music & personal association
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timepiececlockThe artist/band "Bright Eyes" was ruined for me for over a year, especially the song "Lover I Don’t Have to Love", which I'll happily never listen to again. Or at least not for five or six years. Anyway, Bright Eyes was ruined for me because I was introduced to their songs by my first university dorm roommate. She was crazy. (Not the cute, fun kind of crazy where there are penguins and oddly put together sentences; the paranoid nasty kind of crazy. I was so put off by her craziness that even after she moved out and I got a new roommate (who was a lovely person and NOT crazy), I still went all the way till the end of the school year before refering to her as a "psycho bitch" to people who asked. Now that it's been over half a year since I lived in that dorm house, I feel quite happy refering to her as the psycho bitch without an LJ friends-lock, thankyouverymuch. My inbred courtesy for not speaking poorly about others behind their backs (to people who's business its not) has a statute of limitations.)
Anyway, she played this Bright Eyes CD, especially that song, ALL THE TIME. I've only once before had a song so negatively associated with a personal experience that I couldn't stand to hear it (the song "Crash Into Me" by Dave Mathews Band, for a mortifyingly embarassing moment with an older crush), and that lasted about three years. Then, like nothing, one day my negative association with the song was just gone. *POOF!* No more embarassment, it just stopped. Now I love "Crash Into Me."
I still have no desire to hear "Lover I Don’t Have to Love" (which I doubt I'd like anyway even if not for her because it had the sound of emo indie pretentious acoustic stuff that doesn't come off as "raw", just as something with no effort put into it), but I have recently thought about hearing other Bright Eyes songs, seeing if I like them. I think I've heard a few on the radio this year with more interesting instrumentals, but I don't normally listen to the radio so I don't remember much.
What are your favorite Bright Eyes songs? Do you like them/him at all?
Anyway, she played this Bright Eyes CD, especially that song, ALL THE TIME. I've only once before had a song so negatively associated with a personal experience that I couldn't stand to hear it (the song "Crash Into Me" by Dave Mathews Band, for a mortifyingly embarassing moment with an older crush), and that lasted about three years. Then, like nothing, one day my negative association with the song was just gone. *POOF!* No more embarassment, it just stopped. Now I love "Crash Into Me."
I still have no desire to hear "Lover I Don’t Have to Love" (which I doubt I'd like anyway even if not for her because it had the sound of emo indie pretentious acoustic stuff that doesn't come off as "raw", just as something with no effort put into it), but I have recently thought about hearing other Bright Eyes songs, seeing if I like them. I think I've heard a few on the radio this year with more interesting instrumentals, but I don't normally listen to the radio so I don't remember much.
What are your favorite Bright Eyes songs? Do you like them/him at all?
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songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 07:46 am (UTC)These are all older - early 90s.
"Stars" - Hum: s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05N9AYKUWUVQN3IJB2XCO1G6AT
"Stars" was a song that an oooold friend of mine - when I still used Prodigy as my ISP - rec'd to me. I'd never heard of Hum, either, but I managed to find the CD with this song on it cheaply about three months after he rec'd it. They're similar to Low (who did "Cracker") and The Afghan Whigs.
"Stay" - Shakespeare's Sister: s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1HO5S28G6LE2V36J1TB5T3B3EY
This song was HUGE - I mean HUGE - when I was in a sophomore in high school. SS is goth-ish (real Goth), so if you're familiar with Siouxsie, The Creatures, etc., then that's what they're similar to.
"Mouth" - Merrill Bainbridge: s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=16XTO3RGAJLAL36TUIPE5M7APA
One hit wonder stuff, like SS. Song was big about ten years ago. Catchy tune. MB is in the same vein as Jewel, Sophie B. Hawkins and Meredith Brooks.
There was a FIFTH song I thought you might like - "Let It Go" by the Clarks - but I figured this was enough for now.
Some of "Let It Go"'s lyrics:
"I keep thinking maybe time will mend this broken down
I keep thinking I'm not crazy
I keep thinking maybe time will heal 'cause drugs don't help
I'll stop singing songs about my:
Can anyone tell me why the things that are meant to stay they turn and go
Can anyone tell me why we lust after the things we'll never know
I'll just have to let it go"
Re: songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 09:56 am (UTC)Totally nabbing this stuff.
Re: songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 10:18 am (UTC)Re: songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 10:24 am (UTC)Re: songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 10:53 am (UTC)Re: songs.
Date: 2006-02-19 11:02 am (UTC)Well, now I know why.
You don't, by any chance, have "Ode to Joy"? I need a differential diagnosis. ;)
((thanks for all these recs, again))