Which songs bring back good memories?

i love many many songs, but i don't have many good memories to reach back to. no song fits for that.

Not many bring good memories.....
Most bring bittersweet reverie

"Eight days a week", by the Beatles. I listened to it a lot at the beginning of a relationship with the first man I had been truly attracted to. He was, and is, much older than I am. Even though we had a messy break-up, it still brings back a lot of warm memories of new emotions.

Ohhh Girl
Anything by early Santana & Led Zeppelin
Lean On Me
Hair
Just about everything out of mid 60's to late 70's

When my year finished school (summer 2000) we were all stood together at last break, everyone was crying because it was the end of our 5 years together (even though we *all* had an exam in 3 days time!) and pretty much everyone spontaneously started singing "You'll never walk alone." A little cheesy I guess, but it was a wonderful moment. We were all sad but so happy too.

*Any* Christian choral music (traditional) brings back memories of standing in Lincoln cathedral and hearing that style of music wash over me. That was one of the occasions when I knew I needed religion (just *not* Christianity!).

Hearing songs from any of the plays I've been in brings back those memories too. They were incredible experiences. Very demanding but enlightening and uplifting.

in my life by the beatles!

I get by with a little help from my friends. I get high with a little help from my friends.
American Pie
Old time rock and roll(Creedence Clearwater)
the Woodstock CD
most Christmas songs
many silly songs that we used to sing on long car trips
Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter songbook
Irish songs (because of my grandma)
My Old Kentucky Home (Kentucky Derby)
the Saturday Night Fever CD
and lots more

I love that song! I can't believe I forgot to list it.

I know some that don't. I can't listen to Marianne Faithfulls' "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" I think it is the sadest song. I also think "Mothers little helper" is too sad to listen to.

It is impossible for me to narrow it down to just a few. Music that I have listened to a lot has less tendency to evoke specific memories. I find that if I hear an old pop tune that I haven't heard for many years, it is more likely to dredge up associations of past events. I've been listening to early Pink Floyd from the '67-'71 period consistently for the last 25 years, so it doesn't make me think of any particular time or place. I recently heard David Essex's "Rock On", and was instantly transported back to a 6th grade dance party...

Okay:
My Sharona - The Knack
Come Dancing - The Kinks
Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando and Dawn
Close to You - The Carpenters
1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
On the Trail, from the Grand Canyon Suite - Grofe
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Sweet Jane - Lou Reed

Lots.

Hey I like that song.What a great song!! I like just about any Beatle song except Revolution #9.

Bow down Mister by Boy George
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Hundreds.

Gee, we have the same musical tastes (esp P Simon, L Reed, Carpenters, & Grofé).
There's this animal trainer, Ling. He's got this seal that can sing scales. They're in a public performance and it wont sing. After much futile coaxing and humility he gets mad and hits it, and it bellows 'Do'. He goes through all the coaxing again, loses his temper, and hit's it. Nothing. He buries his head in his hands almost in tears then bangs it on the noggin again; 'Re'. After much more coaxing he throws his hand in the air. A woman in the audience has a suggestion:
Knock three times on the seal, Ling, if you want 'Mi'. {courtesy of 7th grade english teacher who heard it on the radio that morning. You should hear the one for 'Going out of my head, over you.'}

I love Late In The Evening! That's my favorite Paul Simon song, followed closely by Me & Julio.

*groan*

The entire City of Angels sound track. It was the cd that was playing the first time my boyfriend and I made love.

"...and I'd give up forever to touch you,
cause I know that you feel me somehow.
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
and I don't want to go home right now...
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am..."

The Decline by NOFX

"Ray of Light" by Madonna brings me back to an eXtra fun evening and all around good year.

Anything by Depeche Mode pre-1988. Most 80s music, in fact.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh that's a keeper! Wait'll I tell my mom!

When I was a little girl, I would "gallop" around the living room to "On the Trail," pretending to be the little donkey trying to get up to the top. It amused my parents to no end.
I get such a strong visual image from that particular song. When I read the liner notes years later, I was stunned that my mental image of the song was right on target with Grofe's message.

When I was a kid it was Thunderstorms, In the Hall of the Mountain King, The Man of La Mancha, Paint Your Wagon, Beach Boys, Ventures, Carpenters, Steve Allen, Herb Alpert, and Elvis.. until Hair, Beatles, Allman Brothers, Bye Bye Birdie. Eventually it became Dead Kennedys, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, Velvet Underground, Lene Lovich, & the Heads. Siouxsie an the Banshees, Badalamenti, Natalie Merchant & Swing are a bit more recent.
I just bough the Sorcerors Apprentice a few days ago.

"Lady in Red" was one of the songs, if not the song, I associate with first meeting my future wife.

well, let me think about this. there is a song called 'bird doo doo' that i made up w/ my cousin when i wuz at the age of 7, but now, 4 years later, i'm into hip hop, techno, alternative, and rap. LOL. bird doo doo brings bakk good memories, and umm, well. i'll reply if i think of more. there's not much, but, i used to BAWL when i heard 'graduation' by vitamin c. i never knew the song title and i thought it wuz a song about death and there wuz this really nice guy my mom wuz dating. i mean, we're talking, angel sent from above here. but he died in a car crash in '95, 6 years ago. and i'm over it now but i still bawl hearing that song cuz it makes me think about my friends and all the good times we've had together. but then i think: 'hey, i can just see them tomorrow at school!' or, if it's summer: 'hey, i can just get on AIM and there they'll be!' so thank you Vitamin C. if you happen to read this. lol. but, there is a good side to that guys death. well, not good, just better. i think this was his thanks for me holding strong and not going to his funeral to see him mangled in his worst state, i now have a beautiful, bright, baby sister! 9 months old, and tomorrow, 12:33 a.m. actualy for me now so today, at 1:00 pm, i go to my mom's sonogram! yep, that's right... we get another one!!!

love songs (not break up songs) make me think of all the amazing things about my zac :)

I remember when Kicks was a good song. We played that song a lot back when she was only thirteen. Turned out to be prophetic. Its tragic now, if anything, the way it all happened.

(Wipes tear from his eye). Well... I think that right now, every song that once was a happy song for me is a sad song for me. (Laughs half-heartedly). I reminisce for a moment. (Gazes into the distance, empty). I'd try to explain, but I really don't believe what I am thinking can be put into words.

All your favorite songs and movies will be prophetic someday if you pay attention. You're in the formative period of your life's script. I can look back on just about everything I ever paid attention to, no matter how outrageous, and see how I in a sense lived it within a couple decades. You can get an idea of other peoples past, future and mindset, the torch they carry, by the media they've embraced.

I find you to be exceptionally wise (intuitive) at times, Kristal.
This statement fits very well with the experiences I have had in my life.

Every once in a while I guess I have the fortune of identifying something you haven't been trained to dismiss, although I suppose this example has parallels in the exoteric realm.

wow. i can't believe any of these JERKS didn't reply to your sad, sad message. i pity you angelicdemon411.

Not because they are all great songs:

Heaven-Warrant
Into the Mystic-Van Morrison
18 and Life-Skid Row
Something in the Way-Nirvana
Right Here Waiting-Richard Marx
Fade into You-Mazzy Star
What's Up-Four Non-Blondes
Sweet Child O Mine/Patience-GNR
Goodbye to Romance-Ozzy
Dr. Feelgood-Motley Crue
You are my Sunshine
That's what Friends are For-Dionne Warwick
Shaving Cream-Dr. Demento/The Benny Bell Orchestra
Personality-Various
Crawdad Hole-Doc Watson

If you say something that merits a response........

Don't worry about it! When I was new here it took a while to get into the swing of things. Once you're a part of the SC community they'll never let you go

Just because we don't reply to your comment (which incidentally is the only one of yours I recall seeing) doesn't make us jerks!

So, welcome, I guess.......

Weird. I woke up from a nap today missing Dr. Demento of all things. I used to have hours of back-to-back no repeat tapes.

My neighbor's dad had that record when we were kids... we'd listen to that song and giggle like crazy when we were like 5 or 6.

It was an unfinished song by a young American guy, We were on the isle of Wight around 1970/71. This guy came into our tent and asked us for a drink, we shared some food with him...He sang us a few songs, one of them being "American Pie".it was Don Mclean...Whatever became of him? did he make it? :)

In 1971 he released the American Pie album, and everyone I knew could sing through all 8:27 of it. I was just singing it on the 15th when I bought a 69 SAAB 96. Lots of Simon & Garfunkle too.

We share the same tastes! I am a huge Simon and Garfunkel fan! Last time I was in New York 3 years ago I missed the opening of Capeman by about 8 weeks, I also am the proud owner of "Bleeker street" bought on Bleeker Street!
You have excellent taste young lady!

Thank you, but that's just one of several dozens of tastes.

Bon Jovi reminds me of one of my boyfriends.
Slipknot reminds me of another one.

dude... i was being sarcastic. lol

I'm a dudette!

SwitchBlade Symphony's 'Mine Eyes' make me feel happy. I always remember the day when 'he' said that he loves me.