Music Takes You Back
 

A old high school girl friend of mine said everytime she hears Fleetwood Mac she thinks of me--and whenever I hear Bob Seger I think of her. Another good friend in school was an Ozzy fan and hearing him makes me think of her. BOC's "Godzilla!" reminds me of my 16th birthday party; Def Leoppard makes me think of husband #1 and the Dead, #2.
Any Counting Crows song makes me feel sad as they were hot during a very painful time in my life.


What songs/artists/music makes you recall your past?

In the early 90's I spent a couple weeks at my dad's house which was in Mission Viejo after we moved him out there. We had the 4nonBlondes cd playing for a lot of that trip...So when I hear some of those songs, I'm there in that heat driving along the 5 on our way to a Mall near him.

It's the hook that brings you back, on that you can rely. -John Popper

So many songs, so many faces... lyrics that take me to warm, wet, places.:blush:

[joke]Like Gorgoroth's Carving A Giant?[/joke] :lol:

When I hear Hymn to Her by the Pretenders it reminds my of my highschool boyfriend. I would have married him if we both hadn't been such drips back then.

Journey, Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin: I'm on the bus in 11th grade, and somebody has installed, for the first time, a set of speakers so we can listen to the radio on the way to school.

Bette Midler, The Rose: a set of girls in college, who loved to play and sing the song on piano and voice, force me to sing the harmony part again because they like how I do it. I protest: no, I'm busy, I've got to get to my next destination. But they force me. And to my surprise, in the middle of it, I tear up.

Yes, Close To the Edge: I'm stoned out of my gourd as a senior in college, the lights are off and I'm totally transfixed by the slow middle section buildup to Wakeman's church organ transition. My arm moves in rhythm with it.

Squeeze, Hourglass / Smithereens, A Girl Like You: I'm happy and zipping to work in my 1985 GTI with the tunes at high volume.

A lot of the early to mid 1980s pop stuff will take me back to high school.

Also, any piece I've actually played brings back all kinds of associations if I listen to it--and if I actually play it again, well, wow. The most extreme example of this was Copland's Rodeo, which I played in 1985, and again in 2006.

ok...this one.....i think everyone has a place for this one:



9th grade dance ...dancing with Jen Burdell....i think i touched her ass!

Rock Steady by No Doubt always takes me back to a certain road trip to Las Vegas . . .

Summer Breeze
 

I don't have one particular song but a season of songs take me back to a time when all there was to do was to ride horses, watch clouds roll by, fall in love, go to partys.
*ahh to be young again* :)

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Yes - The Revealing Science of God - All of side one from Tales from topographic oceans..... complete enlightenment on the 4th of july at my moms house summer '82 with my two best friends and a shitload of homegrown shrooms.

Starship Trooper - more specifically "The Wurm" - I wurmed in every new year from '79 - 2000. So that reminds me of New Years eve parties.

The Ramones - Another High School friend named Eddie Hopkins loved them! He killed himself shortly after graduation, but hearing them still reminds me of Ed.

Dude, warning label that shit.

sorry. past the edit window.....i thought everyone knew about the dan band's version.

Actually I clicked away as soon as the title came up. Any version of that tune deserves a warning label not just the Tipper Gore version. :D

You think?? If you're not sure, why don't you call her up and ask? :angel:

a girl I used to be very close with told me about 40 minutes ago "I cant be with you" by the Cranberries reminds her of me.
what followed from me... was the dryest "cheers" ever.

Dylan's You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go- First love. Last year of college, friend/twin turns more, then friend again, I still have his Blood on the Tracks. When I hear any of that album I have to stop. Still makes me hurt (good hurt) and smile. Then I usually have to go through a ritual playing of the LP. I will always have that record.

Julian Lennon- Much too Late for goodbyes- Move to MN, String of jobs, one baking pies in a 24 hour restaurant. Song comes on the cook line radio, dancing around the restaurant kitchen singing much to late for good pies. Making crusty cooks laugh. Still makes me laugh when I hear it.

For Once in My Life- Stevie Wonder, Sappy song that always reminds me of that reserved Mr. Warch's soft center.

Jr.Brown- Broke Down South of Dallas- takes me back old Antone's in Austin, the dark greasy former steakhouse joint. Tuesday night, 12 people. Where did this guy come from? Bathrooms behind the stage, hot and sweaty, pitcher of water on that back bar corner for when you ran out of cash but were still thirsty. Everything smells like BBQ.

Dvorak- New World Symphony- Grade 12, symphonic winds concert at Lebanon Valley College. New auditorium. Our little high school outfit plays the first two notes, we pause, and it echos and bounces, shivers me timbers as I am in the middle playing that bassoon poorly, but suddenly motivate to play my meager best. That song will always do that for me.

1974 - Isao Tomita - Claire de Lune - I'm lying on my bed, talking to my g/f on the phone. Can't remember what about, just that the song blew my mind. Someone was doing things with synthesizers that I didn't even know were possible.

1974 - Bob Dylan's entire "Blood on the Tracks" album - I'm driving at night in a hideous snowstorm, on my way to clean another stinking restaurant.

1969 - Beatles "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" - I have just come to realize how utterly cool my mother was for buying me this album.

1968 - The Who "Happy Jack" - my cousin has just opened an entire new world of rock and roll for me. Before I heard this, I thought the entire world spun on MOR adult AM music because my mom worked for the radio station.

1989 - Peter Gabriel "Passion" - my ex wife screwed my brains out after sitting around a campfire smoking dope, drinking wine, and listening to this album. Seriously, get it, put it on, and have sex.

BEHOLD, THE POWER OF MUSIC...

I have been amazed about how quickly you can go back, with just hearing a few notes!

Almost anything by Bryan Adams makes me tear up, thinking about my first love... and of course, what could have been.

Any 80s hairband music makes me appreciate my youth, and, also makes me hope that when MY CHILD tries to pull the same illegal/immoral/inappropriate nonsense, I will be one step ahead of him..

Truckin' by Grateful Dead - there once was a party, when I stole a cassette (yes, I said cassette), because I was so into the music - I just HAD to have it!

welcome to the cellar, ya thief ;)

HA - did I mention that I may have been absolutely drunk at that party?!?!?!

Did I need to?

no and no, but more details usually make the story more fun...

I'm just glad it doesn't literally take me back....Oh jeez...

Everytime I hear the song Time Was by Wishbone Ash from the Argus album I always remember the smell of her hair then I'm sad because I remember we broke up and she moved away.
But it was our album for so many reasons

I like Linda Perry's solo stuff more, like Fruitloop Daydream etc.

Lovin' every minute if it: Loverboy

as an ex-musician most music takes me places. in particular..

the pixies (surfer rosa/ c'mon pilgrim) to my second love (a wondeful amazing artist by the name of tanya mauler (last I Looked her up she was still doing work for highlights.. yeah, that kids magazine) she took me to the ritz in new york to see the pixies.. one hella magical experience.

soundgarden: ultramega okay: seeing them behind rudy's pizza in the summer of 88/89? and julie kast, my firstest for real girl friend.

too many songs too many refrences.. you'll have to wait for my memoirs.

LJ, I never heard of the Dan Band before, but I think they're the only thing I've heard in 40 years that's fresh, talented, and musical. They even make me rethink my bias against changing the meaning of the word gay. They are GREAT!

I've met a couple of 20-somethings named Rhiannon. It never fails to crack me up when I see that name.:D

Try being a Pagan sometime...every other female is named Rhiannon...

That's a rough one CG. That song is always being played. I'm sure its caught you at some moments you didn't need it.

That song always seemed a little eerie to me. I'll think of you and your friend next time I hear it. Peace.

It's never the songs/ albums that I've bought, because I play them over and over and they lose the connection with the time/ person.

But many times I've been able to answer in pub quizzes, or what-was-the-year radio programmes because I can relate individual hits to what or who was happening in my life.

1997/98 music is especially poignant. I was falling for a man who was very bad for me. I hurt a man who loved me completely and was therefore (temporarily) at odds with my family. The company I loved, the job I loved was no longer viable and I had no proper framework in any part of my life. I got my driving licence (so was in the car listening to the radio quite often). I moved from a town to a city.

Don't Speak - No Doubt, reminds me of a trip to Rome with my husband. I was already unhappy and the song (although from the opposite point of view) was in my head the whole time.

Griff, classicman, thanks.

Yes, it has caught me off guard at times.

When that happens, I have a beer in his memory.