On the tram, coming home today through Carlton, "Mike Mills" by Air came up on my ipod, and it was like it dropped me straight back into the past - specifically 2004, when I was listening to Talkie Walkie and especially that song. I don't have any strong specific associations or memories associated with the song - the nearest is a faint recollection of Penny, or maybe it was Kate B, remarking that it sounded like a music box, the snippet of conversation snap-frozen for some reason - but those opening chimes really took me straight back with a startling vividity...
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This is a bit different, but I had another sharp, piquant music experience on the weekend - caught drifting slightly aimlessly in the city (unusual in these time-poor times), Francoise Hardy's "Ce Petit Coeur" came on and was immediately the perfect song for that very moment; as music does, it soundtracked and at the same time coalesced the moment itself.
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This is a bit different, but I had another sharp, piquant music experience on the weekend - caught drifting slightly aimlessly in the city (unusual in these time-poor times), Francoise Hardy's "Ce Petit Coeur" came on and was immediately the perfect song for that very moment; as music does, it soundtracked and at the same time coalesced the moment itself.
