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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on October 28, 2005, 02:41:00 pm
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I don't know about you, but some albums I just associate with the places I lived at when I first dug the music. For example, nowadays whenever I listen to Duty Now for the Future, by Devo I think about Mundelein, IL, because that's where I was living when I first had that on 8-track.
Is anyone else like this? Does a favorite album make you reminisce about a certain locale?
If so, poast 'em here (the albums & the places):
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Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac, Raleigh, NC
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The Mars Volta's "Deloused in the Comatorium" will always remind me of a city discovered by the Germans in 1904. They named it San Diego.
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Beck's "One Foot In The Grave", my hometown of Sykesville, MD during the fall
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Sonic Youth's Goo reminds me of Aspen Hill, MD in winter.
Clash's Combat Rock reminds me of being off my face in Munich.
Glenn Branca's World Upside Down reminds me of making out with a girl in her basement in high school. That's a location, right?
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Cool topic, btw.
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Afghan 'Whigs Gentlemen' reminds me of Stuttgart, Germany Jan 94ish
Therapy? 'Meat Abstract' EP reminds me of Dublin, 92/93
Primal Scream 'Screamadelica' reminds me of Stuttgart, Germany July 92ish
Soul Aslylum 'Grave Dancers Union' reminds me of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ summer 93
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The song Jocko Homo, by Devo reminds me of the Cook county suburb, Countryside, IL, where I used to rent a room. That song was a fuckin' revelation. People either loved it or hated it. Most hated it, including my roomate at the time. He liked Joe Walsh.
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John Lee Hooker's "Burning Hell" reminds me of a stretch I did at Angola in the early '90s.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
John Lee Hooker's "Burning Hell" reminds me of a stretch I did at Angola in the early '90s.
Was that Angola, Delaware, by any chance?
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
Was that Angola, Delaware, by any chance?
Nyet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary)
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pink floyd - 'animals' reminds me of morocco (we stopped at this little mini-bazaar in the middle of the atlas mountains--they had about 50 cassettes of north african music and one copy each of the police - 'synchronicity' and 'animals').
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Nyet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary)
Securities fraud?
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"The Panics - A house on the street in a town I'm from" reminds me of Sydney. Mostly because I bought the album in Sydney, listened to it incessantly while I was there. Also, they are from Perth.
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Mclusky Does Dallas - Stirling, Scotland
Tripping Daisy - I am an elastic firecraker - Parking lot of my High School Senior year job in St. Louis
Wilco - Being There - A particularly drunken night in a college dorm room, several people told me the album wasnt very good, and then loved wilco after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Postal Service - my apartment in dc during big snow of winter (2003?2002?)
Any GBV Song - GBV show experiences in several cities
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I was living in Rome, Italy in the summers for 1991 and 1992...the following LPs never fail to remind me of being there:
The Farm -- Spartacus
The Pixies -- Planet of Sound EP
Inspiral Carpets -- Island Head EP
Pet Shop Boys -- Discography
New Order -- Technique (I picked this up in 1991)
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine -- 1992 the Love Album
Manic Street Preachers -- Generation Terrorists
And on my trip to the island of Ischia I listened a TON to The La's record.
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New Tradionalists, by Devo reminds me of Dana Point, CA. The OC, where I was living at the time it came out. I had a Sony cassette Walkman, one of the first models. I used to listen to that album when I was walking along the footpath next to the flood canal.
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
New Tradionalists, by Devo reminds me of Dana Point, CA. The OC, where I was living at the time it came out. I had a Sony cassette Walkman, one of the first models. I used to listen to that album when I was walking along the footpath next to the flood canal.
that reminds me, Van Halen - 5150, Hilton Head Island Summer of 1986, the first tape my brothers and I had to share on the families first walkman
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Whenever I hear Yaz's Upstairs at Erics it brings me back to the fall of 88; my first year in college in West Palm Beach and the girl I dated..
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New York, New York reminds me of New York -
though i've never been there...
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depeche mode 'halo' - providence, ri 1990
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Nothing's Shocking - Janes' Addiction
Hup! - The Wonderstuff
Doolittle - The Pixies
Those 3 remind me of Gilbert dorm '89 - '90 at the University of Delaware.
Violent Femmes - s/t: reminds me of closing down the kitchen at the Bowie Sizzler with that cassette blasting through the restaurant. Good times.
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Great Topic. I could this for a while too, but I'll throw out a couple of highlights from when I was a growing up:
Fleetwood Mac - "Rumors" and John Stewart (notice the spelling, not that Jon Stewart) - "California Bloodlines" and "The Phoenix Concerts" will always remind me of the family summer drives to Oregon in the motorhome in the late 70's early 80's.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "One More ^ From the Road" will always remind me of my drunken dad late at night in Orange County doing air guitar until my mom yelled from the top of the stairs to turn it down, which he did, until the 11 minute version of Free Bird came on, and the volume knob went through the roof. Always a silent morning after that, and you could feel the tension. Good times.
U2's The Joshua Tree will always remind me of the drive through central CA on the way to Mammoth.
Van Morrison's "Moondance" will always remind me of a train ride from Cork to Dublin when I was leaving Ireland, moving back to the states.
A couple more recent examples, any Jimmy Buffet reminds of a girl I dated who's family had a boat in Crisfield, MD.
And, like Pollard, The Postal Service will always remind me of the winter in DC.
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skinny puppy - last rights.
winter 1992, ocean city, on acid.
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Squeeze- Singles 45 and under
Reminds me of my sister taking me to school in her Honda Accord in the late '80s. It was one of the only things she listened to that I actually liked at the time.
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poster children's junior citizen reminds me of driving through southern new mexico and southern arizona on my way back to the bay area for summer during college. it was always the cd i played right before hitting the arizona line on I-10.
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Nyet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary)
Securities fraud? [/b]
Nah... he was the warden there.
Jane's Addiction's Nothing Shocking is a Portland, Ore., album for me.
Luna's Penthouse reminds me of Dewey Beach summer of '95 when I subjected all those Miller Lite cheeseballs to it.
I listened to Grandaddy's Sumday constantly while traveling in Cambodia and whenever I put it on, I'm totally transported back there, which is much cheaper than United Airlines.
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For some strange reason whenever I listen to OH NO! IT'S DEVO I think about Santa Anna, CA. I had to take the bus there a couple of times to go to some employment training center. I had just gotten the tape of OH NO! I remember that after I left the job center I walked all around downown Santa Anna listening to that. Go figure.
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Yield - Pearl Jam...reminds me of my time in Europe. I bought Yield while in Paris and listened to it as I traveled to Amsterdam by train. I'll never forget listening to "Low Light" while looking out the window and seeing huge fields of tulips in a variety of colors.
Fear - Toad the Wet Sprocket...takes me back to high school in Baltimore County.
Gold - Ryan Adams...reminds me of my trip to Boston about a month after 9/11 and my old apartment in DC.
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA...2003, seeing the band 8 times that year, meeting some really cool fans up and down the East Coast and shaking Nick Oliveri's hand. :o
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Thee Hypnotics -Come Down Heavy -- The front porch in the summertime in Richmond Va 1990.
Husker Du - Zen Arcade -- My bedroom 1985-1987.
Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later -- My apartment on Arch Street in Philly, 1994-95. Dark times for me....
Rhinestone Cowboy by Niel Diamond - Bethany Beach 1977 or so??
That's a few.
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Depeche Mode's cover of Route 66 and whatever album that was on will forever remind me of the main drag there in Ocean City. I spent a couple of summers out there and that song came out during one of them. We all piled into my raggedy convertible and drove up and down the strip (Coastal Highway?) for hours, and videotaped ourselves crusing the strip and acting like goofy teenagers.
Any Creedence Clearwater Revival song reminds me of road tripping to Memphis many years ago. We took a side road and ended up driving parallell to the Mississippi, in the boondocks, blasting "Born on the Bayou" which worked on so many levels.
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This song kicks so much ass.
Originally posted by bikerchickdc:
blasting "Born on the Bayou"
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London Calling always takes me back to college, when we used to put the speakers in the window of my dorm and go outside to play Frisbee.
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Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon - Lying down in the back of the family minivan driving from Chicago to Peoria during the holidays.
Fugazi In On the Killtaker - DC in the summer of '93...summer after my high school graduation. A great time for that album to come out...and great shows before going off to college.
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On - Lying on the couch in my dorm room in South Bend, Indiana going in and out of sleep while sick with a cold...I had the advance cassette of it and didn't realize that I listened to the album 3x because the cassette kept automatically flipping sides when one finished.
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outkast - ATLiens
driving around aimlessly getting high in high school
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Running to Stand Still - U2
In Marin County north of San Fran doing a training course for a new job. Absolutely hating it. The song is about a friend being a heroin junkie, but the words just sounded like my situation in this stupid job. Listened over and over. Come back to my hotel room after a day of stupid classes and hear on the radio that U2 is playing a free show in San Franciso the next day at the Embarcadero. Made up some lie, skipped the training class, and went to see the free show. Can't hear that song without remembering the.....kismet of those few days.
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Originally posted by Arlette:
Running to Stand Still - U2
You win.
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Better Than Ezra
their 1st cd
fitchburg ma
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
outkast - ATLiens
driving around aimlessly getting high in high school
haha.
me too.
tony? is that you?
GOD i love that cd.
if only i could roll i blunt here would make this monday great!
fish bowling my boys buick all night long.
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yhf - driving around pittsburgh in early summer, windows down, smoking a cigarette, beautiful and stoned
built to spill - keep it like a secret--indiana, pa
rancid - ...and out come the wolves--astoria, queens
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I didn't want this to degenerate into a "Albums I got Stoned To" -thread, but the Grateful Dead's song Alabama Getaway always makes me think about tripping my balls off in Brookfield, IL. A friend of mine was a big Deadhead & had just bought that Go To Heaven album. I don't particularly like the Grateful Dead, but I remember that tune.
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Originally posted by Chaz, Lover of all Forum Members:
Rhinestone Cowboy by Niel Diamond - Bethany Beach 1977 or so??
i believe that glen campbell sang that song, not NEIL diamond.
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should be a thread of albums & places & getting stoned.
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Originally posted by Chaz, Lover of all Forum Members:
Rhinestone Cowboy by Niel Diamond - Bethany Beach 1977 or so??
i believe that glen campbell sang that song, not NEIL diamond. [/b]
Shit you're right and all these years I thought that was Neil Diamond. Eh what did I know....i was only 5 or 6 years old...
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billy idol's mony mony will forever remind me of my summer in jerusalem. 1991. at all the clubs whenever it was played, the israeli soldiers would always be yelling, 'hey motherfucker yeah you, suck my balls off'. i cant hear that song now and not think those lyrics.
anything from abba reminds me of being 6 and going to ballet with my best friend in novato, california. her mom used to always play them as loud as possible, usually while attempting to pick up hitchhikers. now those were some interesting times.