music Is there a particular song that takes you back?

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

Is a particular song (or more than one song) that takes you back to an important time in your life, a particular moment, or just a song that reminds you of someone? 

Here's a couple songs that remind me of when I first met @Cyclone1066. We both refer to them as "our songs" 

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That first summer we spent together....

 

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This song takes me back to the day I bought my truck.  It started playing over the radio on the drive home. 

 

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This one takes me back to all the memories of just this past summer. Graduating high school, all the hot and steamy afternoons working on the truck (especially with @Cyclone1066 ) cruising around the back roads outside town with nothing to do.....

 

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Hearing this song takes me back to....a particular night this past February with @Cyclone1066. 

 

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[Sparklefan1234 170,909]

"A True,True Friend" takes me back to Magical Mystery Cure which, was my first BIG moment as a member of the brony fandom. 

 

 

[Splashee 28,564]

I don't have "a moment", but for some reason while thinking of one, I just want to listen to Laura Branigan - Self Control and that sweet guitar riff in the main chorus.

[daviddaviddavid 776]

I'll never admit to anyone that I used to like this sort of music when I was 13, but yeah. I suppose this takes me back to the days I'd rather forget:

 

 

[ridaranka 574]

This was my favorite song when I was 7

 

[Meson Bolt 2,648]

A few.

This one takes me back to my childhood (or really the lack thereof). All my siblings love this song, even if my older brother thinks he's too cool to admit it. xD

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Also this one, a banger from my childhood. Anyone remember when this song was constantly on the radio?

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This one's different, it takes me back in a sad way, and I can't even listen to it anymore. Which is odd, it's not really a sad song, but it reminds me of someone.

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[Rebel the Wolfgirl 5,601]

This definitely takes me back to the family roadtrips of my childhood.

 

[Jackleberry 1,923]

Oh yeah, "Lost On The Moon" always reminds me of my earlier brony days, and the good times I had on here. Oh how I wish I could go back and experience that all over again. ^^

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[fare67t 243]

Considering I'm one of those nerds that gets teary eyed just from listening to a song (or hell, even thinking about a song sometimes), there's a few from the show that make me get emotional; not sure if they really "take me back" as I kinda forgot all about most of the songs until recently, but there are certainly a few like Smile that get me good

[Emerald Claus 24,868]

Don't hate me but...

"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" takes me back to when I was a kid, when YouTube started out and that was one of the most popular videos. A friend and I used to watch it on repeat all the time, and sing along to it over and over. 

 

 

[fare67t 243]

1 hour ago, Emerald Heart said:

Don't hate me but...

"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" takes me back to when I was a kid, when YouTube started out and that was one of the most popular videos. A friend and I used to watch it on repeat all the time, and sing along to it over and over. 

 

 

lol, why would we hate you for this? x3

[Emerald Claus 24,868]

6 minutes ago, fare67t said:

lol, why would we hate you for this? x3

Idk

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

As far as being a brony goes, this song takes me back to a time when my enjoyment in being a brony as well as my naïveté was at its peak. I did enjoy that time but from where I am now, I do not look back fondly on it and I most certainly don't want to go back.

But don't let that take away from it being a beautiful and heartwarming song.

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As for my own life, these songs are what take me back to a much more carefree time. Oh and I always had a lot of difficulty understanding the second verse, let alone make sense of it 

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Then there are these two in my teenage years:

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This one has to have the biggest nostalgia factor of all as it takes me back the furthest.

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Edited November 28, 2019 by Remnants

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

Hurricane by Thirty Seconds to Mars always takes me back to my childhood. There's a fairly short list of songs I used to listen to, so I don't know why this one specifically does that for me.

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[Sphinx-Ara 3,569]

Oh definitely

This song I listened to a lot during the first few months of my transitioning back in 2014

 

[Doctor Derpy 164]

This is most definitely it. One of the few things that helped me not be that depressed, weird kid that I was in middle school when I switched into my high school years. Wasn't my first introduction into electronic music but Avicii and Swedish House Mafia are the ones who made me embrace it.

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Edited November 28, 2019 by Doctor Derpy

[joanro 247]

I would have to say Nelly Furtado’s “I’m like a Bird,” reminds me of being in middle school.

[KH7672 1,604]

I'd say only one song will take me back as far as nostalgia mostly because for about ten years of my life I heard it once and never knew what it was and I always wanted to know. And now whenever I hear it always brings me back to those days of trying to remember it. Kinda fitting for the song itself being about passing of time.

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[Envy 6,166]

One thing I've always done is heavily associate music with certain times of my life, so this could turn very long and it's hard to know which points of my life to hit to make this shorter. Lol

(Hopefully the forum wont' screw up this post, like it did the last time I tried to use spoilers... Anyway, this turned out VERY LONG. EDIT: It messed up. Gr. So there will be a few spoilers within spoilers. I sectioned this out all nicely, but the forum messed it up AGAIN.

I will start with younger childhood - 2000 and before:

 

There are a number of songs that take me waaaayyy back to my early childhood - like early 90s maybe? But this one always has - Drive by The Cars:

This was "my song" as a little girl. I remember when it came on in the car I was always like "This is my song!" Lol Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton

This was on the first CD I got and I remember it specifically being a favorite in the late 90s - Don't Speak by No Doubt:

And I remember listening to this song a lot right around when Pokemon G/S came out in late 2000 - Smooth by Santana:

Onto the 2000s, starting with eighth grade (I stop posting videos and just start posting links somewhere in this one... That's how long this is going to get. LOL):

 

I liked a lot of Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton during this time. Even Avril Lavigne. Lol. Don't laugh, it was the thing. Also I still actually like the former two... Avril Lavigne I grew out of, though.

The Game of Love - Santana with Michelle Branch

This really takes me back to early 2003: Goodbye To You - Michelle Branch

Pretty Baby - Vanessa Carlton

Then I also liked some of the grungier bands from the time such as Staind and Fuel:

It's Been Awhile - Staind

Hemorrhage (In My Hands) - Fuel

Then how could I forget In the End - Linkin Park? Lol

Now onto high school - specifically starting with my early sophomore year. That was the year where my music tastes drastically changed. As you might have seen before this I was actually listening to the contemporaneous pop and enjoying it. In late 2004, I switched it up and started listening to older music, but that didn't happen until a few months into my sophomore year, so there's still some modern pop. All of these songs bring more heavy nostalgia than the ones above:

Early on:

She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

Are You Happy Now - Michelle Branch

Broken - Seether and Amy Lee

Here Without You - 3 Doors Down (my favorite song of the time, actually, BUT since they put their support behind Trump I have stopped listening to them and will not give their videos any views, so, yeah)

Later (I switched to a radio station that played mostly love songs of the 70s, so... Be prepared lol):

How Deep is Your Love - The BeeGees

If - Bread (I still adore this song, as I've posted before. This is one of the most beautiful pop songs ever, and it's only better that I have nostalgia with it, I was just as enamored by it back in 2004 as I am now, TBH)

It's Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (Another song that is fantastic)

Every Woman in the World - Air Supply (And pretty much any other Air Supply song)

I Go Crazy and Cool Nights by Paul Davis

Oooh and Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts

I know that was a lot. But really, I couldn't shorten it any further than this.

A little later on in high school, where I got into Classical music (some of these really take me back to 2005):

Clarinet Concerto in A Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (the second movement specifically for this point in time, but I came to love the other two a little later)

Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (this was during the time where I became obsessed with the bassoon, and thus was the first bassoon concerto I knew of)

Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major - Georg Frideric Handel

Also... The whole musical of Les Miserables

Probably more senior year of high school, back to more pop, where I straight-up became my parents in music taste lol:

Could It Be I'm Falling in Love and I'll Be Around - The Spinners

Make It With You and Baby I'm-A Want You - Bread

I Need You and Ventura Highway - America (I Need You was my favorite song during this time)

The Best of My Love, Lyin' Eyes, Tequila Sunrise, etc. - Eagles (last I checked they were hard to find on YT, so no links)

If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

Now we move onto 2007... The transition year between high school and college

Summer from the Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi

Piano Concerto No. 23: Adagio - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Song of Parting (Chopin's Etude Op 10 No. 3) from Fullmetal Alchemist (This reminds me specifically of the time of graduation)

Later in the year, leading into the fall semester, I got into a classic rock station:

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (probably doesn't even exist on YT, so I'm not going to try)

Foreplay/A Long Time - Boston

Fooling Yourself - Styx

I'm not doing very good at this "only post some" am I? Geez. Well, here's 2008. The year where I kind of had a social life and even a relationship, so it's got lots of memories for me.

By early 2008, I had switched to another radio station that was more pop again.

I'm Not in Love - 10cc

Josie - Steely Dan

Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede (a ridiculous song, so it stuck with me lol)

Strange Magic and Telephone Line by Electric Light Orchestra

Onto 2009.

By late 2008 I had discovered Chicago (beyond their later pop hits). I could say rediscovered but that's a long story, and I came to love them more in 2009.

Poem For the People - Chicago

Onto the 2010s! Now we start skipping years...  Moving into years past when I joined here. Wow. Late 2012-Early 2013 when I was in my then-university's fantastic symphony orchestra:

 

Holst's The Planets (especially

Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. We played the suite in the orchestra)

Courtly Airs and Dances - Basse Danse - Ron Nelson (we played this in band, and it ended up really kicking off my interest in early music beyond the choral stuff I already liked)

Onto late 2013, when I had begun taking an interest in folk music:

Blue Ridge Mountains, Your Protector and Mykonos - Fleet Foxes (a strange place to start, but they had a sound inspired by British Folk, I can tell, and that's what I would come to love)

The Unquiet Grave - Gryphon - (this may have been my first actual British Folk song aside from the extremely popular ones like Scarborough Fair that I knew. This one has crumhorns, bassoon, and an unbelievably gorgeous part around 4:15, so I became quite entranced with this song lol)

Moving onto 2014, which for me was a year where I continued my love for British Folk, but also got more into classic Soul/R&B and Progressive Rock:

I'm Never Gonna Be Alone Again - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (my reintroduction to soul kind of starts with this, an artist who had a song I loved back in 2004.)

Firth of Fifth and White Mountain by Genesis

2015 was a hard year, and I don't associate much with it, except for maybe Just My Imagination by The Temptations (which is a song I associate with the later part of the year when things started looking up)

2016 was a happier year, but most of what I associate with it earlier is music from the Ace Attorney games, which I played in the Spring.

Finally, onto 2018 a transitionary year for me, where I finally got my Bachelor's degree but also began having my foot problems, which have been no fun at all.

I somehow discovered The Owl Service and became obsessed with two of their songs in early Spring, The Banks of the Nile and Cruel Mother.

Much later on, like right about a year ago I discovered this lovely "sunshine pop" band that had songs with lots of lovely woodwinds on them and so that has became memorable. 59th Street Bridge Song, Raspberry Rug.

Another song by The Owl Service, Willie O'Winsbury

And then this one, a song I like to dub the depressing Auld Lang Syne - Poor Dead Woman by Jackie Oates

And just because I don't want to end on that depressing song, A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

Edited November 28, 2019 by Envy

[Dreambiscuit 9,786]

The songs that often pop up as nostalgic are usually well before my time. But...

Photograph/ Def Leppard

Magic/Olivia Newton-John

Baroque Hoedown/Electrical Parade/Disneyland.

I heard all of these a lot during the best part of my early teen years, which were among the best of my life. No specific connection to anything, just a general sense of happiness and well-being. 

[TBD 17,254]

Mostly 60s-90s soul/funk songs because my dad always played them when I was a kid.  “color me badd”, REO speedweagon”, Everly brothers, “Simon and Garfunkel”, Michael Jackson, “Modern Talking”, “The bee gee” etcs (you get the idea..) That might’ve been a reason why I’m into classic music-such good memories. Except it’s funny my parent likes classic music but except Jazz. 

[Troblems 5,617]

 

The one song my husband and I both like. It’s not quite that bad, but he likes EDM, and I like rock, so our music tastes don’t overlap much. This was supposed to be our wedding song, but it turns out I can’t dance to save my life, and definitely not at that pace.

[Alphabet Soup 38]

Take Me Home by Phil Collins was one of my favorite songs as a teenager. Now every time I hear it I get an overwhelming sense of nostalgia