Songs and the memories you associate with them

oregonzoo
oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
edited January 6 in Chit-Chat
"right here waiting" Richard Marx- My best friend "played piano" but all she could play is the first little bit of this song. That's it.

"ordainary world" Duran Duran- First song on radio after I heard my grandma passed. Always thought it was so appropriate. Still get chills

"Sloop John B" Beach Boys- This awful camping trip we got rained out of. Though of this song. STILL think of that trip each time.

"lady in red" Artist too lazy to google- This song reminds me of a story written into the Kasey Kasem countdown. She was a tomboy, but looked great in red for a dance. Still makes me misty.

"Can't let go" Mariah Carey - First real slow dance in 8th grade. He rejected me so often. But we danced. He was wearing his Bulls starter Jacket, I was wearing a blue bodysuit.


I love music for this reason!

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  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    Too many to think of. I get overly emotional when it comes to music. Could be the stupidist (is that a word?) song and it will trigger a memory that makes me tear up. Be it happy or sad.
  • gotogirl81
    gotogirl81 Posts: 278 Member
    Transatlanticism by Death cab for Cutie... first time I said I love you to a X. it took me a LONG time to listen to that album again.

    Tod Rundgren ( singer from the 1970s) reminds me of my dad.. he used to always play this guy when we took family trips,especially to Knobels Grove Amusement Park.

    Dale Earhardt Jr Jr- Simple Girl... reminds me of me and my bff at Bonnaroo Festival this past summer.
  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    Shake That- Eminem- My wife

    *kitten* Like that- Eminem- My wife

    Baby got Back- Sir Mix alot- My wife

    Fat bottom girls- Queen- not my wife- it has the word fat in it.

    For the record, shes a little girl who is blessed. Im not making fun. I like it :)
  • Nickstery
    Nickstery Posts: 324 Member
    Closer by NIN reminds me of sex...

    Linkin Park Hybrid Theory reminds me of the first concert my GF and I went to that I told her not to worry I'd protect her and she smiled from ear to ear.
  • _skittybang
    _skittybang Posts: 970 Member
    Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden : that 1st beer passed amongst a bunch of 9 and 10 y/os.

    We Will Rock You/We are the Champions - Queen: Song I would play for my swimmers back in the day to get them excited for the swim meets. They were so cute!

    I'm Gonna Piss On You - "R Kelly": My hubs & my first date

    All My Life - Foo Fighters : Staying out late at a boy's house/ way past when I should've been home and I got lost - this was playing on the radio with me driving up and down every road for 2 hrs

    There's more... everything comes back to mussak
  • Windy_
    Windy_ Posts: 1,012 Member
    I have so, so many songs that bring up memories, here's a couple:

    Who Knew by Pink - My son's15 year old friend (at that time, she would have been 21 now) OD"d after her mother, a nurse, gave her access to some morphine. The song had just come out that year I believe. Every time I hear it though I think of her.

    The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace - My parent's had horrible taste in music. I will always remember listening to this with my sisters as we sat around the kitchen table. My parents used to have friends come over and play cards on Saturday nights. Sunday mornings the ashtrays on the table would be overflowing. My sisters and I would pretend to smoke the butts (gross!) and be adults.

    A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton - My son Zach loved this song when it first came out, he was 2 years old, I remember playing it over and over and over for him.
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Paradise by the Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf - My husband and I dancing and singing (a bit tipsy) at his company's Christmas party

    Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse - My husband waking out of a dead sleep singing this song

    500 Miles - The Proclaimers - Doing "sidelines" at High school basketball games as a cheerleader

    And of course all the love songs that remind me of my husband (Angels by Robbie Williams, I Love You by Climax Blues Band)
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    The Eagles - Hotel California ....listening to it just as we drove into Yosemite, seeing Half Dome in the distance.
  • S1NN3R
    S1NN3R Posts: 452 Member
    Soundgarden's album Superunknown - reminds me of driving up to lubbock to visit family. My dad wanted to stop at every crap town where he used to pick cotton and show us the fields. LOL I was 14..idgaf about his fields...I was angry and moody! Haha

    Lovesong - the cure: reminds me of my wedding. :)

    Ozzy - Ozzmosis....reminds me of high school, sitting with all the weirdos. Lol
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    Just a few:

    The entire Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi album reminds me of the summer between elementary and middle school.
    My Hero by the Foo Fighters always makes me think of my grandpa.
    Gravity by John Mayer was on the radio when we brought my daughter home from the hospital.
    I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz was first played on the radio the day after I discovered my wife's affair.
  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
    "I'll be missing you" by P. Diddy reminds me of when my husband and I were first dating. He'd play it in his car all the time.
    "Let the drummer Kick" by Citizen's Cope reminds me of a particularly tumultuous time period in my life. I can't even listen to that song without getting a knot in my stomach. Same with 'Fall for You' by Secondhand Serenade.
    "Yeah" by Usher reminds me of going to the beach with friends just this past July. It was really popular at that time and every bar we went into was playing it.
    Anything by R.E.O. Speedwagon reminds me of my dad. Especially 'Can't Fight This Feeling" :heart: He used to play it in the car all the time.
  • KrayKira
    KrayKira Posts: 230
    "Hanson - I will come to you" The song I always play when I am missing my best friend (R.I.P)

    "Evermore - light surrounding you" The first time I ever cried in front of my friends & ran out of a concert at 16..

    "Kings of Leon - Sex on fire" The song playing my first legal new years and I was right in the middle of the dance floor dancing and it's pretty much the happiest moment I have ever had..

    "Metro Station - Shake It" My first ever housemate and I use to drive around dancing to this.. good times..

    "Foster The People - Don't Stop" Whenever I work out this is all I wanna hear and can think of
  • XxxFallenAngelxxX
    XxxFallenAngelxxX Posts: 133
    :,( 1, thing 2 do 3 words 4 you.

    Anna Blue - Sitting (german)
  • Bucky83
    Bucky83 Posts: 1,194 Member
    I have way too many songs that link with memories, but a few I can think of straight away are:

    Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden: My cousin passed away at 10 years old and this was the song played at his funeral.
    Brick - Ben Folds Five: First contemporary song I learnt to play on the piano, also think of my first crush.
    Any song by Fergie's solo album: When I was working with a disability organisation, used to hear it on the radio while writing reports.
    Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi: I had an awesome time singing karaoke to this song on a cruise ship through the Greek Islands.
    El Beso de Final - Christina Aguilera: I had the most amazing lambada dance with a guy from the studio I used to do latin dancing...it also helped he was buff, a great dancer and just an overall awesome guy.
    Dancing Queen - Abba: My aunts on my mum's side of the family always get up and dance to this song at family weddings. Always awesome and funny to watch.
    Any song by Simply Red: I saw Simply Red in Lucca, Italy and it was the first and only concert I saw overseas. I loved it and think of it often.

    Just to add: Lady in Red is by Chris de Burgh.
  • TommiEgan
    TommiEgan Posts: 256 Member
    First Date - Blink 182 - Driving to pick the love of my life up for the first time

    The World Ain't Slowing Down - Ellis Paul - Cycling on a beautiful after a very bad night

    The Impression that I get - My first year of High School
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    My dentist used to listen to Kenny G
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    "Sundown" Gordon Lightfoot. Reminds of summer when i was 10 or 11. Riding in the back seat, standing on the transmission hump. Sun was setting in the distance. It was warm, but not hot. No specific memory other than i remember that moment like it was yesterday as soon as the song starts playing.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    Konstantine - Something Corporate (Any bad thing thats ever happened ever)
    Dance *kitten* - Sean Paul (Booty dancing chicks)
    Beez In the Trap - Nikki Minaj (Lapdance from the biggest boobed girl ever)


    Any thing:
    Pink Floyd (my red eye days)
    Rob Zombie (my raving days)
    Avenged Sevenfold (Halo 3)
    Panic! At the disco (My ex-fiance)
    The Doors (gay *kitten* ex girlfriend)
    Eminem (Middle School)
    Lil Wayne (old roomates)
  • PhillyTD
    PhillyTD Posts: 375 Member
    "Desperado"/The Eagles- A female friend (had a huge crush on her) would always come from behind the bar to dance with me whenever this song (on a jukebox) played. Didn't matter how busy she was, we always danced to it. I never got the guts to do anything about it.
  • KimberlyDCZ
    KimberlyDCZ Posts: 525 Member
    I have MANY, but one song that brings me to tears is Cinderella's Don't Know What Ya Got Til It's Gone. My best friend LOVED this song and for some reason, she wrote down the lyrics when we were about 15 and that paper somehow ended up in my Bible. I haven't spoke to her in 3 years because she chooses to avoid me, which is something she does when she's using drugs. I miss her. :'(
  • simplyxaddicted
    simplyxaddicted Posts: 292 Member
    Sex is on fire - kings of Leon - when I first met my now husband I used to dance to this In his mustang with the top down on a warm summers night :) Ahhhh miss those days
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    "Hey Michel" by Anouk reminds me of someone I used to go out with. He broke up with me and just a little bit later when I was there alone that song was playing on the radio, it reminds me of how lonely I felt then.

    "Coming Back to Life" by Pink Floyd,definitely not one of their masterpieces, reminds me of going over a tough time in my life.

    "It Don't Mean a Thing", the Ella & Duke version, reminds me of a really fun time I had as a senior in high school with my best friend at the time.

    "Ne Me Quitte Pas" reminds me of my highschool ex-boyfriend. He really loved this song and sang it all the time... I did, though. :tongue:
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Too many to think of right now.................

    What a Wonderful World by Louie Armstrong - Danced with grandfather at my wedding to it. I was his only granddaughter and thought it would be a nice surprise thing to do. I still remember the tears in his eyes when the DJ announced it, and my uncle helping him to the dance floor.
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