Tune Association

[GO 161]

I often wonder how common the phenomenon is whereby one can hear a particular song and immediately recall everything about the time it was first a hit - seemingly being transported through a time tunnel and being back in that era where the sounds, sights, places, faces and smells are all there in vivid living colour.
Or if it's just me being anally retentive

So does anyone else have any particular songs that have this effect on them?

 

[Brittany]

All the time lol, here is a few examples

Short Memory - Midnight Oil reminds me of a holiday up north in year 7, it's a great memory
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman Reminds me of summer in 2004, good times
To Look At You - INXS reminds me of driving back from freo after my parents had a massive fight..ruined the song for me
Almost With You - The Church reminds me of the 2004 GF..Gay memory I guess..
A Forest - The Cure reminds me when I was two and used to constantly dance around the lounge room floor to this song..good memory
Love Is What I say - INXS reminds me of 2005 BB final & walking around the city with my sis to find the Swing Album just for that song
FOrever Young - Youth Group reminds me of my crap ball this year
Before Too Long - Paul Kelly reminds me of driving across the nullabor to Victoria..was a good memory

Yeah there are a few any way lol

 

[patsmith]

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley reminds me of my leavers (schoolies for you eastern weirdos) in 2004.

The reason why is going to sound incredibly cheesy. It was the week that the finale for season one of the OC was on. None of us had seen it as we were in Rottnest for week one of leavers. Someone had taped it, and when we were in Margaret River, we watched it. All the chicks were crying by the end of it, which is the part where Hallelujah came on. We listened to it about twenty times that week, and worked out the chords on the guitar.

Brilliant song, brilliant memory.

 

[Brittany]

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley reminds me of my leavers (schoolies for you eastern weirdos) in 2004.

The reason why is going to sound incredibly cheesy. It was the week that the finale for season one of the OC was on. None of us had seen it as we were in Rottnest for week one of leavers. Someone had taped it, and when we were in Margaret River, we watched it. All the chicks were crying by the end of it, which is the part where Hallelujah came on. We listened to it about twenty times that week, and worked out the chords on the guitar.

Brilliant song, brilliant memory.

Oh I remember that episode, I cried my eyes out , I think that song was the reason lol

 

[materamagic]

NO hit from the last 10 years has done it for me, singles, as we know it are pointless, they are no longer going to be issued by any serious artist with half a brain, and dont count on radio playing radio promo singles, its this digital age and there are just some things you just cant put in the minds of these kids. There have been a few good albums, thankfully the last few years, better music is starting to surface as some bands are getting it right in a big way

 

[patsmith]

Oh I remember that episode, I cried my eyes out , I think that song was the reason lol

It seems it had that effect on many people. I swear a mate of mine had tears in his eyes, but he claims it was the smoke from the... cooking.

 

[Brittany]

It seems it had that effect on many people. I swear a mate of mine had tears in his eyes, but he claims it was the smoke from the... cooking.

Haha I remember the next day at school everyone was like "OMG I cried my eyes out last night!"
I watched it a few months ago and It wasn't even sad lol, probably because I knew what happened after.

 

[- PC -]

Come On Eileen- Dexys Midnight Runners

Had heard the buzz coming from England and we were playing cricket out the back..Countdown was on , and they used to do a British top 5 and US top 5. I stopped playing cricket to listen to the song ...I then walked out and said I have just heard the new Australian number 1

Only For Sheep - The Bureau

Used to have wild wooly hair ... reminds me of when I was 20

Innocent Man Billy Joel

Not so innocent

 

[- PC -]

Copa Cabana Barry Manilow ( shuddup already )

Believe it or not this reminds me of being in a pinball parlour in Adelaide..smoke resting on the glass one leg resting on the other racking up high score after high score

Love Cats - The Cure

Puts me in Yepoon Qld with Paula T

 

[- PC -]

Wind Beneath My Wings Colleen Hewitt ( screw Bette)

Ted Whittens funeral

 

[GO 161]

It might be morbid, but both Streets Of Your Town by the Go Betweens and Motor's Too Fast by James Reyne were both charting at the time I was married and hearing both of them never fails to catapult me straight back to the late winter - early spring of 1988. In fact, I can probably hear any song that charted in '88 and instantly be back there. It was a such a memorable year in many ways.
1980 and 1985 also hold many such memories. 1980, especially early, as first year in high school. 1985 more so for drunken teenage tomfoolery.....

Perhaps the most incredible example for me though would be most songs from the hit parade in 1979.
Seems like 5 minutes ago and hearing them never fails to allow me to relive the antics of an incredible year

 

[GED YLE]

Countdown by Rush is a song that is associated with the rebirth of the US Space program in more ways than to me. A few weeks after I graduated from St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale, New Jersey in June of 1983, I was on a quick vacation in Orlando, Florida (my dad had a convention), and there was a van charter at the hotel to take some people to the Kennedy Space Center. I was lucky having a cassette copy of the Signals album in my Sanyo Walkman radio/cassette player (which, unfortunately, was waterlogged by a running stream of wave water at Daytona Beach that day- luck for me, the cassette was still playable!) and I wanted to have the countdown from the Challenger launch become synchronized with the countdown of the Discovery launch with Sally Ride on board. Sure enough, all went well. It was a historic day for me, and I have Neil Peart to thank.

Excitment so thick
You can cut it with a knife
Technology- High
On The leading edge of Life

www.petitiononline.com/YYZ2112/petition.html

 

[TigerFan]

Tina Turner's 'Simply The Best' makes me think of Winfield Cigarettes

(the first person who can tell me why gets a cookie )

 

[spell_check]

Tina Turner's 'Simply The Best' makes me think of Winfield Cigarettes

(the first person who can tell me why gets a cookie )

Nearly a year gone and no one has won your cookie?

Well I reckon I might, because it might have something to do with the signature tune of the NRL at that time and Winfield was the sponsor.

 

[lookkg386]

first girl I loved coincided with Jewel's "You were meant for me".