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The phenomenon of transporting yourself back in time upon hearing a particular song is pretty well known.
What songs take you back, to where, and why?
Me, I just put Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" and "I Won't Back Down" on my iPod and suddenly found myself back in a creaky old Ford Taurus driving across the Mojave Desert to Vegas in the baking heat. My iPod is pretty much unchanged from my globetrotting last year, so almost everything on it provokes a memory from one of the best years of my life
What songs take you back, to where, and why?
Me, I just put Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" and "I Won't Back Down" on my iPod and suddenly found myself back in a creaky old Ford Taurus driving across the Mojave Desert to Vegas in the baking heat. My iPod is pretty much unchanged from my globetrotting last year, so almost everything on it provokes a memory from one of the best years of my life
Tilt 'Butterfly'.
Armin 'Blue Fear' Original mix I believe.
Chemical Brothers 'Life Is Sweet' original mix.
Fluke 'Atom Bomb' (the 90's original, recently reworked).
Fluke 'Absurd'.
Underworld 'Tin There'
Actually most of the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack.
Takes me back to my school and college days, the long train journey home from college, making the bike ride to work on the Saturday morning feel that much quicker! I was heavily into electronica back then.
And then finally Dimitri from Paris 'Souvenir De Paris'. This takes me back to one night in my room listening to those urban soundtrack shows on Radio 1 with excerpts of modern popular literature being read between each piece of music. Very dreamy and chilled out with a rapturous 'rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat' beat alongside Mancini's Lujon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWtYVLAXVg
Armin 'Blue Fear' Original mix I believe.
Chemical Brothers 'Life Is Sweet' original mix.
Fluke 'Atom Bomb' (the 90's original, recently reworked).
Fluke 'Absurd'.
Underworld 'Tin There'
Actually most of the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack.
Takes me back to my school and college days, the long train journey home from college, making the bike ride to work on the Saturday morning feel that much quicker! I was heavily into electronica back then.
And then finally Dimitri from Paris 'Souvenir De Paris'. This takes me back to one night in my room listening to those urban soundtrack shows on Radio 1 with excerpts of modern popular literature being read between each piece of music. Very dreamy and chilled out with a rapturous 'rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat' beat alongside Mancini's Lujon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWtYVLAXVg
Meat Beat Manifesto - Psyche Out, sitting in a traffic queue in Banbury in my XR2.
Current 93 - All the Pretty Horses, Going round the Goslar Way roundabout in Windsor.
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock, walking around the Barbican, London
+ lots of others.
Koenig
Current 93 - All the Pretty Horses, Going round the Goslar Way roundabout in Windsor.
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock, walking around the Barbican, London
+ lots of others.
Koenig
Edited by koenig999 on Tuesday 12th May 22:43
The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer, Coheed & Cambria - instantly takes me back to the summers evening just after I'd passed my driving test, bombing along the A45 to see my mates, windows down, sense of freedom inconquerable!
Always takes me back, was 3 years ago but its clear as day even now
Always takes me back, was 3 years ago but its clear as day even now
Mr.Jimbo said:
The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer, Coheed & Cambria - instantly takes me back to the summers evening just after I'd passed my driving test, bombing along the A45 to see my mates, windows down, sense of freedom inconquerable!
Always takes me back, was 3 years ago but its clear as day even now
You can remember things that happened THREE years ago?!?!?!? Wow!Always takes me back, was 3 years ago but its clear as day even now
AdeTuono said:
Mr.Jimbo said:
The Velourium Camper III: Al the Killer, Coheed & Cambria - instantly takes me back to the summers evening just after I'd passed my driving test, bombing along the A45 to see my mates, windows down, sense of freedom inconquerable!
Always takes me back, was 3 years ago but its clear as day even now
You can remember things that happened THREE years ago?!?!?!? Wow!Always takes me back, was 3 years ago but its clear as day even now
I know, but it does surprise me how well I remember it, hopefully it will still be as vivid in 50 years or so
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You": driving along the twisty roads of Cornwall in the summer of 2001
Pearl Jam "Nothingman": driving home to Shropshire from South Wales after splitting from a girl I loved dearly (and pulling over off the A465 in tears)
Cream "Sitting On Top Of The World": driving around Swansea with some mates in my first car
Cafe del Mar "Energy 52": my first "E" moment in a club in Edinburgh
Rachmaninov "Piano Concerto No.2": the first Christmas with my wife to be (at the time)
Pearl Jam "Nothingman": driving home to Shropshire from South Wales after splitting from a girl I loved dearly (and pulling over off the A465 in tears)
Cream "Sitting On Top Of The World": driving around Swansea with some mates in my first car
Cafe del Mar "Energy 52": my first "E" moment in a club in Edinburgh
Rachmaninov "Piano Concerto No.2": the first Christmas with my wife to be (at the time)
I have many, many - far too much to list.
One thing my wife can't understand is how I can hear the first notes of a song, less than a second, and name it and the artist and have a good stab of 'singing' the guitar bits or commenting on the bass line or drums, or something trivial, and the last time I heard it was 20yrs ago!
One thing my wife can't understand is how I can hear the first notes of a song, less than a second, and name it and the artist and have a good stab of 'singing' the guitar bits or commenting on the bass line or drums, or something trivial, and the last time I heard it was 20yrs ago!
Find music is very powerful at stimulating memories second only to scent (I hasten to add I don't mean that in an unpleasant way, but things like the same air freshener they used in your old office or something...)
So, songs? Hmm...
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve always reminds me of listening to it on the radio heading out to Dartmoor for Ten Tors when I was at school.
That irritating La La La song by Kylie always reminds me of my first night out in Swansea when I went to uni.
Fall To Pieces by Velvet Revolver reminds me of driving away from breaking up with my first long-term girlfriend (I hasten to add it was on the radio on the way back, I wasn't just rocking quietly in a corner listening to it).
Virtually any classical guitar music reminds me of being in my parents' car as a kid, as does The Four Seasons, Mozart and, more worryingly, Abba.
Lets Get Retarded by The Black Eyed Peas reminds me of riding in a mini bus en-route from Meribel to Courchevel when I worked in France and When The Levee Breaks reminds me of doing the hovering in room 4 in the chalet I worked in there!
Many, many more... you get the idea. Like I said, takes me back instantly.
Being of pensionable age here in Oz I have quite a few tunes from the mid 60's onwards that bring back specific memories but here is the first.
Royal Telephone] by Jimmy Little one of the first successful Aboriginal singers here and I was struggling to build a slope soarer at the time ( bloody pommie kit ) and unlike the song it never flew.
My favorite song would have to be The Greatest Man I never Knew and I suspect that every child on here can relate to the it. ( sorry about having to include Kelly )
Royal Telephone] by Jimmy Little one of the first successful Aboriginal singers here and I was struggling to build a slope soarer at the time ( bloody pommie kit ) and unlike the song it never flew.
My favorite song would have to be The Greatest Man I never Knew and I suspect that every child on here can relate to the it. ( sorry about having to include Kelly )
Edited by suthol on Thursday 14th May 13:03
2 that particularly spring to mind.
Paint it Black. It takes me back to a summer job at Ford Dagenham where they used to press the body panels. There was a basement under the massive presses and one machine had a clicking valve that was exactly the same timing as Paint it Black.
No Doubt, Don't speak - takes me back to a drunken evening in a local pub when my wife was my still my girlfriend. It was a great evening and I always smile fondly when I hear the song.
There is more but these two sprang to mind first.
Paint it Black. It takes me back to a summer job at Ford Dagenham where they used to press the body panels. There was a basement under the massive presses and one machine had a clicking valve that was exactly the same timing as Paint it Black.
No Doubt, Don't speak - takes me back to a drunken evening in a local pub when my wife was my still my girlfriend. It was a great evening and I always smile fondly when I hear the song.
There is more but these two sprang to mind first.
Faithless' "Insomnia" - takes me back to the beginning of my relationship with my soon-to-be-ex-wife, back when we were in love and snogged for 30 mins solid to it on a loop.
It was one of my favourite songs prior to that anyway.
edit:
@ "Lets Get Retarded" by The Black Eyed Peas 
It was one of my favourite songs prior to that anyway.
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@ "Lets Get Retarded" by The Black Eyed Peas Edited by JonRB on Saturday 16th May 00:11
Asterix said:
I have many, many - far too much to list.
One thing my wife can't understand is how I can hear the first notes of a song, less than a second, and name it and the artist and have a good stab of 'singing' the guitar bits or commenting on the bass line or drums, or something trivial, and the last time I heard it was 20yrs ago!
The ability of the human brain to recognise, process and identify timbral information amazes me all the time.One thing my wife can't understand is how I can hear the first notes of a song, less than a second, and name it and the artist and have a good stab of 'singing' the guitar bits or commenting on the bass line or drums, or something trivial, and the last time I heard it was 20yrs ago!
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