you know, the one you hear that transports you back to the time, day and place you first heard it
here's mine:
Watcher of the Skies
but only the Genesis Live version, the ambient crowd noise at the start is as important as that opening Mellotron salvo. A grey September 1973 (citation required), borrowed it from a school friend, sat in my room studying the sleeve as the disc spun on my proto stereo record player (a Murphy). My life was never the same after that, I can't really tell you what happened as I don't know how to write it down, suffice to say I saw and heard things differently afterwards. The effect has diminished over the decades but there's still a glimmer everytime I play it.
that 'flashback' song
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China In Your Hand by T'Pau.
Long hot summer, a girl (obviously), lots of fun with friends partying and not a care in the world.
Think I was 16 (?) - that long long break after my O'Levels.....
Thanks James, now I am miles away..................
Long hot summer, a girl (obviously), lots of fun with friends partying and not a care in the world.
Think I was 16 (?) - that long long break after my O'Levels.....
Thanks James, now I am miles away..................
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I trust you trust in me to mistrust you
I trust you trust in me to mistrust you
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Deep purple - Child in Time
Way back in the early eighties, when I was a wee kid, my mother had this record she played often. It was a compilation from Veronica radio... you know, the pirateradio station that transmitted wild music from somewhere in the northsea in the seventies. On the cover of the double elpee there was a picture of the boat itself on the wide blue sea...
Halfway through Child in Time there's a lot of screaming and when that came on, my mum told us (my brother & me who were mesmerized by the noise) the story of this sinking ship... From that moment on, every time I hear that song, I find myself back in my old home in the sofa thinking about that sinking ship. We actually renamed that song to 'den boot zinkt' (=the boat sinks
) ...
Years later I was living in an Antwerp apartement, pretty close to the harbour. I loved to go for a walk there and one day I saw this ship... the one from that albumcover, still wearing the Veronica name. It took me some time to figure out the ship wasn't on the bottom of the sea.
Way back in the early eighties, when I was a wee kid, my mother had this record she played often. It was a compilation from Veronica radio... you know, the pirateradio station that transmitted wild music from somewhere in the northsea in the seventies. On the cover of the double elpee there was a picture of the boat itself on the wide blue sea...
Halfway through Child in Time there's a lot of screaming and when that came on, my mum told us (my brother & me who were mesmerized by the noise) the story of this sinking ship... From that moment on, every time I hear that song, I find myself back in my old home in the sofa thinking about that sinking ship. We actually renamed that song to 'den boot zinkt' (=the boat sinks
) ...Years later I was living in an Antwerp apartement, pretty close to the harbour. I loved to go for a walk there and one day I saw this ship... the one from that albumcover, still wearing the Veronica name. It took me some time to figure out the ship wasn't on the bottom of the sea.
in dub we trust
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Both 'Prayers For Rain' by The Cure and 'A Good Idea' by Sugar remind me of walking home from my girlfriends through the market town when I was a teenager. It was a long walk and I always had my walkman with me. Even now those songs bring up strong happy memories 
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
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'Paradise City' by G'n'R.
The path towards good and interesting music started there, right at that fence where Axl Rose was waving me in, bottle-o-jack in one hand, a Marl' in the other. Found some other bobtails along the way there, such as mister Bongiovi, mister Sixx and mister Roth.
Then strayed a bit, took the left hand fork, saw the Tardy brothers and Mick and Mitch Harris along with sir Schuldiner and preacher Trey Azagthoth, went up to the middle again where I met mister Mustaine and Empty Head-field and a Large Oilrig.
From then on it has been a very interesting journey backe and forthe between metal, rock, indie, wave, death, doom, goff, experimental, noise, ambient, drone, classical, ethereal, clinical, magical...
But Axl pointed his finger to the road in the first place. Thank you.
IZ.
The path towards good and interesting music started there, right at that fence where Axl Rose was waving me in, bottle-o-jack in one hand, a Marl' in the other. Found some other bobtails along the way there, such as mister Bongiovi, mister Sixx and mister Roth.
Then strayed a bit, took the left hand fork, saw the Tardy brothers and Mick and Mitch Harris along with sir Schuldiner and preacher Trey Azagthoth, went up to the middle again where I met mister Mustaine and Empty Head-field and a Large Oilrig.
From then on it has been a very interesting journey backe and forthe between metal, rock, indie, wave, death, doom, goff, experimental, noise, ambient, drone, classical, ethereal, clinical, magical...
But Axl pointed his finger to the road in the first place. Thank you.
IZ.
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:]But Axl pointed his finger to the road in the first place. Thank you.
Dear Izzy,
Why did you have to put that twit Axl's name rather than Slash when I'm quite sure it would have been his great guitar licks that attracted you to the music.
Disappointed,
Nate
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I had a hand on the gun
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I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
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Slash... cannot... point... because... he uses both his hands to play those amazing licks.silentNate wrote:Izzy HaveMercy wrote:]But Axl pointed his finger to the road in the first place. Thank you.
Dear Izzy,
Why did you have to put that tw*t Axl's name rather than Slash when I'm quite sure it would have been his great guitar licks that attracted you to the music.
Disappointed,
Nate
Duh.
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cause he's an extremely average spanker/spunker in a poor man's Aerosmith
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James Blast wrote:cause he's an extremely average spanker/spunker in a poor man's Aerosmith
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
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thanking yew!
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Thinking of "flashback" songs, there are so many I couldn't decide for one ...
Plenty of David Bowie ...
Memory of a Free Festival or Move On or all this Young Americans stuff like Right and Golden Years ... ah.
Or more "currently" ... The Motel or The Voyeur of Utter Destruction or New Killer Star or Try Some, Buy Some ...
And, of course, each and every Sisters' song and cover.
And here, for the latter, Confide in Me, above all -
reminding me of the Glauchau Woodstage and the Rendsburg
Supercrash Festival ...
Plenty of David Bowie ...
Memory of a Free Festival or Move On or all this Young Americans stuff like Right and Golden Years ... ah.
Or more "currently" ... The Motel or The Voyeur of Utter Destruction or New Killer Star or Try Some, Buy Some ...
And, of course, each and every Sisters' song and cover.
And here, for the latter, Confide in Me, above all -
reminding me of the Glauchau Woodstage and the Rendsburg
Supercrash Festival ...
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black ~ 'wonderful life'
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one of my friends gave me a tape copy of the LP on a night out. problem was the night out consisted drinking 'speical brew' down in one - never been so sick evah - got kicked out of the pub / club /house, so went and sat on the clifftops listening to this on my walkman (inbetween vomiting). managed the pub the next night though.... we were so young then
but yeah.. that song is my 'changing tracks Jo'
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzx20_ ... life_music
one of my friends gave me a tape copy of the LP on a night out. problem was the night out consisted drinking 'speical brew' down in one - never been so sick evah - got kicked out of the pub / club /house, so went and sat on the clifftops listening to this on my walkman (inbetween vomiting). managed the pub the next night though.... we were so young then
but yeah.. that song is my 'changing tracks Jo'
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Only a few bars of the Cure's "the Hanging Garden" and I am a teenager again and in my friends bedroom, a bottle of nasty bourbon on the table, candles lit and the overwhelming smell of Schwartzkopf hairspray in the air...
A dangerous combination in anyone's book!!
...them were the days
A dangerous combination in anyone's book!!
...them were the days
as the day is long,
rain from heaven
rain from heaven
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just to let ye ken, the WatS effect has not diminished, christophe was looking for the Montreal gig (which I have on a disc somewhere) instead I stumbled upon the unmixed Genesis ~ Live! album, it still works
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The song Itchycoo Park always reminds me of sitting in the backseat of my Grandads Cortina driving back from Skegness....I hate my memory...I mean,Skegness!!!!
Like pushing a marsmallow into a piggy bank
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it's so bracing!
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
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James Blast wrote:it's so bracing!
They have that poster up in a bar at Budapest airport.
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it's a classic - FACT!
what's not to love
what's not to love
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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~ Peter Steele
Yeah. Always makes me chuckle too.
I think my flashback song has to be Understanding Jane by The Icicle Works.
Mad nights out, waking up with mystery injuries, driving Karen to work in my dressing gown, cycling across a cricket green in the dark & being upended by the rope cordon, getting beaten up by the local "casuals" every week after the Shimmer night in Worthing.
Aaaah. Happy days.
I think my flashback song has to be Understanding Jane by The Icicle Works.
Mad nights out, waking up with mystery injuries, driving Karen to work in my dressing gown, cycling across a cricket green in the dark & being upended by the rope cordon, getting beaten up by the local "casuals" every week after the Shimmer night in Worthing.
Aaaah. Happy days.
James Blast wrote:it's a classic - FACT!
what's not to love
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shoulda called me, I'd have beaten ye up for free
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James Blast wrote:shoulda called me, I'd have beaten ye up for free
Don't recall they ever charged.
Good thing adidas sambas were soft.
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never had ye doon as a Samba Boi
I was too
naw, wait a min. SambaBoi and proud!!!
I was too
naw, wait a min. SambaBoi and proud!!!
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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Haha.James Blast wrote:never had ye doon as a Samba Boi
I was too
naw, wait a min. SambaBoi and proud!!!
They were the samba bois.
I couldn't bring myself to wear anything brown.
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Adidas Samba - black mit der drie strippen, Ja!?
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele