Post a song and share where it takes you...

[Centexfarmer]

Is there a song, that whenever you hear it, you're transported back somewhere?

There are several for me, but I was listening to the radio the other day and this song came on the radio:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWid1tL3PWU[/ame]

Suddenly it was a cold and overcast day in early fall on a Sunday afternoon. I was still in grade school, and my family and I were driving back from a local weekend trip.

I can feel the air, and see every detail of the car that I was driving in, what the console looked like, how the windows rolled down, and the smell of the interior.

I was in the backseat of a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, white 440 with four on the floor, black vinyl roof, with black leather interior.

I don't remember how old I was, but that ^ song was playing on the radio, and it was new.

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Post a song with a description of what where that song takes you whenever you hear it.

 

[Drebin]

It takes me back to the day I had to evacuate for a natural disaster. It was the last song I heard before my mp3 player died on a 1300 mile exodus.

 

[disturbtheworld]

It was 2 days before I left for my first deployment, myself and my two best friends went out camping with a lot of alcohol. We had been friends since 4th grade and they were basically my brothers. It was late at night, we were feeling no pain and this song came on the radio we were listening to. It just fit perfectly. We all stopped and sang every word. It was just one of those weird little moments where everything kind of becomes clear and you cherish the memory. Thinking back, it still makes me smile.

 

[Gussss]

It takes me back to the day I had to evacuate for a natural disaster. It was the last song I heard before my mp3 player died on a 1300 mile exodus.

Damn, that must have been one big ass disaster!

 

[irish1]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7HgO9QhAc[/ame]


Every summer I swam competitively, and this was a song that was on the loudspeakers all summer along, with so many great tunes.

I knew my parents were having problems then, and eventually divorced. This song seemed to be about my family.

It was the last year that I would swim on a team, and I missed it so the following years.

 

[gmoney]

Of course, I was a kid at this time, and people picked up 'hitch-hikers' without much thought back then.

My mom picked up one while we were going "somewhere" and I had to move over and sit in what we all called the 'bad seat', just to let this stranger ride.

This was the song on the radio at the time.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMQbedCZj0[/ame]

 

[sabot3ur]

his smoky car, middle of the night fall last year. literally the exact moment that I realized I was in love with him.

it's really ruined in the best way possible, what a shame because it's such a good song.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

When I got out of rehab... this is all I felt.

Dead on the inside. A pig. In a Cage. On Antibiotics.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

There was a time about... a year and a half ago.

I was so angry about something I felt almost out of control.

the line "I want to be there when your hot black rage rips wide open" pretty much sums up just how I felt. So do the rest of the lyrics.

The line at the end "I want to stop destroying you but I can't" sums up how I knew I was killing myself with my out of control rage but was unable to get over what I thought was the most ultimate act of betrayal.





I'm over it now. Kind of. But my user name "JasunStrikesBack" was almost a threat to the person in question.

 

[Gussss]

I was in 4th grade, elementary school, and the coaches from our high school came to do our PhysEd classes. There was one, Coach W, who was an absolutely gorgeous man, but he taught a different class than the one I was in. Coach F was the teacher for my class.

One day I get into a fight with someone during PhysEd and Coach F calls us both over and tells us to go to the locker room to get a paddling for fighting. For you young people, paddling back then was a punishment, not a fetish.

So, I'm in there waiting for Coach F to come in to give me my licks. He comes in, I assume the position, and as I'm waiting for it, Coach W comes out of the shower butt nekkid!!! He truly was a beautiful man, really. I've never felt such delight and such pain at the same time since.

This song was playing on the radio in the office and everytime I hear it I think of seeing Coach W naked. Five years later he was still at my high school, so I got to see it again. He was magnificent!

 

[hotdog1846]

"Whenever I Call You Friend" by Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks. Always takes me right back to November 1978.

I was 12 years old and drove a 1969 VW Bug my brother had as a junker (it had rolled) all around our neighborhood just after a big snowstorm, selling raffle tickets for my junior high. We had miles and miles of private dirt roads with no laws, and I could -- and did -- drive myself wherever I wanted. By myself. Freedom!!!!

"Whenever I Call You Friend" was a huge hit and was always on the radio as I was driving myself all around, meeting neighbors I'd never met before, catching up with old friends, finding corners of the neighborhod I'd never seen before. It was great.

 

[hotdog1846]

OK, fast-forward 7 years from my last post:

It's now the spring of 1985. I'm a Freshmen in college, and I'm driving back in the early morning light in my 1963 VW Bug (that I restored to mint condition myself ... yeah, I have a thing for VWs) after a night dancing at Pogo's on The Hill in Boulder. This song came on the radio. It's one of those tunes that, whenever it comes on, demands max volume. I was so tired from being up all night, but it just didn't matter.

The Brat Pack. Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estavez. The Breakfast Club. Simple Minds. It was the 80s.....

 

[Joshua_me]

R.E.M- "Perfect Circle"

My first serious BF, Tim, was absolutely crazy about R.E.M. He had every single note of music they ever recorded and tons of 'bootleg' concerts.

At the time.... Well, the "official story" to everyone back home was that I had moved out and left for college and Tim and I were "roommates", but the fact of the matter was I hadn't even enrolled in college yet and we were sharing quite a bit more than the rent and...well, you guys know.

Anyway, I had an old Firebird that was always breaking down and Tim was one of those kind of guys that knew how to fix everything on a car in spite of the fact that no one had ever taught him anything, he just kind of knew.

And I have this vivid memory of standing at the front window of our apartment and staring out at him in the parking lot, sitting cross-legged on the pavement and fixing something or other with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver while this song played on the stereo in the background.

I can remember thinking to myself, "This is my man. This is the man in my life and I'm so damned lucky to have him. What the hell did I ever do to deserve someone so special ?" It was one of the most special moments in my life in a way that I can't describe.

"A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends... Light another, coin a phrase"

WTF fuck is this song about ?? Beats me. But, all these years later it's still to painful to listen to all the way through.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SjRCc8S-MU[/ame]

 

[The_Reaper]

Perhaps I'm just too young....

I thought about it, and thought about it, but I can't think of any songs that make me recall the past in that special way, as if it were happening again...

I got plenty of songs that I hear now, that I like and leave me reflecting on my life at the present, but nothing that makes me recall the past.

This is one of those songs, unfortunately, the first part of the song was cut off slightly...Oh well, still the best version I could find.



It’s dusk as all the shadows fall
The sun is laid to rest
At night the city comes to life
As the light dies in the west
Here we stand as some local band
Sets circles ‘round the clock
Smoke so thick you need a lighthouse
So loud I can’t hear myself talk

Someone whispered in my ear
“It’s not like it was before”
I don’t know what happened here
I guess we just got bored
The good old days
Well I suppose, I’m glad they’re behind us now
The only thing worse than growing up
Is never quite learning how
Late at night we toss and we turn
Lay awake ‘til dawn
We close our eyes as the sun comes up we’re gone

 

[Centexfarmer]

Wow!

Some of the descriptions of where, and some of the songs shared so far gave me chills.

Thanks for sharing!

There's one more song that comes to mind for me that I'd like to share:

The 1980's.

I'm standing on the bow of a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter and I'm wearing a pair of "radio headphones" (pre-iPod obviously), and we're approaching the port of Miami.

Mid-morning, I'm wearing my work blues, and we're returning to U.S. shores triumphant in a huge drug bust for the period.

Every time I hear this song, regardless of where I'm at, or who I'm with, I'm there!

Right back in THAT moment; I can smell the salt in the air, I can hear the waves splashing against the hull, I can see South Beach and the Miami skyline on the horizon.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfinTQTMNTs[/ame]

Keep them coming, this is great!

 

[Gamby6]

My dad was a fan of Genesis, he used to play their songs A LOT when I was a kid. Among them, "taking it all too hard" reminds me those times most.

 

[ChickenGuy]

This song always takes me back to being 5 or 6 years old, and the house as it was back then. It's uncanny.

And moving on a few years....



This one brings all my age 11 schoolfriends flooding back. Trips to the beach with them. No cares in the world.

And a few years later....



The year I'm away from home in a hostel. The boys next door always played this. I was 15 and VERY withdrawn.

 

[Joshua_me]

I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

Hmm...

I've been cyber-kissing you even more than usual this week, but I know exactly what you mean by this....