IS there a a song.......

[DirtySanchez]

That when you hear it, you automatically go back to a specific time in your past?

This was inspired by another thread where I said The Sepultura song, Refuse/Resist took me back to Peter C's in like 99 when my band Dysfunktion would play there. We were all 19-21 and we were far from great, but man we always had a blast at Pete's. We played lots of other places in Altoona and J-town, but Petes was our "home". Big John made us feel like we were legit musicians on par with everyone else, and that meant a lot to me, a kid just getting his feet wet in the game. Anyways when I hear that song, especially when it's unexpected, all of those feelings just rush over me again.

There are others too. Like when I hear Phish's "Bouncing round the room" I immediately remember when my wife and I first met and started hanging out. Sammy Johns "chevy Van" reminds me of cruising around riding shotgun with my dad, on our way to raystown to go fishing. That song came on and He was so stoked and said "Now listen, cuz this is a good song" then he told me how when he was a kid he always dreamed of tricking out a big chevy van, but how sometimes life gets in the way and family is more important than material stuff.

Anybody else? share yours

[f.sciarrillo]

GnR - November Rain .. I will not say why, just that it does ...

[witchhunt]

C'mon puss, tell us.

[Plastered Bastards]

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos by Public Enemy.... It always reminds me of Rug and I in 1989,cruising out to the mall and inviting anyone we knew to come back to his place on Beer Street and party. Always a huge turnout.

Paranoid by Sabbath.... It reminds me of when I was a kid and hanging out with my older brother in the mid 70's

[moxham123]

There are many for me too. One song that always brings back some great memories is The Rapper by The Jaggerz (when Donnie Iris was still Dominic Ierace). Our teen youth fellowship group at church played that record constantly and I had great times with those kids and my band played the church dances when I was 13, 14, and 15, years old and that is where I started out in my first band. And, yes, we played The Rapper.

[songsmith]

An old country song, "Pretty World Today" by Freddy Hart really gives me a vivid memory. I heard it once on the old "Rooster" radio station, (hadn't heard it since 1969), and the visual freaked me out a little. I could see my living room when I was a kid, I could describe the furniture and everything, and the old tube table radio Dad put up on the back of the couch on Saturday mornings. It was one of those moments when you realize how much music is a part of you.

Old Merle Haggard songs put me back in Trough Creek Valley, Kiss takes me to Mark Morningstar's basement stereo system, and AC-DC's all about too much pot and too much beer at a kegger near Three Springs.
Very cool thread.--->JMS

[Korruption4ever]

L.A. Woman by The Doors: I remember being in the Catholic War Vets with my dad after his sofball game. I was in like 5th grade. I ask for a quarter (that's right a quarter!) for the jukebox. He told me to play L.A. Woman because "you get your money's worth out of that song" Every time I hear it it takes me right there.

[Jim Price]

A few that stick out in my mind:

"More Than a Feeling" by Boston. That song often takes me back to the summer of 1976, when I was on crutches after suffering a bad ankle injury in phys ed class. I was bummed out much of that summer, but that song raised my spirits.

The live version of "Paranoid" by Grand Funk Railroad. Every time I hear this one, I think of laying in bed late night when I was 13 or 14, and listening to WVAM through an earphone on an old GE transistor radio. WVAM used to be a rock'n'roll station back then (around 1973-74), and I remember a young Roger Corey playing "Paranoid" and other "underground rock" classics late at night.

Similarly, "Bad Company" by Bad Company also throws me back to around 1974, when I first heard this song on WPEZ in Pittsburgh, through my older brother's old Penncrest stereo (which I still have!) and rabbit-ear antenna. The signal had some static, but WPEZ was playing the new rock at the time, so I listened whenever I could.

The Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz." Every time I hear this, I flash back to fall of 1982, and Penn State's Beaver Stadium, the infamous game against Nebraska. Living in a fraternity house at that time, I had been partying and got badly drunk the night before, and was enduring one of the worst hangovers of my life that day when I trudged up to Beaver Stadium for tailgating and the game. My head was throbbing as I got to my seat in the stadium, and they started playing "Ballroom Blitz" through the stadium PA to fire everybody up. My head was in pain, but I was pumping my fist in the air with everyone else. Penn State won that game, en route to their first national championship. My head was still throbbing after the game!

[rug]

Clete, don't forget "The Elements" from ANTI-SCHISM as well.
Yeah we always had huge turnouts, we had to....we tried to pay our rent by having parties, we charged 5 bux a head to get in. It was a lot fun and a lot happened in that 4 or so months......
~~The dead salamander in the refrigerator door
~~ Doomwatch, Submachine & Sludge playin a gig in the kitchen
~~ The "TERRORDOME"
~~ Police every night
~~Stacks of party ball boxes
Ahhhhhh, the good old days

[metalchurch]

The first time I ever heard Black Sabbath was when I was really young. It was "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath."
I remember asking my dad who it was and from then on they were my favorite band.

There's 3 live albums that my brother and I wore out when we were younger.
Iron Maiden "Live After Death"
Black Sabbath "Live at Last"
Ozzy "Tribute to Randy Rhoads"

Everytime I hear that stuff I think back to when we used to get high and listen to that stuff.

Haha, I remember one time we ate a bunch of acid and were staring at the "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" album cover fold out. It has a super-imposed image of the members of Sabbath and it's like a tracer effect.

I was finding all kinds of good stuff on the 1st Sabbath album cover as well. Almost scary shit.
Then a few days later I was going to show my buddy my "findings" and low and behold they weren't there!
I could make out some of the things that I thought were there a few nights earlier, but he wasn't seeing it.


There's so many memories in my life that are sparked by a song or an album.
It's more a part of our life than we think.

[witchhunt]

Around 1971-1974, I was 10-13, I got my first "real" stereo. It wasn't great but still a lot better than anything I had before. Anyway I bought Alice Cooper-Love it to Death on vinyl. ( BTW, albums were about $4.95 then. Two weeks allowance.) I used to listen to "Second Coming" and "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" over and over again. This was shortly after aquiring a taste for 3 bean salad.

[witchhunt]

I was finding all kinds of good stuff on the 1st Sabbath album cover as well. Almost scary shit.

I think there was something in one of the windows. I'm too lazy to dig out my album right now, but I'll try to find it sometime.

[metalchurch]

There's a crow in the tree and something written in blood in the bushes or on the tree I cant remember.
Good times, good times.

[metalchurch]

Yeah Bill, I remember my first "real" stereo as well. It was a turntable + Dual Cassette!!!
I remember converting my old man's albums to cassette and making my own "perfect album side"
Damn that was a long time ago...

[Banned]

Where I grew up,"along 36" the town had an annual community yard sale.
It was around late June or early July this took place. I turned thirteen that August. I bought one of those record players with the fold out speakers. As much as I want to say the brand, all I can remember is "Electro" something.
Anyway, I buy this thing and I brought it home, then came to the realization...I have no records. My mom came upstairs to see why I hurried there. When she saw what I was doing she said, " I have some records if you want to listen to them." She left and when she returned to my room she had both a stack of 45's and LP's. She said, "Let me know which ones you really like." I was shocked.
Amongst the single's were the standard radio hits from the likes of 'The Archies, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Eagles..etc. I didn't find anything in the 45's that really GOT me, you know. When I started going through the stack of LP's I found everything from The Beatles White Album to Black Oak Arkanas, not to mention Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Ziggy Stardust and the Spider's From Mars. The Todd Rundgren I could do without, although I found myself listening to it when I was stoned.
So, long story short... from that summer I soaked up EVERYTHING Q-94 had on the air at the time, believed Ozzy was god and made music my failed life......

[felix'apprentice]

wow .. im only 22 but theres def. some songs that stick out.

kenny chesney - who you'd be today, i remember hearing this song right after my cousin died at 17 from a drug overdose. hit me hard and everytime i hear this song i go back to the day my dad looked at me and told me dustin died. rip bud.

lynyrd skynyrd - gimme three steps, everytime i hear that song i go back to when i was bout 10 years old, sittin around a camp fire listenin to my uncle and some guys playin guitars and singing skynyrd. i remember thinkin to myself - im gonna play guitar someday, and here i am. i owe it all to my crazy uncle lol.

smashing pumpkins - by starlight. first time i heard it my ex sang it to me, what can i say im a sucker for a guy with a guitar ...

and thats all i got for now lol...

- k a Y l a

[Little Devil Girl]

Ok, I know you will all get a kick out of this one...does anyone remember the song "CONVOY" ???? I remember sitting at my grandparents house and when we kids were bored we'd go through the records and put that one on all the time..we knew the words by heart and had a whole skit to the darn song!! OMG!! Wow what a memory....

[Naga]

My second or third cassette was Alice Cooper's Trash album. I remember laying in my bed in my room night after night and listening to that album. I was somewhere between 10 and 12 at that point, and it was something I listened to often. I can still remember, right now, staring up as Alice's vocal textures bit through the air like a shark

My first CD (yeah, I'm not that old yet) was KISS' Double Platinum. I listened to that thing HEAVILY. Some time not long after that, my parents took me to my first major concert... Powerman 5000 opening up for KISS themselves. I had a Hell of a night that night, and listening to some KISS songs STILL reminds me of that night, even if I don't listen to KISS much any more

I can still remember between 2000 and 2002, my last years living in Baltimore. I made it a point to see what few shows I could, and ended up seeing a total of 7 shows through those years. Some of the main bands I remember seeing included KoRn, Metallica, Alice Cooper, Cold, and GWAR. Several of these bands' songs bring me back to that era

To this day, many other examples still drag me back to times. Many shows, many other events

I went to see DevilDriver with GWAR at the Crowbar (my only time ever being there, sadly). I remember going with my g/f of the time. We broke up on mutual terms within a week or 2 of that, but we were still good friends. Anyway, we went down there and I remember being close enough to steal Dez's mic from him, and holding her with me as GWAR shot their various fluids into the crowd. I remember the level of everything that happened that night. And DevilDriver often reminds me of her, as do Jack Off Jill, and some Nightwish

Flaw in Johnstown... A close friend was there with me that night. ANY Flaw song reminds me of her, and of that night, and just of things that have happened throughout our friendship

Many other songs remind me of many other of my friends. Many other songs remind me of other times in my life. The Offspring's The Kids Aren't Alright still causes me to reminisce about the days when I picked up my first six-string. I can go on and on, but I think I'm gonna stop a bit... Breathe some, and give someone else a chance. Heh

[Lisa]

Two songs for me...

Lucy in the Sky - Uncle Melvin's in my youth...we had a lot of fun there...they had like 6 kids in a two bedroom mobile home...but for some reason they never seemed to mind it. We spent most of our time outside anyway.

Any REO Speedwagon (guess that would be more than two)...Reminds me of 1981 - 1985 when my then boyfriend now ex-husband and I would cruise around in his 1964 1/2 convertible mustang. Oh, to be young and wild again without a care in the world.

[Redsfury]

ah to hear dueling banjos takes me back to that time a friend and i were lost in the woods......

but anyway Reason to believe by Rod Stewart was one of the first songs i remember hearing when i was a little kid ive always like it to this day, and Summer Breeze by CSNY and Melissa by the Allman Brothers always took me back to fall and reminded how crisp the air feels around september in the evenings

[bassist_25]

I remember the first band that I really "got into" was Dire Straits. I had started to listen to music right before I went into 7th grade, but they were the first band that I really would say that I became obsessed with and would buy albums of on a regular basis. I still remember one day my dad was playing a cassette that he had copied from my aunt, and I heard Money for Nothing for the first time. It was kind of like when people saw The Beatles on Sullivan. It just sunk in for me.

This past Sunday, my girlfriend and I went vinyl shopping (hence the question about record players in the tech sector), and I came across a copy of Brothers in Arms for a buck. I've really been jonesing to hear that disc now that it's been sitting in my living room for a couple of days. To tie me over, I whipped out my CD of On The Night to hear some live versions of Straits songs. They were an incredibly diverse band, with everything from hard rock (Money for Nothing, Heavy Fuel) to country (Calling Elvis) to easy listening (Your Latest Trick) to progressive rock (Private Investigations) to Dylan-esque singer/songwriter (The Man's Too Strong).

[BDR]

I can't pin this down to a song or two cuz honestly, I hear at least a song every day that takes me somewhere I once was.

That's one of the biggest values in music for me — you associate songs with memorable times in your life, good and bad.

r:>)

[ZappasXWife]

1. When I was a little kid, before I could walk down to Gables to buy my own 45's the first kind of music I played on my own was my parent's collection of Glen Campbell records. Goofy I know but that and Mitch Miller was about all they had. The few times I've heard old Glen Campbell it definitely takes me back to when I was really young.
2. Old Alice Cooper and KISS reminds me of hanging out with fbooth in the neighborhood in 1974.
3. Elton John GYBR album remind me of the first time I fell in love. WOW
4. Moody Blues reminds me of when I met my husband (ex) and yes it still makes me feel good when i hear it.
5. Frank Zappa reminds me of my old friend Mike Figurelli who passed away recently who was a Zappa freak. And the ex of course.
6. Neil Young After the Gold Rush and CSNY Four Way Street takes me right back to 1975 and my friend Kris Peterson's bedroom. She and all of her artistic sisters who painted all the time turned me on to a lot of things I never heard on the radio.
7. When my son who is now 22 was 3 yrs old, we got him an old turntable and 100's of 45's. He would sit and play Joan Jett I Hate Myself For Loving You and ACDC for HOURS. Hated it then, but makes me miss my little baby now.
8. Fleetwood Mac album Say You Will reminds me of when I fell in love with my current partner and makes me feel all googly inside.

[Asundor]

MY FIRST METAL ALBUMS WERE METAL CHURCH AND W.A.S.P. I CAN REMEMBER BUYING THEM AT A SECOND HAND STORE HERE IN HUNTINGDON WHEN I WAS A KID TAKING THEM HOME AND WAS LIKE WOW I'VE BEEN HEALED. THEN OF COURSE I HATE TO SAY IT BUT I WENT DOWN A DAY OR SO AFTER AND PURCHASED THE FIRST POISON ALBUM. OK MAYBE I SHOULDN'T HAVE PUT THAT ON THERE. BUT I LOVED METAL CHURCHES ALBUM (THE DARK).

[YankeeRose]

I can't pin this down to a song or two cuz honestly, I hear at least a song every day that takes me somewhere I once was.

That's one of the biggest values in music for me — you associate songs with memorable times in your life, good and bad.

r:>)

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