Music association

[novelist_wannabe]

A shout out to Just an SID on the word association thread, which is pretty cool, and the mention of Joel and Lana on there got me to thinking: What memories or images do you associate with certain songs? I'm not thinking so much stream of consciousness like the word thread, but just what memories are triggered by a song.

The obvious connection there is "Old Time Rock 'N Roll" evoking images of Risky Business with Tom Cruise in his skivvies with a mixing spoon.

Another: "We Just Disagree" (which I hate now just because it's intolerably sappy) takes me back to age 12, with me standing outside the front door of the girl I had a crush on. Never got the nerve up to knock ...

What about you guys?

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

Billy Idol's "To Be a Lover" was on the radio coming back from my junior prom. I went with an ex-girlfriend because we made plans to go to prom while we were still dating. A photo of us at prom made it into the yearbook. She looks stoned out of her mind though she wasn't. We double dated with the kid that lived next door to me and we went in his mom's 1985 Monte Carlo. On the way home the ex and I made out like, well, teenagers in the back seat [two words: stinky pinky!]. Anytime I hear that Billy Idol song it makes me think of that night.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me with Science" always evoke memories of a spring break trip to Daytona because those two songs were topping the charts at the time and were heard over and over and over amidst the crashing waves and popping of beer cans.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

She's poetry in motion ... pshh! pshhh! pshhh!

 

[Boognish]

Any and all Steely Dan = seventh grade, in my bedroom, reading The Shining. Fagan and Becker have never been the same, and I have no regrets.

 

[Barsuk]

"Twist and Shout" = Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Always will.

"And Then He Kissed Me" always makes me think of Adventures in Babysitting.

 

[mike311gd]

311's "Applied Science" makes me think of them in concert, doing their tribal drum solo.

 

[slappy4428]

"And Then He Kissed Me" always makes me think of Goodfellas.

 

[Barsuk]

"Sister Christian" and Boogie Nights. Best film scene ever, for my money.

 

[Beaker]

Whenever I hear Layla, I think of Goodfellas.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

My Cherie Amore -- scene in Almost Famous where the girl OD's.

 

[Barsuk]

My Cherie Amore -- scene in Almost Famous where the girl OD's.

Ooh, also from Almost Famous: "Tiny Dancer."

 

[Beaker]

I think the first time I read the LOTR trilogy years ago, I was in the midst of listening to DMB's "Crash" album. The music went really well, and now they're sort of interchangeable in my mind.

 

[Petrie]

"You Can Do It" by Ice Cube reminds me of pretty much every college kegger I attended that had any room to dance. I couldn't dance a step back then (and still can't now), but when that came on I more than held my own.

 

[jlee]

Tooo many to mention but:
"14:59" by Sugar Ray reminds me of playing Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
"Sex and Violence" by The Exploited reminds me of my first five minutes in college.
"New Morning, Changing Weather" by The (International) Noise Conspiracy reminds me of cutting through a housing complex in an old route I used to run at 3 a.m.
And generally every driving experience more than three hours has it's own musical trigger

 

[dargan]

Since others are referencing high school/teenage years, "Still Fly" by the Big Tymers was unofficially the song of our senior year.

Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" = sixth grade, first song I ever memorized.

Every time I hear "Melissa" by The Allman Brothers Band, I wish I dated a girl named Melissa.

Any Hank Williams Jr. song reminds me of college ... when I, the small-town kid, was stuck in an urban university and everybody thought I was a hick.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Whenever I hear Hocus Pocus by Focus, I think of a time when hearing it on the radio made a one-night stand and I giggle and realize it was time to sleep.

 

[RossLT]

The entire Outkast Aquemini album reminds me of long nights getting blazed, 3 a.m. trips to AM/PM, 40's of Old E and Wrestlemania2000 and Madden 98 on Nintendo 64.

Ah, good times

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet... but no one who has ever seen "Reservoir Dogs" will ever hear "Stuck in the Middle with You" the same way again.

 

[forever_town]

"Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" takes me back to senior year of high school. A group of seniors were gathered in a room at the high school planning our Christmas skit. We'd decided on doing "The Twelve Pains Of Christmas," and the guy who eventually became the class valedictorian played piano at our rehearsals.

One day, during a break in rehearsing, the guy looked at me, smiled and played the opening bars of "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll." Somehow, he knew I'd appreciate it. 8)

Every time I hear "Turn It On Again" by Genesis, I think back to the road trip I mentioned in the Song Memory thread. That song stayed in my head pretty much the entire time that day and didn't get out of my head until I went to bed that night.

And now I finally figured out what the connection was. "All I need is a TV show/That and the radio." The guys I traveled to New Jersey with worked at the campus's student-run radio station.