Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

No this isn't some perverted blog or medical term, rather the title of one of my hidden weakness. I have always had a soft spot for The red hot chilli peppers and this was the album that I first bought of theirs. That said it wasn't the last CD I bought of theirs or the last time I bought that one.

In fact if I had to list the most stolen Cd's out of my collect this is my top ten

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Sergent Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band

Soundtrack to Batman Returns

The Beatles White Album

Britney Spears My Prerogative

Duets Ozzy Osbourne

The best of the Prodigy

The Darkened Theatre best of Danny Elfman

The best of the Rolling Stones

Magical Mystery Tour


The top 4 have been stolen more times than I had flatmates. Now this says one of 3 things, 1) the price of Cd's is too high 2) I can't trust my friends and 3) I have such weird music tastes that I have opened other peoples ears. What ever I have to admit I am getting sick of replacing my CD collection on a a bi annual rotation. I hasten to add I have only listed those that have been replaced more than 3 times, through no fault of my own. Although I am curious who lifted Mozart's requiem 8 years back as the recording was a semi tone flat and not worth the disc it was stamped on.

But that's not what the blog is about. More how music can hold such strong memories. Chapters in your life are often documented by the music you were into at that time. Between the age of 18 and 30 my choice in music was so elected I can almost name events and months based on a single or album. Even now big events are symbolised by what I was listening to. Take for instance the summer I helped build the infamous lego house whilst recovering from swine flu, I will always remember that by the song Face to Face by Souxsie and the Banshees. It was an old track but I had it on my mp3 player. Top Gear live 2011 was all the lights by Kanye West as it was used in the show.

It isn't a matter of what came out new at these points more than what was I listening to. If ever I want to remind myself of these happy times then I just dig out these songs. In the same way less happy events have their song Perfect Day will always remind me of Grandads funeral. But even that has bitter sweet memories with that as it was a beautiful winters day with a shake of snow on the ground.

Music is probably the strongest use of sense to recall memories, and should be treasured. In the meantime I am back to my Red Hot Chilli Peppers moment.

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