This week we're posing the question: Is there any music that's been ruined for you though its association with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend?
For our CD discussion, we dipped into the recent archives for an encore broadcast, where Mac Wilson and our Music Director Melanie Walker and I talked about "Magnetic Fields' "Distortion," Yoav's "Charmed & Strange," and Shelby Lynne's Dusty Springfield tribute, "Just A Little Lovin'."
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Coldplay. At least not X&Y.
First know I love The Clash. A heart-breaking break up in the mid-90s didn't ruin their music for me, but during it, I literally couldn't listen to "Train in Vain." Sounds cheesy, but hey. Who really wants to feel that way? At the time I quite literally had a job (but it didn't pay enough for starting over) and in the move out I didn't have much of my clothing, I needed somewhere to stay... the whole shebang. And I really did painfully feel I didn't need any of that if we could only be together.
*shaking head* Seems so long ago. Now I can hear it and think to myself, "Wow, at the time I didn't think I could weather that..."
bob dylan's "buckets of rain" and "tangled up in blue"
just can't think of them the way i used to. bummer.
"And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky"
Then I learned that this guy was sleeping underneath the same big sky with a cast of thousands.
Ruined a perfectly good song.
She was the first to play me "Close To Me," "Lovecats," "In Between Days." She had Cure posters all over her bedroom wall. It was all so sexy and dangerous to my sheltered little world. She had tri-colored hair. I was dumb-struck in love. Then, she dumped me for this rich dolt with an inheritance -- dumped me on my ass so hard it felt like being thrown off a moving truck.
A few months later, "Just Like Heaven" came out. It was like iron spikes plunged right through my soul.
Man, the drama. But I still have trouble with that song.
Sometimes I really miss Tom, but I'm afraid he'd inspire me to behave foolishly again.
Fortunately I was single when I discovered the Cure, Mr Seel!
It is amazing how many great songs were written because of breakups.
Well, two days after she leaves for college and we break up I hear it on the radio.
Still love the song, but there were some tears and a long time without it.
I don't know if any song was ruined by anyone, but there are songs that take me back to the days of the exes.
One guy that I was with for several years was really into Prince and The Doors. So anything from Prince (with the exception of the stuff on Purple Rain) makes me think of this guy.
Certain Doors songs that I had not heard before him also take me back:
Waiting for the Sun, Indian Summer, Queen of the Highway, Wishful Sinful, Hyacinth House, Love Street, Peace Frog
As usual quite an array of answers: Beck, The Cure, Led Zep, The Doors, The Damned's "Alone Again Or" (I dig Calexico's take on it), Air, Oasis, Tom Waits, Prince & Dylan.
I think the moral of the story is: if you feel like a break-up is imminent, listen to music you don't like very much. That way your favorites won't be scarred for life!
I like the song well enough still, but can't bring myself to play it. Maybe that's a sign of improved romantic health...
Mona Lisa- by Michelle Shocked
Don't go away mad by Motely Crue
Dance Away by Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music
Brand New Cadillac by the Clash
and so on, all over the the genre wheel, but apt all the same.
As far as totally ruined music, I can still remember the feel of rumble of his voice under my ear as the great passion of my life sang to me as I fell sleep in his arms:
Greg Allman's "I'm No Angel" Thank goodness THAT'S over. (our daughter is 20, and we are friends now)