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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by aaadamaa

King of Pain by the police (which is my all time favorite song) takes me back into the world of Golden Sun (old Gameboy Advance game), when I used to play it at night, while listing to King of Pain on repeat.

Listing to the song takes me away to a whole nother world of fantasy.

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Absolutely!

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by tb3

Some of the songs I love the most evoke some memories of great moments in my life. Some are just the moment of discovery of that particular song. Others are linked to points of my life that I associate with that song.

But, the point is the songs that resonate and stay with me the longest are ones that have that lineage to firm up their place in my core.

For example Great Lake Swimmers "See You on the Moon" and Justin Rutledge's "Jellybean" will forever remind me of the beyond joy of holding my month old daughter, singing along with the song as we sorted out who each other was each night at bedtime.

I'm sure neither Tony nor Justin wrote those songs for me and my beautiful daughter, but I feel like a piece of each of them are part of who we are today.

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This is hard

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by AlexOfAnders

At least for me since it's like I have to remember a time where a song triggered a memory. Fireflies in a Steel Mill by The Elected has a bunch of mixed memories for me. It either makes me think of my girlfriend because it was one of the first songs I sent her around the time we were coming together but it also sometimes makes me remember this girl from Toronto who was in Vancouver for the summer who first got me to listen to the Elected. This was back when I had just found out about Broken Social Scene but hadn't discovered R3.

I'm not sure if this counts but jamiroquai - feels just like it should makes me think of early morning showers in my first apartment while I was still a university student as I used to listen to that CD in the shower.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by missaimee

I remember having the best date of my life with a handsome french boy.

My best friend and I went on the double date with jazz musicians we just met and it was hilarious/weird/awesome all at the same time. On the drive home in the wee morning hours we listened to Postal Service's "Give Up" and to this day I can't listen to "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" without thinking of being a crazy 19 year old.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Raven88

Perfect by Danny Michel. Reminds me of a trip to the Blacksheep Inn, in Wakefield, Qc right before Christmas. Wicked snowstorm that night. And I just remember Danny saying the line "Nobody move, this is perfect" - and it summed up the moment perfectly.

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big time!!

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

Music sure does bring up memories for me, all the time. I could probably comment on this topic endlessly. One of my favourite memories from music is tied to the Weakerthans 'Civil Twilight'. The first time I ever heard this tune was in the sauna that was in my parents backyard with my brother. We would always hang out for entire evenings in there, having sauna cycles, listening to music and talking philosophy and politics (the odd safety meeting as well.) The sauna burnt down in an extremely sad incident and I live in Vancouver now. Civil Twilight immediately transports me to a place that's almost the same as hanging out with my best friend.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by scarlet begonias

Red Red Wine by UB40 takes me back to 1993ish to Camp Lorrain right outside of North Bay. One of the "cool campers" used to sing it all the time, and whenever I hear that song, I'm back on my cabin porch in Northern Ontario, listening to him belt it out.

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@tb3

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

That's stories back to back from you yesterday and today that are beautifully heartwarming

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by danica

In my second year of univeristy I "broke up" with a very good friend -- pretty traumatic time in my life, and I listened to Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer album incessantly. Can't even hear that band anymore without getting gloomy.On the other hand, Nine Inch Nails makes me think of my boyfriend, and our early flirtations on msn when we would trade music (his being very different from mine!)... very happy memories.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Raven88

Any Matt Pond PA will bring me back to a summer when I worked at Lake Superior Provincial Park. I used to walk along the Trans Canada right as the sun was setting, listening to this.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Scott Muc

Sooo true! There are some bands I can't listen to because of some of the negative memories that come up. Then again there's music that gives me goose bumps because of the wonderful memories they provide of events that have taken place.

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@boders

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by tb3

Thanks!

Having children crushes your bitter, pessimistic and jaded side and replaces it with a beaten down, exhausted but idealistic love of anything that pays you attention.

:)

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Babs46

I heard what I thought was an instrumental of Eric Clapton's Layla coming from the radio upstairs. I called up to my son to turn it up. He informed me it wasn't the radio, it was him. It was the first time I had ever heard him play acoustic instead of the usual loud punk stuff he was so fond of. He followed it with Harvest Moon and a couple of other Neil Young songs and to this day that memory still brings tears to my eyes.

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@tb3 and @ boders

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Babs46

Absolutely beautiful. You're making this old mom very teary eyed.

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Songs & Places

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by pollard

Perhaps because I was a military-brat and we moved frequently, songs are linked with places (places are linked with songs). Music and geography are intertwined in my memories. Music helps me to remember where I was and how I was feeling.

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About Jellybeam

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by tb3

The version of it I am talking about, is the live version at The Cameron House with the Six String Nation Guitar. I found out a few months ago that my Sister-in-Law (my daughter's Auntie Charlie) was actually at the Cameron that very night, that recording was done. So that song gain a whole deeper meaning for me.

So if you play one of the two, that would be the song and the version I'd love to hear.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by lindsey.who

I always thought that was the purpose of songs.To make you remember. To be your soundtrack.Maybe that's just me.

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memories or souvenirs?

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by roxy

of course.

i have this song, not from a canadian artist, but still: natalie merchant. great singer-songwriter.

it was in 1995, it was spring, i was walking downtown montréal. it was an amazing day...for no particular reasons.

but the thing is, 14 years later, as soon as i listen to the specific song (beloved wife), i remember how the sun was comforting my cold and runny nose or the smell that lingered in the air or the surprisingly mild wind...

i like it when these things happened...

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much like Lisa's story....

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by flagpole music

years ago, spending the night at a boyfriends. his roommate was finally hooking up with a girl he'd been pining after for months(later to become his wife). all lovely and good BUT along with the moanin' & a groanin', was the accompanying soundtrack of the smooth stylings of Kenny G. on a repeat loop.

all. night. long. it's probably been almost 20 years but it still makes me want to scream.

not that i was listening to kenny g voluntarily ever in the first place.....

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@Babs46

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by tb3

You see, those kids, grow up one day to be wonderful adults (like Casey) that you are proud of, and more importantly are proud of you.

I will never shy away from letting my little girl, or anyone in ear shot know just how proud I am. I know the way Casey turned out is cause you did the same. Because Casey and I had the same kind of loving caring parents.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mynameismoe

alice in chains, live, nirvana, (old) our lady peace, soundgarden, among others of that era all take me back to when i was in my late teens. my first boyfriend, and with him a new group of friends. chilly fall days and late nights wandering around town. it was a huge turning point in my life, one that defined who i am today.

the album silver by moist reminds me of working 2 crappy jobs when i was 19/20. i was living with my boyfriend at the time (mentioned above). i would come home from working at subway, blast that album while i got ready for my next job, sitting on a stool selling lottery tickets to cranky old people. it was the only thing that kept me sane.

listening to collective souls self titled album brings me back to ridiculously long hours in the black & white dark room while in college with my friend ryan. we'd crank that cd and slam out projects that were due the next morning while inadvertently getting delirious on the chemicals.

not music related: whenever i play sega, i crave cantaloupe so bad i can taste it, and every time i eat canteloupe i want to play sega. the summer i was 15, my uncle (who was my ultimate hero) and i would play sega and eat canteloupe nearly every single day.

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@tb3

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Babs46

Yup. It's the most important "job" you'll ever have and it's a gift that keeps on giving. Your wee girl is already one of the lucky ones who'll never doubt how much she is loved.

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Tennesse Williams said...

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by flagpole music

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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@Tariq

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Babs46

What a fantastic topic. I'm sitting here in tears as my own memories flood back and anxiously waiting to hear everyone's stories.

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Off-topic but I could use some advice

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by AlexOfAnders

Hey guys, I was wondering if you had any advice on putting together a 2 hour music playlist for a work event. I offered to do it last week and well, kinda forgot over the weekend (good thing it's not till next Thursday).

All that's happening is they're giving out a couple free glasses of wine, having h'ourderves and there will be a ton of ballons on the ceiling. Really simple but slightly classy.

I want to try and cram as much Canadian music as I can into the playlist I give them (if not 100% Canadian), they're willing to let me buy the songs off iTunes and burn them to a CD to be played. Any advice of songs and artists to use? I was wondering if I could get away with playing Bay Of Pigs....

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Lisa Christiansen

When ever I hear the Pixies I think of my wonderful friend Len who is most sadly, no longer alive. But he is each and every time I hear those amazing songs.

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By all means Alex

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by tb3

Rock it 100% Canadian. And then when everyone asks you can share with them that it was in fact Canadian only and that's why it's so awesome. Share with them Radio3 too.

I'd suggest some Jim Bryson, Rose Cousins, Jill Barber, Rufus & Martha Wainwright (though don't play Asshole), Julie Fader, Melissa McLelland, Good Lovelies, Feist, Justin Rutledge, Hawksley Workman (you are so beautiful), Hylozoists, Meaghan Smith, Po' Girl, Be Good Tanyas, Kathleen Edwards, Ron Sexsmith, Matt Barber, Peter Elkas, Joel Plaskett…

I could go on and on…

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@Babs46

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

I agree, a beautiful, simple topic. I loved your story about hearing Layla drift down to you.

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@alex

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

if it's background music then Bay of Pigs might play...

definitely keep it 100% canadian. you should try and get as much Vancouver stuff in there too. Dan Mangan, Lightning Dust

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Being older than just about anyone here...

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mcfflyer

other then Benoit, that is, I have enough life experiences to have lots of them. Everything from my college fight song (do Canadian universities have fight songs?) to songs that were benchmarks of long past relationships. Probably the one with the greatest impact, and one that will make me stop and stare off into infinity is the 1974 hit by Neil Sedaka, Laugher in the Rain. That was the song, our song, of my first real deeply passionate relationship. I wonder whatever happened to Elaine. But I hear that song, and it seems like yesterday. Should I smell the perfume she wore, it'll do it too.

However, to put a Canadian spin on this, there's a song on the Radio3 playlist that I've never heard played on Radio3 but it makes me think. The song is by Cape Breteoner, Stephanie Hardy, and is called Waiting for the Tide. Listen to it. Listen to the lyrics. And tell me you don't get all wistful.

"Time slips right through your hands/Before you know it/There is nothing left but these few grains of sand..."

Lee Hower - Sacramento, California

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Music and Memories

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by keydive

I would have to definitely say yes they do stir up memories for me. Some stir up memories because of a close relationship to an event. Like the song Ask Me to Stay by United Steel Workers of Montreal which reminds me of a short live romance with a girl I met at a their concert because it was a song that blew the both of us away.

The other way they stir up memories for me is that the songs are written about certain themes that may be close to the heart. John Wort Hannam's song Pier 21 reminds me of the day I left my hometown in Sask to move to Calgary for a job. The song pretty much details a very similar conversation that I had with my father. The song also reminds me of basically everything about my leaving talking to my Dad saying my goodbyes and leaving with a sack full of clothes and heading out to a relatively unknown city with nothing but a promise of a job.

For me personally music has a pretty close tie to a lot of things I do so there are tons of songs that remind me about certain people or places I've met or been over the years. So putting my song list on random in my iTunes can sometimes be a really big trip down memory lane for me.

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@AlexOfAnders

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by pollard

How about downloading every Track of Day for 2009? They're all available on iTunes.

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@Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Babs46

Wishing you the best at your release party. I especially LOVE the acoustic guitar in Given Up. Going on my playlist.

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Another Brick in the Wall & Berlin

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by pollard

I will never forget a school trip to Berlin. Pink Floyd's The Wall had just been released and the bus driver let us play it over the speakers. I was transfixed. I am still so appreciative of the student who thought to bring it. That music is definitely interwoven in my memory of that trip and of that time.

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Music definitely brings me back

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by hgummo

I can hear a song and immediately see a certain image from the past or be brought back to another moment in my life. Music has such a power to do that. When I broke up with a past boyfriend I was really into Death Cab For Cutie's Plans so now whenever I hear that album it brings back some not so happy memories. I can still clearly remember the first time I heard Stars' Your Ex Lover Is Dead in my friend's car on the way back from a holiday, so whenever I hear that song I'm reminded of that friend and of summer time fun.

There are many more examples but I can't think of them right now...

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@hgummo

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

I have a vivid memory generated from Your Ex Lover is Dead too. It's sorta weird. I'm immediately taken to my bedroom at my parents house, sitting at my computer, playing online poker and listening to CBC Radio One. Sounds like Canada was in the middle of their Great Canadian Playlist and that's where I first heard of Stars. So that song makes me think of Texas Hold'em

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Silvorgold

Sorry, I just woke up

Music for me is all about memories. Certain songs chalk up memories of my past, highschool, love lost, friends I haven't seen in years, memories of living in Quebec City and memories of a simpler time.

Chantal Kreviazuk's song for Song Quest, Waskada chalks up memories of growing up in a dying farming community in South Western Manitoba, seeing the town's school on the brink of closure, seeing my dad worry every September 1st to see if he will still have a side-job as a school bus driver as they cut one driver per year.

Neil Young's "Far From Home" is one of the only songs to ever make me break down crying in the middle of a shopping store in a strange city ever. I was in Quebec City at a Zellers and this song came over the intercom. I was in tears, I wanted to be back in hot dry Southern Manitoba. "Bury me out on the prairie, where buffalo used to roam, where the Canada geese once filled the sky, and then I won't be far from home"

The Weakerthans' Anchorless tells me WHY I need to get out of Manitoba, it's a song that reminds me that there's much more to Canada than Manitoba, that I need to discover myself, that I don't want to "live and die here"

United Steelworkers of Montreal's "Son Your Daddy Was Bad" brings me back memories of being in Quebec City in summer of 2008. It reminds me while I had a bad time, I made some of the best friends I could've ever asked for, it reminds me of all the concerts I was fortunate to go to, and how I was lucky to actually be able to go to concerts with a friend each and every time, which never happens here in Brandon. It was quite a powerful time. Heck, my concert friend is a big top 40/rap fan but she fell in LOVE with United Steelworkers at their concert there in Quebec City, she loved the female vocalist's voice. I still get shivvers after their show in Quebec City.

I saw them when they came to Brandon this spring, they were just as great! http://flic.kr/p/6cawbe

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by extremehopscotch

It's funny that you should talk about songs that bring you back, and then play Little Girl by the Steelworkers of Montreal! That song brings be back to a moment in which I was living, temporarily, in Toronto, and I was walking home from work down Church street, just outside the Raba, on a cold spring afternoon. I was listening to the Session Podcast you (Tariq!) did with the Steelworkers of Montreal, in which they play that song. I repeated the song the entire walk home and every time I hear it I think of that street and the smell of cold Toronto spring.

- Your friend, Amanda Mc

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unrelated, but craziness perhaps

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

I was just sent this link from a colleague. Trying to find other info sources, but the article is talking about P2P in Spain and says

"After passing the law hidden in another law, the artist associations can now close any web site they want, without a court order. They only have to argue that the site may be used to share media, and the Minister of Culture will have to the power to close the site without any judge giving the go ahead, a true "Cultural Police." Goodbye democracy, hello National Socialism. What's more, they also want to be able to close the Internet connection of any user who uses the internet for P2P sharing, also without any due process."

anyone else hear anything along these lines?

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by benjaminjordan

'Big Bird In A Small Cage' specifically written for Dolly Parton duet. In the end, Watson ended up doing a duet on the song with Katie Moore, the Montreal singer who also appeared on the band's last album, 2007's Close To Paradise.

..from http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1557165

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@boders

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by hgummo

Well i guess this one's for you too then!

It's funny how random some of my memories are too. The song Pittsfield by Sufjan Stevens brings me back to this moment at like 3 in the morning walking through the parking lot at the U of C after being at the library all day writing a paper. It's such an insignificant moment but I can picture it perfectly in my mind just because of that song.

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@benjaminjordan

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by hgummo

Thanks for the info! I've actually been wondering about that too.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by TwIsTeD_Maple

Occasionally I will listen to soundtracks when I'm looking for something that won't distract me too much while working. It is interesting how quickly the soundtrack will bring me back to the emotions felt during the movie. I have an amazing amount of respect for composers who are so good at tapping into people's emotions.There is a great book by Daniel Levitin on our obsession with music: <a href="http://www.brainonmusic.com/">This is Your Brain On Music</a>

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@benjaminjordan

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Tariq Hussain

Ah right. Cool. Thanks.

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another thought..

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mynameismoe

pretty much all of into your lungs by hey rosetta brings me back to cold, lonely and dark winter nights in halifax. i was painfully homesick and overworked to the point of physical AND mental exhaustion.

i've since moved back home, am so much happier, and still love that album.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by TwIsTeD_Maple

This link will work a little better: This Is Your Brain On Music

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@mnim

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

Glad you can associate into your lungs with good times again!

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@tb3

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by AlexOfAnders

Thanks, that's a pretty good list of things of artists who should have some songs that fit the vibe they want for the evening. It's going to go through a higher level approval process so I'm sneaking Bay of Pigs in there and we'll see if they'll go for it.

@pollard - I was actually thinking of going through a lot of the Track of the Days to find some new stuff for it too. Can't use them all as they already said no swears, no country and none of that hippity hop the kids like so much. I think they're looking for the music to be good but still not in your face, ie. backgroundish.

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@boders

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mynameismoe

it makes me realize how far i've come since. sad memories, but they are just that, memories.

oh noes. smothered in hugs is on compass right now, but i want to hear tariq!

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Re: DOES MUSIC STIR UP MEMORIES FOR YOU?

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by MusicSoop

Definitely stirs up memories for me. I'm trying to figure out the top 4:

What's Up by Four Non Blondes - Spending time with THE girl from University. Don't really love the song but at that time you could not escape it.

I Against I by Bad Brains - Top song from high school. It played non-stop all four years. So many parties. So many cover bands.

I'll Drink To You by Duke Jupiter - Super memories of when I was little growing up in Rochester by one of Rochester's best bands.

Grade 9 by Barenaked Ladies - 1997 road trip from LA to Vancouver and Kelowna and drinking far too much Kokanee and Rainier and people laughing when I said "Pahsta" and "Mahzda" and Breakdancing at a Hells Angels bar and wandering around Yaletown and the night my pals insisted we go to a fine establishment called The Cecil. Best road trip ever.

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@mynameismoe

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mcfflyer

Compass, as in the CBC TV news? With Matt Raney? Boomer still doing the weather?

I may look at it on line later.

Lee

PS. How's the scarf working out for you?

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by sevex

This is actually one of the main reasons I love music so much! I'm pretty vulnerable to nostalgia and music triggers a lot of it. The best is when you rediscover a song you had completely forgotten about and it instantly brings you back to the last time you heard it.

One of my strongest connections is early grade 12 and Radiohead's OK Computer. Every time I hear the start of the first track I'm right back there in the Fall of 1997.

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@mcfflyer

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mynameismoe

yes to all of those! i think boomer was still wearing shorts the other day.

as for the scarf: GREAT! (it would be oh so much warmer with a TOQUE *cough*)

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songs = memories

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Christine McAvoy

Songs can either make you remember memories or songs can create the memories themselves!

Two Christmasses back I was at home in small town ontario and I got a phone call that was just Ben singing Curse of The Currentls live...I was bawlingggg...the song, being so far away from everyone...it broke my heart a bit. Now i have to bite my lip hard when I hear him sing it.

I have songs for every year of university too. good and bad/happy and sad memories.

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ps

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Christine McAvoy

Good Afternoon gui-Tariq.

:)

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@mynameismoe

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mcfflyer

Well, I thought you would ask me just how I knew that the CBC PEI news show is called Compass. Or actually as Boomer Gallant says, ComPASSS.

I know of it as I was so charmed while there on our 2003 honeymoon, I wanted to keep some sort of connection with the island, as we drove over half of it, so I had some concept of where everything is. So I started watching.

And let's face it. You gotta love a news show that has an actual video story of the news that the Tim Horton's on the island were no longer giving away free Timbits to anyone at the drive up windows to give to their dog in the car. Now that's important news! A four minute news story on a fifteen cent item!

However, I do like Timbits.

Lee

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music & memories

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by flagpole music

hey, you should be playing Matthew Barber's - "the Story of Your Life". it's actually a bit about the subject - about the soundtrack of our lives.

geez i wish i had a fabulous story to match......

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@Music Soop!

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Bio Spice

you've just helped me remember one of my big music association memories! thank you!

What's Up by Four Non Blondes: I associate with my field work in Nunavut for my honour's project, stranded on the edge of the ice floe because the zodiak engine was not starting. i got the closest to a bowhead whale i've ever been that day (a meter or so). and was this song playing? no, but I was singing it at the top of my lungs to the arctic sky and ocean as we waited for our engine to start again.

very cool aside that will be neat to anyone who viewed this missing link posted by John Paolozzi on Nov. 17. that photographer, Paul Nicklen, was the guy i was stranded on the ice floe with. at that time (1996) just starting out on following his dream of becoming a National Geographic nature photographer. was very cool to see that link (thanks John) and see that he has really made it. goes to show you, just keep following your dream, work hard, and it may well come true.

but yeah, as soon as I hear that song, I think about Igloolik Island, skies that go on for even and never get dark, ice, and amazing whales.

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@Christine McAvoy

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

has your crazy heart calmed down today?

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@Bio Spice

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

that's really cool story about Paul. He had a big spread of Arctic shots in a NG last year i believe

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@boders?

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Bio Spice

in a where? NG = the National Gallery? cool!

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@Bio Spice

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by MusicSoop

Wow cool!

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Jennifer Aikman

The Beatles' Rubber Soul reminds me of driving around Waskesiu in my parents red van (red shag carpet - left over from our 'rumpus room', wood paneling, etc) and singing along. It was a huge point of honour among my siblings to know all the words. Sigh.

In later years, pretty much every Smiths song reminds me of my self-pitying highschool life... While Crystal Water's Gypsy Woman reminds me of one the funnest and most debauched nights of my life. Dear God to be 19 again... just for 6 or 7 hours...

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@Bio Spice

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

National Geogrphic..:P

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@mcfflyer

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mynameismoe

i WAS going to, but got distracted while writing that and prematurely hit submit! i was just coming back to ask, actually.

i am happy you spent your honeymoon here and enjoyed it! after traveling almost all the way across canada, i can say that pei is my favourite place to live.

compass sure has it's quirks, but i love it. especially the interaction between boomer & matt (and before he retired, roger younker!). my grandmother got such a kick out of boomer and his wearing shorts even in cold weather. it'd be about this time of year she would start to ponder aloud whether he'd be in shorts or not. i can't recall what his cut off is. possibly the first day of winter. then spring time would come near and it would be "OH i wonder if boomer will break out the shorts! he must be crazy to wear shorts in this weather! he'll get sick!" ..and she'd shake her fist at the thought.

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@boders... ahhhhhhh

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Bio Spice

oh boy. i'm a smarty! they don't give PhDs to just anyone, you know. geez. thanks for that!

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@Bio Spice

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by boders

whoops, looks like it was 2007. Story was called Life on the Edge. Lots of the pics here.

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by krib

Pure by the Lightning Seeds.

I quoted some lines from it on a card I sent to my girlfriend by in 1995, when I had moved to Montreal and she was coming to join me later. We'd basically only just met when I got the offer to go to Montreal and asked her to come along. Everyone thought we were nuts - her especially because she was giving up a job to follow me.

That was 14 years, 4 cities, 3 provinces, 2 jobs and 4 kids ago...and still counting

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@krib

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by mynameismoe

that's amazing and wonderful!

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re: Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by krib

yeah, we think it's pretty cool. We've got quite a story to tell, that's for sure.

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Live on CBC Radio 3: The Songs that bring it all back w/ Cary Pratt

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Absolutely!

This is hard

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big time!!

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memories or souvenirs?

much like Lisa's story....

@Babs46

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Off-topic but I could use some advice

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By all means Alex

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Being older than just about anyone here...

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Music definitely brings me back

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unrelated, but craziness perhaps

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@benjaminjordan

another thought..

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songs = memories

ps

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@boders?

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@boders... ahhhhhhh

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