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Can You Overdose on Nostalgia?
Probably, but I am going to try anyway. I have started a new project.
I tried to make a list of the albums that I have listened to the most. I am up to about 50 albums so far, and almost all of them are from late adolescence and young adulthood. This means these are old albums I haven’t listened to in a long time. I listen to one of them every day while I am walking for exercise.
For a small monthly fee, I can listen to every album I have ever heard! The internet is an amazing thing. I have only done this three days so far, but it has brought back memories that might have been lost forever if I had not done that.
Of course, I never know if those memories are real.
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Why you writing with voice like Honorable Charlie Chan?
Was trying for terse. (We don’t learn how to write dialect till next semester.)
The thought that sometimes the individual remembers what had not occurred was born out by all the Baby Boomers in the 1980’s who were telling their kids “I was one of those hippies at Woodstock.”
If that many people had gone to Woodstock, the ground at the concert venue would have been subsumed into the deeper reaches of the earth.
Clapton left that band, due to how by some point into their fame, several band members were packing, paranoia ruled at the recording sessions and intra band rivalries were getting heated.
Within a short time period after that, everyone but Clapton had been sent to prison or had died.
On edit – it is one terrific album though!
Yeah, Carl Radle (who started with Gary Lewis and the Playboys) died in 1980, Jim Gordon died this year in prison while serving a life term for murdering his mother, and Duane Allman was killed in a 1971 motorcycle crash. Allman sat in on the recording sessions, though he was not a “member” of the short-lived band. Bobby Whitlock is still around, though.
Last week I was informed by my music app that OMD had a new album out, marking their fourth decade. (And change.) Leftie lyrics aside, it sounds like something they could’ve made in 1991. Or 2003. It’s hard to be nostalgic for something that never goes away.
The album I listened to today was Laura Nyro’s second album that had all of the hits for The Fifth Dimension, Three Dog Night and Barbra Streisand. That was an album I only listened to once before today. It occurred on a day when I was in college where I went over to Nancy’s apartment complex to play tennis with her. After we hit the ball back and forth for awhile we went to her apartment for a simple lunch. She said you need to hear this album. We were newlyweds but we were not wedded to each other. We almost surely drank some beer and we may have smoked some weed that afternoon but all I can remember is that we laughed a lot and shared a common bond that was tinged with sexuality that hinted at infidelity but was just simple friendship. We were friends for decades but I haven’t seen her in awhile.
I think the music we listened to when we were younger will always tend to hold up over time, because it connects to us in a different way than books or movies or tv shows.
Hold up over time? Maybe not, but there are two songs that bring back memories that are not always pleasant. I guess the word is “bittersweet”. Don’t like either band; don’t particularly like the songs. REM: Man In the Moon. Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady.
I suppose that is why I knew that this current project of mine might involve an overdose of nostalgia.
I had that album Eli and the Thirteenth Confession? Her versions of the ‘hits’ were better IMO regardless of the talent that covered them. Her music was quite different.
I listened to cuts from that a few years ago and it brought me back instantly to that time since I hadn’t heard it since those days.
This song has no resemblance to modern song structure, it keeps changing, which takes a while to get used to but it became my favorite.
Music can really bring you back. Most of the music we love, we listened when we were young. so it’s natural it bring back nostalgia when we hear it.
Do it. You never know – Several hit songs grew out of guitar players doing fingering exercises/drills in practice – Dust In The Wind and Sweet Child of Mine being two examples I can think of off the top of my head.
“Life in the Fast Lane” is another. Joe Walsh was doing a fingering exercise while the group was warming up. Glenn Frey heard it and said, “What was that you just played?” Walsh played it again. Frey and Henley took that lick and built the song around it and used it as the opening of the song.