Travel through time with music
I’m not talking about rocket science when I mention time-traveling in this blog. Just want to share a piece of my mind about one of few the things that influence my life greatly, music.
It’s
9pm
, in one chilly night somewhere in mid-1999 in the school hostel’s compound, when I started listening to Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It’s the 10th time already just for that day, with my loyal Panasonic walkman as a companion or ‘friend’, serving my needs without hesitation, just for the un-rechargeable batteries that I had to replace once every 3-4 days. The well-structured rhymes, melancholic tone, and meaningful lyrics really caught my soul. It’s probably one of the best song I ever heard, if not the best. For weeks, months to come, that was the song that keep buzzing thru my ears, whether it’s school time, break, the moment before go to sleep or in even in my dreams….
When I wake up in one cold morning, there was something that alerted me to something, about an event that occurred in the past. Then I sit in front of my always-on-PC, opened a program called Winamp®, and scroll thru the playlist thinking what song I’m going to play. After some careful observation, I decided to play my-still-best-song of all-time, Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Then suddenly, the memories started to come through my mind. The memory’s very clear. It’s September 1999, the time when most of us are preparing for the toughest test of their time, the SPM, and some of them still busy kicking other people’s head and butt. I can tell you with 80% accuracy what I was doing that time and what were my friend’s activities. I can tell you why I started to learn the art of guitar, even though before this I’m a complete dumb at musical instruments. I can tell you why I didn’t do well in my SPM when my friends scored when they don’t even finish the textbook.. WHY, suddenly, all this memories come to mind in a cold morning?
Yes sir, it’s about the music. As a person with a lot of respect and admiration for musicians who plays their stuffs doing what they liked most, I find it very interesting to being able to rediscover lost memories through music. For me, every songs that I play or listen to, has its own memories, experience, and signs. Every songs that I listen to, will bring out all sorts of lost memories to mind. I don’t know how to explain and why it happens, but most of the time it’s enjoyable. Just to remember old memories by listening to songs, really gives me something to think about. The memories of 1997, the ill-fated period of mid-1999, the enjoyment of 2002, the ‘first step’ in 2003, the DATE WITH THE GIRL in late-2003, the 3-months-hell of mid-2004, and many more. In all those period, songs like Wonderwall, I Miss You, Californication, Evening News, The Chemistry, High N Dry, Like A Stone, Another You, Don’t Look Back in Anger, The Scientist, Faculties of The Mind, Forgot About Dre, Changes, Scartissue, Coffee & TV, Somewhere Only We Know, Only God Knows Why, Hotel California, Drive, Welcome to Paradise, Blind, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Tribute really played it’s part.
I don’t know how about you people outside there, but for me, music is one of the most influential elements of one’s life, just like myself. I listen to music to discover and rediscover some part of myself. Music don’t just come and go, they lives with the memories….
