What songs "take you back"???

anything from the 80's such great music

 

I'd have to say maybe the Ghostbusters theme.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHFVTQKqdQ[/YOUTUBE]

 

Yes. I am this lame. But goddamit it reminds me of elementary school and watching Snick over my friends house >_>

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tz2V3CIYA0 [/YOUTUBE]

 

"Still Unbroken" by Lynyrd Skynyrd takes me back to my first rock concert, because one of Shinedown's encore performances (they were the main attraction, and played at least four encores), was to cover that song. The first time I heard it afterward was by change on one of the Music Choice channels. I recognized it and closed my eyes, and it took me right back to the concert.

On a less happy note, "Fields of Innocence" by Evanescence takes me back to the darker times of my first year of college, when I was dealing with depression, because I listened to that song a lot during that time, and it's a very sad song, so I can always remember those feelings of hopelessness and futility when I listen to that song.

 

Steps. I worshipped them when I was a kid, and still occasionally dance around to "5, 6, 7, 8" when I need a nostalgia hit.
Also, "Bittersweet Symphony" was my graduation song, hilariously inappropriate as it was. That song basically encapsulates the biggest relief of my life, the incredible freedom of knowing I never had to go back to school again.

 

Il y a... I feel 16 again everytime I listen to this song.

(Don't mind the video, it was the only youtube link I have found for this song)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04COb48wneM[/YOUTUBE]

 

What songs take me back?...

...at my age - a hell of a lot of them!

 

Anything by Michelle Branch reminds me of being thirteen.

I still listen to her sometimes. :icon_redf

 

Pretty much anything by these artists:

Nelly
TRUSTcompany
Sum 41
Vanessa Carlton
B2K
Eminem
Old-school OutKast (still fucking awesome)
Old-school Marilyn Manson (yeah, I was kinda emo)
Evanescence
Linkin Park (only Hybrid Theory)
90's post-grunge bands that my folks liked (Silverchair, Bush, etc.)
Blink-182
Green Day (Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning)
Disturbed (yes, even their horrendous cover of Shout)

I don't really like a lot of these now that I'm older (mostly the R&B and nu-metal stuff), but I'll still listen to some Manson or Outkast every once in a while. Hell, I'll even listen to a couple of Blink-182's deep cuts every two or three months.

 

S club 7. Cliche I know, but I love them. David gray's album life in slow motion reminds me of a holiday I took when I was 13. 5ive - keep on moving is my ultimate take-back song

 

A ton of song have specific memories attached to them. But I'll tell you about a really weird one.

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There's a really quiet breakdown in this song at around 2:35. Each time I hear it, I immediately flip back to a specific time and place.

I'm in the back seat of my parents' Ford Granada. I'm somewhere between seven and nine years old. We're coming home from a restaurant south of San Francisco. I keep thinking it's Pizza'n'Pipes or Farrell's Ice Cream Shop, both locations usually reserved for birthdays or celebrations. It's pitch dark outside, and none of us are talking. I don't even know if my brother's in the car with me, or if both my parents are in the car. I'm in a good mood, but it's very quiet kind of good mood. Almost a silent, eerie, otherworldly good mood. And everytime I hear that bit of the song, I instantly feel it again.

Here's the bit that doesn't make any sense.
They tore down Pizza'n'Pipes in 1980.
We moved away from San Francisco in 1981.
...and this song wasn't released until 1985.

I have no idea why the song taps that memory. Or even if it's a real memory.

Lex

 

how can you not remember??? s club party, reach, never had a dream come true?[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgu56ur7LIw[/YOUTUBE]

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow&ob=av2n[/YOUTUBE]

When I was 13, I loved this song to death. Listening to it and the "Oops!...I Did It Again" album brings a smile to my face. Admittedly, age 13 was a rough year on me personally, but I'd rather remember the things that made me happy than the shit that made me sad. I can't help it, I still think it's good. A guilty pleasure, if you will. :icon_bigg

I loved pretty much all of the teen pop from the late 90's and early 2000. I think I was at the perfect age to love that stuff. They played all those songs at the middle school dances. I also used to listen to alot of oldies songs with my parents when I was a little kid, so I'll always have a special place in my heart for alot of the golden oldies from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. And even though I always got the lyrics completely wrong, I LOVED this song:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJk9vWzBqc[/YOUTUBE]

 

Thesong that takes me back is, Suspicious Minds, by Elvis. My paper route manager just reurned fom Vietnam and we drove arround in his new Dodge Challenger smoking Swisher Sweet Cigars and throwing papers. (1971).

 

Every song I've ever listened to has memories attached. Some are trivial, like memories of the video games I played while listening to the specific songs/albums (Gears of War = Raconteurs, Wolfmother = Rainbow Six Vegas). But then there is a song like Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. I have two things attributed to that. One is that its one of the first songs I learned on the guitar back when I was 15 or 16 or so. That sorta signifies the start of the new Joey, a change I liked a lot. The 2nd thing is I remember reading on a guitar forum about how the used that song as the funeral song for their father, because Pink Floyd was their favorite band. Just the thought of that made me cry, especially combined with the thought of my own father's future death, since he introduced me to Pink Floyd.

So yeah. Just some examples.

 

A lot of Coldplay songs from A Rush of Blood to the Head bring back memories of my incredibly awkward, angsty middle school years. xD They're not exactly the greatest memories, but they're still part of me.

Come to think of it, a lot of my memories are connected to Coldplay songs.... The song Trouble reminds me of a certain thing that happened in the past, and I can't even listen to Everything's Not Lost without breaking down crying--that song happened to be playing when one of my worst memories happened, so I can't listen to it without feeling that pain again (which is somewhat ironic, because that's actually a really optimistic song, but I digress).

On a happier note.... You & Me by Dave Matthews Band hugely reminds me of my 17th birthday, which was also the day my girlfriend and I became an "official" couple. It just happened to be playing on the radio. It still makes me smile whenever I hear it. <3

I can't really think of any others right now, although I'm sure there are some. xD