music & personal association

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The 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?

Comments

Re: songs.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Stars! I like them, ever since I heard that song "Death to Death" (I think that's what it's called...Death something anyway).

Totally nabbing this stuff.

Re: songs.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

The only Hum song I know of with "death" in the title is "Circus of Death".

Re: songs.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Aah, confusion! I thought "Hum" was the song name, and the artist was Stars. Now I'm all cleared up.