Do you ever associate a song to a time or place?

Question

For example when I was in school I got into trouble and was grounded, while I was grounded I put puzzles together, the song Mother by Danzig was popular, now everytime I hear it I think about jigsaw puzzles.

Answer 1

I do it all the time. When I was in high school I was driving around with some of my friends. It was a warm summer day and we'd just gotten done swimming and "Black Hole Sun" came on the radio and we all just started singing. Whenever I hear that song I go back in time.

Answer 2

Yep we were at the beach the law came the dude that's car that we went in had a outstanding warrant and the arrested him we did know what to do to get home because he took his keys this song wheels in the sky by journey was playing and every time I hear that song I remember that day it was about 28 years ago I guess I will never forget that day wow as I am writing this that song jest came on is that wild or what

Answer 3

All the time!

"Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls was the first pop song I liked, so I always feel ten years old again when I hear that song.

I asked a guy I'd had a crush on for years to a dance. As we danced to Howie Day's "Collide," I looked down at my hand in his, and realized that'd be the last time that ever happened.

The only guy I've ever dated would play songs on his guitar like " Breakfast at Tiffany's," and songs on the piano like "100 Years."

There's a certain hill by a football stadium that *always* brings Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" to my mind.

I saw Death Cab for Cutie in concert, so "Crooked Teeth," especially, reminds me of that summer.

Give me any song I like, really, and I could give you a time, place, or person it evokes.

Answer 4

Yeah I do the same thing. Everytime I hear Unforgiven by Metallica I think about when I bought the cd for my husband for Valentines Day when we were in High School. Crossfade's song Cold always reminds me about my friend and I getting into a fight! Everytime I hear any Eagles music I think about the cottage we go to in the summer!

Answer 5

Absolutely! Many, many songs. When I hear "My Sharona" I think about the time I was on my way to a doctor's appointment and was late and a train fell off the track (it was going r-e-a-l-ly slow so it wasn't really a derailment) while I was waiting at the crossing and I couldn't get out of traffic to go around. The doctor's office wanted to charge me for missing an appointment because they didn't believe me until they read the paper the next day and they called me and told me they wouldn't charge me. I think of that every time I hear that song.

Answer 6

Oh yeah - back when I lived in Central America I was sitting in an ice cream parlor on a hot day (103 degrees and 98% humidity) and Black Hole Sun started playing. It was one of a few times I heard some more contemporary US music while I lived there. That song was stuck in my head for days.

Answer 7

When I was about eight years old, all of my cousins, my sisters and I made up this video of us all dressed up in holiday clothes, singing Christmas carols, for an uncle.

My older cousin sang his version of "Let It Snow". It was filled with weird little movements and asides (kind of like "like a lightbulb!" in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer). However, one thing really stuck out. When he got to the line about "the fire is slowly dying", right before he said "dying", he put his hands around his neck and pretended to choke himself, with a kind of EHGH! sound. Fast forward ten years, and my sister and I are in high school choir, and we're doing our first sing-through for our Christmas concert music. My sister was a soprano and I was an alto, so we were on complete opposite sides of the room. The director could only see us in her periphial vision, so when she saw two simultaneous (and exaggerated) movements on both sides, she started laughing and had to cut the music. And she made us get up and sing James's version of the song. Neither of us (actually, no one in our extended family) will ever be able to hear or sing Let It Snow! without the choking movement.

Answer 8

All the time. I go through phases where I will listen to one band/person ALL the time so that time in my life I always associate with what I had been listening to.

Answer 9

Sublime always reminds me of summer time. There are a lot of songs that remind me of certain things, some good some bad.

Answer 10

God, I do that all the time. The funniest one of all: I think of the theme song to the Flintstones every time I am shampooing my hair. Nuts, I know.