The Mind's Tricks
Sep. 29th, 2009 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerBy 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-09-29 12:57 pm (UTC)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 ... )