Dusting off The Turn Options

[kingparamecium]

Since I know many don't care for The Turn or acknowledge it as a Live album, I am not challenging anyone's opinion or taste nor trying to convert anyone. Obviously you're entitled to express your opinions, this isn't a "The Turn" Safe Space.

With that out of the way, this is the perfect time of year for me to listen to The Turn. I'm heavily influenced by memories of an album's original release, where I was in life, the drive to and from buying the CD, etc. So since I got it in October shortly after release, I'm prone to resonate with it in such a way, and my perceptions of the music are eligible for "season" bias,

but man, listening to it in Autumn is a whole different thing. I recall blaring Siren's Call driving on chilly evenings through rust-colored leaves, Don't Run to Wait playing while I cleaned out the garage in the afternoon to make room for Trick or Treat "tailgating" of hot chili and cold beer.

This morning I woke up and sunny and cold, and I went out back and could hear Natural Born Killers and Rodgerton playing in my head, remembering that peaceful but burned out feeling of November 1st, only slightly bummed and hung over that Halloween is over, but welcoming of respite.

So I had to go in and dust off The Turn.

Does anyone else have any personal associations/memories/experiences with the album that cause you to revisit it?

[Ecstatic Fanatic]

I'm heavily influenced by memories of an album's original release, where I was in life, the drive to and from buying the CD, etc.

Really agree with this comment. I know that my personal mindset when I first get into an album (or re-get into it if I didn’t like it the first time around) really impacts my feelings and memories for it.

For The Turn I have to admit the album has really faded from my play list over the years but I still remember it was one of the first albums I bought on Google Play after being rebuffed by every cd selling store in the area that afternoon. I remember it being a colder evening (though that describes Michigan for most of the year) and it seeming to take forever to download.

Of all the live related cd’s (Live, EdK, TGF) this one of the few I don’t have any strong associations with though. I listen to it periodically and maybe some day I will re-get into it. But lyrically I haven’t connected to it with the way I have most of the other albums.

But great post that got me thinking, you definitely win post of the day.

This post has been edited by Ecstatic Fanatic: Nov 1 2021, 9:35 pm