Isn't it amazing how songs can bring back so many memories? Memories of feelings, emotions, friends, moments in time, family, food, learning, creating, becoming.
Tonight I have had my iPod on shuffle. 2042 songs. I think I likely listen to about 100 regularly. Not 2000. It's nice to use the shuffle options to find out what bizarre music I have. I don't remember some of it at all, which likely means it's either off a compilation album, or something I've been given and never quite got round to listening to. I do remember a lot of it.
In the last half an hour I've been transported from being in my Religious Education classroom at lunch break to being at the Edinburgh Tattoo. I've gone from being at the North End beach on Iona to being in Canada. I've been from driving around in Edinburgh to sitting on a tube in London.
I love it. I love music. I love the places it takes me to. I must discover more music. I must discover more of the world.
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Who's your favourite artist/group? & Whats your favourite song?!
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Really hard to answer. Answer changes from hour to hour.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment I love Owl City, and their song Vanilla Twilight in particular. But theirs so many too choose from that I may say differently tomorrow!
Owl City sang Fireflies didnt they... Just listened to Vanilla Twilight on youtube - liking it! I've been listeneing to a group called Band of Horses. you might like their song 'on my way back home'. I know what you mean about certain songs stiring a distant memory. Every time I hear James Blunt it reminds me of your sister. Even his new single which I heard today made me think of Heather. I think it's because he was always on the radio at a time when I was hanging out with her. You've got me thinking. Smells bring back memories too. A smell can remain poised as a remembrance of things past cant it. I wonder how certain smells are able to trigger memories of events...
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