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talkpoliticsHey, I know this may be deemed rather personal by some, but what the hell.
So which is the song that means the most to you? The one single song that is so full with memories you can't look at it in any other way?
Splash the Youtube vid here!
You may not tell me what the particular memory is, if it's a secret. Or you could tell, that'd be nice! :)
OK, me first!
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I'll never forget a very similar ride through the whole country. About a dozen friends, with cars, criss-crossing the whole southern tip of the African continent, from end to end. It was a marvelous month, and I really got to know my country and its people a lot better... And I met an awesome person there, one I've been together with ever since.
Your turn now!
So which is the song that means the most to you? The one single song that is so full with memories you can't look at it in any other way?
Splash the Youtube vid here!
You may not tell me what the particular memory is, if it's a secret. Or you could tell, that'd be nice! :)
OK, me first!
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I'll never forget a very similar ride through the whole country. About a dozen friends, with cars, criss-crossing the whole southern tip of the African continent, from end to end. It was a marvelous month, and I really got to know my country and its people a lot better... And I met an awesome person there, one I've been together with ever since.
Your turn now!
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Date: 18/11/11 09:50 (UTC)A couple of years ago I kind of jokingly dedicated this song to my best friend, who is now my girlfriend. So uh, yeah. :P
This song isn't in English, but there's one line in particular that I love, and I dedicated to (again) my girlfriend several years ago, on the anniversary of the day we met:
te o tsunagou / hodokenai you ni kitsuku motto / kono mama soba ni ite boku wa Mou kimi shika iranai
"Let's join hands / tight so they won't come apart - tighter / stay at my side like this; I don't want anyone but you anymore."
(Translation from a website, I would link but I had to find them again from the wayback machine; the site no longer exists.)
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Date: 18/11/11 10:51 (UTC)Very similar story. Dedicated to the love of my life, already 12 years together counting back from yesterday. And we were just 17 then! Oh my.
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Date: 18/11/11 18:39 (UTC)I think the caption means that he's performing it in '96.
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Date: 18/11/11 11:25 (UTC)I actually had to google the lyric to work out which song it was, because I don't think I've ever listened to a "song" from DSOTM. It's a 43 minute song, it can't be separated.
Anyway, the lyric is "no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun". I used to listen to this album every night to fall asleep to (for about 5 years). One night, at about the age of 24, I heard that lyric and thought "holy shit, you're right, time to stop waiting for life to start happening and realise it IS happening".
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Date: 18/11/11 14:17 (UTC)ten years have gone behind you
no one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun.
That line affected millions in the same way.
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Date: 18/11/11 18:28 (UTC)Re: I have an icon for that!
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Date: 18/11/11 12:21 (UTC)Don't ask.....
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Date: 18/11/11 12:24 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/11/11 12:30 (UTC)Reminds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalarna) me of...
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And so on.
The last one is btw the first thing I ever heard when I stepped on SA soil for the first time.
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Date: 18/11/11 21:27 (UTC)It was the Summer of '74
Date: 18/11/11 14:28 (UTC)Graduating with the exciting potential of marrying my true love, the goddess of my redhead fetish. I turned down a full music scholarship at Southern Methodist University to marry her. This was a prestigious Texas University where business contacts are made that produces millionaires through connection, rather than hard work. She had turned down a scholarship to East Texas State University to become a teacher.
Only she didn't. And on a scorching June noon on the steaming sidewalks of Dallas, TX, she broke off the engagement, saying her parents had 'forced' her to choose them or me.
And she really wanted to go to college.
I went home and got out this album. And I played this song over and over for hours while I cried.
I still can't listen to it. And yes, the pain is still there.
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Date: 18/11/11 22:00 (UTC)Re: It was the Summer of '74
Date: 18/11/11 22:25 (UTC)That fucked me up more than anything.
Last I heard, she teaches school to this day in Dallas at the same elementary school we went to. She took care of her parents until the surviving parent died in 2008. No children. Into quite the little butterball, she turned.
I hired a private detective to see where and how she was, but I wound up learning more than he could find. (we call that situation 'a short lived phase')
She married a sailor but he died of AIDS in the 80s. Never remarried.
I once watched her leave the school and she was giving kids, mostly children of color rides home so they would not have to walk long distances home. I sent her a house plant (flowers would have been too creepy) to the school once. She never contacted me back.
Haven't thought about her much since then until this post. Thanks for asking :)
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Date: 18/11/11 22:30 (UTC)I'm sorry if this post revived some painful memories... maybe there are things we shouldn't remember.
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Date: 19/11/11 02:45 (UTC)Oh it is OK. Pain is part of being alive LOL>
No matter what pain I felt, I learned so much from the experience that I'll never forget it. There were wonderful times too, and I tend to dwell on those. And it pushed me on the path to this conversation with a quality individual like you; right here, right now, so who can complain? :)
Be well.
Until I hear that song....
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Date: 18/11/11 14:39 (UTC)Best wedding song EVER.
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Date: 18/11/11 18:49 (UTC)Ah, Lehrer!
Date: 18/11/11 22:08 (UTC)And I actually mean that in a good way, though many at the reception didn't agree.
Only two love songs have ever been written
Date: 18/11/11 14:50 (UTC)And MOAR KIRSTY!!!
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Date: 18/11/11 18:50 (UTC)This song was sung by his friends at his funeral...
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Date: 18/11/11 21:28 (UTC)I'm pretty sure Tom Waits is a 700 year-old warlock
Date: 18/11/11 21:31 (UTC)When I was a kid I listened to the Beatles and opther classic rock. In otherwords what my parents listened to.
In my early Teens I discovered 'Punk' and became a big fan of Offspring Social D, Bad Religion, etc...
In my late teens/early twenties I started branching out into heavy metal and industrial rock. (my girlfriend at the time being a metal-head had a lot to do with this) We were both blown away by NIN's "The Fragile" when it first came out.
The military broadened my horizons further by forcing me to put up with the mucical tatses of my squad-mates. Over the course of 3 deployments I found my self appreciating a lot of country/western and hip-hop that I would have ordinarily ignored
Now that I'm out and going to back to school I find myself developing an affinity for "creepy old man music" as exemplified by Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits
I also like the Blues and Classical, but Jazz can go fuck itself.
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