![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Janice Long has just played the DNA mix of Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner.
It's been a while since I've heard it, and I don't think I even own a copy (which is an oversight that I should really rectify - possibly by seeking out a copy of her greatest hits, as she's recorded some fine tracks).
And every time I hear it, it takes me back to one specific moment - a teenage party at a friend of a friend of a friend's house. His parents had gone away, and he'd locked all of the furniture into a couple of rooms and hung plastic sheeting over all of the walls and put it down on the carpet. I was chilled out upstairs, and that song was filling the house.
Does that track have a similar "single memory" effect on anyone else? I suppose that for me it could be because it wasn't the type of track that my teenage self (Iron Maiden t-shirt, big white Hi-Tec trainers) would normally have sought out, thus restricting the number of associations the song has.
It's been a while since I've heard it, and I don't think I even own a copy (which is an oversight that I should really rectify - possibly by seeking out a copy of her greatest hits, as she's recorded some fine tracks).
And every time I hear it, it takes me back to one specific moment - a teenage party at a friend of a friend of a friend's house. His parents had gone away, and he'd locked all of the furniture into a couple of rooms and hung plastic sheeting over all of the walls and put it down on the carpet. I was chilled out upstairs, and that song was filling the house.
Does that track have a similar "single memory" effect on anyone else? I suppose that for me it could be because it wasn't the type of track that my teenage self (Iron Maiden t-shirt, big white Hi-Tec trainers) would normally have sought out, thus restricting the number of associations the song has.