WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE ABOUT THE RELATED SONG BY METALLICA

The Memory Remains" is a song by Metallica from their 1997 album ReLoad. It was first performed live in a "jam" version on July 2, 1996.[1] The song is about a once-great, now forgotten celebrity who is desperate to regain her fame but is driven half-mad with her obscurity. It may be a reference to the film Sunset Boulevard.
The song was the first single from the album. It was written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich and featured British singer/actress Marianne Faithfull as a guest vocalist. When played live, the band encourages the fans to sing Marianne's parts. It also contains lines spoken by Marianne taken from the Marilyn Monroe movie The Misfits ("Say yes... at least say hello...").
Contents[hide]
1 Other versions
1.1 Covers
2 Chart performance
3 Music video
4 Track listing
5 References
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[edit] Other versions
The song was performed on the December 6, 1997 edition of Saturday Night Live when Metallica was the musical guest along with Faithfull. It was later performed with the San Francisco Symphony (conducted by Michael Kamen) on S&M.

[edit] Covers
Several bands have covered the song, including The Kovenant, Spleen, Iron Horse and The Stanford Harmonics.
Dan Scarpa also recorded two versions of the song on his 2004 album, Dan Scarpa Experience Volume IV: The Journey Continues. The reprise is almost three minutes of him singing the Marianne's part a'cappella.

[edit] Chart performance
The single would prove to be successful, hitting #28 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #13 on the UK Singles Chart. It would be Metallica's last appearance in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 until 2008's "The Day That Never Comes".

[edit] Music video
The "Memory Remains" music video features a surreal, anti-gravity concept. It has the band playing on a large, suspended platform that makes full, continuous rotations throughout performance, similar to that of an enormous swing. Faithfull is eventually seen singing in a dark corridor. In reality, the platform and band are stationary and the room is spinning around it.
According to Encyclopedia Metallica, the video was shot at the Van Nuys Airport and cost $400,000 with the large platform costing over $100,000. The video premiered on MTV's Mattrock on November 15, 1997.[1]
There exist two versions of the music video, with a small difference in the beginning 5 seconds. In one version, James Hetfield is shown playing guitar, while in the other one Jason Newsted is shown playing bass and smiling.

METALLICA!!!!!

tHIS SONG IS REALLY INTERESTING IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED SO FAR. IT SEEMS THAT MEMORIES NOT ONLY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO HELP CREATE WHO WE ARE BUT THE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DRIVE US TO THE POINT OF INSANITY. THE ONLY TIME WE WILL BE FREE FROM OUR MEMORIES AND INSANITY IS WHEN IT FADES TO BLACK AND WE NO LONGER CEASE TO BE.

THE MEMORY REMAINS BY METALLICA

Fortune, fameMirror vain
Gone insane
But the memory remains

Heavy rings on fingers wave
Another star denies the grave
See the nowhere crowd
Cry the nowhere cheers of honor

Like twisted vines that grow
Hide and swallow mansions whole
In light of an already
Faded prima donna

Fortune, fameMirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fameMirror vainGone insane...
But the memory remains

Heavy rings hold cigarettes
Up to lips that time forgets
While the hollywood sun
sets Behind your back

And cant the band play on
Just listen, they play my song
Ash to ashDust to dust
Fade to black

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Dance little tin goddess

Nananananana nananada nananananana nanananadana
Nananananana nananada nananananana nanananadana

Drift away
Fade away
Little tin goddess

Ash to ash
Dust to dust
Fade to black

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...But the memory remains

Ash to ash
Dust to dust
Fade to black...
But the memory remains

Faded prima donna
Dance little tin goddess dance

More class notes

1. READ CLASSMATES BLOGS AND REPLY TO THEM! IF NOT YOU MIGHT JUST DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!
2. ONG SAID IN HIS BOOK THAT WE INTERNALIZE TO MANY WORDS. IN A SENSE WE ARE WORD DRUNK.
3. ODDIN WANTS TO KNOW HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK? HIS ANSWER IS TO SEE WHAT I SAY!
4. ONG AGAIN: TALKS ABOUT TWO THINGS: CHIROGRAPHIC (WRITING) AND TYPOGRAPHIC (WRITING)
5. MARSHELL MCKLUEEN SAID TECHNOLOGY IS AN EXTENSION OF ONES BODY
6. EPISTIOLARY CULTURE IS A CULTURE OF LETTERS
7. ROLAND BALTZ TALKED ABOUT THE PLEASURE OF A TEXT
8. KNOW HOW TO CONNECT FINNIGANS WAKE BY JOYCE TO MARSHELL MCKLUEEN.
9. ONG SAYS TELEPHONE IS TECHNOLOGY. WE DO NOT REALIZE THIS BECAUSE WE INTERNALIZE TECHNOLOGY AND IT BECOMES NATURAL TO US. IT IS JUST THE WAY WE DO THINGS.
10. THE T.V VERSUS RADIO CONTROVERSY!: T.V TAKES AWAY IMAGINATION
11. IMPORTANT IMAGERY: ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN AND THE TYPEWRITER SCENE
12. LUDDISM: NOT LIKING TECHNOLOGY (YOU JUST MIGHT BE A LUDDITE IF YOU HATE TECHNOLOGY). THE TERM COMES FROM KING LUDD
13. PP.34 OF ONG IS A BIG ONE: REMEMBER TO THINK MEMORABLE THOUGHTS!
14. PLATO: THE SYMPOSIOUM ATTACKS WRITING. WHEN YOU WRITE IT YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER IT. THE ONLY AUTHENTIC DEVICE IS ORAL TRADITIONS!
15. SECOND ORALITY: EVEN IF YOU ARE ILLITERATE YOU LIVE IN A LITERATE SOCIETY. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE WORLD AS BEING PRIMARILY ORAL! WHY IS THIS? WRITING CHANGES OUR CONCOUSNESS. LISA FROM OUR CLASS HAD A WONDERFUL STORY ABOUT A ILLITERATE RELATIVE THAT IS SHARP AS A TAC!
16. YATES SAID SOMETIMES THE MOST AWEFUL THINGS STAND OUT IN OUR MIND AND ARE MEMORABLE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (PROFESSOR SEXSON ANNOUNCED IT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) OR 9/11. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE HORRIBLE THOUGH, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE WE WERE WHEN OBAMA WAS SWORN INTO OFFICE.
17. SYMULOCHRUM (SPELLING?) IS A REPRESENTATION LIKE BENS LEGO CABIN IS A REPRESENTATION OF HIS CABIN IN ALASKA.
18. TRY AND MAKE EVERY DAY MEMORABLE DAMN IT!
19. MEMORY IS LIKE A PALACE WITH LOTS OF ROOMS
20. SHANNONS EARLIEST MEMORE WAS BEING STRANDED IN HER BACKYARD AND HER DAD SAVED HER. WHAT HE WAS REALLY DOING WAS MAKING A VIDEO OF HOW GOSH DARN ADDORABLE SHE IS. WE FOUND OUT THOUGH THAT THIS WASN'T HER EARLIEST MEMORY, SHE JUST REMEMBERED THE VIDEO NOT THE ACTUAL EVENT.
21. SUTTER AGAIN AND HIS RENAGADE BLOGGER. SAM (HIS GIRLFRIEND, ON A GOOD DAY, WROTE A BLOG ABOUT PLATO).
22. TEST 1 IS FEBUARY 20TH. THE SAME DAY AS JON NAE'S 21RST BDAY!

My memory palace

In class you told us we needed to think about the first house I grew up in....for me that is easier said then done. My family was very migrational for a while...when I was five I lived in Delta Junction Alaska...I do remember listening to Neil Diamond all the way up in our Blue and white full size van. The van seated 7 people. The interior was all blue...it wasn't the prettiest van in the world which just proves Yates right (sometimes what we remeber is the ugly and horrible). The event itself wasn't horrible but the memory of the van was not visually pleasing. Back to the subject at hand though, my first house I remember was the house we lived in when I was 7-8ish. It was a small three bedroom house in my hometown of Geraldine MT. When you walk up to the house you have to take three steps to get onto the deck then approximatly 5 steps from there to the door. As soon as you enter through the door, you are in the living room. In the living room there is a fixed fireplace on the far north wall. The fireplace is all metal. Directly behind the living room (in the middle of the house but south of the livingroom) is the kitchen. There is a fixed bar area directly south of the living room which seperates the two rooms. On the east side of the kitchen was the sink. South of the Kitchen was a family room with two bedrooms attached to them on the west side. One of these was my beedroom and one was for my little sister (the wicked witch in Childrens lit presentation). The rooms were small, my bed was on the west side of the room. Now that I think about it, the rooms were not that small, I just had a ginormous (portmanteau?) king size water bed that had a massive oak head board on it. I mean this sucker was huge! It had a full mirror in it compartments to place things in, (much like our memory palaces will have), and drawers underneath the mattress. My do I miss that bed. The memory is making me nastaulgic for it! You knew this was going to happen though didn't you professor Sexson? You are a clever one!

Class notes

-Esotaric- inside information

-Memory Losi-memory by location
1). an unfrequented church
2). usually formed in quiet places
3). 1rst part of memory

- Cicero could repeat 200 law cannons and speaches alone!

-image is the second part of memory

-Primary orality - oral situations primarily
1). no books, no written language, rely on spoken word and memorization

-1rst rule of memory- have a memory teacher like Prospero in Shakespears The Tempest

- learn our class for example
1). Kate Bedoin and her beautiful eyes or Tia and his funny story

-Meme- comprises a unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices; such units or elements transmit from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. The etymology of the term relates to the Greek word mimema for mimic.[1] Memes act as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures.[2]
Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" as a neologism in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) to describe how one might extend evolutionary principles to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, and beliefs (notably religious belief), clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches.[3]
Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (in a manner similar to that of biological evolution) through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Theorists point out that memes which replicate the most effectively spread best, and some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[4]
A field of study called memetics arose in the 1990s exploring the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that scholarship can examine memes empirically. Some commentators question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units (from wikipedia).

-muses and specialities from http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/mgodsandgoddesses/tp/Muses.htm: (pictures at this link)
1). At one time, the Muses were the goddesses of inspiring springs, but they became the representatives of poetry, the arts and science and sources of inspiration. Homer refers to them as one Muse and as many Muses, living on Olympus. Hesiod refers to them as 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who were born in Pieria.
1. Calliope
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Provenance: Muse of Epic Song
Attribute: Wax Tablet
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2. Clio
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Provenance: Muse of history
Attribute: Scroll
3. Euterpe
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Provenance: Muse of lyric song
Attribute: Double flute
4. Melpomene
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Provenance: Muse of tragedy
Attribute: Tragic mask, ivy wreath
5. Terpsichore
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Provenance: Muse of dance
Attribute: Lyre
6. Erato
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Provenance: Muse of erotic poetry
Attribute: Smaller lyre
7. Polyhymnia
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Provenance: Muse of sacred song
Attribute: Depicted veiled and pensive
8. Urania
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Provenance: Muse of astronomy
Attribute: Celestial globe

-pnemonics- memory

-Written language and print is only a few thousand years old!

-Walter Ong "in oral traditions, when you speak it, its gone
1).effemeral(spelling?)- write it down so it isn't gone with the wind

-The oddessuy
1). Penelope and Odiseus engaged in the most erotic act....story telling. Athena extended the night to allow them to do this!

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The first thing that came to my mind after we discussed memory was a wonderful movie called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In this movie two lovers had a horrible breakup and decided the best way they can move on was to try this experimental technology to remove their memory of the past lover. This seemed like a novel idea to both of them but through out the movie they began to realize how their world fell apart without those memories. This got me thinking....how large is our memories in reguards to our identity? Sophia Loren is quoted as saying "“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” In that reguard your memories ARE YOU! They are your pain, they are your happiness, they are your confussion, they are your ugliness and beauty, they are you. I am happy to have the chance to expand my memory and therefore, expand me (Brandon).