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Forgotten Treasure

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 09:51am on 2003-01-13

So I'm listening to a cassette that I haven't had the means to listen to for a few years. It's music I already remembered I like, of course, which is why I chose it, but it's kind of neat to be reminded of particular songs I'd forgotten about. I didn't look at the track list before putting it in. I remembered "Free Fall", "The Moon Miners", "A Reconsideration of Anatomical Docking Maneuvers in a Zero Gravity Environment", and "The PanGalactic Gargle Blaster Blues" were on this tape, but I'd completely forgotten about "Monsters in the Night" until I heard it while checking my email. Forgotten treasure! Sortakinda like finding a $20 bill in the pocket of a garment you haven't worn in months.

And I've still got "The 47th Street Blues Band" and "Space Train" to enjoy before the tape ends. Maybe a good start to the day will herald a good day?

Music:: Diana Gallagher, Cosmic Concepts More Complete
Mood:: 'amused' amused
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posted by [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com at 11:23am on 2003-01-13
Music tends to be really strongly associated with specific memories for me, so finding old mixtapes ends up frequently being rather revelatory. Bits of my past that had completely escaped my brain come flying back.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 12:11pm on 2003-01-20
Music gets associated with memories for me, too, though songs that I only heard a lot of for a short period get the memories more firmly attached than ones I've heard consistently for decades, or course. There are specific people I always think of when I hear "She's a Rainbow" and "Ruby Tuesday", for example, and "Jackie Blue" brings up hard-to-describe, half-remembered feelings from a summer in the 1970s. (Hmm. Just did a search for lyrics and discovered that the Smashing Pumpkins covered it. Interesting.)

It make sense that rediscovering an old mix-tape would do this even more so -- a bunch of tunes all from the same period -- but the tape I was listening to when I posted that was a commercially produced album, though a very small-press filk distribution.
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