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Music trends and tastes
May. 4th, 2009 12:43 pmokay, I should be studying right now, but. . . I'll do it after this post.
If you don't keep up with my twitter, some people would say you're not missing much ;) but of course, I think otherwise, else I wouldn't use it.
Stu keeps hinting I should ship my tweets to LJ, but I find that practice to be pretty annoying, and I'm sure that if I did, he'd be the only one to read them, so stu, the answer here is to just go read it from there :p
If you keep up with my last.fm you might have noticed a severe increase in the amount of Kansas being played.
A little known fact about me is that Kansas provided a very large backbone to my childhood, starting roughly around the time we got internet at my house.
I spent the summer of 1999, maybe 2000, on talkcity chat listening to an eight-track recording of Point of Know Return on loop. All day long. That's the awesome thing about eight-track; you don't have to rewind anything.
If I wasn't on the computer, I might've had Best of Kansas in my portable cd player I got for Christmas. I didn't understand most of the songs on it, and they weren't quite as catchy as the ones on Point of Know Return, so I didn't listen to it quite as much.
Still, the last time I went home, two weeks ago or so, I had this urge to listen to Best of Kansas, so I brought mom's old cd back and listened to it in the car while we drove.
And then after that, I had to download point of know return.
I still know all these songs. It's very nice, slightly incredible, and has made me regress to my 10 year old state more than I can explain.
I've always built associations to time frames by the music I listened to then. I have trouble listening to one of my favorite Maroon 5 songs sometimes because I can't stop thinking about a certain unhappy night in France. Jupiter Sunrise makes me think of high school, of being newly in love with stu, etc
Kansas takes me back to a slightly paranoid time; I'm sure the lyrics in Point and Best of rubbed off on me.
Anyways, studying. *le sigh*
If you don't keep up with my twitter, some people would say you're not missing much ;) but of course, I think otherwise, else I wouldn't use it.
Stu keeps hinting I should ship my tweets to LJ, but I find that practice to be pretty annoying, and I'm sure that if I did, he'd be the only one to read them, so stu, the answer here is to just go read it from there :p
If you keep up with my last.fm you might have noticed a severe increase in the amount of Kansas being played.
A little known fact about me is that Kansas provided a very large backbone to my childhood, starting roughly around the time we got internet at my house.
I spent the summer of 1999, maybe 2000, on talkcity chat listening to an eight-track recording of Point of Know Return on loop. All day long. That's the awesome thing about eight-track; you don't have to rewind anything.
If I wasn't on the computer, I might've had Best of Kansas in my portable cd player I got for Christmas. I didn't understand most of the songs on it, and they weren't quite as catchy as the ones on Point of Know Return, so I didn't listen to it quite as much.
Still, the last time I went home, two weeks ago or so, I had this urge to listen to Best of Kansas, so I brought mom's old cd back and listened to it in the car while we drove.
And then after that, I had to download point of know return.
I still know all these songs. It's very nice, slightly incredible, and has made me regress to my 10 year old state more than I can explain.
I've always built associations to time frames by the music I listened to then. I have trouble listening to one of my favorite Maroon 5 songs sometimes because I can't stop thinking about a certain unhappy night in France. Jupiter Sunrise makes me think of high school, of being newly in love with stu, etc
Kansas takes me back to a slightly paranoid time; I'm sure the lyrics in Point and Best of rubbed off on me.
Anyways, studying. *le sigh*
