The Imprinted Song
So, there are songs that just, if you're a music person I guess, maybe if you're not a music person it doesn't happen, but they imprint on you at certain parts of your life where you know, you're listening, you're impressionistic, something's open, nothing's closed, and the song is just in you forever.
Back in the 80's and 90s when I was listening to a lot of new music it was the most--well it's still the most important thing, I would describe myself as, and not patting myself on the back here, a real music obsessive. It's part of my everyday life, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep.
Reading it, creating it, thinking about better ways to do it, trying not to waste time, being anal, being un-anal, I have a fairly hard time relaxing about it. But the point is, at different times in your life things imprint, I guess it doesn't have to be music, but some of this music will imprint.
So one of the interesting things that happens to me, and I don't know, I'm just assuming it happens to a lot of people too, is that you get this kind of roll out effect where you're doing a transition and maybe it's from watching movies or being in that kind of culture with a bunch of TV, but one of these songs will just soundtrack themselves to a part of your life, so a transition.
And the one that I'm talking about, it's like whenever I'm pulling out of one of a parking space and going somewhere more exciting. It's never less exciting, right? point is--going to do something more interesting, I'm rolling out and Velocity Girl's the La La Song, is my sidecar and I'm listening to it and JD's about to go do something way more interesting and fun and on comes this song.
And I like this band. They're good, and I only had one record of theirs. Can't remember what it was called, but I do like it. I do return to it. I do still listen to it.
My uncle who is a, in certain circles, a punk pop legend, he posted about them one time so I felt really validated, I never told him that.
So I don't know if anybody's got a name for it, but I'd be interested to see what other people think. You feel so dumb in the social media age saying, what's your rollout song? But I do honestly want to know if you've got one and to what activity that is ascribed.
Like, "what are you doing?"
And the second question would be, I guess the third question is, when do you think that imprinted and why?
And I don't know why this song imprinted on me.
The record's good, I'm going to listen to it right after I finish this note.
But I have no idea why this one--not a question I can answer.
*****UPDATE*****
Okay, so I just listened through to some of this Velocity Girl record.
It's called Copacetic and it's awesome.
I forgot how good it was.
One of the reasons it imprinted, because it was so good, and that's just the one song. It's like full great ones. AND, the La La song is a parenthetical name. It's called Pop Loser, and streaming dropped the parenthetical. Criminals!
How is it like this thing that's such a thing, and I don't even know what the thing is.
It's all ridiculous.
It's a really crazy, crazy kind of conception.
Why?
Why are things like this?
Super interesting.