Music Memory

[Masato]

Hey all

Funny how a song can bring back such vivid memories. Sometimes a song can bring back a whole wave of sensations and emotion. Cool and weird. Good vid. Nothing exciting but I liked:


This man in this video is from Congo. While in the country, his mother heard a song playing in a Chinese grocer. She liked it so much that the owner gave her a tape with the song, and she played it often. The lyrics from the song are in Mandarin, meaning there were no memorable lyrics.

When the family emigrated from Congo to South Africa, the tape was lost. The man’s mother died soon after – and sadly, the man could never track down the song.

As a cab driver, whenever he had an Asian person in his cab, he’s tried singing the song to see if the person could identify it. No one ever knew. Finally – in this video – the man’s first ever Taiwanese passengers knew the song immediately as a Taiwanese classic.

As the video unfolds, the man reacts to hearing the song after 20 years of searching.

[Masato]

I heard once that the kind of music we like best is whatever we were listening to when we first got laid.

:D

[Som-Pong]

That's pretty cool.