Are there any songs that immediately take you back...

 
... to a moment in time, or maybe to a memorable part of your life?
 
 
This is one of mine, it just gets me every time I hear it: The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You 
 
I can even smell the sea air at Criccieth, and hear the waves lapping on the beach.
 
Life was about as good as it ever gets.
 
Sadly, I don't even have the 'picture' any more.
 
 
 

there are a lot of songs that take me back.  some invoke memories, some invoke smells, even physical things (heat, air, etc.. )

Well there was this one time when we were teenagers and we had eaten these strange mushrooms and listened to that most famous YES album as we drove to a place called Pine Creek in Red Rock National Park. Now whenever I hear that album... I get a flashback.

spacey

Beagle


there are a lot of songs that take me back.  some invoke memories, some invoke smells, even physical things (heat, air, etc.. )

pfffttt..yeah, sure....but can you tree a squirrel??

even in my sleep! 

Roadhouse Blues--(thanks for the reminder, Herb) friends of mine had a garage band just after high school.  I did sound/lights/roadie stuff.  We entered a battle of the bands contest.  I think we were doing pretty well.  We were half-way through a Status Quo-influenced version of Roadhouse Blues when someone cut the power!  The drummer was loving it because he got an instant solo.  They found the mains and turned the power back on and we finished the song and the set.  We thought we did better than the other bands, but one band brought all of their friends, so they won the popularity contest.  Oh, well.  They were great at playing but not so good at marketing.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nGffFJHM3g

Maputo--David Sanborn & Bob James.  In the late '80s-early '90s, some friends had a terrific jazz band that played Sunday afternoons at the Long Beach Rusty Pelican.  Good friends.  Good music.  Good food.  Good scenery--the restaurant was right on the marina.  It was a great, relaxing way to finish off a weekend.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzA58UwK0V0

Old55


We were half-way through a Status Quo-influenced version of Roadhouse Blues ... 

Hey Jan, Status Quo actually recorded a version of Roadhouse Blues for their Piledriver album. This version from Quo Live is much bettererer though.
 
 

SteveStrummerUK

Old55


We were half-way through a Status Quo-influenced version of Roadhouse Blues ... 

Hey Jan, Status Quo actually recorded a version of Roadhouse Blues for their Piledriver album. This version from Quo Live is much bettererer though.
 
 

Piledriver is what we had on vinyl back then.  Ya, this version is betterer.  Thanks.  

daryl1968


anything off 'Avalon' - Roxy Music.
Teenage love - one particular long steamy night - wowzer. Just going for a cold shower, brb

Nothing by the Monkees?  

While there are many songs that I have a nostalgic fondness for two come readily to mind.  The first because it has an interesting twist to its story and the latter because of the particular things it reminds me of.  When I was a teen there was an all night (midnite till 6am) radio show that originated here in our fair capital that was quite literally broadcast and "skipped" over much of the country...even into Canada that was called (for most of its run) either simply "Beeker Street" or "Beeker Street Theatre".  The DJ was a fellow who called himself Clyde Clifford (his real name was Dale Sidenshwartz)...who still lives here BTW...and he played essentially the same set list every single night for years and years as I grew up.  In between songs he played a melange of eerie, etherial sounds...the show, the sound and, most important, the songs were immediately identifiable to the listening public and even though the set list NEVER EVER really changed from night to night it was immensly popular everywhere it aired or could be picked up via "skip".  There were a handful of songs that became the "anchors" of the show but one in particular was "Cindy's Cryin" by a group calling itself Deep Water Reunion from up Minnesota way.  There was just something about the female lead vocalist's treatment that was both haunting and engaging.  And, if I'm not mistaken, it was the most requested song on the show.  It still brings back memories of staying up all night to listen to Beeker Street...especially on weekends....everytime I still (on rare occasions) hear it.  And now the twist.  Turns out the lead singers parents lived right here and when she got tired of being on the road she moved back here and settled down to raise a family.  She came to work for us over twenty years ago and is now a minority partner and our "office manager".  She also is still a killer singer.  Small world.

The second is the song "Keep on Chooglin" by Creedence.  We played the album that contained that song in our drummer's parent's Buick Electra's 8track player till we wore both it and the player out on hot summer nights at the river while we chugged beer that some "older boy" had bought for us earlier that night at the liquor store just across the county line.  Good times.

I always eneded up getting thrown out of the youth club and school discos







Understandable really...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I was 38 at the time
 
 
 
 

daryl1968

Old55

daryl1968


anything off 'Avalon' - Roxy Music.
Teenage love - one particular long steamy night - wowzer. Just going for a cold shower, brb

Nothing by the Monkees?  

well, there was plenty of Monkeying around that night

I'm a believer.  

SteveStrummerUK

jamesg1213


Wonder what happened to Rachelle and Mary..

That was a bit greedy wasn't it mate
 
 
You appear to have been having your cake and er...... eating it too
 
 

 Not really, my mate Grant was there too, but I know what happened to him.

SteveStrummerUK


 
... to a moment in time, or maybe to a memorable part of your life?
 
 
This is one of mine, it just gets me every time I hear it: The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You 
 
 
 
 

Always loved that tune.

Too many to mention for me - so many memories associated with songs. The thing I always find amazing is how you can hear a tune you've not heard or even thought about for years and years and yet as soon as it comes on you know every word and every little part of it. Memory is an amazing thing.

The world changed for me the first time I heard White Riot on the John Peel Show one night
 
What I loved most about John Peel, and some of you old buggers will attest to this, is that he used to deliberately play all the songs in their entirety. No annoying 'DJ speak' over the intro, and he'd let 'em play right until the very end. He just knew that we were all out there with fingers poised on the record button of our radio-cassette players
 
 

craigb


Yes.

 
Didn't have you down as a prog fan Craig (if that is your real Monica)