Oh, I love compilation tapes. 😉 Shared a flat for about six weeks with a guy with a *serious* music collection, he did me about 7 tapes. The latter ones were getting a bit sad, he had this unrequited thing going on, but the first couple were so good.
Anyway. You’d better pull up a cumfy chair if you’re planning on reading this all, it could be long…
U2, Joshua Tree – sixth form at school. No real idea why, not sure I possessed it then, certainly don’t now. But think someone did when we were first allowed a cd player in our common room.
Fleetwood Mac, The chain – first boyfriend. Was rather complicated (now there’s a surprise).
Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, Somethings gotten hold of my heart a particular evening in some pubs in Dewsbury(?) which kicked off a particularly bizarre relationship that very nearly culminated some months later in me being very dead. In my defense I will say that the guy was drop dead gorgeous…
Chris De Burgh, Carry me long nights trying to work out why Mandy?
University – seemed to go on forever.
Don McLean, American Pie at the end of every term in cuths, drunken students standing on tables singing.
Take that, Back for good (and bizarrely I was talking about this earlier today) working the college bar, or more accurately not working, as if this came on on the juke box we downed tools and sang and danced instead – me and a bloke I only knew as Washy (so difficult to stay in touch with ppl when you never even knew their real names!) and G.
?? Runaway train. and ?? Don’t go back to rockville – two songs that are intertwined, bring back a particular spring and summer when really everything changed. Where are you all now? Are you OK?
Alanis Morrisette, Ironic, one afternoon, driving into Glasgow to meet up with a guy and wondering why…
Whitney Houston, I will always love you goodbye Brian.
Savage Garden, Truly Madly Deeply – brings back feelings of absolute pain when the guy I thought I’d spend the rest of my life with ran off with his secretary – I was going to buy him the single for valentines day and the shop was out of stock, and then we had one of *those* phone conversations. I never even saw him again – he didn’t have the courage. Git. But I’ve still got the towel!
Boyzone, No Matter What. Tim – no matter what the end is my life began with you.
For Big, I finally got to sing Barclay James Harvest How do you feel now? to myself (I love that song so much….) There’s also the David Sun(g?) Tranquillity that was played during the relaxation sessions preparing for her birth.
For Small, calming music. The last song that played before he was born was Eva Cassidy, Over the rainbow. So cool.
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9 responses to “Soundtrack”
aww that was lovely! Shame to see that Savage Garden son has such unhappy memories for you and such happy ones for me.
I’ll not tell you how old I was when I remember listening to that Gene Pitney and Marc Almond song shall I ;o)
Eurythmics – Beautiful child was playing just as the MW gave up and called an ambulance when I was in labour with Dino.
Mmm… American Pie… McLean gooood… Madonna baaaaaad.
Listen to Bob River’s version. It’s at the bottom of this page. Funny.
why no John Denver? Country Road must be on there somewhere?????
Lovely… i found it really odd when i wrote mine to see that all the important things have simply become small babies in my arms, since 1998!
Ah thanks for sharing, I love stuff like this 🙂 and for a totally unfathomable reason I was surprised at how ‘mainstream, chart music’ your choices were – don’t know what I *was* expecting really though 🙂
Hm, where would John Denver fit in? Nic, I used to listen to country music *all* the time, but because of that, it kind of doesn’t stand out in quite the one track way several of these do. You’ve really got me going now though, keep remembering more and more songs that can instantly take me back to a moment in time. I started a novel that worked like this once…one of many started novels. If I have one regret it’s that I’ve never got any of my writing published (other than short stories in student mags…might be a resolution worth considering for next year…)
Oh, I love John Denver. You’ll see him in my list if I ever get round to doing it.
Carry me – oh yes, that song *really* moves me, even without one specific lost loved one. I am a huge fan of C de B’s older stuff (to Chris’s shame). I think it would be Perfect Day that would feature in my list. I’ll save Carry Me for my own final farewell. I must do one, but struggling to even keep up with all the other stuff. It’s on my ‘to do’ list. THanks for sharing anyway – I love these little insights to people you think you know and the realise in fact how short a time you really have known them.