"those" moments...

Crumble Froo

was thinking there yesterday at just how some music and lyrics and stuff can implant themselves into your brain in just such a profound way that you really can't describe it all that well. those moments where a song you've heard a million times over suddenly catches you offguard and taps into something you'd never associated it with before, or just the sound suddenly represents something huge all of a sudden and changes your mood entirely.

duno how much sense any of that makes, but i know it's one of those things that happens to plenty of people... the other day, i was really really stressed, while packing to move house, and a song kinda outro'd on a kinda chaotic sound... the singer just repeating himself in a monotone, and instruments coming in bit by bit with a kinda chaotic feel to them, and it just overwhelmed me i broke down in tears! craziness. just teh whole sound caught me in that moment and sorta translated what i was feeling into sound and it just... impacted me, i guess.

just thought it'd be nice to throw up a thread where we can maybe talk about it, or share moments or something... *trails off*

anywho, just thought i'd throw it out there :cool::)

JohnnyStones

Happens to me all the time.. i remember once..

i was helping a friend strip his wallpaper off his wall*obviously*
and a song came on the radio nirvana "you know your right"

i loved nirvana back in the day didn't really think much of that song when it/i first heard it

now i love that tune
one of nirvana's best imo:)


YOU KNOW AM RIGHT!!

PennyLane

Ahh, like the time I noticed the Dave Matthews Band lyric about the moon following the car and remembered, for the first time in ages, playing that game with myself as a kid. I love those moments.

Crumble Froo

hehe, went in to see incubus a coupla weeks ago, and had been out on the piss the night before, and i remember coming in on the train first thing that morning, and deciding that the lyrics of the first verse of 'just a phase' were perfect for that morning-after whiskeybelly feeling on a train...
"i am bottled fizzy water
and you are shaking me up
you are a fingernail running down the chalkboard i thought i left in third grade
now my only consolation is that this could not last forever
even though you're singing and thinking how well you've got it made"


see? blatantly about hangovers...

Leon11

listening to creedance clearwater at 6am on a balcony with a bottle of southern comfort by my side. The world opened up to me:D

Crumble Froo

oh ****! you just reminded me of a horrible horrible time wehn me and my b/f were broken up on pretty bad terms and i was devastated and had my mp3 on random, walking through town to the bus eireann thing, and clearlake - trees in teh city came on and it just touched me on this really deep, profound kind of level... aw, man... craziness....

Blackhorse Slim

Putting an mp3 player on random is just asking for trouble. A few years ago I used to walk past a graveyard on my way to work. One of the first times I did it was about 7:30 on a winter morning, pitch black, frost on the ground, I was naturally thinking about death and coldness. My random mp3 player decided that I needed to hear Led Zep's Your Time is Gonna Come. Spooky.

Bren_M.Records

For me its coming across a Shades of Rhythm track for example on youtube and remembering back to 88-90 when I lived in London and was going to the warehouse party.
The world was my oyster at the time but I ****ed it all up!
I still love listening to those songs but they are tinged with sadness for me.

Latchy

For me it's ''Aubery ''by Bread , the reason ?

About 2 years ago i made contact over the internet (not on this forum ) on a daily basis with a female, and over a period of 12 months we became good friends , however after about 10 months of asking several times could i see a photo off her she was still reluctant to send me one (not that her appearence of looks mattered one jot ) but i was curious as one is, as to what this nice person looked like , but she had her reasons and i respected that . But on listening to this song on you tube ,i couldent help see the similaritys in the lyrics and how i was feeling , '' And Aubrey was her name ,i never knew her but i loved her just the same , i loved her name '' , and also the amimation that goes with it, which has a mysterious dark haired girl with her back to the viewer (which is how her avatar looked ) , i know this was not a shallow friendship ,we spent enough time together on the pc and told each other so much about ourselfs for it to be that , but she dissapeared as quickly as she came and left a deep void in my life ......but i loved her just the same ,

johnny_ultimate

I was listening to Pinkerton by Weezer for like the hundreth time on a prolonged bus journey a month or two ago and I suddenly really just 'got' the lyrics to all the songs, and they tapped so wonderfully into my mood at the time (which was slightly more downbeat than would be usual for me after some weird emotional nonsense) that I just hit the back button and listened to the whole thing again.

It just had such depth of emotion and insight that I was really stunned, considering I knew the album so damn well already. And it wasn't just one song, it was all of them. I listened to the album for a month solid after that.

yevveh

Happened for me with ****loads of Biffy songs. Mostly songs from Blackened Sky and Vertigo of Bliss. Really get the emotions going

Same with Lux Aeterna on the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. It's an instrumental but Clint Mansell's composing skills hit the nail on the head with that one!

Mushy

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I was listening to Pinkerton by Weezer for like the hundreth time on a prolonged bus journey a month or two ago and I suddenly really just 'got' the lyrics to all the songs, and they tapped so wonderfully into my mood at the time (which was slightly more downbeat than would be usual for me after some weird emotional nonsense) that I just hit the back button and listened to the whole thing again.

It just had such depth of emotion and insight that I was really stunned, considering I knew the album so damn well already. And it wasn't just one song, it was all of them. I listened to the album for a month solid after that.

Yes, couldnt agree more with what is said here. Some songs i listen to cause I like, but then there are others, amybe not on this album only, but by Weezer, that are just so truthful, especially at this time. For a few weeks there, Why Bother? was always on for me, and we know what thats about, so no need to explain.

yevveh wrote: »

Happened for me with ****loads of Biffy songs. Mostly songs from Blackened Sky and Vertigo of Bliss. Really get the emotions going

Biffy here aswell for me now. Even though the song may not be the happiest, Living is a Problem Cos Everything Dies always makes me feel really good now. Was out one night, and went to kiss this girl, and bang on time, the tv version of the song came on. So when the drums went 'duh'(poor phonetic version:D, its the first drum beat), we first kissed. She is now my girlfriend...I feel I win both ways.

Could go on forever about songs that make me feel different things. At rough times, Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains is super. At good times, just happy beats is enough, I can ignore the lyrics to some if the music is good.

Crumble Froo

awww man! was just chattin to a new mate there the other day, and mentioned going to rock am ring in germany this summer... among the acts playing there were linkin park, good charlotte and papa roach, who were all around when i was about 12 and getting into music big time... associated a lot of their songs with general survival and getting through ****....

surprised myself when i apparently burst into tears during certain songs by all three bands, despite not having listen to them for yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeears now! just... so much emotion captured in those songs i used to identify with... twas crazy... just remembered that the otehr day... weirdness.