OK, so everyone agrees nostalgia is ace. So lets talk about which Blur (or other) songs remind us of a period or event in our lives... if you want... please... For me it would be:

For Tomorrow: sitting on the bus on the way to school when it was pissing down with rain, waiting for the day when I would be released from the mental torment of school and the evil people who surrounded me. So I listened to For Tomorrow which never failed to inspire me!

Shiver by Coldplay: "so I look in your direction but you pay me no attention." Soundtracked a little romantic saga I experienced recently. No more details, I'm too embarrassed. But it wasn't like I was really IN LOVE with this person, so I could just enjoy listening to songs like this whilst not getting too upset or anything. Cool!

Strange News from another Star: I used to listen to the album Blur in bed in the dark during a not so happy period of my life, so I could just drift away into a world of Blur and forget all my worries...

Do you remember the first time? by Pulp: reminds me of the magical experience of being outside in London with twenty thousand people at possibly the best gig I've ever been to.

The Asphalt World by Suede: reminds me of sitting by my open bedroom window very late at night when I was about 16 smoking and looking out at my suburban surroundings. It was sooooo atmospheric, darling.

OK, mine are totally boring, but hopefully yours will be more interesting.

By Joe on Monday, September 4, 2000 - 10:37 pm:

No..i like yours.

I'd choose:
I Think I'm Paranoid by Garbage: Bouncing round the stage of our local theatre drunk out of my skull having just met my girlfriend, wacking into each other in a moshing frenzy even though we were the only two on the dancefloor.

Novocaine for the Soul by eels: Smoking in a shed, occasionally going out to buy either more fags or some drink, occasionally going out to some swanky café. The most bohemian I have ever felt.

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth: For some unknown reason playing into onto someone's answering machine down the phone.

Demons by SFA: The taste of this apple fizzy drink called Jucee, playing on Crash Bandicoot for hours at Stav's house and eating microwaveable vegetarian sausages, a Mexican theme party where no-one went to bed, and no-one dressed very Mexcan-ly.

Life On Mars by God: Walking round hearing it for the first time on a mix tape I'd stolen from my sister. Being completely blown away...until I saw it at Glastonbury. Then I was really blown away, as shown by a photo ian has. My pupils are VERY large....

Look Inside America by Blur: The first time I truly felt cool, sitting in a youth club where this music workshop was going on, and Supergrass producer and animalhouse guiatarist Sam Williams asked if I'd made it up, and that it sounded ace. I don't know if that is cool on reflection: I made a Blur song sound like it could have been made up by a fifteen year old.

And here I am, nearly eighteen, and I haven't changed much for nearly three years. I've got better at the guitar and that's about it...I think I'm going through a mid-youth crisis.

By sarah on Tuesday, September 5, 2000 - 05:55 pm:

Very nice, Joe. I like the SFA anecdote the best!

By Dave Hedgehog on Wednesday, September 6, 2000 - 06:19 am:

Parklife for the best times

By Kacy on Wednesday, September 6, 2000 - 01:41 pm:

When I first got TGE I lived in the country and I'd go for long walks, and "Best Days" in particular brings to mind a time when I came back to the house and lay in the grass with my eyes closed, it was springtime and my parents were working in the yard, and that was the last time I really remember my family seeming happy together. So now whenever I listen to TGE I get sort of melancholy.

By Ian on Wednesday, September 6, 2000 - 02:18 pm:

This has taken a lot of thinking.

Lose Control by Ash- This reminds of my friends basically. My friends moshing and stuff, being drunk. A simple inclusion. This I will no doubt listen to in 15 years time and remember my ker-azy pals. Unless we keep in touch. Who knows? Either way, I’m rambling.

To Earth With Love by Gay Dad- My first ever festival experience, Glasto 99. Reminds me of the entire festival. Cliff Jones in a tight pink top. Not meeting Kula Shaker. Sundog cheese popcorn. Lots of other stuff, likewise with…

Get Miles by Gomez- This one also lingers in the memory. Alone. Pissed off head. Look at watch. Gomez start in one minute. Begin to panic, run in random direction. End up in field with…Gomez! Open with this little beauty. American guy shouts out “You guys rawk!” in true ‘the spirit of rock will never die!’ clichéd fashion. Also make out with mystery girl later on at this gig.

My parents would include the utterly non-intimidating and quite hilarious Eye of the Tiger by Survivor. ‘Twas number one when I was born, you see. Apparently I used to dance to it as a toddler as well (V. dubious- I never fucking dance for anyone). If you ever see the start of Rocky III this is played over the top of Mr T and Rocky training and stuff- it’s the most 80’s moment in cinematic history.
The song is shite, of course. But it was also in a Frosties ad.

So I’ll just allow myself one blur song. Well, what else can it be except For Tomorrow? As mentioned before, I play this at any landmark point in my life, good or bad. Which means it’s bursting with memories already and I am still fairly young. I’ll probably still be listening to this song when I’m in a nursing home, until the threatening old people remove it and stick on garage music instead (Which brings me to a question- will old people in the future listen to stuff like the Prodigy or the Chemical Brothers? Or do you just start listening to Frank Sinatra at a certain age?). In fact it will probably play at my funeral/cremation/cryogenic freezing ceremony, along with Sing, cos that’ll make everyone cry and I’m a bastard like that.

Anyways, I’ve got a birthday cake to eat. But this thread has got me all nostalgic now in a lovely way.

By Thomas Williams on Sunday, September 24, 2000 - 10:42 pm:

Yeah!

By Jeremy Steel on Thursday, November 2, 2000 - 05:58 pm:

No!

By nathallie on Sunday, November 5, 2000 - 02:01 pm:

"live forever" by oasis reminds of about the end of gr. 6, begin of gr. 7... sitting in someone's dark basement, music's blaring, and across the room is my best guy friend, looking so sad and gloomy 'cos the girl he's crazy about really likes some other guy... and i'm basically in the same boat (yes, 11 yr old crushes, now we can all laugh), it just made me think how him (my friend) and i were just the same, and how much it'd be great if we could stay best friends like this forever....
every song has a moment in your life.

By Poked Swan on Sunday, July 7, 2002 - 03:12 am:

SARAH!!!! Shiver, by Coldplay. Romantic saga, but not in love by any means. Haha, I had a pathetic bout with that last year, the Prince sent me on a reel, every day I had to listen to, on a loop: Beautiful by Joydrop (it's just recently that I realised, duh! She might be singing that about another girl, not a boy at all... oh well, 'tis what you make it), Shiver by Coldplay, All I wanna do by Graham Coxon (if that's what it's called, haven't heard in a while), and Pulp's Do you remember the first time (thrown in for good measure. Fuck, you can't be sick and sad ALL the time.)
Strange, I should post in Coping more, 'cos it seems whenever I do 'Get Free' comes on the radio... that's probably the angle I'd take now, concerning it all (his name actually means "prince", by the way, it's not a silly whim)

Okay, lovely nights and dreams inhabit all yer beds!

~ Nat.

By indigo on Sunday, July 7, 2002 - 09:37 pm:

Why Poked Swan? Am I missing something?
Aw, all these posts are so sweeettt..... I am going to avoid posting my moments because I just watched a really depressing TV programme (beloved family members dying of cancer to a Radiohead and Joy Division soundtrack, mainly) and that much unalloyed nostalgia would just start me crying.

Ho-hum. Oh, big fucking bollocks - I have to get up tomorrow, get dressed "smartly", type up some sort of CV and go looking for temp work for the next two months, to raise some money for university. Fucking student loans - mine'll just about cover accommodation and possibly even some food, if i don't go mad and stray beyond my signature dish of a can of tuna mixed with Tesco own brand pasta for the next 3 years. i am being forced to work as a bloody receptionist or something all summer, just to pay off my £300 debt to my parents (Glastonbury, V2002 and Reading tickets, plus the money I'll spend on food, tshirts and miscellaneous crap).

By Ian on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:20 pm:

Imagine if, I don't know, say, Ian, an ex-Coping regular, was to come back for one message, and then just disappear again, slowly laughing at his younger self for choosing a song by Gay Dad on the soundtrack to his life, but at the same time be thinking about how he still loves Lose Control by Ash and met the people from Ash at Glastonbury and mention that after two years he is STILL going out with Joe's sister and that, following in the footsteps of Albarn (Who he no longer views with the same hero worship he once did, and suspects he's a bit of a tosser- actually forget that- he IS so clearly a tosser)is going to Iceland in just over a weeks time for the most brilliant holiday ever before embarking on the History Course at Manchester University? Wouldn't that be a bit odd?

By indigo on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 06:08 pm:

Oh my god! It is Ian! Creator of "Monkey's in a speedboat" and lover of JJ72, Ash and Bowie! (I met Ash at Glasto too). You're right, that is odd. Did you take a year out then? Your last posts were about going to Goldsmiths or something weren't they?

Dammit, you're probably not even going to post again, so my curiosity will have to go unsatiated.

By the way, I am currently listening to Rock and Roll Suicide, which seems a very Ian sort of track,

By Thomas Williams III on Friday, July 12, 2002 - 08:39 am:

Yeah!

By Thomas Williams IV on Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 10:14 pm:

Yeah!

By Jade Hedgehog on Monday, July 15, 2002 - 07:25 pm:

I cant remember my memories so i avent got much to talk bout really

By tam on Monday, July 15, 2002 - 10:31 pm:

I haven't been here in literally...FOREVER, and i'm sure I know none of you, but I miss this place and thought I'd see if there was anyone I used to talk to still here... =)

By Gorilla on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 09:27 am:

Yeah!

By chut on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 09:56 pm:

Very few *worth* talking to, I'm sure. Which may be why you left, which is understandable.

By Crazy Diamond on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 09:57 pm:

Yeah!

By Scamp on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 02:25 am:

I couldn't agree with you more, chut.

By Nittaya on Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 10:19 am:

Tammi, I am here! And Ian, where are you? I'm Oxford, and don't have a clue what to do! (No time to go back through old posts in which I begged for suggestions... )

Hm, I saw two boys in a Lebanese restaurant last night, a blond and brunette, they reminded me of you and a Joe - I had planned to call that out as they passed to leave, but lost nerve and kicked myself (figuratively). That is all. Please write! (nathalliep@hotmail.com)

And dearest Indigo, Poked Swan is a friend's take on my last name.

Lovely day to all!
~ Hallie.

By Anonymous on Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 09:05 pm:

Yeah!

By indigo on Friday, July 26, 2002 - 09:25 pm:

Ah, I don't know your last name... but you don't have to post it just because I'm nosy, because I know I haven't ever posted my full name on here. Ha, I have my little ideas about online privacy, when I'm sure I've actually told everyone enough stuff to pinpoint me down to my exact address.

Ok, that was a little unnecessary. I'm listening to Ash, eating a kitkat and I'm all hyper. Oooh, and i'm all tanned brown too as i just got back from Menorca. And I don't start uni till October! Freedom.......

By heather on Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 11:30 am:

I have freedom from the 15th of november... so many exams and assessments before that.. makes life so depressing when there's no variety. thank god for music, eh! I have been listening to rocket science alot because i like to think i could move to melbourne someday, and their music is a very nice crisp morning walking to school type mood.

By Sarki on Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 04:28 pm:

I always thought of it as smashing up your room type music. Oh well, each to his own!
I could so easily listen to blur whilst smashing things up! His voice fills me up with so much aggression, the mod-wannabe geeky little ban-wagoning cockney ponce! It's just fitting he ended up as a cartoon, he always was a cartoon! as our Liam would say.

By Rita on Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 05:26 pm:

Really?

By heath on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:35 am:

well it's just i listen to RC on my way to school. but yes, smashing up your room music, indeed.

By Quintal on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:37 am:

Rocket Science arent smashing up your room type of music, you dipshit Sarki.

By het on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:41 am:

they are if you're angry. but who could be both with that

By Midnight Toker on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 08:57 am:

I'm going to have so much fun on the Witness Protection Scheme

By Skrooie on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 02:33 pm:

Who on Earth are Rocket Science ?

The new Idlewild album is great. It reminds me of two weeks ago, when I got it. A golden age, indeed.

By Matt on Sunday, July 28, 2002 - 09:01 pm:

i could never get into idlewild but their new song, american english is a pretty fucking nippy tune i have to admit.
i always thought they were one of those poncey stone roses wannabe indie fuckers who annoy the life out of me but i saw them on tv a few weeks back and they seem fucking alright.
even if their lead singers a fucking numpty

By Quintal on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 01:19 pm:

Rocket Science are an Australian rock band from Melbourne. Kind of in the Hives/Strokes/White Stripes mould, except they have an organ as one of their major instruments. I doubt you'll ever hear of them in the UK, though I wouldnt have predicted The Vines would make it huge, so I might be wrong.

By Sarkonymous on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 07:12 pm:

They sound like a load of shit to me, so I wont be listening to any of their records unless I am cruelly forced to by radio.
Lets pray they don't make it big because they sound like the sort of band that could make me very angry!
The Vines are alright btw, a huge improvement on the Kylie Minogues, Savage Gardens, Nathalie Imbruglias, Silverchairs and other various crap the Aussies have been spewing out in recent years. They should stick to making boomerangs if you ask me, ho ho ho.

By Dave Hedgehog on Saturday, August 3, 2002 - 10:20 pm:

Are we moving on again?

By Sarki on Sunday, August 4, 2002 - 03:32 pm:

No Dave, *you're* moving on!
To another message board. And you can take one or two scallies with you, ho ho ho.