What Is The One Song That Takes You On Your Biggest Memory Trip?
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krisjay
Super Member
Blondie~Union City Blues
This song just creates an overwhelming feeling of my youth and times that were very special for me. I think all great songs create that feeling, some more then others. The whole album(Eat ToThe Beat) does this, but you asked for "the" song and that one is it.
This song just creates an overwhelming feeling of my youth and times that were very special for me. I think all great songs create that feeling, some more then others. The whole album(Eat ToThe Beat) does this, but you asked for "the" song and that one is it.
chicks
Lunatic Member
I was between 6th and 7th grade, picking strawberries and raspberries for school clothes money the summer this was all over top 40 radio. Great song.
wrbear
A man of many talents...a master of none...
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk; Coming of age....1969 Chevelle, music scene, starting High School, working at a Shakey's Pizza Parlor, learning how to play the bass (this was the album to learn by), serious relationship...I WAS ON TOP OF THE WORD!!! ...or so it seemed at the time...then the other shoe dropped...
Silverman
Active Member
Brandy(your a fine girl) Looking Glass 1972.
I went to bed each night with a portable GE Radio tuned to WLS and it was played at least once a hour. When I here it now, it takes me back to a time just before the teen years and adult hood. A time of not a care in the world and no pressures of a adult.
I went to bed each night with a portable GE Radio tuned to WLS and it was played at least once a hour. When I here it now, it takes me back to a time just before the teen years and adult hood. A time of not a care in the world and no pressures of a adult.
Sandy G
Retired Member
"Yellow River", Christie, 1970. I was 13, had my 1st real crush on this gal, I was into flying, remember fooling w/the ADF on my dad's plane, & pickin' this 'un up..Wished that gal was w/me, & we were flyin' off into the sunset.. Was the FIRST one down the aisle at her wedding, her husband scared us all bad a couple years back w/health problems... NEED to go see her mom, she's gotta be 88, 89 now..Lou, her mom, was always very nice to me...
tomlinmgt
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Zep's "In the Light" off PG. I was in my early twenties and doing some car camping in and around the four corners/canyonlands region with my GF. I remember we were driving one morning and crested a cap rock which started a descent into a valley floor and all across the valley and on the horizon were some of the most extraordinary, fantastic and bizarre rock formations I'd ever seen. Off in the near distance on the horizon was a solid white cliff wall which, amongst all the red rock, looked like some sort of ancient, lost temple. I spotted that just as the song began and the light dose of acid we'd taken earlier started to kick in. The spacious, ethereal synth intro created the perfect soundtrack to what I was observing and it remains a vivid memory to this day. That trip was the first of several explorations in and around the desert and mountain southwest....which were profound, life changing experiences (to say the least) and a few of the trips ended up at Dead shows in Vegas (some of their last ones). A very defining episode of my life and that moment coming down into that valley seemed to be the moment that kicked it all off.
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JohnMac
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shacky
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Just cranked that album up the other night. Trippy.
I remember reading that it was an album they took more time making - hence A Space In Time. They had been touring so much they had to rush recording. Not that Cricklewood Green isn't great too.
Frank Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge". He started the first Zappa concert I attended with this song (he actually very often started with this one...) and I will always remember this moment, always!!!!!
Spookyfoot
Super Member
"The Watchman's Gone" from Gordon Lightfoot & "Baker Street" from Gerry Rafferty, takes me back to being a kid and listening to Sundown & City To City over and over and not having single care in the world.
Anything from Kiss' "Unmasked" album takes me back to the summer of 1980. I picked it up while visiting my aunt in Tennessee and then I played the crap out of it the rest of the summer.
Anything from Kiss' "Unmasked" album takes me back to the summer of 1980. I picked it up while visiting my aunt in Tennessee and then I played the crap out of it the rest of the summer.
BobinNJ
Active Member
Having one right now! I'm out having breakfast, and a cover of "Baby, I Love Your Way" just started playing; and it's a female singer. As you can see from my avatar, I'm a big High Fidelity fan. So, the song took me right back to one of my favorite lines from the movie..."is that Peter Fu*king Frampton..."! Sorry, I had to share that.
Superampman
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beatcomber
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Generally speaking I'm not a fan of '70s pop, but every once in a while I hear one of 'those' songs, like, say, "Afternoon Delight" or "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart," and I become 12 years old again.
No, I've been there. That is actually the top.
In many ways, yes. Few worries/bills, few health concerns, few responsibilities....
however, I refuse to believe that I peaked at "insert age of choice here" because I continue to strive for knowledge, to be a better person, and to do more good than yesterday.
While on a nostalgic level I see your point, I feel that looking at life that way leads to a waste of the time you are given.
Perhaps I'm reading far too much into this..:scratch2::yes:
As a guitar player at 41, I know I'll never be a superstar, or household name. Yet I'm still trying to improve. Why? Because as the myth of Sisyphus teaches us, it isn't getting the rock up the hill that is important, it is the pushing that matters.
Sorry so off topic.
Enjoyed reading this. Thanks.