The Power of Song
Sep. 13th, 2010 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackwabbitSo, I don't have too many of those songs where when I hear them they take me back to a certain time or place or whatever.
But there are a few. For example, when I hear YMCA, I see a certain young man dancing on a picnic table at midnight in my mind. (Oh, Tyler...you lovely, lovely boy.) And Dragon*Con 2009 forever cemented a memory with Journey's Don't Stop Believing.
This year, that happened again. I didn't know this until I heard the song in question twice on the radio in the past week. One of my receptionists likes to put on the oldies station, and when "Sha-na-na-na, Sha-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Good Bye!" comes on now, I can only hear Robert O'Reilly and J.G. Hertzler, dressed fully as Gowron and Martok, sing it in Klingon, or at least partially so.
"Sha-na-na-na, Sha-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Q'Apla!"
But there are a few. For example, when I hear YMCA, I see a certain young man dancing on a picnic table at midnight in my mind. (Oh, Tyler...you lovely, lovely boy.) And Dragon*Con 2009 forever cemented a memory with Journey's Don't Stop Believing.
This year, that happened again. I didn't know this until I heard the song in question twice on the radio in the past week. One of my receptionists likes to put on the oldies station, and when "Sha-na-na-na, Sha-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Good Bye!" comes on now, I can only hear Robert O'Reilly and J.G. Hertzler, dressed fully as Gowron and Martok, sing it in Klingon, or at least partially so.
"Sha-na-na-na, Sha-na-na-na, Hey-hey-hey, Q'Apla!"
