What songs remind you of your childhood?

Question

Tom Petty's Wildflowers for me. Even though I did spend a mass majority of my childhood listening to bubblegum pop, none of them render the same reminiscent feeling as Tom.

You?

lovnrckets: Haha... I did not see that one coming :0)

Answer 1

Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street', Meatloaf's "Paradise By the Dashboard Light', & "Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" remind me of my 1st summer at sleepaway camp.

Theme from 'Shaft', "DeFranco family's "It's a Heartbeat" & "Everybody Play's the fool" by the Main Ingredient remind of my Very early childhood in The Bronx.

Answer 2

Shamal - Gong
Disco Boy - Frank Zappa
Don't Always Look At The Rain - Howard Jones
New Song - Howard Jones
Hide and Seek - Howard Jones
The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
The Glorious Om Riff - Steve Hillage
Palm Trees (Love Guitar) - Steve Hillage
Hide In Your Shell - Supertramp
School - Supertramp
Bloody Well Right - Supertramp
And ANYTHING by Erasure

My Dad would turn off the TV and would play music while we just sat and listened or read or drew. I have very cool parents.

Answer 3

I feel embarassed admiting this, but the first song that comes to mind was the Loggins and Messina masterpiece "House at Pooh Corner" at least if you go back really far to a time when I hadn't had the chance to grow my embarassing childhood mullet. Also, my mom likes to tell me about how I used to run around the house, dancing to "Lawyers Guns and Money" or really just about anything Warren Zevon.

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Well played Lovenrckts. Well played.

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I was thinking a little more and there are a couple more that came to mind. We had one of the early video cameras when I was a kid. You remember the ones where you actually had to carry the VCR around with you in a harness/sling thingy. Well my dad made a family video and dubbed 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six (Tom Waits) onto it (my dad loved Tom Waits, at least up until about Bone Machine when I think it got a little too weird for his tastes). Brings back memories of being at this beach we would camp at and driving the mini 3 wheeler that my dad got us since we were too small to ride his normal sized one.
I used to listen to the Thriller record like a mad man, and dance around like a total douche-bag... with a mullet... and a jean jacket with the fake wool lining...and a neon green t-shirt...and purple (really dark purple at least) sweat pants. I was a really lame kid. I hate the 80s. No matter how many good acts it may have produced I will never forgive it for some of the photographs it produced.

Answer 4

Fantastic question - there are a lot of songs that remind me of childhood, but here are a few that never fail to take me back with vivid clarity:

1) CCR - The Midnight Special. It was the first song on the Credence Gold album. Absolutely loved to sing along to it. I'm suddenly five years old in our old living room again.

2)The Eagles - Heartache Tonight. I'm five years old, at our favorite pizza place. Cheese plate on the table, a big cup of Squirt to drink, waiting for pizza, and my dad just gave me a couple quarters for the jukebox. The owner had to get me a milk crate to stand on so I could REACH it. I always picked this song, and the Beatles' Ticket To Ride. :)

3) Heat of the Moment - Asia. I'm eight years old, at the lake. I had a hot pink bathing suit that summer. I remember being barefoot, sand between my toes, in that pink bathing suit, playing game after game of Ladybug and eating Swedish Fish and hearing this song blast out of every boombox.

Answer 5

Under the bridge by the red hot chili peppers. That song seemed to come on every time I went for a drive with my dad, and to this day gives me the same feelings I had back then when I hear it. A feeling of peace and care free living as the wind blew through my hair and across my face while I sat next the one person I counted on and love so much. The one person I felt loved by the most unconditionally and the one person I know would protect me with their life. To this day, it gives me the same happy and proud feelings it did way back then. I know, mooshy, but what do you expect when you ask people to trudge up old memories? ☺ Take care and good question ☺


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Answer 6

These were almost always on in the car {tapes and on radio}. My parents were a good influence on my musical taste :)

Queen ~ A Kind of Magic
Queen ~ I Want It All
The Drifters ~ Under the Boardwalk
Sam Cooke ~ various songs
Jimi Hendrix ~ various songs
Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours {album} {Summer Holidays!!!}
Fleetwood Mac ~ Tango in the Night {album}
Fleetwood Mac ~ Greatest Hits {album}
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac ~ Greatest Hits {album}
The Beatles ~ Sgt. Pepper's {album}
The Beatles ~ White Album {disk 1}

Answer 7

Bicycle Race by Queen! My parents were/are awesome and made me appreciate great classic rock at a very young age. It doesnt take a psychologist to figure out why I liked this song so much at the time, but its still awesome! I can remember jamming out to Queen (among others) with my parents. I was born in 82', and was listening to the Beatles, Zepplin, Pink Floyd, etc. since in the womb. Thanks mom and dad :)

Answer 8

Funny,no song does that for me!?
either I never was a child or I still am one!?
maybe it's just because among other songs I still hear most of what I heard when I was eight years old.

By the way that Rock me Amadeus guy was Austrian. Not that it makes a difference, but... anyway

Cheers

Answer 9

"Our House" by Crosby, Stills and Nash (can't remember if Young was still with them at that point).. My aunt and I used to listen to that song every day. I hear it now and it reminds me of being 5 years old with the whole world still open to me.

"Under the Bridge" Red Hot Chili Peppers - instant teleport to being 13 again, similar to the same teleportation provided by "Don't Cry" by GNR except I was 16 then lol. "To Be With You" by Mr. Big takes me back to being 12 and in middle school thinking about my crush at the time *sigh*.

There are so many songs that just instantly remind me of things when I was younger... "Plush" by STP, "Hotel California" by The Eagles.

Yay for musical flashbacks!

Answer 10

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street