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artist:weezer
album:weezer (blue)
this is one of those albums that has so many stories attached that i honestly don't know where to begin. 1994 is my ultimate year when it comes to music...so many great albums came out that year, and being 14 years old, that is when i started standing on my own two feet as far as making musical selections goes.
i have two stories of note that came to my head while driving around listening to this album, so while there are many, ill go through these two briefly.
the first happened not too long after the album came out, as "buddy holly" was still being played on the radio in heavy rotation. by this point, id already purchased the album, and i can remember being so fascinated by the "bang, bang, knock on the door" part. i listened to that song over and over again, which meant rewinding the tape to just the right point, because i was determined to learn the lyrics. there was no lyrics sheet in the album (the original "send a dollar, get a lyrics book" album. /bn jokes) so i had to sit and listen over and over until i learned the words. i couldn't hunt them down on the Internet because for the most part, the Internet did not exist. it definitely wasn't a place that i could go to hunt down song lyrics, at any rate.
anyway, we were at some odyssey of the mind competition probably during the end of my freshman year of high school, and we were in our staging room, as a team, getting ourselves psyched up to go do our thing. someone had Walkman speakers (holy smokes this story makes me sound older than dirt) and of course we all had that tape with us, so we decided to listen to it. that part that i had been studying for so long came on, and of course i had to show off my skills and sing the whole part. i distinctly remember Dan D looking at me across the table shaking his head in amazement and saying "how do you even know that?" i was proud that day.
the other story is more recent, though it was still about seven years ago. i was dating this guy and he was slowly getting to like all of the music that i liked. his taste in music sucked and i couldn't stand being in the car with him unless he was open to some changes, and one of the albums that i was really hellbent on getting him to listen to was this one. the way i see it, its a good jumping-off point into the "scene." I'm not sure if it was because i was so into him listening to the CD or what, but he just flat out refused. would not do it.
for my 24th (i think) birthday, we went to Michelle and Brooke's apartment to celebrate. i made the boy drive, and i picked the music because it was my birthday and I'm a princess. we were sitting in traffic on 76 on the way to chelles, and i decided that id just put the CD in when he wasn't looking and see what happens. about four songs into it, he stopped in the middle of what he was saying, looked at me, and said "what are we listening to? i really like this a lot." i just laughed.
that CD has been through so much with me. I'm sure that many of you have stories about this album, and id like to hear them. i know i cant be the only one with such great memories.
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