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Opening Up My Time Capsule
If you’re a Spotify user, you probably spent significant time at the end of September browsing through – if not listening to – your Time Capsule playlist. Time Capsules are personalized playlists meant to capture roughly 2 hours of nostalgia for your teens and early 20s.
I took a quick glance at my Time Capsule when it launched in September but stopped myself because I wanted to give it the time it truly deserved; to listen through and really feel the songs to see which ones evoked some kind of memory for me.
Well, I didn’t think it would take 6 weeks but I’m finally ready to dissect my Time Capsule! Below are 10 highlights that really stood out to me. Listen to all the goodness at the bottom.
1. Everclear – So Much For The Afterglow Everclear was, I think, the first concert I went to in high school that involved my friends and I taking the train into the city (no parents!). I pretended I enjoyed it, but I didn’t. I lost my friends early on and spent the rest of the time getting jostled by the crowd. I loved, and still love, Everclear. But that was not fun for me.
2. Green Day – Basket Case Another amazing song but this suggestion offends me because Dookie came out in 1994 and I was not a teenager then. I’m not as old as you clearly think I am THANKS SPOTIFY.
3. Missy Elliot – Get Ur Freak On Okay I mean I devoted an entire blog post to this song, so.
4. Ben Folds Five – Philosophy Okay this is a little weird because I listened to this song about 6 times today before I even knew I was going to crack my Time Capsule open.
5. The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen I have very explicit memories of singing this song in my 1st period History class as a freshman in high school because it’s a song about freshmen and “we were merely FRESHMEN” and oh, the hilarity.
6. Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun No, no, no. This song came out in 1994 (still not a teenager in that year) and even though I haven’t watched the music video probably since around that time, I remember finding it creepy. The black hole sun was weird.
You know what? I’m going to watch that video right now. For the first time in over 20 years. Excuse me.
OH HELL NO. I made it 30 seconds in and I can’t watch anymore it’s CREEPIER THAN I REMEMBER. The weird faces! Hard pass. Here’s the video in case you want to see it, though, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Ugh.
7. Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine Seriously? I heard of Explosions in the Sky for the first time in 2016. I had no idea they were this old.
8. Missy Elliot – Work It Yep, Missy is on here twice because she deserves it. I used to love singing this song in college and hearing one friend in particular make a very concerted effort to sing the backwards parts.
9. Counting Crows – Mr. Jones Ah, memories. How I loved singing about “flamingo dancers” before I had ever heard of flamenco.
10. Blackstreet – No Diggity I don’t have a specific memory of this song but it’s a classic. Have you ever met someone who doesn’t like this song? Of course you haven’t. Here are 5 excellent “No Diggity” covers that I compiled a few years ago.
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