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"Say yes" by Elliott Smith. The only CD I ever loaned to this girl I had a crush on for years, I gave her Either/Or hoping she'd latch onto those lyrics and she did. She loved it and made a huge deal about it. And then, weirdly, the last time I saw her after not ever getting together with her she was playing that CD in her car when we went out to eat lunch and catch up with each other's lives. That song always makes me think of my freshman year in college.
"I'd like your hair long" by HUM is another song that brings back serious nostalgia. My friends and I piled into the car back in high school and headed up to Portland to see HUM at La Luna. In the encore at the very end of the night, HUM played "I'd like your hair long" and somehow the middle of the floor cleared out and the 5 of us guys started little mosh pit (friendly really) and then the entire crowd around us joined in. That song embodied the whole experience of seeing my favorite band, and that brotherhood of being with good friends. All of those friendships have changed a lot since then, but that memory always reminds me of how things were.
I know now that I'll never be able to listen to Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II without thinking of Janet. We just got that at Goodwill for $1 and it was really our first purchase together, and we spent that special night together with that music on under the red hues of her Christmas lights... a night I certainly will not forget.
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Innominate.
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