to say some music fills me with dread?

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I’ve always found music particularly evocative - a song is much more likely to make me cry (or be filled with joy!) than a book or even film. This isn’t necessarily at the time, more when I hear songs which remind me of a certain period in my life.

Just heard a song (Gwen Stefani, nothing emosh!) that was out around 2005 and it’s filled me with such utter dread / guilt (I was in an unhappy relationship at that time, cheating too, and living somewhere I found highly isolating and depressing). Can’t shake that mood off now!

Does anyone else have this level of response to music and if so - care to share?

goes off and listens to something with positive memories to reprogramme mind

Tritone; is that what's also known as the devil's interval?

Chumbawamba wrote a song about it.

YANBU

@MarieVanGoethem how sad about Bridge over troubled water, that’s very moving

Morning has Broken was also played at my dear grandmothers funeral so can’t listen to that either, even though she died 25 years ago now.

There's a strange song by the band Queensrÿche called Silent Lucidity which was playing on the car radio in my dad's car on the way to see my grandmother at the hospital when she was dying. My mum was crying in the passenger seat.
I can't listen to it or even think about it without those emotions coming back.

Music and scent affect me in the same way too OP.

Grass cuttings and beer together bring back horrific memories of a sexual assault when I was a teenager.

Supermarket Flowers by Ed Sheeran makes me dissolve into floods of tears, because it got me through after losing my Mum and I heard it today, the anniversary of losing her, and I ran out of Tesco like a fucking twat and sobbed in my car.

Radiohead fill me with dread. Every single song.

I'm so sorry to all of you who can't listen to music because it brings back triggering memories

I absolutely adore Fleetwood Mac but I listened to their Fleetwood Mac album a lot when I first broke up with exH. Listening to it now makes me feel strange; on one hand I feel strangely nostalgic for the optimism and pride I felt when I first plucked up the guts to leave him, but on the other I feel very vulnerable looking back and knowing that was my life.

The album Finally Woken by Jen makes me feel physically sick. I was at the absolutely lowest point of my life when I listened to that.

Yeah I associate songs with a lot of big life events.

My first pregnancy ended in mmc. In between scans to confirm, I convinced myself I just had the dates wrong and all would be good. Sang Ellie Goulding how long will I love you to 'baby' every night. Still think of that pregnancy every time I hear the song.

Hammered Ed Sheeran just before my next pregnancy, son was stillborn. It was when thinking out loud was huge and son had a leg deformity. It makes me laugh now the irony of it so it is nice in a way. I needed a laugh after that.

On a more positive note dd loved Justin bieber sorry when in my tummy, I love it too. She is here and I sometimes play it to her to see if she remembers lol!

I can't listen to Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" ever since it was played at my best friend's funeral. My heartbeat goes all funny, just like it did when I heard he'd died.

But I love to hear the Undertones "Teenage Kicks" as it brings back so many happy memories of him!

@MyMyHeyHey another one here who can’t listen to Fleetwood Mac (amongst others). Rumours is such an emotive album and although I still adore every song, it’s been quite some time since I’ve sat and listened to them for the sheer pleasure of doing so. I went through quite a difficult time a few years back and although I listed to FM prior to that time period, I found the emotions explored in their songs too close to home.

It’s rumoured (see what I did there) that due to the complexity of their interpersonal relationships, the making of that album also put a lot of emotional strain on the members themselves.

Same with places and smells, certain senses sometimes have a way of transporting us back to somewhere we don’t want to be.