Hello my babies, I have this theory, not a big crazy one that's going to change the world or anything, not like the blank slate theory or that evolution thing (possibly the only two theories I know and evolution may not be a theory) But I think that the reason we like certain music is because we connect it with certain people and feelings, and music's not just about the sounds, it's about who we are and who made us into that person. So I thought I should share my main personality making tunes with you all, and then you'll know who I am, In a way that knowing my entire life story wouldn't tell you.
The first song is probably my earliest song memory/any memory. Song 2 by Blur, I just remember everyday by dad would come home from work and put it on and me and him would dance around the kitchen to it, i can't have been older than 3 but I remember it so strongly. It will be how I remember me and my dads relationship for ever and nothing could taint that image in my mind.
Second song is Can't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, when we moved into our new house, when I was 6, my mum put it on and we just danced around as our little family, so perfectly happy and complete. Another song that reminds me of my perfect little family is There She Goes by The La's but i dont know why..
Semisonic- Secret Smile: Even just listening to the like 1 second intro gets me feeling tearful. When we were little my mum used to say it was a song written about my sister, and it became one of the most important songs to my life because it pretty much defines everything i care about, but the sort of sadness to the song really just breaks me because i cant live without her but i know i have to.
Lou Reed- Perfect Day: I was about 13 at a wedding and the harshness of the world hadn't broken me yet, It was the first dance and I remember thinking this is beautiful, this man is so dependent on the person he loves, this is how i want to feel about someone one day. A couple of years later I realised it was about heroin it was the same time when everything started falling apart and I just remember thinking, this is it, this is all there is, everything is corrupt, everything is wrong.
More cheery however, is friday i'm in love by The Cure, it's been there always but like last year it properly hit me, as with love cats too, but I was in the midst of being ecstatically in stupid state that i believed to be love but turned out to actually just be a sugar high that lasted about 2 weeks.. but the song reminds me of being happy and thats enough.
Love Will Tear Us Apart-Joy Division: it just brings back all these blurry memories of crazy nights and sort of makes me despise the person that I am now, and miss the innocence i used to have, it's like the most miserable lyrics and tone but with such upbeat synth the conflict within it's self defines me. On a similar note Let's Dance To Joy Division by The Wombats is the song the reminds me i'm happy, naturally i'm happy, it's like the opposite of Love Will because it reminds me i'm the same happy bean i was when i was dancing around the kitchen with my dad.
Finally, hoping I haven't bored you, Disco 2000 by Pulp is one I cant put into words, but it's everything. From the intro until about an hour after the songs ended i get this over whelming feeling, i don't know what the feeling is but i know it fills me up.
And I won't talk about the Smiths because I refuse to give Morrissey credit for my brilliance, (he's such a vegetarian hoe) although Irish blood English heart, just saying I've got a passport from both.
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