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Why do we love the songs we heard when we were teenagers? I was driving to work the other day and a Led Zeppelin song came on the radio, and my mood just turned right around, remembering playing that album when getting ready for work. I was staying with my grandparent's for the summer so I could work at the playhouse across the road, owned by their cousin, and my grandmother didn't ever seem to mind me playing whatever music I wanted in the morning, so my few Led Zeppelin records were in heavy rotation. It was a lovely point in time, for me. Not yet on my own, really, still cradled in the bosom of family, but having a job, getting myself out to it every day, made me feel like I had potential. Hope. And hearing the songs from that time makes me feel hopeful, again.
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A few years ago, I was listening to the radio and a song came on that I sorta ... remembered as it went along, if that makes sense. By the time it got to the chorus I was singing along with happy nostalgia and then suddenly remembered, "Wait! I hate this song!" I was in high school during the disco years, and while I've since learned to appreciate disco for its culture of inclusivity and its rhythmic sophistication, there are still some songs I can't stand, and this was one of them! And yet, just because it was familiar from that time, I was predisposed to like it until I recognized it.