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packrat|1464710518|4038500 said:Music is pretty powerful isn't it? I'm familiar w/some of the songs listed but will check out the others!
For me, I am an 80's hair band girl at heart. My first concert was in 7th grade-Poison/Britny Fox. If Talk Dirty to Me comes on the radio, you better believe I'm a gawky little girl fawning over these men w/big hair and make up, and you'll be able to hear the song from many blocks away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCChxBSRo1Y
I don't recall when/where I first heard this song but I was reduced to a puddle. I had met a woman at a new job I'd started and we clicked like I didn't know two people could click. She was about 10 years older and had three kids, had moved up here from Oklahoma w/her husband and kids and their families to work at the packing house. We ended up joined at the hip and those kids were like an extension of me. They were about 10, 8, 6 or so. They knew this song too and when we'd go places we'd listen to it nonstop. She and her family moved back to Oklahoma and we lost touch. We reconnected on FB a couple years ago and the girls are also on there. I posted on one of the girls walls in reply to something and it turned into this conversation about me and them--and that song. The girls told me how much they loved me and how they loved that I was like a part of their family, and so fun to be around--and they still listen to the song, and they think of me when they do. I was so surprised that they even remembered it--20 years later! And they were like well, you made an impact in our lives. Talk about making me bawl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMk8YWV7te8
Metallica/Harvester of Sorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhu22Iy8fGk
Many years ago, I was raped by someone who was supposed to be my friend. I was young, things like that "don't happen" in small towns in the middle of nowhere, nobody knew how to handle it, how to help me, what to do. I felt like..I don't know, a zombie, or a robot, just pushing it all to the side and acting like nothing had happened b/c that seemed to be what was expected of me, and what else was I supposed to do? I spent a lot of time wishing I could disappear and just be gone, away, somewhere, anywhere, nowhere. I remember sitting in my room, on the floor, in the dark, listening to this tape and at some point realized that I had tears running down my face, my teeth were clenched together, nails digging into my palms, shaking, all those pent up emotions, humiliation, anger, frustration, all came to the surface and in that song managed to find the start of a release. It has been "my" song since then.
Tim Minchin/You Grew On Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdBIbE_x2U
JD and I have that creepy uppy kinda love. If I didn't have him I really think I'd have somebody else..
JD and I were out in the shop one day, working, listening to his ipod. I heard the first couple notes of this and turned to him "Country? Really?" and then went back to what I was doing. He didn't say anything. Song continues and I'm listening, and then I turned back to him and he said "Fitting, idn't it?" It's an "us" song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkLAbDkd7w
Metallica are a great band who have written so many great songs that people find connection with as they're genuine songs. I'm sorry that happened to you packrat but I am glad their music helped, I have always said heavy music empowers the listener. Their song 'Wherever I may roam' is helping me to this day with accepting the fact that my current town of residence is not my hometown and my hometown is no longer a place I remember. I almost feel lost sometimes.
The power of music is so much more than people realize though. The guitarist in a band I played in 4 years ago lost his daughter and the vocalist and him wrote a song together for her. Unfortunately after we recorded it and played it live a small number of times we began to realize the song was just too much for him to play. He put his heart into it and the last 2 times we played it live he broke down in tears towards the end of it. I know that he still treasures that song despite the band being no more.
A friend of mine has always said that 'music is what feelings sound like', I tend to agree.
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