Songs that take you back (and where)

[usalsfyre]

Had a long discussion in AMLS class the other day about glutamate and long-term memory formation. One of the things mentioned was sounds and how they can cause to instantly recall things.

"Complicated" came on the radio this morning and I was instantly transported back to summer semester in paramedic school and a tumultuous but fondly remembered relationship.

What songs take you back to a different place?

 

[NomadicMedic]

When I hear "Boulevard" from Jackson Browne or “Hot Rod Hearts” from Robbie Dupree, I’m taken right back to the summer of 1980, when I spent my vacation on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. It was a glorious summer of Cheese steaks, watersides, mini golf and the beach. Those songs take me right there.

 

[mycrofft]

The thumping of mastadon hide drums, my first EMS job...

OK, "Pomp and Circumstance",(aka "the graduation song"); as a member of the school orchestra, having to learn it, then play out over and over and over twice a year for three years, I can even smell the old auditorium at my junior high school.

http://www.miss-music.com/music/pomp_loop.wav

 

[RocketMedic]

Lame, but "All Star" by Smash Mouth always sucks me back to 6th grade summer and my first-ever 3rd ride.

 

[Aidey]

"Complicated" came on the radio this morning and I was instantly transported back to summer semester in paramedic school and a tumultuous but fondly remembered relationship.

What songs take you back to a different place?

Wait a second. "Complicated" as in the song by Avril Lavigne?

 

[usalsfyre]

Wait a second. "Complicated" as in the song by Avril Lavigne?

Yep, call me names, but it fit the situation I was in at the time perfectly lol.

(usalsfyre is in touch with his feminie side)

 

[Aidey]

I want to make fun of you, but I can't since I knew what song you were talking about. :glare:

 

[usalsfyre]

I want to make fun of you, but I can't since I knew what song you were talking about. :glare:

I've decided in my "old age" guilty pleasures are ok as long as they're limited .

 

[Anjel]

Little moments by brad paisley. Summer of 2009. First true love.

 

[DesertMedic66]

"redneck yaht club" by Craig Morgan. Takes me back to all the family vacations to the Colorado river.

 

[Sasha]

I can.

Holy crap Avril Lavigne? Really?

Do you need to borrow my black eyeliner?

 

[Aidey]

I can.

Holy crap Avril Lavigne? Really?

Do you need to borrow my black eyeliner?

HAHAHAHA!!!! Sasha I just literally busted out laughing! Priceless!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[usalsfyre]

I can.

Holy crap Avril Lavigne? Really?

Do you need to borrow my black eyeliner?

Only if you've got the nail polish to match...

 

[DesertMedic66]

I can.

Holy crap Avril Lavigne? Really?

Do you need to borrow my black eyeliner?

I actually like her music..

 

[ffemt8978]

"Cum on Feel the Noise" by Quiet Riot - State Latin Convention in 1983 and the associated Toga parties.

 

[Mad Max]

Ok, so it might have only been about two months ago, but whenever I hear "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, I remember my first ride along. Bouncin' down the road with lights and sirens with that cranked up on the radio, it was the moment that everything fell into place and let me know that this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

 

[VCEMT]

Lame, but "All Star" by Smash Mouth always sucks me back to 6th grade summer and my first-ever 3rd ride.

Reminds me of my senior football season, Fivestar notebooks, and scientific calculators.

Anthrax's "We've Come For You All" Album, takes me back to a myriad of thoughts. Some songs remind me of a certain place from 2003-2006, the woman that broke my heart, how my small town has changed, and cruising the 126 in a Silverado.

 

[SSwain]

I have an awesome memory...just about any song I can place with approximate time it was popular, what I was doing at the time...and in some cases who I was dating.

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel reminds me of my High School sweetheart Cassandra

Hard to handle-- Black Crows Reminds me of Liz

Jane Says---Jane's Addiction was the song on the radio on my first call during my clinicals

Just like a certain smell will take somebody back in time, a song will do the same for me.

 

[mycrofft]

BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive": CPR classes.

Fontella Bass "Rescue Me": all the good times before I started to grow up (1980 or so...)

 

[fast65]

Keith Urban's "Sweet Thing"...summer of 2009, my first (and only) true love. How oddly alike Anjel and I are