Song Associations

[beanzontoast]

At the end of the final day in my old job, having packed all my belongings and wandered around to say a last goodbye to everyone, I got into the car to drive home and turned on the radio. The song that came on was 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' - Tears for Fears.

Whenever I hear it now, it brings back the dual feeling of 'yay!' having escaped all the things I disliked about my old job and the sense of 'OMG!' about the great unknown (I didn't really have a new job to go to at that time) that stretched like the road before me.

Anyone else like to share their song associations?

 

[TVC]

Same song actually. Being in Halls at Uni, with all the exams finished, sun shining and playing football with the lads in the Uni gardens - bliss.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

can we have a point of order here - no "our tunes"

anyway, wake up boo by the boo radleys always reminds me of when mrs alecetc and i had just moved in together and i was driving over to tescos in parrs wood to get provisions. it was a beautiful autumn day and that song came on the radio. for some reason i'm always reminded of what amounts to a fairly mundane event when i hear it (and it's on my itunes).

 

[Dave5N]

can we have a point of order here - no "our tunes"

anyway, wake up boo by the boo radleys always reminds me of when mrs alecetc and i had just moved in together and i was driving over to tescos in parrs wood to get provisions. it was a beautiful autumn day and that song came on the radio. for some reason i'm always reminded of what amounts to a fairly mundane event when i hear it (and it's on my itunes).

can we have a point of order here - no "our tunes"

 

[Haitch]

Way back in 1980 when Stevie Winwood had a hit with the song Valerie, my then girlfirend and I spent a couple of months in the USofA. Every time we turned the car radio on Stevie would be singng "Valeriiiiiiiieeeeee, Valeriiee". Whenever I hear it now I can see myself racing across the beach in Galveston, Texas, driving a rented car into the sunset.


Edit: This ain't an "our tune", honest.

 

[Hilldodger]

Del Amitri.

When I picked up my brand new Jag - ok, is was a couple of years old - back in 1989 I found a Del Amitri tape had been left in the radio cassette.

Heard one of their songs a week ago and was back there having just picked up my dream car.

 

[Cranky]

In the long hot summer of 1976 I had a student holiday job in London as a driver with an American company. At weekends I was sometimes allowed to borrow one of the cars and took the Triumph Stag up to Manchester (where I had ...ahem... a 'love interest'). There was a cassette of Junior Walker and the All Stars in the car.

Whenever I hear 'Road Runner' it's 1976, I'm back in the Stag, roof down, cruising up the M1, looking forward to a weekend of saucy pleasures!

 

[gbb]

My Sweet Lord...George Harrison.
It was played a lot (among others i loved) in the early 70's when i first started going to youth club. Mixing it for the first time with older boys and young men...the music, the laughs, the relaxed atmosphere...brilliant times. A whole new world opened up to a 14 / 15 year old.

 

[HelenD123]

When September Ends by Greenday. It reminds me of driving round the Lake District in a minibus with a group of National Trust volunteers. We were singing it all week.

 

[Kirstie]

'Bone machine' by the pixies reminds me of being on the edge of divorce, because it's what i was listening to at the time.
'Say hello' by Deep Dish reminds me of being thousands of miles away from home in Canada for a month. And on the edge of divorce at the same time. I still choke up when I hear it
'Piano fire' and 'Happy man' by Sparklehorse reminds me of dear friends who I don't see enough of.

I'm trying to think of something positive but I'm struggling!

Oh yes here we go. 'Lady of the sea' by Seth Lakeman reminds me of the best ever cycle tour to Sutherland last year.

 

[ChrisKH]

At the end of the final day in my old job, having packed all my belongings and wandered around to say a last goodbye to everyone, I got into the car to drive home and turned on the radio. The song that came on was 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' - Tears for Fears.

Whenever I hear it now, it brings back the dual feeling of 'yay!' having escaped all the things I disliked about my old job and the sense of 'OMG!' about the great unknown (I didn't really have a new job to go to at that time) that stretched like the road before me.

Anyone else like to share their song associations?

Ditto. Same song - summer of oh when was it - my missus was finishing her post-grad at Bristol. Reminds me of hot days and warm nights in Clifton/Whiteladies Road and late night/early morning trains to/from Bristol Temple Meads to/from London. There was some sort of charity thang going on that year with Tears for Fears music - Run the World was it? Would have been circa 1986.

 

[Greedo]

Are you a London Gangster?

Del Amitri.

When I picked up my brand new Jag - ok, is was a couple of years old - back in 1989 I found a Del Amitri tape had been left in the radio cassette.

Heard one of their songs a week ago and was back there having just picked up my dream car.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Whenever I hear the Cocteau Twins now (pretty much any of their stuff) it reminds me of revising for my finals. I played the music non-stop as I revised as I think it was quite good brain music. Unfortunately it now makes me think of hard work and realising my brain just couldn't hold any more info...

 

[barq]

'Say hello' by Deep Dish reminds me of being thousands of miles away from home in Canada for a month. And on the edge of divorce at the same time. I still choke up when I hear it

That's a good record.

I remember the worst break up of my life occurring while I was playing the Renaissance mix album (the Sasha/John Digweed one). I literally couldn't listen to it for ages which was incredibly melodramatic of me sad because it was otherwise my favourite CD in the world.

Perhaps not a specific association but the last record that I got really excited about in a I-haven't-heard-this-for-ages way was a remix of Living in a Box by Living in a Box. Oh that and Pink Sunshine by Fuzzbox. They were the original Spice Girls IMHO.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

The first Gomez album will always remind me of going up the Trent and Mersey canal on my first liveaboard narrowboat with my brother. The album had just come out and we played it all week while smoking weed and drinking beer. Not that I needed any help feeling dizzy as I'd done a 200 Km Audax the day before we set off with the aid of, er, no solid nutritional input whatever. But whenever I hear "Whipping Picadilly" or "Get Miles", there I am, moored to the towpath at Weston or Leek, 26 again with a big spliff.