What songs hold an emotional significance for you? Why?

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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I was just listening to one of these songs and this question occurred to me. The song I was listening to was Melissa Etheridge's "Come to my window". The reason it holds significance for me is because when I was a kid, I remember riding around in my mom's Honda listening to it, sometime around 1994/95. It feels like one of those songs to the soundtrack to my childhood. Whenever I hear it, I am immediately reminded of my mom.

Another one for me would be "Black or white" by Michael Jackson. I remember being in 1st grade hearing that song and it having an impact on me not yet having an understanding of racial divides. That was one of the first flames into that subject for me as a kid

"All Star" by Smashmouth was my best friends favorite song growing up, before I ever knew about a "favorite" song..

"Everything After" by Revis is one of those songs I hold kind of bittersweet. Every time I hear it I'm reminded of death. But it has a positive message.. So it's conflicting..



I just thought it was kind of interesting how certain songs hold a strange place in our conscience for different reasons
 
tyler.durden

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Music, it's magic. So much so I decided to build my life around it from an early age. My parents both loved music, but neither were musicians, so they were very happy that all of their children took up instruments. I'm the only one that made a career of it, although my siblings were very talented. We were trained classically, but my parents also loved jazz and classic rock. There are literally hundreds of tunes that hold a sentimental place in my heart for varied reasons across many genres. One of the first pieces I remember that really made me want to practice to gain the ability to play it was Bach's Violin Partita #2 in D minor. I used to lie in bed with my cheap cassette player and earphones, and fall asleep listening to it over and over. Although it is best known for it's final movement (The Chaccone) it's the first movement that hooked me. I'll be performing this piece in recital in a couple of weeks, it is awesome. Here's a live performance from the great Itzhak Perlman, enjoy...


 
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tangerinegreen555

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In my youth, Pittsburgh had a 'free form rock' station. WYDD 104.7

No program director or repeated hits list. They played stuff you never heard, but it was good.

Every single Friday at 5PM for years they played this:
They also exposed us to stuff like this:


I miss that radio station. Their studio was 10 miles away and you could see the studio through a glass window in the street. You could go there and party with the on air DJ if you knew them, I partied live on the air many nights (we weren't allowed to say anything, but still it was fun). You could take LP's there, they'd play a cut if they liked it. You'll never find a station like that again.

The station had more of an emotional influence than what they played.
 
Grandpapy

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LP, he he here, Pick up your guitar and voice your opinion on Sunday!

I won a pair of Giants tickets (with parking) early one sunday am when the dj had to cover for someone and couldn't make the game. Only catch had to use them that day. I bullshitted with him for 15 min all the while wondering how many pounds of pot have been smoked in the studio, it reeked of bong water and skunk.

This is truly a local station.
 
ANC

ANC

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In the wake of his chariot
You swam toward the latitudes
Leaving for happier times
Florida far behind

Trying your best you were
Ignoring the rescuers
You'd gone so very long
You were so very strong

The scene was so tragic
But that was the magic
Will you never drown?
Will you learn to use
Some forgotten part?
Some forgotten part?

Are you going down
Where the ballyhoos
And the tritons are?
And the tritons are?

You were so incredible
Finding all the edible
Prize of the sea
Prize of the sea

In the wake of his chariot
You swam toward the latitudes
Leaving for…
 
Indacouch

Indacouch

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I've got several songs that are significant for different reasons.... Still can't listen to the song I used as background music for my moms funeral video..... She was very well known and well liked. I remember there wasn't a single dry eye in that building after/during that vid. She's been gone a long while now and I still can't listen to that song or watch that video..... Music can definitely set pretty much any mood there is.

I like all types of music. I've played piano my whole life and have stereos in pretty much all my cars....so I can literally go from classical piano on a long drive.....to crazy loud Bass....gangster rap trap house music on my way to grab smokes.... Love music.
 
The Outdoorsman

The Outdoorsman

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That's a broad spectrum to range but. I've liked this one since I was a teen, when it came out. One of my favorite bands. I've got it nailed down on the vocals but I need to borrow one of @srh88 acoustic guitars for a few weeks to nail the guitar part, should be easy

 
Sir Napsalot

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doublejj said:
3 days after returning from Nam I took Acid for the first time and attended a GFR concert. It was one of the most surreal experiences of my life....
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The first time I smoked pot was at a GFR concert at the LA forum in 1971 when I was 13

The first time I dropped acid was at a Black Sabbath and Yes concert at the LA forum when I was 13

thank you for your service
 
doublejj

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Sir Napsalot said:
The first time I smoked pot was at a GFR concert at the LA forum in 1971 when I was 13

The first time I dropped acid was at a Black Sabbath and Yes concert at the LA forum when I was 13

thank you for your service
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That may have been the same Grand Funk show. My dad lived in Hawthorne and I had just got back and went to see my dad in LA for a couple days, and few friends invited me to the concert....
 
Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot

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doublejj said:
That may have been the same Grand Funk show. My dad lived in Hawthorne and I had just got back and went to see my dad in LA for a couple days, and few friends invited me to the concert....
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Wouldn't that be a hoot?

Although I don't remember them playing Closer to Home
 
Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot

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At one point Mark Farner said "this is for everyone who smokes marijuana!" and then launched into Inside Looking Out, which was my favorite GFR song- it was at that moment that I realized I had been transformed and would never be the same
 
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