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

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  • 18-11-2007 11:59pm
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    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?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭davejones


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


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,236 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


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

    Im curious now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭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!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,968 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭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 !


  • Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭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! :D (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?*)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


    Iris (forget who sang that one)




    goo goo dolls


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II




  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,022 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭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]


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,387 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 24,968 ✭✭✭✭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)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,043 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭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).


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