Twice now when I've driven into Baltimore Hells Bells by ACDC started playing
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Ominous needle drop
My son was born. I held him in my arms for the first time. As that happened, outside the window a massive fireworks display kicked off, along a nearby city river. It was that kind of moment. My boy in my arms. Fireworks, silent, but massive and beautiful, just for me. For us.
Just last week actually. I was visiting my parents and we were having dinner with the radio on. I started talking about how I was learning the piano and had most of The Scientist by Coldplay learned, and how I like the piano part in the song a lot. And as I finished talking, it came on the radio, just perfect timing. I actually thought the smart speaker somehow picked up on me saying the song name but nope, definitely was just good timing on the radio station.
Some years ago I’ve been to a blink182 open air concert with a girl I liked. And just when the chorus of the song „always“ started, warm Summer rain began to fall. It was amazing!
At a buddy's wedding. Said buddy had endured college years in my car with my one mix CD, which included the classic "Call On Me" that he'd heard so many times it had become a running joke - and which one night when he was out switching his laundry, he heard in the distance at surreal volume and realized that there was an apartment close to us that was blasting it, just as I happened to be walking from that direction (and jamming to it).
Well, of course, it started blasting at his wedding twelve years later, and we went mad - I gave him props, and he said he didn't ask for it, the DJ just picked the right jam. Was a great moment.
Hey what’s the rest of that one mix CD look like?
Damned if I went looking for it and couldn't find it. I've since lent it to an intern, put it in a funny place, moved twice, wasn't anywhere I hoped.
In any case, I'll try to recreate what I remember of "What I Heard 1.0":
- Daft Punk - One More Time
- Kavinsky - Nightcall
- Benny Bennassi - E.T remix
- Madeon - Yelle Que Veux Tu remix
- Eric Prydz - Call On Me
- Lemaitre - Blue Shift
- Digitalism - Blitz
- Justice - D. A. N. C. E
- Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand but a remix that said "Adam Jensen" which I can't find :(
- Digitalism - Circles
- Daft Punk - Digital Love
- Studio Killers - Ode to the Bouncer
There is one missing track here as far as I remember - a Benny Bennasi bomb that I've looked for many times over the years, but haven't found. And I've listened to a lot of Benny Benassi :(. Hopefully the CD shows up one day!
Edit: added nightcall, remembered I had that on there!
Can’t say I’ve ever listened to any of these before but I also feel the frustration for Call on Me now from your roommate hahaha.
Great playlist.
I don't know if this was planned or a coincidence.
Last week the radio DJ thought of a fun little game to play. He was thinking about all his old rock band t shirts and came up with "I went to bed in my Led Zeppelin shirt, but I woke up in Kashmir."
The game is to change the band, and use one of their songs for what you woke up in. The more sense it makes, or the funnier it is gets you bonus points.
So, for the rest of my drive, I'm sitting in my car thinking up my own, like wearing my Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt to bed and waking up Under the Bridge.
Before I get to work, the radio plays The Cars: My Best Friend's Girl. I don't know if the DJ picked it on purpose, or they just run an automated playlist, but I thought it was one of the best answers yet!
Would that combination get you "I went to bed in 'The Cars' shirt, but I woke up with My Best Friend's Girl"?
You got it!
Haha, nice. That is a fun game
Geeze, I gotta make sure never to wear a Daft Punk shirt to bed, I'll wake up Around the World.
Get yourself a ZZ Top tee, you'll wake up a sharp dressed man!
Or cheap sunglasses.
in high school we had a trip going to New York and on the first day the bus they had us in kept randomly playing jazz for a second or so at a time and it happened right after just about every joke we made that day.
If you keep Pantera's Walk on shuffle you'll occasionally get the exceptional experience of it coming on as the light changes.
FIDLAR keeps describing aspects of my life as it's happening. These four were actual needle drop moments as something big was happening in my real life.
2012 - Wake, Bake, Skate
Minus the skating, this is pretty much what my life was in 2012. My Nexus 4 had mysteriously stopped working as a cell phone (everything else worked fine, but the IMEI was all zeroes), Google was unwilling to RMA it because I didn't have a spare $300 in my bank account and no credit card, so I was using Skype on it as a primary "phone." "No Waves" and "5 to 9" also described this time as well.
And I'm so fuckin' cheap
And I'm so fuckin' broke
And I don't have a job
And I don't have a phone
Don't have a life
And I'm always stoned
2015 - Leave Me Alone
Felt this one a lot in 2015. "Stupid Decisions" and "Bad Habits" from the same album also hit hard that year.
I guess I'm damaged
But I'll manage
In my room, all by myself
Be dramatic
Too late to die young, and too young to burn out
(I'm so burnt out)
Or I can fade away, I just say that I'm happy
Now leave me alone
Leave me alone
I'm stupid
So stupid
And nothing in the world's gonna change my mind
So you can suck it
2019 - Called You Twice
As my long term relationship started to really fall apart.
I never meant to call you
But then I went and called you twice
I never meant to know you
But now I know the things you like and don’t like
And baby, when I saw you
I saw that we would crash and burn
I went to every school but
I never really learned
2024 - Orange County
I'm not from Orange County nor do I drink, but this easily described the aftermath of the end of the relationship and neither of us being able to move on easily. "Sad Kids," "Making Shit Up," "Dog House," and "I Don't Want To Do This" from the same album also described this year as well.
Can't eat, can't sleep
Can't think, can't blink
I got a job working holidays
Moved back to Orange County
I'm running outta ways to say
I'm sorry that you feel this way
But if you wanna get back together
I think, I drink
I drink, I sink
Don't wanna talk about my issues
Fuck you, I miss you
And now I'm running outta things to say
And all I wanna do is run away
But if you wanna get back together
I think I don't wanna do this anymore
I think I don't wanna live like this anymore
And I don't think I'm suicidal, no I just wanna die
I don't think I'm suicidal, no I just wanna die
Anyway, here I am, surviving the American dream.