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Which Song brings back special memories for you?

Which song and what version of that particular song?
Please share as much of your special memory as you dare?
Mention multiple songs and the memories they invoke if you wish.

Or if you'd like to generalise out, share what impact music has had on your life?
Do you play, is it a passion, do you relax with it, clean to it, collect it .....

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Closing Statement from Kate Blake

What an amazing eclectic collection of songs! I urge everyone to click on any of the links below and enjoy a vast variety of other peoples special memories.

Much thanks to all who participated, those who have read and listened - this was a very joyful conversation!

Also thanks to TED for providing the forum and allowing this collection to happen.

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  • Joe Music

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    Feb 25 2013: Hi again , Kate !

    I had to add Peter Gabriel, " Talk to Me'" off the live CD.....some singers and musicians whisper inside our souls,
    which makes me feel so graced. Kate, may I suggest John Broadway Tucker singing "Slip Away " at Yoshi's in San Francisco, (On you tube)
    I also love dancing to "Brick House" by the Commodores
    "Dance to The Music" by Sly & the Family Stone
    "Spill The Wine" with Eric Burdon & War

    I write music, or more properly, music writes me..Ciao, Joe :)
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      Kate Blake 50+

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      Feb 26 2013: Wow great variety there too Joe, thanks for joining us!

      Got any of your own music on you tube?

  • Joe Music

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    Feb 25 2013: Hi Kate !

    I have lived for two things in life. Love and music.

    One song that still sustains me.....Instant Karma

    We all shine on
    Why on earth are you here ?
    Surely not to live in pain and fear


    Just think if every morning, everyone in the whole world got up, put on a cup of tea, and listened together to "Imagine"....Imagine all the people..living life in peace.......(John Lennon)

    oh, Kate ... Please listen to Julian Lennon on you tube , doing "Because" it is so tender.I met Julian in Santa Cruz, California and he was one of the nicest people I have ever encountered. ..Ciao, Joe

  • ZX Style 10+

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    Feb 24 2013: .
    i'm in love with melancholic songs.
    Vanessa Carlton is very good at this, and for the older ones here, sting.
    Folk music in my native tongue can provoke also this melancholic vibe, like BLØF and Acda en De Munnik.
    Unlike most of my fellow nationals i do adore german folk. Wir sind helden is univerally great.
    You can look most up on youtube.

    I would like it if you listened to this gorgeous song
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNYRMskc1Q
    sea dreamer by sting and anoushka shankar, i hope you will love it too!
    I believe i cried once listening to this touchy song.
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    Kate Blake 50+

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    Feb 23 2013: There is a vast suggestion of songs and music types below, thanks to those participating.

    It would be great to get even more suggestions, so please keep them rolling?

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    Feb 16 2013: Danny Boy
    If there's any song that will reduce any Irishman or anybody with an Irish heritage to tears, that would be it.

    Bagpipes also seem to stir something ancient and forgotten within every Celt for some reason. I've never been able to explain why but it definitely evokes strong feelings. It's something like a call to countrymen to gather for some solemn reason - a battle? a funeral? I just don't know. I do feel home though. And then after about 15 minutes of the droning it's time to put a hole in the cursed thing.
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      Kate Blake 50+

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      Feb 16 2013: Agree Danny Boy and the bagpipes are very stirring, but as I danced to them for so many years I don't mind how long the drone goes on for .... But my legs do want to move whenever I hear them!
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    Pabitra Mukhopadhyay 30+

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    Feb 16 2013: I can tell by your eyes that you've
    probably been crying forever
    And the stars in the sky don´t mean
    nothing,to you they're a mirror

    I don't want to talk about it
    How you broke my heart
    If I stay here just a little bit longer
    If I stay here won't you listen to my heart
    oh My heart

    If I stand all alone will the shadows
    hide the colours of my heart
    blue for the tears, black for the nights fears
    the stars in the sky
    don't mean nothing to you they're just a mirror

    I don't want to talk about it
    How you broke my heart
    If I stay here just a little bit longer
    If I stay here won't you listen to my heart
    My heart
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkWs6P2IwE

    Rod Stewart

    It was a damp and cold January day when the song played out through the car stereo. We were driving in silence lost in pain and misery of broken promises and shattered dreams. You know, love doesn't need so much of a reason to come and go. But a relationship costs time, effort and understanding. We need to work it out every moment.
    This song saved us.
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    Feyisayo Anjorin 50+

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    Feb 13 2013: "I will Remember You" by Amy Grant
    "Sometimes" by Britney Spears
    "You make Me Wanna" by Blue
    "Drowning" by Backstreet Boys
    "Let Love Lead the Way" by Spice Girls
    "Always" by Atlantic Starr

    all these and more brings memories of falling in love (Or thinking I've falling in love), and good times, and happiness, and being a young man trying to understand certain feelings.
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      Kate Blake 50+

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      Feb 13 2013: Good variety there Feyisayo, sounds like you've fallen in love a few times ...

      Think you understand those feelings yet?
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        Feyisayo Anjorin 50+

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        Feb 14 2013: Feelings are just feelings. I still dont understand them. For now I think that love is a choice. Feelings are not so reliable.
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          Kate Blake 50+

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          Feb 14 2013: Well said Feyisayo, feelings and emotions are not so reliable. They can be a real roller coaster ride, knowing that they come and go, up and down does help us from getting over involved with them. They will always arise but we don't have to give them so much emphasise, helps to stabilise our mind.

          And music is a great way to indulge or change them!

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    Feb 13 2013: I like anything by the punk rock band X. It so happens that one of the band's two singers, Exene Cervenka, was quite interested in me as a romantic possibility twenty-five years ago, which, alas, came to naught, but the albums still remind me of the feeling.
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      Kate Blake 50+

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      Feb 13 2013: Good one Greg, I hadn't thought of the adverse memories that certain songs or music could bring!

      Can you give us any links to particular favourites of yours?
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    Theodore A. Hoppe 200+

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    Feb 13 2013: I enjoy music that can take me places:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJl2ne0Qjs&feature=plcp&list=PL8DA4ECD4D8E21557

    I watched her perform this live, and still think its her best performance. Live music is the best kind of music
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZltsUE_GhM

    Instrumental music has its own language:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsupC15N_YE
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      Kate Blake 50+

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      Feb 13 2013: Well done Theodore, a very broad range of music and some very unusual video clips. People already have a good smorgasbord from just the three of us! Much thanks for contributing.

      What memories do they evoke for you?
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        Theodore A. Hoppe 200+

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        Feb 13 2013: I'm one of this people that remember all the words to a song, so I favor music that evoked deep imagined memories.

        I guess I'll contribute another song by an artist I have had the opportunity to meet several times.
        He is an amazing person to sit and talk with, he has great energy.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmEk6Ev_Q_8

        Richie tells a great story about this song. He asked Bob Dylan to write the words down for him. He asked him several time and done day Dylan give him a tape of the song.
        One night, when he was playing in Greenwich Village in NYC Jimi Hendrix came up to ask Richie for the words to the song. Richie stopped performing the song for many years after hearing Hendrix version of the song.

        So this song brings back all those times
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          Kate Blake 50+

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          Feb 13 2013: Yes, Richie looks like a real character and I love his deep voice! Those words are amazing, thank you.

  • Mary M. 100+

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    Feb 12 2013: Saint Saens Carnival of Animals "Aquarium"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33R3woDeFs

    A music teacher at University put a name to the piece I had loved many years before while visiting Epcot and enjoying the France circlevision movie.

    In the circlevision movie you are taken down the Danube river listening to this piece....simply beautiful.

    Enjoy

    I love music and singing.

    I love to cook while hearing music and drive while hearing music and clean while hearing music.

    Sometimes I sit and participate in TED conversations while hearing music on my computer.

    Great question Kate.

    Any Australian groups or singers you like in particular?

    Here is a favorite of mine....so very funny.....incredible what the human voice can do:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2_PmitMrM
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      Kate Blake 50+

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      Feb 13 2013: Truly magical and uplifting, thanks for sharing that Mary! Hey, I think he was singing about me, but I never met him? Lol ....

      I guess I really enjoy all genres but often prefer silence too. My big love is Johann Strauss and jazz, and in Australia we have many great jazz musicians, singers and bands; rock, devo, Gordon Lightfoot, Yanni, etc. you can see by the varied collection above that music inspired this conversation.

      Probably Peter Paul and Mary, The Carpenters, were a well known Australian group that had some good originals.

      Here is a link to my favourite Aussie jazz band, I grew up with these guys, they are amazing! Given you a few to choose from, enjoy!

      http://www.google.com.au/search?q=galapagos+duck+jazz+band&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#q=galapagos+duck+music&hl=en&client=safari&sa=X&tbo=u&source=univ&tbm=vid&ei=dCYbUea4J4STiAeEjIGwDg&ved=0CDkQqwQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&bvm=bv.42261806,d.aGc&fp=6a99e99d0e0b558&biw=1024&bih=672

      • Mary M. 100+

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        Feb 13 2013: hahaha.......I thought he was singing about me too....

        I love when a singer introduces humor into songs.

        Kate have you seen the songs by Nellie McKay on TED?

        http://www.ted.com/talks/nellie_mckay_sings_the_dog_song.html

        (Check out her cool shoes at about 1:32...heeheehee)

        I also love music from other countries. Another TEDster introduced me to this piece:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNBvJ_R6Vg

        You can feel the passion in the voices of the singers, and look at the facial expressions on the guitarist....they love what they are doing.....that makes me enjoy the piece all the more.

        Oh, and don't ask me what they are saying....because even though they are Spaniards....and I speak spanish.....I believe the expressions are whimsical in nature and have no true meaning...of course, I could be wrong.

      • Mary M. 100+

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        Feb 13 2013: Oh, and who can resist the sound of silence Kate?
        I think we all love to luxuriate in silence now and again.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JQ1q-13Ek
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          Kate Blake 50+

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          Feb 25 2013: Simon and Garfunkle, Carol King, Santana, Beetles are all music I grew up with - so guess that dates me!

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      Feb 17 2013: Re Saint Saens Carnival of Animals "Aquarium"

      Well what do you know!

      I made a video of my niece's performances in a school version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. I downloaded the prologue music and used it as the background music for the DVD main menu page so I got very familiar with the piece. Thanks for the very pleasant memory

      • Mary M. 100+

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        Feb 17 2013: Surprise, surprise!!!

        You are most welcome.
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