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that feeling music can give you...

CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
edited November 2008 in Other Music
When you put it on and it takes you back to what you were feeling during the time when you most frequently listened to that song or album.

Is there a song or album that takes u somewhere...good, bad, happy, sad, weakness, strength?

For me it's 'sleep through the static' by jack johnson (I know many don't like him but that's not the point of this thread)... It came out the week my ex-husband left me. I recently put the album on to give it a listen... It took me back and surprisingly I was much stronger and clearer on what was going on then I thought. There isn't pain and anger I feel... It's a sort of release feeling. Peaceful, and acceptance, I'm surprised at how it makes me feel... It's comforting:)**I'm listening now... And I have to edit cause I also feel a tinge of nausea!:p maybe too much @ once right now!! A song here and there is better.

**edit** the whole album puts me in that feeling...except 1 song that gives me a whole different feeling about a completely different person.
(A nice little surprise...had the album on random on my ipod...it played the one song that makes me feel different last, almost as if it was separate:)some times I think my ipod knows me;))

So what's your song or album? And where does it take you? And what do u feel? Have u listened to it recently? Is it the same feeling?
"I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
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  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins. Just reminds me of great summers, really.

    My parents used to play a lot of Van Morrison in the car on our holidays, so his albums remind me a lot of driving down French motorways in the night :p.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Preaching the End of the World by Chris Cornell reminds me of doing Transition Year in secondary school. Just me, and 20 great friends doing nothing but fun stuffs for a whole year of school... best year of my school life. :)
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • AlBorlandAlBorland Posts: 117
    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb- especially Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, and City of Blinding Lights. Takes me back to winter time, junior year of college, driving along back roads, thinking about a girl, life etc.

    Good times.
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  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Hallelujah - Buckley= my ex
    Song 2 - Blur= a specific night at the bar w/ friends, and we knew the words to this song. I swear we did!
    Take another - Filter= my parents divorce.
    Sleight of Hand - PJ= fall, winter 2006 and spring 2007. Being unemployed sucks.
    The Only Time- NIN= many a night at the bar.
    Rearviewmirror - PJ= my current awesome girlfriend.
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Celebrated Summer by Husker Du reminds me, aptly, of a great, carefree summer, the like of which I'll probably never know again, and every time I hear it I think back to that time. It's depressing as fuck.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • mnicole22mnicole22 Posts: 417
    OK Computer (Radiohead) - Reminds me of being 17 and free to be a stupid kid. I knew I was running out of teenage years so i moved out and wasted money on drugs and guitars and video games. My then boyfriend (now hubby) and I had so much fun that year.

    Also 1979 (Pumpkins) - High school, crushes, concerts, good times

    Good thread! :)
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  • Meine liebeMeine liebe Posts: 203
    Great thread!

    I have a bunch of albums that take me to different times and places, but for simplicity I will just mention the first one that comes to mind.

    Harvest- Neil Young. It takes me back to sophomore year at college. I listened to this album over and over while I shut myself in my room and studied. I hadn't listened to it in years, so I listened to it a few nights ago and it was awesome to listen to it again. It made all these memories and feelings come back. It was pretty cool to experience. Words cant really describe it.
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  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,396
    Yield takes me back to sophomore year of high school. I was in a very bad place at the time...a total shut in, pissed off at the world. My mom had been pretty heavy into drugs and had just been sentenced to prison. I had to go live with my dad who at the time I didn't see eye to eye with. For my birthday that year he bought me Live on 2 Legs at Yield. In Hiding brought back out into the light. I ditched my circle of friends and hooked back up with old friends, real friends. It was a good time in my life.

    on the flipside. Man of the Hour kicks my ass about everytime I hear it. My Uncle died, (4 years ago today) at the age of 42. Big Fish was released around the same time. I heard Man of the Hour and lost it, right there in the movie theater. I swear Eddie wrote that song about him.
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
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  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    "Phantom Power" by The Tragically Hip.

    Takes me back to the summer of '98. Best summer of my life. I was playing in a band at the time and we had embarked on our first ever cross-Canada tour. We mostly played to sparse crowds in half-empty clubs and made just enough money for food and gas to get us to the next town...but we didn't care. We were travelling the country with our best friends playing music and living our own version of the rock n' roll dream. Phantom Power was the soundtrack to that entire trip. We played the shit out of that disc in the van, and it was a constant source of inspiration. I was also dating a wonderful girl at the time, and the song "Bobcaygeon" still reminds me of her to this day.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • i like matt.ci like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    There was this quote from Eddie on the Tom Petty dvd which I can't remember exactly but it went something along the lines of how he remembered the exact feeling in his gut when he was 14 listening to Tom's music. Pretty cool.
  • Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    Alice in Chains - Love Hate Love

    It makes me think of a dark night in the early 1990's.


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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Pearl Jam has made me cry/get teary eyed a few times...even sober. I don't think any other band has ever given me that feeling.
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