The Mind's Tricks

[andrewducker]

By sheer randomness I'm having a flashback to my teen years and am listening to W.A.S.P.  (yes, yes, I know.)  The first track just finished (The Heretic) and my brain instantly started playing _something_ next.  Something which wasn't the next track - but was instantly obliterated by the actual next track (a cover of The Who's "The Real Me").

So I rewound, listened to the last 20 seconds of the track again, and this time recognised what my brain was expecting - the opening chords of Number Of The Beast.  Clearly, back in 1988(or so) I made a mixtape that followed up W.A.S.P. with Iron Maiden.*

Aaaah, them were the days.

*I wonder if I could use a similar process to put back together the entire album.  Sadly, I suspect that many of the linkages would by now have been entirely overwritten.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Oh God. I just "conducted" the guitar solo to a track I can't have heard in 18 years - remembering each bit seconds before it happened. What else is hiding in my brain???

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I have links like that. Poison's Every Rose... is always followed by G'n'R's Sweet Child of Mine in my head.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me.

I was listening to Bob State's 'In yer face' last week and was most confused when the next track wasn't 'Perfume' by Paris Angels.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Clearly that's all wrong, The Heretic has to be followed by Candlemass (Under the Oak), then Megadeth and King Diamond.
Apparently our brains spent the late 80s in roughly the same place, musically :-)

(somewhat coincidentally, I bought a reissue (I think) of The Headless Children some time recently ... ahh, nostalgia. And a few decent metal tracks ... )

[martling.livejournal.com]

I never really bought any music as a kid, I just sat up late and taped stuff I liked off the radio. So what's even funnier is when I expect to hear a familiar bit of DJ-banter, or a jingle, or get surprised by hearing the actual *start* of the track, rather than coming in a handful of seconds in with a squelchy noise from the moment I hit the record button.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I so get this! I made lots of mix tapes during the 80s - not Iron Maiden or WASP, obviously - and when I hear individual tracks now, I immediately expect the next track on the mix tape to follow.

I'm so analogue...