When you hear a song from your youth does it make you happy to hear it or sad because it's from a time that you will never return to? Mix of both for me but the latter is happening more than I would like. 
Old songs: Bring forth joy or misery?
Funnily enough just the other day I skipped one song from '94 because I couldn't believe it was 20 years old and it was taking me right back to that time, but I decided to listen to something else instead.
I just enjoy it and the memories that it brings back. I've always believed that dwelling on the past and what could have been is totally toxic, so I refuse to indulge in such behaviour.
Enjoy the good memories, don't let the bad ones keep harming you, and look to the future with hope, that's my philosophy
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Enjoy the good memories, don't let the bad ones keep harming you, and look to the future with hope, that's my philosophy
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It depends. I have a tendency to associate songs with certain places or people (eg lecturers at college) and everytime I listen to those songs I end up thinking of that place or person. It can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing.
depends on the song and the memory . When I was a kid, I was a massive spice girls fan and their music is like the soundtrack to my childhood. there are songs of theirs I can still listen to and some I cant because they hold too many happy memories. particularly a song from their 'spice' album called 'love thing'. I haven't heard it in years and even hearing it in my head makes me wanna cry because it was my favourite song of theirs as a kid and it takes me back to jumping up and down in my old house's living room when I was 5 yrs old and being totally carefree. But I can listen more to their later stuff from the 'forever' album because I was a bit older when it came out and it doesn't hold that many memories for me
I was a T.Rex fan and every time I hear a Bolan song used on an advert or in a movie like 'Billy Elliot' I think Marc would be pleased. I also feel just how well these songs stand up through time.
T.Rex were a glam rock group and songs like 'Get it on', '20th Century Boy' and 'I love to Boogie' were and are great rock songs and there was a time when rock songs and rock groups were top of the charts. That for me is something joyful but something past.
T.Rex were a glam rock group and songs like 'Get it on', '20th Century Boy' and 'I love to Boogie' were and are great rock songs and there was a time when rock songs and rock groups were top of the charts. That for me is something joyful but something past.
Originally Posted by 0...0:
“When you hear a song from your youth does it make you happy to hear it or sad because it's from a time that you will never return to? Mix of both for me but the latter is happening more than I would like.”
“When you hear a song from your youth does it make you happy to hear it or sad because it's from a time that you will never return to? Mix of both for me but the latter is happening more than I would like.
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It's a mix of both for me as well!
I'm a massive 80s music fan and I listen to it most of the time and it reminds me of when I was a happy go lucky teenager but reminds me that even though I still act like a teen sometimes, i'm a middle aged lady who seems to have grown old but not up!
Originally Posted by Lyricalis:
“I just enjoy it and the memories that it brings back. I've always believed that dwelling on the past and what could have been is totally toxic, so I refuse to indulge in such behaviour.
Enjoy the good memories, don't let the bad ones keep harming you, and look to the future with hope, that's my philosophy.”
“I just enjoy it and the memories that it brings back. I've always believed that dwelling on the past and what could have been is totally toxic, so I refuse to indulge in such behaviour.
Enjoy the good memories, don't let the bad ones keep harming you, and look to the future with hope, that's my philosophy
.”
it might surprise some of you (seeing as i indulge in the rare 60's thread i started and is still going 4 years later, lol) but i totally agree.
i know many people whos music is still in the past, they refuse to move on. its a shame, they are missing out.
retro music has its place in everyones life, and i fully agree with the quoted post, enjoy the memories...but it is the past.
I don't particularly like the music I listened to as a teenager in the late 60s/early 70s, but I do like some of the music I didn't listen to at the time. I've also been buying jazz albums from the 50s and 60s as I was too young to appreciate them when they first came out.
Originally Posted by Lyricalis:
“I just enjoy it and the memories that it brings back. I've always believed that dwelling on the past and what could have been is totally toxic, so I refuse to indulge in such behaviour.
Enjoy the good memories, don't let the bad ones keep harming you, and look to the future with hope, that's my philosophy.”
“I just enjoy it and the memories that it brings back. I've always believed that dwelling on the past and what could have been is totally toxic, so I refuse to indulge in such behaviour.
Enjoy the good memories, don't let the bad ones keep harming you, and look to the future with hope, that's my philosophy
.”
The thing about memories is that they are your own personal narrative, maybe your only narrative, and you need to keep the bad ones along with the good ones.
So I did once own Rick Wakeman's 'The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'.....agghhh
Like some teenagers there were only some groups you listened to and followed. Nothing near the one direction chaos. So now I'm older I find that I like nearly every song from the 80s and now I have the chance to sit back and enjoy without the teen hormones. So for me now old songs give me joy as I feel like I've been hearing them for the first time even though I have heard them in the 80s and dismissed them.
