It wasn't consciously created and it has evolved over time. Some pieces of music have managed to transcend specific events of my existence. Others, however, are deeply and firmly rooted at a certain spot in my time line. Whenever I hear them played, I find myself back in a specific place, time, and emotion. Music, as you know, is a powerful thing.
~ Put on the soundtrack to Fried Green Tomatoes and I find myself driving up the canyon to USU to visit friends. It's my freshman year of college. I am feeling melancholy, which I think is a requisite emotion when you are eighteen.
~ You've Lost That Loving Feeling by the Righteous Brothers brings to mind a summer night on a friend's front lawn and an impromptu dance. I'm not sure if I danced with the guy I liked at the time or not. But it was a good time.
~ Sting's I Hung My Head from his album Mercury Falling. Summer again. Riding in a friend's jeep. He's in love with my best friend for the umpteenth time in our lives. I am happily the third-wheel.
~ David Gray's first album, White Ladders. I listen to it during my first trimester of my first pregnancy. I cannot, CANNOT, listen to any of those songs anymore. Every time I do, I feel nauseated with morning sickness. No joke.
Pieces of music that I love and transcend events, to name just a small few, are:
Mozart ~ Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
Sting ~ Fields of Gold and Ghost Story
Ralph Vaughn Williams ~ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Vivaldi ~ The Four Seasons
You're Just Too Good To Be True - Frankie Valli - 1965ish. My 6th grade crush. He was a stunning 16 and bagged groceries at the local Foodtown. Every time my mother went to the store, funny how I was always in tow. Going through the check stand was a breathless experience every time.
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