This'll be a quickie, because it's late and there are some things that I should be doing that I am in fact not doing at this current place and time.
I've gotten a couple really good songs recently, and when I listened to them for the first time, they literally gave me chills. The music was that good. Somehow simply hearing a combination of sounds gives me a physical and emotional reaction. Like when I play Eminem while entering the school and strut in like a b0$$. Certain songs can literally lift (or lower) my mood.
Music, in a strange way, is also a deterrent against the blending of memories into one mish-mash of monotony and occasional excitement. When I shuffle my music library and a song comes on I can pinpoint when (within a month) I got it and what was going on in life at that time. Similar to a picture, it gives me a weird flashback or snapshot of the time period that it originated from. My "Best of" CD's for Queen, the Who, and the Rolling Stones are embedded in my memory as a 16th birthday present, while I got most of my music by the Roots right after the winter of junior year.
People say that music is slowly becoming worse and worse. I guess in some ways it is. But if that were true, the songs that I listen to now wouldn't have the effect on me that they do, because they would be bad. Yet particular songs can take me away from where I'm sitting to a completely unique place. Treasure your music and consciously remember it, instead of mindlessly getting a bunch of songs.
If you do, your music can become a sort of scrapbook of your life, which I find to be a really interesting concept to think about.
Let me know what you think about this and whether I'm just crazy or this actually makes sense to you.
Regardless of all that ^^^^^^^^, get LA Woman by The Doors. One of my all time favesies.
Same shit happens with me; about 80% of the songs on my iPod bring me back to the first time i listened to them (or listened to them frequently), and this often invokes painful but valuable nostalgia, mostly if it's a song about love or girls. This is David by the way, and I hate the Doors.
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