{"id":4868,"date":"2010-12-17T23:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2011-03-05T04:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T10:51:26","slug":"the-time-machine-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"The Time Machine of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love music. I listen in the car, at home, at work. I try to sing. Sometimes I just want background music. Sometimes I want something to sing along with. Sometimes I just want to relax and concentrate on it. Rock, pop, jazz, classical, choral, hip-hop, even some country &#8211; my taste is all over the place. One look at my iPhone music library will convince you.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, certain songs are welded to specific memories in my mind. The minute I hear one of them, I go back in time to see a person, place, or event, Sometimes it&#8217;s a good memory, other times a bad one, but it&#8217;s a powerful connection to my past. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of those songs and where they take me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OMD8hBsA-RI\" target=\"_blank\">Faithfully<\/a>&#8221; by Journey &#8211; Jenny, since it&#8217;s &#8220;our song&#8221;. More specifically, it often reminds me of the evening we spent at Jellyroll&#8217;s piano bar at Disney World for our 5th anniversary. I got the piano guy to play it for us. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mr_uHJPUlO8\" target=\"_blank\">Give It Away<\/a>&#8221; by the Red Hot Chili Peppers &#8211; My first real date was Homecoming my freshman year of high school. The DJ decided to play this song three times in a span of 30 minutes. We didn&#8217;t stay for the whole time.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mML2NhjyLyU\" target=\"_blank\">Outshined<\/a>&#8221; by Soundgarden &#8211; A bad day on the tennis court back in junior high or high school<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EKmYlnQv_dg\" target=\"_blank\">Thunderstruck<\/a>&#8221; by AC\/DC &#8211; Two memories here. 1) Hearing it for the first time in my bedroom on a tinny little radio. The DJ introduced it as a brand new song. The minute I heard that killer opening guitar riff, I was hooked. 2) Stars games, because they often play it there, and it just works. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EKmYlnQv_dg\" target=\"_blank\">And So It Goes<\/a>&#8221; by Billy Joel &#8211; A girl I dated in high school and part of college. We sang a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNM9IpKHho0\" target=\"_blank\">choral arrangement <\/a>of the song in high school choir, and the lyrics remind me of our relationship.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5HI_xFQWiYU\" target=\"_blank\">The Promise<\/a>&#8221; by When in Rome &#8211; The end of Napoleon Dynamite, part of one of my all-time favorite ending\/credit sequences<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHBeRutj76o\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord Bless You and Keep You&#8221;<\/a> (traditional, arr. Peter Lutkin) &#8211; Although we sang this often in my high school choir, singing it in the wings during our one-act play, <em>Little Women<\/em>, really burned it into my memory.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k\" target=\"_blank\">YMCA<\/a>&#8221; by the Village People &#8211; My days as a technical trainer in the IT department at Southwest. I found a way to incorporate the Village People into a class on how to use an application I helped design. I got some strange looks but also some laughs. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-LOT_7psWnc\" target=\"_blank\">One<\/a>&#8221; by Metallica &#8211; My friend Jon from high school, who sorta figured out how to play both guitar parts in the song.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ZYLgDpM32Y\" target=\"_blank\">The Holy City<\/a>&#8221; by Jerome Hines &#8211; My grandparents had an great old-school hi-fi with a record player and the Reader&#8217;s Digest collection of Christmas records. They always played those records when we visited for Christmas. &#8220;The Holy City&#8221; was the first time I ever heard an operatic bass. His power and depth blew me away and helped get me interested in singing. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T8kZrJb2LlE\" target=\"_blank\">One More Try<\/a>&#8221; by Timmy T &#8211; I believe this song was playing the first time I danced with a girl at a junior high dance party. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Crash into Me&#8221; by Dave Matthews &#8211; A good make-out song (try it, just don&#8217;t listen to the lyrics b\/c they&#8217;re kinda creepy), it reminds me of a girl I dated in college.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Outside&#8221; by Staind &#8211; My old apartment in Waco<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XBw25CrUS-o\" target=\"_blank\">Jive Talkin&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; by the Bee Gees &#8211; My sister used to dance to this at work. I can easily picture such a scene because my sister is awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Am I alone in this, or do songs take you back in the same way? If so, what are some of the songs and the memories they bring back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love music. I listen in the car, at home, at work. I try to sing. Sometimes I just want background music. Sometimes I want something to sing along with. 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