O Sister...
Feb. 3rd, 2003 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kismet09Down in the River to Pray just came on the mp3 player, and the song always inspires me. I want to make a mix of all the songs that just make me stop and listen and want to *do something* although I'm not really sure what. This would include
Alegria - Cirque du Soleil
Rainbow Connection - IZ (who has a longer Hawai'ian name that I don't feel like looking up)
Unexpected Song - Song and Dance (the musical)
In My Life - Judy Collins
Stay - Lisa Loeb
I forget sometimes about the emotions that music used to evoke for me. I feel like, since college, I'm a lot less emotionally-extreme in my moods. Where music used to be a catalyst for angst/passion, now it just reminds me of those days. I almost miss it, sometimes, all the drama, usually around relationships and identity, that have now smoothed out for the most part.
I've been composing a life soundtrack over the years, trying to find one or two songs that pinpoint my experiences at different life stages. I never get very far, but now, every year, there are less and less new songs that really bring emotion to the fore like they used to. The same old ones still do it, but I don't know if it's lack of exposure to new stuff, or that I've just heard so much now that there's less new stuff to be exposed to, or what, but I miss the connection I used to feel, the always having a CD playing, the making of mix tapes made for friends and significant others that took so much thought about the lyrics and the undertones and so on.
I still love music as much as I did, but since finding the comfort of a committed relationship, and settling into a more 'grown up' sort of lifestyle, the love isn't as intense, for better or worse.
Alegria - Cirque du Soleil
Rainbow Connection - IZ (who has a longer Hawai'ian name that I don't feel like looking up)
Unexpected Song - Song and Dance (the musical)
In My Life - Judy Collins
Stay - Lisa Loeb
I forget sometimes about the emotions that music used to evoke for me. I feel like, since college, I'm a lot less emotionally-extreme in my moods. Where music used to be a catalyst for angst/passion, now it just reminds me of those days. I almost miss it, sometimes, all the drama, usually around relationships and identity, that have now smoothed out for the most part.
I've been composing a life soundtrack over the years, trying to find one or two songs that pinpoint my experiences at different life stages. I never get very far, but now, every year, there are less and less new songs that really bring emotion to the fore like they used to. The same old ones still do it, but I don't know if it's lack of exposure to new stuff, or that I've just heard so much now that there's less new stuff to be exposed to, or what, but I miss the connection I used to feel, the always having a CD playing, the making of mix tapes made for friends and significant others that took so much thought about the lyrics and the undertones and so on.
I still love music as much as I did, but since finding the comfort of a committed relationship, and settling into a more 'grown up' sort of lifestyle, the love isn't as intense, for better or worse.
