Music

[Susan]

I downloaded an old song on th net i hadn't heard in years..."Asleep" by the smiths (awsome song). I had totally forgotten it and it was striking at how much it affected me by taking back to a time in my life when i was 12 and knew this kid named Paul. He was this punk with the anarchy shirt and black hair gelled up who loved to skateboard and make you laugh. I have all these glimpses of him in this time when we were young but we seemed so old! Somehow 12 is that magical year between childhood and teenage years that at least for me was one of the best times.

It was sad to remember that a few years ago I heard this same kid with the striking black hair he always had gelled up on the bangs shot himself in the head. For some reason this song stirred up that memory of him, that as we all go on wel'l never know the man he could have become but just carry these brief memories of this kid...that as time goes by, will fade. It's a shame he couldn't have let go of that pain and just stuck it out, I think we all go through a phase when we think the world would be better off without us. I thank god i never gave in on those whims during my toughest times as a teen. Now i realize it never gets better, it just changes and you have to deal with pain but it's worth it for all the memories. the roller coaster may be scary but i don't wanna jump off before it ends. I'm sad paul will only be a ghostly picture of my past.

it got me to thinking about the power of music. Rmeember when mothers were trying to sue artists like ozzy because they say their song caused their child to kill themself? I think the kids had pain to begin with, they find solidarity in any song that touches on that. I do think songs can give you th push, just as violent songs can often alter your mood and make you feel more restless and prone to violent suggestion. I don't know what you guys did but us girls as teens would shut ourselves up in our room and turn on that sad crap and cry our eyes out at how we imagined how good others had it and we didn't...lol

Is there any song that stands out in your life or that has always somehow retained a special power over your emotions?



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[Chopper]

hmmm that's some heavy stuff. and i do like the Smiths a lot, but i will admit Asleep is one hell of a sad song.

personally for myself Eternal by Joy Division. probably the most hopeless song ever laid to wax. i used to always listen to it when i broke up with this one woman i deeply loved.

[mr. henry]

definitely the RAMONES! when joey died i went to the closest bar and bought everyone a round after listening to ROAD TO RUIN and watching ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL.

[onionhead]

The Alan Parsons Project had a tune called Time in 1981 when I graduated high school; we had it played during the ceremony and dedicated it to Marty Coyne, who died of cancer just a few months before.  Still lumps me up.

[jackflack]

I dunno why, but songs from the 80's group Tears for Fears really evoke emotion in me.  And I'm not really sure WHAT emotion.  It's like happiness, sadness, determination, all rolled into one along with a BIG feeling of nostalgia.

It happened about 2 weeks ago when I was watching Donnie Darko for the first time and they have that long scene near the beginning where they play "Head over Heels".

Also great songs by them:
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
"Shout"

HOT s**t!

[BeyondTheGrave]

eagle eye cherrys "save tonight" it reminds me about a girl i went out with who moved to puerto rico. the day before she left we spent the whole night together.

"I know I know ive been exposed permeant psychoses..
at least the colors are nice"- Aeon Flux

[Ellie]

I remember "Wildfire" used to choke me up.

[Vermin Boy]

Just about any album I bought over the course of my senior year in high school  can make me remember exactly what was going on at the point in the year I got it. The one that really stands out, though, is the album Dispepsi by Negativland, and particularly the song "Aluminum or Glass: The Memo." It's a hilarious album-- A sound collage album devoted entirely to Pepsi-- but it was also one of the last albums I bought before going off to college. I just remember driving around, listening to the album, contemplating how much was about to change, and even though "Aluminum or Glass" is more of a parody of serious songs than anything else ("Does a man living in Los Angeles understand what a seagull is?/Does he know about the ants there in the grass?/Do the ants in the grass understand what the man's Volvo is?/Do they know you can buy Pepsi in aluminum or glass?"), it still manages to get under my skin.

[maria paula]

no dubt,  REM  song "crush with the eyeliner",  reminds me to a english boyfriend i had a long time ago, he was  dj at my university radio station, he use to play rock and indie music  monday and fryday,and every day he finished his program he  played this song dedicated to  me, anyway its  was not  a song i really liked, he just loved it,  and by that time,  my english was ( and still is) very bad, so it was hard for me  to understand the lyrics. Nowadays i like to listen it now and then , it brings me lots of good memories.

[Acidburn]

The whole Pink Floyd album 'Dark side of the moon' .   Some very strange drug induced coma like days spent listening to that thing over and over and over.  Trying to figure out the meaning of life I suppose :P

[StatCat]

The Yardbirds- Still I'm Sad, song that always seemed pretty haunting to me.