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You know, the one's the take you on a wistful journey to your younger self.
One each, I'll start. Memories of student parties and injudicious snogging...
Takes me back to 2003, camping across the US in a battered old Ford Econoline van when I was young the world was my oyster!
Christ I could fill an entire thread. hardest part is picking just one track. It's fairly mainstream but this has many, varying, happy memories attached - holidays in france, student discos, discos with mates post-uni
It takes me back to the summer of 99 when I lived in Connecticut as an intern at a Country Club. Best 6 months of my youth. I'm not a Ricky martin fan by any stretch of the imagination, but it was the song of the summer over there and it reminds me of pool parties, keg stands, barbecues, weekly trips to New York, cob salads, philly cheese steaks, sky diving, far too much mary jane, 40's, long island iced tea and golf cart races.
Probably something more over played than linger, like Zombie.....
Astronomy Domine off Ummagumma - Pink Floyd.
It's when I began to develop my own musical taste rather than listening to my big sister's stuff.
Reminds me of driving down to Cornwall in my mini in the late 80’s on my first holiday with my now wife (then my girlfriend of 6 months). We played that cassette to death!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trGX3ET3jTQ
Memories of the unbridled lunacy of Glastonbury 1990 where we conducted a carefully controlled scientific experiment to see just how many drugs the human body could withstand 😃
The Mondays headlined and were absolutely bloody awful. Shaun could barely stand (I was probably having difficulty myself by that point), but this was the theme tune of the weekend and still my favourite track.
Wonderwall, most of the KLF for fun dancing.
James Sit Down - 1990 I was 16.
Also Roxette stuff around that time as knew a girl who liked them. When I hear a Roxette track I still smile and think of her.
From a far simpler time- motorbikes beer and music 🤘
I don't think anything at Glastonbury in 1990 was carefully controlled, @binners. I would agree with your assessment of the Happy Mondays though.
The Cure on the Saturday night, on the other hand...
@binners..Ha...glasto 90, yeah remember that, Mondays were shite..as usual, it rained, de la soul played..and we're crap, hot house flowers were ok, and I think the cure were there. Christ we were so ****in hammered that weekend.
Christ too many to go at. This springs to mind as the time of a first kiss and a major crush on a girl from the athletics club, we were listening to this on bus trips to race meets. My god the teenage hormones were racing better than I did.
Pretty much this. There's a million others, but this really does summerise hundreds of parties for me.
Listening to it now makes me realise how much it sucks to be an adult.
Gas an leccie bills? Bollocks.
Younger but not young (late 20s)...
First song on some random compilation CD bought from a services late one night that lived permanently in the cd changer in my 306gti6. There was something (to my weird mind) almost perfect about starting the car and gently pulling away to this tune, short shifting as the car warmed up before getting to somewhere you could open the throttle.
Too many significant points in my life to pin one down but here goes.
Run To The Hills: Iron Maiden
Liberator: Spear of Destiny
Happy Hour: The Housemartins
This Song Goes Out To The One I Love: REM
The Drugs Don’t Work: The Verve
Still a million waymarkers but that’s a start.
this, from my mid 20's, reminds me of driving to and from Morzine, to pick up some stuff from an apartment I'd left as I could no longer afford the life I/we has lived for the past 8/9 months, which came hand in hand with the end of a relationship, stupidly in debt for a broad who got to walk away scott free while I had to move home,
Bibbulmun Track.....
South West Australia. 2002.
I was 19, young, stoned and naïve. She was 36,English teacher, divorced and up for a good time.
I had a tent, she didn't (she planned to sleep in the huts, but that fortunately didn't work out).
I learnt a lot in those three weeks.
I cried when she got on a bus and left me.
Although the highlight (strangely) was when I beat her at Scrabble. I had only myself to beat after she left....
Christ I could fill an entire thread. hardest part is picking just one track.
So very much this ^^! First one that springs to mind is a song called ‘Freight Train’, by Nancy Whiskey. First song I can clearly remember hearing on the radio. It was released in 1957 - I would have been three…
After that, growing up through the 60’s, I was hearing new songs by the Stones, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Jethro Tull, Simon and Garfunkel… Tull’s ‘Witches Promise’ is one, I made up a record sleeve for it for my CSE Art exam, another is King Crimson’s ‘<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">21st Century Schizoid Man’; a classmate brought the album to school, and let me borrow it. That track forever changed my ideas about what music could be, and do. </span>
John Kongos’ ‘He’s Gonna Step On You’ is definitely another, a wonderful track, sadly butchered years later. 😖
I think @CountZero and I are the same age.
Freight Train, ah yes. All the others you list have great memories for me too, including He's Gonna Step On You - and Tokoloshe Man.
Something from Troublegum by Therapy?, could be half the album but lets go with Nowhere because I got in deep deep shit for doing a karaoke version at a highschool end of term event. Well, that, and my whole class did a mobhanded shouted version of Shitlist by L7. But that just sets off so many memories of early gigs and discovering new bands, the Wildhearts and Dub War and the All-****ing-mighty... and basically figuring out who I was going to be and also that who I was going to be, was pretty awkward.
Honorable mention to Bad Things Are Coming, We Are Safe by Emmy the Great, for being inexplicably the soundtrack of me getting into mountain biking.
Bibbulmun Track…..
I see what you did there. Did a week of the Bib track in 2009, didn't use a tent once!
I'll follow suit.
The Dales Way, 2000. I was living in a share house in Leeds and decided i'd like to go on a solo holiday at minimal cost. Realised that I was regularly running on a Dales Way link path. Looked on a map and figured I could walk out my door and keep going until Windemere.
Mate at work decided he wanted to join in, so we ended up yomping together camping wherever we ended up at the end of the day... not quite as romantic as your setup but it was bloody good fun and set me off with a love of 'through-walking.'
Hiya,
From the first album I ever purchased. Still love it:
Although my favourite track from the album is:
BR
JeZ
Going younger than the rest of you, but this is the one single most evocative tune for me...
If you want something from my misspent youth, then maybe...
My granny used to play this a lot when I was a tot.
Not your typical STWers type tune :O)
This has been done before but the answer never changes for me.
October 1987, first couple of weeks at Uni. And release day for the first proper album by the archetypal Peel band. As in those days - no downloads or whatever, physical media only and all records were released on the Monday, so after morning lectures I legged it into town to the little indie record shop in Durham city centre, handed over probably £5, and rushed back to my room. A quick dust of the vinyl, on to the player, drop the needle, and.......
It's not the first bar, not the first note even. The album starts with a breath in, and I can recognise the track to this day from that. And I'm instantly back, not specifically to the day i bought it but to that first term, first year, and all the fun we had.
It's not the best album in the world. It's not even THEIR best album. But without doubt it's my favourite album and there's no risk it'll ever be displaced.
She Sells Sanctuary.
Yeah, she definitely had a sparkle in her eyes. 😥
I was 14 when I first heard this and it totally blew me away - I still love it today.
Sitting on the top deck, back of the bus on the way home from school =
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v5SSa3NEQiM
Saw her play this at Reading in 1978. It was just a magical moment for so many reasons.
This was the track that reverberated around halls in Salford when I met the woman who was fated to become Mrs Sandwich (poor woman).
Mrs Sandwich was carrying Ms Sandwich in 1989 when we saw this live at Villa Park
Seemed to be on permanent play when I had to collect and deliver the kids to nursery whilst on shift
Lots for a lot of reasons, mostly inextricably linked to an ex-girlfriend, mostly Suzanne Vega tracks like World Before Columbus. But, from before her and still one I come back to regularly...
this track always gives me a certain feeling whenever i hear it (i suppose a sort of wistful melancholy)
It's gotta be
Memories of endless summers. Shredding the quantocks with buddies, driving to races with ,in tapes,
Age 15, the dog end of the anarcho-punk free festival scene, the horrible clash between the delightful older individuals who'd initiated it and the 'Brew Crew', weekend ****ers high on violence.
Still,
Brands Hatch 😀
Can I have two?
First, Kayleigh by Marillion. In Secondary school my first massive crush was on a stunning girl called Haleigh, and this was my go to teenage dream accompaniment. Unfortunately she as in the "hot girls" group, and me in the "Dweebs" group so it was fated never to happen.
Secondly
At 18 I moved into my first flat with a girlfriend. By Friday we had £3.50 left of our budget to spend on a pint and half at the local pub. We'd do that, come home and she'd got to bed. I'd religiously stay up drinking home made beer watching Tour of Duty of which this was the theme tune. It's always feels like one of the best carefree nostalgic time of my life for some reason.
This... reminds me of it constantly belting out in our 6th form common room at school.
I'd just started collage and this was always played in the common room. I was full of hopes & dreams for the future.
as soon as i hear this i am taken back to college, skateboarding/bmxing with friends, going to the pub.... as many say, when life seemed simpler in so many ways.
Hearing this pilled up in a field with the now MrsReady, quite literally as the sun was indeed rising at our 1st rave somewhere. The next few years are a bit of a blur though!
(Still love the song too)
B-side for me.
"Security" by Men Without Hats, on the other side of Safety Dance.
Will always remind me of a particular school disco - or, to be more precise, the teenage angst following.
Brands Hatch
Great track. I even got to see a Grand Prix there.
@RustySpanner thanks for that that's my Friday evening listening sorted😃
For sheer take me back to a moment, this transports me
Back to the good moments of final school year in Galloway, pub jukeboxes rule....
Once in a lifetime
The soundtrack to my sixth form, well this and kill your television.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xef60FAN6Vk
@slowoldman me too. Only lived a few miles away, actually cycled out to the last ever race just to watch the air display and got in on a ticket some lads had nicked somehow and flogged to me for a couple of quid :-).
It was 1968 when dad took me down to Brands from home in Yorkshire. Big trip for a young lad. B&B in Sidcup (very exotic) and, more nostalgia, the first Little Chef ever on the A1 coming home.