I love following an act or a band for so many years and never growing tired of them, it kind of symbolizes this personal loyalty to them, so much changes and happens throughout a period of say, five years, and listening back to songs you favored in the past brings you back to that time in your life - what you were wearing, who you hung out with, who you were dating etc. Listening to these songs are simply an alternative memory to photos.
Bands who I've sincerely favored throughout consist of Tegan and Sara, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, The Strokes, Radiohead and Kings of Leon. Most of which I began listening to when I was about 14, I remember being in the Science class room in year 8 at my secondary school and a fellow student handing me a burnt copy of 'Hot Fuss' by The Killers. I would stay up all night listening to the CD on my walkman trying to learn the words to Mr Brightside and On Top.
I remember being about 15 when I started getting into music from 'the past' as it were, Joy Division, The Smiths, The police, really starting to appreciate The Beatles (Eleanor Rigby will always be the fave) you know. I had this Ramones tee that I used to wear to death with some tights and a little denim skirt my friend fashioned out of an old pair of Levis (proud to say the tee and skirt still fit!) with my little tight converse pumps - I thought I was pretty awesome.
I've really got back into Tegan and Sara over the past year. I think I first heard their track 'Downtown' when I was about 14 and I still listen to it now with the same amount of enthusiasm as I did back then. Here are two tracks that made it onto my 'top 25 most played' on the i tunes library pretty swiftly:
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