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Some of out most cherished memories are tied to music. That song playing in the background when you had your first kiss, the one you slow danced to at that freshman mixer, or that sad song that helped you get through the rough times and made you realize you weren't alone. That's why I was happy to see this writing prompt courtesy of Sweetney and Her Bad Mother:
Pick whatever band, performing artist, one-hit wonder - even just a single song, if you want - and write a post about how it moved / rocked / utterly transformed your adolescent / teenage / young-adult self.
Whoorl even provided YouTube links to the songs that
Have Made Deep Imprints On My Tiny Brain.
(This list included everyone from Boz Skaggs to the Pixies.)
Dana from Mamalouges writes how a Jerry Reed song stumbled up in an episode of Scooby Doo helped her get through a tough time in her childhood. (She also managed to find a clip of a catroon Jerry Reed performing that song, "Pretty Mary Sunlight.")
Oh, the Joys recounts a young group canoe trip straight out of her childhood journal where the music she and her friends listened to became sort of a soundtrack narrating the events of the day:
Reading about that trip these many years later I can see my young self. I was a girl with one foot planted, deep as bedrock, in childhood while the other foot desperately searched for a toe hold on the mystifying path to adulthood.
One of my favorite musical memories came courtesy of Chick from Out Of The Coup
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I saw the Challenger tragedy on TV when I was in the 6th grade. I remember getting AIDS education in the 7th
And I don't understand why I sleep all day... And I start to complain that there's no rain
X'ers were known for their apathy, attraction to grunge/indie rock and general slack toward their educations, jobs, relationships and life in general.
Red Pen Mama, another X'er also remembers the music of the early nineties:
Hearing Pearl Jam and Nirvana for the first time in the early 1990s elicited a response similar to what had happened that day Beth touched that radio dial. I had been waiting for the next new music to stir me, move me. I mean, I liked a lot of music, but I wasn’t excited about any of it. The sound coming out of the Pacific Northwest changed that for me. I never did get to see Nirvana, but I met several members of Pearl Jam as a college journalist. I have the signed cut-off jean shorts to prove it.
As this meme makes the rounds, I'm curious to see what other bloggers come up with. Hearing stories about how music has the power to change and inspire is one of the most gratifying reasons to seek out those artists. Do you have a particular song or band that transformed your life forever?
