That's a bit odd Jahn - I would have thought that the Rolling Stones would have been foreign to Sweden.
What you mean, I guess, is that it is not the music you became familiar with in your youth, so it is foreign to your memories.
Now it is not like that. Ever since I started to be able to listening to music I could categorise it in what I resonance with and what I do not resonance with. As for the Rolling Stones, which is a theme for my Jukebox beyond my preferences, it was always that they hit a vein in my emotional body. And these "hits" in my body does not correlate with their hit collection.
For instance I have no resonance with "Satisfaction" which I think is one of their most uninteresting track ever.
I even like the Box Tops and their hit "The Letter". Animals was a great band that I liked, even the B-sides,
The House of the Rising Sun was a favo for a decade and not to forget
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
"We Gotta Get out of This Place"
When it comes down to music I filter between the "real soul" and the "plain music".
I was lucky to have teachers in school that taught me the difference (without knowing it of course).
There was this piano piece called "The Engulfed Cathedral", I had a teacher in French language and he wanted us to listen to Jaques Brel, so he played him on records that he had. This teacher was a very skilled musician and he had his own Trio, playing Jazz and things like that on the weekends.
So once he played that Piano piece of Debussy and I could engage in that performance.
Then some years later we had a lesson in music with a teacher that only teached music. I knew her son, it was a friend of mine. Her family name was Uggla (Owl) and she also wanted to play this Piano piece the Engulfed or Sinking Cathedral.
To my surprise her version was completely flat and without any feeling at all. I could have listening to the rain on my roof instead, it was that little engagement. Having in mind my teacher in French that made that piano piece a memorable session.
