MEMORIES IN MUSIC

One of my blogger buddies (yes, you Tonia) did this as a post and I thought it was so fun I just had to copy...

There is nothing like music to take me back to a specific place in the past. It really is a time machine. Here are some of the songs full of the most memories:

1. Sweet Caroline/Neil Diamond: Driving to and from skiing when I was about 6-8 years old. (also, John Denver and the Carpenters).

2. De Do Run Run/Shaun Cassidy: My downstairs bedroom growing up around 1977.

3. Can't Stop the Music/Village People: Upstairs bedroom that I shared with my older sister around 1980. She had a stereo (turntable) and had some albums by them.

4. Open Arms/Journey: Stake Dances in Colorado. These were held very consistently when I was a teen and this song (and many others) takes me right back there (about 1983-85).

5. People Are People/Depeche Mode: Almost any song from their early albums reminds me of high school. I started hanging out with the 'alternative' crowd for a while. NEW WAVE, baby! 1984-85

6. There is a Green Hill Far Away/LDS Hymns: Singing it at my father's funeral my senior year of high school. He was killed in a plane crash. This was his favorite hymn and it still brings me right back to his funeral every time we sing it in sacrament meeting. 1986

7. Kick/INXS: Fern Young A4 (my dorm at college). This album came out my first year at Snow and my roomie, Crista, and I listened and listened and listened! 1988

8. Sounds of Silence/Simon and Garfunkel: In my boyfriend's car my second year at Snow College driving all over in the mountains. He was way into them and I ended up loving them too. (still do) 1989

9. Escapade/Janet Jackson: In my Mazada GLC driving to and from California for spring break 1990 with my cousins, Alys and Lance. It was the 'theme song' for our trip.

10. Baby Baby/Amy Grant: My husband's and my basement apartment my senior year at Utah State. We had just gotten married and I decided this was 'our song.'

So, there you have it. My life in music!