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Title: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: webny99 on May 06, 2021, 12:26:59 PM
What songs did you hear and they instantly seemed like you'd known them forever?

These could also be songs that brought back memories of times before you even knew the song.. almost like the song was part of you before you knew it existed. Here are my top three, all first heard within the last year or so: Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_XsOUC9s0), Alan Walker - The Spectre (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJnBTPUQS5A), Coldplay - Clocks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d020hcWA_Wg)
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: Big John on May 06, 2021, 02:37:22 PM
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere.
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: mgk920 on May 06, 2021, 03:07:30 PM
'Calling America' is a classic 1980s song that I thought was older than 1986 (for the longest time I thought that it was from the early 1980s).  Props if you can identify the USA city in the satellite image at about 1:13 in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_XsOUC9s0

Mike
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: kevinb1994 on May 06, 2021, 04:39:01 PM
I'll third Calling America by ELO-though I'm not sure which American city is at 1:13 in the music video!
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: mgk920 on May 10, 2021, 03:57:58 AM
Quote from: kevinb1994 on May 06, 2021, 04:39:01 PM
I'll third Calling America by ELO-though I'm not sure which American city is at 1:13 in the music video!

It is Sioux Falls, SD.  Mirror image and then rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise.  In that image, I-29 is across the top, I-90 is on the left and I-229 is at the bottom and around to the right.

Mike
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: TheGrassGuy on May 10, 2021, 04:23:14 PM
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: kevinb1994 on May 10, 2021, 07:36:55 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on May 10, 2021, 03:57:58 AM
Quote from: kevinb1994 on May 06, 2021, 04:39:01 PM
I'll third Calling America by ELO-though I'm not sure which American city is at 1:13 in the music video!

It is Sioux Falls, SD.  Mirror image and then rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise.  In that image, I-29 is across the top, I-90 is on the left and I-229 is at the bottom and around to the right.

Mike
Huh. Thanks.
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: texaskdog on May 10, 2021, 07:44:04 PM
I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna bring me down!
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: TheGrassGuy on July 05, 2021, 08:16:36 PM
John Cage - 4'33" :sombrero:
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: GaryV on July 06, 2021, 07:59:16 AM
^  What, you couldn't find a link to a recording of it?   :sleep:
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on July 06, 2021, 10:59:46 AM
Quote from: texaskdog on May 10, 2021, 07:44:04 PM
I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna bring me down!

this makes me want to thump a tub, for some weird reason.
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: texaskdog on July 06, 2021, 08:04:56 PM
The funny ones for me are ones I've never heard.  I've heard a lot of Bowie, had one of his compilations, and I'd never heard Starman until last year.  Even though it's been in several movies!
Title: Re: Songs that instantly seem like you've known them forever
Post by: TheGrassGuy on April 08, 2022, 06:57:59 AM
A lot of songs by Statler Brothers are like that.