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Music

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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.

  • in reply to Wordsmith

    I like your tastes, classical is my goto too, though in the right mood I love prog rock, indie, house, trance. . At the moment Im enjoying a cd of suites by G.P.Telemann. My filing of cds is by era, then within that by composer. I also have relatively inaccessible boxes of cds I don’t often listen to too.

    My set of the Mozart piano sonatas are by Mitsuko Uchida, who is ypurs? They are arguably the finest works of their type ever composed (just my opinion). 

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  • in reply to Wordsmith

    I like your tastes, classical is my goto too, though in the right mood I love prog rock, indie, house, trance. . At the moment Im enjoying a cd of suites by G.P.Telemann. My filing of cds is by era, then within that by composer. I also have relatively inaccessible boxes of cds I don’t often listen to too.

    My set of the Mozart piano sonatas are by Mitsuko Uchida, who is ypurs? They are arguably the finest works of their type ever composed (just my opinion). 

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