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Music and memories
November 04 2015
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RHP User
10 years ago
I remember all of my past girlfriends when particular songs are played (there is just an association with a song you were into or both liked at the time), except for one, no specific song but every time I see or hear about Ballet (as she was a lead Ballet dancer back in the day). Funny isn't it how songs trigger memories, and all good. (oh, except for the last, bad match, was not into music and hated it when I turned a good song up loud, and therefore no song to remember her by, which is a good thing)
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RHP User
10 years ago
effect memory worms. Hearing certain music awakens those instances where you associate a time, place or event in your life that you have unconsciously hidden. Music is emotional, I'd be lost without it!!
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RHP User
10 years ago
I uni I was a red-wine-drinking, incense-burning, pot-smoking* hippie with hair to my waist, living on a houseboat with my equally hippie boyfriend. We would constantly play The Doors, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and anything else related to the late sixties/early seventies. (I still know American Pie by heart.) Some songs by these singers will instantly make me smell opium and remind me of chopping wood in mid-winter for the stove. Worst offenders: The Crystal Ship and Whole Lotta Love. Good days. * Legal in my home country, obvs! :-)
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Meander' I uni I was a red-wine-drinking, incense-burning, pot-smoking* hippie with hair to my waist, living on a houseboat with my equally hippie boyfriend. We would constantly play The Doors, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and anything else related to the late sixties/early seventies. (I still know American Pie by heart.) Some songs by these singers will instantly make me smell opium and remind me of chopping wood in mid-winter for the stove. Worst offenders: The Crystal Ship and Whole Lotta Love. Good days. * Legal in my home country, obvs! :-) All of my favourites. (what is your home country by the way ). These were the bands / songs the boys listened to back in the day in the den drinking, playing music up load and playing pool. (add a bit of Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, & Dire Straights, and I could fall in love again Haha)
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sweetgem
10 years ago
Yes that there is one particular song that triggers my memory and sadness, and then brings tears to my eyes and down my face every time I hear it. A good friend of mine, a good man to his family and friends, died of tumor last year and every time I hear the "See You Again" song, I so wish that my friend was still around! No that there aren't any songs that will have the same effect on me like yours. I guess because I grew up worried about how to make money in order to get food in this foreign country, where English language seemed like an alien language to me, where no government allowances were available for my family and I back then, etc. etc. Plus I haven't lived long enough to have too many memories to trigger 😛 - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
If Nirvana, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys, etc come on - then I'm back in year 10, 11, 12 of high school and they're blaring out of the TV tuned in to late night Rage on ABC. Veruca Salt, Liz Phair, etc is uni time. If "Like a Lie" by Jetski Safari, or "Habits" by Tove Lo comes on, I'm instantly in the car driving back to Auckland after a tournament somewhere in New Zealand. "Beggin for Thread" by Banks puts me on an Air New Zealand plane that's just taxiied up to the gate. "I still call Australia home" by Peter Allen (or seeing a QANTAS plane's tail), that one is just a calming feeling and association with home.
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RHP User
10 years ago
-- --- --- ------ ---- --- Ppl fill in the gaps Always reminds me of walking home from school hand in hand with my girlfriend Song was true, got no idea what ever happened Is everyone singing the song yet I bet you are!!!! Enjoy your day and smile - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
you and I must be similar creatures (sorry for insulting you lol) but I have so many songs, but yeah music gets to my core, and there is music that moved me or mattered to for everything that's happened in my life. You could ask me when a major event happened or I might be trying to remember when something happened in my life, I can't always remember when, but I do remember what music I was into, quite often a specific song, sometimes a band. I had a long term relationship when I was young, well not that long but long for then, when I met him, he was smoking hot, but doped out most of the time haha that's the only reason I caught his eye, but I didn't care. He was into Steve Miller Band and very quickly so was I, I loved it, he had an old fairlane or something he'd done up, and on the way to footy, the music would be up loud, he looked so hot driving his precious car mmm. Rolling Stones I was into at the same time. When we split up, I cried and listened to 'Waiting for a friend' and 'Tops' beautiful songs, I love them. I also had a regular fuck buddy earlier in the year who I saw a lot, married, and it came to an end eventually, I was okay but a bit lost without him and listened to Sam Smith 'I know I'm not the only one' over and over, not crying, just reflecting and missing him. More recently, just before losing contact with someone very special, I had a song lined up to play while I let's say, focused on him, it was going to be a big event, and I had the perfect song, turned me on and what I was going to do to him, yeah well, it's hard and I won't say what that song was, keep that one to myself and listen to it every day. Great topic. Life without music, couldn't imagine
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RHP User
10 years ago
Breathe by Alexi Murdoche. It's a song that helped me through an extremely difficult time in my life, when I wasn't sure I was going to make it through the next 5 minutes, let alone the next day. It helped me focus, and gave me a constant reminder to just breathe my way through it. I don't hear it unintentionally - it's not played on mainstream media - but sometimes when I hear the word "breathe" it'll remind me of the song, and of how powerless and out of control I felt back then. And as the lyrics run through my head, I remember that process of centering myself. It makes me instantly calmer - it's my little 3 minute therapy.
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
Have been going nearly as long as i have. Consequently their music has filled my life like no other band. A song for every occasion. So will be playing at my funeral would be fitting. Not sure which one
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RHP User
10 years ago
I'm gonna say "Take it to the limit" and "Already gone". One song isn't enough. x Did someone say Dire Straits? Bam, straight back to when I was 15 and a classmate taped his DS records for me.
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Forus1234
10 years ago
We were at a function a few weeks ago & the band comes out on stage & playing was Murray from the Wiggles! He actually played one of his wiggles songs everybody clap...everybody sing & it was hilarious to watch young & old sing & dance to this on the dance floor! It felt like I was at a Wiggles concert! The next song that followed was, She's the one! by the Cochroaches, then it dawned on me, I used to attend underage in the same country town, Cochroaches concerts with Murray playing!
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RHP User
10 years ago
Alice Cooper. Girls in High School and deep emotional scarrings. When school was out I ran and never looked back.
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madotara69
10 years ago
We had spent the night together and the first day we hung out Tara had a silica coupe, it was raining and she drifted around every corner.. poetical it felt and 'Fade To Grey' by Visage takes me back there like it was too now, she was beautiful and still is and we are still hanging out and puppy love don't last 25 years, so it was love, her car was called Suzzie she has the most beautiful brown eyes that sparkle when she smiles, sexiest curls I get lost in her hair, she has gypsies in her blood and was wearing a gypsies type of skirt and matching top,, wow,, still has it hanging with the years gone by and that's taken most of my wardrobe, but all look good when she wears them, she looked dynamite last night as a matter of fact, same little bounce in her step all playful like, even the same type of lace up lacy shoes and bangles on each arm, rings and necklaces of trees and stones and silver chains her favourites, right now she is sitting beside me with little boxes of bits and pieces from all the years, trinkets and neck pieces, charms and chains and crystals and stones and silver, some gold and is making something else to wear with some little meaning, I could go on but the song only lasts three minutes. 'All You Zombies' by The Hooters, that's a whole other story. Mado Mado Tara xx
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Aristippusx2
10 years ago
Who doesnt know it word for word? The first ever karaoke song
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
Take it to the Limit works for me. Your profile piccy works with the Eagles song "Those shoes"
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RHP User
10 years ago
Another great topic Freya. My life is full of music daily, I have loved music from a wee tacker, was a Countdown devotee (both Saturday night and the repeat Sunday). Every day I will hear a song on the radio or played by me at home that takes me to very specific times and events in my life. There are particular Elvis songs that take me right back to my somewhat deluded adoration of him as a child. When he died (and yes, I can remember where I was when I was told) I convinced myself that Elvis' spirit had inhabited my soul so that I could continue on his legacy. Only problem being, I was 7 years old so it was a bit hard to convince the world that I was indeed Elvis, so I kept that to myself. I was also convinced that they buried him in secret in the cemetery in a small outback Queensland town cemetery. When we would visit this town I would sneak off to find his grave. Except of course it wasn't going to be marked as "Here Lies Elvis Presley", so I would guess which of the recently interred were actually him. I had a rather strange imagination in general as a child, but my Elvis imagination was special. There is a particular album of his (Moody Blue), not very highly regarded but it still takes me back to that time so I absolutely love it to death. There I am, wandering around a dusty outback cemetery when I put it on. There are other (non-Elvis) songs across the decades that will take me right back to specific points and places from my life. Mostly these invoke happy feelings, sometimes a bit melancholy. But that is the beauty of music, right?
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Whateverway' Have been going nearly as long as i have. Consequently their music has filled my life like no other band. A song for every occasion. So will be playing at my funeral would be fitting. Not sure which one Would you not like to be in a nice 5 or 6 star Hotel, that you never check out from ?
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
I'm already staying there. Penthouse. You must be due to check in as well. Meander works on the reception.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Aristippusx2' Who doesnt know it word for word? The first ever karaoke song runs a very poor second to Castles In The Air
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Whateverway' I'm already staying there. Penthouse. You must be due to check in as well. Meander works on the reception. Send the latest magazine up please (or Meander)
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Whateverway' I'm already staying there. Penthouse. You must be due to check in as well. Meander works on the reception. Reception? I'm the proprietor ringing the mission bell! Another one: "Lullaby" (Everything's gonna be alright) by Shawn Mullins was huge when I was backpacking through Australia in 1998, and hearing it now brings me straight back to the time I shared a room (and a lot of whiskey) with two Irish girls who were massive Dawson's Creek fans. Same goes for the theme song of that show, come to think of it.
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RHP User
10 years ago
What a beautiful story,seven year old you and the King..thank you for sharing.Perhaps it could be a children's book ?xxFreya
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
Looks like im bringing up the magazine. Helps to pay the the exorbitant rent the proprietor charges us all.....
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RHP User
10 years ago
Every time I hear Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall I remember the first time on acid... The fun of the younger days :) - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Whateverway' Looks like im bringing up the magazine. Helps to pay the the exorbitant rent the proprietor charges us all..... Good luck getting rent out of me when i'm gone, as got nothing now. Going to have to take it out of my hide. Ohhhhh, wait !!, is that what this Hotel is, bugger, wrong direction (down), should have chosen Stairway to Heaven
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tylannister
10 years ago
'The Perfect Drug' It's not played on the radio very often, but when it does, it always reminds me of an amazing session of shower sex from my mid-twenties with that song perfectly timed playing on the radio in the background.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Take it to the limit? Lol - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
I didn't read the other posts until after i'd posted, rookie mistake - Posted from rhpmobile
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
Hotel Calafornia has nothing to do with heaven or hell or even death. All about addiction. So you need to pay your rent
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RHP User
10 years ago
Just arrived home from shopping and paying bills, as I walk in the door my headphones are playing 'One by One' by an artist called Yoav. This takes me straight to Russia and the girl I was seeing as she played this album heaps and I loved it. I choose to walk everywhere and have always got my headphones on (been that way since early teens) just to keep the cacophony of the world out and to stay in my happy place so music has played such an important and integral part in my life that I can relate memory association to most places and people I have known so there are way to many to mention. But my earliest memory that is triggered is dancing on old tattered coir matting and singing at my closest friends house when I was around 5 or 6 every time I hear 'January' by Pilot.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Most of the tunes already posted I can place myself somewhere to or relate to someone I know through association.
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RHP User
10 years ago
January. Instant memory for me. very young, not yet a teen.Rang the local radio station for the first time and requested it. Then I waited with my little transister radio for it to play. Hours it seemed. Then when my request came on and they mentioned my name, I was jumping around the house, screaming in excitement to my family that they were playing my song. Haha.
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RHP User
10 years ago
I rang and requested my fav. song at the time, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' Iron Maiden only to be told sorry we don't play songs 13 minutes long. I was very sad on that and to top it off they played 'Run to the Hills' the most popular of their songs played on air, that just pissed me off
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
That works too...... Sorry Op. Keep going off topic. I need a smack.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'PatchworkGirl' Breathe by Alexi Murdoch Just checked it out on YouTube. Stunning! Now just have to create some memories to go with it.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Meander' Quoting 'PatchworkGirl' Breathe by Alexi Murdoch Just checked it out on YouTube. Stunning! Now just have to create some memories to go with it. I know, right? His voice is sublime.
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RHP User
10 years ago
A whole album - The Corrs. I loved the album, and we would listen to it a lot. It was also around the time I was playing a particular nintendo game, and the soundtracks fused for me. Now, when I hear a Corrs song, I picture the scenes of the game, and can remember the frustrations of not being able to get through a particular level. Aaaah, uni procrastination!
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RHP User
10 years ago
I saw Matt Corby live on monday night. He played a song called Runaway that was very relevant to me when I left someone. Brought it all back,in an instant,to that time . Been playing it a lot since monday night.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'Whateverway' Hotel Calafornia has nothing to do with heaven or hell or even death. All about addiction. So you need to pay your rent Could see myself getting addicted, and not being able to pay the rent, and going downhill, down, down, down (Hmmmm, I know that is a song, just can't remember) oh, hang on B52's great song "Love Shack"
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RHP User
10 years ago
Max merritt and the meteors...slippin away..takes me to pre teen years straight away. I can see the ol jukebox with the big red push buttons on, the singles turning inside, and sitting right beside it the space invaders game. Mmmm long time ago but still a classic.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Almost all of my music transports me back to something in my life at the time because so much of it gave me such joy and I connected with it something that was happening, be it positive or negative. Unfortunately, sometimes I have to shout the memory out of my head at odd times just to move on from it. That and all my channel pre-sets in my car are tuned to static just to get away from hearing anymore of it.
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tylannister
10 years ago
Quoting 'PatchworkGirl' A whole album - The Corrs. I loved the album, and we would listen to it a lot. It was also around the time I was playing a particular nintendo game, and the soundtracks fused for me. Now, when I hear a Corrs song, I picture the scenes of the game, and can remember the frustrations of not being able to get through a particular level. Aaaah, uni procrastination! When I was in high school, I bought a ColecoVision game console at a garage sale for $5 and would play Donkey Kong with the TV volume all the way down and Alice in Chains' Facelift album as the soundtrack for the game instead. Now, whenever I hear 'Man in the Box', I can only think of racing Mario up through the construction site.
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RHP User
10 years ago
...and Talking Head's "And she was" has just come on MaxTV in the background.That takes me back to my teens and the first cassette I ever bought. "Little Creatures" I think it was. To be followed by "Brothers in Arms". And I proudly collected all the albums of The Cars soon after too...all of that music reminding me of the sci-fi and fantasy novels, and their troubled heroes and heroines, that I devoured at the time. The authors David Eddings, Robert Silverberg, Patrick Tilley, Isaac Asimov, Michael Moorcock, Arthur C Clarke and so on...their characters lived to the limit in fantastical worlds and achieved against impossible odds. What idols, I suppose.And what a crap medium the cassette tape was.I still own probably most of the CD's I've ever bought...uploaded to iPod these days...and they still sound perfect. Unlike my cassettes which went the way of the dodo.I'll take progress please...
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RHP User
10 years ago
Would play a fair bit of Alice in Chains. We saw them live in Newtown once, and now "Man in the Box" reminds me of that night, when we got really drunk on Absinthe, of all things.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Little creatures takes me back to my teens too, living in a garage with three mates and their girlfriends and just generally running amok. Still have On the road to nowhere, And she was plus psycho killer on my playlist and listen to them often. Must say I have a few boxes and a couple of drawers of cassettes that I pull out and play sometimes and they are in good nick with most of them still playing clean. No idea of what I bought first but I know my first real album (not including kids records and that crappy Ktel stuff) was Number of the beast. Have a great day everyone tunes and all
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RHP User
10 years ago
It makes you wonder when u hear a song and it brings back memories to a specific night. You always wonder how things would have work differently but it also makes those memories come flooding back. U end hating that song because you always wish u had done something differently and you life would be different. But the that song u could never hate because you think of the good times u had with that specific person. So music and memories wil always go together - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
What incredible power music has in connecting itself to emotions and experiences of the past.....
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tylannister
10 years ago
Quoting 'Minx1963' It makes you wonder when u hear a song and it brings back memories to a specific night. You always wonder how things would have work differently but it also makes those memories come flooding back. U end hating that song because you always wish u had done something differently and you life would be different. But the that song u could never hate because you think of the good times u had with that specific person. So music and memories wil always go together - Posted from rhpmobile I couldn't listen to Zeppelin for years because of a bad road trip with an ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.
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RHP User
10 years ago
This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend the end - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
another opens. Castles In The Air - some will relate !!
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