What one song takes you back to the most excellent time in your life?!
Question:
What one song takes you back to the most excellent time in your life?
It makes you stop and think of a time when everything was just perfect, the people around you, where you were, who you were, who you were with etc....
Mine is "La Mer" by Nine Inch Nails. It's hynotic mood helped me fall in love with New Orleans and it's decaying majesty. I was on a great contract with the best people I have worked with and that old city with its nooks and secret little places to sin in! Brilliant...
Answers: Cool, one of mine is a NIN song.... something I can never have - For a good memory, we'll leave it at that..... And another is Sweat Leaf - Black Sabbath we went to the 97 Ozzfest concert and it was a huge group of us and this song came on and we went nuts, everyone had a blast, a complete athem for us at the time.....
I relate with music so much, I have songs that stick out in my head for lot of good times and thoughts, but these were the first two that popped into my head. Well, I haven't had many "great" moments in my life yet, but whenever I hear Tom Petty's Wildflowers, I remember that summer when I first discovered rock and would just lie there in the lazy summer listening to music. Back in the days of being a kid and having everything be simple. It's a toss up between "We Are The Champions" by Queen and "Dust in the Wind by KANSAS. mine is Leaving on a Jet Plane. It reminds me of when my boyfriend and i first got together and we were so happy... Well there are a few realy, they realy bring me back to my childhood.
The biggest one is Drive by The Cars. I was 5 or 6 then, my childhood was amazing and I remember everyone, everything, the toys I had, the friends in the neighborhood, my black lab lady bug. Everything.
Good times. :D "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard. Johnny B Good by Chuck Berry when I heard that song I was 11 years old and after hearing that song I knew I was born to be a musician and now when I am doing a show and I am having a hard time getting things going I play my version of that song and It gets things on track for the rest of the show there is nothing better then the blues to get some one motivated that song really gets me going (thank you Chuck Berry for writing that song) "Good Times Bad Times" by Led Zeppelin
"One Of These Day's" by Ten Years After Thur The Years by Kenny Rogers. It reminds me of my Dad. Not so much songs, as albums. The self titled System of a Down cd takes me back to lots of fun times in high school.. It was part of our "making mischief" soundtrack, I guess you could say. Also, Felons and Revolutionaries by dope takes me back to the first party my friend and I threw in our first apartment. Good stuff.
I can totally understand what you mean about La Mer and New Orleans, that seems like the perfect song for that city.. Or at least the way it used to be.. That would have to be "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.
18, out of high school, and anything was possible.
I could write a novel about all the insanity that seemed to follow me when that song played. I experienced agony and ecstasy far beyond my wildest dreams. A-Ha's "Take On Me" ... I must have been about 6 or 7 years old, but it takes me back to a very carefree time... :)