Broadway Memories Playlist

(in chronological order starting summer 2011 and ending June 2012)

I did listen to other music in Germany. I swear. I listened to a whole bunch of Adele, I was forced to overhear months of Michael Jackson blasting from my sister’s room and there were a good amount of Call Me Maybe dance outbreaks during the spring. And of course “vamos a la playa” when we went to Spain and “Fever” for about a month after my Jazz test. Mostly though, every time I listen to them these songs bring back incredibly strong and sometimes really nostalgic memories of my year. I remember scarily specific things like when I listen to Let Me Drown from The Wild Party, which I listened to constantly on our Berlin trip, I remember too well the stolen coffee mugs from McDonalds that my friend hid in my purse because apparently “they should not expect us to pay that much for a latté with out throwing in the mug too”. So these are the big ones.

1) Goodbye from Catch Me if You Can-I listened to this on the plane ride from Cincinnati to Bulgaria until my iPod died because I was feeling nostalgic and I though it rang true.

2) Light from Next to Normal: This is the soundtrack I listened to in Bulgaria and Italy and I picked this because it is the happiest song and it was a happy time. And because I’m not going to pick I’m Alive because I don’t have the range to sing along.

3) Man Up from Book of Mormon: This is what I listened to for my first month or so in Germany and this song seems pretty fitting because I had to learn to man up and ask where the bathroom was and that kind of terrifying stuff.

4) Blow Gabriel, Blow from Anything Goes: I would sing this daily around Christmas time last year and it would really freak my host brother out because his name is Gabriel. I think he still doesn’t get why I was singing his name.

5) The Song of Purple Summer from Spring Awakening- I listened to this on repeat my last day in Germany when I was cleaning my room and packing because it wasn’t happy but it wasn’t sad and it seemed to go with the hazy grey weather.

There were many others that whoosh me back and some that are just better but these give me that funny feeling that I am time traveling. So when I need to pretend I am not here thinking about the big chem. lab this is what takes me away. I guess its kinda selfish cause its hard for others to be whooshed back on my memories.