Soundscape #97: “Without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake” — Friedrich Nietzsche
August 22nd, 2008I’ve heard it said that sometimes a whiff of cookies baking in the oven can bring a flood of childhood memories. A friend once felt really nostalgic in a strange house just because there was a certain smell coming off a certain piece of furniture. For me, it’s music.
Hughes Leglise. Pont St Louis, 2005.
I was listening to a song the other day and suddenly I got the feeling that I was somewhere else. Particularly I had this vivid image of this street in Paris near where my hotel was. The strange thing is that the image came out from nowhere and it didn’t feel like a picture; it felt like I was physically there.
There’s no question that music transports us to a different place and/or time. I often associate certain songs with places I’ve been, even though there’s no discernible connection and the association is entirely random and forged simply because I was listening to it at that time and place.
I’d like to think that the little connections we make between our senses and the world around us are little ways in which we try to make a part of the world our own but it could only be just pure randomness.
Playlist:
1. (0:00) Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay (Electr-O-Pura)
2. (3:28) Gigolo Aunts - The Big Lie (Minor Chords And Major Themes)
3. (6:57) Green Day - She (Dookie)
4. (9:12) Weezer - The Good Life (Pinkerton)
5. (13:28) Headlights - On April 2 (Some Racing, Some Stopping)
6. (16:05) The Killers - Change Your Mind (Hot Fuss)
7. (19:18) Pavement - Gold Sounds (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
8. (22:05) Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness)
9. (26:22) Death Cab For Cutie - Photobooth (Forbidden Love EP)
10. (30:10) Suede - The Wild Ones (Dog Man Star)
11. (34:54) Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung (Grand Prix)
12. (39:45) Beirut - Postcards From Italy (Gulag Orkestar)
13. (44:01) Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere And It’s Now (I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning)
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