We’ve all had the experience: A song comes on the radio that you’ve never heard before. And from that very first listen, you know. This is a song that you will carry with you for the rest of your life. Later, you find that remember where you were when you first heard it.<\/p>\n
I was hanging out with some friends this evening, and I raised this topic. Sure enough, everyone had their own personal list of songs. The ones that flew into their soul the very first time they heard it, and never left.<\/p>\n
For me it’s a pretty eclectic list. They are songs from different eras, in wildly different genres: Billie Jean, Heart of Glass, Blues in the Night, Walk on the Wild Side, Bad Romance, Pirate Jenny, Don’t Think Twice it’s All Right<\/i>, to name a few.<\/p>\n
In some cases it’s only a particular version of a song. The very first time I heard Venus<\/i> by Shocking Blue it became one of those songs. But the remake by Bananarama does nothing for me.<\/p>\n
Then there are the songs that go even deeper, that end up shaping your very sense of who you are. When I was a teenager I heard Suzanne<\/i> for the first time. It took only one listening. Leonard Cohen has pretty much owned my soul ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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