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Sat 3 Apr, 2004 02:12 am
You know what makes a song great for me? It's when you have a great memory that is attached to it. And it doesn't matter if the song is good or bad. It could be the dumbest song, but it just puts you back in that moment and makes you feel good, no matter what.
For instance, ZZ Top's song, "Jesus Just Left Chicago" is a great song for me. When I was a teenager I remember doing illegal substances with my buddy Nick and just cruising around on some hot summer day. At one point that song came on and we turned it up as loud as it would go, rolled up the windows, and played air guitar like f*cking crazy people and laughed our asses of at how stupid we looked to each other. It's just one of those weird moments that sticks in your head, you know? Now I can never hear that song without remembering that feeling I had of just being young and stupid for the hell of it.
Do you have any songs that bring you back to a great memory or some great time in your life?
LOTS of songs that are reminders of different times of my life. Not all good though. 'Kay, don't laugh, but...."The Reflex" by Duran Duran has some very bittersweet memories for me. Same with "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis. "Master and Servant" by Depeche Mode doesn't remind of an event so much as...well we won't get into it.
I don't know Master and Servant. I kind of hated Depeche Mode. But now I'm curious about what it reminds you of. Come on, you have to tell me now that you brought it up.
Well....here are the majority of the lyrics for it.
Quote:There's a new game
We like to play you see
A game with added reality
You treat me like a dog
Get me down on my knees
We call it master and servant
We call it master and servant
It's a lot like life
This play between the sheets
With you on top and me underneath
Forget all about equality
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
It's a lot like life
And that's what's appealing
If you despise that throwaway feeling
From disposable fun
Then this is the one
Domination's the name of the game
In bed or in life
They're both just the same
Except in one you're fulfilled
At the end of the day
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
Come on, master and servant
I'm scared. I'm going back to the broom closet.
That's a big (and wrong) assumption there k.c.
Wow!!! You just put me through a blast from the past Kicky. One of mine was AC/DC Back in Black or anything AC/DC at the time. A friend of mine had the best sound system in his car. We use it call it the tunes car :-D
Montana, that does sound like fun. Glad I could help you dig up some good old memories. :wink:
Oh here's another one. I just remembered going on spring break to Daytona beach, and I had this stupid Gap Band tape with me all the time, and where ever we were I would play Party Train every chance I got. What a blast that was. That song means "spring break" to me now.
I was introduced to this Tim Rose tune via the Nick Cave cover. It always brings back memories of when I killed my first wife. Oops, I didn't just admit that, did I? (Actually a really moving tune, and just brings back memories of being one of the coolest goths in high school).
Long Time Man
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
(Written by Tim Rose )
Yeah, they came to take me away
Said I'd be sitting here for the rest of my life
But I don't really care - I shot my wife
And brother, I can't even remember the reason why
Oh, it makes a long time man feel bad
Yeah, it makes a long time man feel bad
Well I ain't had no love since I don't know when
It sure makes a long time man feel bad
We was down in Jacksonville
A cold winter night
My baby and I, we began to fight
I heated up, and I grabbed my gun
I get so cold on those nights down south
She was laying in a pool right there on the kitchen floor
She looked up at me and began to smile
Her gasping words: "Baby, I love you"
Then she closed those baby blue eyes
Sometimes I hear you call my name in the dead of the night
I ain't had those arms around me
I ain't had those lips, those lips, around me
It sure makes a long time man feel bad
So bad
Best live performance... Peter's brother came to visit the campus... brought his guitar. Play Madman Across the Water incredibly well. Bongo Bob accompanied on bongos although he didn't know the song. And we were all very much enhanced...
That was the same wasted winter where we gathered each afternoon to burn some rope and listen to Dire Straights and Frank Zappa. Still gives me a buzz sometimes. Talking Heads' Fear of Music also gives me a buzz, but it's much less pleasant.
There's others. When I was a kid I used to put Hey Jude on the box and watch susnset while they were doing that long outro...
'Psychocandy' by the Jesus and Mary Chain....I was the first kid on the block to own it, and I shelled out extra cash for the UK import, as it hadn't been released domestically. I took a trip down to my favourite record store (yes, records), with a beautiful girl on a snowy day, and she was absolutely lovely in her grey wool coat and matching hat. If I knew then what I know now...sigh.
3am, winter, big fat flakes of snow are falling, i'm walking home after a party listening to the new pretenders tape "learning to crawl" on my walkman and all of a sudden hearing "2000 miles" for the first time
not the best pretenders song ever but instantly one of my faves
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