Ship of Fools: Oddly Appropriate Songs

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Posted by Hugal (# 2734) on :

As I was going into the hospital for a heart test Excerpt from a Teenage Opera came on my play list. Any others had a time when the right song was played?

Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :

There I was on the boat, riding on the swell, on the way out to Lundy. Going through my head? Adele, Rolling in the deep.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

There is a difference between what comes to mind (your own internal response to a situation or frame of mind) and the strange tricks that Fate plays on you (external). I get internal ones a lot, but external ones are much rarer. The oddest external piece of musical synchronicity I ever had was when as a young child I decided to entertain my parents by recreating a small circus starring my teddy bears. For the equestrian act, I was going to turn on the radio and get some music to accompany it.

I duly turned on the radio and to our amazement, a song about a clown in a circus struck up. It couldn't have been better timed.

[ 28. July 2015, 19:44: Message edited by: Ariel ]

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

About 35 years ago, my brother was in a car accident while he was in Philadelphia. Although physically okay, he needed me to drive up from Wilmington to pick him up. And what was playing on the radio as I drove up? Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

This piece of sort-of serendipity will resonate with People Of A Certain Age™.

For a bit of background info: just before D. and I started seeing each other, my mum had been on a flight where the in-flight movie was 10 (the one with Dudley Moore, Bo Derek and Ravel's Bolero).

Fast forward to the evening of our actual first date, and Mum sent me off with the words "have a lovely time, dear, and I hope I don't come back to find you listening to Ravel's Bolero".

Guess what issued forth from the speakers in the restaurant just after our starters arrived ... [Snigger]

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

I was rather nervous as I waited for the porter to arrive to take me down to surgery for my thryoid op. To take my mind of the imminent throat-cutting, I decided to listen to hospital radio.

I was not overly delighted when the first song to be played was "The first cut is the deepest". ! [Eek!]

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

A couple of weeks ago I was doing some particularly energetic lawn mowing (the lawn not being particularly even) with my earphones in. Up popped up 'Push It', followed by 'The Trick is To Keep Breathing' both be band, Garbage.

Does anyone listen to the Kermode and Mayo film review show on R5 Live? There was the story of a man having a hip replacement whilst listening to the podcast. The real-life sawing of bone unfortunately coincided with the clip of building the Ark during the review of 'Noah'.

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