songs and specific memories you have

[Razzamajazz]

the title should explain it. also sorry if it's been done before. but not really, so fuck you.

so..... memories you have when you hear a specific song...





i'll start:

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i was on the swim team in high school and heard one of the divers (who later won the state title) singing this song on the bus on the way to one of our further away meets

[Razzamajazz]

also,


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sitting in the leeds/bradford airport in 2006 waiting for my flight, and thinking about my current relationship's future and how good it may be. it turned out to negatively affect my life

[Razzamajazz]

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hearing this so much i hated it, while knowing the rock would somehow interfere in the main event of one of my least favorite wrestlemania's

[Razzamajazz]

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the first time i really got drunk. i went to see the dawn of the dead in the theaters in 2004 and the driver was playing this song on a loop.

also being shitfaced and hearing him sing the part about the "cadillac escalade"

[Asmo]

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2008. Bombay, India. A concert called 'Great Indian Rock'. Several Indian bands, and headlined by Satyricon. Satyri-who? Some black metal band from black metal lands. Quick wikipedia check. Last album is 'The Age Of Nero'. Torrent. Definitely not 'black metal'. Pretty average, crappy at best. Won't stay for them. Most friends insist that i watch. Lot of crap goes by. Songs including 'Black Crow On A Tombstone'. Very shit.

Then, Satyr announces 'Mother North'. The guitars do a slow build in, the bass kicks in, and Frost goes ape-shit on his skins. I can't move. I'm literally rooted in the grassy field. It's dark, and summer, but i can feel a shiver run down my spine. Goosebumps. Then an icy blast, as if the Dementors were announcing their arrival. The song progresses to the bridge, which introduces the melodic chant/anthemic part. I stand transfixed, eyes darting from one band member to the other, trying to make sense of what they are playing, and how they are playing it. The brain is trying to rationalize that this is just music, it's dissonant, it's what good black metal can do, it's designed to make you feel scared. But the heart, dammit, it's in love with what it hears.

That song introduced me to good black metal. Thanks, Satyricon. Thanks, 'Mother North'.

[Razzamajazz]

come on and share, friends. no hate here

[Razzamajazz]

wow, i don't remember starting this thread at all. or even replying to it. maybe i should quit drinking.

[Tom Guycott]

Making threads in a drunken blackout? Maybe you should. At least, scale back so that you REMEMBER making threads. ^_^

On topic:

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The question from the movie Brown Sugar ("When did you fall in love with Hip Hop?") is answered, for me, with this song. When this dropped, it just "clicked" for me. It stopped being something that just happened around me on the radio and became a... tangible thing. I wanted to be immersed in the genre. This was the first album I truly "had to have" (and I wasn't disappointed) solely off the strength of this song.

This was my gateway drug.

[dronepool]

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9th/10th grade in High School.