What song triggers a memory or sends you back in time?

Started by kenny mac, March 23, 2014, 01:49:42 PM

Flash Harry

Suzi Quattro, 48 crash takes me back to a camping holiday in Brittany with my family in 1973, my dad telling me to stop twanging the guy ropes, they made great bass tones.

Postman Pat - dancing wildly in the junior common room at university, I may have been imbibing, I may not have been....

Hello Earth, Kate Bush - sitting on the tube heading too and from work, young, newly married, having a great time and a great adventure.

There are many more, some get me every time like these above do, others just get me occasionally, some have shifted over the years and new memories have become attached to them.  My wife took The Cure album, The Head on the Door, into hospital with her when she was about to have our first child and although I didn't listen to it at this time, (She had the only copy on her Walkman) the memories that hearing this invoke are from that time, so I have even got some by proxy.
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- Kurt Vonnegut.

Oldrottenhead

ah! childbirth, my first daughter put my wife through 48hours of labour, i had a beard at the end of it. but during labour we had one cassette tape. on one side was  the pulp album "different class" and on the other side was Bjork's album "debut". they where played ad nauseum for the full 48 hours in the labour room.

later a  song from the bjork album called "play dead" was used in an add on tv for the vauxhall vectra car. my daughter when she was about 3 months old would roll over towards the tv when ever the ad came on tv.
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Jemima's
Kite

The
Bunkbeds

Honker

Nevermet

Longhair
Tigers

Oldrottenhead
"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."
- Robert Schumann

peterp

Seems similar to other, many songs from the 60's and 70's take me back.
Discovering the first album by Black Sabbath, buying a SteppenWolf double album with Pusher and born to be wild on it. ton of others.

Just found an unusual one "It's a Hot Night" by Sea Dog, the original artist that wrote it is still active on myspace of all things. Seems to live about an hour from me, and still does occasional local weekend bar gigs.
Rather not so good recording of a 45 is on his page.
https://myspace.com/dougvarty/music/song/it-s-a-hot-night-66419674-72820953


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Blooby


Michael Hedges' Aerial Boundaries puts me in college, Pete Townshend's Empty Glass puts me in high school, and for some reason, just the reverberated drum break in the studio version of Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love" puts me back in my pre-teen years. I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones of which I'm cognizant.

Blooby