I constantly have music playing somewhere and over the years I come to realise how much it ties me to certain aspects of my life.
We all have that song that we link to a relationship or an event that brings added meaning.
Iris by the Goo goo dolls reminds me of my relationship with my wife in a moment when things were less complex. This song has lived rent free in my head since 1998. It also in more recent years become a song about how I feel about myself And I don't want the world to see me / 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand / When everything's made to be broken / I just want you to know who I am
Creep by radiohead or Growing sideways by Noah Kahn also fit that bill.
American pie (Don Mclean and I don't want to miss a thing (Areosmith) we songs I used to sing to the kids when they were tiny.
There are songs that just creep up on my and I end up in tears, they might not have any great meaning, they just invoke a wave of emotions. Some are pretty obvious, something like Fight song by Rachel Platten which is so positive but has undertones of loss.
The other day I was listening to a random playlist and Lose yourself by Eminem came on and it just triggered something, it was the same where a video cropped up on Facebook, it was a Ministry of sound concert at the royal Albert hall, they played Toccata & Fugue in D Minor (Bach) that merge in Insomnia (Faithless), it just gave me goosebumps and then I just became overwhelmed.
I'd love to know that you all have the same relationship with music and would be willing to share your experiences.
Or am I just weird?
