Despite what M. Night Shyamalan might want us to believe about "The Sixth Sense", most of us experience life through FIVE SENSES: Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing and Sight. Listening to music is about more than just hearing it. Great music will evoke other senses. It might remind us of a love at first sight, or the touch of a loved one, the taste of fine wine (or beer), and the smell of a sea breeze. Let's explore some of those songs that reference our Five Senses.
Today let's consider the Sense of Smell. We remember smells, like the smell of chicken frying in your grandmother's kitchen, the smell of our first new car, or the scent of our lover's perfume/cologne. Odor information is stored in long-term memory and has strong connections to emotional memory. Our brains are hard-wired to relate smells to certain memories because our olfactory system has close anatomical ties to the limbic system and the hippocampus, areas of the brain that are involved in emotion and place memory, respectively. However it works, smells can be good or bad.
Here are some songs dealing with SMELL:
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO3OMGKPpw
“Smells Like Nirvana” by Weird Al Yankovic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnuHJZMdako
“Smelling Like Ed Asner” by The Vestibules
click on the icon which looks like a speaker & a musical note to hear
www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=12128
“Love Stinks” by J. Geils Band
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GluCM_ggMvw
“Love Stinks” sung by Adam Sandler in “The Wedding Singer”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhRMeiyret0
“Odorono” by The Who
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABwXi4M3PX8
“My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don’t Love Jesus” by Jimmy Buffett
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpk8W9XlWEk
“That Smell” by Lynyrd Skynyrd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6q9nBusrq8
“Stinkfoot” by Frank Zappa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FBQ1O5F8k
What's your favorite smell?
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