"Music that shocks you back into the High School mind (nostalgia)"
Man, I just heard The Cure's song Charlotte Sometimes from their 1986 concert film and my brain warped back in time to 1987. I felt like I was actually back in time - it's so weird.
1. "It's usually specific songs..." In response to Reply # 0
vs the ones social media plays out to define 'your era'. Technology and music media outlets really make it hard to have nostalgia b/c you can damn near play it anytime you want...that said:
Anytime I hear - Jodeci's 'Cry 4 U', it takes me back sitting on my mom's front porch with my walkman listening to the single. Same for Diary of a Mad Band but it started with that single to me.
BlackMoon 'Enta tha Stage' - the entire album was a HS walkman soundtrack to me, LOL
Rap wise - GZA's Cold World and Shadowboxing takes me back to waiting at the bus stop in the winter
Random - Something for the People 'All I do' - reminds me of High School for whatever reason.
There are plenty of others: NAS, The purple tape, Group Home, etc (both popular and personal) that remind me of HS the moment the beat drops.
3. "heres a few...to be in highschool and house partying hard hearing all" In response to Reply # 0
this stuff during the time when it was current cant really be explained. its has to be like being a teen when hendrix etc was poppin. hearing any of this stuff immediately takes me back and makes me smile on the inside.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79600 posts
Mon Oct-21-19 09:47 AM
4. "Ohhh the list is long" In response to Reply # 0
Nite and Day Hold On to Your Love Black Steel in the hour of Chaos Love is a House Toms Diner Minds Playing Tricks on Me Poison Can You Stand the Rain Kissing Game
I started going to the 18 and under clubs in HS so these songs bring back grinding, getting numbers, fighting in the parking lot..
Also warming up before basketball games and the bus rides on away games. I kept a Walkman at all times in HS.
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8. "We're around the same age..." In response to Reply # 4
I can relate to all of this because we were doing the same thing (I wasn't on the hoop squad tho). Even each of these songs you picked puts me right back into high school.
>Nite and Day >Hold On to Your Love >Black Steel in the hour of Chaos >Love is a House >Toms Diner >Minds Playing Tricks on Me >Poison >Can You Stand the Rain >Kissing Game > >I started going to the 18 and under clubs in HS so these songs >bring back grinding, getting numbers, fighting in the parking >lot.. > >Also warming up before basketball games and the bus rides on >away games. I kept a Walkman at all times in HS.
That was my joint. Back when Babyface was in The Deal.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79600 posts
Thu Oct-24-19 03:36 PM
14. "This was my first real appreciation for slow songs" In response to Reply # 11
also prolly the first one I dug that had a video and didn’t feel like it was for old people.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79600 posts
Fri Oct-25-19 09:14 AM
17. "Oh my. Yeah, that Ready or Not was flames. " In response to Reply # 16
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
13. "Anniversary came out the beginning of my senior year" In response to Reply # 7 Thu Oct-24-19 11:41 AM by flipnile
I remember that more for late nights when the radio would play the full LONG version and I would just zone the hell out dreaming about the future and singing this to the future mrs. flipnile one day.
Every once in a while the old school hip station on SiriusXM will play a REALLY early rap track, and while some of these cuts I haven't heard since 9th grade...I remember every damn word.
Growing up in Atlanta, in the 80's, we really only got the really mainstream rap records. The dominant music of my high school years was primarily funk and new wave with a sprinkling of hip-hop.
My little crew of proto-hip hop heads had to truly DIG to get authentic hip-hop. This was all pre-internet so I mean we had to DIG.
One of my buddies was a Philly transplant, who would get his old friends to mail him battle tapes, and we found a little mom & pop record store that would order the latest 12 inch singles from NYC.
15. "Player’s Holiday - TWDY is an example for me" In response to Reply # 0
I spent a week in San Jose during that summer and heard that on the radio all the time. Back home, I’d only seen the video on BET here and there. I hear it now, it takes me right back to listening to the radio out west for that week.
Songs like that, that I heard a decent amount back then and associate with a specific memory, and then never heard again for many years until it became possible to play anything at anytime.
Another example would be Ja Rule’s first album....I rode back from senior skip day with a couple girls and they played that damn album and Q-Tip’s first solo the whole way. Now Tip I listened to on my own at times, and would go back to that album over the years so if I hear it now I don’t really associate it with the time period as strongly. Where Ja Rule - I never listened to that album again and really haven’t heard the singles or anything very often either since ‘99, so if I were to hear “Holla Holla” or something, it takes me straight back to that car ride.
18. "I'm from Miami, any song by 2 Live Crew, Trick Daddy, Trina," In response to Reply # 0
Uncle Luke, 69 Boys, DJ Magic Mike, thrown in some Gloria Estefan (Miami Sound Machine) and Jon Secada in the mix, I'm instantly back in a high fan ponytail, bamboo earrings, a nokia flip phone, clear jelly shoes and a phat farm pink velvet jacket.
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