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I'm sure i'm not the only one....Say you'll listen to a song (or album), reflect on the lyrics and think "well damn. I feel just like that right now". In a couple of years time, you'll realise you haven't listened to it in ages, and when you do...it reminds you of that particular moment or point in your life. I have quite a few like that, but it's hard to explain most of them since they're personal reflections. I can think of one in particular, though. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter by Nirvana. Taken on its own, it might seem to be mostly meaningless gibberish, but way back when I first heard it, several lines stood out:

"I love you for what I am not, I do not want what I have got"
"What is what I need? What is wrong with me?"
"Hate, hate your enemies, Save, save your friends, Find, find your place, Speak, speak the truth"

At the time, it was a real reflection of what I was - I didn't know what I wanted out of life, all of the women I was attracted to I had no chance with, and I didn't know where i'd gone wrong. Then I listen to it now and realise that things might be changing a little...and what before was a real pessimistic and gloomy listen has become to me something that lets me feel like things might slowly come together.

And that little sleep-deprived rant aside,
because I know most people won't bother reading it anyway and just skip to the end to see wtf i'm on about, what songs have defined points in your life? Have they changed over time? Etc. Or do you just not get this attached to music?

At the minute I'm very attached to "I Thought I Knew It All" by Megadeth. Mostly because I thought I knew it all, and it turns out I was wrong but I reallt, really hope the incident in question happened for a reason. It's also because I listen to a lot of Megadeth.

In the past, I've felt a similar connection to Tomorrow's Dream by Black Sabbath and Ride Like The Wind by Saxon (most recently both at the same time, since they're both about getting away from where you are and starting over again). Tomorrow's Dream still has the connection for me to back then, although Ride Like The Wind doesn't, which is good because it means I can listen to it without getting pissed off.

"Don't Fear the Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult: Its winter in Finland. Dark. Gloomy. Meh. "Season's don't fear the reaper, the sun, the wind, or the rain! We can be like they are, c'mon baby, don't fear the reaper, just take my haaaannd!" Just good feelings there.
"Sound of Silience" - Simon and Garfunkle: Really great any time. Anyhow, having a lot of communication problems just right now. "People talking without speaking, people hearing without listning, and words, of the prophets written on the subway wall, still remain, and the sound, of silience." People just going with the crowd, and not thinking for themselves. People just hearing you, activly listening, but not really getting to know you.
"Dom som forsvann" - Kent: Those that disappear. I need a vacation, and I feel my social life back home slowly slipping away. "Slowly through the room walks her out," bah, its better in Swedish!
"Toxicity" - System of a Down: "Eating seeds, as a past time activity..." Wow. I just got those lyrics just these last few months, I never really thought they were talking about genetic engineering and such. I'm trying to eat healthier, anyhows.
"Sommaren är kort" - Ledin: Well, for when summer is finally here. Its short. Its awesome. Live it up. Pretty much the message there. Just kinda keeping that in mind.

There's a lot better ones, but those are the one's I'm feeling right now.

"Desperado" -- Eagles (pretty much describes my persona)
"Superman" -- Five For Fighting (If you knew me IRL, you'd get it immediately)
"Against the Wind" -- Bob Seger (get more and more appropriate as I get older)
"Luka" -- Suzanne Vega (might as well have been written about my childhood)

"Dom som forsvann" - Kent

Nice choice. I was gonna say "Klåparen" by Kent, about myself.

had a weird thing once, I went through an "Everclear" stage when I was younger, about when Sparkle and Fade came out, and I would start the CD on the first track every night when I went to bed, then in the morning it would always be on track 3 when I got up and I would turn it off. I probably only really heard the first 5 tracks or so and then would fall asleep. One night I woke up in the middle of the night and it was on track 12. It was so weird because it really was about stuff that happened in my life, it creeped me out though some of the details were just weird, like the fact that as I was listening to it at 3am the glow in the dark stars on my celing were still kinda glowing, and were like pale green......anyway I still really like the song, but the first time I heard it, I got so creeped out by it that I still get goosebumps when I hear it......

lyrics here (http://www.qlyrics.com/everclear/pale_green_stars/)

kinda getting creeped out thinking about it:eek:

"Emotionless" by Good Charlotte:



Emotionless


Hey Dad I'm writing to you
Not to tell you, that I still hate you
Just to ask you how you feel
And how we fell apart how this fell apart

Are you happy out there in this great wide world?
Do you think about your sons?
Do you miss your little girl?
When you lay your head down how do you sleep at night?
Do you even wonder if we're all right?

We're alright
We're alright

It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried?
You broke my mother's heart, you broke your children for life
It's not OK but we're alright
I will remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those were just a long lost memory of mine
I spent so many years learning how to survive
Now I'm writing just to let you know that I'm still alive

The days I spent so cold, so hungry, were full of hate
I was so angry, the scars run deep inside this tattooed body
There's things I'll take to my grave, but I'm OK, I'm OK

It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried?
You broke my mother's heart, you broke your children for life
It's not OK but we're alright
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those were just a long lost memory of mine
Now I'm writing just to let you know that I'm still alive
I'm still alive
Sometimes I forgive, yeah and this time I'll admit
That I miss you, said I miss you

It's been a long hard road without you by my side
Why weren't you there all the nights that we cried?
You broke my mother's heart, you broke your children for life
It's not OK but we're alright
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those were just a long lost memory of mine
Now I'm writing just to let you know that I'm still alive

And sometimes I forgive, yeah and this time I'll admit
That I miss you, I miss you...hey Dad

Nice choice. I was gonna say "Klåparen" by Kent, about myself.
I'm still exploring all that Swedish can offer music wise. Got any favorite bands I should check out? Preferably songs in Swedish, though. No hurry, take your time. I'll be checking up on this thread for sure.

'Only The Good Die Young' by Billy Joel. Especially the lines:

"You might've heard I run with a dangerous crowd. We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud. We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one."

and

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun."

'Amazing' by Aerosmith.

'My Sacrifice' by Creed.

"Death of Seasons" (or something) - Blue Oyster Cult: Its winter in Finland. Dark. Gloomy. Meh. "Season's don't fear the reaper, the sun, the wind, or the rain! We can be like they are, c'mon baby, don't fear the reaper, just take my haaaannd!" Just good feelings there.


That sing is actually titled "Don't Fear the Reaper" ;)

alot of the stuff by the Grateful Dead (especially the American Beauty album)

more recently was the new Cream: Live at Albert Hall and Linda Perry's solo album

...also Four Day Creep by Humble Pie...

...and the Live at Slaine Castle cd by Red Hot Chili Peppers...

and that one Keanye West song...

im really attached to music :P

The number one song that has that connection with me though is Time by Pink Floyd

Whose House?
Run's House!

That sing is actually titled "Don't Fear the Reaper" ;)
Oj, thanks! Had a song title malfunction there, as that was the title to one AFI song I know, and probably countless others as well.

Currently? My Life by Billy Joel. It's a good song by itself, but the lyrics fit my situation completely. :p

Free Bird. Lynyrd Skynyrd. By a mile.

To the World by Strike Anywhere

I'm still exploring all that Swedish can offer music wise. Got any favorite bands I should check out? Preferably songs in Swedish, though. No hurry, take your time. I'll be checking up on this thread for sure.

You had to limit it to Swedophones, didn't you? *sigh* Some of these are old bands, some are not so old, some aren't bands at all, some do stuff in English, too, and they come in no particular order:

Well, there's Ebba Grön, Timbuktu (http://www.timbuk.nu), Håkan Hellström (http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=6068), Laleh (http://www.laleh.se/) (she has Swedish material - I like her Storebror (http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/wma/stream.wmg.com/wmi/sweden/audio/laleh_storebror.wma)), Looptroop, Fattaru (http://www.fattaru.nu), Lars Winnerbäck (http://www.winnerback.net/), Doktor Kosmos (http://www.doktorkosmos.nu/), Cornelis Vreeswijk (http://www.cornelis.nu/)...

Really, I just keep thinking of people and bands that do stuff in English, like The Hives, Mando Diao, Marit Bergman (http://www.maritbergman.net/), The Soundtrack of Our Lives (http://www.tsool.net/), Sophie Zelmani (http://www.zelmani.com/)... I'm don't listen to many bands that do stuff in Swedish.

That sing is actually titled "Don't Fear the Reaper" ;)

Nonsense. It isn't.

The current list:
And So It Goes - Billy Joel lyrics (http://www.letssingit.com/?/billy-joel-and-so-it-goes-k5q7rgr.html)
Make Me Smile - Chicago lyrics (http://www.letssingit.com/?/chicago-make-me-smile-4xdtphc.html)
Say Goodbye - Dave Matthews Band lyrics (http://www.letssingit.com/?/dave-matthews-band-say-goodbye-vggj5n6.html)
I Don't Believe You - Magnetic Fields lyrics (http://www.letssingit.com/?/magnetic-fields-i-dont-believe-you-5xgmhx9.html)

That's about it, really. But those are the ones that really kinda do it for me.

the whole of the album "Issues" by KoRn. summed up my time at uni.

particularly the lines of the last song that went "each day is the same, i just want to live again"


and then there's Papercut by Linkin Park, going on about paranoia and the voice in your head that brings you down. again, kinda summs up how i felt at uni (and still do to some extent, though i'm learning to shut that little voice out)


probably more, but... meh

I don't really have anything to contribute, guess I don't exactly have a "soundtrack of my life".
But you all got me to dig out my dusty Billy Joel LPs *feels old* and I'm listening to "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", which kind of is the soundtrack of a life in and of itself.

"Luka" -- Suzanne Vega (might as well have been written about my childhood)

Is writing about which song does not relate to your life considered off-topic?

Anyhow, I chose to re-name myself Lucca onve I had left my parents, and every single person I met so far keeps going "listen, I don't want to be insensitive, but does this have to do anything with that 'my name is Luca" song?". I very much like that song, but it is truly annoying when people start making up issues you don't have (fortunately).

On-topic, I'm not so sure..apart from hating to eveal things, I just have no one single song like that..but I'll go with Tocotronicfor fragments that I find to be fitting every now and again
-Vier Geschichten von Dir
-Du bist ganz schön bedient
-Du und Deine Welt

my song HAS to be montey python's "always look on the bright side of life" It's happy and bounce, get progresivle darker, but then happy again. and if you have no i dia what im talking about YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. GO TO THE FREAKING VEDIO STORE AND RENT "LIFE OF BRAIN" YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR MISSING!

my song HAS to be montey python's "always look on the bright side of life" It's happy and bounce, get progresivle darker, but then happy again. and if you have no i dia what im talking about YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. GO TO THE FREAKING VEDIO STORE AND RENT "LIFE OF BRAIN" YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR MISSING!

brian. don't misspell your life, now.

So many so little time.

I suppose 'Only the strong survive' by Elvis- uplifting and makes me feel less shit about certain things

'My life' Billy Joel for the reason that it is my life and I'll live it how I like, always a good sentiment to carry you on

'Hotel California' the Eagles, not because I'm hooked on any drugs, but mainly because everyone at one point feels that they can check out anytime but never leave

others but I've a mental block at the moment

Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want lyrics (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/verticalhorizon/everythingyouwant.html)

Reminds me of my relationship with my girlfriend...

"When Humanity Is Cancer" by Anaal Nathakh. I don't understand any of the lyrics but its's very scary.

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties all year!
Fat bottomed girls
They'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah
On your marks get set go
Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
Bicycle bicycle bicycle bicycle
Bicycle race

You say coke I say caine
You say John I say Wayne
Hot dog I say cool it man
I don't wanna be the President of America
You say smile I say cheese
Cartier I say please
Income tax I say Jesus
I don't wanna be a candidate for
Vietnam or Watergate
Cause all I wanna do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

Hmmmmmm

You Can't Always Get What You Want-The Rolling Stones
Midnight Rider-The Allman Brothers Band
St. Stephen-Grateful Dead
The Weight-The Band

Right now, Epiphany by Staind, The End by Doors, Harvest Moon by Neil Young and Everlong by Foo Fighters

In Middle School, I was obssessed with "Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin, and "It's time for a few small repairs" is one of the best villain lines I can remember off the top of my head.

had a weird thing once, I went through an "Everclear" stage when I was younger, about when Sparkle and Fade came out, and I would start the CD on the first track every night when I went to bed, then in the morning it would always be on track 3 when I got up and I would turn it off. I probably only really heard the first 5 tracks or so and then would fall asleep. One night I woke up in the middle of the night and it was on track 12. It was so weird because it really was about stuff that happened in my life, it creeped me out though some of the details were just weird, like the fact that as I was listening to it at 3am the glow in the dark stars on my celing were still kinda glowing, and were like pale green......anyway I still really like the song, but the first time I heard it, I got so creeped out by it that I still get goosebumps when I hear it......

lyrics here (http://www.qlyrics.com/everclear/pale_green_stars/)

kinda getting creeped out thinking about it:eek:

Heh; you aren't named Amanda too, are you? That would be freaky.

I have that album around here somewhere...

I like a few lines from "Me and Julio" by S&G
"I'm on my way, I don't know where I'm going, I'm on my way, I'm taking my time but I don't know where..." That sums up my foresightedness and planning ability in a nutshell.
Good Charlotte's "The Click" is a really good one too.
Queen's Headlong is suits me fine also.

I like a few lines from "Me and Julio" by S&G
"I'm on my way, I don't know where I'm going, I'm on my way, I'm taking my time but I don't know where..." That sums up my foresightedness and planning ability in a nutshell.
Fantastic song, but he best line is
"Goodbye to Rooooooooooooooooooosie"

In Middle School, I was obssessed with "Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin, and "It's time for a few small repairs" is one of the best villain lines I can remember off the top of my head.
Whoa, I didn't think anyone remembered that song. Those were some seriously creepy lyrics very chirpily delivered. The fact that she "came home with a list of names" used to throw me, as did that one half-whispered verse about how "dry is good and wind is better" and "strike a match, go on and do it", coupled with the cover painting of this disquietingly cubist woman striking, well, a match and looking all calm and determined with those three eyes of hers.

Depeche Mode - Somebody
lyrics
(http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/depeche-mode/39351.html)

Whoa, I didn't think anyone remembered that song.
Like I said, I was obsessed with it (I think I even left the CD on a few times while I slept).
Those were some seriously creepy lyrics very chirpily delivered. The fact that she "came home with a list of names"
That was the best part: "Sunny came home with a list of names/She didn't believe in transcendence/It's time for a few small repairs she said"

"Against the Wind" -- Bob Seger (get more and more appropriate as I get older)
Same for me. :)

Plus "Like a Rock." :)

Nonsense. It isn't.



Umm... I think if you actually research it, you'll find it is.

Skeleton Song, by Sevendust

(I think I even left the CD on a few times while I slept).
o.O Ever have any subliminal urges to, well, burn things?


Depeche Mode - Somebody
Surely one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

o.O Ever have any subliminal urges to, well, burn things?
Not burn, but the thought of making my own list and a few "repairs" has an increasing appeal to me.

"Well the point was blunt, but it was too hard to miss, life handed us a paycheck and we said, "We worked harder than this!"- Bury Me With It by Modest Mouse

"It's always better on holiday So much better on holiday, That's why we only work when We need the money"- Jacqeulin by Franz Ferdinand

"And I am cold, yes I'm cold, But not as cold as you are I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away I love the sound of you walking away, walking away" Walk Away by Franz Ferdinand

Oh this is good I do like these I do. Well first off to name a few:

The Outlaw Torn by Metallica
Hurt by NIN/Johnny Cash (his version better)
The Unforgiven by Metallica
My December by Linkin Park
Amazed by Offspring
Waffle by Sevendust
Loser - 3 Doors Down

I guess that's it...there are probably more but who can think when Sevendust plays their uber-goodness :).

These have all been pretty well in my life I can't think of more at the moment but the lyrics of them they all really speak to me in ways I can relate to.

" Cumbersome" by Seven Mary Three

Not burn, but the thought of making my own list and a few "repairs" has an increasing appeal to me.
*makes note to self not to get on your bad side*



In a completely unrelated development, I just remembered that I actually do have a song that meant a lot to me during a time a few years ago:
Pulp's annoyingly punctuated F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. (lyrics (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pulp/112090.html); though just reading it is nowhere near as intense as hearing it.)

Umm... I think if you actually research it, you'll find it is.

I think if you actually research it, you'll find it isn't.

Now, if you'd typed (Don't Fear) The Reaper, then that would be a completely different matter.

For me it's Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" lyrics (http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/i/is_that_all_there_is_peggy_lee.html)

It's been one of my favorites ever since I first heard it. After I die, I'd like it played at my memorial.

"Bury Me With It" By Modest Mouse Am Too Lazy To Give Lyrics, Look Them Up Yourself, Bitch

Notice how almost all the songs here are rock.... makes you wonder if rap actually moves people....

But Time, Pink Floyd is really good (The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death), Master of Puppets by Metallica (feels like life's not going right direction), Melancholy by Iced Earth (cause i'm sad alot), Hallowed be Thy Name and The Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden.... because they are awesome
Any Metallica or Rush
Oh and Mr. Roboto by Styx cause I made a cute girl laugh real hard by singing it... ;)

Lots of metal and rock.


"Been Dazed and Confused for so long it's not true..."

Heh; you aren't named Amanda too, are you? That would be freaky.
nope, if I were though, I probably would have been even more freaked out.

I have that album around here somewhere...
it's a good album, I still listen to it a lot. I tend to skip over that track sometimes though since it still gives me chills. ;)

i make associations between songs and people... then i lose contact with those people... then a long time later i hear those songs again. and i realized i lost something very dear to me. and it sucks.

*makes note to self not to get on your bad side*
You needn't worry: If I start making lists, people I know only from the Interweb won't make it until I'm really desperate for fresh targets.
Unless of course we've met in person before, than it might already be too late for you anyway.

Yeah, although the songs change from time to time.
Unintended by Muse is one of them, Engel by Rammstein and hmmm.... can't think straight with the horrible pop RnB blaring from next door. Will get back to this thread!

You needn't worry: If I start making lists, people I know only from the Interweb won't make it until I'm really desperate for fresh targets.
Unless of course we've met in person before, than it might already be too late for you anyway.
Well, as long as I'll remember to never mention you in any of those "NSers you'd like to meet in RL" threads, I should be safe then.
Or should I? *evil laugh*

I think if you actually research it, you'll find it isn't.

Now, if you'd typed (Don't Fear) The Reaper, then that would be a completely different matter.


I stand corrected. Thank you Mr. Overprecise.