It's been said that music has the power to move people; it is the universal language; when it hits, you feel no pain (thank you, Mr. Marley), and all that jazzy mumbo-jumbo, but is it just me, or do random songs that come on the radio or pandora, or are shuffled through on the playlist on your ipod, or are in a movie, or play spontaneously in your brain, remind you of specific events or time periods of your life? (excuse my horrendously long run-on sentence.) I am not saying that every once in a while, a song comes on and you are like "Ahhh, this makes me think of that time I went to the beach in 1999 with so-and-so and we went to the Garden City arcade and bought rub-on tattoos and grape Slushies!"... I am referring to pretty much every other song that you hear on daily basis. Is it just me? Because I would venture to say that 50-55% of the songs I hear on a daily basis remind me of something or someone or some time in my life.
The reason I bring all this up is because today, as I was driving home from work, the most random song came on the radio... and I am sure some of you have never even heard of it because it's really a terrible song. "In Your Wildest Dreams" by Moody Blues. I wouldn't bother you-tubing it, and if you do, make sure your volume is down so you don't embarrass yourself.
I have this memory of being little and finding an old cassette tape in my dad's car, circa 1989, and jamming it in my Playskool Cassette Player, and carrying it around the house on full-blast, completely enchanted by the absolute gayness of this song. I also have this memory of me with a friend (I am foggy on who it was though) making up a dance to "In Your Wildest Dreams", complete with four wobbly summersaults in a row, as a grand finale'. I think I wore the tape out, and it finally was ejected from the Playskool "stereo" in streams of metallic ribbon.
Anyway, everytime I hear this stupid song, I am taken back to those days, and remember it all so vividly. And it makes me ache inside with longing to be a child again.
Music is a funny thing. Just a thought.
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