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Post by kmcginn on Apr 26, 2017 13:50:37 GMT
Anything by Chicago but especially Color My World. I was in HS and I remember listening to that album (the one with the blue water like cover) all.the.time!
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Post by lbp on Apr 26, 2017 13:56:09 GMT
Sitting in the apple tree with my friends and singing "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks and crying our eyes out!
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Post by candygurl on Apr 26, 2017 14:04:48 GMT
Kokomo by The Beach Boys. Sitting on a bus kindergarten age listening to it and really loving it.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 26, 2017 14:25:28 GMT
For three days after the Oklahoma City bombing, all the local radio stations quit playing music and were just reporting local news and public service information announcements about things like where people who were left homeless by the bombing could go to get help or where people could go for information about missing loved ones. It was necessary, but so so sad. Finally, after three days the music stations all started playing music again at the same time.
The station I was listening to at the time played the song You Gotta Be by Des'ree which seemed appropriate for the moment. There were radio stations all over the country playing that song at the same time in a show of support for Oklahoma City. I can't listen to that song today without tearing up.
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janeinbama
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Post by janeinbama on Apr 26, 2017 14:57:00 GMT
I'll play - sitting in HS parking lot listening to Eagles Hotel California on my 8-track! While in college, driving to work listening to Y102 and they played an oldie of the day, I knew it immediately: 10CC I'm not in Love. I was aghast that was considered an oldie, oldies were from the 60's, nothing from the 70's.
Any Hank Williams Sr. songs take me back to my Dad playing Hank songs on the guitar with a couple of friends when we were kids. No, they could not sing or play well, but really hung in there with Hank. I have Sirius radio and get the warm fuzzies and know my Dad is thinking of me from heaven whenever a Hank song plays. Bing Crosby White Christmas album has been played all of my 50+ Christmases and will continue to be played in our family.
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Post by triplejscrapper on Apr 26, 2017 15:01:56 GMT
That one that comes to my mind first is Broken Walls "Come and See" and it wasn't them singing it, it was ME singing it at my mom's gravesite 6/18/15. My children were supposed to join me but they just couldn't do so but my son was able to give the warrior call at the end and I know that would have made his grandmother proud. Come and See-Broken Walls
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 17:11:02 GMT
I have a million of them. Every song, reminds me of a place or time. The earliest song memory is whenever I hear Daydream Believer it reminds me of being about 3 and the smell of ammonia as my mom mopped the kitchen floor. Growing up in a military family and then marrying a military man we've lived a lot of places and I can attach a place and time to just about every song.
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Post by bratkar on Apr 26, 2017 17:30:02 GMT
Purple Rain - Prince 1985. Freshman year in high school Best friend and her family succumbed to a horrible house fire and lost their lives. We were driving from the funeral home to the cemetery with friends who were old enough to drive. Song came on, someone tried to change it. I wouldn't let them.
He Stopped Loving Her Today. - George Jones 2006, not the first time I heard it. But forever marked in my history. Listening to my CD on my way home from working overtime on a Saturday. 1:07pm that was the next song to be played on the rotation. Later that night we received a phone call my uncle had been killed in a plane crash at approximately the same time I was listening to the song.
Yes. Music plays a huge roll in my life and I tend to associate a lot of music with losses.
There are some good events too. But these are the first two I always mention when we start talking about music.
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Post by peano on Apr 26, 2017 17:32:10 GMT
Tom Petty's first two albums in constant rotation in my car as I cruised the deserted streets after my 3-11 hotel desk clerk shift. I was lost and broken but there was the divine scent of vegetation on those humid, hot summer nights, and the top was down and my hair was blowing.
Bungle in the Jungle by Jethro Tull. At night in Arkansas we were able to get reception to Chicago's WLS and we'd drive around and dream of life in the big city.
Touring Europe alone in summer 1984. In France, met a group of French kids when they sort of rescued me from some overly persistent Middle Eastern guys who were not accustomed to single women sitting in a cafe at night. We talked, I thanked them. One of the girls asked to see my Walkman which housed REM's Murmur. REM passed muster apparently, so they took me to this disco near the Arche de Triumph that was formerly a swimming pool called, appropriately, La Piscine.
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Post by dulcemama on Apr 26, 2017 17:41:22 GMT
Funny you should post this now. I have been listening to the Violent Femmes' first album the last few weeks. Why? Because it's spring music. Why? Because when I was in college and lived in the dorms, The first nice day of spring, I opened my window and heard the "bum ba ba bum bum" of "Blister in the Sun" blaring across campus. I have a friend who thinks this is fall music because of a similar experience happening when she was moving into her dorm at the beginning of the school year.
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Post by peasapie on Apr 26, 2017 19:09:11 GMT
1970's - The Who and watching Tommy live on stage in Toronto. OMG I'm so jealous!!! I WISH I had been to that concert!!!
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Post by peasapie on Apr 26, 2017 19:10:23 GMT
Inagoddadivita by Iron Butterfly, the album, over 17 minutes of moody rock. Sitting on the floor of my oldest sisters appartment trying to be cool at 13 watching a bunch of college kids get drunk and/or stoned.......my misbegotten youth. Yes!! Sleeping over at my friend's house...feeling very grown up...
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Post by peanuttle on Apr 26, 2017 19:47:13 GMT
Too many to name, but two that popped up first were 1980ish riding in my Uncles van down Valley Parkway (big cruising strip when I was in elementary school) with him blasting Eye of the Tiger. My brother and I thought he was so cool!
Second was recent- driving away from seeing an old friend and He's Got You by Brooks and Dunn came on (too much back story, but every time I hear it now, I get a little weepy).
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Post by scrapmaven on Apr 26, 2017 19:53:23 GMT
I remember listening to Blinded By the Light at a friend's house. She was trying to teach me how to dance to rock n' roll. hehe.
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 26, 2017 19:53:38 GMT
Definitely the one that comes to my mind is "All Night Long" by Lionel Ritchie. This was our theme song when I was in the Peace Corps. We were always under a country-wide curfew so when we'd all get together, especially in the capital, we had to stay "all night long". Everyone would bring beer, something to eat, and a mat and blanket to claim a piece of floor. lol
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Post by checkwheelsdown on Apr 26, 2017 20:54:35 GMT
Many songs, many moments. Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" comes to mind though, because it was popular when I was stationed at Tyndall AFB in Panama City FL. I was a second lieutenant and alone (DH was stationed in CA, we were apart for over two years). I passed a lot of weekends driving around town and to and from the beaches in my non-air conditioned Toyota Corolla, windows down, hair flying all over, music cranked. The song washes the memories of warm air, the scent of sun lotion, tanned face and arms, the sound and smell of the ocean, aviator sunglasses, sunsets, fighter jets (the sound of freedom!) all over me. Simple, peaceful, slower time in my life.
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Post by rickmer on Apr 26, 2017 23:12:24 GMT
phil collins, another day in paradise.
it was on the radio as i flipped my car two and a half times, end over end. i didn't notice it while flipping but when i was hanging upside down in my car by my seatbelt waiting for someone to come rescue me, that was the song that was playing.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 26, 2017 23:27:15 GMT
Sitting in my high school auditorium at a pep rally in 1977 or 78 and to Queen's "We will rock you" everyone's right foot going down hard on the wood bleachers on "we" then left foot on "will" than clapping our hands on the "rock you". It was thunderous and so much fun.
Growing up in the mid to late 70's I feel we had the best of music during those times-classic rock, although I'm sure a lot of generations think that.
Whenever I hear Simon and Garfunkel I picture our living room when I was about 8 or 9 in 1969 when my parents were playing their records on that big stereo of theirs. They still like their music and so do I.
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Post by whipea on Apr 26, 2017 23:47:39 GMT
Elton John's Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer (we thought it was Tony Danzer) at sleep overs, always. That was Jr. High about 1970.
About 1972 Simon and Garfunkle's The Boxer reminds me of summers up north at music school. Very impromptu, something we would do in the evening. We sang, played it together and thought we sounded so cool, about 10 guitars and fifteen of us singing. I feel that place whenever I hear that song.
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 27, 2017 0:35:15 GMT
Music is a huge part of my life and I often can remember the music that I was listening to more than what was actually happening. I love this thread and break out into song every post that I read here.
It took me awhile to know (maybe I was told?) that the words were not Revved up like DOUCHE but instead were revved up like a deuce.
My Grandmother loved Marty Robbins. I know more of Marty's songs than I should, but I absolutely loved A White Sport Coat.
Loved this song. I always loved the line "Saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac". I had a lot of friends that were deadheads and I saw some shows myself. They were not driving Cadillac's though. We often discussed how that line summed up how much of the music scene (and society) was changing and becoming more mainstream.
Season's in the Sun, Billy don't be a Hero, and D-I-V-O-R-C-E were songs I remember making me sad when I learned the lyrics as a kid. But loved them and can still sing them today.
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scrappington
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Post by scrappington on Apr 27, 2017 0:38:45 GMT
Smells Like Teen Spirit. It was on The Hog AM 640 in Toronto.
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Post by tracyarts on Apr 27, 2017 2:06:27 GMT
"My Sharona" - The Knack. I was tearing it up during the speed skate at Airline Roller Rink in 1982.
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Post by Tamhugh on Apr 27, 2017 2:20:41 GMT
Land of Hope and Dreams. I first heard it live on the Rising Tour. Bruce introduced it as a prayer for all of our servicemen and women. It made me cry. I cry whenever I hear it and I want it played at my memorial service when I die.
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Post by my3freaks on Apr 27, 2017 2:25:42 GMT
Sweet Child of Mine by Guns & Roses. It was night time, summer after my junior year in high school, and we were sitting on the sand by a lake drinking wine coolers & beer. We'd left the radio cranked up in the car so we could hear it.
All of My Love by Led Zeppelin. I left my high school boyfriend's house, and he had put a Led Zeppelin tape in my car set to that song in my tape deck. We had been fighting, and something like that was out of character for him. I dated him off and on for over 3 years, and it was pretty much a textbook definition of toxic, abusive teenage relationship. Every time I hear that song I think of him. It's one of only a handful of good memories I have of him.
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Post by janeliz on Apr 27, 2017 2:35:20 GMT
I'll go with your 70s theme, otherwise there are too many! Steve Miller Band, The Joker, junior high school. Yes, I am so old it was organized as a junior high school, not middle school. My first boyfriend would get so irritated with me when I put The Joker on. I thought it was such a cool song, and he thought it was just awful. I think of him whenever I hear it.
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