Maybe it&#x27;s a moment that a song&#x27;s meaning or significance suddenly changed in an unexpected way. Perhaps you experienced a perfectly scored scene, where the song that happened to be playing turned something mundane into something sublime. A suddenly surfacing memory of that time when the music you were idly listening to suddenly inspired you to craft an elegant solution to a particularly vexing problem.<p>As I sit up tonight working on yet another side project, I found my mind wandering to two such moments.<p>&quot;Closing Time&quot; by Semisonic: that song was played too much...used in too many B-roll montages of bar closings, breakups and hookups. Then I read an interview with Dan Wilson where he finally explained what the song was about: The birth of his first child. He said it was some of his most clever writing, and nobody seemed to get the reference he thought was obvious: &quot;This door won&#x27;t be open &#x27;til your brothers or your sisters come.&quot; Totally changed that song to me.<p>Another: I was teaching a SharePoint class at a hardware company&#x27;s Chandler, Arizona location. It was a gorgeous summer night, and I had used up some rental credits to get a convertible. When leaving the site for the day, the convertible top rolled down, driving along a desert highway, a cover of Don Henley&#x27;s &quot;Boys of Summer&quot; by The Ataris came up on shuffle. Something about the lyrics, the driving beat and the wide open road.... I drove well past my hotel, well past sunset, and well past civilization to one of the darkest skies I&#x27;ve ever experienced. That night I saw a magazine-cover worthy Milky Way. I saw the zodiacal light, plain as can be. A perfect night sky, and if that song hadn&#x27;t made me want to keep driving past my exit, I would have missed it.<p>What are some of your &quot;musical moments&quot;?
Ask HN: Have you ever had a “musical moment”?