First trip takes you back to the first time you heard it. Second trip takes you back to when the original artists made it. Both trips are filled with nostalgia and wonder.
agree music and the words in it our one of treasures. Find smell can have the same magical effect as hearing a song from long ago. That time machine effect. Maybe all occurs same part of the brain or something.
Put on "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind" by the Lovin' Spoonful and I'm instantly transported back to one of my 7th grade school dances where my secret crush, Connie, ignores me as if I don't exist among the faceless rabble of 7th grade boys pining for puppy love.
Music IS a time machine, one in which I live happily and with contentment. I collect records, and they tell a story. Both the music itself and the record itself. I am transported back in time when I listen to them and look at the cover art. Favorite is my collection of 45s from the 70s.
This is my magic power, taking care of my mother. She suffers with dementia and if we spend a couple hours watching a musical, she even wakes up blissful the next morning, saying what a wonderful night we'd had the day before.
Photos and books have been important, but as we enter the next stage, the focus required for those is dwindling. Mom has always been repulsed by scent (which I hear is the last of the memory triggers).
Old film is pretty good too. There’s a great long shot of SF just before the 1906 earthquake. It’s on YouTube. Eleven minutes of a continuous shot from a trolley going down Market Street.
Music is so so timeless I feel like we really don't take it for granted enough, it gives us so many feelings and emotions from just it's sounds and lyrics😊🎵
Our eyes are time machines. Everything we see has happened in the past. The further away it is the further in the past it happened. Some of the stars we see in the sky died out thousand of years ago. We may be looking at ghosts.
Except the way back machine. What are you thinking calling records, "way back?" Yo, even Tyler got an album of vinyl. I'm too old for y'all and I'm 39, like y'all, serious, bot being sigma alphas and embrace the omega that you are like fr fr.
Oh, Laurel! That's so beautiful. It's amazing how music can transport us back in time and evoke such strong emotions. The Bee Gees have a special way of doing that, don't they? It's heartwarming to hear how their music brought back such fond memories of your early days with your husband.
If you hear a C, it's just a tone. But, if you hear E♭ next, that changes the way you heard the first note. The first note isn't just a 'C' tone any longer--it has changed. And this continues--every note changes the note before it.
Especially movie soundtracks! The music + memory of the visuals will plop you right back to being a kid, with the right movie. Who hasn't listened to Danny Elfman's Batman theme and not immediately remembered the time you dressed as Batman and fought invisible bad guys? 😁
i don’t understand. Why traveling into the future? I thought music was like a time machine because we can hear & enjoy authentic music made from the past.
Everybody seems enamored by really thin cell phone lame sound quality, and your great grandma had a tube amp that would peel paint and entertain the neighbors a block away.
You are an outlier. Vinyl has made a comeback, but it isn't the same as our era. We just loved music. New era folks use it as a status symbol. I had Vinylville Record shop for a while.
I know I am but, I stand on the music and I think tubes, decent speakers and vinyl are warmer sound that I love. It's just my preference. Listening this way has brought thousands of hours of joy into my life.
You hear a song and bam your back time. It's worse the smells that send you off to a different place you had forgotten. A hymn and your back at a grave site, rock and roll you're 16 back on a dance floor. Tears will start for no reason other than it was playing on the radio.
Have you considered a telescope? The light from the stars you can see is tens or hundreds of years old, and we see other galaxies as they were millions of years ago...
I find the right music and right drugs to be a transporter of sorts. Close your eyes and you never know where in time or the universe you'll find yourself or who you'll meet. I've seen things and been places you wouldn't believe. Especially while using Salvia Divinorum herbs.
Photos and videos can be much more universal as they are objective interpretations of reality. Music on the other hand is based on culture; for example in the Middle East: where their traditional music did not use 12 TET like in "the West".
All I know is if my body feels it before I hear it,chances are ill remember it. The only time I analyze music is in elevators, I try and figure out the song and arrangement
As The Keeper of the Family Vinyl, 1960s-2010s, I agree....
I get the Brubeck, Renbourn, Mangione, Taj Mahal, Boz Skaggs, Floyd, Seger, Eagles, Underground, TRex, Cure, Smiths, Sex Pistols, DKs, Pixies, Soundgarden, MCR, alt-j, Glass Animals ....
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Cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon - The cool, cool river.
https://youtu.be/Q4oOIG1w9J8?si=Tpo5GyidEyLuySV9
They kept so much of Prince's music shelved til it almost lost relevance when it was finally released.
Brooklyn of the 30's 40's nothing like today...
Hearing and Seeing what has come before... is not just our past.. but how wonderful this also includes the past of those long gone. 😉
[Kidding - just in case]
Memories... Sweetened through the ages just like wine...
transport you to a memory.
Music is amazing and joyful. I'm a kid again for a while...
If you hear a C, it's just a tone. But, if you hear E♭ next, that changes the way you heard the first note. The first note isn't just a 'C' tone any longer--it has changed. And this continues--every note changes the note before it.
Music = sound and time; the art's in both.
Vote for me, 'cause I'm runnin' for my life, in the lyrics?
Now ya have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0SJM5LquU4
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"All Along the Watch Tower" by GOD (AKA Jimi Hendrix) and you are drawn back to the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdXxY96pnc
I get the Brubeck, Renbourn, Mangione, Taj Mahal, Boz Skaggs, Floyd, Seger, Eagles, Underground, TRex, Cure, Smiths, Sex Pistols, DKs, Pixies, Soundgarden, MCR, alt-j, Glass Animals ....
But, why so much Richard and Mimi Farina?