As part of Mr. Tare's father's day gifty, I thought I'd compile him a CD of my making - a la 1980's mixed tape - all songs of greatness and love, laden with hidden innuendo and significance to our own particular place.
Got me wonderin'....
What are some your songs? You know, the ones that raise the hairs on the back of your neck...make you raise that brow and smile a little...transport you in time...conjure....
Spill it.
Edited, Thu May 18 22:50:11 2006 by Tare
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What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Once upon a time there was light in my life....
Lady DSD wrote:
Once upon a time there was light in my life....
Love you all - 54.40
54.40! That's a band I haven't thought of in ages!
One gun added on to the one gun...
One gun added on to the one gun...
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Shine on you Crazy Diamond.
My first time getting kicked out of college, I was sitting looking out the bus window as the Greyhound I was taking home pulled out of the station. My girlfriend was standing there crying and Ramble On came on the radio.
When my first fiance and I split up, we met up a week or so later in the parking lot at my office so she could get some stuff she had asked me to pack up from my apartment. I had in a CD of stuff I had burned and as I sat in the driver's seat of my car watching her drive away, That's The Way started in. on the CD player.
When I was leaving California, starting my cross-country trek to the frozen thundra of Minnesota, I drove out of Napa with everything I owned in the world packed in to the bed of my pick-up truck. As I reached the big bridge at the south end of town over the river (known as the Southern Crossing, with a great view all the way up the valley) Good Riddance came on the radio.
Those three songs all do it for me because of the moments I heard them, but one song, no matter where I am or what I am doing when I hear it, always makes me blubber like a little girl. U2's One Tree Hill. My friend Tiny, a 325 pound Nose Tackle for our high school football team, died of cancer when he was 19. He had tumors wrapped around his spine. The line "I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky and the moon has turned red over one tree hill".
Christ, I can't even relay the story without popping a tear. I really do have a ******.
When my first fiance and I split up, we met up a week or so later in the parking lot at my office so she could get some stuff she had asked me to pack up from my apartment. I had in a CD of stuff I had burned and as I sat in the driver's seat of my car watching her drive away, That's The Way started in. on the CD player.
When I was leaving California, starting my cross-country trek to the frozen thundra of Minnesota, I drove out of Napa with everything I owned in the world packed in to the bed of my pick-up truck. As I reached the big bridge at the south end of town over the river (known as the Southern Crossing, with a great view all the way up the valley) Good Riddance came on the radio.
Those three songs all do it for me because of the moments I heard them, but one song, no matter where I am or what I am doing when I hear it, always makes me blubber like a little girl. U2's One Tree Hill. My friend Tiny, a 325 pound Nose Tackle for our high school football team, died of cancer when he was 19. He had tumors wrapped around his spine. The line "I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky and the moon has turned red over one tree hill".
Christ, I can't even relay the story without popping a tear. I really do have a ******.
Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
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I'm single, so none that I care to remember.
I'm all out of love... I'm so lost without you...
From my distant path, a few songs jump to mind. Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" always recalls my first girlfriend. Not so much the over-arching theme of the song but just the description of the girl evoked how my girlfriend looked; brown skin, long dark hair, sunglasses and smiles. Granted, she herself as an evil, manipulative ***** and the song doesn't really make me reflect fondly on her but rather the idea of being young and first loves and the flush of it all.
Concrete Blonde's "Still in Hollywood" immediately makes me think of my first year in college. Vodka and pot and all the rest of it. My old roommate used to play that song all the time.
Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" reminds me of working my first retail job. Just because it used to play over the speakers all the time. Fun times, that job. Typical teenage workplace hijinks but it was still a good time in my life.
And, just so Moe can have company, I still can't listen to Liz Phair's "Go On Ahead" without taking pause even five or six years after the ex and I split up. Like the Henley tune, it doesn't make me think about her but rather evokes all the old feelings of being in a failing relationship with a baby involved. I think I bought the CD soon before things really went bad and so that song stuck out once we took the turn for the worse.
From my distant path, a few songs jump to mind. Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" always recalls my first girlfriend. Not so much the over-arching theme of the song but just the description of the girl evoked how my girlfriend looked; brown skin, long dark hair, sunglasses and smiles. Granted, she herself as an evil, manipulative ***** and the song doesn't really make me reflect fondly on her but rather the idea of being young and first loves and the flush of it all.
Concrete Blonde's "Still in Hollywood" immediately makes me think of my first year in college. Vodka and pot and all the rest of it. My old roommate used to play that song all the time.
Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" reminds me of working my first retail job. Just because it used to play over the speakers all the time. Fun times, that job. Typical teenage workplace hijinks but it was still a good time in my life.
And, just so Moe can have company, I still can't listen to Liz Phair's "Go On Ahead" without taking pause even five or six years after the ex and I split up. Like the Henley tune, it doesn't make me think about her but rather evokes all the old feelings of being in a failing relationship with a baby involved. I think I bought the CD soon before things really went bad and so that song stuck out once we took the turn for the worse.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Valkyrie Missile by Angels And Airwaves
It's a very new song and is technically still unreleased. But the first time I heard it after it was leaked, I was going through a hard time(still picking myself up from that breakdown) and when I got the song onto my computer and listened to it, it made me feel happy and for 6 minutes I forgot how miserable I was.
It's a very new song and is technically still unreleased. But the first time I heard it after it was leaked, I was going through a hard time(still picking myself up from that breakdown) and when I got the song onto my computer and listened to it, it made me feel happy and for 6 minutes I forgot how miserable I was.
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Artist: Blondie
Song: One Way Or Another
Song: One Way Or Another
Send me an Angel by Real Life
So we're exposing our vaginas eh? Very well....
One song that always sparks a reaction when I hear it is Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are. For some reason it always brings me back to the era when it was first being played on the radio, and of course it also has a later significance regarding a "ladyfriend." It's borderline elevator musak to some people, but there ya go.
Strangely enough, there's another Billy Joel song, too: Allentown always makes me think sentimentally about my childhood hometown of Pittsburgh. The song really captures the blue collar essence of the Steel City (and most of PA):
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown
One song that always sparks a reaction when I hear it is Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are. For some reason it always brings me back to the era when it was first being played on the radio, and of course it also has a later significance regarding a "ladyfriend." It's borderline elevator musak to some people, but there ya go.
Strangely enough, there's another Billy Joel song, too: Allentown always makes me think sentimentally about my childhood hometown of Pittsburgh. The song really captures the blue collar essence of the Steel City (and most of PA):
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown
"Rock Me" by Great White...I had a boyfriend in high school who was a big Great White fan, and let's just say...we took it literally. I still get turned on by that song.
Not really emotional, I know. Most of my emotions seem to be evoked by instrumental or classical pieces. I guess I just never really did the "Our Song" thing in any of my relationships. My husband and I actually had a discussion not long ago about the fact that we really don't have a song.
Edited, Fri May 19 00:55:35 2006 by Ambrya
Not really emotional, I know. Most of my emotions seem to be evoked by instrumental or classical pieces. I guess I just never really did the "Our Song" thing in any of my relationships. My husband and I actually had a discussion not long ago about the fact that we really don't have a song.
Edited, Fri May 19 00:55:35 2006 by Ambrya
Paradise by the dashboard lights ~ by: Meat Loaf
Great one and its kinda up beat to.
Great one and its kinda up beat to.
"You're so cool", by Hans Zimmer - If I'd had a wedding, it would have been the first dance.
"It's Oh So Quiet" - by Bjork...because it's true.
By They Might Be Giants...so many, but the two I could listen to forever are "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Angel"
I'll add a couple more once I'm awake ;)
Nexa
Edit: alright, "Both Sides Now", by Joni Mitchell, always makes me cry...and "Songbird", as sung by Eva Cassidy, because it's shockingly beautiful (yes, the Love Actually soundtrack is my favorite). :)
Edited, Fri May 19 08:25:27 2006 by Nexa
"It's Oh So Quiet" - by Bjork...because it's true.
By They Might Be Giants...so many, but the two I could listen to forever are "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Angel"
I'll add a couple more once I'm awake ;)
Nexa
Edit: alright, "Both Sides Now", by Joni Mitchell, always makes me cry...and "Songbird", as sung by Eva Cassidy, because it's shockingly beautiful (yes, the Love Actually soundtrack is my favorite). :)
Edited, Fri May 19 08:25:27 2006 by Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Guess I should do mine too. If I'd had a formal wedding our first dance would have been to More Than a Woman by The Bee Gees because after watching Saturday Night Fever, I jokingly asked Mr. Tare if we could have that as our wedding song. He said we could but only if we learned and performed the exact disco dance done in the film. Hah!
Some others:
Two of Us - Beatles, reminds me of my first boyfriend, we are still great friends now.
Philadelphia - Neil Young, played at my father's funeral. Still have a hard time with that one.
Edited, Fri May 19 07:25:42 2006 by Tare
Some others:
Two of Us - Beatles, reminds me of my first boyfriend, we are still great friends now.
Philadelphia - Neil Young, played at my father's funeral. Still have a hard time with that one.
Edited, Fri May 19 07:25:42 2006 by Tare
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Lady DSD wrote:
Once upon a time there was light in my life....
I'm going to end up downloading that darn song.
I'll just list a few songs that I "have difficulty" listening to.
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells
One - U2
Bobby Magee - Janis Joplin
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
to name a few
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells
One - U2
Bobby Magee - Janis Joplin
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
to name a few
Hrm. Strangely enough, "Be With You" was sung to me once in the middle of a red light during a road trip, and it's always been a reminder of what it felt like to be young and desired.
As for reminders of past breakups and sad songs, I dated one of my best friends all through high school, and he was a huge Stevie Nicks fan. He was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only a few years to live, and I can't listen to anything by her anymore (especially "I Sing for the Things" or "Beauty and the Beast")without getting teary-eyed and thinking of the sweet kid that wrote a letter to my future husband in my yearbook about what a great wife I'd be. Like Moe, even now it makes me choke up.
The great disappointment in my life was this one guy I dated for 7 years, fought all the time, and just couldn't stay together or be apart. During the relationship, "Fake Plastic Trees" used to be like a knife in my heart.
If I could be
who you wanted
If I could be
who you wanted
all the time
We finally parted as friends, and I still talk to him sometimes. Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is kind of our breakup song, because we both look back now and know it was for the best.
I can't hear Elton John's "Your Song" without thinking of my mother. I think I heard somewhere once that he wrote it for his, and I think it perfectly encompasses what I feel.
During recent hard times trying to manage the loneliness in a certain long-distance relationship, Tom Petty's "The Waiting."
As for reminders of past breakups and sad songs, I dated one of my best friends all through high school, and he was a huge Stevie Nicks fan. He was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only a few years to live, and I can't listen to anything by her anymore (especially "I Sing for the Things" or "Beauty and the Beast")without getting teary-eyed and thinking of the sweet kid that wrote a letter to my future husband in my yearbook about what a great wife I'd be. Like Moe, even now it makes me choke up.
The great disappointment in my life was this one guy I dated for 7 years, fought all the time, and just couldn't stay together or be apart. During the relationship, "Fake Plastic Trees" used to be like a knife in my heart.
If I could be
who you wanted
If I could be
who you wanted
all the time
We finally parted as friends, and I still talk to him sometimes. Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is kind of our breakup song, because we both look back now and know it was for the best.
I can't hear Elton John's "Your Song" without thinking of my mother. I think I heard somewhere once that he wrote it for his, and I think it perfectly encompasses what I feel.
During recent hard times trying to manage the loneliness in a certain long-distance relationship, Tom Petty's "The Waiting."
"She Believes in Me" by Kenny Rogers.
Funnily enough, "Sweet Child of Mine" by GNR is a song I sing to my son all the time (although I switch the she to he) and he considers it "his" song. I get a sappy feeling when I hear him singing it in his offtone 4 yr old voice.
Lady DSD wrote:
Funnily enough, "Sweet Child of Mine" by GNR is a song I sing to my son all the time (although I switch the she to he) and he considers it "his" song. I get a sappy feeling when I hear him singing it in his offtone 4 yr old voice.
haha, an ex-boyfriend (who actually did a fairly decent impression) once sang that to me in a drunken stupor in the middle of a state park. It's super cute that you sing it to your son though. :)
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
311 - blue self titled 'any song on the album' - reminds me of my first apartment on my own.
helmet - self titled?! 'unsung' - first heavy cd I bought and took me on a path to the darkside
ministry - some non-pronouncable gibberish album title 'new world order' - Reminds me of my first concert - lollapalooza 93 - wow good times....
rage against the machine - self titled? - 'bullet in the head' - this song still makes me want to run around in a circle beating people up like I was 19.
Toadies - rubberneck 'tyler' - I still get goosebumps when I hear the song.
Pink Floyd - dark side of the moon 'entire album' - I used to smoke alot and just hang out with all the lights off zoning out to the lava lamp.
Chemical Brothers - not sure of the album name but it came out in 94-95? - Started a transition for me to dance music and raves. It was a great summer with outdoor parties every weekend.
U2 - not sure of albume 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' It doesn't necessarily remind me of anything but its a great song.
Led Zepplin 'Ramble On' - reminds me of skating a friends halfpipe back in highschool and playing zepplin all the time. Also, smoking joints in his garage when I picked him up for school.
The Doors any album 'any song' - Reminds me of my jr and sr year of highschool.
helmet - self titled?! 'unsung' - first heavy cd I bought and took me on a path to the darkside
ministry - some non-pronouncable gibberish album title 'new world order' - Reminds me of my first concert - lollapalooza 93 - wow good times....
rage against the machine - self titled? - 'bullet in the head' - this song still makes me want to run around in a circle beating people up like I was 19.
Toadies - rubberneck 'tyler' - I still get goosebumps when I hear the song.
Pink Floyd - dark side of the moon 'entire album' - I used to smoke alot and just hang out with all the lights off zoning out to the lava lamp.
Chemical Brothers - not sure of the album name but it came out in 94-95? - Started a transition for me to dance music and raves. It was a great summer with outdoor parties every weekend.
U2 - not sure of albume 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' It doesn't necessarily remind me of anything but its a great song.
Led Zepplin 'Ramble On' - reminds me of skating a friends halfpipe back in highschool and playing zepplin all the time. Also, smoking joints in his garage when I picked him up for school.
The Doors any album 'any song' - Reminds me of my jr and sr year of highschool.
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One gun added on to the one gun...
One gun added on to the one gun...
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