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Do certain songs make you think of certain times in your life?

pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I have noticed that I can put a song along with vacations I have been on, things that have happened to me, different places, and even people sometimes.
Alpine Valley 2000
Summerfest 2006

"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
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  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    absolutely

    I can hear a song and remember when it came out and what I was doing in my life at that time
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    I have noticed that I can put a song along with vacations I have been on, things that have happened to me, different places, and even people sometimes.


    all the time.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    I should have said to mention a few.......I am just curious.
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    I should have said to mention a few.......I am just curious.
    better man makes me think of my ex-fiance
    for example

    Live's I Alone has a ton of personal meaning with a certain person, i don't want to go into it too much :)

    Oasis, actually, What's the Story Morning Glory, that same certain person bought me that cd
    and Mazzy Star's cd, I think it's called So Tonight I May Think of You?

    anything from the mid 90's reminds me of college
    like I Saw the Sign from, what was that Swedish group? They played that all the time

    there are so many examples for me..
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    Allie wrote:
    better man makes me think of my ex-fiance
    for example

    Live's I Alone has a ton of personal meaning with a certain person, i don't want to go into it too much :)

    Oasis, actually, What's the Story Morning Glory, that same certain person bought me that cd
    and Mazzy Star's cd, I think it's called So Tonight I May Think of You?

    anything from the mid 90's reminds me of college
    like I Saw the Sign from, what was that Swedish group? They played that all the time

    there are so many examples for me..

    Ace of Base did i saw the sign. i hate myself for knowing that.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    there is something nostalgic about oasis.

    towards the end of my senior year of high school, every time there was a party or any type of drinking going on, the night would always end with all of my friends shit faced in a massive circle singing "dont look back in anger." to outsiders, i prob seems kinda stupid, but it was something that was unique to our class and meant a lot to all of us. i dont know what it is. something about us all going different places after the summer...
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    the wolf wrote:
    Ace of Base did i saw the sign. i hate myself for knowing that.
    Ace of Base! Yes! No worries, I know the lyrics :)
    I saw the sign
    and it opened up my eyes
    I saw the sign :)

    how could a person like you bring me joy? It was cheesy but I could relate to the lyrics
    plus when they play it in a bar, it sounds catchy :)

    also that late December back in '63 song, Oh What A Night, that was like our theme song in college, that was ALWAYS being played in the bars


    PS-I am now singing "I saw the sign"! Ugh! Gosh doggit.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    GlorifiedAnimal wrote:
    there is something nostalgic about oasis.

    towards the end of my senior year of high school, every time there was a party or any type of drinking going on, the night would always end with all of my friends shit faced in a massive circle singing "dont look back in anger." to outsiders, i prob seems kinda stupid, but it was something that was unique to our class and meant a lot to all of us. i dont know what it is. something about us all going different places after the summer...

    Definitely, that might be why I love them so much
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    Allie wrote:
    Ace of Base! Yes! No worries, I know the lyrics :)
    I saw the sign
    and it opened up my eyes
    I saw the sign :)

    how could a person like you bring me joy? It was cheesy but I could relate to the lyrics
    plus when they play it in a bar, it sounds catchy :)

    also that late December back in '63 song, Oh What A Night, that was like our theme song in college, that was ALWAYS being played in the bars


    PS-I am now singing "I saw the sign"! Ugh! Gosh doggit.


    yeah, i know the words too. ugg, i had to sing them. my old band rocked the song out and we used to close our 1st set with it all the time.

    yuck.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Definitely, that might be why I love them so much

    same here. theres just something about them...i really dont understand how people dont like that music. i understand if you dont like liam or watever, but the music is so nostalgic and melodic and incredible.
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    the wolf wrote:
    yeah, i know the words too. ugg, i had to sing them. my old band rocked the song out and we used to close our 1st set with it all the time.

    yuck.

    hah hah!
    life is demanding without understanding
    I saw the sign
    and it opened up my eyes
    I saw the sign
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    GlorifiedAnimal wrote:
    same here. theres just something about them...i really dont understand how people dont like that music. i understand if you dont like liam or watever, but the music is so nostalgic and melodic and incredible.
    maybe
    you're gonna be the one that saves me
    and after all,
    you're my wonder wall

    that's an amazing song
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Pink Floyd and Bob Marley always makes me think of a cruise that I went on

    Oasis - Definitely Maybe reminds me of a time somebody smashed the window on my car and I had to drive to school with it broken

    Tom Petty - Wildflowers always makes me think of being in Texas

    Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever makes me think of taking a train.

    Hail, Hail reminds me of freezing my ass off at a Pearl Jam concert.

    Wu-Tang Protect Ya Neck and Mystery Of Chessboxin always remind me of when I used to skateboard.
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Not really. I was always a retro-head. Apart from when "Alive" came out. And that reminded me of the seventies.
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Whenever I hear "Wishlist" and "In_hiding" it reminds of football games my senior year of high school! (We would all drive to the lake and listen to PJ after the games...)

    "Don't forget me when I'm gone" (Glass Tiger) reminds me of a boy I was crushing hard on in the 4th grade!! hehehe

    MEMORIES....
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love and the five cassette live set are inextricably high school for me. So are the good old U2 albums of the 80s.

    Any song by the band Live still pokes my heart with memories of a love that was not meant to be. So does PJ's Smile.

    Whenever I hear the first notes of Wishlist I am thrown back to one night in 1998. Some friends with their most annoying 18 month old child had come over to watch the Oscars. The kid must have played with the volume knob of my stereo. When the Oscars were over, I told the friends I wanted them to listen to a song from a new PJ album. The kid was sitting by the speakers. He must have turned the volume to 20, because when I turned the stereo on he was practically projected a couple of yards from the speakers :D
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • ryan198ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    Most definitely...on a cold winter's day when i'm driving to work, or home, and it's gray out, and there's no life on the trees I put on Nirvana - Drain You, and it reminds me of my senior year at Ithaca College. Ahh drunken, drug filled, debauchery that it was.

    Outkast -Southernplayalisticaddilacafunkymusic reminds me of my first car because I used to listen to it while driving that junker around way before the song was actually popular.

    NIN - Hurt reminds me of Argentina, when I watched PJ twice and NIN once in less than a week's time. I made better friends at PJ, but enjoyed NIN more b/c it wasn't like a best of... show.

    PJ - Come Back reminds me of the night I decided to by my wife's engagement ring.
  • ryan198ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    meme wrote:
    Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love and the five cassette live set are inextricably high school for me. So are the good old U2 albums of the 80s.

    Any song by the band Live still pokes my heart with memories of a love that was not meant to be. So does PJ's Smile.

    Whenever I hear the first notes of Wishlist I am thrown back to one night in 1998. Some friends with their most annoying 18 month old child had come over to watch the Oscars. The kid must have played with the volume knob of my stereo. When the Oscars were over, I told the friends I wanted them to listen to a song from a new PJ album. The kid was sitting by the speakers. He must have turned the volume to 20, because when I turned the stereo on he was practically projected a couple of yards from the speakers :D
    Ohhh...PJ - Smile was a big one for me too...I gave my future wife No Code to ride back home with at the end of school one year and told her to listen to it and she cried in front of her dad...oops.
  • DaytimeDilemmaDaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    Yep...


    Kanye's entire "Late Registration" album reminds me of fall of 2005.


    Katrina turned my life upsiade down and that album helped me through it big time.
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    meme wrote:
    Any song by the band Live still pokes my heart with memories of a love that was not meant to be.
    me too,
    I Alone,
    to this day
    wow that song breaks my heart :(


    its easier not to be wise
    and measure these things by your brains
    I sank into Eden with you
    alone in the church by and by
    I"ll read to you here save your eyes
    you'll need them your boat is at sea
    your anchor is up
    you've been swept away
    and the greatest of teachers
    won't hesitate
    to leave you there by yourself
    chained to fate

    I alone love you
    I alone tempt you
    I alone love you
    fear is not the end of this


    wow that is the most amazing song...
    I've seen them in concert several times

    I actually saw them when Mental Jewelry came out on the 120 minutes tour with Big Audio Dynamite and PIL, at the Ritz

    I've been a fan ever since
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
    6/25/08
    Free Speedy
    and Metsy!
  • PearlsGirlPearlsGirl Posts: 257
    absolutely! some of them are good, and some of them are perfect.

    This is my best memory, incredible actually: We, my ex and I, along with his bro, driving up to NYC and we were listening to Incubus' Science. We get into Hoboken, and A Certain Shade of Green come on. There was something about the pure excitement of knowing I'll be in NYC for the first time, and the people I was with. It was such a great day.

    This one on the other hand isn't so great... Hold On, it reminds me of my mom and her loveless marriage. She vicariously lives through me, and if she really knew what type of person I became, it would break her even more.

    Black, no matter how popular of a song it is, no matter how many people role their eyes at me when they see my face as soon as that song turns on... it just strikes a nerve with me. It makes me bawl like a big baby. So many associations with that song... And the ENTIRE Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness album... That got me through those rough years as a teenager. Those cheesy songs as a child, like Sign, Return of the Mack, Black Balloon, Push... haha, you know those hits, and you love 'em! Well, lately my friends and I started reminicing about our childhood in relation to those songs. The stories they have... we always end up screaming those songs, drunk obviously.
    Don't let the world bring you down, not everyone here is that fucked up and cold. Remember why you came and while you're alive, experience the warmth before you grow old.

    Best two days of my life: Oasis at MSG and Pearl Jam at the Gorge.
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    oh for sure..

    for example:

    When my husband and I got married, we stayed for a week in Vegas at the Luxor, and it was over the week that Nick Lachey played a concert there, and every 3 mins the played his HORRIBLE single "What's Left of Me" over the loud speaker. I seriously heard that song like 35,000 times in that week. Now every time I hear it somewhere, it reminds me of my wedding, and that is TOTALLY not the song I want to associate with my wedding.. but atleast it makes me laugh
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    ryan198 wrote:
    Most definitely...on a cold winter's day when i'm driving to work, or home, and it's gray out, and there's no life on the trees I put on Nirvana - Drain You, and it reminds me of my senior year at Ithaca College. Ahh drunken, drug filled, debauchery that it was.

    Outkast -Southernplayalisticaddilacafunkymusic reminds me of my first car because I used to listen to it while driving that junker around way before the song was actually popular.

    NIN - Hurt reminds me of Argentina, when I watched PJ twice and NIN once in less than a week's time. I made better friends at PJ, but enjoyed NIN more b/c it wasn't like a best of... show.

    PJ - Come Back reminds me of the night I decided to by my wife's engagement ring.

    Pearl Jam - Come Back reminds me of my favorite episode of Friday Night Lights...........probably because they played that song on it
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • blonde redheadblonde redhead Posts: 19
    always puts me back in my room dancing around when i was 4 begging my mom for a blondie album, which i never got and to dye my hair blonde to look like her:)

    *good times* i still love that song..
  • illegal pantsillegal pants Posts: 13,471
    all the time :)

    don henley's boys of summer always reminds me of this one awesome summer
    wah
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    This song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-PcMSxrUA always makes me think of my second Pearl Jam gig because it was on the car radio on our way up to the show.
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Oh definitely,
    Songs bring back all sorts of memories. Nirvana - Lithium reminds me of my last year at school. Certain songs remind me of my kids being born, cos they were on the radio. Other songs remind me of holidays, or people.

    Pearl Jam songs, in particular hold special meanings for me, for many different reasons :)
    A human being that was given to fly.

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    If there was a reason, it was you.

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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ9KfKx8PmM
    high school, sitting on the bus with one of my friends, listening to this song on his ipod. Looking outside, just relaxing...

    Canned Heat - On the road again
    Willie Nelson - On the road again
    Steppenwolf- Born to be wild
    and so many more remind me of my hitch hiking trip through New England and part of Canada.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    absolutely... songs and smells :)

    save tonight by eagle eyed cherry often randomly pops up on a juke box or a radio when I'm on holiday... I never hear it at any other time

    the day we caught the train by ocean colour scene always reminds me of being in the chipper at lunch at school

    self esteem by offspring reminds me of playing pool at college
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Allie wrote:
    me too,
    I Alone,
    to this day
    wow that song breaks my heart :(


    its easier not to be wise
    and measure these things by your brains
    I sank into Eden with you
    alone in the church by and by
    I"ll read to you here save your eyes
    you'll need them your boat is at sea
    your anchor is up
    you've been swept away
    and the greatest of teachers
    won't hesitate
    to leave you there by yourself
    chained to fate

    I alone love you
    I alone tempt you
    I alone love you
    fear is not the end of this
    yep, that's another one for me also... well another one we used to play on the jukebox when playing pool in college :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
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