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

cazzy · 18-11-2007 11:59PM #1

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 · 19-11-2007 12:05AM

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

19-11-2007 12:06AM

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

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 19-11-2007 12:07AM

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

awesome.

cazzy · 19-11-2007 12:08AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:08AM

"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 · 19-11-2007 12:09AM

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

Wishbone Ash · 19-11-2007 12:12AM

'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 · 19-11-2007 12:17AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:29AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:30AM

Iris (forget who sang that one)

goo goo dolls

Pigman II · 19-11-2007 12:30AM

Bran Van 3000 ~ Astounded

Roger Sanchez - another chance

That was a good summer.

biko · 19-11-2007 12:31AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:42AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:45AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:47AM

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

Davei141 · 19-11-2007 01:08AM

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

Holmer · 19-11-2007 01:10AM

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 · 19-11-2007 01:25AM

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 · 19-11-2007 01:26AM

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 · 19-11-2007 01:28AM

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 · 19-11-2007 01:30AM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:16PM

"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 · 19-11-2007 12:36PM

"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 · 19-11-2007 12:43PM

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 · 19-11-2007 12:45PM

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 · 19-11-2007 02:53PM

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 · 19-11-2007 02:57PM

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

Crumble Froo · 19-11-2007 03:32PM

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 · 19-11-2007 03:39PM

"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 · 19-11-2007 03:44PM

"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).

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

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