Memory evoking Song/Album

[Izzy]

There are certain songs or albums that take me back to a moment or time period.

 

Share what song or album takes you down memory lane or transports you. There are some songs that I can't listen to because they remind me of being happy with someone I loved and they are gone....

 

I can't listen to Depeche Mode Home off the album Ultra.

 

When I hear San Francisco by Scott McKenzie I think of being at a club and dancing my arse off to a great remix of it. I'd never loved that song before, but now that I have the memory associated I get really happy.

[nick_s]

Ahh, music is a great memory link.

 

There is one song I can no longer listen to as it was played at my dads funeral. Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight. I understand why it was chosen and all that, but given that my dad is my hero, I don't like to remember that day. Same with Frank Sinatra - My Way. Played at my uncles funeral (he was a huge big band fan).

 

Songs that evoke happy memories, now these get regular play in my house and car. Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately, this was my wife and I's choice of music at our wedding ceremony. An honest song about how much one person loves another, always brings a smile. Will Hoge - Baby Girl is reminiscent of when my daughter was born. You don't hear it at all on any radio stations in the UK, so I have to actively hunt it down to listen to it. Nickleback - Far Away was again associated with our wedding, being our first dance. Listening to tracks such as Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love remind me of the good times I spent with my dad.

 

I could go on and on for hours about influential tracks :)

[Rosemarie]

There are certain songs or albums that take me back to a moment or time period.

 

Share what song or album takes you down memory lane or transports you. There are some songs that I can't listen to because they remind me of being happy with someone I loved and they are gone....

 

I can't listen to Depeche Mode Home off the album Ultra.

 

When I hear San Francisco by Scott McKenzie I think of being at a club and dancing my arse off to a great remix of it. I'd never loved that song before, but now that I have the memory associated I get really happy.

 

For me, there are many songs that evoke many memories. The ones that evoke some of the strongest memories for me are Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton and Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns 'N Roses. The first song was the very first song my husband and I ever danced to when we first started dating. When I hear it, I can almost hear the sound of the water by the river where we were and I can almost see the headlights of his '68 Chevelle shining. The other song was the first song my husband ever sang to me. He doesn't like to sing, but we were at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA at a Guns 'N Roses concert and they were playing that song. The next thing I remember is my husband (then boyfriend) wrapping his arms around me and singing the song in my ear. Even when he is not around and I hear the song, I feel his arms around me and hear him singing in my ear.

 

There are songs that evoke bad memories for me, too, but I try to disassociate the songs from the memories because they are good songs that I like and I refuse to let the person who gave me those bad memories steal those songs from me!

[Bender 4 Life]

for reasons I can't go into on a family forum, there is 1 song that really takes me back to the best times of my life, that will never be again....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjr0cyhOucs

[milod]

Izzy...

 

I dunno if it's age or what, but there's just too damned much.

 

I hear old Joan Baez and other real folkie - not political - material and I'm back in the smoke-filled Club 47 in Cambridge in '61-62-63. Clancey Brothers and I'm back in the Boston Public Gardens listening to 'em. Ah, that was long before tobacco was verboten and mary jane the "in" thing to smoke. Sheesh. Vanilla cured or pipe tobacco smoke overpowering cigarette smells in late teen-early 20s BS sessions with folkie stuff in the background...

 

Any jazz guitar material that still has a melody of standards takes me back to sitting with a book as a kid/teen when there were no real worries for me and I could sponge in any and every bit of learning I could find whether it be Mom's poetry anthologies, Dad's philosophy books or Dad's teachings how to rebuild a flathead six or Harley V-twin.

 

Even early Ian and Sylvia stuff makes me think of sittin' and pickin' down by a river in a break on the plains and Ian's "cowboy" material, '60s or today's, ditto.

 

Flamenco ... back to watching Carlos Montoya in concert from just a relatively few feet away in the front row. Yet also of being asked to play for a musicians' union annual dinner not knowing it was a way to get the kid outa the way to set up for a third-rate pop "big band." Or playing at an early '70s Cuban refugee reunion where it was so hard for them to admit they'd never go home again.

 

String quartets basically baroque... My younger days with a snifter of brandy and coffee side in a well-fitted suit... with an appropriately attired lady as we enjoy a long civilized dinner out.

 

Classical guitar, baroque... zen, playing or listening. Martial arts forms (kata, poomse, whatever.)

 

Doowop... '55-61 Chryslers I once owned and the fun of group singing on a summer's evening tooling down the road or "dragging main."

 

The pipes... When I'd really like to be far less than a gentleman at the world in general, but breaking walls in the office or kicking somebody's head off, literally or with words, would be far too uncivil for my own good.

 

And 50s-60s country or pre-Beatle rock regardless of style, the fun of playing in a 60s-70s saloon band as folks drank too much and BSed since almost all knew each other - only turning up the amps when a husband or wife began to recall how the spouse had dated the person they were currently dancing with a bit too close. <grin>

 

Any kind of blues, especially old transitional material... images of dozens of life history, both happy and otherwise.

 

Wagner's Liebestod or Mozart's Requiem with a bit of a heavy Islay malt and considering life, history, the unexporable future and mortality itself.

 

<grin> m

 

Then there's this - kinda nails it for an old picker whether you're into this sorta style of music or not.

[charlie brown]

"Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkle), my first "date!"

"House of the Rising Sun" (Animals), my "Cherry" got popped.

From then on, most great "Classic Rock" evokes wonderful

memories, and those times.

 

For some reason, "The Pretender's" songs, always make me think,

of Santa Barbara, California...where I was living, at that time.

"Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, reminds me of a summer, in Colorado

Springs, spent taking photos, and working for my (Photographer)

cousin. ALL, are great memories, and fun times.

 

But, music...especially, "The Beatles," got me through some

tough times, as well. That music always "lifted" my spirits.

Showed me "possibilities," that I may or may not have otherwise

thought about, that much. Who knows? It's was, and still is,

Great, though!

 

CB

[saturn]

There are a lot of songs that I would not really be big fans of, but they just nostalgic for me.

 

One of those is "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. That song was played everywhere I went during the summer of 1983. That summer has some great memories for me as a teenager.

 

Also, there are a lot of songs that I call "Skateland songs" because there was a time when my friends and I would hang out at the skating rink and we would always hear certain songs. Though a lot of the songs played were disc/dance songs, a lot of Billy Squire songs also remind me of that time.

[Edlo]

There are certain songs or albums that take me back to a moment or time period.

 

Share what song or album takes you down memory lane or transports you. There are some songs that I can't listen to because they remind me of being happy with someone I loved and they are gone....

 

I can't listen to Depeche Mode Home off the album Ultra.

 

When I hear San Francisco by Scott McKenzie I think of being at a club and dancing my arse off to a great remix of it. I'd never loved that song before, but now that I have the memory associated I get really happy.

For me it's the animals We gotta get of this place. It's our song back in high school.

[quapman]

Paradise By The Dashboard Lights takes me back to a very "fitting" scenario.

 

One for the Money Two for the Show. Similar scenario.

 

Come to think of it,, there are a few songs which evoke such 'scenarios'.

 

Why is that?

 

Ah youth,,, a very special time.

[Rocky4]

Harder Faster by April Wine takes me back to partying with my buds during my Sr year of high school. Some songs I hear remind me of videos and the early days of MTV and my life at that time, like Stand Back by Stevie Nicks, and I Cant Wait by Nu Shoes. Run Run Run by Jo Jo Gunne and Generation Landslide by Alice Cooper take me back to a little trouble with the law that I'm not going into. Happy Pills by Candlebox takes to a sexual experience....I could go on and on.....

[BobF_]

Every time I hear a disco tune, I remember how much disco music sucked - but I also have fond memories of those years.

[Karloff]

Gonna date myself here, while there are many songs that take me back to a specific time, Pink Floyd's "Shine on you Crazy Diamond", sends me back to a good time in my life. It was 1976, I was 16 and just got my drivers license. I had 1 8track, Floyds "Wish You Were Here". I would put it in and just drive. For hours... not a care in the world, new found freedom and my whole life in front of me.

[RaysEpiphone]

Good topic Izzy!

 

For me it's most all of the Solid Gold hits from the 1970's. My friends and I from pre Teen-age years up to the late 1970's when I discovered the drums, always listened to the same AM radio station that played all the top 40 hit's of that time.

 

Once the 1980's hit I got into old 1960's Rock and even some early Metal, the 1970's was all about R&B and Disco but we liked all the toons we heard on the AM dial not just the POP stuff.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnyh6i9NvmE&list=PL06734FFC843AEBD6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnsAU0-81qE&list=PL06734FFC843AEBD6

[Searcy]

On a hot summer night in 1998 my wife and I took a nice long drive through the country side on our way home from dinner. When we got home there were a number of calls from my best friend showing on the caller ID. My friend, Charles, had been having some real problems at the time. Money, work, family, drinking. So I called him back to see what was tonights issue. His wife picked up the phone and told me that Charles had just shot himself in the head with a .32 in front of her and the kids. I made it to Vanderbuilt ER just as his Life Flight got there. He was gone 30 min later.

 

This song always brings back that night.

 

[grampa]

"Oye Como Va" by Santana always takes me back to the Fall of 1970. I can see and feel the light of a warm Fall afternoon and can almost smell it. I was 24, married with a 6 month old daughter and it was a very interesting and exciting time.

[MrNylon]

A bunch of songs take me back to the 60's. "Windy", by The Association takes me back to a cooler time, more than most. It's that kinda' song that get's in my head, and sticks around for a couple of weeks. But I don't worry, cause I'm "Sitting On Top Of The World". (Cream)

[saturn]

Anyone remember this 80s gem? Yeah it's cheesy and corny, but it takes me back to Ocean City Md. 1985. What a fun week that was. I can't go into details though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCQCaLuSx0c

 

Funny, another song that every time I hear, I think of Ocean City is "Eminence Front" by The Who. There was this big haunted house at the front end of the boardwalk called Morbid Manor. During the day they had these huge speakers and would blast rock music. Well, Eminence Front came on and we could hear it from like a mile away up the boardwalk. A perfect natural echo was created off the buildings and all the people walking up and down the boardwalk were moving in perfect unison with that cool intro. It's weird how that insignificant moment in time is frozen in my memory.

[Namvet]

Ah, there are many but the first was "Make Me Your Baby" sung by Barbara Lewis in the 60s

[pippy]

A couple of very strong connections with my daughter when she was little.

 

We used to play soothing music when it was her sleep-time as a baby. There was one compilation disc which had, as the third track, Fred Astaire singing 'Cheek-To-Cheek'.

It starts, famously, "Heaven. I'm in Heaven...." and before we'd get half-way through the song she would always, without fail, be fast asleep in our arms.

Spookily, she absolutely loves watching Fred'n'Ginger films to this day.....

 

Fats Waller singing "Little Curly Hair in the High-Chair".

When Chloe was about 2 years old she had wildly curly hair. There's one snap we have of her which is the perfect image for the song.

And, as I listen to Fats with ridiculous regularity, it reminds me of how she was at that age on a near-daily basis.

 

P.

[Rosemarie]

Anyone remember this 80s gem? Yeah it's cheesy and corny, but it takes me back to Ocean City Md. 1985. What a fun week that was. I can't go into details though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCQCaLuSx0c

 

Funny, another song that every time I hear, I think of Ocean City is "Eminence Front" by The Who. There was this big haunted house at the front end of the boardwalk called Morbid Manor. During the day they had these huge speakers and would blast rock music. Well, Eminence Front came on and we could hear it from like a mile away up the boardwalk. A perfect natural echo was created off the buildings and all the people walking up and down the boardwalk were moving in perfect unison with that cool intro. It's weird how that insignificant moment in time is frozen in my memory.

 

 

My husband and I go to OCMD twice a year (more, if money allows). Morbid Manor is still there, only it is just called "Haunted House". They don't play music there either. We didn't start going there until the late '90s. We love it there and hope to retire there when Big Brown is done with my husband.

 

Sorry I hijacked your thread, Izzy, just cool to hear what our favorite place was like back in the day!

[Tman]

Many many songs do it for me, both positively and negatively. Especially since music has always been so important for me there is a lot of imprinting that went on . Great question to ask Izzy!

 

Chronologically here are a few:

 

It won't be long - Dancing as a 5 y/o at a teenage party at my neighbors house. Every time I hear the song, II can see my little feet trying to dance.

Anything Beatles has the capability of transporting me to my childhood.

 

Hotel California - Ron L puking in the back seat of my brand new 77 Corolla because the window didn't roll down, it barely opened. Still love the song though. I made him clean it up.

 

Love is Like Oxygen - Trying unsuccessfully to kiss Kathy H in High School. I almost passed out from embarrassment.

 

8675309 Jennie Jennie - Anytime circa 88-89 when I was in a band gigging in Galveston, TX.

 

Album Hiatt's Slow Turning - working weekends in the Sacramento Valley circa 94-95.

 

Keith Urban's Once in a lifetime Love - Sang it to my wife at our wedding. Always takes me back to that moment.

See I eventually was successful in getting someone to kiss me.

[Izzy]

 

 

Love is Like Oxygen - Trying unsuccessfully to kiss Kathy H in High School. I almost passed out from embarrassment.

 

 

 

 

OMG, that right there is awesome. We all have one of these. We've all been there.

[surfpup]

Before my wife and I were married other couples we knew insisted that we had to have a "song".

They all had really sappy songs that we hated, so we chose this one. Every time I hear the song today

it reminds me of that early time in a relationship where everything is all woozy and intense.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eROTYeIyJg

[Izzy]

Before my wife and I were married other couples we knew insisted that we had to have a "song".

They all had really sappy songs that we hated, so we chose this one.

 

You may be the coolest couple of all time...also, your kids need to be lied to when they ask if ya'll had a song, pick linger by the Crans or something

[surfpup]

You may be the coolest couple of all time...also, your kids need to be lied to when they ask if ya'll had a song, pick linger by the Crans or something

 

Thanks. I have this thing about not lying to children though. I hope that by the time they are old enough to ask that question, they will be old enough to understand the answer.