Places or events you associate with pj songs

Omarama
Omarama Posts: 267
edited September 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
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?
Monty Got a Raw Deal

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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    I heard Ten for the first time in my sister's car in Madison, WI. So, Ten reminds me of my favorite city.
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  • Odin
    Odin Posts: 599
    I don't think I've ever associated any PJ songs with places. I've always associated Jeremy with the Columbine shootings, though I'm sure many people did at the time.

    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 :D
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    Thin Air-Oct. 24th, Alameda, CA...Pre-Bridge School Party get together...everyone sang that for my b-day...nothing beats members of the Jamily singing to you your favorite PJ song :D plus my boyfriend at the time was playing and singing along too *sighs* GOOD TIMES!! :D
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  • GrungeAetherius
    GrungeAetherius Posts: 4
    Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town reminds me of my hometown. I'm not sure what the song means, but to me it's like losing part of your past as you move forward though time.

    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.
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  • Omarama
    Omarama Posts: 267
    i guess it is a pretty wierd question but i've been doing it since i can remember.
    Monty Got a Raw Deal

    " makes much more sense to live in the present tense "
  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,983
    Yellow Ledbetter reminds me of my old job. Esp. the last day.

    "I don't want to stay..."

    BAM!!
    Manchester 04.06.00, Leeds 25.08.06, Wembley 18.06.07, Dusseldorf 21.06.07, Shepherds Bush 11.08.09, Manchester 17.08.09, Adelaide 17.11.09, Melbourne 20.11.09, Sydney 22.11.09, Brisbane 25.11.09, MSG1 20.05.10, MSG2 21.05.10, Dublin 22.06.10, Belfast 23.06.10, London 25.06.10, Long Beach 06.07.11 (EV), Los Angeles 08.07.11 (EV), Toronto 11.09.11, Toronto 12.09.11, Ottawa 14.09.11, Hamilton 14.09.11, Manchester 20.06.12, Manchester 21.06.12, Amsterdam 26.06.2012, Amsterdam 27.06.2012, Berlin 04.07.12, Berlin 05.07.12, Stockholm 07.07.12, Oslo 09.07.12, Copenhagen 10.07.12, Manchester 28.07.12 (EV), Brooklyn 18.10.13, Brooklyn 19.10.13, Philly 21.10.13, Philly 22.10.13, San Diego 21.11.13, LA 23.11.13, LA 24.11.13, Oakland 26.11.13, Portland 29.11.13, Spokane 30.11.13, Calgary 02.12.13, Vancouver 04.12.13, Seattle 06.12.13, Trieste 22.06.14, Vienna 25.06.14, Berlin 26.06.14, Stockholm 28.06.14, Leeds 08.07.14, Philly 28.04.16, Philly 28.04.16, MSG1 01.05.16, MSG2 02.05.16
  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    Porch - Spending a weekend with my ex-girlfriend about 11 years ago
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • heyjude
    heyjude Posts: 1
    wishlist- my boyfriend introcuced me to pearl jam when we first starting going out in march and wishlist was the first pj that really shook my core. so whenever i listen to wishlist i just am brought back to early spring, when it was still really cold in my room the way i like it, sitting at my computer listening to that song, and thinking about my boyfriend with my stomach filled with butterflies, and day dreaming of what our future holds. i heard wishlist a few days ago for the first tine in about two months, and that feeling just came crashing over me. i love linking songs with people/ times in our lives and places. gotta love nostalgia!
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    The whole Yield album- 1998, the funnest year of college. No matter what happened that year seems like we always had that cd playing
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  • Coming back to life
    Coming back to life Posts: 401
    "I can't see what's next from this lonely overpass" reminds me of Coventry's ring road.
    A restaurant with a smoking section is like a swimming pool with a pissing section
  • sicnevol
    sicnevol Posts: 180
    My Ex reminds me of "smile" and " I got Id"
    That's two things we've got, Tape and Time.
  • tina vedder
    tina vedder Posts: 60
    I don't really know why, but elderly woman always reminds me of my small village in summer and the days spent there with my friends in the past years..good memories..
    it's easy to confuse a great design with life's ripercussions

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  • bigtimps
    bigtimps Posts: 3
    I have alot of places and events that remind me of PJ. In 1995, I saw them live for the first time, the day after my girlfriend dumped me...I went with her brother (my best friend) instead. In 1998 I saw PJ twice in WI, in NJ, and in IN, and everytime I was with the best of my friends. There are hundreds of other times that come to mind right now, but I would like to share the three more of the most vivid with you.

    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.

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