Livejournal Music Posts

I always hope she will come back triumphantly, partly because in 1985 on a Portland streetcorner I overheard two guys talking about how impressed they were with her debut and it made me really happy to hear people talking enthusiastically about music because I was very lonesome at the time, and now when I remember overhearing that exchange & my reaction, I get the sentimental feeling of a time long since passed. So, my reasons for wishing her well are narcissistic, but sincere. Get well soon Whitney!

― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:03 PM (Yesterday)

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"more than a woman" by aaliyah
this song was really important to me in the fall of 2001.
very eerie, transparent and shimmery for chart r&b, it became popular right after aaliyah died, and right around september 11th, when i was living in a dorm down by the financial district - it wasn't a huge hit really, but hot 97 played it pretty steadily as she had just passed away. it would make me cry everytime. turning on hot 97 when i heard sirens helped to stop panic attacks. i was seeing this boy, and i made him switch his clock radio to hot 97 so there was listening in bed (he listened to the Z100 morning zoo before, YUCK), cuddling, dumb jokes, he says he still listens to to the station in the mornings because of me (i don't really, as it's crap now) and one time he skateboarded to my dorm and brought me flowers. it was an intense but also distant and closed-off relationship - this song brings me back to this time in a very immediate way.
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― bell_labs, Monday, April 16, 2007 10:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

Some of my favourite posts on ILM are where people get really sentimental and just relate music to their life story so post Livejournal type music posts here pls

come on, I know there are really good ones I just can't think of any right now...

god i loved this album in high school. it reminds me of falling in love with my girlfriend and starting to drive my own car. they toured the shit out of this album, we went to see them three times before we graduated (in FL no less) and the first time we saw them we were 15 wearing jeans and bright-colored t-shirts and literally everyone there was heroin-chic skinny in all black smoking cigarettes/cloves and looking at us like wtf are you doing here. it was great. indie seemed so cool back then, now i'm jaded and bored... ;_; but i still love my girlfriend :)

idk what i'll vote for, i guess i'll listen to it for the first time in years

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:41 AM (13 hours ago)