| Jan. 22nd, 2006 @ 03:41 am The Zombies |
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Current Mood:  amused
Current Music: The Zombies - Hung up on a Dream
Strange thing how the world works.
A few months ago, I get this weird bug to listen to some oldies. I flick on the local station, low tech fm radio, no podcast, no NPR, just a local commercial radio station running the same oldies format they must have run since 1979. Anyway, I hear this song, 'She's not There', by the Zombies. I remember hearing it in my childhood, I remember hearing it in movies, on television, somewhere nostalgic, who cares. The point is, this time I actually listened to the song, and something clicked, all of a sudden I had the zombies discography running on my playlist, thier songs migrated into my car, into my workout, insinuated my life. I kind of dug that, because it was like my own little music secret.
Last month I went back to New York, hanging out with Rubin around the Lower East Side. A friend, Rob, is DJing, and he's running through his ipods, just playing great shit all night. He starts off with Bloc Party, drifts through the Yeah Yeah Yeahs into Interpol, stops by the cure for a minute and plows straight through the rest of my typical evening playlist into the fucking shocker, the fucking zombies.
I had to leave the bar, I was bugged out. I mean, it's great to roll into a DJ that has the same taste in music as you, but the exact same, down to the music secret... The next week, I see a write up about the Zombies in some magazine. Who the fuck has listened to the zombies in years?
At first I thought it was a blow to my sense of individuality or some such high school bullshit; but then I realized it actually was, just not in that egotistical high school way, but in the philosophical free will kind of way. I'll keep it terse, I was suddenly and inexplicably a statistic of the universe. |