What songs have special meaning for you, or bring back specific memories, for whatever reason?

 

For me it's

 

I was doing the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life and the DJ played this, and I just remember everyone walking around and rocking out to the guitar solo at the end and getting mad when he turned it off

 

When I left for basic training, this was playing at the medical area of the MEPS. I just thought, "Yep, I'm on my way to start my military career".

 

I heard this on my clock radio the morning I left for Fort Jackson.  It just made me think about forgetting the past, and getting ready for a better future.

 

(Don't make fun of me) This just makes me think of after I left the Army, and the difficult time I had. I was so not looking forward to it, since it was a constant for me for the last decade. It reminded me that it will get easier, and as one officer told me "when one door closes, another opens".

 

This was the first song I learned when I learned how to play guitar.

 

I want to walk down the aisle to this when my fiance and I have the civil ceremony, if all goes well. 

 

I think of my best friend when I hear this song, since she told me it was the perfect wedding song.   She's weird like that.

 

This reminds me of the summer I joined the Army, just before I left for basic training. I just remember it coming on the radio one night whilst I was driving home from work, having the moonroof open, and looking up at the night sky. It just felt so perfect for the moment.

 

It reminds me of someone I met briefly that had a huge impact on me. PM me if you want to know the whole story.

 

(Don't make fun of me) I think of when my ex and I got back together, and how we would be engaged if it wasn't for the reasons we were broken up. When we got back together, we had mended our relationship, we just couldn't be together for other reasons. Now I think of my fiance and I, the adventure we're about to embark upon, and how we're hoping to prove the naysayers wrong.

 

That's just a few that I can think of right now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow!  I'm going to post one that will always be a firm favourite with me.

 

During the miners' strike I lived in the Tory heartland of England, and this song helped me to put up with their cries of jubilation when the strike was broken

 

and here's another one..

 

I'm on a roll!

 

 

 

I'm not really a fan of Green Day but this was played at my Godmother's funeral after she topped herself:

 

 

I hate this song but it was stuck in my head the first time I got drunk with my friends and some girls as a teenager so I always associate it with some very pleasant memories:

 

Is it me? So much music has painful association even many years later. The duchess and I were discussing the double edged sword that is Valentine's day earlier and tunes associated with love and heartbreak.

Two tunes have bitter sweet feelings for me as they remind me of two dear pals no longer with us.

I also despise the dreadful, commercial Christmas tunes as they remind me of my lonely Christmases past.

My tune of hope and encouragement was always Elvis' 'If I Can Dream'. Not sure why, I think the lyrics touched me at a time I needed it.

My dad died on the evening that England got knocked out of the world cup in 1998 and Three Lions was everywhere.  As I've said before, dad was a massive sports fan and everytime I hear that song I am in tears - I'm welling up now just thinking of it.  

 

The other one that gets me because of the nostalgia and memories of both mum and dad (and the rest of the family, all enjoying Morecambe and Wise) is Bring Me Sunshine - again it has me in tears each time.  I curse Chris Evans for starting to play it every Friday morning!

 

It's weird when  seemingly innocuous songs such as those can provoke tears, rather than the melancholy ones.

My dad died on the evening that England got knocked out of the world cup in 1998 and Three Lions was everywhere.  As I've said before, dad was a massive sports fan and everytime I hear that song I am in tears - I'm welling up now just thinking of it.  

 

The other one that gets me because of the nostalgia and memories of both mum and dad (and the rest of the family, all enjoying Morecambe and Wise) is Bring Me Sunshine - again it has me in tears each time.  I curse Chris Evans for starting to play it every Friday morning!

 

It's weird when  seemingly innocuous songs such as those can provoke tears, rather than the melancholy ones.

I'm with you BQ, I couldn't even type the two songs that remind me of my pals. Music is emotive and confusing when an upbeat tune brings tears. Spunds like you and your pa had a good relationship :)

Aww Droog - I feel for you.  You obviously miss your friends and they meant a lot to you.  That sounds rather trite but I don't know how else to put it.

 

It's funny how it's subconscious often.  There could be loads of songs that remind me of my dad - he was a big musical fan and we often used to watch them together, all the old Rodgers and Hammerstein, Fred and Ginger and Frank Sinatra ones.  So any of those could, and do to an extent, remind me of him but it is those two that get to me.  

 

A nice note to end on though - my 21 year old son has just discovered the old musicals - and I go with him to watch Chelsea - my old man would be proud!

The Duchess is playing Good Morning Starshine (Hair) to add some cheer :)

'Anyone Who Had A Heart' reminds me of my Mum being very upset (years later and still now when the subject comes up) about the Aberfan disaster. I think it's because they played the song years ago on a documentary about the events. My Mum never cries and it was a shock to see her so upset.

'Anyone Who Had A Heart' reminds me of my Mum being very upset (years later and still now when the subject comes up) about the Aberfan disaster. I think it's because they played the song years ago on a documentary about the events. My Mum never cries and it was a shock to see her so upset.

50 year anniversary next year, still shakes me to the core.

I have many, and it all depends on the setting I suppose, as to what one rings truest at that moment.I will say, however, that music evokes the strongest emotions in me.  I can be moved by dance, and theatre, and art...but music can evoke happiness, energy, sadness, joy.  It's no wonder that even terminal grumpy-pants Schopenhauer even thought music was the greatest of the arts.

 

Currently, when I think of my wife and our little girl, the song that hits home the most is Otis Redding's "That's how Strong My Love is."

 

No idea why, but the following verse really stuck with me as I looked at a picture of my wife cuddling our wee one.  My wife who, during a bout of depression never thought that she'd be capable of loving, or being a mother...she's now amazing and so filled with love that it makes me very happy:

 

I'll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
And you can go swimming when you are here
I'll be the rainbow after the tears are gone 
Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm

 

I listened to Levels by Avicii throughout the best summer of my life (3 years ago) and whenever I listen to it I get happy memories.

I wouldn't say any have particularly special meaning for me. But the closest is probably:

 

 

For a couple of reasons

Edited February 13, 201511 yr by Zeta Orionis

Not really a Keane fan at all, but that song is amazing!

 

Quite a random one but I think it was in December 2009 when it snowed really heavily and caused chaos across the country. It took me about six hours to get home from work that night.

 

I left for work the next morning and I still vividly remember the walk I took, seeing the whole of Reading just covered in snow and cars left dumped all over the place because, like me, they couldn't get anywhere the night before.

 

Why this song? It was playing on my iPod as I was walking!

Edited February 13, 201511 yr by Huttsey

The song I can't handle hearing anymore is wires by athlete. My little girl was a few days old and was in the special care unit with all kinds of wires connected to her as she was born 6 weeks premature and was tiny. I was driving through to see her and the song came on, I had to pull over as I was crying my eyes out as it all just hit me.

Oh bloody hell dkw - no wonder you can't listen to it.  You know that it was written in exactly the same circumstances don't you?

Do you think tunes evoke more bad memories than good? I suppose it's the life one has had, or the intensity of a particular experience.

Oh bloody hell dkw - no wonder you can't listen to it.  You know that it was written in exactly the same circumstances don't you?

I didn't at the time, I had heard the song so many times and hadnt even noticed the lyrics.

This playing in the pub the first time I met Loz.

 

 

 

 

Do you think tunes evoke more bad memories than good? I suppose it's the life one has had, or the intensity of a particular experience.

I'd say sad rather than bad memories.  I don't know that it's more in number but they seem to be more intense.  

 

OK let's try some happy ones then:

 

D.I.S.C.O by Ottowan - first holiday abroad with my friend in Ibiza - it was everywhere!  Loads of songs remind me of this friend as we were together throughout our school years - in fact she tagged me on Facebook only this morning to remind me of walking all over town trying to buy Good Thing Going by Sugar Minott before it became big - it had been going round our bars for months before it got radio play and we couldn't find anywhere to buy it.  Oh and Bobby Brown by Frank Zappa - same holiday in Ibiza it was played every night in one bar and a camp guy in drag mimed to it - it didn't seem weird at the time but it does now I write it!  In fact there are so many songs from my late teens which can instantly transport me back to a basement wine bar (how cool did we think that was!) and all the blokes we fancied and all the dramas that went with teenage life!

 

Mr Brightside - don't particularly like the Killers but when I hear this I always think of singing it with my daughter and my friend at V at the top of our voices.

 

Rat Trap - always reminds me of my brother who used to do a brilliant Bob Geldof impression.

 

42nd street - when we went to New York our apartment was on 42nd street and I sang this all the time.

 

I could go on.......

Sad is a better word yes. It seems happier tune memories are associated with when we're young and the world is in front of us. Your life sounds fun!

Snow Patrol- Chasing cars

My best friend who I've known since we were 5 told me recently that she always thinks of me when this song comes on.

I rarely get emotional, but that hit me.