Here's what I want to know:
Why the bloody hell does Neil Young's "Harvest" haunt me so???
I have recently added this everyone's-favourite-album to GOD's playlist. It is a classic. Right, we all know that. But it does something to me... mainly it haunts me and I can't figure it out. I get wicked crazy goosebumps when the first notes of "Out on the Weekend" go bump bump, and no matter how low I have the volume or what I'm multi-tasking at, it just kills me inside. Weird.
(Just in case your suspicions are working overtime, Challenger K), it's NOT GUILT. I think it's one of those soundtracks to a mis-placed memory of a dark time, or maybe it was a sad time, or a weird mixed-up-teenager time, when I was listening to it constantly.... The spooky thing is that I have managed to overwrite it, or discard it from my memory. I can't find that memory! If anyone knows what it is that torments me when I hear this album (ok, I'll admit I always hit FF when "There's A World" comes on, and not because I'm tormented... but because it SUCKS)... if I'm listening to this album while I fall asleep, I can't fall asleep. I just lay there with a hole in the bottom of my stomach, reaching for those memories that are gone.
Some nagging voice in the back of my mind is saying "Derek" to me, for some reason... something is saying 1993/1994... that would make sense, as I think that would've been around the time I first got my first CD player, which means it would've been shortly thereafter, that I acquired the CD from that chancer CD club I was in where you pay $ 0.99 and get 10 free CDs if you buy one every month. "Harvest" was always on that CD club list.
I went on some serious emotional rollercosters that revolved around '93 - '97, and I definitely know "Harvest" was always in my collection at that time... but I don't think I was listening to it much past '94 - '95. During '93-'94 I was working for a radio station that had "Heart of Gold" on it's regular rotation. Hmmm. Those would have been Derek years, in some way or another. Well at least we were always close during that time.
These are the days when I want to kick myself in the face for throwing away all my old diaries. These are the sort of things I would've written about... "blah blah blah so-and-so is making me feel such-and-such I'M LISTENING TO NEIL YOUNG RIGHT NOW" and so on.
Why the bloody hell does Neil Young's "Harvest" haunt me so???
I have recently added this everyone's-favourite-album to GOD's playlist. It is a classic. Right, we all know that. But it does something to me... mainly it haunts me and I can't figure it out. I get wicked crazy goosebumps when the first notes of "Out on the Weekend" go bump bump, and no matter how low I have the volume or what I'm multi-tasking at, it just kills me inside. Weird.
(Just in case your suspicions are working overtime, Challenger K), it's NOT GUILT. I think it's one of those soundtracks to a mis-placed memory of a dark time, or maybe it was a sad time, or a weird mixed-up-teenager time, when I was listening to it constantly.... The spooky thing is that I have managed to overwrite it, or discard it from my memory. I can't find that memory! If anyone knows what it is that torments me when I hear this album (ok, I'll admit I always hit FF when "There's A World" comes on, and not because I'm tormented... but because it SUCKS)... if I'm listening to this album while I fall asleep, I can't fall asleep. I just lay there with a hole in the bottom of my stomach, reaching for those memories that are gone.
Some nagging voice in the back of my mind is saying "Derek" to me, for some reason... something is saying 1993/1994... that would make sense, as I think that would've been around the time I first got my first CD player, which means it would've been shortly thereafter, that I acquired the CD from that chancer CD club I was in where you pay $ 0.99 and get 10 free CDs if you buy one every month. "Harvest" was always on that CD club list.
I went on some serious emotional rollercosters that revolved around '93 - '97, and I definitely know "Harvest" was always in my collection at that time... but I don't think I was listening to it much past '94 - '95. During '93-'94 I was working for a radio station that had "Heart of Gold" on it's regular rotation. Hmmm. Those would have been Derek years, in some way or another. Well at least we were always close during that time.
These are the days when I want to kick myself in the face for throwing away all my old diaries. These are the sort of things I would've written about... "blah blah blah so-and-so is making me feel such-and-such I'M LISTENING TO NEIL YOUNG RIGHT NOW" and so on.
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