Do you associate Stevie's music with anything in particular?

Mokona · #1 08-02-2005, 08:24 PM

This has now become a slightly amusing problem for me, so I thought I'd ask you all if you ever associate Stevie's music with anything. I'm the kind of person where if I hear a song on an eventful day, that particular song and that day will be burned into my mind for a long time. It's kind of weird.

So anyway, a few weeks ago, my mother-in-law was here visiting and asked to hear some Stevie music since she knows I'm a big fan. I played "Rooms on Fire" for her. Mother-in-law doesn't know this, but I find her quite abrasive and irritating. I should've seen it coming, but ever since I played that song for her, I can't listen to it and not think of MIL!

In fact, she was asking about Stevie quite a bit, and now I find when I look at my Stevie CDs or something, somehow a memory of MIL worms its way into my brain.

Will Stevie and MIL always be linked in my brain? It's kind of frightening!!

LiquidBlue5000 · #2 08-02-2005, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Mokona

This has now become a slightly amusing problem for me, so I thought I'd ask you all if you ever associate Stevie's music with anything. I'm the kind of person where if I hear a song on an eventful day, that particular song and that day will be burned into my mind for a long time. It's kind of weird.

So anyway, a few weeks ago, my mother-in-law was here visiting and asked to hear some Stevie music since she knows I'm a big fan. I played "Rooms on Fire" for her. Mother-in-law doesn't know this, but I find her quite abrasive and irritating. I should've seen it coming, but ever since I played that song for her, I can't listen to it and not think of MIL!

In fact, she was asking about Stevie quite a bit, and now I find when I look at my Stevie CDs or something, somehow a memory of MIL worms its way into my brain.

Will Stevie and MIL always be linked in my brain? It's kind of frightening!!

most likely, yes

i have that same problem as well... there's really nothing you can do to stop it.. only time perhaps will make you forget about it and not relate her to Stevie...

Dreammms · #3 08-02-2005, 08:30 PM

What did your MIL think of the song?

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Originally Posted by Mokona

This has now become a slightly amusing problem for me, so I thought I'd ask you all if you ever associate Stevie's music with anything. I'm the kind of person where if I hear a song on an eventful day, that particular song and that day will be burned into my mind for a long time. It's kind of weird.

So anyway, a few weeks ago, my mother-in-law was here visiting and asked to hear some Stevie music since she knows I'm a big fan. I played "Rooms on Fire" for her. Mother-in-law doesn't know this, but I find her quite abrasive and irritating. I should've seen it coming, but ever since I played that song for her, I can't listen to it and not think of MIL!

In fact, she was asking about Stevie quite a bit, and now I find when I look at my Stevie CDs or something, somehow a memory of MIL worms its way into my brain.

Will Stevie and MIL always be linked in my brain? It's kind of frightening!!

Mokona · #4 08-02-2005, 08:45 PM

Yup, I think I'm going to have to get used to this for awhile. And when I think that the Cranberries' "Dreams" has always reminded me of an important event of my life for the last 9 years now, that is really frightening.

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What did your MIL think of the song?

She paused to listen to it for a bit, said she liked it (which is something she'll say about anything) and then went on to brag about her baby (my husband). I'm not sure how it really went over...

But now I could kick myself for playing it for her! I should've played "Too Far From Texas!"

Dreammms · #5 08-02-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mokona

She paused to listen to it for a bit, said she liked it (which is something she'll say about anything) and then went on to brag about her baby (my husband). I'm not sure how it really went over...

But now I could kick myself for playing it for her! I should've played "Too Far From Texas!"

well, she cant be THAT bad if she liked it!

Mokona · #6 08-02-2005, 08:56 PM

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well, she cant be THAT bad if she liked it!

LOL, well, she also likes the same Andrea Bocelli album that she's been playing for years. It hasn't left their CD player!

MacMan · #7 08-02-2005, 09:50 PM

Alot of times either listening to FM or SN, it takes me back to the early years of me first discovering them... The one track for sure - Second Hand News... I still remember the day I first heard the song and what I was doing and who I was with.. Seems, really, like just a few years ago

That was probably back in 1978 or so... It's weird! And some of Stevie's early stuff reminds me of the early 80's and what I was doing.. Certain songs like EO17 remind me of a certain girl that hung out in our group in the early 80's... she used to play the **** out of this track on her boom box... 25 years ago, I'm still listening... Wonder what they are listening to??

KarmaContestant · #8 08-02-2005, 10:00 PM

I tend to associate songs from other artists with particular events or moments in my life. It seems like most of Stevie's songs can be twisted to fit whatever circumstance I want them too, so they never get stuck alongside any specific memory. Perhaps it's the length of time I've been hearing them....gosh, I've been listening to Rock A Little, or songs from it, almost daily for 19 years.

Otherwise, I associate Stevie songs with more abstract things....

love
anger
relationships
candlelight
the way I feel when drinking good wine
rain, wind, snow, thunder and lightning
men
walking in the woods
maturing
mysticism
life...and death

equeen102289 · #9 08-02-2005, 10:35 PM

This happens to me whenever I'm writing in my journal. If I'm writing about a bad event that happened in my life, I try not to play a song of Stevie's or FM that I enjoy, because after that, whenever I listen to the song, the bad event I was writing about will pop into my head. So in times like that, I usually write in silence. Kinda weird...I know.

Kelly · #10 08-03-2005, 06:03 AM

Uh, the same thing happens to me and it is hard to shake. I remember vividly the morning of 9/11, I had been out walking with my headphones on. I was listening to TISL...it was only a few months old and I was listening to it all the time. I walked into my living room and I Miss You was playing. I looked at my husband's face, looked at the tv and turned off the cd player. Now, whenever I hear that song, I remember that morning like it just happened. UGH.

It also happens with Nightbird. I rarely tell this story and I won't bore you with the details but the song always reminds me of my Mom. She took me to my first Stevie show when I was about 13...the Wild Heart. I had been listening to FM and Stevie every since I could remember...my parents ALWAYS played their records. Anyhoo, she passed away in the early nineties from breast cancer and the day before she died she asked me to put on Stevie's Wild Heart album. It was basically the last time she spoke. I put it on, she listened, she dozed off and she passed away early the next morning. Needless to say, Nightbird always makes me think of her. Thankfully over the years, the sadness has eased and I usually think about good memories of my Mother when I hear the song. (like the Wild Heart show we went to together. Joe Walsh carried Stevie out onstage and my Mom was a huge Lindsey Stevie lover. I can barely remember the show..the one thing I clearly remember is my Mom's reaction to Joe carrying Stevie! LOL)