Music Memories!

[dragonboy]

What artists/songs/albums remind you of particular people/periods/events in you life?
Tell us who, where, what & why...tell us your stories.

Brad - Shame
This album reminds me of the first house I lived in when I moved out of my parents. I shared with 2 other guys & had some great, great times. Listening to these tracks reminds me of trying (& failing miserably!) to learn to play the guitar, drinking too much cider & lighting fires we shouldn't have in the back garden.

Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
This album always reminds me of the 2nd shared house I lived in. One of the other guys in the house was an ex-football hooligan who had spent a few years in prison for being involved in the Hisborough disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
We had a disagreement one night, he threatened me, I feared for my life, climbed out of my window & sneaked back to my parents house under the cover of darkness.

Soundgarden - Superunknown / Mark Lanegan - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost / Any of the first 3 Danzig albums
These 3 remind my third shared house. That house was quite simply the most dirty, disgustingly unhygienic house I have ever lived in. Man, what a dump... & what a great time! (the 3 other guys worked at HMV, let's just say I made good use of their staff discounts!)

Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining
Reminds me of my Dad, I'll be seeing him in about 3 weeks.

[bethofftherecord]

Michael Jackson-Thriller/Tina Turner-Private Dancer - First albums I ever owned.  My parents bought them on vinyl for me when I was 5.  I made up some killer dance routines.  That started my musical obsessions.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper - When I was 8 I discovered the Beatles.  I fell in love with them.  I used to have a tiny portable tape player I would carry around with me.  I made mix tapes I recorded off the radio on my dad's stereo.  I think I irritated my folks.  

REM - Life's Rich Pageant - When I was 12 I found out about REM.  I decided I loved them and saved all my money and bought all of their tapes.  I listened to Life's Rich Pageant so many times I wore it out and had to buy another one.  My favorite songs were Swan Swan Hummingbird and Superman.  Oh, my poor mom.  She had a tape player in her car and would beg me to play anything else.

Age 14-15 - I got a job.  So I had a disposable income.  I bought Nirvana, Soundgarden-superunknown, tool, ALL, Bad Religion, Fugazi, NOFX, Green Day - Kerplunk had just come out.  Ya.  I was in heaven.  All these bands remind me of making mix tapes and riding my skateboard to McDonald's (where i worked).  Also remind me of playing pool in this dude's parent's basement.  Rest of high school I loved punk.

Phish - Hoist - I was 18 and was like....WHAT THE F@*$ is this.  I hated it.  I didn't get why all the college kids were diggin' the Grateful Dead, Phish, and Rusted Root.  By my junior year I liked it, but I hated it at first.  I was like...uh can we listen to something a little more heavy?  Plus, I had a roommate who only listened to Phish when I was 19.  I still hate Fee.

Grateful Dead - reminds me of an old roommate.  She killed them for me for many years.  I still can't listen to Tennessee Jed.  It makes me cringe.  She played it constantly.

However, Touch of Grey has become our road trip song and we play it and the start and finish of every road trip.

There are too many in between, so....

Finally now....10 years later....Kings of Leon (aha shake), the Black Keys(rubber factory), MMJ (it still moves) all remind me of driving to Bonnaroo.

[sweatboard]

In middle school I listened to The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedy's on my tape player walkman while I rode around suburbia.  We built a pretty rad quarter pipe.  I remember some pretty sweet jumps off that thing.  "Dude, you just got like three feet of air, holy shit."  It never looked quite as sweet as it did in our heads when we played it back on the Beta Max.  That remindes me of that scene in Napolian Dynomite.  Spot On!!

In high school I played Nevermind and Ten so much that my mom probably knew the words to all the songs.  I remember buying a guitar and a fender amp around this time I could play this one Helmet song really well.  

I remember there was this one year that I listened to "Shellac - At Action Park" like every single night at volumes that no one knew existed.  That record is pretty much all I remember about that year (I'm not even sure what year it was), I think I was going to college but I can't be sure about that.

[dragonboy]

Age 14-15 - I got a job.  So I had a disposable income.  I bought Nirvana, Soundgarden-superunknown, tool, ALL, Bad Religion, Fugazi, NOFX, Green Day - Kerplunk had just come out.  Ya.  I was in heaven.  All these bands remind me of making mix tapes and riding my skateboard to McDonald's (where i worked).  Also remind me of playing pool in this dude's parent's basement.  Rest of high school I loved punk.

How cool are you?!! Excellent post Beth, I really enjoyed reading that  :)

Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know It All
Malaysia: 3 years ago, my first back-packing holiday in a while. I had just landed in KL with an Australian friend (who had drunk more that his fair share of free alcohol on the plane & then tried his best to pick up every one of the air hostesses)
We were in a taxi driving towards the city with the Petronas towers in sight when this came on the radio. I remember smiling from ear to ear & feeling completely alive for the first time in years.

[dragonboy]

In middle school I listened to The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedy's on my tape player walkman while I rode around suburbia.  We built a pretty rad quarter pipe.  I remember some pretty sweet jumps off that thing.  "Dude, you just got like three feet of air, holy shit."  It never looked quite as sweet as it did in our heads when we played it back on the Beta Max.  That remindes me of that scene in Napolian Dynomite.  Spot On!!

You are SO the fucking man B!!!  ;D

[Chills]

This album always reminds me of the 2nd shared house I lived in. One of the other guys in the house was an ex-football hooligan who had spent a few years in prison for being involved in the Hisborough disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
We had a disagreement one night, he threatened me, I feared for my life, climbed out of my window & sneaked back to my parents house under the cover of darkness.

Haha, nice stories.
They are really sitcom material. Something like "friends," but with a hooligan  :D

I'll try to think of some of my own later.
They should include The Offspring's classic "Smash" record  ;D

[joey_rogo]

Jim Croce - any of his work:
Reminds me of my father. My dad spun a lot of good LPs when I was young. Jim stands out the most when I think of those times, along with Cat Stevens and of course Johnny Mathis when it was that time of year. Good memories.

Billy Joel - Piano Man:
Last day of school, freshmen year of college. Obviously there was a party. We all got sloppy drunk and all of a sudden everyone was standing in a circle swaying back and forth, drinks in the air, singing piano man as loud as we could. Good times with good friends, I'll never forget that.

[dragonboy]

They should include The Offspring's classic "Smash" record  ;D

Looking forward to hearing some stories Chills!

That album reminds me of drinking with my then fiance & best friends at my favourite bar at the time (the Purple Turtle) where that & Green Day's Dookie used to own the jukebox.

They used to have an excellent selection of world beers & it was there that I first drank Kirin...a sign of things to come?  :o

[bethofftherecord]

In middle school I listened to The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedy's on my tape player walkman while I rode around suburbia.  We built a pretty rad quarter pipe.  I remember some pretty sweet jumps off that thing.  "Dude, you just got like three feet of air, holy shit."  It never looked quite as sweet as it did in our heads when we played it back on the Beta Max.  That remindes me of that scene in Napolian Dynomite.  Spot On!!

You are SO the fucking man B!!!  ;D

I bet you did get some sweet air!  And recorded on beta max!  awesome.  i love watching people's videos when they were kids!  So cool.

[bethofftherecord]

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We had a disagreement one night, he threatened me, I feared for my life, climbed out of my window & sneaked back to my parents house under the cover of darkness.

I love this sentence!  Your old roommate sounds scary!

[Chills]

They should include The Offspring's classic "Smash" record  ;D

drinking with my then finance

Finance  :-?

Is that a slip or do you mean she actually financed your expensive drinking habit back then  ;)

Anyway, Smash and Dookie, the only albums that mattered.
Smash was the first record I ever bought. It was PUNK, man  :D

After that all hell broke loose. Nirvana's In Utero was pretty big, but not as big as the mighty Channel Zero. Belgium's own answer to Pantera. Heavy riffage. After a party at my parents' home, we inevitably ended up racing each other through the garden in stolen (although i preferred 'borrowed') shopping carts. Bad luck if you felt like taking the passenger seat, we had some damn irresponsible drivers  :D

The vibe now reminds me a little of the Pumpkins '1979' video,
if you can think away the swimming pool at least.

Soundtrack:

Channel Zero - Unsafe

or

Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver  :)



   

[Chills]

In middle school I listened to The Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedy's on my tape player walkman while I rode around suburbia.  We built a pretty rad quarter pipe.  I remember some pretty sweet jumps off that thing.  "Dude, you just got like three feet of air, holy shit."  It never looked quite as sweet as it did in our heads when we played it back on the Beta Max.  That remindes me of that scene in Napolian Dynomite.  Spot On!!

You are SO the fucking man B!!!  ;D

Very funny indeed  ;D

[ManNamedTruth]

Beck's Odelay and Butthole Surfer's Electriclarryland remind me of robo-tripping when i was 19.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Michael Jackson~Thriller

First album I ever owned. I was 3 and it was fucking awesome. I still remember playing that record.

The Smashing Pumpkins~Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness

14. Teenage angst. Changing. Girls. Thinking I knew everything. This is the album that got me through all of that.

311~Grassroots/Music/311

16 years old. Parties and more girls. Drugs. Summer of love. 8-)

Dave Matthews Band~Before these Crowded Streets

I was obsessed. I still love them and have seen them many times.

Bright Eyes~Fevers and Mirrors/Lifted...

I was 19 when I first heard Bright Eyes and I was blown away. Reminds me of my first apartment.

[megisnotreal]

when i was sixteen, i had a major surgery and missed 3 months of school. all i did was watch mtv, and whenever i hear coldplay's "yellow," i think about being ripped on painkillers and watching tv in my bedroom while waiting for people to come by after school.

vhs or beta's night on fire makes me think of the one time i got to go to sxsw. we saw them at stubb's bbq at this astralwerks showcase. anyway, my best friend and i were under the influence(s) and we ran into our broadcasting professor/faculty sponsor at the show. we thought we were going to get reamed for being irresponsible, but she was really drunk. all was well.

whenever i hear five o clock world by the vouges i remember just starting my job at the station for which i currently work. i used to have a 3.5 hour shift on saturdays only and i would monitor this syndicated program called american gold. they played some good music on that show. too bad we don't run it anymore.

also, kings of leon's youth and young manhood= my party phase

[bowl of soup]

Bright Eyes~Fevers and Mirrors/Lifted...

I was 19 when I first heard Bright Eyes and I was blown away. Reminds me of my first apartment.

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They were on Craig Ferguson (can anybody understand anything that guy says?) last night - got it tevoed and will watch tonight.

[dragonboy]

They should include The Offspring's classic "Smash" record  ;D

drinking with my then finance

Finance  :-?

Is that a slip or do you mean she actually financed your expensive drinking habit back then  ;)

So that's why she left me!!!  ;)

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
The soundtrack to my holiday in Bali...

Paul Oakenfold - Global Underground: Oslo
...Singapore

Roni Size - New Forms
...Thailand

[ali]

U2 joshua tree - year 7 (first year of high school) being 13 and me & my best friend being in love with larry mullen jr

jeff buckley / dave matthews band / pink floyd - year 12

beth orton - third year uni

doves - 5th year uni

sigur ros () - my first big plane trip (overseas, so it was 12 hours or whatever) - guaranteed great music to have your own private bliss-out moment in a crowded plane, and great sleeping music

[.Walt]

They were on Craig Ferguson (can anybody understand anything that guy says?) last night -




ummm...no! i think it was maxim, that gave craig ferguson the "why the fuck is this show still on" award

[JacketGal]

Micheal Jackson~Thriller

First album I ever owned. I was 3 and it was fucking awesome. I still remember playing that record.

That rules! Hearing Thriller reminds me of eating this new thing McDonald's had just put out called Chicken McNuggets and watching that wicked video for the song Thriller!

Heart of Gold  - being in the back of my parent's VW bug in 1972-73 and hearing this song. I was blown away at 6 or 7 years of age. I still remember looking out the window and loving the sound of that guitar!

Yellow Ledbetter - I recall being in my car and going on appointments and hearing this song on the radio. This was before I had any device that would play the songs that I wanted to hear such as a cd player, etc. I would literally pull over to the side of the road to hear this song play out before I'd arrive at my destination.

Man, I'm getting old!! :)