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[fatty]

Everyone has songs that remind them of another time, place or person. Some are really significant events, some are the most trivial things. Either way, post about a song that is significant to you and what they remind you of.

Del Amitri - Roll to me
I sent my friend this song once and we both liked it, sometimes we call each other 'hey pretty baby' from the chorus of the song.

The Lucksmiths - Sunlight in a jar
A forum member sent me this song once, it really made my day. I sent it to a friend of mine the other day to cheer him up.

[jimbunny]

Ronnie Milsap - Smoky Mountain Rain

Err... I must have been 7 or 8. My family was in the car, and I got my parents to keep rewinding the tape to hear this song over and over again. I realize now that love, the deepest kind of love, is the only thing that can explain it, though I never saw that tape again.

[memann]

Hmm... There are so many to choose from, its a tad frustrating to try to pick a few as to not waste everyone's time with such a list of memories that aren't very interesting.
I discovered Olivia Tremor Control this year, such an amazing listen can probably attach to any memory.
For some odd reason, I let 'Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle' be the soundtrack for my lazy summer, 'Memories Of Jacqueline 1906' definitely being the track that made my summer an enjoyable one.
And for this current bitter cold and reflective winter, I let 'Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1' be my default listen, yet I have no idea why I would assign either of these albums to specific seasons of the year. 'A Sleepy Company' is the song that wakes me up on the coldest of days.

[billiumbean]

The Eagles - "The Last Resort"

My mom used to have this shitty car.  It was a rolling miracle, most of the time.  I would sit in the back seat, and just sort of observe anything and everything.  As a little kid with ADD, anything in the scenery we were passing would catch my eye as my mind wandered to and fro.  And my mom would play two cassettes, a James Taylor live album, and the Eagles live album.  Those two were all we would listen to, ever, and I must have heard this song a thousand times in my youth because of that.  Never got old, though.  And of all the different car rides we'd take around Lahaina, Maui, it feels like any time I listen to this song again, everything I'd looked at when I'd listened to it back then just sort of comes back to me and papers my mind with a collage of old photographs.

I haven't been to Maui in a long time, but I feel like I have the entire island, and my entire childhood, back when I hear this song.

[el_loco_avs]

Air's All I Need reminds me of a sunny fall riding in our old car with my dad as a kid. The world was gold coloured.

[Shaztastic]

lol sooooo many songs remind me of people, things, times in my life and just general feelings like the album O by damien rice reminds me of when i was at university and my flatmate was crazy about another flatmate and i remember all the times sitting around listening to this album and talking about everything. We're best friends now and it's probably cos of that time spent talking.

i probably have a song that reminds me of everyone of my friends and family forever young by bob dylan reminds me of my mum cos we used to listen to him when driving all the time and she once told me this is exactly what she wants for all of us ( her kids)

any nirvana song/whole grunger era reminds me of being a kid and dancing around listening to them with my older brother and other siblings

[Thrillho]

'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' by The Proclaimers... makes me remember a very special man called Dave, who passed away last summer. I miss him greatly, and as such can't really listen to that song any more.

'Bittersweet Symphony' reminds me of my second girlfriend, and that whole album reminds me of losing my virginity to her.

The whole Parklife album by Blur, I Should Coco by Supergrass, Seal's first album, the Eurythmics' Greatest Hits, and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits all remind me of family holidays, cause we only had them on cassette tape in the car so we'd play them on endless loop.

'Love Letter' reminds me fo my current girlfriend... it's a song that used to make me cry anyway, but does all the more now. 'Far From Me,' the first two verses remind me of her, the second two verses remind me of a former friend of mine.

Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan, particularly 'Tangled Up In Blue,' plus the White Album by The Beatles remind me of the summer after I finished my GCSEs.

Weezer's 'Buddy Holly' makes me think of my childhood.

[Cicero]

So many to name, I wouldn't know where to begin.   Anything Andre Nickatina will undoubtedly remind me of my times spent at Harpoon Mansion this past Fall Semester.   Anything Lil Wayne and Birdman will remind me of my friend Kameron, just because he is about that M.O.B.    Anything Coldplay will remind me of my ex-girlfriend I had for four and a half years, because we shared so many moments together over their songs.   As far as my life goes, I don't know.   Be Quiet and Drive from the Deftones reminds me about the long cruises through the prairies of the Dakotas when I was in high school.   I connect a lot of memories with Radiohead stuff too, just because they've been an inspiration to musically -- but meh.    Great idea for a thread!

[Christophe]

My girlfriend had to leave college about two weeks after we started dating for a rather serious surgery. Being that I didn't want to listen to anything too upsetting or depressing, that meant no Elliott Smith, who was at the time my favorite songwriter. So for about a month or so I listened to Ozma's The Doubble Donkey Disk extensively, a collection of Weezeresque power-pop that did much to cheer me up. (The surgery went well and we've been dating for about more than two years now).

When I usually associate music with time periods, it's usually for long periods of time, like how I listened to a bunch of Dismemberment Plan and Jawbox in summer 2007. However, I have had whoper some specific songs linked to specific moments. Before school let out last spring, I was up all night working on my creative writing portfolio due to drinking two and a half cups of coffee. Johnny C had posted a link to Chuggo's AHHHH C'MON FUCK A GUY on the PRF, and when I watched it, I immediately proceeded to watch it a million times over that night. Caffeine does weird things to a person. I don't know if my portfolio really took all night to work on, or if the constant Chuggo solely prevented me from getting some fucking sleep that night.

As I mentioned in the Songs That Make You Cry thread, all my friends and I listened to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea way too much. Like you couldn't walk through the classroom we hung out in without hearing one of us jack off to Neutral Milk Hotel. Anyway, in high school I was pining over this lady who was a really rad person who listened to rad music and did rad things but also had a rad boyfriend. I was the assistant director for the spring comedy, and every night that my dad would drive me home from the show, I would listen to ITAOTS on the way home, and usually by the time we got off the freeway, Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 would come on and I would think about wanting that which I could not have. I would go to bed all miserable and wish I could be with her, because for the life of me I could not fathom anyone else to date, nevertheless fall for. That happened after we went out to my Senior Ball, the night after which I was spending the night at my friends' place and I put on Blur's No Distance Left To Run, which is now inextricably tied to that moment of feeling crappy over falling in love with someone I shouldn't have.

Christophe: A Life Told Through Other People's Songs.

[Kyros]

I feel like I have this with almost every song, so here are just a few examples.

Stars and Sons - Broken Social Scene: Every time I hear this song I think about when my Dad was in the hospital for some pretty serious heart surgery.  It was right after my brother in law put his old 12 CD changer in my car, and I think I listened to this song in almost every trip to and from the Hospital.

Timorous Me - Ted Leo/Rx: Aside from being one of my favorite Ted Leo songs, this one always makes me think of when I saw them play in McCarren park a couple of summers ago, and they played this song.  It was the hottest day of the year and some asshole threw a banana peel at Ted Leo.  He proceeded to pick up the rancid, half melted peel and throw it back into the crowd and it landed directly on my friend's hand.

Nice to Know You - Incubus: I used to be WAY into Incubus back in High School, and I was listening to this on a plane ride back from Cancun with 10 of my other family members 4 or 5 summers ago.  That plane very nearly came down, and one of my most vivid memories of the near-death experience was holding on to my seat for dear life while this song blasted from my old Ipod Mini.

[michaelicious]

'Road to Madrid' from the same record.

Definitely my favourite Seam song. Maybe one of my favourite songs full-stop.

When I broke up with my first serious girlfriend I listened to the song "Radio Cure" by Wilco on repeat for an entire 4-hour bus ride home. We broke up due to the strain of a long-distance thing (my having moved to a town 4 hours away) and the line "Distance has no way of making love understandable" had a certain resonance.

Listening to bands like Television and the Velvet Underground reminds me of being 16 and thinking I was way cooler than everyone I knew because I listened to bands like Television and the Velvet Underground.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

"I'll Buy You the Fucking Single" by None More Black - Reminds me of drinking under the pier of Skegness beach with two of my best friends.  And of cracking my head open when I stood up too quickly under a girder, and having to hide my drunkeness from the first aid guy at the pier arcade...

"Grace" by Jeff Buckley - Reminds me of my ex-girlfriend (who I'm still good friends with).  It was her who introduced me to Buckley's music a couple of years ago, around the time I started to really fall for her.

"Mr. Bojangles" by Sammy Davis Jr. - Pretty much any Rat-Pack music reminds me of my Grandad (the one guy I looked up to most while growing up, and probably the only older male relative in my family I really got on well with and respected for a long time), but this song especially, as it was played at his funeral.

"Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden - My old band used to cover this one (hell, all we played was covers!), and this my favourite of all the songs we played, so it kinda reminds me of a few years of lazily organised gigs and jam sessions, and generally having a whole lotta fun with a few good mates (and all those who came to watch us), before the seriousness of work/the navy/further education hit us all.

[SexRaptor]

Nothing Better by the Postal Service reminds me of my first breakup - not my first girlfriend, but, the break up itself.

[Tyler]

My mother used to sing me Carey by Joni Mitchell whenever I was upset, and basically anything on Blue completely soothes my soul.

Green Day's Basket Case will always remind me of elementary school and my friend Danny. We knew every word to every song on Dookie, and even incorporated it into a very silly create your own nation project we had in 5th grade. Our country's anthem was to the stylings of Sassafras Roots.

[Zingoleb]

Every song I have pulls up a memory of someplace in time...

[Wardial3r]

Hot Rod Circuit - Stateside
Shifty - Slide Along Side
Secret Handshake - Summer of '98

Best friend got her car, the summer was just playing those songs loudly driving for no reason.

The Cure - Just Like Heaven.

A Bunch of us were in a car riding out to my girlfriend and her twins house all crowded in an SUV, so a couple of us just piled in the back trunk area thing that isn't really a trunk but the back space, and there was a couple watermelons rolling around and it was hilarious and we were going around a corner and all of these watermelons were hitting us while this song is playing so loudly.

Coldplay - X&Y album...(ssh I liked it...) playing Need For Speed Underground with some friends just jammin all day long, also trashy euro trance.

[allison]

This is the Dream of Win & Regine by Final Fantasy makes me think of an incredible week I spent in Ottawa, just me, my boy, a bong and so much music.
Heart of the Matter as covered by India.Arie will always take me back to my breakup with my first real love.
Caledonia by the Barra McNeils is a large part of the one vivid memory I have of my parents when they were happily married.
EPdemic (the whole album) by IllScarlett will always be the cottage, the lake, the sun and my best friends.

[RedLion]

The Springsteen album "Darkness on the Edge of Town" always brings to mind memories of summer nights past, when I would go driving in the country, take in the fresh air and look up at the stars, away from the city.

[squawk]

Lots of Kid A just takes me back to being eight years old. Fun stuff!

[onewheelwizzard]

"Race for the Prize" by the Flaming Lips brings me back to seeing them live in May with my then-girlfriend, rolling completely face, loving each other silly.  It makes my cry with joy about 60% of the time.

[dancarter]

Lots of Kid A just takes me back to being eight years old. Fun stuff!

Eight years old?  Yikes.  I think I was...crap...23 when that came out....

Most songs that really stab me pretty badly are for the most horribly sort of High Fidelity-ish, ex-girlfriend mixtape reasons, it's pretty damn shameful.  Aside from those...

I remember driving around Ontario country side getting Christmas trees when I was in High School with my dad and brother while listenting to Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden.  We all loved Drawing Flies and now listen to it every Christmas.  Totally inappropriate for a Christmas song but so what?

[Caspian]

Songs with memories? Pretty much every Blink 182, Korn and Offspring song from the late 90's. Good memories of skating, surfing, crushes and youth and what not. I still find anything those guys do pretty hard to resist for that reason.

[De_El]

"Close to Me" and "Lullaby" by the Cure remind me of being a little boy and seeing my sister's tape of Cure music videos. They were strange and kind of demented. I think there was some kind of squid involved in the "Close to Me" video, but it had a weird face.

[Jackie Blue]

Bardo Pond - "Green Man"

1999.  Drove up to Michigan to stay with a girl.  Instantly fell into mutual love.  Second day I was there, she went to work, I settled back into her very comfortable bed and got very high and listened to Lapsed all the way through for the first time.  When "Green Man" kicked in, I was in absolute bliss, and still to this day consider it a Perfect Moment.

There is another song connected with the same girl that happened later, but I'm saving it for later in the thread.

NB: Oh and she is the girl who finally convinced me to listen to Neutral Milk Hotel, who I hated, but grew to love after the third or fourth listen.