May 07, 03 04:16 pm — Finally, after a long time (more than I can remember, at least), I am feeling good. Too much on my mind, and all those little quirks that trouble us all in our daily lives. Maybe because the advent of Spring has been creeping closer. Who knows, I'll take it any way I can get it....
I caught Styx and REO reunion on cable the other day, and it sparked my memory....
Years ago, when I was on the very first date with my (now current) wife, we stopped at a restaurant after seeing a play, to have a few drinks and chat. I had come off a very nasty relationship with my first wife, so I was tentative to say the least. My Ex and I never saw eye to eye on ANYTHING, least of all in music. I hated hers, she hated mine, and it was a cause of much argument throughout our (ultimately miserable) union.
When we first sat down in the booth, "Suite Madame Blue" by Styx was playing on the speaker above us. I had been a Styx fan in High school, and this was one of my favorites at the time. She promptly sat down and said "Oh cool, I really like this song". As silly and stupid as it sounds, this was simply amazing to me. After all the battlings and fights with my ex, something as simple as this made me feel as if I could actually be with someome who I can share some things in common with. To this day, I when I hear this song, I think back to our first date, the restaurant, how nervous we both were, and how this silly little minor detail was the beginning of a wonderful relationship.
There are many other 80's songs that make me think back to High School, even though....honestly some aren't that great....
Anybody else have a song that really conjures up a past memory? It doesn't even have to be a good song.
i dont think there is a place that AIC has not been in one of my memories.
thats what happens when you play them 24/7 for like 3 years. ::grin::
but alot of songs have memories to me. trik turner, AIC, fun loving crimals, and ICP have the most memories though.
Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here takes me back to around Jr. High.....
On of my favorites was by Matthew WIlder - "Break My Stride". It's a happy fun type song that has a way of making you happy even if your down.
This is a really hard question as I am a huge 80's fan (usually listening to 80's shoutcast stations). I liked most of the mainstream stuff back then.. Maddona, The Police, Cindy Lauper, you name em.
You beat me to this journal.. I was going to submit a name your favorite 80's songs. Picking one is so hard.
Wow, I remember that song! I have forgotton that one, but it was a pretty good one, like you said, upbeat.
I bought my wife the "Monster Ballads" 2-disc set, and although it is all hair band 80's stuff, I love to listen to it, not so much for the quality of the songs, but more for taking me back to that time...
Darkest Hour by Megadeath burns a hole right through me ever time I here it. I would listen to it every time I left the house of a particular girl. It took me 12 yr to bag her. what a fucking idiot I was. Crack whore bitch.
Anything off Ride the Lightning brings back old feelings same with Nervana
I honestly can't pick just one. Every moment, memory, milestone etc in my life always relates to music or a song. It's hard to explain, kind of like the smell thing with me (smell something that triggers a memory). I will hear a song on the radio (no matter how old it is) and say "I was 4 years old when that came out, I remember ........." etc.
Tonight at the dinner table, Chicago's "Saturday In The Park" came on and I was instantly taken back to sitting on the porch with my Uncle and cousins in the summer time. Weird but I just love music, it has had and still has an incredible impact on my life.
Good Journal by the way!
Smells are very powerful. Grilling hamburgers takes me back to when I was very little, on the porch watching my Dad grill them.
Chinese food as well reminds me of when my parents would take us to this one Chinese restaurant, and buy us "kiddie cocktails" (they were also called Roy rogers), and it was kind of a treat. I still can't find that same kind of chinese food I remember, as it closed long ago...
Unfortunately, I am cursed with a song-memory to a really bad time...and a really bad song.
When I was in college, I was engaged to be married. She ended up breaking it off (which was, of course, terribly painful), and I didn't see her again after that school year was up.
We had a song that was "our" song, and every time I hear it now, it is bittersweet. On the one hand, I am much better off with my wife now than I would have ever been with her. On the other hand, that girl in college and I almost got married, so the ties were pretty close. And, as I said, the song was pretty bad too...
"I Don't Know Much" - duet between Aaron Neville and Linda Rondstat. Eww.....
May you all be spared both songs and memories like those. 
Little River Band, 'Albatross' kinda reminds me of my first marriage. However, it doesn't really make me sad, angry or anything. I guess I'm lucky, it just reminds me of that point in my life...
This is a good journal. Music has a way of capturing moments as effectively as a camera does, at least for me. Nearly everyday, I'll hear a song that takes me back to a particular time and it always makes me smile. Whether it's a good memory or not doesn't really matter to me. I guess I smile 'cause at least there's a memory there at all.
One song in particular is "Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison. It was playing in the background when I proposed to my ex-wife, and became the song we danced to at our wedding. I don't love her anymore, but I still love that song.
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. I had just graduated and recently started toking the reefer. My next door neighbor had just gotten the album and the first time he played it for me we were in his bedroom, loaded, and I was laid back in a beanbag. Just when the alarm clock goes off he starts flashing all the lights in the room, we laughed our butts off. For an album that was on the top 100 for years (is it still the record for longest?) I couldn't understand how MTV couldn't have put it in the top 10 albums of all time. Fuckheads.
Perhaps Spudlump, being another old fart in this Madville sea of young'ns, will fondly recall with me the glory days of record albums. I don't give a damn how innovative CD art is, it can NEVER match the album cover. Booklets, posters, stickers and artwork that was sometimes better than the music. Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here was mentioned earlier. That had to be my favorite of all time. When you bought the album it was wrapped in dark blue plastic with nothing but a 4-5" round sticker with a WYWH logo and album title. Opening the plastic, the outside was plain white, no printing, with one surrealistic photo on each side. Inside was an inner liner with 2 more pictures, one of which was above the few notes (songs, bandmembers) found on the album. Each of the 4 photos and the way they were printed were a total stoners delight.
I could go on and on about other album covers and stuff like the wonderful artwork of Roger Dean (Yes, Uriah Heep, etc) but I better quit before I get too carried away.
I do miss the old album covers. I love the sound quality of CD's but they are just too small to do covers justice, I used to love to read the liner notes (Neil Young's Decade was chock full). I do remember the Roger Dean covers. Where would Yes be without him?
There are still some good creative and artistic covers, but mostly these days they are just head shots. Make that head and boob shots.....
Boob shots are good.
DiLuted
I like it, a 'feel-good' journal.
Congrats to you and your wife on your happiness, definitely a cool story.
I have CD's that remind me of particular time periods. Hearing tracks of certain CD's will bring me right back to month or two that the CD was always in my player.
Eg's:
Old Metallica is high school.
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is the fraternity days.
ALice in Chains, STP, Nirvana, Eminem, Slipknot, System of a Down all have their places too.