Name a song that reminds you of a significant event from your past...

[Javaman]

My is the song, "Cuts you up" by Peter Murphy. I was new out in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1990 trying to make my way in the film industry. I was young and naive. I hadn't been burned yet, everything was exciting, challenging and full of adventure.

every time I hear that song, I'm filled with that feeling again. I now look back sadly asking, what happened to that young kid.

[redqueen]

1. Aw that's sad...

Hmmmm... there are so many to choose from...

I think I'll mention Stagnation by Genesis... reminds me of my love-at-first-sight experience, was such an exciting and confusing and messed up time.

[Seashell Eyes]

2. I love that song!

[taterguy]

3. Simon and Garfunkel's America

It reminds me of the June 12, 1982 Rally for a Nuclear Freeze in Central Park.

Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park had recently been released and during the drive to and from the Rally we listened to that tape constantly.

The rally was significant because I saw America at its best: 500,000 people (estimates vary) all gathered in one place for a common cause and with an amazing vibe of togetherness. I wrote about it several times in college a few years later.

[two gun sid]

4. Bowie's 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire With Gasoline)' in 1983...

Very strange year for me personally. Lot's of changes.

[LaraMN]

5. Sublime's "Santeria." I hate it.

I was pregnant the summer that song was in heavy rotation. It was on ALL The freaking time.
It reminds me of months of morning sickness and feeling like crap.

:rofl:

[Seashell Eyes]

12. I hate that song because it reminds me of middle school.

The years where I felt like crap. :rofl:

[underpants]

16. Worst. Guitar solo. ever.

:puke:

[SPKrazy]

19. Man, I love that song...

:shrug:

if I'd spent the summer in morning sickness... I'd hate it

:hi:

[RedStateShame]

6. "Marquee Moon," Television

At a party last November, I bumped into a fellow drummer pal, and "Marquee Moon" played. While sipping bourbons and beers, we kept rocking out to the song. At one point during the solo, he asks, "Where are all the girls?" I looked around and said, "It's just us rock dorks now," and we proceeded to listen to that 10+ minute song. I'd find out 4 days later that the day after that he killed himself. I still can't listen to that damned song.

[fudge stripe cookays]

20. Wow.

What a heavy memory for a song. Sorry about your friend. That would definitely make it difficult for me to enjoy Television afterward.

[redqueen]

21. God...

I'm so sorry.

[triguy46]

7. "Respect", summer of 1967.

I have vivid memories of that summer, and oh, so fleeting youth.

[Aristus]

8. "Listen To Your Heart", by Roxette reminds me of graduating from the U.S. army's tank school

in 1989. The video played constantly on the video-juke at the EM Club. Becoming a tanker was a childhood dream come true.

[underpants]

14. My entire last night at Ft. Knox I listened to the B-52's Cosmic Thing album

I found walkmans in the Drill Sgt.s desk-put one together and went through the tapes available (stuff other guys had brought and had confiscated)

Hair band
Hair band
Hair band
Oooh the B-52's I remember them from that Rock Lobster

I put it in and listened to it for like 6 hours while I cleaned and buffed--I was DETERMINED that we would be leaving the next day.

Great album.

Ooh and "Black Velvet" was by far the most popular video on the machine in the PX-when we got a chance to walk by there.

March of 1990

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. 'The Worst That Could Happen'

by Brooklyn Bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Od5DePKTs8

I was driving home one day after finding out my first real girlfriend, with whom I'd earlier been for two years, had married another guy, and it came on the radio.

Disc jockeys know, man. :(

[BOSSHOG]

10. "Me and Mrs Jones"

takes me back to when I got out of bootcamp in December 72. It was a big song then and when I hear it I'm back in San Diego.

[Seashell Eyes]

11. "Janie's got a Gun"

reminds me of kindergarten because brother played it over and over again on the drive to Arizona when we went there for spring break. It was the first non-kids song I liked. When I hear it, I think of Arizona and being six, not much about the subject matter of the song.

[zanne]

13. "Mud Slide Slim" by James Taylor

First year of college, first big love. It was playing when.......well, you figure it out.

[tonkatoy57]

15. Pick up the Pieces/Average White Band

The summer of 1975.

I was just out of high school and was playing in a pop/soul/r&b cover band at Myrtle Beach, SC.

We played a lot better music (Temptations, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) but this was a really popular song on the radio and the bar would go wild every night when we played it. This was when the drinking age was 18 and every high school graduate in NC & SC went to Myrtle Beach after graduation. I've never seen so many drunk, good looking, redneck girls in my life.

I made $150 a week, lived in a cheap motel room on the strip, had the best tan in my life, and the girls....oh the girls.

[Va Lefty]

17. "My Old School" by Steely Dan

I graduated from Annandale High School, Class of 1980. Every time I hear that piano start of the song, I turn up the sound and wait for the line "California tumbles into the sea. That'll be the day I go back to Annandale."
Go Atoms!!

[SPKrazy]

18. Saved By Zero-- The Fixx

This reminds me of the time period that I sobered up in, and the idea that I was "saved by zero", or as close to zero as I cared to get to thank you very much. :D


http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Q6WkK9k7Hg
The Fixx-- Saved By Zero


The Fixx - Saved By Zero



Maybe, someday
Saved by zero
I’ll be more together
Stretched by fewer
Thoughts that leave me
Chasing after
My dreams disown me

Loaded with danger
Maybe I’ll win
Saved by Zero
Holding onto
Words that teach me
I will conquer
Space around me

Maybe I’ll win
Saved by zero

Maybe I’ll win
Saved by zero

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. It's cheesy, but...

"Sailing" by Christopher Cross

I zone out for a minute and my eyes well up, and I'm right back in Austin in late spring/early summer of 1980. I was 13, my dad had just died, and it was the event that most profoundly changed my life.

The song still makes me cry like a baby.

[idgiehkt]

23. this is tough.

Probably these two, because they are from the happiest time in my life, early 90's, and everyone I was around looked like the folks in those videos...I loved the vintage clothes and thrift shop finds, and just the dark and 'unnew' look and feel of everything that was in vogue back then. I miss that era so much. I think if I'd have been a teen in the era of celebutantes I'd have jumped off of a building.

Mazzy Star - Fade into You
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IWvEXChflEE

Cranberrites - Linger
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BPLXJAWUnwI

[MissMillie]

24. Love, Look What You've Done to Me -- by Bozz Scaggs

it was on the radio the first time I had sex... with my first love

[LibraLiz1973]

26. lol- My first time was to this song

(And to this day I can NOT listen to it!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pEzuC5UoM8g

[LibraLiz1973]

25. Chris Isaak- Forever Blue

I was listening to the song when my grandfather called to tell me my grandmother died. To this day I can't hear the song or read the lyrics without being taken right back to that moment-
June 10, 1999. The lyrics were eerily appropriate for the moment.


Nobody ever warns you, or tells you what to do.
She walks away, you're left to stay.
Alone forever blue.

The stars have all stopped shining, the sun just won't break through.
Each days the same, more clouds more rain.
you're left forever blue.

Forever blue 'cause you love her, but she dosen't love you.
You did your best, life did the rest.
you're left forever blue.

No reason left for living, still there's a lot to do.
New tears to cry, old songs to sing.
And feel forever blue.
And be forever.... Blue