend” by Everclear last night, & it totally took me back to my 20s. Just no reason. Never even really listened to the song “in depth.” The lyrics just reminded me of a lot of “crazy” things & the people I did them with/for.... This is gonna sound A little obsessive A little bit strange I have one thing to say Before I turn and I walk away This is gonna sound A little impulsive This is gonna sound A little insane g.co/kgs/2S75ef
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Dec 4, 2018 1:06:51 GMT -5
I guess I was trying to find my feet at 25, but Nietzchke and indeed Crowley can be likened to each other in their insanity periods (Crowley likened himself to The Beast and The book of law contains a nod to him, that's another thread). Anyway, Hansi's voice has stuck with me both Blind Guardian and countless guest appearances.
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Post by yeayeayeah on Feb 21, 2019 0:13:45 GMT -5
Slade-Merry Xmas Eveybody. Not a popular Christmas song in New Zealand, so takes me back to my British childhood.
All the songs from the Care Bear movies. A lot of them are actually pretty great.
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Post by mancraider on Feb 21, 2019 5:22:53 GMT -5
Reminds me of my final year in school and sitting exams 😕
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Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Feb 22, 2019 16:17:14 GMT -5
1991 a mates house and the 1st time i took acid
this song blew my head off
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Post by Gin & Tonic on Feb 23, 2019 3:26:16 GMT -5
PETER PAWLETT BABY!
Can't believe it's almost 5 years ago now, one of the best days of my life finally seeing us win a trophy. Ended up in here as well, halcyon days.
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Post by mancraider on Feb 23, 2019 3:47:54 GMT -5
Reminds me of my final year in school and sitting exams 😕 See also
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Feb 24, 2019 11:33:55 GMT -5
Two songs with the same title, differnt bands however:
Sydney siege in 2014
Scaring a scientologist with the Train of Thought cover
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Feb 24, 2019 12:52:49 GMT -5
I’ve said this many times on here: My iTunes library dates back to 2003. I never delete songs. While a lot of what goes back more than a decade is quasi embarssing and never really listened to anymore, those songs are the soundtrack to my life so when I do listen to them, I’m taken right back to High School.
I absolutely love how memories and songs are connected; it’s unique way to travel back in time.
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Post by mimmihopps on Feb 24, 2019 13:33:49 GMT -5
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum.
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Post by morning_rain on Feb 28, 2019 13:24:10 GMT -5
The Decemberists - Engine Driver
It takes me back to my first year at university. It was just a few months before I met my current girlfriend and the people who are now my best friends. I remember being on a bus in autumn, listening to this song and carrying with me all my fine arts material, feeling really excited about starting a new chapter in my life and looking at the grey skies through the window. I felt like the main character of an indie movie and somehow I knew that someday I'd look back to that day with nostalgia.
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Post by funhouse on Feb 28, 2019 15:47:41 GMT -5
I remember being in the car with my family, the Nirvana Unplugged CD that I had recently bought was there as well, so we decided to put it in.
Back story: I was brought up religious and I think probably 85% of my relatives are too. I stopped believing when I was about 10, but back then(at 16/17)I was yet to "come out of the closet" and tell them about it. Not that it was something I really feared, but it was just a subject that was too uncomfortable to touch. I don't like to talk about it now that I'm an official non-believer either, but that's mainly just because I don't want to know what my parents are thinking when they think about religion. They are reasonable people, but when it comes to God and that stuff their brains tend to fly out the window. Anyway...
We're listening to the album and this song comes on:
A while in my parents start exchanging looks, and I wonder what's going on. Then I start paying some attention to the lyrics, and it doesn't take long before I understand what this song is really about. It was the most savage atheist song that I had ever heard! "Don't expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die, don't ever ask your love of me". That's just brutal, somebody give Jesus a break!
I wanted the song to be over so badly, but I couldn't ask them to change it, because then they would know that I knew that they knew... How I miss that paranoia.
Bonus fact: The same summer I bought that CD)(holiday in the US) I also bought a Nirvana tshirt which had a text on the back that I didn't find out about until I put it on and showed it to my mom who went completely silent, probably in shock. The text read as following: "FUDGE PACKIN CRACK SMOKIN SATAN WORSHIPPIN MOTHER FUCKER". Way to blow my cover, Nirvana!
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Post by globe on Mar 1, 2019 2:14:27 GMT -5
Reminds me of my final year in school and sitting exams 😕 See also Street Tough, brilliant record. That song also reminds me off my last year in high school. Some great stuff realised in 1989/90 a great time to be discovering music.
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