Music as a Time Machine

As I got ready for work this morning, I was listening to SKY 104 and our interim morning man played U2's 'With ot Without You,' which is from 1987's album The Joshua Tree. I all of a sudden was back living in California and attedning The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

So I got to thinking about how music transforms you to a previous time and place. Everytime I hear Dan Fogelberg's Longer, I'm taken back to my wedding day.

Longer

Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens
I've been in love with you
Stronger than any mountain cathedral
Truer than any tree ever grew
Deeper than any forest primeval
I am in love with you

I'll bring fire in the winters
You'll send showers in the springs
We'll fly through the falls and summers
With love on our wings

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow
Burning lines in the book of our lives
Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow
I'll be in love with you
I'll be in love with you
Repeat First Verse
I am in love with you

When I hear the Eagles, I'm back in my Dad's car traveling to Aitkin to go hunting for the weekend. When I hear Neil Diamond's 'What a Beautiful Noise' I'm taken back to driving through Utah with my Mom when I moved to California.

Music does this everyday. One of the great things about music and working in radio. We transport people into the past.

On my Mom's blog, judyslife.blogspot.com, she has been walking down memory lane this week and she has been doing that by posting pictures and having music added to her blog.

AJ