Great Memories + Great Song = All time favourite song

Malaysia
June 14, 2010 11:01pm CST
I noticed this song in my itunes which I have kept for a couple of years now. Its by John Mayer 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room'. I played it and instantly, chills run down my spine, my skin started to crawl and that oh so good feelings comes back. My mind went straight back to my college days a few years back, a picture of the college foyer popped up. Books, laughs, old faces, the sound of laughter filled my head. I then recognized this feeling. Its the feeling of nostalgia. I noticed that when a great song comes together with great memories, you'll get your all time favourite song. Its not just the great song but the memories attached to it, the feeling you had at the time and how that song reminds you of it. It might be my tired brain talking ( I am studying close to 12 hours a day because of exams ) or the feeling of hopelessness ( I am really gonna screw up this exam ) but that song reminds me of the time when I was a starry eyed teenager, full of hope and dreams, a tad naive, just the thing I need to get on again.
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karen1969
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15 Jun 10
I don't know that song, but I think music evokes emotional responses in all of us. My all-time favourite song is Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd (from The Wall album). I love the words and the music and it reminds me of being a teenager and my first love, who lent me his Pink Floyd albums. I also love Eternal Flame by The Bangles. In 1989, I spent 3 weeks in East Germany on a student trip and one night we all sat around a table by candlelight and took it in turns to sing a song and I sang that one. Then Chain Reaction by Diana Ross reminds me of the 1980s, being a teenager, at Sixth Form and all that was going on in my life at that point.