Sunday, June 9, 2013

10 Nostalgic Songs

As my pre-post internet search for "nostalgic songs" would suggest, nostalgia is a very personal thing. Every similar list I came across was radically different from the last, in terms of genre, time-period, etc. Therefore, perhaps most of what follows is only relevant to my own, narrow experiences, but hopefully there's something here to which you can relate.
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"Losing Haringey," by The Clientele
Remember those long, contemplative walks? Remember that feeling of 1982-ness: dizzy, illogical, as if none of the intervening disasters and wrong turns had happened yet?


"Slide," by Goo Goo Dolls
Remember consolations?


"I Will Remember You," by Sarah McLachlan
Remember the last time we saw each other? I've long associated this one with graduation day...


"Fast Car," by Tracy Chapman
Remember forgetting it all to wild exhilaration?


"You Get What You Give," by New Radicals
Remember the 1990s: Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson? Remember what the Staten Island Mall looked like back then?


"Green and Grey," by New Model Army
Remember the one who got out, sold out?


"Drops of Jupiter," by Train
Remember your best friend always stickin' up for you? The best soy latte that you ever had?


"Late Night, Maudlin Street," by Morrissey
Remember moving away from the street you grew up on?


"Post World War Two Blues," by Al Stewart
Remember your youthful idealism? Which way did the 60's go?


"Talent Show," The Replacements
Remember how cool we all thought we were in our younger, dumber years?
(Hon. nostalgic Placemats mention: "When it Began," of course)

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