What songs remind you of a good time in your life.

cazzy

So Im here listening to 102.2fm and a song comes on, I havent heard it for ages, years. It reminded me of the summer I spent in New Jersey on J1 in 96.
What a great summer that was. The song was out at the time - cant remember the artist or title but I think its Nobody Knows. Its supposed to be a sad song but it always brings back really happy memories to me

Whats your good memory song?

davejones

Madness " Baggie Trousers" and Stone Roses "Love Spreads" are two that spring to mind at the moment.

Black Swan

"Fingers" by P!nk. No way am I going to say why! But when I hear the song I remember.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the new pornographers - sing me spanish techno, on a balcony my first week in Canada smoking a cigarette on a snowy night.

awesome.

cazzy

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

"Fingers" by P!nk. No way am I going to say why! But when I hear the song I remember.

Im curious now.

fricatus

"Time of my Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. I've never seen Dirty Dancing, and I'm a guy, so I'd probably hate it if I saw it anyway, but I remember dancing with a girl in a tight white blouse at a teen disco to that song. I think I was 12 and she was - oh my god - 13! Somehow the feeling has always stuck with me every time I've heard it!

I genuinely think "Umbrella" by Rihanna will stick with a lot of people, by the way. I haven't heard a song sung on the streets by gangs of drunken girls so much as that one. I think that says a lot!

bronte

Starlight by muse...Summer holiday in France...ah memories!

Wishbone Ash

'God save the Queen' (Sex Pistols) always reminds me of long hot summers.

'Mull of Kintyre' (Wings) reminds me of primary school.

'There must be an angel' (Eurythymics) reminds me of when I started earning 'real' money.

'Dancing queen' (ABBA) and 'Papa don't preach' (Madonna) always reminds me of old girlfriends.

'Cotton Eye Joe' (artist?) reminds me of Calcutta!

cazzy

There must be an angel by Eurythmics reminds me of the time I was at a bouncing disco at a carnival in my cousins in galway and a boy bounced on my eye and i had a black eye for the rest of the summer.
Really they had a bouncing disco - it was cool. Like a bouncing castle but bigger, had a roof, all black inside with proper disco lights and blaring disco music. It was fun until that happened and I had to go back to my aunts. They were dreading telling my parents Id say !
Anyhow he Eurythmics song was in the charts at the time and it was always being played at the carnival and in the bouncing disco !

l3LoWnA

Blondie - Maria

Westlife - If I let You Go

Mauro Picotto - Iguana

Thin Lizzy - Still in Love With You

Iris (forget who sang that one)

Oh the list is absolutely endless, music can bring back so many happy thoughts and memories for me! (sad ones too but it's a brilliant feeling when a song comes on the radio that makes you feel all tingly right down to your toes and then you've to think *why?*)

cazzy

Iris (forget who sang that one)




goo goo dolls

Pigman II

Bran Van 3000 ~ Astounded

Roger Sanchez - another chance


That was a good summer.

biko

I was working with friends up on a loft stacking sleeping bags as a volunteer on a kibbutz in Israel. It's a warm summers day and we are chatting and laughing and listening to the radio. Suddenly "Video killed the radio star" comes on and we all look up from what we're doing and before I know it we're all dancing to the radio, on a warm sunny loft, laughing our heads off.
Good times

Senna

Wigfield - Saturday Nite, always reminds me of when i was 16, working in an over 25's disco, surrounded by hot slutty wimmin:D


CCR - Have you ever seen the rain, just reminds me of good times.

Gaspode

Airdance by Black Sabbath. Reminds me of sitting on the roof of a house in Bird Avenue with a few cans, enjoying the evening sun with the lads after a hard afternoon working on the restoriation of the house below.
There's got to be hundreds of songs though that instantly transport me back to another time and place. Particularly the teenage years, when the music was such an important part of life.

OPENROAD

Open Road, Million to one and Today I lost You all by Gary Barlow.

Davei141

Starlight by muse aswell...Just heard it at a point in my life where things really turned around for me.

Holmer

1979-smashing pumpkins. I was about 17 when it came out, it just reminds me of simpler times. Even more so when accompanied by the video [looks wistful]

kowloon

That "Forever and Ever" song from my best friends wedding - i was on a bus once and everyone just started singing, complete with synchronised claps

Close to you (Carpenters) - another out of the blue mass singing outbreak in a Lecture

Paranoid Android (Radiohead) - reminds me of when i got regular sexy time

Purple Haze - reminds me of sunny days polishing chrome

Emerald (Lizzy) - reminds me of the times i enjoyed in school

YMCA - working on archaeological dig, radio, hard hats, you know.:D

Borneo Fnctn

Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones

This one brings back memories of the morning after a house party. Me and a good friend volunteered to do the washing up and had the song playing. I don't know why but it's a very fond memory.

Varkov

The Kids arn't allright : The Offspring.

Supposed to be a sort of somber song, but reminds me of good times with friends as a wee lad.

Wishbone Ash

deswalsh wrote: »

There's got to be hundreds of songs though that instantly transport me back to another time and place. Particularly the teenage years, when the music was such an important part of life.

Well said!

'Human' by The Human League always remind me of pots and pans (working in a restaurant kitchen when it was No. 1)

kev_s88

"Road Trippin'" by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.this was the song that i was listening to last time i was happy.since then things have been in a downward spiral.

its amazing how its only been 5 minutes since i listenend to it

BKtje

"Road Trippin'" by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Same, reminds me of my Rugby Tour to canada. Best 2ish weeks of my life. That album had just been released and we had it pretty much on repeat while on the bus driving around.

Iris- not so much a reminder of good times but more a reminder of the good laughs i had with a friend of mine who later got too close to a train.

Carroller16

Nizlopi - Faith. A song that reminds me of when things turned around for me. a new beginning.

Coldplay - A Message
Coldplay - Swallowed by the sea . . two songs that remind me of the good old teenage knacker drinking days

cooperguy

The Bongo Song believe it or not!! It was playing the whole time during a holiday I was on when I was 16:D

Tar.Aldarion

Dearg Doom - Horslips.

Most sonegs that stand outhave bad memories ssociated with the, as well as good. Dreaming of you etc, but not good ole Dearg Doom.

watna

Maniac 2000 by Mark McCabe. it reminds of being 16 and in transition year in school. Happy happy times!

Crumble Froo

Davei141 wrote: »

Starlight by muse aswell...Just heard it at a point in my life where things really turned around for me.

aw man, i listened to that song for soooooooooo long... and then, soon to the time of my emigration i heard the lines

Far away
This ship has taken me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

Starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold you in my arms

and somehow, after months of knowing about what i was about to do, and about to give up, it suddenly hit me how much i had to lose... twas an absolutely terrifying time... but at the same time... it made me realise what i had to lose... and how much i didnt want to lose that... and i made my choice... in the longterm deciding on much more than you could ever have imagined when you started this thread.

Fratton Fred

"I'm Free" by the Soup Dragons. reminds me of getting very stoned on top of a hill during a very very hot summer in Newquay, Cornwall.

Anything by EMF, Happy Mondays etc as well.

cjt156

"Fool's Gold" by the Stone Roses.
Constantly on the jukebox in the college local around '90-'91 and I never realised who it was; even though I was a big fan of their album (this song's not on it).

Miguel_Sanchez

'Under Pressure' - Queen and David Bowie. Reminds me of a few years ago after a particularly great night out in Galway with friends. We woke on Sunday morning and were driving into town to go for lunchtime pints with this song on. Good times.

'Autumn Sweater' - Yo La Tengo. This will always remind me of the girl who introduced me to Yo La Tengo when I was in college. Great song - even better girl. Sadly she lives in another country now but the song always makes me happy.

RxQueen

wish you were here--- by incubus, reminds me of the summer before last happy happy times when i didnt have a care in the world, then i got a job and all i do is worry:eek:!!! and the lyrics for it are brillant always makes me smile!

Red Hand

Golden Brown by The Stranglers reminds me alot of someone.

tribulus

watna wrote: »

Maniac 2000 by Mark McCabe. it reminds of being 16 and in transition year in school. Happy happy times!

Lol, ever go to The Cricket?!

3 Drives - Greece 2000,
Reminds me of my teenage days and holidays.

meditraitor

The prodigy-Charlie
Happy mondays (all pills thrills and bellyaches)
The wonderstuff, welcome to the cheap seats

Ruu_Old

Go West-Call Me, good times and painful too as well.

Proxy

Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff - Tick Tick BOOM! Just reminds me of having mad craic as a kid. And later Men In Black.

Slight Return by The Bluetones reminds me of (not) doing my homework in secondary school and instead watching Top 30 Hits on Network 2, can't remember what year. Funny thing is, I was recently typing up stuff for my thesis and it came on the radio, seemed like a "look at me now" moment:)

spiritcrusher

Megadeth - Train of Consuquences, always brings me back to a really hot day in France walking around an air conditioned shopping centre about 5 years. Good times.

Mossy Monk

INXS - Devil Inside

This brings back my teenage years. Fantastic song.

Jigsaw

Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song

L31mr0d

Kings of Leon - Milk

Reminds me of my honeymoon

EDIT: oh also

White Zombie - More human than human

Reminds me of my roadtrip around Canada with my now wife and 2 other great friends

Latchy

'You just might see me cry ' by Our Kid reminds me of being with the irish army on the border ,my soldier mate was forever singing it .Also around the same time ' Torn between two lovers ' by mary Mcgregor because my other friend got a letter from girlfriend saying she was seeing sombody else as well as him and couldent make her mind up who she wanted to be with ' .

blow69

Gold Lion-Yeah Yeah Yeah's

And for some reason Toxic by Britney Spears(Summer 2004-what a summer!!!)

Mr. CooL ICE

Scorpions - Wind Of Change. It was always one of my favourite songs since I was about 5, which is the age I wish I still was :rolleyes:

Marksie

Nights in white satin, Moody blues.
First love n all that

echter

those three cranberries songs, dreams linger and zombies. They were always played when i was a kid in my house. Under the boardwalk by the drifters too

Mrs_Doyle

Whenever I hear 'No Doubt', 'Don't Speak', it brings me back to my early teens.
It sounds a bit sad, but I was so hopeful then, and so positive about the future.I truly believed that anyone could be whatever they wanted to be, they only had to want it badly enough. That song makes me smile at my teenage self because I remember learning all the lyrics off by heart, and convincing myself that I could really relate to what was being said :D:D

cazzy

Oasis - Whatever, Wish you were here Pink Floyd - remind me of college

Alanis M - reminds me of working in america

Robbie Williams - Millenium reminds me of when I was working in London in late 90's and it was on the radio all the time when I first arrived

Celine Dion - if you love me like this ... bla bla bla reminds me of the time when i was working part time in Dunnes in college - disliked both dunnes and celine dion. At that time dunnes had bout 10 tracks on a cd which they played over and over and over ........ not fun

Sonnenblumen

David Bowie - Heroes - reminds of sitting on the Berlin Wall and dreaming of my girlfriend.

arbeitsscheuer

Green Day - Waiting
Perfectly seemed to sum up how I was feeling when I started going out with my first gf... I happened to be listening to the song a lot at the time as well, which adds a nice synchronicity to that memory!

Other songs that just seem to trigger fond memories and general nostalgic wistfulness, for various reasons:
Pulp - Disco 2000
Sugarcult - Bouncing off the Walls
Bloc Party - I Still Remember
Blur - Parklife
Practically anything by Madness
Velvet Revolver - Loving the Alien
...loads more to boot, might post em up if they come back to me