and Words
Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.
Last night as I managed my music library, I shuffled files from one computer to the next. It’s all in how we now manage what spanned hundreds of discs in jewel cases into what fits into a USB flash drive. I watched as the software meticulously scanned each file and folder spanning tens of gigabytes, quietly fetching metadata from the internet to enhance my listening enjoyment. Meanwhile, each album cover magically appeared in my online collection.
Normally, these pictures flash, and I think little of them. While I’ve structured this blog by reminiscing about a memory from music, the trigger is almost always hearing the music, not merely seeing the album cover. However, one album cover causes me to stop and immediately transports me back to a moment, just like a scene from Somewhere in Time. That album was The Maverick’s “From Hell to Paradise”.