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Nostalgia poll:
in Married Life
As a result of a post on RE, I had to dig out my iPod and listen to the soundtrack to the movie Angus while working, and now I am drowning in nostalgia. This thing came out in like 1995, which means I was smack in the middle of college, and this was primarily a summer album. Which means I was dating a guy who went to Georgetown, so I was in the city most of the summer. And at that time I was going through a peculiar phase of wearing cutoff jean shorts and 1940s blouses and red lipstick.
So for me this whole album is about spending the nights on O Street in a squalid, un-airconditioned apartment with a philosophy major.
Name a particularly nostalgic album for you and tell everyone why/when/how.
Updated September 2012.
Re: Nostalgia poll:
Blink 182--Enema of the State.
First car, listened to it continuously through high school. 2000-2001
Dawson's Creek soundtrack.
SHUT. UP.
I didn't even watch the show, but for some reason H got me hooked on it while we were dating in college. So the first summer when we lived in different cities (and were 19, so just home w/ our parents for the summer), I listened to it every other weekend, and every.single.day to and from work. So reminds me of being young, newly in love, the anticipation of seeing them, etc.
The Get Up Kids- Something to Write Home About
It was the summer after I graduated college. I was still in town trying to find a job. The first boy I ever loved was home for the summer and we were falling apart. He was getting further into the drug scene than I was comfortable with. I was walking the line of cheating on him. All we did was fight until one night he kicked in my door and demanded I talk to him. It was horrifying/scary/romantic/the end.
I packed my car up the next day and moved home.
Nickleback.
It takes me back to a Toyota Corrolla and the California coast. Me, my two best friends and a slightly random guy that we picked up along the way flew across the country to visit a dairy farm and drink beer.
Elvis Costello - The Very best of Elvis Costello
My mom played this album every year on the way to Florida for summer vacation. We would start driving at 1:00am and my parents would blare this and fly down the road in the camaro with the windows rolled down. I loved that car and I loved that time in my life.
When I hear....
That Liks, X.O. Experience~ I feel like I should be driving north to the ski hill with my H and a car full of guy friends, circa 2005.
Fugees, The Score~ It feels like spring/summer, 1996. I had all sorts of guys on my radar, and was definitely getting attention from the older boys at school.
Jane's Addiction, Kettlewhistle~ Reminds me mostly of my sister and BFF around 1998 (??).
Dave Matthews- everytime I head an old song I remember college, hanging out, drinking some pre-going out beers then waiting like two hours for everyone to shower and get ready to go out..lol
Damian Rice - O
My friends and I would drive down the shore a lot the summer before my senior year of high school, and this was always in the cd rotation.
71 workouts completed in 2012
Led Zeppelin IV
It was right when H and I started dating. He loves Led Zeppelin so I borrowed my brother's CD because it reminded me of H. I would blast it in my car driving to class in the city.
Every time I hear Going to CA or When the Levee Breaks, I think of him and that summer when we met. Oh, to be young and carefree again, lol.
ETA: This was summer 2004
The Carpenters "Close to You" (Stay with me here)
I must have been 4 or 5. My older brother was in school but my younger sister wasn't born yet. So it would have been just me and my mom at home. My parents had an 8 track tape player on the stereo in the dining room. I remember climbing up on a dining room chair and pushing the tape into the player. I just remember it being such a simple time back then. My mom doing chores around the house and me playing on the swing set in the back yard.
pete yorn musicforthemorningafter.
it was 2001, so i was living in DC with my bff, in the midst of taking the LSAT and applying to law school and being intermittently terrified that we were all about to die thanks to terrorism and choosing to use that as a light under my own ass since what the hell else was i going to do? i was also in my first "grownup" (ha ha ha) relationship after my A-1 prize of a jackass college boyfriend had ruined me (there were 3 years in the interim of nonserious dating of cocky bastards i had no real interest in who i met at like freaking sign of the whale wearing pleated khaki shorts). a relationship with a nice guy who was also sexy instead of a sexy guy who had no interest in being nice. that even ended amicably and with well-wishes when i ended up moving the following year.
it makes me think of change and uncertainty and finally growing the fvvck up. and i listened to it at ABSOLUTE TOP VOLUME.
The Stone Roses, debut album.
My boyfriend and I took a road trip to Vancouver Island and Washington the summer after my 11th grade and before he went away to university. We knew we would break up and so we were both happy and sad. It was a very emotional trip and that album was the soundtrack to what was basically a long breakup with my first love.
the trashcan sinatras "i've seen everything" album.
reminds me of fall 1996. i listened to the tape in my car all the time and i was falling in love with noah's biodad and just generally liked life.
The Shins - O inverted world (2003)
I listened to this as I drove to Colorado by myself. I had never seen Mountains before and it was the most beautiful day. Great soundtrack for the moment.
Dookie by Green Day
It came in the middle of 6th grade, and it was the soundtrack of my disastrous 7th grade class trip to 4H camp (yay, my 1st period) and I would blast it on my Walkman while I was vacuuming.
Rufus Wainwright's self titled album.
Sophomore year. Had the most smoking hot history teacher EVAH. He was just out of Chapel Hill and was still in his post-graduate hippie delirium. Everyone had a crush on him. He would put up a song title with the artist in the corner of the blackboard to expand our tastes and one was Rufus Wainwright's "Matinee Idol". He lent me his album and I'd go back to my room and dreamily listen to it.
He got fired for on campus drug use and sleeping with some of his students. Sigh.
F*ck, I love that album. When I was sixteen, "I Am The Resurrection" was my theme song.
Updated September 2012.
The whole year 1972, I was twelve, and my mom was sick/died. There were a series of albums my older siblings had: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Tapestry, Fire and Rain, American Pie, that we would listen to over and over. Any song, from any of those albums, puts me right back on the living room floor with my brothers Tom and Dan, and my sister Jenny, and we are singing and talking by the stereo about life and our mom and what was going to happen. I can smell the room.
Birds like leaves on winter wood; sing hopeful songs on dismal days
They've learned to live life as they should
they are at peace with nature's ways.
omggggggggggggggggggggggg
::cries cries::
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
And 1978~ Jackson Brown's album that came out right at graduation; "Stay" was the hit song off it. The entire album takes me right back to spring vacation, senior year, it was so neat.
I'm getting tingly with the nostalgia of it all. Whenever that boyfriend was upset with me and I wanted to be cheeky I would sing 'you adore meeeeeeee!'
Don't worry, it was my second time through post-secondary!
Funny you mention this because I was just listening to this CD in my car this week and I was overcome w/ nostalgia.
It is also a DC CD.
The album is "God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies. The year was 1994 and I just graduated from college the year before and moved to DC for my first job. I was living in Silver Spring. By day I worked as an accountant in Bethesda and at night I was worked part-time at the Hechts at Montgomery Mall. (Selling Liz Claiborne...I was hot sh*t!) I met a guy at a bar and went on a horrible first date. The only good thing that came out of it was that he got me hooked on this CD. I listened to it that entire spring over and over again. It mostly reminds me of driving home from work late at night w/ the windows down and the warm spring air. It also reminds me of Calyx perfume, which I wore at the time. It reminds me of the random guys I dated that spring and being 21 and a new adult and having no clue what I was doing in life or in the big city of DC. And being oh-so painfully awkward. It reminds me of that feeling that I was young and my life was ahead of me and I had no idea what was around the bend.
Unfortunately the major thing around the bend was a loser boyfriend/drug dealer who sucked my life, youth and a good part of my 20s away from me.
Weezer, Blue Album.
I played it nearly every day of freshman year of college. It makes me think of my first time not living with my parents and my first time crowd surfing (to Surf Wax America, of course).
Whitesnake - Slippery When Wet. I had a lot of great sex to that album.
Also "Painted From Memory" by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. It was the fall and winter of 1998/1999 and I was living in Chicago and I'm fairly certain I was suffering from mild depression. Not a great album to listen to when you're already depressed.
I love that album but to this day I can't listen to it because it makes me feel really lonely and sad.