What was that one time when a song came on at exactly the right moment to match what was happening around you or to you just then?
My son was born. I held him in my arms for the first time. As that happened, outside the window a massive fireworks display kicked off, along a nearby city river. It was that kind of moment. My boy in my arms. Fireworks, silent, but massive and beautiful, just for me. For us.
Twice now when I’ve driven into Baltimore Hells Bells by ACDC started playing
Ominous needle drop
At a buddy’s wedding. Said buddy had endured college years in my car with my one mix CD, which included the classic “Call On Me” that he’d heard so many times it had become a running joke - and which one night when he was out switching his laundry, he heard in the distance at surreal volume and realized that there was an apartment close to us that was blasting it, just as I happened to be walking from that direction (and jamming to it).
Well, of course, it started blasting at his wedding twelve years later, and we went mad - I gave him props, and he said he didn’t ask for it, the DJ just picked the right jam. Was a great moment.
Hey what’s the rest of that one mix CD look like?
Damned if I went looking for it and couldn’t find it. I’ve since lent it to an intern, put it in a funny place, moved twice, wasn’t anywhere I hoped.
In any case, I’ll try to recreate what I remember of “What I Heard 1.0”:
- Daft Punk - One More Time
- Kavinsky - Nightcall
- Benny Bennassi - E.T remix
- Madeon - Yelle Que Veux Tu remix
- Eric Prydz - Call On Me
- Lemaitre - Blue Shift
- Digitalism - Blitz
- Justice - D. A. N. C. E
- Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand but a remix that said “Adam Jensen” which I can’t find :(
- Digitalism - Circles
- Daft Punk - Digital Love
- Studio Killers - Ode to the Bouncer
There is one missing track here as far as I remember - a Benny Bennasi bomb that I’ve looked for many times over the years, but haven’t found. And I’ve listened to a lot of Benny Benassi :(. Hopefully the CD shows up one day!
Edit: added nightcall, remembered I had that on there!
Can’t say I’ve ever listened to any of these before but I also feel the frustration for Call on Me now from your roommate hahaha.
Great playlist.
I don’t know if this was planned or a coincidence.
Last week the radio DJ thought of a fun little game to play. He was thinking about all his old rock band t shirts and came up with “I went to bed in my Led Zeppelin shirt, but I woke up in Kashmir.”
The game is to change the band, and use one of their songs for what you woke up in. The more sense it makes, or the funnier it is gets you bonus points.
So, for the rest of my drive, I’m sitting in my car thinking up my own, like wearing my Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt to bed and waking up Under the Bridge.
Before I get to work, the radio plays The Cars: My Best Friend’s Girl. I don’t know if the DJ picked it on purpose, or they just run an automated playlist, but I thought it was one of the best answers yet!
Would that combination get you “I went to bed in ‘The Cars’ shirt, but I woke up with My Best Friend’s Girl”?
You got it!
Haha, nice. That is a fun game
Geeze, I gotta make sure never to wear a Daft Punk shirt to bed, I’ll wake up Around the World.
Get yourself a ZZ Top tee, you’ll wake up a sharp dressed man!
Or cheap sunglasses.
in high school we had a trip going to New York and on the first day the bus they had us in kept randomly playing jazz for a second or so at a time and it happened right after just about every joke we made that day.
Some years ago I’ve been to a blink182 open air concert with a girl I liked. And just when the chorus of the song „always“ started, warm Summer rain began to fall. It was amazing!
If you keep Pantera’s Walk on shuffle you’ll occasionally get the exceptional experience of it coming on as the light changes.
