So I have this favourite song, it’s been my favourite song for years upon years and even though my music taste has changed so much, how it doesn’t even relate to that song anymore, how very few songs are like that one in my music library, I still love it… and I think know I always will.
Only today I found out something quite shocking. The first time I ever heard this song was when I went on holiday with my brothers, we had hired a car when we got there only my older brother had forgot to pack our CD collection (yes back then we listened to CD’s and didn’t have iPods, actually we did, but they didn’t plug into cars back then) and we had this one CD that was in my brothers personal CD player… it was a single, not even an album. So for the whole month we were there we drove around listening to this one CD, This one song, and I guess at the time I was 14 and that month for me held more great memories than I had amassed in my entire life up until that point, This one song was the backing track for such amazing memories, and it has continued to be behind the most amazing memories I have, first kiss… first solo adventure… first song I played after getting my own car… the song I played at my 18th. every time there is a moment I know that I will want to remember I’ll put that song on. And strangely that song seems to be playing when some amazing things happen… I remember it randomly came on my iPod the first time I ever saw a shooting star.
I’ve always known that there were two versions of this song, very similar, with very little between them. But nonetheless there are two different versions. So when I got back to the UK after my holiday with my brothers, I got on my computer and downloaded this song, the version I wanted, the version we had spent a month listening to. Only I just found out today it was labeled wrong, it wasn’t the version I wanted. Back then I didn’t used to pay for music so I guess I got what I deserved. Today I received a pair of really lovely, really expensive earphones [In case you didn’t know I’m a total audiophile] and I was listening to this song, and I realised all those years I’ve had this song, the 6802 times I’ve played it, it was the same mp3 that I stole back in 2003, that same low quality, a little grainy track… So I thought I would download a high bit rate version off of iTunes, and when I searched it, it showed the two versions I knew that existed. I decided on a whim to download them both (it is my favourite song after all)… It was only after downloading that I realised that all those years, the memories, I made since with that song… It was the wrong version. So now I’m listening to this song, the version I loved from the moment I heard it, the version that created those amazing memories with my brothers, I’m listening to it with a renewed love. These earphones really help too. Maybe time to go create some timeless memories with this song, the version I love playing in the background.
