Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 06:41 PM UTC
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I don't know about you, but some albums I just associate with the places I lived at when I first dug the music. For example, nowadays whenever I listen to Duty Now for the Future, by Devo I think about Mundelein, IL, because that's where I was living when I first had that on 8-track.
Is anyone else like this? Does a favorite album make you reminisce about a certain locale?
If so, poast 'em here (the albums & the places):
Rhett Miller
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 06:46 PM UTC
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Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac, Raleigh, NC
ccfalzon
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:05 PM UTC
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The Mars Volta's "Deloused in the Comatorium" will always remind me of a city discovered by the Germans in 1904. They named it San Diego.
nkotb
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:12 PM UTC
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Beck's "One Foot In The Grave", my hometown of Sykesville, MD during the fall
thirsty moore
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:20 PM UTC
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Sonic Youth's Goo reminds me of Aspen Hill, MD in winter.
Clash's Combat Rock reminds me of being off my face in Munich.
Glenn Branca's World Upside Down reminds me of making out with a girl in her basement in high school. That's a location, right?
thirsty moore
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:24 PM UTC
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Cool topic, btw.
brennser
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:25 PM UTC
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Afghan 'Whigs Gentlemen' reminds me of Stuttgart, Germany Jan 94ish
Therapy? 'Meat Abstract' EP reminds me of Dublin, 92/93
Primal Scream 'Screamadelica' reminds me of Stuttgart, Germany July 92ish
Soul Aslylum 'Grave Dancers Union' reminds me of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ summer 93
Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:26 PM UTC
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The song Jocko Homo, by Devo reminds me of the Cook county suburb, Countryside, IL, where I used to rent a room. That song was a fuckin' revelation. People either loved it or hated it. Most hated it, including my roomate at the time. He liked Joe Walsh.
ggw
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:26 PM UTC
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John Lee Hooker's "Burning Hell" reminds me of a stretch I did at Angola in the early '90s.
ggw
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:31 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
Was that Angola, Delaware, by any chance?
Nyet
SalParadise
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:32 PM UTC
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pink floyd - 'animals' reminds me of morocco (we stopped at this little mini-bazaar in the middle of the atlas mountains–they had about 50 cassettes of north african music and one copy each of the police - 'synchronicity' and 'animals').
helicon1
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:37 PM UTC
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"The Panics - A house on the street in a town I'm from" reminds me of Sydney. Mostly because I bought the album in Sydney, listened to it incessantly while I was there. Also, they are from Perth.
ratioci nation
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:41 PM UTC
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Mclusky Does Dallas - Stirling, Scotland
Tripping Daisy - I am an elastic firecraker - Parking lot of my High School Senior year job in St. Louis
Wilco - Being There - A particularly drunken night in a college dorm room, several people told me the album wasnt very good, and then loved wilco after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Postal Service - my apartment in dc during big snow of winter (2003?2002?)
Any GBV Song - GBV show experiences in several cities
bunnyman
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:43 PM UTC
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I was living in Rome, Italy in the summers for 1991 and 1992…the following LPs never fail to remind me of being there:
The Farm – Spartacus
The Pixies – Planet of Sound EP
Inspiral Carpets – Island Head EP
Pet Shop Boys – Discography
New Order – Technique (I picked this up in 1991)
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – 1992 the Love Album
Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
And on my trip to the island of Ischia I listened a TON to The La's record.
Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:46 PM UTC
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New Tradionalists, by Devo reminds me of Dana Point, CA. The OC, where I was living at the time it came out. I had a Sony cassette Walkman, one of the first models. I used to listen to that album when I was walking along the footpath next to the flood canal.
ratioci nation
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:54 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
New Tradionalists, by Devo reminds me of Dana Point, CA. The OC, where I was living at the time it came out. I had a Sony cassette Walkman, one of the first models. I used to listen to that album when I was walking along the footpath next to the flood canal.
that reminds me, Van Halen - 5150, Hilton Head Island Summer of 1986, the first tape my brothers and I had to share on the families first walkman
saco
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 07:55 PM UTC
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Whenever I hear Yaz's Upstairs at Erics it brings me back to the fall of 88; my first year in college in West Palm Beach and the girl I dated..
Big KC
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Re: Albums & Places
October 28, 2005 at 08:17 PM UTC
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New York, New York reminds me of New York -
though i've never been there…