Ask HN: Have you ever had a “musical moment”?

Maybe it's a moment that a song'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.

As I sit up tonight working on yet another side project, I found my mind wandering to two such moments.

"Closing Time" 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: "This door won't be open 'til your brothers or your sisters come." Totally changed that song to me.

Another: I was teaching a SharePoint class at a hardware company'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's "Boys of Summer" 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'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't made me want to keep driving past my exit, I would have missed it.

What are some of your "musical moments"?