Music and Memories

If eyes are the mirrors to the soul, music is the mirror to the heart. Music is my secret shifter. Whether it is agonising pain or numbing despair or heart breaking lonliness, music heals everything. It’s my second love (The first being Rain). My favorite playlist today( 6^th February 2013) includes –

High Hopes by Pink Floyd

Something in the way by Nirvana

Black by Pearl Jam

Silent Lucidity by Queensryche

A Thousand Years by Sting

My Immortal by Evanescence

Boy and the Ghost by Tarja Turunen

A Distance There Is by Theatre of Tragedy

Iris by Goo Goo Dolls

Carnival of Rust by Poets of the Fall

Last Regret by Paradise Lost

Don’t look back in anger by Oasis

Boom, like that by Mark Knopfler

Le Onde by Ludovico Einaudi

 Suzanne by Leonard Cohen

Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron and Wine

If you want me by Marketa Irglova

Never Enough by Epica

When you say nothing at all by Allison Krauss

All I want is you by U2

And that’s just the tip of the ice berg. Some songs stay with us through out the life and some fade away. 20 years from now, when I’ll be reading my blog, this would be a blissful reminder. I would love to know what got left behind. 50 years from now (if I make it), I’ll listen to this playlist once again. I’m sure a lot of forgotten memories would come back. Just like, Vanessa Williams singing 'Save the best for last' reminds me of a heavy downpour 8 years back, Madonna singing 'Words' reminds me of a heavy downpour 9 years back, Bon Jovi singing 'Keep the Faith' reminds me of a heavy downpour 10 years back, James Hetfield singing 'Fuel' reminds me of a heavy downpour 11 years back, it was Westlife, Linkin Park the preceeding years. Heavy downpour? Well, music will only remind you of the associated memories that are precious to you. Memories that made you really happy or really sad. It’s different for different people. So, what’s your favorite music and what’s the story?