day 8.
artist:vertical horizon
album:everything you want
i lost this album to a relationship gone bad. it was connected to a very specific time in my life and after that all fell apart i couldn't listen anymore. I've been over that particular boy for a very long time, but never really went back to this album. I'm very glad that i decided to listen to it today.
listening to this album was one of those instances where even though its been years and years since i've heard these songs, i still knew every word to each and every one of them. obviously songs like you're a god and best i ever had (grey sky morning) are on the radio with some frequency even today, but others like you say and miracle aren't as prominent yet are still etched in there.
upon hitting play, my mind travelled back to a bright, sunny day in 2000. i don't know what day it was, or why that is the particular day that comes to mind, but "who knows where thoughts come from? they just appear." (~Lucas; empire records) this was a time when songs like best i ever had and stroke 9's little black backpack ruled the airwaves. i was 20 years old, going to college six hours away, and missing Y100 like crazy. (now i miss that radio station for entirely different reasons.)
i was 20 then. I'm nearly 31 now. i don't feel like life was a whole lot different ten years ago than it is now. i mean, the actors are different, but the scripts still read the same. in many ways, it feels like that sunny day was yesterday. of course in reality much has changed over the last ten years, however sitting here right now i cant think of very many things. i guess that's why i like music so much...it really is a time machine. it never ceases to amaze me that i can hear a particular song and it will take me right back to a moment in my lifetime that could be years and years ago, but it will help me to remember that moment exactly. i can remember sitting in Eric's car on our way home from Waynesburg. er, mike and bob came out to get me and bring me home for thanksgiving. we were sitting on 76, nearly home, under an overpass, and as per the norm on 76, traffic was anything but moving. Eric's car was overheating and we were listening to Y100 on the radio. best i ever had came on, and then right after that was the first time i heard little black backpack. the boys were all singing along and i was excited to hear a song i hadn't heard before. during that break i went out and bought both of those albums, and they are forever linked together in my mind, as well as linked to that moment.
there really isn't a song on this album that i don't like. as a matter of fact, after i made it all the way through, i went out to the kitchen (i listened downstairs today. I've been home alone for most of the day and i wanted to listen while i was on the computer) and restarted the disk because i just wanted to hear it again. i probably would have played it through again, but i went outside to shovel snow and then came in and now mom and dad are home.
at any rate, this is a CD that should be revisited and I'm glad that i did. I'm going to definitely have to keep it in rotation and not let it go back on the shelf to sit and collect dust. i don't want to wait another ten years to listen to it again.
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