Revisiting K's Choice

While going through Instagram stories, I came across a friend who had shared a video of a beach back home in Portugal with a song playing in the background. That song was 20,000 seconds by the Belgian band K's Choice.

Instantly I was transported to my teenage years where I would consume their music at a crazy pace. These guys were an absolute joy to listen to.

I remember - roughly - the first time I heard them. The single was Everything for Free and I heard it first in the same way that I would hear most of my music back in the day: Through MTV.

I was such an MTV fan that I would even record VHS tapes with music videos and would leave them playing in the background while I kept busy doing other stuff.

From K's Choice, to Radiohead, Foo Fighters... Lit, Pearl Jam, Offspring and Red Hot Chili Peppers... even Basement Jaxx, Blue Boy (Remember Me?) and OMC (How Bizarre)... these and many more would take over my bedroom, filling my hears with lyrics and melodies that - til this day - I still know by heart.

As K's Choice landed under my radar after god knows how many years, I decided to go on a trip of my own on Spotify and just dump track after track on my playlist.

Skimming through albums such as Paradise in Me, Always Happy and - my personal favorite - Cocoon Crash, I came across epic songs that have made some of my best years in high school.

Believe, Shadow Man, My Head and Not an Addict (likely to be their most popular song) are just a few of the tunes I had the pleasure of revisiting last night and the whole of today.

Each song almost prompted me into auto-pilot mode, delivering lyrics I didn't know I still knew and singing my heart-out just like I did when I was 16 or 17. In those moments, almost in a flash, I was then confronted with so many different stages of that particular time and how their music kept me company.

It was such an experience going through it all... but the best was yet to come.

I shared some of my thoughts on Instagram and even tagged a couple of friends that I remembered of being big fans back in the day. The reaction I got really appealed to a level of nostalgia that I wasn't expecting. I was overwhelmed with friends from different times and walks of life, who started interacting and evoking their own stories and memories, other sharing what the band means to them... while others would simply acknowledge the post, clearly alluding to some sort of significance in their lives.

And to think a simple post of a beach back in Portugal would kick-off such a turmoil...