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Songs and triggered Memories
Sep 25, 2008 | 2:59 PM
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I was listening to a cd I made and a flood of memories came over me like ocean waves. Have you ever had that happen? These were memories of nostalgia and a little sadness.

The song that got me the most was 'The Flame' by Cheap Trick. It reminded me of someone I cared for a lot and will never see again. He will always be in my heart.

The other was 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks. A bunch of friends and I would play that song all the time when we were in college.

Where did the time go?

Do you have songs that do that to you? Which ones?
Now I'm depressed.

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candyaquino read my blog view my photos
Sep 25, 2008 | 3:53 PM

I love all Barry White songs......in fact I have all 45's and albums and the new and improve CDs...the first person I think about is my Cousin Fidel (no kidding - that was his name and is not Castro) I LOVED MY COUSIN...and he loved Barry White..I can't believe my cousin passed away a year ago this year from fluids in his lungs HE WAS ONLY 51. I love Santana...he brings me back to my childhood years back to the 70's and now REMINDS ME of my wondeful husband of 20 years..who is now NOT DOING TO GOOD.....so yes, I cried, I sing along all these songs..I am indeed a music freak..I THINK WITHOUT IT..I WOULDN'T HAVE MY SANITY......nice Blog...
candyaquino read my blog view my photos
Sep 25, 2008 | 3:56 PM

also when I hear the BeeGees....reminds me of SaturdayNightFever...LOL..my brothers were very strict, I must of been like 16 or 17 and they didn't want me to see the movie..so me and a girlfriend snuck into the Theatre...WHAT A THRILL.....JOHN TRAVOLTA IN HIS UNDIES......now that's memory lane...lmaofff...Love all of Marvin Gay...all his songs make me cry; Lou Rawls, and WHO CAN FORGET MICHAEL JACKSON.......the 80's THE DISCOS.........wow......croma...thanks for the trip
Cromagnonwoman read my blog view my photos
Sep 25, 2008 | 4:32 PM

Sorry to hear about your husband. Your welcome for the trip, and you didnt even have to take drugs for it. Or ice cream.

BTW I Love Lou Rawls voice. Sexy.
candyaquino read my blog view my photos
Sep 26, 2008 | 12:26 AM

Oh yeah.......You never find......as long as you blog.......another blogger that irritates you like I do......lmaofff.......thanks..that was great ..and still is. Well, I rather you keep us in your prayer instead. God knows what he's doing..Oh Lord..wait...no my hubby is still here....my cousin is the one that passed...I still miss him alot. No doubt I hear Barry and immediately I turn 10 again...maybe that's the fountain of youth...lol
northton read my blog view my photos
Sep 27, 2008 | 5:50 PM

Lots of songs do that to me. It's like I'm right there for a moment. I think of all the years that have gone by. That's the depressing part! LOL
TAllen read my blog view my photos
Sep 27, 2008 | 11:56 PM

Croma ~ music is such a big part of my life and always has been that it is hard to listen to the radio and not feel like that. Some of the most wonderful, and devistating events in my life have songs attached to them, but I have found that over the years I can listen to them all and just smile knowing that I survived and continue on no matter what.
candyaquino read my blog view my photos
Sep 28, 2008 | 11:43 PM

Norty.........great balls of fire.......lol....

We all live in a yellow submarine.......yellow submarine........is more the song that brings me to the reality today..........
Gorilla read my blog
Sep 29, 2008 | 11:22 AM

MUSIC is timeless...
Pop is rarely music...
DeborahLakeHelen read my blog view my photos
Sep 29, 2008 | 7:33 PM

LOTS of songs do that to me, too Cro! Here are
a few:
"Past The Point Of Rescue" By Hal Ketchum
Someone (who shall remain nameless)
once dedicated this to me over the radio.
"Landslide" By Stevie Nicks
"Free Fallin" By Tom Petty Everything about the song, except for the "Elvis" part, has something to do with me.
The song,
"This Is Your Time" By Michael W. Smith
will give me chills every time I hear it, for the rest of my life.
It was playing on Z88.3 when I got into my truck 2 weeks ago, in the middle of the night, after getting a call from Hospice, that the Mother of my Son-In-Law had just "passed away." I had just been with her a
few hours earlier. It gave me a tremendous sense of peace, it felt like I was being embraced by ABBA.
Meb452m read my blog
Sep 30, 2008 | 9:24 PM

Thye best that I recall were from a Buffett/Eagles concert at the T-Bowl in '77 or '78. Buffett opened the show and " Gods Own Drunk " and " Let's Get Drunk and Screw " almost brought the stands down. The Eagles were doing the Hotel California songs which were great. Joe Walsh was there as well and stole the show with : " Rocky Mountain Way ", " Funk 49 ", and " I Love Big BLEEP !" Awesome night, went with a buddy and we had the two best looking girls in the stadium. A couple of stoners got careless and lost their bag. My buddy had sharp eyes and was swift of foot. Great music, great gals and free pot, O- Yeah ! I do miss the '70's sometimes ! :)
Meb452m read my blog
Sep 30, 2008 | 9:26 PM

The BLEEP was a word beginning with a T and ending with an S, old Joe never used the word " boobs " !
Cromagnonwoman read my blog view my photos
Oct 1, 2008 | 4:15 PM

So, you are a boob man Meb452m? Arent you all? lol
Meb452m read my blog
Oct 1, 2008 | 9:29 PM

I've never looked away ! I'm old enough now to know there's quite a bit more to a woman though, from her head to her toes. Common intrests,sharp wit and a good sense of humor place highly these days. Wish you could have heard the songs that night, it was a blast !
Kinjin read my blog view my photos
Oct 8, 2008 | 3:39 PM

I was listening to some B.B.King the other day and I had one of those moments. The lyrics set it off for me. It reminded me of a nasty break up I had years ago. The words that remember went like. "Women make you stupid when they show a little tail. I don't know why we need them. Oh yeah, a coffin needs a nail."

Good post there. Thanks.
Cromagnonwoman read my blog view my photos
Oct 8, 2008 | 5:00 PM

Thanks for sharing Kinjin. Breakup memories come to me the most lately.
BornToBeWild read my blog view my photos
Oct 9, 2008 | 11:48 AM

Memories
Like the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were

Can it be that it was all so simple then
Or has time rewritten every line
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me - Would we? Could we?

Memories
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply to choose to forget

So it’s the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were

So it’s the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were
Nightmare read my blog view my photos
Oct 9, 2008 | 1:12 PM

Memories are funny, the bad ones sometimes stand out above the good ones, but I chose not to forget these lyrics and what they mean to me after I was disowned by my grandmother for saying "Why do you dedicate yourself to a false idol who doesn't exist?" Yeah...I was ten and she still hasn't forgiven me, even though I have apologized.

"But I'm not a slave to a god
That doesn't exist
But I'm not a slave to a world
That doesn't give a (naughty word here)

And when we were good
You just closed you eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds"

If you know the song and the artist, than you're cooler than I thought.
...Deep down, though, I thought she would forgive me, not disown me. So much for a good, honest Methodist woman.
rexsmom read my blog view my photos
Oct 11, 2008 | 4:00 PM

Not really, I do however "loose myself" in a few really great songs. It's a feeling I can't really explain. I'm just in the music instead of in my living room. Kinda corney, but a great release.
Cromagnonwoman read my blog view my photos
Oct 13, 2008 | 6:56 AM

"Lose youself" or old memories. It the same thing to me. Your brain is triggered by certain songs, smells, sights, whatever. I enjoy the trip.
WilliamHoward read my blog
Oct 18, 2008 | 6:41 PM

I can recollect a few tunes that cause me to become nostalgic...However...one song in particular evokes this certain memory...

"Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" by Paula Cole ACTUALLY played in my head one late night in Pine Hills as I fled through yard after yard jumping and climbing fence after fence narrowly dodging dog after dog while being pursued by two gun-toting, gun-bustin' (firing shots) miscreants who were intent upon procuring my demise ALL due to a case of MISTAKEN IDENTITY...(the perpetrators were known by various family members of mine and later apologized to me for their transgressions)

I managed to safely elude them and took refuge at my cousin's abode, yet I was EXTREMELY distraught by the entire ordeal...

Amazingly though...as I stated...the tune "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" by Paula Cole played in my head the entire time...

Now, Cro...my Cave-Dwelling Queen...you and others know my affinity to facetiousness, embellishment, or straight-up bull****...However...

This is an ABSOLUTE TRUE occurrence.
Oryguncb read my blog view my photos
Oct 26, 2008 | 3:22 PM

I have a few that have effected me, Now as a Father I hear more and more that just make me wonder if they wrote it for me.
"Then They Do" by Trace Adkins
"My Little Girl" by Tim McGraw
But before kids I'd say the ones that hit me were.
"what a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong
"Why do I Love her" by John Wayne
"Lady" by Kenny Rogers (my wife and I's first dande)
"Faithfully" by Journey
"the night chicago died" by paperlace
"For the good times" by Ray Price
"American Pie" by Don Mclean
But there is one that gives me goose bumps every time I hear it, and takes me back to a San Fransisco air field when my father returned from Vietnam.
"Star Spangled Banner" by anyone, no matter how bad they destroy the singing it still has the same effect
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