Places or events you associate with pj songs
Omarama
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I don't know about you guys but i have this habit of associating particular songs with places or events in my life? can anyone else relate?
for example: when i hear why go i automatically think of my hometown or when i hear monty got a raw deal by R.E.M i think of arthurs pass (a national park in nz) i guess it's just to do with hearing the songs at that time or in that place or the hidden message in the song
any thoughts?
for example: when i hear why go i automatically think of my hometown or when i hear monty got a raw deal by R.E.M i think of arthurs pass (a national park in nz) i guess it's just to do with hearing the songs at that time or in that place or the hidden message in the song
any thoughts?
Monty Got a Raw Deal
" makes much more sense to live in the present tense "
" makes much more sense to live in the present tense "
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The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Since I often travel with my old STP tapes in the walkman, I tend to associate their songs with places:
Creep with Nashville
Big Empty with Memphis
Plush with St. Louis
Interstate Love Song with rural "flyover country" in the midwest
Vasoline with the stretch along the NYS thruway between Buffalo and Albany
Meat Plow with NYC
Still Remains with Newark, NJ
and I also associate Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" with some city, but I forget which one..I'll get back to you on that one
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
I'm also a pretty big fan of STP, most of their songs remind me of various places around Seattle. Interstate Love Song, for some odd reason, is like riding the monorail from Seattle Center.
Sunbeams are never made like me
" makes much more sense to live in the present tense "
"I don't want to stay..."
BAM!!
i'd rather die than give you control
The first was May 15, 1992, my 18th birthday, I had just gotten my drivers license and my first car and was in the process of wearing out my cassette player and the Ten cassette, when my brother and two friends took me to Mainstream Music, and took me on a shopping spree that netted me three PJ t-shirts and two posters. I was already hooked.
Number two, Saturday, June 27, 1998, Alpine Valley WI, with seven friends, my brother, and his girlfriend, and because my brother's girlfriend was pregnant with my nephew, I knew that my nephew was a PJ fan even before he was born on July 11, 1998.
Three, (the one I didn't get). Alpine Valley WI, Sunday, October 8, 2000. It was cold as hell that night. There were eight of us, with ten tickets. I found a ninth...the most beautiful girl that I never got, and gave her my extra ticket. By the time we got inside, we were alone together and separated from everyone else. We were close, keeping each other warm, until the seventh song of the setlist (Small Town) when she started crying and told me that it was because she couldn't believe that she was actually there. I fell in love with her at that moment but never got any farther than this poem...
You are this last wave
washing over me
The last to hold me
closely
Washing me
safely
to the shore
to the sand
that I am holding so tight
hoping to stop time
before you wash away
You are this last wave
my love
to love me
Stay with me
safely
on the shore.