Songs that remind you of...
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The song, artist and elaboration if you wish to share.
LOVE
DEATH
CHILDHOOD
Any other defining moments in your life...I thought this would be interesting because it occurred to me that these songs aren't even songs i'd like normally but just have a special memory attached to them and give me strong emotions.
Eg.
DEATH - Earthbound by Connor Reeves.
Wasn't a particularly good song but seemed to be a song a few friends and I associated with the death of our friend back in 1998. We were very young and coped with it in the way kids do, you process things differently as an adult and its only now as a mum I get blown away by the tragedy of it all. So we would sit listening to this song talking about him as our own little therapy. First time listening to it in a very long time and made me choke a little.LOVE - Kissing you-Des'ree
This reminds me of teen love and I always wanted it to be "our wedding song". I cringe now at the cheesiness! Love the song though.CHILDHOOD - Greensleeves by "Tommy Whip" ice cream van 🤣 (also credit to King Henry 8th)
My earliest memory is about 4yrs old lying on grass in my back garden looking at clouds and then hearing this, nothing else just that, and the pure feeling of contentment. I assume ice cream vans are a thing in NZ? Where i grew up we had a regular ice cream van lady who was an italian and drove a "Tommy Whip" with Greensleeves music. She was the nicest lady and gave free ice creams occasionally, perhaps there was a use by date we didn't know about but everynow and then she'd be handing out ice-creams for free and it was a good day. These were the 90s you could play out on your street safely as long as you stayed in a group, didnt cross the road and within earshot of one of your parents houses. 🤣
The only time I see an ice cream van now is in the car park of the local park!I have other songs that are poignant too, but someone else can go next, my cappy morgans getting warm. 🍹
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I get this with smells as well by the way, like emotional flashbacks... has this thing got a name? I'm sure it has and i can't put my finger on it.
Freshly cut grass.
Nanas perfume.
Rose~ wine. 🤢 -
@r-l said in Songs that remind you of...:
I get this with smells as well by the way, like emotional flashbacks... has this thing got a name? I'm sure it has and i can't put my finger on it.
Known as the Proust effect with smells. Most people get it. Related to the location of the amygdala and the hippocampus. Can be nice, can be horrible.
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@snowy said in Songs that remind you of...:
@r-l said in Songs that remind you of...:
I get this with smells as well by the way, like emotional flashbacks... has this thing got a name? I'm sure it has and i can't put my finger on it.
Known as the Proust effect with smells. Most people get it. Related to the location of the amygdala and the hippocampus. Can be nice, can be horrible.
For a while at work they were using the same air freshener in our cars that they were using at the morgue to unsuccessfully mask the smells there. Made for some interesting memories and in-car war stories.
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@nepia said in Songs that remind you of...:
Death - Whaakaria Mai, but sung by old people and not just Howie Morrison. A tangi standard.
A particular death - I'll be Missing You by Puff Daddy, as mentioned in another thread. A shame, as the guy who I associate it with, deserved a much, much better song.
Another particular death - The Rose... still struggle to hear that without thinking back on the loss of a great man.
On a lighter note...
Pretty much any song from Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation - reminds me of a book I was reading at the same time I bought that album (cassette)... via DoubleDay Music Club - remember that? The book - the Stone and the Flute, or something like that. I remember it being bizarre, and matching quite well with a fairly bizarre introduction to Aerosmith. -
@crazy-horse said in Songs that remind you of...:
For a while at work they were using the same air freshener in our cars that they were using at the morgue to unsuccessfully mask the smells there. Made for some interesting memories and in-car war stories.
Eau de corpse. Know it well. They tried something similar when I was flying rotting bodies around PNG due to refrigeration failures. It was mostly a pine fragrance that the boss used (to stop us throwing up). Taxi's in Asia are difficult for me now (pine - not the rotting bodies).
Sorry @R-L completely ruined your thread. I will post a song a and lovely memory, ASAP.
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Every time I hear this I'm reminded of the first girl among school relationships I genuinely liked to the detriment of all others and a sliding doors moment a decade later.
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One song reminds of both life and death whenever I hear it. The folk song Lord of the Dance. Life because I saw an impromptu performance by a really classy folk trio in a pub garden one evening when everyone was so full of life. I was on my own but still felt part of it all. Death because it was played at the funeral of a loved one and I can never disassociate it.
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Let’s cheer this up.
Clarity - Zedd - Vegas club - top 5 best nights ever
Sultans of swing - dire straits - back seat of the old mans Fairmont driving between Mangakino and Tokoroa
Don’t stop me now - Queen - Hong Kong mates anthem
Beautiful Feeling - Feelers - my wedding and my wife
Everything Now - Arcade Fire - driving my wife and kids into Surrey to our new house
Anchor Me - mutton birds - Home, everything about home.Edit:
Hunger Strike just came on ... 7th form at TE Puke High! Boom!!
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The first few notes of History Never Repeats takes me back to a sun drenched lounge in Otumoetai
I link songs to books I read as a kid. In a weird way. Like I'm Fee by the Soupdragons reminds me of the novelisation of Alien.
Gold to Me by Ben Harper reminds me of a particularly great night with an ex.
I have a music trigger for almost every event in my life. I lost one GF ever, and it happened to be the year that The Black Eyed Peas had a huge hit with I Gotta Feeling was huge. I hate that song soooo fucking much. I can still remember those fluffybunnies singing that as they got their medals
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@snowy said in Songs that remind you of...:
They tried something similar when I was flying rotting bodies around PNG due to refrigeration failures
why does this not surprise me....
That's awful though 😔
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@r-l said in Songs that remind you of...:
why does this not surprise me....
I had nothing to do with causes of death. I was just in the pine scented means of transportation.
Song wise - Sinead fucking O'Connor, Nothing compares to you. Used to work with, and date, a girl who played it endlessly. Takes me back to both the job and her. She asked me to marry her - the whole Feb 29th thing - and we were engaged for a while before I went to PNG and it fell apart.
Now that I think about it I've got loads of them.
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My Sharona - washing the walls of an Uncles Food Bar in New North Rd
April Sun In Cuba - walking the streets of Toledo and coming across a music shop with the entire front window full of Dragon LP's - years after it was released in NZ
Prokofievs Romeo and Juliet - smoking dope in the cinema in den bosch Holland watching John Gielgud in Bob Guccione's Caligula
Baker St - R rated filthy week in Wellington staying at Hutt Park Motor campagree with @snowy there's loads of them
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Childhood: One Summer by Daryl Braithwaite. Most of the mid-80s hits will trigger some happy childhood moments but I like this one in particular. Carefree summer days at the beach. Good times.
Love: I was together with a Norwegian for 18 years so got into a lot of the naff Scandinavian pop that was huge over there in the 70s and 80s. This is When two become one from Gyllene Tider. The voice may sound familiar because it’s Per Gessle from Roxette. It’s a load of bubblegum but always reminds me of innocent teenage love.
Death: I played this at my wife’s funeral. It’s The Most Beautiful by Jan Teigen. It’s about love lost and the things he never got to say to her. Gets me every time.
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No Doubt - Dont speak, just had a chick break up with me, was the first song I heard when I got in the car to drive home, although I was more gutted I couldnt hang out with her family anymore than her, that was part of what pissed her off so much is that her family would often ring me to ask if I wanted to go fishing or do stuff even when she was away!
Lou Bega Mambo #5 - me and my mates on a roadie to Edinburgh, was being thrashed on the radio, was in the clubs, but such a cool time!
Dave Dobbyn Loyal - 2nd song played at our Wedding
Bic Runga - Something Good was first song played at our wedding, wife heard it while we were holidaying in NZ and loved it. -
The first song I heard when I arrived in UK. Oh how I was looking forward to catching live gigs in the worlds music capital.
Fiddlers Fucking Dram - Fortunately you never hear it but I can picture the scene now. Dull overcast London day AND THIS SHIT COMES ON THE RADIO
Second song was much better
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@dogmeat i could listen to that woman sing all day
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@mariner4life said in Songs that remind you of...:
@dogmeat i could listen to that woman sing all day
Chrissie just has one of those awesome and instantly recognisable rock sounds.
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@antipodean you mean he wasn't talking about Cathy LeSurf!!!?
