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Stories/scenes in your memory that are tied to songs (4 Viewers)

Nathan R. Jessep

Nathan R. Jessep

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I was telling my kids the other day about the power of music and how songs tend to attach themselves to your memories, and how you can remember exactly what you were doing at a place and time when you hear a song again, even many years later. Thought I would start a thread and see if you guys and gals have any song memory stories to share. 

One of mine is Shinedown's cover of Simple Man. 

My neighbor/best friend and I used to listen to this track when we were hanging around in the garage, whether it was working out or tinkering with his 68 Camaro or just drinking a beer. Great times. My friend lost his life a few years later in a motorcycle accident. His widow asked me to put together a music compilation to play at his memorial service, and had a bunch of tracks listed, including Simple Man. So of course, I obliged. Fast forward to the service, and I held it together pretty well...until that song came on.  Usually when I hear the song now, I think back fondly of good times with my GB, but sometimes it still brings a tear to my eye. But it will forever will conjure up memories of hanging out in a dusty garage with a cold beer and a good friend. 

 
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Several songs tied to ex girlfriends.  Those aren't great to hear.  

We would sing Bon Jovi's 'Always' on the bus after football games.  That song always brings back good memories of carefree days playing football and not really worrying about much.  'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' became a bus favorite my junior year of college when my baseball team made the College World Series.  Good times whenever I hear that one.

 
Aerosmith - "Don't wanna miss a thing"

Getting a beej in the theater watching Armageddon from this hot blonde catholic school chick I was dating when I was 17.  The movie gets a bad wrap (and deservedly so), but I will always love it for my own reasons.

 
doowain said:
Aerosmith - "Don't wanna miss a thing"

Getting a beej in the theater watching Armageddon from this hot blonde catholic school chick I was dating when I was 17.  The movie gets a bad wrap (and deservedly so), but I will always love it for my own reasons.
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Kinda the opposite for me on that song/movie. Had just broken up with a long-time girlfriend. I like yours way better. :wall:

 
Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond

I was really little, 3-4?, and remember my Dad cranking it up in our apartment and watching my parents laugh and dance. Probably one of my earliest memories and its before my Dad got sick (MS).

Pour Some Sugar on ME - Def Leppard

1988, Bloomington MN, Def Leppard/Tesla....breaking up with my GF in the middle of the song and going home with her friend after the concert. That was fun.

So many more but those are the first two I thought of.

 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
Kinda the opposite for me on that song/movie. Had just broken up with a long-time girlfriend. I like yours way better. :wall:
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If it makes you feel better, I got to see her in (and out) of her school uniform nearly every day after school (I went to a different school and would go over to her house while her parents were at work) for the 5ish months I dated her.  Does that help?

Also, GNR "Paradise City"....same scenario as previous post, but replace Armageddon with Can't Hardly Wait and the theater with the privacy of my car at the local drive-in.  Man that was a fun summer.

 
10cc - Not in Love. Just had broken up with a girl who I had a big crush on.  :(

Prince - Lets Get Crazy - A party in college, was really hammered and when this song came on I remember running down the hallway of friends apartment screaming and almost smashing into the plate glass window. It became my thing whenever that song came on to "Go crazy"  :pickle:

 
Thought of another favorite.....

Dream a Little Dream of Me - Mama Cass

This was my Dad's favorite song but my parents had gotten rid of their stereo years before so I knew my Dad hadn't heard this song in years. When ipods were new my wife got me one and without telling him I loaded a bunch of my Dads favorite songs on it and went over to their house with head phones. I hadn't seen my Dad have that much fun and be that happy in a long time and this was the song I can picture him listening too. 

Ok, that's enough for today.....yikes. Cool thread.

 
Deep Purple: Strange Kind of Woman

After a very bad break up I had been listening to blues for a couple of days and was very depressed. That song put a smile on my face for the first time in a couple of days. Still does

 
in the breakup theme...

A high school girlfriend broke up with me. I went out and got in my truck and cranked it up and I #### you not, Boyz II Men's End of the Road was on. I was pissed and sad all at once and I :cry:  all the way home. What a #####. 

 
Talking Heads: Burning down the House.

A weekend party in someone from junior high's beach house. It must have been played 50 times. It is bitter sweet as we knew that (due to the Danish education system) it would likely be the last time for a very lóng time we were all going to be together. It was, it took 27 years for that group of people to get together again for one more party

 
Got into car after high school graduation and The Who's "The Real Me" comes on radio - #@@#ing cranked my stereo so loud . Great start to an all night of partying.

Long Live The OX.

 
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msommer said:
Talking Heads: Burning down the House.

A weekend party in someone from junior high's beach house. It must have been played 50 times. It is bitter sweet as we knew that (due to the Danish education system) it would likely be the last time for a very lóng time we were all going to be together. It was, it took 27 years for that group of people to get together again for one more party
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At first I was afraid that this story ended with the fire trucks arriving.

 
One more and not a very good memory.

I saw my dad kissing another woman. They were in our living room and didn't see me (I saw them on the reflection of a glass covered picture frame). He had the stereo going and the song "I don't like spiders or snakes" by Jim Stafford was playing.

Never really liked that song to began with and that  put it on a whole worse level

 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
oof! stride broken
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effed up thing about that night was that my cassette player conked out, and I needed to hear tunes 'cuz  :suds: , ya know ?

anyways, was a couple blocks from the Holland Tunnel entrance (Jersey side), and I always got #### reception in that area ... the only station coming in loud n' clear was Z100 (WHTZ FM), the behemoth top-40 outlet, so. I blasted away ...

'last night I had the strangest dream/I sailed away to China/in a little rowboat to find ya/and you said you had to get your laundry clean' ... then - WHIRRWHIRRWHIRR- BUSTED!

####### next song - 'Give It Up' by KC & the Sunshine Band  :pickle:

no grudges held against either song ... matter of fact, both get heavy playtime on my Spotify gig  :D

 
dozer said:
Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street

First contact with boobies!
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Same song but with completely different memories...

The spring/summer that song was all over the radio was the same spring/summer I played my only year of baseball.  I was easily the worst player on a stacked team that went undefeated.  My father had been temporarily transferred across the country during that time, so he wasn't around for any of it.  He had been away on transfers before, but that was the first time I recall missing him being there for something I was doing.  The song comes into play because it always seemed to be playing when my mother and I went out to eat at Howard Johnson's after the games.

The other one that jumped to mind was Sister Golden Hair by America.  I lost my virginity to a busty brunette to that song.  :mellow:  

 
Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World by Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - My mom struggled with Scleroderma for years, and had an adverse reaction to almost every pain medication available. So we often had to use meditation and other forms of pain management to get through tough spots. My stepdad called me one day when she was having a particularly bad day. I had just got my first iPod, and had maybe put about 20 songs on it. I remembered my Mom and Stepdad both loved that song, so I put it on the iPod as I was going out the door. Mom was in bed, hurting really bad and my Stepdad was beside himself not knowing what to do. They had tried every meditation/breathing technique and nothing was working that day. I put the headphones on her and played the song, telling her to let it take her away for a min. She calmed down immediately, she relaxed. Her body which had been fighting against her went limp in the bed. I couldn't hear the song, but I could watch on the screen when it was over. I wasn't sure what to do, and she said "Play it again". Thanks to this new mp3 technology, one button push and it started again. 5 mins and 7 seconds of peace and less pain everytime I pushed the button. I sat on the edge of her bed and I played the song for close to 3 straight hours. She slept the last 90 mins of the time and when she woke up, the pain had subsided to a level she could manage.

I lost my Stepdad to lung cancer a few years ago, and then my Mom nine months after that, finally losing the battle to Scleroderma. I had the song played at both of their funerals. When I hear it now, sometimes I have to skip it, and sometimes I can listen, smile and remember. I hadn't thought of that day with the iPod in years. Leave it to the FFA to bring those memories rushing back. 

 
huh... I have Over the Rainbow too. 

wife and I used to go Anguilla every year (or more if we could swing it). we were walking back to our room one night after dinner- open air, perfect caribbean temp, bougainvillea and other aromatic flowers planted everywhere in the garden between the restaurant and our room. the happy hits (local band) were playing and launched into Over the Rainbow which was wafting quietly through the plants and flowers to us. with the island breeze, song, perfect night... I knew in that moment that I was going to marry her. 

when I was little- maybe 5 or 6- I used to listen to Help (beatles) while setting up extravagant battles between my toy-soldiers. had totally forgotten about that until thinking about songs for this thread.

wish I had a song to remember my dad by. :(

 
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El Floppo said:
when I was little- maybe 5 or 6- I used to listen to Help (beatles) while setting up extravagant battles between my toy-soldiers. had totally forgotten about that until thinking about songs for this thread.

wish I had a song to remember my dad by. :(
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I guess I'm lucky in that I have more than a song to remind me of my dad, but rather a whole genre of music: Bluegrass.  And Hee-Haw.  We used to watch that together when it was on in the 70's.

As for when I was little, it goes back to before I can remember, but my parents tell me even to this day that they used to have to play Downtown by Petula Clark over and over every night before I would go to sleep. Now I only think of that episode of Seinfeld when I hear that song.

 
My daughter and I were going to the movies, she was driving. This is when "Blurred Lines" was a big hit.

It came on the radio and she said "I LOVE THIS SONG!!" and cranked it up to 11.

We were both singing the song at the top of our lungs,  :pickle:

Car pulled up next to us at the stop light, they looked over at us, changed to the same station and all 5 of us (2 in our car, 3 in their's) were singing and  :pickle: . It was awesome  :pickle:

Just remembered that and makes me  :D

 
Don't Fear The Reaper:

Christmas Eve in the late 1980's.  Driving on route 140 in Massachusetts heading to my dad's house.  I see sirens ahead and, as I drive by, a horrific crash--the type you can't imagine someone surviving.  That song came on literally as I drove past the crash scene.

Wish You Were Here:

Was a huge Pink Floyd in college.  Saw them in Philadelphia with my girlfriend in '87.  Awesome show.  Flash forward about a year and I find out she's been cheating on me.  I am a combination of angry, confused, and (uncomfortably) numb.  I hop in my car and drive about 20 minutes to the most desolate spot I can think of.  I park the car, turn off the lights, and start to just sort of shut down.  That song comes on at just that moment.  The universe's way of piling on.

 
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Tin Cup said:
Don't Fear The Reaper:

Christmas Eve in the late 1980's.  Driving on route 140 in Massachusetts heading to my dad's house.  I see sirens ahead and, as I drive by, a horrific crash--the type you can't imagine someone surviving.  That song came on literally as I drove past the crash scene.

Wish You Were Here:

Was a huge Pink Floyd in college.  Saw them in Philadelphia with my girlfriend in '87.  Awesome show.  Flash forward about a year and I find out she's been cheating on me.  I am a combination of angry, confused, and (uncomfortably) numb.  I hop in my car and drive about 20 minutes to the most desolate spot I can think of.  I park the car, turn off the lights, and start to just sort of shut down.  That song comes on at just that moment.  The universe's way of piling on.
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Damn. Gonna update the thread title to include "scenes" because, yeah, sometimes it's just a specific scene that's triggered by a song, not necessarily a story. 

 
Edge of Glory--Lady Gaga. The first time my daughter heard it on the radio, she thought the lyrics were "age of Murphy" instead of "edge of glory".  To this day, I call her 'Murphy' from time to time.

Days Go By--The Offspring. First heard it when I was on my way up to Cooperstown Dreams Park, felt it was especially poignant in the moment, as that week marked the end of my son's youth baseball days, as well as him becoming a teenager. I always see in my head a slide show of images of him and his teammates over those early years whenever I hear that one.

 
Two more they just keep popping up (Tin Cup's Don't Fear the Reaper post reminded me of one)

Don't Fear the Reaper - A co-worker (who I later dated for a couple of years) was going through a nasty divorce. One night, the father (call him T) came over to get the kids and my co-worker (call her A) and T were having a nast fight. He got mad, pushed her and hit her. He got hauled off but vowed to come back and get the kids.

Well he got released from jail on a friday and was supposed to have the kids that night. A took the kids over to a friends house and had me stay at her apartment in case he showed up. As I am driving over to her house from my place, the sun was setting and "Don't Fear the Reaper" came on the radio. Had my baseball bat with me, it was ominous as all f***.

Kinda anti-climatic, he never showed.

 
The one my daughter just reminded me about.

I had just broken up with the girl in the previous story and for a couple of weeks, my kids were staying at their mom's until I found a place.

One weekend, I got the kids and we drove up to Lake Tahoe. The highway around Lake Tahoe, you can usually go 55, but there are speed pockets where the limit is 35. We are cruising along just a little over 55 and the three of us are singing Sheryl Crow - First cut is the deepest. 

I see a CHP go by me the other way, then he whips around.Uh Oh. We hit one of those pockets. I stop and he comes up and tells me what I suspected, I was doing 59 in a 35. The kids are in the back seat giggling. Luckily he got another call and I got off with a warning. The kids of course never let me forget that

 
Great thread. Nothing to contribute at this time, but once I hear the songs, I'll be sure to post when it is fresh in my mind. Ton of material when growing up with my parents loving music, countless concerts, road trips, bartending for almost a decade.

But the main reason for my post is that we need to hear from @Evilgrin 72

 
this is back in '89 but i remember laying in bed with my first "serious" girlfriend one winter night. she had kate bush's "hounds of love" album going in the background. it was very late and the second half of the album was playing. she was asleep next to me. i was half asleep,too, but remember paying close attention to the songs. it all felt kind of surreal at that moment but, barely 18, i really felt like i was an adult there in those moments. i can't listen to that album without it bringing up all that emotion still. being young and in love is a powerful thing.

 
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saintfool said:
this is back in '89 but i remember laying in bed with my first "serious" girlfriend one winter night. she had kate bush's "hounds of love" album going in the background. it was very late and the second half of the album was playing. she was asleep next to me. i was half asleep,too, but remember paying close attention to the songs. it all felt kind of surreal at that moment but, barely 18, i really felt like i was an adult there in those moments. i can't listen to that album without it bringing up all that emotion still. being young and in love is a powerful thing.
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it's interesting, and not surprising, that so many of these are songs tied to teen years... when every emotion was newer and more.

 
The exes one rings home to me like others have mentioned.

I was involved in a near roll-over accident in 2006 or 2007: ended up facing the wrong way on a major highway after spinning in circles from a blowout and people slamming on their brakes before hitting me now head on. At the time, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Dani California was on the radio or on my iPod or whatever. When that song comes on my phone or the radio, I change it just cause it always freaks me out to hear it not while driving.

 
otb_lifer said:
when they razed the tenement we grew up in , circa 1993  

:rant:

:(

watching that mutha get freakin' plowed ... sonofa#####

just dove into the car and looped this melancholy #### ... wtf  :shrug:
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Used to love Faster #####cat back in '87, when they were only credited with writing their songs, but we all knew the slop was too good to be true. 

Wake Me When It's Over was a disaster for them. 

But hey, memories...

And I'm sorry your childhood home got raised. House Of Pain was a pretty powerful hair metal ballad for '89.  

 
badmojo1006 said:
One more and not a very good memory.

I saw my dad kissing another woman. They were in our living room and didn't see me (I saw them on the reflection of a glass covered picture frame). He had the stereo going and the song "I don't like spiders or snakes" by Jim Stafford was playing.

Never really liked that song to began with and that  put it on a whole worse level
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Pretty much impossible to keep the women off you with that song playing.

 
rockaction said:
Used to love Faster #####cat back in '87, when they were only credited with writing their songs, but we all knew the slop was too good to be true. 

Wake Me When It's Over was a disaster for them. 

But hey, memories...

And I'm sorry your childhood home got raised. House Of Pain was a pretty powerful hair metal ballad for '89.  
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it got RAZED (not 'raised')

don't give a #### about any of the peripherals here, only about pulling out the casssete and wailing the ####

seriously, don't #### with that

 
otb_lifer said:
it got RAZED (not 'raised')

don't give a #### about any of the peripherals here, only about pulling out the casssete and wailing the ####

seriously, don't #### with that
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Oh my God. That came off way worse than I meant. I knew you meant razed. Auto-correct. 

I'm sorry. That sucks. I had no desire to mess with that.  

eta* seriously, apologies. I had no idea I was being callous.  

 
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I will never forget driving back to school in '95, a long-distance girlfriend who had kind of blown me off even though we were serious and blaring "You Don't Care Nothin'" and "Old Friend" by Rancid over and over again, sitting in the parking lot, just wondering what I'd done. 

To this day:

Do you really want to know what's happening?/Do you really want to know what's going on...Jenny De Milo, you don't care nothin' about me...

 
dozer said:
Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street

First contact with boobies!
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Was in a really bad car accident to this song. Wasn't hurt but the driver of the car had his back broken - he went through the sunroof and the car landed on him. Very lucky he didn't die and me and another passenger were barely hurt.

 
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