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.
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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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.