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31 Plays
Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined
(from
The Fragile Disc 1)
30 day song challenge: Day 06 - A song that reminds of you of somewhere
Nine Inch Nails: Just Like You Imagined
There are a lot of songs that are keyed in to specific places, and listening to them again bring up that memory immediately and with great clarity. However most of those memories are specific only in a visual/contextual sense, I don’t actually remember the name of the place.
This song, though - reminds me of a specific stretch of Bloomingdale road, near where I grew up. I was playing a mix tape while driving with my dad. For the first time, ever, he said he really liked something I was listening to, and asked what it was. I immediately freaked out because
- he’d been deriding my music for 18 years, non-stop
- Nine Inch Nails were much derided by fundamentalist christians everywhere, and where the devil-music-du-jour.
I responded that it was Trent Reznor, which seemed to appease him - and wasn’t far off, the mix tape also had Driver Down from Lost Highway.