Post your links-songs that "take you back"

[xmas74]

You know what I'm talking about-those songs you hear on the radio and you immediately know where you were the first time you heard them. Or songs that bring up powerful memories. Post the link and the memory if you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLsrojus_7o&NR


(Brokenhearted in college)

[Goblinmonger]

1. Late night study session

with high school buddies back in 84. Oh, those private boarding school days.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ClEvW0eLmBw

[xmas74]

2. I haven't heard

that in a long time! I remember it was such a popular song.

[Goblinmonger]

3. I haven't thought about that event or song

in a long time either. For some reason it just popped into my head when I read the OP. Kind of weird. It's a good memory; I haven't thought about my high school buddies in a long time. Crazy times at the seminary, indeed.

[xmas74]

6. Ever notice that, more than almost anything else,

it's music that can take you to a different time and place.

There are a few songs that I still cannot listen to even today.

[Lautremont]

4. Sitting in a car with a girl, laughing at this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE1i2zLG9yY

(This isn't the actual video for the song, if there even is one. This might be better, though!)

[xmas74]

7. First one

I've seen for it.

[Twillig]

5. Oh the sound of the guitar. Cutting Like a rusty chef's knife. 1978

VAN HALEN

I first heard 'Running with the Devil' at a Meier and Frank department store. Done with clothes shopping with mom I
got up to the mezzanine and the record shop and the clerk was playing this on his turntable.

FUCKING A!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpX3NhpRGdE&mode=related&search=

Nobody played a raw guitar sound like that, or played like that, since Hendrix.

[xmas74]

8. Wow.

I remember my babysitter listening to that alot when it first came out.

Maybe that's why I always associated the song with lots of heavy smoke.

[Tikki]

9. "Long, long Time".......

Mr. Bobby Darin and Miss Linda Ronstadt....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIB3tkrsrc

I just remember it so much from back when I was a young housewife and mother
and wondering where the World was heading....


Tikki

[xmas74]

10. What a great song.

I'd forgotten about this. Something about Linda-I don't think about her that often but when I sit and listen I'm always blown away. Fantastic voice.

[Nicole]

13. Thanks for that!

Beautiful version of that song. :)

[General Zod]

11. This one brings back some memories.....

The fall of 81.... my freshman year of college.....a girl that I was longing for....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3oIr3an_2U

Ah, sweet memories.....

[xmas74]

14. I used to be a big Sqeeze fan.

Haven't heard this in some time.

[Nicole]

12. This one

takes me back to my first dance with my first love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjcRJ3ILfnA

The Stylistics - You Are Everything

[xmas74]

15. Great song.

[Strawman]

16. The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2SLs7EWyIk

[xmas74]

22. I haven't heard that in years.

Doesn't seem like sonmeone should have taped it on VH1 Classics.

[AlCzervik]

17. Gloria by U2, my favorite song by them ever

i saw them at the Orphium in boston about 100 years ago when they were just starting to tour Merika.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0j0FtkIyho

[xmas74]

23. Hard to go wrong

with U2.

[Patiod]

18. Just Once and Kiss You All Over (the old version)

Made out with this one guy our first week in college, to "Kiss You All Over". Smokin' swimmer's body (cut abs and all), tan from a summer lifeguarding at the beach, and a great kisser, all with this erotic song as background. It was like a first hit of heroin - amazing, but nothing but trouble after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJQpSzDgC0

After that, he'd periodically find me at a party or bar and get me to slow dance with him, and we'd hook up. My friends were appalled - evidently everyone knew he was a total whore. Finally I said "forget it - never again - I have to get my self-respect back" and stopped falling for his nonsense. Went cold turkey even though I saw him EVERYWHERE.

Two years later at a club, and he dragged me out to the dance floor for "Just Once". For some reason (I blame the song) I agreed to go home with him, but only if he snuck out first, so no one would see us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmwIT78Rq2A

The next day at least 10 people confronted me with "Patiod, I heard you hooked up with X! What were you thinking! He's a pig!". That night at dinner I made a point to avoid my party friends, and sat with another my quiet friends - unsocial bookworm types - and even one of THEM said, "Hey, Patiod! I heard you left Mr. C's with X last night? For real? Isn't he really bad news?"

At least that finally did it - like an addict hitting rock bottom, I never went near him again (well, there was that one time at the beach, but they were playing "Just Once" and..........)

[xmas74]

20. We've all had boys like that in our lives.

Bad news but we keep going back. I don't know if the sex is really that great or if it's a forbidden fruit thing but...well, you just have to work it out of your system.


And both are great songs.

[Beer Snob-50]

19. Blues for Baby and Me

by Elton John off the "Don't Shoot me I'm only the Piano Player"

Brings me back to 9th grade and the 6 foot goddess I was enamored with at that time.

[xmas74]

21. I'm a big Elton fan.

My nickname in real life comes from an Elton John song.

[Beer Snob-50]

24. that was one of my favorite songs on that album nt

[xmas74]

26. It's hard not to be a fan.

[Beer Snob-50]

27. i love his earlier stuff

but after captain fantastic he kind of hit a wall

[xmas74]

25. I put this link up for Skittles last night.

I remember roadtripping w/ this song on in the background.

I also remember hooking up w/ a really hot guy while watching him at a concert.

Good times.

[Phillycat]

28. "Take You Back" by the Jackson 5?

:D

[xmas74]

29. Ok.

I have a friend who likes Jackson 5 so why not?

[Phillycat]

30. Actually, I just remembered the song is "I Want You Back" so my

joke is useless. Ignore me. :D

Seriosly though, a song that takes me back is Desire by U2. High school boyfriend, hours of kissing. ;-)

[xmas74]

31. I remember that song quite well.

But my song for U2 hot and heavy sessions was "With or Without You".