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How many of you associate periods, moments, places with specific albums or even tracks? I know most do but how many of you are almost always transported while you listen? |
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80's music does the whole childhood thing for me |
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I certainly do. |
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I get it with almost everything I listen to. Biosphere takes me back to last christmas in london with my girlfriend, Vietrmx21 takes me to the Earlham park in Norwich (which I had to walk through to get to uni) during winter when all the trees were bare and frozen up and the landscape was stark and terribly foggy (I could barely see 2 metres ahead!), sometime music makes me overwhelmingly nostalgic... |
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BoC-opening the mouth. this track actually disturbs me |
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At this moment in time I can't name a specific track, but I certainly know what you mean, and it does happen to me. Normally it is a track I remember when I was a lot younger, and it takes me back a specific moment and place in time, instantly. I also get the same effect with 'sense of smell' ..... I might be just walking about, and catch the smell of something, and again instantly I get transported back to someplace usually from my childhood. In both cases the visuals are as vivid as the day they happened. |
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autumn has this similar "aromatic" distinction of a time in my life. like the way it is around here right now. |
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Is it to do with the colours and the smell of the leaves? |
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not almost always though... |
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I often see images when listening to music, most of it would be too hard to describe though |
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actually - if i want to find pictures for the tracks i'm listening to, i can find pictures/landscapes/scenes easily quite often... but they rarely come from themselves if i do not especially want to find images... the music being self-sufficient... or... |
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that's true I usual get this in autumn. Autumn evokes this strange feeling of nostalgia without any explicit target mixed with a strange kind of melancolic happyness. |
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i associate songs or bits from songs with colours St Michael's Mt. is yellow Venetian Snares - Einstein Rosenbridge is green Luke Vibert - YosepH is a kind of green yellow blue sunshine and sky and grass thingy that reminds me the summer that's just gone by |
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Front 242 - Front by Front - takes me back to my first dance party in the late 80's in a old bank, where they had drummer suspended from the ceiling. Albums by Red Snapper, Funki Porcini and Funkstorng transport me to a jazz club like the one they had recently in the Civic. Cabaret Volatire Code help me visualise driving my old 1963 customised, modified Ford Fairlane that I sold some years ago and I also visualise the german autobahns in their videos. Tipper's The Critical Path also helps me visualise my old car. Speedy J "A Shocking Hobby" transports me to a open New Zealand landscape - mountains, native trees, rivers and waterfalls. AIR - Le Soliel est pres de moi - Premiers Symptomies makes me think of eating dinner out in the back yard with a Pinot Gris as I always play this as dinner music. |
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"New Zealand landscape" but are all of these specific moments that you have lived? |
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a lot of tracks that I put on my nokkia (mp3-player aswell as mobile phone) takes me to the place when I listened to them (ofthen a period of time) |
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Yes The jazz club we went to a couple of weeks ago but of course none of those bands were in NZ to play. I also live in New Zealand. Nothing I have said here that I havent experinced. |
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Just what exactly do you mean by "specific moments'? |
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Skinny Puppy-Spasmolitic transports me to the the corridors of the medical school and specifically the morgue/forensics lab that I used to clean as my part time job as a janitor while listening to TOO DARK PARK on the headphones over and over and over. SONIC YOUTH-GOO reminds me of watching bootleg performance porn BDSM video tapes from New York, with the porn stars with visible track marks on their forearms and tongues blue from licking Crystal Meth. |
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Yeah, certain albums take to to different periods in my miserable life! Green Day takes me back to days of innocence, Kid A and Amnesiac take me back to the last couple of years of high school, a horrid time, and Drukqs takes me back to the dingy fall during my first year in college. The Who reminds me of my grade 11 computer class, I made a Who website, and it was pretty awesome, I must say. Regarding other types of imagery, I NEVER watch videos, they ruin tracks for me and insert the wrong idea into my head, and I can't shake it. I haven't seen a while Radiohead video since their OK Computer days, I turn them off if I catch one. |
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I'm not really sure what it has to do with... a mixture somewhat of smells. the air... the smell of the first fireplaces waking up for the winter. |
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i spaced out to gaekwad.. |
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tri repetae > winter. |
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all ae -> winter all biosphere -> my gf (but that's one of the rare associations which doesn't come from listening to the music in presence of the subject or situation) placebo -> uni live in southampton. this list goes on and on but I think ae combined with winter stirs up the most emotion. I used to go on jogs in the fog in a park close to were I used to live with Amber in my ears and it was wonderful. |
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