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Showing Original Post only (View all)What song(s) that you hear and immediately are flooded with memories or feelings… [View all]
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Some special song that takes you back to an important part of your life.
Pat Methanes Last Train Home is mine.
Now I have been listening and playing music since I turned on my tiny sounding, static full little AM radio and heard The Beatles singing I Want to Hold Your Hand. I was around 5 years old and nothing ever reached out and grabbed me like that.
Until I first heard this song.
Laurie and I had just come home from seeing my mother in FLA. She was dying of cancer. I left to come back to Cleveland and I knew in my heart that I would not be seeing her again. But my brain said otherwise.
About two weeks after we landed in Cleveland, my stepfather called my sister to say that mom had taken a turn for the worst and she had been transferred out of the cancer ward and into the area where Terminal patients live out their last few days. This was back in 1990 and the word Hospice was really used.
My step father asked if I wanted to talk to my mother and I said no, I will speak with her when I get there, trying hard to wish my mother alive.
Laurie and I drove down from Cleveland to Ft Myers and made in 23 hours. The eight ball I bought along helped a lot, a slip and the last time I tangoed with the coke.
As we pulled into Punta Gorda that night, this song came on the radio, first time I heard it. I had to pull over. I was sobbing so hard and long that Laurie was really worried about me.
I knew I had given up the last chance to tell my mother I loved her because of some macho bullshit that I was still carrying around with me and I was full of regret..
The song touched something primal in me, setting off a whole bunch of emotions that I had suppressed for the last ten years or so. I had thrown off all my addictions and bad crap and was, in that moment, at the best place in my life up until then. I was strong, sure of myself and confident about our future.
Thinking back, the last time I saw my Mom she must have seen how life had fallen together for me. Out of the three of us, I was the one who was on shaky ground due to my troubles with booze, drugs and stuffing myself with unhealthy food.
When she drove with us to the airport just two weeks before I got that call, she just smiled and waved at me, all bundled up because the drugs she was taking made her cold even in the Florida summer.
Sorry I am going on about this but that thread about guitar solos brought back just how powerful a song can be...
BTW, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow reminds me of the feelings I had when Bill Clinton was elected. That was their theme song.
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What song(s) that you hear and immediately are flooded with memories or feelings… [View all]
WCGreen
Dec 2012
OP
It's Bob Dylan for me too...mostly the early songs because I came of age in the Sixties.
Raksha
Dec 2012
#10
A bit off the beaten track maybe, but Albert Hammond's "It Never Rains
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#6
One of my favorites too. Don't know why it always make me feel wrapped in lazy warm sunshine.
canoeist52
Dec 2012
#80
My favorite Country Joe & The Fish song that's gotten me through some weird places and times
hobbit709
Dec 2012
#17
I still have a 45-year old copy of that album, and that is one of my all-time favorite songs.
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#52
Rivers had one of the best voices in popular music during the 60's and 70's nt
NoGOPZone
Dec 2012
#34
First 45 I ever owned--won at a grade school raffle...had to play it in secret, though.
Surya Gayatri
Dec 2012
#38
"Angel of the Morning"... My dad gave it to me as "my song"... I was his little angel and when he
glowing
Dec 2012
#44
"Cruising," yeah, right. We all know Mulholland Drive was for makin' out...and more
pinboy3niner
Dec 2012
#73
This song will always take me back to my childhood------thank you John Williams
thelordofhell
Dec 2012
#87
There are too many to list. Isn't it amazing how music can be so powerful.
Arkansas Granny
Dec 2012
#121