This is a really exciting @bloghomework, SG asked us to put our top 5 songs, most of the songs I adore have some sort of feeling or memory attached to them. Much like an object can carry an emotional connection, songs have the same ability, they are just not tangible. I love that aspect of music, the ability to move you, to make you feel something, you just have to watch a movie without sound effects for a few seconds to experience it's absence. (This technique was used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odessy, Dialogue only begins an half hour into the film. A large portion of the movie is in complete silence to depict the absence of sound in space, or with the sound of human breathing within a spacesuit. Ok back to the homework - these are my top 5, some of them have reasons, some I love inexplicably, all I can play on repeat without ever feeling like I'm going to kill them.
1. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
I first heard this song when I had fallen in love with someone after a long and lonely gap - it reminds me of how excited I felt, excited to be in love and alive.
2. The Knife - Heartbeats
My colleague from my previous job played this for me, she went on to be one of my favourite people. This song is always attached to working with her.
3. The National - Don't Swallow the Cap
4. Fleetwood Mac - Storms
This song was from a time when I was really low but starting to feel better, I love it now still even though it makes my eyes jizz.
5. TigerCity - Dark Water
This song is always equated with my first car, when I first started driving I was ridiculously, unnecessarily nervous and I used to play this song on repeat (literally) because driving to the same song seemed to calm me down, the idea of something constant that was there in the car helped me get over my fear.
I could go on but we were asked for 5 and I will begin rambling soon.
