Melodic Reminders -

[kyburg]

There was once a time, when I worked in an office that had the radio station permanently set to the country station. I lived. Thankfully, it was in the day when Garth Brooks was doing well - and this new chick named Trisha Yearwood had just started releasing records.

Cleaning out the CDs to move them from jewel cases to wallets? Ran across one of the CD's I'd bought.

And the tune is a memory-smack between the eyes.

Trisha Yearwood - 'The Song Remembers When.'

It was then.

Hey, fill in the blank. You have a song for you that 'remembers when?'

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Sugar Ray's Every Morning reminds me of my first trip to TN and the ensuing chaos relationship early stages with tallin. Probably because it was all over the radio. :-)

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Peter Gabriel's "Red, Red Rain", and tough economic times during Bush Sr's reign.

[dudemungus.livejournal.com]

The soundtrack from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"--takes me back to a tough year, every time I hear it.

[kuangning]

I love The Song Remembers When; it hasn't come off my playlist for more than a couple months since the first day I heard it -- which happened to be one of the days when I was busy falling head over heels in love with the first Richard, and he, I think, was just figuring it out. He used to drive me home from school, and that particular evening we missed the turn-off because we were so busy talking -- and instead of turning around right then, he kept driving for the next hour.

[mdlbear]

Good song -- I hadn't heard it before. Yeah, I have a few. Quite a few.

"Everyone Knows it's Windy" takes me right back to a brief relationship in college thirty-odd years ago. "Those Were the Days" was all over the radio in the early days of our marriage, sharing a one-bedroom apartment in Palo Alto. These days I mostly write my own; it's mostly the ones I wrote for deaths and disasters that carry the sharpest memories. There are a couple of songs I wrote that I still can't sing without being in serious danger of having my voice break up.

And "The Mary Ellen Carter" pulls up a slideshow of every damned time I sang it to help myself or someone I love over a bad spot.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I've got a few.

"Come Monday," Jimmy Buffett. Looked down and I was doing 90mph in a futile effort to get home to jenkitty faster. Not that the big iron bird was going to leave Houston any sooner. I just wanted my furry little butt the hell HOME....

... among others.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

"Ruby Tuesday" sung by Rod Stewart. He means it when he sings it. Reminds me of all the trips I made to the kitty litter box without anyone, and all the other work related separations we all endure.

Makes me hope we don't have anymore that last more than a day or 2.