QOTD: May 7

[sheila]

What song (or songs) immediately remind you of a certain time or place?

[MrsPeacefrog]

yikes, Sheila!

There are a gazillion! :lol:

I have songs that remind me of every boyfriend I have had. Every baby I have had, our wedding, our honeymoon, highschool dances, even songs that remind me of hanging out the front of the local 7/11 store :lol:

Let me sleep on it and I will try to pick a few significant ones.

well maybe I should leave you with one or two that immediatley pop to mind.

Jeff Buckley "Last Goodbye" reminds me of a time in my life just before Tony and I started dating and my best friend was pregnant with her first and I watched her give birth.

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Rollercoaster" reminds me of our wedding as it was the song we walked into the reception hall too mainly because we are die hard fans and the song is so damn funky and the complete opposite to the traditional songs all our relatives had walked out to at their weddings.

[Melissa]

ITA with Deb! :lol: Too many to mention right now.... I'll be back [/Terminator]

[Lynn]

A few come to mind right off the bat:

Rosalia by Better than Ezra reminds me of my girlfriend and I working on design projects until all hours of the morning the week of finals. I Wanna Be Sedated by the Ramones has the same scenario attached to it. Every time I hear those 2 songs I smile.

I have more but I'll have to think about them. :lol:

[Barb]

I also have a bazillion, but what comes to mind right away is "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic always makes me think of when my dad died. I can't listen to it for that reason.

"Cruel Summer" makes me think of high school. Not sure why that one in particular, but there you go.

[pam]

I'm in the "lots of songs" camp, too. The first two that came to mind are: 1) Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John reminds me of buying Pepsi (which my mom didn't let us have) at the cool "new looking" Vons supermarket with my stepmom back in the 70s, & 2) Whip it reminds me of high school, specifically a pep rally where one of the dance teams did a routine to it. I'm sure that I'll think of many more :lol:

[AmyP]

Hearing any song I danced to in a previous recital takes me back to that time. We danced to "Love Shack" in the 6th grade and I still think I remember parts of that dance and I go through it in my head when I hear the song.

Ace of Base "The Sign" or really anything from that album takes me back to high school.

I know there are more, but that's what I can think of for now.

[Shanna]

Gangsta's Paradise - brings me back to college :dunno:
Girls of Summer (Abercrombie & Fitch) by LFO brings me back to the summer John and I met. . .
Pour Some Sugar On Me - takes me back to 7th grade :dunno:

[bunybomb]

'Getting jiggy wit it' by Will Smith reminds me of the fun my hubby and I had while we were dating. We used to play that CD in the car all the time.

[Nichole]

I have way too many, too. So many, that I can't think of any. :lol: I have to hear them for them to trigger something.

Off the top of my head:

"Shook Me All Night Long" reminds me of getting ready to go out at a friend's house in high school.

"Gin and Juice" reminds me of walking around to keg parties my freshman (or maybe it was sophomore) year of college.

"Hey Ya" reminds me of driving my baby boys around the first hot summer we had our minivan.

[redhairedgirl]

"More than a Feeling" by Boston reminds me of Yakima, Washington and the time I finally got over my one exboyfriend.

I have tons of song associations though. :lol:

[sheila]

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - the summer after freshman year of high school. Good times.

Only the Good Die Young and Pour Some Sugar on Me - Freshman year of college. Girls down the hall would BLAST it every night at exactly 10pm

more, but duty calls

[Alyson]

There are sooo many!!!..
'Here with Me' by Dido always makes me think of being on the train in Italy, sitting across from my then bf... really anything by Dido makes me think of my time w/him in Italy, cause I listened to her constantly then!

'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith, that was our song for the first dance at our wedding.

[Karri]

Anything Supertramp, Steely Dan, or Led Zep reminds me of my early childhood.

It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ-Rock - reminds me of my soph. year of HS. My boyfriend and his friend used to play it on the way to school every morning.

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince - reminds me of my senior year of HS and the summer before college

Jungle Boogie - reminds me of a craaazy period of my life in college and my old roommate Bob & my first spring break. Good times.

Everything Zen - Bush - and any U2 released prior to 1997 - reminds me of when Chris and I were first a couple and that crazy, fun summer... we went to both concerts in the first 2 weeks we started dating.

Suga Suga - Baby Bash - reminds me of when the twins were in the NICU. I used to hear it on the radio every day during my drive to/from the hospital.

[Cami]

Songs that take me back to an exact place and time.

Here I Go Again ~ Whitesnake: Driving off to college 1987

Red Red Wine ~ UB40: Played every Saturday morning at the Fiji house, freshman year of college 1987

Tub Thumping~ Chumbawamba: Bartending school 1998

Peppa Pig theme song: Having just moved to England, kids playing outside 2006 :giggle:

[MrsPeacefrog]

I have some more

Tainted love by soft cell and Am I ever gonna see your face again by the Angels reminds me of dances.

Betty Boop by Delight reminds me of a silly group of girls in school

Anything Skid Row (slave to the grind and skid row skid row albums), Guns n Roses (appetite for distruction) and Metallica (Ride the lightening and And justice for all) reminds me of my entire highschool life and ex boyfriends including current boyfriend/husband during those times.

Hammer Time reminds me of what the boys used to wear back then :giggle:

[Mary DK]

Air Supply songs remind me of High School :lol:
Buddy & Julie Miller songs remind me of the month before we got married, I love the songs but sometimes they make me remember the stress of those days.
The Cars CD ~ any of the songs in there make me think of the boys sitting in the back seat singing away at the top of their lungs.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass ~ the Whipped Cream & Other Delights album reminds me of my paternal Grandfather... he LOVED Herb & this was his favorite album so we got to hear it everytime we visited his home.

I know they're particular songs that remind me of something but I just can't think of any right now :crazy:

[bunybomb]

'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith, that was our song for the first dance at our wedding.

WOW, that was our first dance song too. :ok:

Another I just thought of:
Love Shack by the B-52s. 1998, I lived in a sweet high rise apartment and my crew used to come over for 'Surfers on acid' shots before painting the town red!

[Mary DK]

Here I Go Again ~ Whitesnake: Driving off to college 1987 Sing it with me, Cami.... an here I go again on my own, goin down the only road Ive ever known. Like a hobo I was born to walk alone. And I've made up my mind, I aint wasting no more time... here we go again... here we go again...


Aaah, the hair!! :love:
:giggle:

[Mary DK]

I thought of one... Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N'Roses reminds me of when I got to the states, it was one of the videos my cousin & I watched a zillion times on MTV :lol:

[Cami]

Mary, I've been singing it since I posted that first reply an hour ago! :giggle: I was going to bring up Air Supply too :giggle: It was more middle school days for me (although we're the same age...) :chin:

Sing it with me, Cami.... an here I go again on my own, goin down the only road Ive ever known. Like a hobo I was born to walk alone. And I've made up my mind, I aint wasting no more time... here we go again... here we go again...



Aaah, the hair!! :love:
:giggle:

[MrsPeacefrog]

I shudder when I hear love shack by the B52's. In 1992 for our rock eisteddfod against all the schools in Sydney our routine consisted of Enigma, Love Shack and party like it's 1999. My entrance into the peice was to Love Shack and I had to learn every little beat of it so I had perfect timing, after practice for 6 months straight that song was drilled into my brain and now I fear it. I hear it and have to turn it off immediatley or else I wind up in the fetal position rocking back and forth in a catatonic state :giggle:

[Mary DK]

Mary, I've been singing it since I posted that first reply an hour ago! :giggle: I was going to bring up Air Supply too :giggle: It was more middle school days for me (although we're the same age...) :chin:
It was my first year of High School... sometimes songs that are big here do take a bit to get to Mexico so probably that's what it is :nod:

[Clare]

I have way to many to mention too. The ones that come to mind immediately are:

Young Guns by Wham - reminds me of my first job. My two best friends and I were paid to clean the school in the summer holidays (1982 I think). We took a ghetto blaster from room to room with us and every time that song came on we stopped to dance :lol:

The Day You Went Away by Wendy Matthews - reminds me of sitting in the hospital with my Dad when he died :(

Anything Oasis, Blur or Alanis Morrisette reminds me of my time living in London and travelling Europe 1994-1996.

Weather with You by Crowded House - reminds me the night my friend and I missed the curfew at the youth hostel in Inverness, Scotland and ended up sleeping in the back of a van with the band we met that night :lol:

[MrsPeacefrog]

I love Weather with you! I always tear up hearing it. :crazy: