Music

To me music is a link to the past. Honestly, I don't think I could name a favourite band... a band that is constantly on my playlist. I think the band that got the closest to being it was and still is Iron Maiden.
By a link to the past I mean that my favourite music changes constantly. I fall in love with a band and with their music for a week or two and listen to nearly nothing but that band. After that, I hear something else that immediately attracts me and move on to that, and so on and so forth.
The connection to the past is established when I listen to that music after the period of unreasonable craze takes place. It immediately flings me into the time period during which I was into that particular band and sometimes even recalls a specific memory, which, for me, can be quite an adventure, since I don't have the best of memories.
But a familiar melody doesn't neccessarily evoke a memory. Sometimes, which I believe is a more common response amongst people that like listening to music, it evokes a feeling. Not in a way that listening to a sad songs makes me sad and so on but rather recreating a feeling I felt at some point in the past, while listening to that song.

I think one of my favourite songs of all time would be Wasted Years by Iron Maiden. When it goes off, I am taken back into that bus, making its way to Flekke through the night, on those small Norweigan roads. It brings back the excitement of something new to come. The expectation of a great adventure and at the same time the saddness at leaving the old life behind for an indefinite ammount of time. This description might sound sad but I think nostalgia is the preffered term I would use here, not saddness. The kind of nostalgia that lead into a lot of both beautiful and painful moments.

The music I am currently listening to is Jimmy Eat World.
Here's links to some of their songs I like:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Eh5Ww01cg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8Dnd40EF8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AViBFyyBSG0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wU3KBI5qyEY&feature=related

P.S.: Just realised that my trial version of Smart Draw expired. Need to come up with another way of finishing my project. Annoying.