Fnaar
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- Location
- Thumberland
Songs with special meaning, what and why
- Thread starter furball
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Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
Chicago - If you leave me now.
Seemed to be played all the time when I was with a girl who dumped my (at the time) best friend, for me.
Dates are a minefield for me unless I can make some (sometimes odd) associations.
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall.
The tune which triggers the year I was married. Christmas hit 79/80, we moved in together a year later and got married a year after that.
Seemed to be played all the time when I was with a girl who dumped my (at the time) best friend, for me.
Dates are a minefield for me unless I can make some (sometimes odd) associations.
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall.
The tune which triggers the year I was married. Christmas hit 79/80, we moved in together a year later and got married a year after that.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Steamy Windows by Tina Turner.
Lovely Wife was involved and that's all I'm saying.
Lovely Wife was involved and that's all I'm saying.
tony111
Veteran
Recently celebrated our ruby wedding anniversary and the No. 1 at the time was "You're the one that I want". I bought my soon to be wife the single and wrote "You're the one one that I want........on the day that I got you". My mate dropped it off at her parents house on the morning of our wedding.
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
Seriously though, just about every song I have heard triggers a memory or point in time of some sort - maybe because I was a DJ
This may explain why I am so good at "guess the year" on radio shows
I can usually pinpoint the correct year using memories associated with that particular song, in much the same way as a bloke uses pubs to explain directions
This may explain why I am so good at "guess the year" on radio shows
I can usually pinpoint the correct year using memories associated with that particular song, in much the same way as a bloke uses pubs to explain directions
GlasgowFinn
Veteran
- Location
- The People's Republic of Cumbernauld
Do You Realize? by The Flaming Lips.
Played it on repeat after my mother's death a couple of years back. Still brings tears to my eyes.
Played it on repeat after my mother's death a couple of years back. Still brings tears to my eyes.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Run by Snow Patrol has me in tears every time.
My wife had just come out of a major operation and took a bad reaction to the anaesthetic. Her oxygen levels were crashing, her heart would falter and stutter and only injections (adrenaline?) would bring her back, albeit with lower oxygen levels each time. A Priest was called but I told him to sling his hook and held onto my wife's hand, constantly talking to her and not letting her go. The lines "Light up, light up, as if you had a choice. Even if you cannot hear my voice, I'll be right beside you dear" mean so much to me.
My wife had just come out of a major operation and took a bad reaction to the anaesthetic. Her oxygen levels were crashing, her heart would falter and stutter and only injections (adrenaline?) would bring her back, albeit with lower oxygen levels each time. A Priest was called but I told him to sling his hook and held onto my wife's hand, constantly talking to her and not letting her go. The lines "Light up, light up, as if you had a choice. Even if you cannot hear my voice, I'll be right beside you dear" mean so much to me.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
My wife and I were living together for several years before we married, but as tradition dictates that you don't see each other immediately beforehand I stayed with my best man while my soon to be wife and some of our friends stayed at our house, I had one of our friends put this song on for her that morning;
View: https://youtu.be/hwUKR_9Xdns
View: https://youtu.be/hwUKR_9Xdns
The Crofted Crest
Veteran
"Footprints on the Dashboard upside down"
Somewhere in Texas, can't remember the place, my then GF and I met a guy and a gal and went for a drink with them in a local bar; afterwards in the motel room where they lived the guy started strumming his guitar and singing this song that he had written in 'Nam about an automotive escapade with the gal. The title is the only line I can remember but I often sing it fondly to myself.
ETA: Hmm, just googled it and the guy was either Joe Mondo or a bally liar, another fond memory turned to ash and dust.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QHr8JX-G38
Somewhere in Texas, can't remember the place, my then GF and I met a guy and a gal and went for a drink with them in a local bar; afterwards in the motel room where they lived the guy started strumming his guitar and singing this song that he had written in 'Nam about an automotive escapade with the gal. The title is the only line I can remember but I often sing it fondly to myself.
ETA: Hmm, just googled it and the guy was either Joe Mondo or a bally liar, another fond memory turned to ash and dust.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QHr8JX-G38
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Redemption Song by Bob Marley brings back wonderful memories of being in a hot-tub on the beach on honeymoon in the Caribbean, getting utterly hammered on cocktails with my wife.
God knows how many times I got the band to play it, but I do vaguely recall the hotel manager politely, and rather amusedly suggesting at some point that perhaps the band might be allowed to choose which songs to play.
God knows how many times I got the band to play it, but I do vaguely recall the hotel manager politely, and rather amusedly suggesting at some point that perhaps the band might be allowed to choose which songs to play.
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Too many songs with many bad memories,
hand on heart I don't think I could recollect a song when I was happy …........
hand on heart I don't think I could recollect a song when I was happy …........
Soltydog
Legendary Member
- Location
- near Hornsea
) , I'll be keeping an eye out for any UK tours 
classic33
Leg End Member
For a Tyke, it seems to be Irish songs that stand out.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIP61QCrCU
Times past, doing work I'd done before, not done any more. The people I worked alongside. As someone "from the City", I wasn't expected to know how to do the work.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zYngpjTCXXg
One of the places I've worked in. Cycling there and back only confirmed to some I was nuts. Many drove there.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIP61QCrCU
Times past, doing work I'd done before, not done any more. The people I worked alongside. As someone "from the City", I wasn't expected to know how to do the work.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zYngpjTCXXg
One of the places I've worked in. Cycling there and back only confirmed to some I was nuts. Many drove there.
