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]

By "conducted" you mean "leapt around the room wildly playing air-guitar" but you're too ashamed to admit it?

[andrewducker]

You've never seen me dance, have you? I'm waaaay beyond shame :->

I was trying to sort out a .htaccess problem, so I'm firmly attached to the sofa with a laptop on - and waving my hands in the air to the cool bits :->