Double Nostalgia

In the past couple of days I've been hit by two very welcome bouts of nostalgia.

The year is maybe 1995, I'm around 11 years old and, among other things, I'm obsessed with Eros Ramazotti. Cose Della Vita plays constantly on the radio and I keep sending letters to one radio station to try and win a ticket to his show. CDs are a relatively new thing for me, and Tutte Storie features proudly as one of my very few personal collection.

I've lost count of how many times I've listened to it during all these years. It wasn't until 1997 when I went to Italy that the lyrics started to make a little sense to me, and thus the album gained a whole new meaning in my life. 

Not unironically, the song that came to my mind yesterday is called Nostalsong. Today I listened to the whole album twice, singing along to all the songs. Who said we tend to abandon the things we liked as a child when we get older?

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My story with Songs of Faith and Devotion goes a bit different, a bit deeper, a bit sadder. It was my first contact with Depeche Mode, back when MTV was a thing, and I was a wee thing too. Yes I fell in love with shirtless, long haired Dave Gahan, not gonna lie, but the song and the video clip were bangers too. 

Cut to teenage me, depressed to the bones, all gothic vibes, falling in love all over again with DM. I had others DM albuns by the time I bought this one, but this was special, because it was the one that made me fall in love with the band.

And somehow, along the way, One Caress became my favorite song in their whole discography, even to this day.

I don't listen to DM as much as I did during my teens and my 20s, but it remains one of my favorite bands of all time. It got me through thick and thin. And sometimes when I'm in a better mood the songs come to me in a whole 'nother light. 

CDs were such a cool thing, weren't they? I love listening to my tiny collection from time to time, especially when they're not on spotify, which sometimes happen. Opening the booklet and finding all the lyrics, cool pictures, the nostalgia that comes with it, a way back to times long gone.