Ok, here's a frivolous post. LOL! I'm sure this happens to some of you. I love music and often l have associated certain music with things I was doing at the time, or obsessing over. I remember as a freshman in HS, crushing hard on this girl. I never spoke to her even once. I only admired her from afar and came to associate this song to her:
Then, another time, I remember reading the Peter Benchley novel, The Deep (later made into a feature film with Nick Nolte and Lou Gossett Jr. Robert Shaw, and Jaqueline Bisset). I read much of this book wearing headphones and listening to Kansas, Leftoverture:
There is other music I have become very emotionally, sometimes painfully, linked to. What about you?
Nearly every song I love has a good or painful memory built in. Way too many to list. But, just a few:
Helen Reddy’s Me and You Against the World is raising my daughter as a single mom.
I Will Never Be the Same by Melissa Etheridge is after my live-in like-married ex cheated and left us.
Train’s Drops of Jupiter is my fiancée who died a couple months after it came out.
Trace Adkin’s You’re Gonna Miss This is driving my daughter to do senior portraits—tearing up now.
Tons more. I think this is commonplace for probably everybody.
The Kansas albums brings back memories of my first apartment after I moved out from my parents house. That album was on the stereo a lot......
Doesn't hurt a bit that it's a pretty awesome album. I remember buying a "remastered" version of this on vinyl. Then digital music took over the world. LOL!