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I will begin as an example. Remember, this can be any type of music. It may not be to the taste of all of us, but to you, it will have that certain significance. Just recently I had a friend in such despair. He had been for awhile, even years. He began drinking and has been an alcoholic for most of his life. He listened to this song over and over and I never knew why until one day he told me he wanted to drink himself to death. He was being serious, and by the way he drank, he could succeed if he kept on that way. This is the song I don't like to hear, it reminds me with sorrow of his feelings, intents and actions.
Warning: It's country! For those of you who don't care for this genre
Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_...
Heather wrote: "I will begin as an example. Remember, this can be any type of music. It may not be to the taste of all of us, but to you, it will have that certain significance. Just recently I had a friend in s..."
Thanks for the warning that it was a country song. I listened to it anyway and found it a bit above the level of “my girl friend left me, my car broke down, my dog died, and I got drunk”. Sorry.
Getting back to your original premise, it did remind me of an afternoon I remember well when I dropped off someone I was getting involved in at an airport. I would not see her for next ten months and when I got back on the highway I turned on the radio and Bach’s Andante from Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 came on. It made the parting that already happened harder.
Galicius wrote: "Heather wrote: "I will begin as an example. Remember, this can be any type of music. It may not be to the taste of all of us, but to you, it will have that certain significance. Just recently I h..."
Thank you for your comment, Galicius. I think it's nice when we get out and know each other a bit more personally than just discussing art. I started this group in 2009 and I haven't had a thread such as this before, I appreciate you adding your experience!
And, not everyone is in to country, hence the warning!
Does everyone just want to keep this to themselves? I just thought of another one that might be more of a more universal taste. Bach Fugue in D Minor. We all know that one. My dad rocked it on the organ, he was very good. He passed 20 years ago this year at the age of 48. Whenever I hear or play this song (though I only play it on the piano), I think of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZ...
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Heather wrote: "Does everyone just want to keep this to themselves? I just thought of another one that might be more of a more universal taste. Bach Fugue in D Minor. We all know that one. My dad rocked it on the..."
That’s a sad story to a powerful piece of music. It must stir strong memories for you. The piano versions sound milder than organ.
Heather wrote: "Does everyone just want to keep this to themselves? I just thought of another one that might be more of a more universal taste. Bach Fugue in D Minor. We all know that one. My dad rocked it on the..."
Incidentally, I am thinking about my dad, too. He passed away a couple of years ago. Times like this, I listen to Acosta/Russell's Don't Fade Away From Me.
BTW, this is a nice thread! :D
Ker Metanoia wrote: "Incidentally, I am thinking about my dad, too. He passed away a couple of years ago. Times like this, I listen to Acosta/Russell's Don't Fade Away From Me.BTW, this is a nice thread! :D"
Thank you Ker Metanoia, I'm happy that you have participated. I'm so sorry to hear about your dad. And that song, though I am not familiar with it, sounds sad, too.
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yiruma , river flows in you always takes me back 10 years , when I was in college and carefree... so many HP fanfictions I read and also to Bella and Edward.. it makes me nostalgic.
I know that’s where you for part of your screen name... Edward.
Heather wrote: "I know that’s where you for part of your screen name... Edward."yes.. good memories.. so don't want want to change the name..
I was perusing our older folders and threads, just seeing what we've done in the past, perhaps something we could revisit?I really enjoyed this thread, though only a few people participated, I enjoyed their comments immensely.
We have some newer people in the group since 2016, though siriusedward commented here last year. Unfortunately, it didn't spark much more participation. But I hope to have some more people add to this topic. I think it's kind of fun!
I'm going to repost the quote and maybe share another nostalgic tune and a story from my past. I hope this will encourage others to share some experiences and maybe some songs to go along with them!
“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
My brother and I are really close. He is two years younger than I am but due to differences in how our lives evolved, IMO, he is much more mature, much smarter and he seems more like the older brother to me. I look up to him, admire him, respect him, and enjoy music with him more than anyone else in the world! He still lives in Tennessee while I moved out here to Utah. I rarely see him but we text or talk frequently. This song seems to identify our relationship. But it also makes me sad. I miss him a lot.
Only a Dream
by Mary Chapin Carpenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpFc...
"Only A Dream"
I can recall the sound of the wind
As it blew throught the trees and the trees would bend
I can recall the smell of the rain
On a hot summer night
Coming through the screen
I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed
And I'd still be there when the storm had passed
Dead to the world, to the morning cast
Its light all around your room
We lived on a street where the tall elm shade
Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade
That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs
Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back
I used to believe we were just like those trees
We'd grown just as tall and as proud as we pleased
With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze
Under a sheltering sky
Twirl me about, and twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
And when I look up at you looking down,
Say it was only a dream
A big truck was parked in the drive one day
They wrapped us in paper and moved us away
Your room was no longer next door to mine
And this kid sister thing was old by that time
But oh how our dreams went bump in the night
And the voices downstairs getting into a fight
And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife
And feel like a blade at your throat
Twirl me about and twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
When I look up at you looking down
Say it as only a dream
The day you left home you got an early start
I watched your car back out in the dark
I opened the door to your room down the hall
I turned on the light
And all that I saw
Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks
No sign of someone who expects to be back
It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed
Twirl me about, twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
When I look up at you looking down
Say it was only a dream
My husband was from Norway. When he was in hospice here at home I used to play a DVD for him that had beautiful pictures of Norway accompanied by the music of the Norwegian composer Evard Grieg, including this loveliest of melodies, Solveig’s Song.https://youtu.be/bR3N1yBEGbw
Ruth wrote: "My husband was from Norway. When he was in hospice here at home I used to play a DVD for him that had beautiful pictures of Norway accompanied by the music of the Norwegian composer Evard Grieg, in..."What a neat memory, Ruth! And that is the first time I've heard that song. In fact, I don't know much by Grieg except for Peer Gynt. This is absolutely gorgeous! I added it to my classical playlist on Spotify. :)
Thank you for your comment, Ruth
We’ve had some wonderful comments and personal stories with the music that goes along with them. A person, a place… can anyone else think of something? I have another comment to share. I hope I can explain this understandably.
This is just a story because I can’t remember the song that goes with it until I actually hear the song then I think of this person. I was seeing this guy named Daryl in 2000-2001. But unfortunately, in April 2001 I was in a horrible automobile accident which caused a severe brain injury. I was in the neurological hospital for 4 months and over 2 years of therapy.
I don’t know how many people know much about the brain and it’s processes in various parts but I damaged my left prefrontal cortex.
Among many other problems, it resulted in amnesia of the previous 4 years. (And unfortunately those were 4 years of my university schooling, one physics class away from graduating with my Bachelors degree)
Anyway, I totally forgot this guy I was seeing. (I even forgot names of people in family!) But he tried to see me while I was in the hospital but to no avail. I didn’t remember him. Finally he gave up and by the time I got out of the hospital, he was history.
But feelings and emotions are housed in a different part of the brain, a part that I didn’t damage. So when I hear a song or go somewhere, I would think of someone from my past in those 4 years and though I don’t remember the relationship or any details, I do remember a name and how I felt about that person.
One day I was in the Arbys fast food resaurant and I heard a song come on and I immediately thought of Daryl. Somehow that song was associated with him but I didn’t know how. It’s frustrating to have this amnesia but to still have the feelings that I had but not know why.
Anyway, that’s my story but I can’t remember the song. It’s probably best this way.
Hello everyone! Yes, it’s me again, I was listening to this song on my car stereo. I absolutely LOVE it! I’ll explain why after.
https://youtu.be/xpqPIfQX8q0
This is a variation of both Rainbow Connection and Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
When I was about 8 years old, I learned to play Rainbow Connection on the piano. My parents loved to hear it when I played it, but when they came to pick me up from my lesson, my piano teacher would play the song as I sang along. It’s an old but sweet memory. It makes me think of my parents, and now my dad has passed away.
The Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring was a song both my mom and dad played together. My dad would play the organ while my mom played the piano. It was beautiful!
Then I learned the piano version of the song and I played it for my dad as he sat in his easy chair and listened. He was so proud of me! He was my biggest fan. 😊
So hearing those two songs together sometimes brings tears to my eyes. I occasionally play it for my mom and she gets very nostalgic and tears up, too.
Sorry I tell such long stories! If you knew me personally, you’d know that i communicate through music 😊. It is my life!
Heather, So sorry to hear about you loss of memory and accident. Your memory seems to be working well now in the sense that you remember a lot of art. Do you give credit to music for helping you through it all? As a teacher I have helped students learn foreign language more efficiently through music.
That’s a good question, Barb, about attributing music to jog the memory. But I have to say no, that didn’t take part in it. The reason I can remember a little bit of Art is that I lost my memory of my schooling of those 4 years that I was working on a BS in Exercise Physiology. 1997-2001. But I had attended a different school previously to that where I studied Humanities and psychology. I didn’t lose those memories, interestingly. (I’m so glad!)
I took a break for a couple of years between switching schools. During that break I was doing some humanitarian work over in Italy and that is when my father passed away. I think that somehow had an influence in the time period of the memory loss.
I pretty much don’t remember much of my life after my dad passed until after the brain injury which happened to be the 4 years.
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
I was just reading this quote and at this point in my life (and I'm sure it's happened in all of our life at one point or another), there are certain songs I don't want to hear right now because they remind me of current unpleasant situations. Just like Dessen said above "a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
It's true! No matter how long ago that moment occurred, a particular song will instantly bring back that memory, good or bad.
So I want this thread to be about you . Please share some experiences, and even the song, if you wish, that have had an influence on your life. You may share the memory itself, or the person to which that memory is attached, or just how it makes you feel about life in general. This is a personal topic, make it your own thread for sharing YOU!