Interesting question. As much as I hate the whole Movement album (nearly the whole anyway), i still associate it with a trip to Lake Tahoe, CA in the Summer of '90. I was buying up all their albums that spring and that summer, and the album fit my irritable move. I was truly in love for the first time and I had been dragged on a trip a week or two after we had started dating, so the album fit my gloomy mood, wondering around the mountains that summer.
PCL-Age of Consent goes back to memories of riding my bike that summer, listening to what I considered the most stunningly beautiful musical bridge I'd ever heard. I absolutely adored it. I still remember listening to The Village, and 5 8 6 while going to play baseball with some of my teenage friends. It's locked in with a memory of my cousin swinging the bat at a lighter and having it explode, now that was a lesson in stupidity for my cousin, and the soundtrack was 5 8 6. Perfect.
Low-Life I bought it on a cloudy summer day and listened to it in the mall, and as I rode my bike back home, I remember being stunned by Love Vigilantees. Was this New Order? It sounded so bizarre for the band. and then hearing Elegia, all I could wonder is whether it was written for Ian Curtis, as I perused a newspaper while eating some Fried Rice at the Mall Chinese place. At that stage I knew next to nothing about the band, and so every song was a possible tidbit of historical knowledge. I still didn't even know what the band looked like until I bought that album, and after I bought it I guessed a great deal over who was who in the pictures, at the time I thought the Lowlife photo of Stephen Morris, was actually Sumner (as it was on the cover).
Weirdo and Technique-I bought both right before a trip to Hawaii and they were the soundtrack to that entire trip. I still vividly remember listening to Run and Mr.Disco as we drove by the beach late one night in Maui, thinking about this girl I was madly in love with (later on my description of Movement would refer to her). Run and Mr. Disco would later be the soundtrack to my walks to school every morning of the last few months of my freshmen year in school as well. Mr. Disco's lyrics would later prove signifigant in starting up a relationship too.
Other memories-Listening to Regret for the first time before track practice was incredible. Listening to Everything gone Green while working out was an interesting experience, trying for eight months to figure out certain lyrics in Temptation (thoughts from above get the people down below. I could not figure that out until a friend figured it out for me). Going from complete disinterest in Thieves Like Us, to listening to it in the rain while walking home in the winters of '90-'91 and becoming obsessed with it. Riding my bike early fall mornings while listening to Mesh and Procession (at least as labeled on Substance) but my best memories of all, were of often running in the summer of '90 in the coastal hills of California while listening to Substance Disc2, I used to time it so I'd hit 1963 right as I reached the peak of this 1500 foot tall hill/mountain that overlooked the bay area from the peninsula side. It was just amazing.
Get Ready-not worth mentioning because I bought it on 9/12/01 after taking my parents to a train station. It was a horrible day and really colored my interpretation and memories of the album in its entirety. I'll never be able to listen to it cleanly.
Nearly every song is tied to some memory, heck, even Lonesome Tonight and Leave Me Alone are tied to late night sadness, and going to sleep. The band has songs that can capture any emotion, and can illustrate nearly any movie. Even BLT is extraordinary in creating memories, particularly of the dance floor in high school days, and in going clubbing. I could babble on, but this is punishment enough for all of you.
