Letter From an Occupant by The New Pornographers
The first time I heard The Voice. I have no clue what the lyrics mean… but it doesn't matter. This is a happy, it's spring, let your worries be gone and enjoy yourself for a moment song. I must have listened to this song about 250 times over the months of March-June of 2005. I loved this song. I'm not kidding, I'd walk home from the hospital and every time I walked though Nichols Park, I'd be listening to this song. "Were have all sensations gone?" Oh that voice... Neko just effing nails this song. This is a six-star rated, A++++++, song from the 1:55 point onwards. Anyway, this song WAS the spring of 2005 for me. Walking to get Dunkin' Dounuts with Denis, flowers, new relationships, making 'life decisions' like moving back to DC, and then the beginning of the 2005 White Sox season... throughout it all, Letter From an Occupant was playing the background. You would think with all that was going on I'd have more concrete memories... I don't. All I know is that I listened to this song all the time.
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Kinda' like your own personal soundtrack of '05. Cool story.
BO I'm going add this song onto my I-pod on your words. I don't have any Neko in my library so this is a good place to start right?
Great post about one particular song being an entire soundtrack to a time in your life. I'd have to go back to 1968 for a song like that. ("Hey Jude" before it was so overplayed everyone started to hate it, na na na na.)
lolololo or cececececece... better yet why not do some sort of CD trading thing? The cost are are cheaper than DLing everything from iTunes or Amazon, I'm sure we most of the music (if not all) that we're writing about. Maybe pick the top songs from each month? Requests... anyone have anyother thoughts on choice/selection?
BO
G-man gave me gift card so I'm trying to use it up.
I used to love making/getting mixed tapes (guess we'd call me mixed cd's now) Anyhow I'd love to trade, but am to low-tech to know the mechanics. Also don't want to "steal" music cause that doesn't feel right. That darn Catholic guilt thing would just choke me.
Love,
cececece
Concrete or not, they sound like great memories. And just think, you can pull them up whenever you play this song.
Yes...this song is so many shades of awesome and I'll never quite understand why.
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