This came on my iPod today (it was favoring the Led for some reason).
It took me back to 7th grade year in junior high, on a crappy late-winter day of gray and rain and soggy ground - and I was home with a bad flu bug. Sore throat, fever, chills, aches, and totally crashed out in bed. Mom was out of town visiting my grandmother, the sibs were at school, Dad was downstairs smoking/drinking (totally oblivious of my condition), and I was in a feverish haze listening to the radio by my bed because there was nothing else I could do. It hurt to read, it hurt to get up, it just hurt.
This song had just come out, and I lay there listening to it in wonder, thinking how extraordinary it was from their other tunes....the synthesizer solo, the acoustic "classical" guitar solo, the orchestration, the heartfelt and poetic lyrics...just the overall feeling of it. (I didn't find out til years later that it was about his son who died at five years old)
It was instant love with this song, and for three minutes it totally soothed me.
my bf has a thing. he gets "forced zeppelin" every day. he counts how often it happens. best number was 5.
This came on my iPod today (it was favoring the Led for some reason).
It took me back to 7th grade year in junior high, on a crappy late-winter day of gray and rain and soggy ground - and I was home with a bad flu bug. Sore throat, fever, chills, aches, and totally crashed out in bed. Mom was out of town visiting my grandmother, the sibs were at school, Dad was downstairs smoking/drinking (totally oblivious of my condition), and I was in a feverish haze listening to the radio by my bed because there was nothing else I could do. It hurt to read, it hurt to get up, it just hurt.
This song had just come out, and I lay there listening to it in wonder, thinking how extraordinary it was from their other tunes....the synthesizer solo, the acoustic "classical" guitar solo, the orchestration, the heartfelt and poetic lyrics...just the overall feeling of it. (I didn't find out til years later that it was about his son who died at five years old)
It was instant love with this song, and for three minutes it totally soothed me.
That was one of my first piano lesson tunes as well.
It's a very pretty composition.
Manbird
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Jan 6, 2013 - 9:05pm
Alexandra wrote:
This song just surfaced out of my childhood memory. I faintly remember hearing it on the radio....but my sisters also had the sheet music and would play it on the piano. So I suppose it takes me back to the living room where I was little, with lots of sisters in the house.
Wow. Talk about the way-back machine.
That was one of my first piano lesson tunes as well.
This song just surfaced out of my childhood memory. I faintly remember hearing it on the radio....but my sisters also had the sheet music and would play it on the piano. So I suppose it takes me back to the living room where I was little, with lots of sisters in the house.
Wow. Talk about the way-back machine.
KurtfromLaQuinta
My lug nuts take more torque than your import puts out
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Nov 1, 2012 - 7:37pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
From time to time I have linked to Facebook posts by Michael Nesmith... when lo and behold he deletes them after a few days! So, because the ones having to do with music seem like good conversation starters, I might copy/paste them here at RP.
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:16am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
From time to time I have linked to Facebook posts by Michael Nesmith... when lo and behold he deletes them after a few days! So, because the ones having to do with music seem like good conversation starters, I might copy/paste them here at RP.
From time to time I have linked to Facebook posts by Michael Nesmith... when lo and behold he deletes them after a few days! So, because the ones having to do with music seem like good conversation starters, I might copy/paste them here at RP.
If you make love to music and you know it clap your hands.
I did. Clap my hands. My favorite : Roxy Music!
Sorry, kids. I know how hard the image of parental nudity is to get out of your head, but just deal with it. This is about the music anyway, so go there.
I say “did” because there is not a lot that fills that bill for me these days. Its difficult to find a good “love maker song”.
There are “accessory” songs, and “start the morning songs” and “I’m in! I’m in! I’m in!!” songs – the delightful back side of “I’m out! I’m out! I’m out!!” songs, this last sung best and silently by dogs as they go in and out of the house. It’s the music that plays in their heads as they do the happy spin and leap dance at having gotten in or out of where they just were.
Humans have a version of that same song in the “special songs for special occasions” section of the mind library.
Love makers for me have a slight and gentle rhythm to them, are long, and tend to be mantra like: same key, chord, and sentiment. Not a lot of words, if any, and they tend to be part of a suite. Timing is everything. Single songs set in an array work best for me. A songscape.
Years ago the whole Roxy Music dynamic served well. Avalon was the specific album we looked to.
We played it over and over: In the car while driving, in the kitchen while cooking, but mostly in bed. I latched on to Eno musically then and have never let go.
I’m pretty sure one cannot design a love maker. They are very individual and very personal, and very seldom the same among many people. A friend in high school once steered me to “Bolero” but it was way too forced for a love maker – the timing was usually off of mine and my partner’s – too short and way out of sync. It was easy to hear Ravel’s intent – but it wasn’t ours.
Brian Eno today still has the most love makers in my catalog. Avalon long is retired, but his new stuff is very good and companionable.
I’m not sure why some songs sync to occasions. They are almost impossible to design. It is why Christmas songs can be so awful and sappy. Happy Birthday is a notable and weird exception of a widely accepted occasion song. There aren’t too many others. I wrote a song for a good friend: “January — Helen’s Eternal Birthday” for her fiftieth birthday party.
Turns out it was just OK for the party, and for Helen – although, I must confess that she changed forever that day to “January Helen” in my mind. But the design of the song did not quite match the design of the party. It lay in the DJ mix like a mistake.
It did, however, almost turn out to be a good love maker for me. Almost, but not quite. I always take it out of a love maker mix at the last second. (No, January Helen was never a partner in that way.)
In all my song writing I have never written or recorded a song that completely works as a love maker for me. Way too self conscious when it starts to play.
I think my songs shall always stay like children to me – forever out of the bedroom.
Besides Avalon I have my own secret list. I already told you too much.
OK kids. You can stop squinting your eyes shut, and take your fingers out of your ears.
Takes me back to a diner in Santa Barbara on the last night I lived there....with someone I cared a great deal for. I was saying goodnight to California and to him. The line in this song sounds like what was going on in that brilliant mind of his........ I won't let you in my heart, but you were always on my mind....
James Taylor's "Copperline" takes me back to a moonlit music festival in Telluride Colorado...and hearing JT sing that for the first time - with my dear sweet brother Tony. We were so full of that mountain high and a good musical buzz from 3 days of excellent music....and just everything. That song was like the icing on the cake.
Love you, Tony.
Strength In Numbers - "One Winter's Night"
Same thing. This song is the definitive SOUND of that musical festival.
James Taylor's "Copperline" takes me back to a moonlit music festival in Telluride Colorado...and hearing JT sing that for the first time - with my dear sweet brother Tony. We were so full of that mountain high and a good musical buzz from 3 days of excellent music....and just everything. That song was like the icing on the cake.
Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
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Apr 4, 2012 - 12:03pm
I have been listening to the O.S.T. to the movie "Trainspotting". It is funny how the music is quite dissonant in regards to what is going on in the movie. But it is great driving music, just keep away from the "dirtiest washroom in Scotland"!
I've been listening to Poe's "Hello" album in the car this week. It came out the year hiccup and I got married, and we listened to it a LOT around that time. I was working at a pizza place, and I swear, every time I hear one of the songs from it, I smell sauce.
High school graduation...and how the title of the song was so perfectly timed as I said goodbye to friends I was leaving and wouldn't see again for years...or maybe forever.
This one will always remind me of the day I passed my driver's test.....it was playing on the radio when my sister drove me back from the testing center. And I was all
Anything from this album reminds me of hanging out in our basement rec room with most of my siblings, who still lived at home, listening to records and doing various projects. Those were safe, secure times.
Shawn Colvin songs take me back to the Telluride music festival that I attended 3 years in a row with my brother (and a couple of sisters later).....great live music against the backdrop of swaying aspens and the gorgeous San Juans in that lovely box canyon.......and my brother was so young & healthy.
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Aug 8, 2011 - 1:39pm
Whenever I hear the Fleetwood Mac song "Over and Over" (from the album "Tusk") for some reason it takes me back to around the time it was released and the summer of 1979. I had graduated high school and it was the summer before I left home to start school in the fall.
I was walking across a large parking lot near my home and that song was in my head. For some reason I had an out-of-body experience where my mind was floating above my body going higher and higher into the sky and I was looking down at my body walking across that parking lot, and I could hear that song playing like it was a soundtrack in a movie and I was waiting to start seeing credits scroll across my view.
Very strange.
But, whenever I hear that song it takes me back to that moment.
Takes me back to a diner in Santa Barbara on the last night I lived there....with someone I cared a great deal for. I was saying goodnight to California and to him. The line in this song sounds like what was going on in that brilliant mind of his........
I won't let you in my heart, but you were always on my mind....
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