Music = memories for me and many others. What is one song that instantly brings back a past experience, moment or person? Share why.
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White Christmas-ONLY by Bing.
It seems like the music of high school and college brings back so many memories.
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Wish I could give you 100 thumbs up on Dark Side Of the Moon.
“Breathe (in the air)” brings back so many memories.
This song = summer time, first crush, no worries, all I needed was gas for my dirt bike…
Love Baker Street….
Beautiful songs like this today are non-existent.
Another part of life that has been stolen from Americans.
Now they look to rap for fulfillment.
As the decline continues on………
There is so much great music being made right now.
You just can’t look for it in the sewage of pop culture.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=waAlgFq9Xq8
I have no idea how those songs got there, those aren’t the ones intended to be linked to.
Not going to bother correcting it though.
Neil may well be a sell out POS for Big Pharma, but this one brings back a tsunami of memories..Ironically.
The needle and the damage done. No shit.
My stepson’s name is Vincent and this song fits in many ways.
Great song. Not sure I ever knew the name. Good memories.
Great one..
Lots of good memories with amazing people listening to this music while backpacking the Colorado Rockies. Went on long trips often, connecting with nature…imagine showering in a freezing cold waterfall. Quite the experience. Sitting around the fire with good music, good friends, and great conversation. Miss it all so very much.
The opening lyrics — ‘he was born in the summer of his 27th year’ … well, that was all about my life with an amazing woman (and her daughter) that I ended up living with for 2 1/2 years.
She didn’t stay long enough — but, in those heydays of our college lives together — well, it was the stuff of which dreams are made and fulfilled.
She helped me to become the man I became — so that I could be a better person and a better man with the women I later met …
She’ll turn 80 this year (I’ll be 75) … and I still cherish those years since our meeting in 1973 …
Also love Country Roads, listed to both when I was in the hospital…
16 was a magic time…
Indeed, the entire album.
I had a girlfriend who was in a Bob Seeger tribute band.
Because I grew up right here and the grass was almost always green, except in Winter.
I took this photo just the other day, it seems like.
My dad’s favorite song.
Fame, David Bowie – 1975. Memphis (Millington) late one sweltering summer evening in the barracks w/ my 3 roomies. One stereo feeding into my stereo w/Bose speakers, booming. We were on our bunks, stoned, getting through the night. It was the epitomy of that time, and when I hear that song every detail is as clear as as if I was still there.
too many to list – the vast majority make me happy, but a few can make me cry
Songs that I listened to while growing up. The late sixties and early seventies top 40 stuff. Motown and Rock and country.
Dust in the Wind….
We used to go on church retreats in my youth (not to be confused with my”misspent youth” which occurred the following decade). We’d listen to a lot of cassettes in our free time and I had a huge crush on this one girl who also happened to be the pastor’s daughter.
She really struggled with her faith, family and struggles of being a normal teen girl. When she was 21 she committed suicide and this song has always been a haunting, yet sweet reminder of her and carefree times.
I never told her I had the hots for her . She was 2 years older than me and that was ages for a junior high kid and a high school girl.
You are not forgotten Liz J.
At the moment, Fell on Black Days. It wasn’t the first SoundGarden/Chris Cornell song I heard (I had heard Birth Ritual from the Singles soundtrack, and Black Hole Sun dropped on the radio first) but it was stunning in just how great it was.
I’ve listened to this lady–she’s an opera singer–discuss a lot of Grunge songs and this is by far my favorite also. Plus, I’m trying to work out how to play it. Easy to play, actually, very difficult to play and sing.
Boston – More than a feeling, but all the songs I see mentioned provide similar memory recall. Seems like yesterday.
With each artist I go through their catalog and memories of others songs come up too…leading to other songs from the same time period, etc.
Having DJ’ed for 50 years it is very difficult to name one. I’ll try…..”If”, by Bread.
Everything I Own is Gates’ best, IMO. About his dad. I believe he is a normal person. Same wife for 62 years (since he was 18). They live on a ranch in WA state.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer – From the beginning
50 years later, it still gives me goose bumps
OOOO what lucky man, you are…..
Some high school break-up weepers for the ladies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z2hmz2NlYQ
Sim[ply Red has some awesome albums. Great choice
How about The Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America?
Maybe God Bless America, but the other was a war anthem when written, about our first war of attempted imperial conquest over Canada, and has been little more than a symbol of our imperialism ever since. Sorry, a national anthem should celebrate the nation and what it has to offer, not honor war and all that it destroys (including domestic freedoms).
“Bombs bursting in air”
What a despicable load of brainwashing crap glorifying violence hitting kids from the start.
And this one always. It just has the feel of Nostalgia.
American Pie.
Brings up good memories of long ago, and is a great sing along with,
when cruising along in a car on a sunny Summer day.
Admin did a great write up on this one, about 4 years ago, IIRC.
Like others have said, there are many tunes that make me nostalgic.
The Seger album, and Boston’s 1st album were mainstays during party days, right out of high school.
Dixie Land
Time machine, not nostalgia, back to ’73. The out in the sticks Water Wheel swimming pool, covered “pavilion” had a few itty-bitty pool tables, some pinball machines, & a jukebox that Drift Away, Dobie Gray, played on. Little brother, long gone, nearly got me into a scrap with too many bigger opponents at that cement pond. Saw a girl in a bikini there like it was the first time, but it was definitely the first time I noticed how well this particular gal was fitted to her barely there bathing suit. Sticky hormones glue the music in.
My swimming pool pavilion pin ball arcade song is Cold As Ice. Hearing it always takes me right back to the pavilion and all the other kids hanging out.
Can you believe the direction this band took after such a great album as 4? Indeed, a great song.
One … Three Dog Night
is the loneliest number…
Must Let The Show Go On!
The opening riff and it all comes flooding back..
Chicago “Old Days” of course.
Here’s an outlier in that this tune predates me, yet evokes something sadly lost.
Chasing my first love across the state to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croom-A-Coochee%2C_Florida
Good times, best of times.
Lots of great 70s AM radio classics – no specific memories, just good ones
Outstanding saxophone solo
Just good poetry
just a fun song
one particular psychedelic experience
This on always brings a flood of memories back.
Just getting really interested in girls, figuring out
how to (try) to be cool.
And if you would like a bluegrass version, this is SOOO good.
I always liked Baker Street,played non stop in junior high cafeteria!
The lead guitar was pretty simplistic yet soulful.
That said,as a Tull fan,always wondered what if any tie in with Tull’s Baker Street Muse from 1975,never figured out what if any connection!
Juice Newton…”The Sweetest Thing”.
This should make the top ten!
Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” always takes me back to high school, eight-tracks, and high speeds on lonely roads.
But, one time, early in my marriage, the wife and I were coming home from a trip that involved a 6 hour time change, three layovers, and a very, very long drive home. Needless to say, we were exhausted and then the fight started. During an angry silence, this song came on and I cranked it all the way up and the rig I owned at the time had a custom kick-ass sound system. We both began
singingyelling the words and by the end, we were quietly exhausted but also laughing.It turned a bad argument into a good memory. All because of an eighties hair band and a good sound system. In my mind, it was just more proof of anything being possible at any given time.
Though it could be said about many of the hair band artists, their lead singer seriously looked like a woman, and a creepy one at that. Good music though.
MrLiberty: — Really? I never thought that Brad Delp “looked like a woman.”
I put my comment under the Cinderella song posting, not the Boston one. As for Tom Keifer of Cinderella…..judges???
Unforgettable: — Boston is considered a seventies band.
Steve,
Different times, separate nostalgia. And I never considered Boston to be a hair band. Only 80s groups.
Extremely gifted musicians. Never quite connected but I sure appreciated how talented they are.
Wild horses…
No offense…but you all old as fuck!
Says someone to you one day. Never forget.
See You in September by The Happenings
1966
https://www.google.com/search?q=see+you+in+september+youtube&oq=see+you+in.septe&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0i22i30l4.8580j1j7&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f8218988,vid:7JQS6H2AXdM,st:0
See you in September by The Happenings
1966
1988 – Princeton Bar and Grille at 1:50 am on a Friday or Saturday night they would play the last song of the night – American Pie.
Everyone in the bar was drunk and would sing the along at the top of their lungs. Whenever I hear that song I’m transported back to those good times.
Liked the song so much, I wrote an article about it in 2009.
That was a great article, for those who never read it.
Easily my 2nd choice, listen to it often. I used to jog on the levee listening to American Pie.
You must be a few years older than me. Here’s a tune that still closes bars in my mind.
Check, a “music thread”. More laid back than the pounding of the drums and all the things going on in this world. Not that I don’t care about current events, it’s just that I’m probably not going to “change the world”. This could be a long list.
#1) —- Christmas eve, usually around 8PM, our little family sitting close to the Christmas tree (because we had REAL CANDLES burning on that dry tree! lol), and all of us singing “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht”. I still to this day get tears (of joy) in my old eyes when I hear Silent Night sung in German on Christmas Eve.
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#2) —- There I was, at Newark Airport, bags in hand, my tall gorgeous red-headed girlfriend clinging to me crying her eyes out, me getting ready to board the airplane, heading to Lackland AFB for basic training and over the loudspeakers they play LEAVING ON A JET PLANE DON’T KNOW WHEN I’LL BE BACK AGAIN!!!! Not kidding, and that song depressed the hell out of me for decades after!
Great question!
One of the awesome songs of the 60’s, touches my heart every time I hear or sing it. https://www.bing.com/videos/searchq=the+tide+rushes+in+moody+blues&view=detail&mid=F28C23963FE02FDD6D20F28C23963FE02FDD6D20&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dthe%2btide%2brushes%2bin%2bmoody%2bblues%26form%3dANNNB1%26refig%3dbf6926ce935b4be2bc4cac74dbe9fbd6%26sp%3d2%26qs%3dSC%26pq%3dtyhe%2btide%2brushes%2bin.%26sk%3dPRES1SC1%26sc%3d5-20%26cvid%3dbf6926ce935b4be2bc4cac74dbe9fbd6“
The tide rushes in by the Moody Blues. It would not link.
It’s odd, but this morning I had a hankering to listen to Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning.”
I don’t normally listen to sad songs, but this one always blew me away.
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So much magnificent music/musicians during the 7os and 80s, it boggles the mind.
You and Me, by Alice Cooper.
I have posted this song over again, across other threads where appropriate. For me, Admin, I am so grateful to my wonderful father who was a cobbler by trade but also a thinker and a philosopher. As an example of his wisdom, here is a short anecdote:
When I was only 7 years old I asked Dad, “What’s this thing they call God?” He replied: “Go out in the day and see all of nature, the birds, the insects, the flowers and the massive extent of creation. And then, in the night – go out and look up – see the immensity of the universe, the stars, the magic of the moon shining its ghostly light across the fields.
Then son, come back to me and ask me if you think you are the greatest thing in the universe. Clearly my answer was a definite ‘NO’. Then son, he said: “There must be something greater than you in the universe, and that is what some people call God”. QED
Then I grew up and at the tender age of 21 found myself attached to HMG War Office and came close to volunteering for Vietnam because at that time, with the exuberance of youth, I wanted to kill Reds. I consulted my father who advised that he himself had been a Conscientious Objector during the war and would always refuse to take up arms against his fellow man – for down this path lies pain, suffering and destruction.
I thought long and hard and coincidentally the Animals released this in 1965 – and I shall ever be grateful to have been reminded of my life-changing decision. So I left HMG to their wars and returned to selling cars – my love of the time:
So now, in 2022, I gotta get outta this shitty little island soon before they come and take me away – again!
I recall Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.
Napoleon XIV, honestly a first.
Aoything sang by Hope Sandoval…the music me and my girlfriend who was murdered used to drift off to sleep to…
John Prine. True story.
“God Bless America”.
BL , I’m guessing that’s “sarcasm”. I’m not from that part of the country. True story and we know how it goes, as long as it’s someone else that gets jacked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise%2C_Kentucky
It’ll be back in vogue with a vengeance. most likely. Soon?
I will say riding me 10 speed to the next town and their record shop was Tull’s”Warchild ” album and Areosmith “Toys In The Attic”
That said,though being a Boston boy Tull was always me favorite!
I grew up in a suburban country side river household outside of Boston& listened to classical since a very young age.
My dad though a financial big wig to a large degree(cover of Forbes in 70’s) was also a pianist who was one note short of being a concert player(his 2nd wife was a lead in BSO).
He had no problem with me being into rock and thru the decades in 70’s/early 80’s got me top seats for any concert I wanted.
He also realized a lot of friends though in a rich town were in trying financial family times and thus got me tickets for them also!
I saw from 1975 onward many a great show(the first was Tull in 1975 @ 12/with weekend babysitters!),didn’t tell me folks till many years later!
I believe the largest gathering for friends was Bowie in 1978 with the “Station To Station “tour,10 seats in 12th row!
I have thru the decades seen over 600 concerts but will always be grateful to me dad who set that train and me being in a band in motion!
The only shows I missed was Skynard by 2 weeks due to crash/Zepplin by a month or two due to drowning drunk/T-Rex due to car accident,sigh……
Thanks dad/RIP/and will see ya’s on the others ide!
I see Woody Guthrie had a song listed, I will follow that one up with one from his son Arlo, with The City of New Orleans”
Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” brings back memories of an earlier time. One in which we may have a chance to experience.
“Flying into Los Angeleeeze,
Bringing in a couple of keys.
Don’t touch my bags if you please
Mr. customs man..”
It was a toss up between this one and Tragedy, by the Bee Gees. Both bring back memories of fun at the roller rink.
So many tragedies in that family.
Ok