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Nostalgia in Music Iโ€™ve Never Heard

October 3, 2022
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And you just donโ€™t get it, you keep it copacetic, and you learn to accept it, you know youโ€™re so pathetic.

Those two lines have been echoing endlessly around my skull since listening to this song. Maybe thatโ€™s not such a surprise, though, considering the track is 32 lines long and only 8 of them are NOT some rendition of these words. I canโ€™t complain when then tune is so catchy.

It screams 1990โ€™s alternative rock, like Nirvana and The Offspring had a love child. Sure enough, Illinois band Local H dropped โ€œBound For Floorโ€ in their 1996 album As Good As Dead โ€” and itโ€™s the best song on the album, I will not be hearing otherwise, thank you very much.

I mention the release date because I found something pretty fascinating (to me, at leastโ€ฆ) when listening for the umpteenth time. As I was scrolling through my emails one very boring evening, the song suddenly walloped me with a sledgehammer of nostalgia. Which didnโ€™t feel so odd until I remembered I was not actually alive in the 90โ€™s. I was however alive in the early 2000โ€™s in the back of my dadโ€™s car rocking out to various 90โ€™s rock classics, with a sprinkle of early Guns Nโ€™ Roses for good measure. โ€œBound For The Floorโ€, however โ€” or any Local H song โ€” did not make any appearances back then.

It got me marvelling, with a risk of sounding naff, how powerful music really can be. Some simple sounds can bring me back to my young childhood just because they sound a little similar to some other simple sounds. Iโ€™m aware it shouldnโ€™t shock me as much as it did, and thatโ€™s just how memory works, but it was a fun realisation nonetheless.

If anything, all that underwhelming epiphany did was make me play the song more often. Even now, as Iโ€™m typing this with my playlist on shuffle, Iโ€™m not lying when I say those familar came on in the background.

And you just donโ€™t get it, you keep it copacetic, and you learn to accept it, you know youโ€™re so pathetic.

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