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EliSnow

04-23-2006, 01:12 PM

I was just listening to a mix of songs I put together awhile ago, and heard Matthew Sweet's "I've Been Waiting," and suddenly had a flashback to junior year of college when I listened to "Girlfriend" constantly.  However after that year, I rarely listened to it.  Anyone else have songs/albums that automatically bring them back to an earlier time in their lives? Albums or songs they played almost non-stop, and then didn't listen to for a long time?A couple others for me for now:Freshman year of college - Pearl Jam "Ten" with "Black" being played over and over as I mourned a break-up.Sophomore year - PM Dawn Of The Heart, Of The Soul, And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience all the time sophomore year.Around 1999 - Collective Soul

kdubya

04-23-2006, 01:18 PM

First half of college freshman year at the University of Minnesota Duluth was all Pink Floyd, My roommates and I decided Comftorably Numb was our theme song.Second half was Rusted Root " Send me on my way..."I must admit Sophomore year was.....Indigo Girls. The gal I was digging that year was a big fan, so like a lame ass fag it became my thing as well. Laugh all ya want but she had great boobs. And in case anyone was wondering, yes she shaved her pits.

This message was edited by kdubya on 4-23-06 @ 5:19 PM

Grendel_Kahn

04-23-2006, 01:18 PM

I have always made it a point to kinda make a tape/cd
every few weeks.  No longer than once a month.  I date every
one and put them away.  It is a really wonderful vibe when you
pull out a cd or tape you made a few years ago.  It brings you
right back to that place and time.  I sometimes relive the summer
of 1995 that way.  What a good year that was.  It dosen't
have to be music from that year.  Just stuff that you are into and
have rattling round your noggin.  There are songs that overlap
months or years, and depending on the context of the surrounding songs,
each disk will elicit a different feeling about that song.  GOD
ONLY KNOWS by the bBeach Boys is really good example.  Depending
on YOUR mood, it is either a happy song, or one to put you near
suicide.

FUNKMAN

04-23-2006, 01:19 PM

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006N4L.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" />i was a carefree 14 year old, learning about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. songs from this album like Let E'm In and Silly Love Song just take me back to the summer of 76' if and when i ever hear them again...

kdubya

04-23-2006, 01:21 PM

EliSnow wrote: I was just listening to a mix of songs I put together awhile ago, and heard Matthew Sweet's "I've Been Waiting," and suddenly had a flashback to junior year of college when I listened to "Girlfriend" constantly.  However after that year, I rarely listened to it.  Anyone else have songs/albums that automatically bring them back to an earlier time in their lives? Albums or songs they played almost non-stop, and then didn't listen to for a long time?A couple others for me for now:Freshman year of college - Pearl Jam "Ten" with "Black" being played over and over as I mourned a break-up.Sophomore year - PM Dawn Of The Heart, Of The Soul, And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience all the time sophomore year.Around 1999 - Collective SoulGirlfriend is a sweet (no pun intended) song, so is Evangaline

reeshy

04-23-2006, 01:30 PM

FUNKMAN wrote: <img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006N4L.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" />i was a carefree 14 year old, learning about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. songs from this album like Let E'm In and Silly Love Song just take me back to the summer of 76' if and when i ever hear them again...  WOW..you're an old fuck, Funk!!!!!!!!!!

Gvac

04-23-2006, 01:32 PM

Lynyrd Skynyrd (the ORIGINAL band, of course) will always remind me of junior high.  Skynyrd was the first band I absolutely flipped out over and converted me into a full fledged music maniac.  I remember saving every penny I made mowing lawns and shoveling snow so I could buy every album they ever put out.  In high school I discovered punk and The Ramones and The Clash became all important to me.  To this day, hearing any of the aforementioned bands immediately tansports me back to those days.

FUNKMAN

04-23-2006, 01:35 PM

reeshy wrote:     FUNKMAN wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006N4L.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" />i was a carefree 14 year old, learning about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. songs from this album like Let E'm In and Silly Love Song just take me back to the summer of 76' if and when i ever hear them again...  WOW..you're an old fuck, Funk!!!!!!!!!!  thanks, thanks alot!    <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" />have to tell ya though, when i was your age i was quite the strapping lad....   <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/wink.gif" border="0" />

Death Metal Moe

04-23-2006, 01:40 PM

<img height="300" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000H64.08._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="300" border="0" />Fear Factory's album "Demanufacture" is important to me for 2 reason.1 is that it was out during a time in my life that I was REALLY getting into Death Metal.  This CD is fucking amazing and still holds up today against ANY similar Metal in my opinion.  I also don't think Fear Factory has ever matched this album with any of their releases afterwards.2 takes me back to my final week or 2 in High School.  I fucking hated my school at the time and wanted out.  The goal was about a week or 2 away, and then they made us go one some lame ass fucking retreat for like 12 hours.  We left in the morning, did a lot of group activities, prayed, talked about some shit, then we spent a couple more hours in the school after they dropped us off.  I took my walkman and a few tapes with me, Demanufacture being one of them.  I must have listened to that fucking tape like 3-5 times all the way through during that horrible day.  Every opportunity I got to get away from the group I took and put my headphones on.  I didn't want to be there, didn't want to be a part of that class and couldn't wait to move on with my life.  This album helped me through that day.Because of those things, when I hear this CD it's like a comforting lullaby to my mind.  It is strong and soothing at the same time.

This message was edited by Death Metal Moe on 4-23-06 @ 5:41 PM

narc

04-23-2006, 01:44 PM

I was really depressed and lovelorn during the winter of '97. I listened to OK Computer until the CD nearly wore out.

SatCam

04-23-2006, 02:11 PM

I was thinking of making a thread about this a while back... crazy phenomenon.

That said, no specific album comes to mind. I'm useless

torker

04-23-2006, 02:41 PM

tele7

04-23-2006, 02:50 PM

Debbie Downer Alert!  When I was 10, a good friend of mine was hit by a car and killed.  Wonderama was on the TV and Cat's In The Cradle by Harry Chapin was on the radio.  I rarely hear that song anymore, but when I do, it instantly brings me back to Feb. 5th, 1975.

FezPaul

04-23-2006, 03:01 PM

Pink Floyd's-The Wall- It was the sound track to my senior year in high school.I totally burnt myself out (Har!) on it, and now I can't listen to it at all.

Marc with a c

04-23-2006, 03:04 PM

the blue album from weezer, i had just gotten my license and had that thing in high rotation. as i was cruisin for chicks.

TheQuestion

04-23-2006, 03:53 PM

Any song from the early 80's makes me think of the video.  It was the beginning of MTV and all of those one hit wonders were in heavy rotation.  If I hear "Turning Japanese" or "Mexican Radio" or "Love Plus One" or any of those old songs I just think of how mesmerized my friends and I were by watching those stupid videos over and over again.

A.J.

04-24-2006, 04:43 AM

Everytime I hear "Ten Years Gone" or "In The Light" by Zeppelin, I think of high school and getting stoned and drunk with my friends.U2's Achtung Baby and Pearl Jam Ten remind me of senior year of college.

EliSnow

04-24-2006, 04:54 AM

As I was thinking about this more, a couple of more examples came to mind:7th or 8th grade - Every saturday, my brother and I would go bowlling with a bunch of other kids and two songs that always played were Billy Squier "Rock Me Tonight" and Duran Duran "Wild Boys."1995 - I was working as a waiter at a Hoboken restaurant/bar called "Texas Arizona" and would often work Saturday brunch.  The one song that reminds me of prepping everything for brunch is Dionne Farris' "I Know."  

This message was edited by EliSnow on 4-24-06 @ 8:55 AM

FUNKMAN

04-24-2006, 06:05 AM

When i was 6 or 7(late 60's) i remember my 2 favorite songs were Eli's Coming by Three Dog Night and Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. My aunt owned a candy store up the corner and  'Eli's Coming' was on the juke box. The biggest thrill was seeing Three Dog Night perform it on the Ed Sullivan Show. The second biggest thrill was hearing either song on the family car radio...

iscream22

04-24-2006, 07:28 AM

I'd have to say Sublime.  Particularly the second hand smoke album.  There was a lot of "first hand" smoke goin on in high school at the time!

kdubya

04-24-2006, 07:30 AM

torker wrote: <img height="381" src="http://www.tomamusica.com/caratulas/U/U2-The-Joshua-Tree-Trasera.jpg" width="538" border="0" /> I may be alone in this, but I always liked Achtung Baby more than J Tree

FezPaul

04-24-2006, 09:38 AM

kdubya wrote: torker wrote: <img height="381" src="http://www.tomamusica.com/caratulas/U/U2-The-Joshua-Tree-Trasera.jpg" width="538" border="0" /> I may be alone in this, but I always liked Achtung Baby more than J TreeI know I'm alone in this, I bailed out after "Boy".

monsterone

04-24-2006, 06:30 PM

2 albums that got me through high school (a cassette & a 12" to be exact):<img width="200" height="200" border="1" src="http://www.smartpunk.com/product_images/884.gif" alt="man is the bastard - sum of the men" title="man is the bastard - sum of the men" /> <img width="185" height="182" border="1" src="http://www.musiq.pl/images/37/Integrity_Those_Who_Fear_Tomorrow.jpg" alt="integrity - those who fear tomorrow" title="integrity - those who fear tomorrow" />