Music and Important Life Events

I'm sure we all have nostalgic memories with music that don't particularly stand out other than us just enjoying ourselves while we listen to it, but are there any particular life events that you associate with any songs or artists?

Whenever I hear The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army I go back to when my parents were in the middle of getting divorced and I was finally getting my taste for alternative music and honing my personal taste. Commence launch into severely painful emo teen stage.

Placebo's Every You, Every Me makes me think of the time when I broke my arm and was getting ready to make a huge life change of leaving the state I was born and raised in and leaving everyone and everything I had even known.

Rilo Kiley's Silver Lining makes me think about when I was in Arizona weighing whether or not I should leave because my relationship had just fallen apart and I was 1400 miles from home with nowhere to go.

Noah and the Whale's 5 Years Time makes me think of Rantz and around the time we had first met. I don't know when he actually showed me this song, but it's always made me think of him and our meeting since.

I can't listen to freaking Freezepop anymore because it was like my ex and I's "band" and it sucks because Freezepop is pretty great but I just can't it dredges up too many awful memories

Anyways

There's this great Yelle remix that I love to death but every time I hear it I remember when Huxley told me that he didn't like it and I get all :colbert: :zombert: :mymelbert: :doublecolbert: because it's super great I mean really listen to this tell me this isn't great

Yelle is amazing and Huxley is the worst. :zombert: Except I want to punch the dude dancing in the vid in the face.

You Do Something To Me by Paul Weller reminds me of my girlfriend which I suppose is a bit soppy but hey ho.

Anything by Oasis makes me think about when I was really, really little and my parents were still together and we lived in this wonderful house. We'd have garden parties in the summer and I had my own swing, and my sister had a sand pit. Life was just good.

ThisObadiah Parker - Hey Ya [HD] - YouTube always reminds me of better times, it's a cathartic piece of music.

What are you talking about I love Yelle :confused: I didn't used to like A Cause de Garcons admittedly, but it has grown on me with repeated listenings!

I can't listen to Steal This Album! by SoaD without thinking of Morrowind, because I got the album and game on the same day and listened while I played. Especially the best songs, like Innervision and I-E-A-I-A-I-O.

The Marshall Mathers LP and Korn's first two albums remind me of when I was 11 and living in a town that I hated, going to a school I hated even more. I was a very depressed kid back then.

About half the songs on A Perfect Circle's Mer De Noms remind me of my first real relationship, which to this day almost ruins that album for me :(

On a happier note this song reminds me of America cause Trav and I listened to it during basically every pre-drinks before we'd go out ;3 (other America songs that we either listened to a lot pre-drinking or that remained on my playlist the entire time include: this, this and this)

All that said, I just scrolled through my entire iTunes library and I could associate a memory with all but maybe 5 bands on there. I've had music playing through my entire life.

Bands like Boys like Girls, Superchick and Thousand Foot Krutch remind me of being like 14-16 and still in School.

EDIT: And Skillet! I used to love Skillet so much!

Talking Heads' Psycho Killer takes me back to when I was young, when I sat in my aunt's house after school playing video games with my cousin. For some reason we just listened to this one track again and again. xD

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Originally Posted by Locky

Superchick ... remind[s] me of being like 14-16 and still in School.

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Outside of just reminding me when I was younger, Superchick was also the first band my roommate and I bonded over. Even though neither of us really listen to Superchick anymore, we listened to them a lot that night we first discussed them, and our theme song we've given the house we'll be moving into soon is "Get Up." That night, him and I went on a really long walk with a good, long heart to heart when I was really struggling with things. Lots of great memories from that night.

Also the album Threads by Now, Now as of last night. They are one of my favorite bands and I saw them in concert last night, and it was the first time I've gone to a concert of a band I sort of idolize.

Though I still listen to Pink Floyd regularly, ultimately it will remind me of my father (both parents are fans for the record). Pink Floyd is my father's favorite band, so I grew up listening to them. In fact, I was born at the right time where I even got to catch them twice in concert. Though I was very young, I caught the tour for "Momentary Lapse of Reason" and then the tour for the "Division Bell" years after that. Sucks that Roger Waters wasn't in the band by then, but both shows were excellent, and hey, I got to see Roger Waters twice in recent years.

Same thing goes for The Cure. Again, my father got into them before they truly exploded with "Disintegration." The video for the song "Let's Go to Bed" caught my father's attention. Anyway, The Cure's music from around then will also remind me of being a kid. I used to watch this VHS tape full of their music videos up until the album "Head on the Door."

As for something more personal, Marilyn Manson's peak years will always remind me of my High School years. Though I still follow Manson and consider myself a fan, actually seeing the band live and pissing off my classmates by simply wearing a Manson shirt was like a whole different world compared to today.

My favorite band, Nine Inch Nails reminds me of actually branching out beyond bands that my father was into. However, it turned out that my father discovered NIN through a a buddy at work! Regardless, NIN is the first band I got into on my own and laid a foundation of certain styles of music I get into. Anyway, I was in the middle of Jr. High back then, so albums up until "The Downward Spiral" remind me of around that time.

SUPERCHICK??? Lol, Christian music.


Also, Home by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros makes me think of Denmark. :3

What's funny about that?

I dunno, just can't imagine you listening to Christian music. I also used to love Superchick when I was a wee lass.