Clingy wrote:
Well, music can stir some uncomfortable memories. Strangely though, I can't recall songs that stir any particular good memories.
As a rather emotional one ..... <a href="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHKNH7nwCk" target="_blank">My Legs are Weak</a> ....provokes particular memories of an old departed friend from these forums. And when I heard it live only some 20 feet from the artist, who, although she must have sung it many many times, still managed to put incredible feeling into it, my missis and I was in floods of tears.
Paloma Faith is awesome, and I feel someone very under-rated even with the current profile she has. I like everything about her song writing, image, performance and hope she stays far, far away from rap parasites, and this phase vocoder nonesense.
But like you say, there are those songs/pieces that play every range of feeling on those heart strings. My Grandmother was a concert pianist, and I have never heard anyone play the Warsaw Concerto like she did. On a lighter side though, it still makes me laugh when I remember one of the little ones asking me to change the radio station when he heard the song "Pumping on Your Stereo"... It seems pumping hand become a playground reference to flatulance.
Family journeys in the car with us all singing unashamedly and loudly all the <a href="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXXaBu1Ing" target="_blank">Monkee's</a> songs.
...and our singing Bohemian Rhapsody was just something else.
Whether good or saddening memories, music certainly adds a dimension to them. "If music be the food of love, play on!" Shakespear wrote. But that isn't the case, it's the quality of our feeling that gives music its significance and weight, whether that be happy or sad - both reflect a love of something or someone.
Just be a nutter... life becomes much more exciting, and people won't expect anything more of you...
