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Albums & Places
« on: October 28, 2005, 02:41:00 pm »
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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« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2005, 02:46:00 pm »
Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac, Raleigh, NC

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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2005, 03:05:00 pm »
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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« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2005, 03:12:00 pm »
Beck's "One Foot In The Grave", my hometown of Sykesville, MD during the fall

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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2005, 03:20:00 pm »
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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« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2005, 03:24:00 pm »
Cool topic, btw.

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« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2005, 03:25:00 pm »
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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« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2005, 03:26:00 pm »
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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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2005, 03:26:00 pm »
John Lee Hooker's "Burning Hell" reminds me of a stretch I did at Angola in the early '90s.

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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2005, 03:28:00 pm »
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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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« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2005, 03:31:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
 Was that Angola, Delaware, by any chance?
Nyet

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« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2005, 03:32:00 pm »
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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« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2005, 03:34:00 pm »
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  Nyet
Securities fraud?

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« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2005, 03:37:00 pm »
"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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Re: Albums & Places
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2005, 03:41:00 pm »
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