Title: Some Of My FAvorite Things
Tags: music, nostalgia
Blog Entry: So.. I had a few days off work..and I missed listening to NPR online.. SO.. I get to work on Thursday.. and I started reading what I might have missed.. and there it was.. in large letters.. Interview... and new songs by Paul Weller.. For those of you that remember.. he was The Jam.. and later The Style Council.. and then a wonderful solo career.. I love his voice.. his music and lyrics.. and I LOVE that he is always surprising with covers that he does.. you can always count on him to cover something really out there.. that NO one would bother with. Well.. he didn't disappoint I am listening to him.. and some of his new songs.. and then out of no where.. he starts to play a song.. I knew it instantly.. and it brought me back to 1976...Sitting in my room.. listing to Night On The Town by Rod Stewart.. The song was Pretty Flamingo.. Its a silly little song.. but one that for some reason I remember.. I even remembered what I was probably thinking at the time.. I am sure I was sitting home thinking.. why am I not allowed to go to New York and see this concert? I am old enough.. I can't believe my parents treat me like a child.. damn it!!! ( I was just about 15..lol) While listening to this song.. I went through so many emotions.. This silly little song was part of my life's soundtrack. Like so many other songs in my life.. I could imagine myself at that time..at that age.. and can always tell what I was doing at that time.. I am certain that I am not the only person that this happens to.. but I actually LOVE the feeling. I Like listening to the oldies station at times.. (of course the oldies are the music I GREW UP WITH NOW..lol) It makes me take a trip down memory lane.. sometimes the songs make me sad.. but mostly.. I am happy.. nostalgic.. and now. I even find myself saying.. Ohhhhh that's what they were saying..! I can remember where I was when I was listening to this song.. who I might have been with.. and what my life was like back then.. of course.. without all the bad things.. our memory is very selective in that respect.. SO now I move on from my thoughts of Pretty Flamingo.. I am listening to Paul Weller.. and I think.. wow.. I love this guy.. and I think about where I was the first time I heard Town Called Malice.. The Jam.. and then memories come flooding.. and then I think wow.. MY Ever Changing Moods..Style Council I can clearly remember where I was..... .. I am brought to that place.. and as happy as I got.. I quickly feel melancholia.. I think.. Wow.. Will I ever feel this way about the songs I hear now? Will I some day be sitting somewhere and hear.. YELLOW.. and think.. Awww..I loved Cold Play.... Or will I hear..COLOR BLIND and think.. YAY.. Counting Crows.. or Say Goodbye.. and think Dave Matthews.. Hate ME....Blue October.. Ok .OK ,, so no one will remember Blue October 25 years from now.. and maybe I WON'T remember where I was for that particular song.. BUT.. you get the picture.. My point, (and I sometimes have one) is.. will I ever have feel this way again? Of course I will!!!!! I am sure we all have the songs that have shaped our lives .. our own soundtrack if you will.. and hopefully we will remember all the good that music has brought us.... And I am sure I will wonder, at 80, why I can't remember where I live.. but I can remember every word to Mona Lisa's And Mad Hatters!!! By the way.. if you are interested in hearing Paul Weller.. here is the link to NPR .. don't forget to wait till the last song..Pretty Flamingos... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94284004
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