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Post subject: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:50 pm
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Is there any single thing that can conjure up (hopefully) pleasant memories of a past time or event more than a piece of music? I mean, with the passage of time, hearing a song or recording can automatically trigger a vivid recollection of where one was living, what was going on in one's family, who you were dating/interested in/married to/breaking up with, world events, birth of a child, what car you owned, ad finitum! When I was a kid, I used to wonder why "old" people would get all misty-eyed and sentimental whenever they heard some song or another, and why they didn't get or like current music, which was obviously much cooler! Having recently had another birthday--I don't have any idea where the time goes--I have a much clearer understanding of how it all works :) .

For a long time now, one of my fondest music-related memories has been of the Saturday nights I spent growing up in Southern California, when my Dad would pack up my Mom and my two older brothers and me in the family truckster and take us for a drive. I can recall like yesterday us cruising up Pacific Coast Highway toward Malibu, with all the windows open and The Doors' Light My Fire (the long version!) playing on the AM radio. All of them have passed on now, but I still have that fabulous memory of them, and many others to boot.

Anyone else have a musical memory they'd care to share?

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:46 am
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Is there any single thing that can conjure up (hopefully) pleasant memories of a past time or event more than a piece of music?



Yes, yes there is it's called SEX.































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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:41 am
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rudorama wrote:
Is there any single thing that can conjure up (hopefully) pleasant memories of a past time or event more than a piece of music?


Muffins.

Ask Marcel Proust if you don't believe me.

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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:25 am
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Okay...I'll play.

Cherish by The Association - I was a preteen boy in middle school just beginning to learn how to interact with girls. Playing Truth or Dare and Spin the Bottle at a mixed party of boys and girls.

California Dreaming by The Mamas and Papas - Vacations to Orange County California to visit family.

White Room by Cream - Sitting in my friend's basement bedroom with my high school buddies with the black light on and experimenting with substances we should've known better about.

Layla by Derek and the Dominoes - Having a kegger in my off-campus house with friends from college and experimenting with substances we should've know better about. Darn near wore that album out by the way....

The list goes on...but you get the drift. :lol:

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:55 am
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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:14 am
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A few early memories related to music

Simon and Garfunkel – Sticking objects in my parent’s 8-Track player as a wee boy.

Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall” – helping my brothers build a tree house in the woods that was WAY to high up to be considered safe even by idiot kid standards. That album had just come out so was getting a lot of airplay.

Bands that make me think of sneaking into my brother’s room and “Borrowing” cassette tapes as I discovered how much I loved this “Rock” music. Asia, Billy Squier, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Kinks, early Def Leppard, The Cars.

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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:15 am
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I could name a few. However, this one always gets me.

Rewind 20 years ago. I had just gotten out of the Army and driven all the way across the country from southern AZ to Upstate NY in a beat up old 76 Coupe Deville. My second night back one of my old friends was having a party and I had to pick up some people to give them a ride.

There was a huge snow storm for the entire day, but it had cleared up right around 10pm. One of my friends was in the backseat with a couple of girls, and I was up front with a couple more. So the moon was full, the snow was completely untouched. No plow had been down the road all day. No cars. The snow glistened like diamonds in the moonlight.

This song comes on. One of the girls and I ended up in a really deep and incredible conversation. Time seemed to stand still. Then we ended up in a relationship for a few months. I broke it off. Still not sure why. Probably some stupid reason masking a fear of commitment or something. Life moves on.

I still see her every few years out of the blue and we always are happy to see each other. No chance of anything romantic as we are both moved on with kids and relationships, but that connection is still there. Like we just spoke yesterday. Just friendly. Yet we never seem to stay in touch. It's strange, and I never think about it until I hear this song.

This entire album has always meant the world to me as that was a point where my life went through a lot of changing and this was there for me. However, This is the song where she slid closer and we really got to talking. Every time I hear it everything fades away and it's like I'm watching a movie in slow motion. Music is awesomely powerful.



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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:53 am
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If I had to pick one, it would Carry On by Crosby Stills Nash and Young.

Dejavu was the first album I ever bought.

still remember walking to town and back, then hanging out my friends house and listening to the album over and over again. yep.. - I hear that song, and bang.. ! I'm back there.


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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:16 pm
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The sounds of Spirit's "I Got A Line on You" as the van was rockin' and nobody came a knockin' :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:02 pm
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Jeffytune wrote:
rudorama wrote:
Is there any single thing that can conjure up (hopefully) pleasant memories of a past time or event more than a piece of music?


Yes, yes there is it's called SEX.


If you think of memories of a past time then, you're doing it wrong.

I'd say smells is what triggers memories more than anything. A while ago, I drove past a farm that had some Llamas. The smell triggered vivid memories of Cairo and camels when I was six years old, back before many of you were born.
Last winter, someone walked by with wet wool clothes, and a whiff instantly brought back memories of the military and NATO issue wool sweater.
In town, there is a tea house next to the tobacconists, and sometimes they tag-team me with the smell of lapsang-souchong and MacBaren, and I get a tear in my eyes as I remember my grandparents.

And the smell of burnt brakes brings back the memory of my old AMC Rambler...


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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:08 pm
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Seeing Derek & The Dominos on their US tour. What a life changing concert that was. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad...still love playing that song no matter how many times I do it!

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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:53 pm
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How about we go back to the early Beatles. This was the first song I heard where I was just barely old enough to listen to the words, and understand the meaning.



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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:38 am
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How about we go back to the early Beatles. This was the first song I heard where I was just barely old enough to listen to the words, and understand the meaning.

Ah, yes. The Beatles had great music, but the recording quality could be so-so, and the lyrics hard to understand.

"So let me muffle your mom, cause when I get you alone, she's gonna be OK"
"So when I get home to you, I find you dinged the canoe, we'll make its keel alright"
"The girl with colitis goes by"
"I feel that acid slowly melting"
"Deaf molested children lend a hand"
"And Linn, my orthodontist, she has stained a fiberotomy"


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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:20 am
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If you think of memories of a past time then, you're doing it wrong.

But,,, how can it be wrong if it works.. I'm so confused!!

hey but I agree, smells are very powerful memory triggers too..

I know when I smell Ginger cookies, It takes me back to my grams house, when she'd make Ginger Snap cookies for us.


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Post subject: Re: Music And Nostalgia
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 9:51 am
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À la recherche du temps perdu... Yes indeed.

Smells can trigger strong memories and so can music. Put 'em together - memory dynamite.

For some reason the smell of cheapo Old Spice aftershave conjures up memories of The Clash doing London's Calling in my head. And vice versa: soon as I hear that song I get a whif of Old Spice in my nostrils.

I'm not saying it's a good memory. But certainly a strong one.

Oo - and come to think of it, soon as I hear Dire Straits' Down to the Waterline I'd swear I can catch a goodly breeze of Joanne-in-the-tartan-skirt's perfume in the air. After all these years. Now that is a nice memory... :)

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