Music Monday: Whatever You Want

No, it's not DIY this week. ;-) My parents used to play the album this is from on long car trips when I was little and this was my favourite. Until this week it'd been years since I heard it and yet I was singing along the first time through. If only stuff I hear in lectures would hang around in my brain for that long...

On a different tangent, do you think that happy associations can overrule taste to make you like something you would otherwise ignore or dislike?

I have quite a few beloved songs that I learned because they were connected to good times/friends/memories/stories etc. Even one or two that I first heard in fanvids on youtube lol... But what if I'm listening to crap and can't tell because I'm blinded by sentimentality? Does it matter? Actually, I don't really care if that is the case.

On the other hand, there are lots of songs associated with good times that haven't become favourites so maybe this is a case of confirmation bias and I would have liked all these songs even if I'd met them under neutral circumstances. Or maybe all music is enjoyable because of associations and it's just more obvious with some.

Here's 'Whatever You Want' by Status Quo. I'm guessing there's more to this than nostalgia (which is not quite right anyway 'cos I hated long drives) because there are only a couple of tracks on the CD that I still like.