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Music

Hergé

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?

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  • Yes, I have music on much of the time. In my case, mostly classical music from a large CD collection (gathered from charity shops over the years). I like to keep my CDs in alphabetical order of composer, and I tend to play then in that order as well (at the moment, I have just started in on a 6CD collection of Mozart piano sonatas). But there are certain pieces that sort of get stuck in the CD player whenever I get to them. Franck's Violin Sonata (in the cello setting played by Jackie Du Pre), a collection of Satie's piano music, and Tavener's Akathist of Thanksgiving are some that come to mind.

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  • Yes, I have music on much of the time. In my case, mostly classical music from a large CD collection (gathered from charity shops over the years). I like to keep my CDs in alphabetical order of composer, and I tend to play then in that order as well (at the moment, I have just started in on a 6CD collection of Mozart piano sonatas). But there are certain pieces that sort of get stuck in the CD player whenever I get to them. Franck's Violin Sonata (in the cello setting played by Jackie Du Pre), a collection of Satie's piano music, and Tavener's Akathist of Thanksgiving are some that come to mind.

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