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Wow! It’s Wednesday! Time Machine Songs
So the other day I was in the shower, and “Hypnotize” by Notorious B.I.G. came on. It was almost like I heard a time machine sound effect, because the next thing I knew, I was a college student again, attending a BSA party at Smith, riding in the passenger seat of my best friend’s car as we sang along with the chorus– this was the spring break after both he and my mother died. I could see my own hands unwrapping the double CD and playing that track first before I would listen to anything else on the album.
I could see it all so clearly, and I would have been surprised, except that’s what happens every single time I hear “Hypnotize” on the radio. If that song comes on, I am immediately transported back to 1997. It’s the equivalent of releasing a memory bomb inside my brain.
Do you have any songs like that? Songs that bring on a rush of memories from a certain year every time they come on the radio? Sound off in the comments!
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” was a favorite song of a friend who had passed. The day after his funeral, my pal, and the former girlfriend of the deceased were in the car when it came on. If I hear that song today, I think of that moment….or The Big Chill.
It’s funny, b/c your song totally transports me back to grad school, watching a fellow grad student’s semi-autobiographical play about his brother who committed suicide. They used that song at the end of the play and I was just a wreck. I’ve never seen THE BIG CHILL, but there’s something about that song that resonates with the sadness of dying before your time. Ooh, next wednesday’s blog post: What song do you want played at your funeral?
Every time I hear Van Halen’s Jump, I’m transported back to the spring of 1984, standing around with my classmates discussing what high schools we were going to in the fall.
Oh, when I read this, I time travelled back to watching the David Lee Roth video with my little sister, who was always trying to get me to switch from MTV to cartoons in the evening. She’s still not a big fan of music videos…
I blogged about that very topic a couple of weeks ago! Don’t worry I know you didn’t poach the idea, since you didn’t comment on mine. We’ll call it great minds thinking alike.
http://babysmiling.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/jukebox/
This is what I wrote on your blog:
That’s SO weird. You’re in my reader so I must have seen this, but even after possibly re-reading the post, I don’t remember seeing it. Anyway, very sorry if I subconsciously stole the idea. Sadly in the information age, I can’t say I didn’t do it or even that I won’t again. It’s a very thin line these days…
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The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony” — it reminds me of my junior year of college, walking around campus where it seemed to be blaring out of every open dorm window.
ooh, and now I’m back in China, wondering who this wonderful new band is. I was pretty sure they were going to be the next Rolling Stones. Little did I know that they’d soon be sued by the Rolling Stones…
ooh, and now I’m back in China, wondering who this wonderful new band is. I was pretty sure they were going to be the next Rolling Stones. Little did I know that they’d soon be sued by the Rolling Stones…
ooh, and now I’m back in China, wondering who this wonderful new band is. I was pretty sure they were going to be the next Rolling Stones. Little did I know that they’d soon be sued by the Rolling Stones…