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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2013 17:31:55 GMT
We have threads Olfactory Recall, and Random Memories, and Ear Worms, yet somehow, over and over again I experience "flashbacks" when I hear a song or tune that hearkens back to me a particular time, or a singular incident, memory,, that can never escape me.
Some, I particularly avoid because of the association connected. and yest, at other times, I find myself listening to them for whatever reason, be it sad or glad, joyful or sorrowful.
I think it part of the human condition and believe we should embrace it such is the power of music and the human condition.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2015 17:17:03 GMT
I don't know where in this section to post this.... A band out of Toronto, THE GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS will be playing here in NOLA at a local music venue. I adore this band, the cover charge is a mere $12.00USD... I missed the Cowboy Junkies by sheer stupidity but, am not missing this gig. link |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2015 17:49:24 GMT
My first thought when I saw the title "Auditory Recall" was to wonder what was the very first song that ever stuck in my memory. And I find it very strange that I can't think of a single song, not even a nursery rhyme.
I am hoping that it is because music is such a part of our lives that it all merges together, the same way that we can't remember the first words that we learned.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2015 23:47:59 GMT
I know what you mean K2.
I put it in here because it is music by this particular band that I got turned on to during the 7 week stretch I was packing up deviled egg trays in NY at my mother's house in 2010.
When I saw in the weekly entertainment section of the newspaper early this morning, I got amped so to speak, particularly because this venue is close by and small and my "date" is also a fan of their music.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 17, 2015 15:53:20 GMT
The first music I can recall was on the radio and was the theme tune to "Listen with Mother" which came on every day at 1.45pm and I called the programme "quarter to two". It was a little bit of classical music. This would have been early 1950's.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 17:45:40 GMT
It's true that many of those television programme jingles/songs are stuck in our minds, like it or not. Just off the top of my head, I can think of the music of the American series Bonanza, Rawhide, the Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, Howdy Doody, the Mickey Mouse Club and probably at least a half dozen other tunes from those years.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 18:04:37 GMT
I recall ditties that were themes of TV shows we watched growing up.
One in particular was The Rifleman, it came on at 5 pm every weekday.
They often show replays of this on Saturday mornings, and, I crack up, remembering the opening theme music but, I rarely ever watch any of the episodes.
My husband dies laughing if I walk in the room and do do an air guitar and or an imitation of Chuck Connors doing his thing in the opening with his rifle. any kind of imitation of this.
Jeez, it was hokey, still is, but, hey, what i grew up with and it was a ritual.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 18, 2015 7:36:42 GMT
Ritual is the right word. I never missed "quarter to two".
Also, we had TV from about 1953 but there was only one channel which came on in the evening but at about 10.30 in the morning was a little test piece, the same every day - and I always had to watch it......
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 18, 2015 12:16:52 GMT
The BBC used to do those little films, just a few minutes, that were aired during the day when the test card was on. I have fond memories of a particular one set in a small rural petrol station in France. I think there was an old man and a small boy. It was a hot lazy day and few customers.
The other one was just showing a pair of hands on a potting wheel making a vase or something.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 18, 2015 13:08:51 GMT
Yes, on my one I recall a train pulling in and a guard shouting "Arlington Station" and a guy getting up and treading on a woman's toes and apologising. In black and white of course.
Mind you, I can't remember what I did 10 minutes ago....
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