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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Has This Ever NOT Happened to You? |
| Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:03:21 -0800 (PST) |
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--- john.borack@twcable.com wrote:
> You're listening to a CD...could be a mix CD or a CD
> proper. You get to one
> song that absolutely floors you, and you play it
> again and again and again
> and again. Over and over and over.
lawdy! this happens with such frequency that my
mix-cdrs are comprised wholly of examples of this
experience : around my office, into the 30th playing
of the same song or so, they get labeled The Weekly
Obsession. SOTT participants from the last two
go-arounds may recognize:
telephone/girl on a roof - david mead
northern lites - super furry animals
surrounded by the sound - dolly varden
long goodbye - sloan
5 alive - self
but also, from a tender age, when i was still stealing
my sister's headphones to listen, i wore out grooves
on:
dream police - cheap trick
long away - queen
lowrider - war
hello goodbye - beatles (on 8 track)
perhaps love - duet between Placido Domingo and John
Denver, god help me
pocket full of miracles - frank sinatra
leader of the pack - shangri las
and later:
all her favorite fruit - camper van beethoven
if you miss me - trip shakespeare
linger - cranberries
up on the sun - meat puppets
debaser - pixies
california stars - wilco/billy bragg
in my mind - firehose
u baby u - peter and the electrokitcsh band
isle of the cheetah - hum
whistle while the wind blows - rem
kid - pretenders
etc etc etc.
In fact, that is one of the reasons i love mix tapes
and cds - because they so capture my little epochs and
transitions, and when i go back to them i say, "Damn!
I LOVED this song!" David's right, though - very easy
to burnout on a song this way. I frequently have to
loan a cd out that i'm in danger of wrecking just so i
don't obsessively turn it into aurul bran mash. Which
reminds me, I have to get my Scooters cd back from my
nephew jeremy - i've been itching to hear track #4
again.
What about songs that you have no cause to really
like, but because of the frequency and/or the place in
which you hear them, they take on a significance they
might not have otherwise had? I worked at The Big D
bar in delta junction, alaska for a summer and on the
decidedly lame juke box they had 3 songs i adopted as
my own : "centerfield," a lionel richie song called
"deep river woman," and a version of "Lorelei" by Ella
Fitzgerald (not the stynx song. who, by the way, are
playing in the orland park WALMART to promote their
new cd - minus dennis deyoung, and the sick/deceased
palazzo brothers, who's running this show? tommy shaw
and...who?) Anyway - I might never have picked these
three up otherwise, but because they were the most
tolerable among all the suzy boggas and trisha
yearwood songs, they still evoke that summer to me
like nothing else.
ahh. muuuuusic.
--kelly
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oderint dum mentuant
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