It's pretty amazing how you can hear music and it makes you think of certain people, or maybe places...
Take The Clash. I hear The Clash and I usually think, sometimes just for the briefest moment, about Keith Kirby. The first time I heard The Clash was when Keith Kirby popped them in a Walkman and told me to listen... Oddly, if I do it in reverse and think first of Keith Kirby, I think of both The Clash and The Boomtown Rats singing about not liking Mondays...
Big Head Todd and the Monsters plays and I see John's gorgeous sister, Jill Hardiman, walking up at a party and saying, "We're huge Big Head fans here..." It always happens... unless it's 'Bittersweet'... in which case I think about my friend Rebecca and camping in the desert, watching her perform in a play, eating sushi together, mountain biking, and the list goes on... it's a pretty long song.
Some others:
The Pretenders -- 'Tattooed Love Boys' -- Casey, Hardiman, Snooze and Petro jamming out on top of a coffee table with splashing drinks in hand...
John Lennon -- 'Imagine' -- Brian Hamilton kicked back on his couch, baked and finally not talking about Betsy...
U2 -- 'Electrical Storm' -- I can just see Josh hitting replay for the 47th time as we drive to Arby's for a sack full of Arby-Qs and curly fries...
Semisonic -- 'Closing Time' -- Reminds me of going to that concert way down south of Sacramento with Eileen...
Lionel Ritchie -- -- Usually makes me think about Erica Lindquist. It's a long story, but we started dating because of his concert...
ABBA -- 'Super Trooper' -- Means Steffi is singing and dancing around in her parents family room in Lenggries, Germany. She's pulling her mom, Carla, up from the couch to dance with her.
Ute Lemper -- -- It's Steffi's brother Daniel's apartment in Munich and I'm hearing Ute for the first time... Daniel is holding up his hand and saying, "No... no... listen... It's amazing, eh?"
The Romantics -- 'That's What I Like..." -- Suddenly, I'm back in SoCal at a High School dance and Eric Ellis is flinging elbows as he clears a chunk of dancefloor space for himself. He's sweating from dancing up a storm and pogoing... (What the hell was the pogo all about?) A couple of football players are trying to stir up a fight by 'slam dancing' into people. Ellis doesn't care... he nails one of them in the back with an elbow and when the guy turns around, he nails him in the chest... And Ellis just keeps on dancing...
Friday, April 22, 2005
People and Music
Posted by Shawn at 1:57 PM
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Music works that way for me too. *Grin* There are a lot of songs I can no longer listen to because of it.
You had better keep your promises about updating your website, by the way. So far, it's a delightful read.
I get Semisonic? Surely there's a hipper song out there that reminds you of me! I do agree with the Josh song, though. I can't listen to "Electrical Storm" without thinking of the SF3's trip to see Golden Shoulders.
I totally Roger the SF3 trip to see Golden Shoulders call... 'Electrical Storm' and the British rap guy...
And speaking of rap... I found a couple of sweet audio interviews with Ginsberg and some other Beat I can't recall right now where they both seperately talk about rap and hip hop... It's pretty cool to listen to them... Ginsberg even mentions your hero Gary S.
Sorry about the Semisonic... I didn't wire my synapsiseseses...
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