Songs linked to your memories

[HEIRESS]

Ive been listening to "Ooh whatcha gonna do" by Run DMC all tonight and its been making me smile because it brings back awesome memories of my 19th birthday

whenever we were in a car that night it was on repeat the whole time
and as I got drunker and drunker I started yelling out "NEVER LET A PUNK GET AWAY WITH MURDERRRRR" atleast every five minutes
I dont think the casino staff appreciated it

seriously though, fucking awesome song
Gun shots, gun shots, all you heard-a

[i'mcrafty]

"help me Rhonda" and oldies song that i heard when i came to after an major car accident!

now that songs scares the shit out of me!

(not that i ever really liked it to begin with)

[HEIRESS]

maybe I should have specified happy memories

that's intense crafty!

sidenote:

I have a mix CD that i made after my last breakup in a period of depression, and my friend randomly borrowed it one time and said it made her want to kill herself after listening to it
SUCCESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Sandinista!]

Speaking of break ups and depression, The Clash's "Train in Vain (Stand by Me)" will always remind me of the post-being-dumped period.

[Hector_Sancho]

Any Beatles song really. Because my mom really likes The Beatles, she has since she was really young, and I remember when I was little, before I was in school, she would listen to the tapes when I was in the car with her. So whenever I hear a Beatles song I think of my mom.

[mickill]

The Weight by The Band.

It reminds me of a Travis concert, though. It's not because they put on the best show ever or anything, but because everybody I was with was so drunk at the show that we were all hanging off of one another singing along quite loud while they covered the song (quite well, I should add). It was sort of a unique moment, I guess.

[Sandinista!]

Conversely, my the jovial memories seem to revolve around Spandau Ballet's "True."

[jennyb]

Helen Reddy, ABBA, and The Carpenters always slam me right back into childhood. I feel like I'm sitting on the floor playing with fisher price little people.

And that car accident thing, yikes! I don't think 'Help me Rhonda' will ever be the same.

[cookiepuss]

Originally Posted by i'mcrafty

"help me Rhonda" and oldies song that i heard when i came to after an major car accident!

now that songs scares the shit out of me!

(not that i ever really liked it to begin with)

I think that almost describes hell^ in a nutshell

[cookiepuss]

back to my two cents on the topic at hand....

When I hear Zeplin's "over the hills and far away" I always remeber the first time I got high on ganj. I remember I was a little freaked out, i didn't know if I was gonna throw up and I wasn't even sure I could walk, and my best friend grabed me and made me dance to that song. It was beautiful. it was my freshman year in college and I had never felt so free. that song has became the anthum of my youth.

ahhhhhhhh...fond memories......

[discopants]

Brimful of Asha by Cornershop
Wonderwall by Oasis
Rotterdam by the Beautiful South
Dizzy by Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff

[roosta]

"We Built This City On Rock and Roll" by Starship reminds me of my friends 21st, cuz i made him this mix cd with that on it, and on the way home from the club we were blastin' it.

good days...

[hellojello]

all that she wants by ace of base
was that the name of it? it was the chorus anyways
so yea i was at a blue light disco thing when i was like 11 and this guy asks me to dance and they played that song and he's like will u be my gf and im like ok but then he wanted to kiss and im like eww that's gross so by the end of the night he dumped me for an older woman

[b-grrrlie]

There's a few records that even remind me of smells.
At one time we were three people living in this really small one room apartment. We painted the walls black and had just a few b/w Marilyn Monroe postcards and a dried rose on the wall. Every time I hear Sunday Morning by Velvet Underground reminds me of that flat cause we often played it on Sunday mornings until once we realized the record had dissappeared! The guy who owned the flat had been on parole from the prison ( ) had nicked it along with a couple of other records, apparently he'd taken them to a second hand shop to sell. Also Echo and the Bunnymen's first album reminds me of that place, then I can even remember the smell of the gas stove and Ryvita crisp bread.

[Mr_Complex]

'Under The Gun' by The Killers reminds me so much of the beginning of 2004/end of 2003. I used to listen to it a lot. It also reminds me of the Tommy Hilfiger fragrance.

These two linked together create an awesome nostalgic experience.

[Mr_Complex]

'Popular!' by Darren Hayes reminds me of being fucked off my face and dancing on the stage in Jumpin Jaks on my own. I really thought I was him, probably.

[Trimm Trabb]

The boys are back in town by Thin Lizzy reminds me of when I was 8 years old, just moved from the big dirty city to a tiny green village and I was lying in the grass with my green and purple discman and a bunch of village kids flocked around me and asked me what I was listening to...
So I let them hear it and they all looked like 'eugh'. Because little village kids have no taste whatsoever.

The River by Bruce Springsteen always makes me think about my mom (because it's her favourite song.)

And a bunch of songs from the Pop Classics compilation album remind me of when we went on Holliday to spain, because we always had that tape on in the car. So now when I hear 'Make me smile' by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, I feel the hot sun and see the french countryside whizz past me.

[HEIRESS]

Originally Posted by mickill

The Weight by The Band.

It reminds me of a Travis concert, though. It's not because they put on the best show ever or anything, but because everybody I was with was so drunk at the show that we were all hanging off of one another singing along quite loud while they covered the song (quite well, I should add). It was sort of a unique moment, I guess.

I have the same memory oddly enough
except it was covered by Matt Mays, The Trews, and The Waking Eyes
it was flat out wonderful

[Extra Cheese]

"jazz(we've got)" tribe called quest takes me back to cloudy overcast junior high school days and "360" grand puba takes me back to my first month in high school.

in high school everyone has a few of those 2 month relationships that mean nothing well "again" by janet jackson always takes me back to one of them.

[enree erzweglle]

happy music memory: When my son was a toddler, I had Del Amitri's "Roll to Me" in my car. I'd play it and he'd be in the back seat and after the song was over, in his tiny voice, he'd say, "Again?" I'd rewind the song and play again...and again... For about a year, this was the only song I heard in the car. When I hear it now--and I just did last week--at the end of the song and in my head, I hear him ask in his little voice "Again?" although now he's like got a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow and is about a head taller than I am.

sad music memory: The Barbra Streisand rendition of "Somewhere" from West Side Story was playing on the radio as I was driving back from a funeral of someone who was so close to me. I can't hear that song without a bunch of feelings washing over me.

[mickill]

Originally Posted by HEIRESS

I have the same memory oddly enough
except it was covered by Matt Mays, The Trews, and The Waking Eyes
it was flat out wonderful

That song is the perfect precursor for obnoxiously loud inconsiderate loving drunkenness to ensue.

[b-grrrlie]

Once me and my friend were in Turkey for 2-3 weeks, travelled around a bit and Phil Collins' Another Day in paradise was played everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE! In the cafes, shops we went into, at our hostel, restaurants, even blasting through open windows when we were walking down the street. We'd met three guys from Wales and on the last night we sat in this outdoor bar in the beach, it had been raining and then the sun peeked through the crack in the black clouds. Of course they started playing that damn song and one of the guys said that that song would always remind him of you too (meaning me and my friend). My friend wondered "What the hell do U2 have to do with it?"

I do have a couple of songs reminding of sad occations as well. My friend's son killed himself at 16, even tho his favourite song was Iggy's Lust for life. A couple of days later I was interviewed for the local radio at a time (they did a report of our school) and I got that played for his memory. It was played at his funeral along with his other faves, amongst them Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over troubled water, which I can't listen to anymore without being reminded of him. He was very close to me, we shared both western and eastern zodiac signs, but as I was studying 100's of miles away I had no idea how depressed he'd been.

[disco.quebrado]

random lucio battisti songs
my family and i were travelling for about ten houres and i had to listen to the same 10 songs for that time

[HEIRESS]

Originally Posted by mickill

That song is the perfect precursor for obnoxiously loud inconsiderate loving drunkenness to ensue.

very true

it seemed there wasnt even any physical division between the band and the audience because it was a small venue and everyone on stage was drunk and were linking arms around one another, swaying along
one guy from the waking eyes even busted out a trumpet and they turned the song into a jam session that lasted for atleast 20-25 minutes
near the end it just broke down into everyong singing the "na na na" part from "hey jude" for some reason
yet again
it was fukkin awesome

[mickill]

^^
That sounds just as memeorable, if not better than our night. It was nearing the end of the show, everybody was drunk etc. It was at The Commodore Ballroom in Van, if you've ever been there. That place has some kind of bouncing floor that seems to make going to shows there that much better.

Another music related memory was Penticton in summer 2001. We listened to the same 3 mix cds for half the time we were up there. I have awesome memories that are inextricable from all the songs on those mixes now. Among them:

The Ocean - Zeppelin
Ride With Me - Nelly
Set It Off - Peaches
Tiny Spark - Brendan Benson
Funky Worm - Ohio Players
Die Young, Stay Pretty - Blondie

There's like 30 more, but I only remember what songs they are when I actually hear them, since the song selection was so random.

[HEIRESS]

Mmmm I like Penticton
I spent my last birthday there in a 30 dollar a night hotel by the lake
good stuff

get the "disco remix" of set it off
you wont regret it

Ive never been to a show at the commodore
my brother used to go when he had enough time to drive up
never took me though

[Rock]

Terrible Lie by NIN still takes me back to my first LSD experience. I'm still not sure if that is a happy thing or not.

[beastiegirrl101]

Duran Duran-Come undone

Anything by Stevie B reminds me of grade school...."Spring Love"

[ET]

Originally Posted by roosta

"We Built This City On Rock and Roll" by Starship

That song makes me want to kill myself.

Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean reminds me of my first years of Elementary School.

[adam_f]

Christmas in Hollis always reminds me of Die Hard.

Which is a good thing.