Top 5 Nostalgia Songs

We all have songs that bring up good memories when we hear them, as though they were written just for that moment in our life. This blog is a tribute to the songs that shape my memory and define a specific time and stage in my life.

5. Blind, Korn-I can't say I am a huge Korn fan, but I do like this song. It always makes me think of the time I was helping my buddy Dan move into or out of a tiny little apartment that he shared with Bram and two girls. It was only for a summer so when I helped move them in I knew I would be helping move them out in three months. Dan popped this song in and we put down the boxes we were holding and just started to get nuts. We didn't care who could see or hear us we just jumped around and yelled as though we were Jonathan Davis himself (I think we have better voices though). When the song's beginning climaxes with "it's on!!!", What a release. We finished sweaty and fired up...But with nothing better to do but move boxes.

4. One, Metallica- Believe it or not, I didn't hear this song for the first time until I was a sophomore in highschool, in '94. I remember Metallica was coming to Wings Stadium and I didn't really care too much. Then I heard 'One' and my life changed. The song was so intense, so fast, so different then the crap they played on 103.3. I wanted to hear all of their music, all the stuff I had been missing out on since 'Kill 'Em All' in the early 80's. I remember standing in the living room of Jon Jankord's house watching MTV. Jon and Evar making fun of me about never hearing that song before when it came on. Everything stopped for the 8 minutes it took for the song to play and it was one of the most intense 8 minutes of my life. (cue the dramatic music)

3. Only the Strong Survive, Flaw- Many of you out there may not know who Flaw is, take my advice, look into it, they rock. The first time I heard this song it was on a CD that a girl named Kasey let me borrow. I had never heard of Flaw up until this point. I loved the song so I quickly ran out and bought the Flaw album, ofcourse it made me think of this really hot Kasey girl everytime I listened to it. I gave her a copy and she loved it too.... so I married her.

2. Welcome to the Jungle, Guns 'n' Roses- I was in fourth grade the first time I heard this song and I remember thinking "This song is evil, I shouldn't be listening to this". I was at Evar's, my best friend's house. I listed to a lot of music at his house but this one really has meaning for me now. When I was a kid I didn't really realize that Evar's mom was an alcoholic or that Evar lived in poverty and deserved better. It is ironic now because the song was literally welcoming me to the jungle of Evar's life, it just so happened that I was too naive to understand. I was a G 'n' R fan in highschool, that is when I finally realized the literal meaning of that song and the irony of where and when I first heard it. I also think of the movie "Lean on Me" when the teacher gets his head bashed by one of the students. Really freaky when you are a middle school kid that is afraid of most of your teachers. One more, my car broke down to this song on the way back from the beach with Dan and Bram, man, what a day.

1. Landslide, Smashing Pumpkins version- Man, what a great and ageless song. I could listen to this song over and over and it would never get old. There is no one specific memory I have linked to this song. It just reminds me of any good time in highschool and college really. I share a common bond with this song with my buddy Dan. We would pop this song in at any random time and it would both make us mellow and philosophical or something. This is the song that can make even the most macho man turn into a melodramatic fool. This song also reminds me about taking a good long metaphoric look in the mirror, get my life straight. I think if I listened to this song long enough I could figure out, war, peace, and world hunger in a matter of hours. That is the power of Landslide.

there you have it, bring on the feedback.