soundtrack

As I was driving back from Christmas break in Maryland, I did a lot of listening to a variety of music, and began thinking about how different albums and songs reminded me of different points in my life. And since I performed a similar exercise about this time last year with books, I'm trying it with music now.


takes me back

• REM's Out of Time, especially "Shiny Happy People" - middle school

• Audio Adrenaline - Big House - high school youth group....
  
  
• Neil Young Harvest Moon (especially "Old King"); Billy Joel Glass Houses, River of Dreams take me back to high school
  

• Paul Simon's "Call Me Al" and The Phantom of the Opera - singing in physics class, high school junior year (the former because my lab partner Val sang it with her name)

at college

• Tom Petty's Best of, "American Girl" and "The Waiting" - freshman year, college
  The Police: "Every Breath You Take" and Matchbox 20: "3 AM" - freshman year, particularly frisbee on Friday night

• "Jesse's Girl" and "Summer of '69" - summer after freshman year

• Pedro the Lion and Half-Handed Cloud
  

• Ben Folds Rocking the Suburbs, especially "Annie Waits" - summer 2003, cleaning houses on the mtn.

in SK

• Paul Simon's Graceland
• Hem's Rabbit Songs
• Billy Joel's Miami 2017 (seen the lights go out on broadway)
  

driving summer 06

• Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball, especially "Waltz You Across Texas"
• "East Coast/West Coast" & "O I Drive", by Singing Mechanic
  

last year, 2007

• Packway Handle Band
• City Beneath the Sea
  

to say i was addicted to these songs last spring puts it mildly:

• The Weepies's Say I Am You, particularly, om, "Gotta Have You" - spring 2007, especially while reading for my Euro History class
• from Dylan's new album "Spirit on the Water"
• "Our House" by Crosby Stills Nash and Young

driving soundtrack, summer 2007

• "Iowa", Dar Williams
• "I Wish it Would Rain", Nanci Griffith
• "Beautiful Wreck", Shawn Mullins
• "Ford Econoline", Nanci Griffith
• Neil Young's "Cripple Creek Ferry" and Cartalk Tunes - driving with Daniel
• "New Hampshire" by the Brilliant Inventions
  

• and last fall: "As Cool As I Am", Dar Williams
  

and this winter

• Neil Young's Decade, esp. "Winterlong"
• and Over the Rhine's The Trumpet Child

*sigh* i really love music