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MercTech -> Memory music.... (3/13/2015 1:25:57 AM)

The thread on favorite new music has me thinking of how much some songs are a memory trigger for me. Who else has a strong memory association with a certain song?

I remember my babysitter (one of my aunts) teaching me to slow dance to a tune on the radio. Whenever I hear "Unchained Melody" I remember her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1BB0w6eXfg

This was playing on the radio while I lost my virginity.. silly I know but one never forgets...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmfiBjw-ks

My girl and I have a bit of "our song" thing over this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0CoCTb2qKs

On less sexual memories; I've had a fascination for electronic musical instruments since I was very young. From Hammond B3 to Fender Rhodes to MOOG synthesizers, and all that continues to this date with a fascination with the eigenharp; there is a frontier left in the musical world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU16BYureY8

What started my fascination was a song on the radio when I was just out of diapers. "Mama, what is that guy playing?" It was one of the pioneers of electronic sound, Tom Meeks, with the Tornadoes playing his own designed electronic keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPDvsLSnUGc
When that song came out; we were just getting men into orbit ad the first intercontinental communications satellite had just been put into orbit. For the first time; there was LIVE coverage of the Olympics from the other side of the Atlantic.

The early 60s was a time of hopeful seeking of a new frontier and it was reflected in some of the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti6vTN_ryYI

What are your musical memories?




needlesandpins -> RE: Memory music.... (3/14/2015 8:44:08 AM)

Yes, I certainly have some.

this one will have me in tears every time I hear it because it kind of sums up how both the love of my life, and I were with each other. we never got to be together as we should have been because I said no, regretted it, and then he died when I was 30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_cVCtw7iLA however, if I hear anything by Poison it will make me think of him, and smile. only because we were once at a music festival together, I randomly picked up a CD of theirs, and he told me that if I bought it he'd disown me and leave me there on my own lol

this one puts me right back in the moment that I thought I had the yard to myself at work. I was 17, and dancing in the middle of the yard with a sweeping brush singing at the top of my voice. spun around to find a group of liveries had turned up, and were watching me at the top of the yard [:)][:@] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkDsMDFkJY this was one of my favourite bands at the time, and I've listened to them on and off for years. I now have ME/CFS, and a couple of weeks ago had to have all the stuff stripped off my laptop to have work done on it. I wanted to look this song up on youtube, and had a complete brain fog moment. It wasn't that I couldn't remember the name of it, I couldn't recall anything except the visual of the band. everything else was blank. it's scary, and frustrating.

it seems that I have a habit of singing songs around people that have significance to them linked to other people. when I was at work I found myself singing Ella Fitzgerald's Summertime every time I was around a particular lady. I apologised to her as this meant that I wasn't engaging with her as I should have been, and I felt rude. she said that she didn't mind at all, that she enjoyed my singing, and that her husband had sang that song to her all the time. it happened with my ex playmate too with a song I couldn't get out of my head all day, and wasn't even aware that I knew that well. he told me not to sing it as it was one of his dad's. with an ex work mate it was The Windmills of your Mind. she'd lost her dad to cancer, but he used to hum that tune all the time. There are others too, and I can't hear any of them without thinking of the people they are linked to.

needles





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