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

PearlsGirl

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.

GraySaturday

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

pjoasisrule

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

blonde redhead

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 pants

all the time

don henley's boys of summer always reminds me of this one awesome summer

MattCameronKicksButt

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.

urbanhippie

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

Collin

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.

Heineken Helen

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

Heineken Helen

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

urbanhippie

Heineken Helen wrote:

absolutely... songs and smells

Oooooh smells, yes

Donuts cooking - beach holidays.
Coal Tar Soap - my nan

And all sorts of others

Collin

Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me always reminds me of a girl who used to sing that song constantly until our ears started bleeding. She was great!

toaster

Yes, especially The Killers - Reasons unknown.
Reminds me of last year at Roskilde Festival when we got back to the camp one day and it was flooded. The tents were barely standing and the guys (who were supposed to stay behind to keep an eye on the camp) had disappeared. We were standing there in our last dry clothes after three already pretty wet days, and had to try to save our tents so we had a dry place to sleep the last four days of the festival. So we started digging in the mud to lead the water from our camp, and while we were doing this, (soaking wet, cold and with mud all over us) The Killers started their set. A concert we all really, really wanted to see.

When we heard that song, everything was so hopeless and we all looked at each other with tears in our eyes, said "fuck it", found a bottle of whiskey in the mud, some cigarettes, sat down with the rain pouring down all over us, listened to the concert from our camp and got drunk.

Collin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHHtpTwJeM (camp)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5qmQwImP0Q (parents' divorce)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF69iiGK5Uc (also divorce and my busted knee, heard that song on my way to the doctor)