Music that brings back memories
About a month ago, I shared with you in #TBT the story of my personal gradebook, and through that post I was reminded of my school days and the seriousness and responsibility that I already had in my character as a young man.
But that notebook, in which I used to write down every grade I received or unjustified absence from classes, I also used it for several other purposes.
One of them was: a list of favorite songs.
As a teenager, I listened to the most diverse music, as they say in our country: "From Nirvana to Silvana".
I wrote down the songs that I had the chance to hear that I liked, first on pieces of paper that I later copied into my notebook.
Flipping through dozens of pages, I went back in memory to some big hits that I liked in those years.
The most in that notebook is the track titles of folk music, which I listened to at my relatives' house in the countryside, and from that period of my life, the first bars of many songs are engraved in my memory.
When a folk song comes on at a party or on the radio, I know what it is before the singer sings the first words.
by frequently listening to the songs of folk music, which was not hyper-produced in that period, I etched them permanently into my memory.
I wouldn't list and play videos of those songs here, because you probably wouldn't understand them, and if someone wants me to look them up on the Internet and present them, I'll be happy to do it.
But in addition to my favorite tracks of folk music, some of the most famous "foreign" things of that time were also recorded on the pages of my notebook.
Disco and dance tracks:
Refugee camp Allstars: Avenues
Refuse and Chaka Kan: Ain't nobody
as well as some of the legend rock ballads or golden love songs:
In those years, I would have had to make a serious effort to hear one of these tracks (if by then I wouldn't have recorded it on a cassette), but that's why these days, when I'm at the cottage, I make a playlist of several dozen tracks from this notebooks and enjoy the beautiful music, remembering the past days when I listened to this music with my friends (but also girlfriends 🙂 ).
Today I'm making a new playlist and enjoying the rest of Thursday, looking forward to an easy day tomorrow before a well-deserved weekend.