Ever reflect on the way certain music hooks into the memory of certain places? Like I can't listen to Jim Croce and not think about being a kid and riding around L.A. in my Mom's Pinto. When I hear his song "Operator" I can smell the burning summer asphalt, see the smoggy hills and get the feeling I'm going to the beach. It takes me back. It's like some (older) songs turn on mnemonic software in our brains. And mine are usually acoustic singer/songwriter types, since that's what was hip when I was a kid. Mind sharing some of your sonic/place memories?
i kno what you mean when i hear songs like i get around by the beach boys it brings back to those long time ago vacations i took with my family in the car.. that and alot of beatle songs and also whenever i hear Joni Mitchell i autmatically think of my dad when wed drive down to north carolina.
when i think of the sounds i associate with different places; sounds that call those places to mind, it usually ISN'T "music", deliberately created music as such at all, but the natural and industrial sounds one actually hears there. what you hear when premeditatedly made sounds ARN'T preventing you from doing so. certainly the sounds of a diesel railway locomotive idling nearby, up close and personal, reminds my of my some of my favorite times and place growing up. as does, by contrast, that of water flowing over irregular natural rocks down a small stream, and the rustle of a light breeze through the wild blackberry leaves. or the furtive rustlings of small creatures in the pine needles beneath them. =^^= .../\...
i see where your going at the sound of all different kinds of birds chirping in the the very early hours of morning bring back many pleasent memories for me.
haha gotta love nostalgia. everytime i hear the song t.r.o.y by pete rock, i think of the days in my old house that consisted of bong hits and playing nba street vol.2(that song was the theme for that game). passing me by by the pharcyde makes me think of the winter of 06. runnin by the pharcyde just makes me think of 05-06. a lot of tupac music makes me think of 8th grade. limp bizkit makes me think of 7th grade.
well when i was in high school, there were these four guys who came over from england on the ed sullivan show, before they grew their hair long, who looked like someone set a bowl on their heads and trimmed arround the edges. and every time the picked up their guitars, all the girls in the audiance would scream so loud untill they set them back down again you couldn't really hear for sure a single word they sang or note they played. i think the first song i heard them play was something like:"she loves you, yah, yah, yah". this was the group paul mcartny was in before wings. i'm saying this with a completely streight face. honest. =^^= .../\...
