Songs that take you back to a particular moment in time

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Just heard Abba's Dancing Queen on the radio and it took me straight back to being about 7 in back seat of mum & dad's rover driving round Scotland. This was mid 80s when Abba were deeply uncool.

Earlier I heard Dancing on a Friday Night by the Darkness which reminded me of sitting in a field at the end of a village fair in Suffolk with a friend I was on holiday with and some other folks we'd just met, sitting on hay bales drinking cider in the golden evening sun. The whole of that album reminds me of the summer of 2003, great memories.

Funny how particular songs can take you right back to very specific memories. I could never hear Mulder and Scully by Catatonia without being reminded of the time in 6th form my friend snogged the guy I had been out with for a short while and was still madly in love with (she didn't know). My heart broke!

What tunes trigger particular memories for you?

Ah maybe just me then!

I'll give it one last bump then admit defeat!!

Can't leave you hanging.....

Went to Uni as a mature student and a group of us went for an explore in the first week and ended up singing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' by Deep Blue Something.

I hear that and I'm immediately transported to Southsea in 1997

Running up that Hill by Kate Bush playing on the radio when I was moving into my very first flat age 18 - reminds me of the excitement.

Wake up Boo playing when DH and I first got together and were so in love- still makes me so happy!

Moody blues. Ride my Seesaw reminds me of holidays in Suffolk. My mum played it in the car as we drove to places. Aldeburgh area if you're interested.

Ooh Banana my parents are from Aldeburgh and Thorpeness. Many happy childhood holidays at grandparents houses. Beautiful area.

Thanks for taking pity on my thread , loving these stories!

Blessed be your name.
My baby nephew's funeral.

Oh I love Wake Up Boo. What a happy summer that was.

If I hear Fugees Killing Me Softly it takes me back to driving through the Cornish countryside, windows open, wind in my hair and my three good girlfriends and I are singing our hearts out. We lost touch after school but that is one of my fondest memories.

Witchend

Angel's Delight takes me back to 1991 when I'd just given DS his first bath. He was wrapped in a towel on his changing mat and I put Viva Dead Ponies on the turntable and 'put the needle on the record'. It starts quietly (thanks Peel) so I turned it up. About 40 seconds in DS starfished in shock as the first powerchord hit. Tbh I was a tad surprised too.

I dried and dressed him and took him down to his mum for his scheduled feed. It turns out he loves loud music...

Lots of songs. Anything by the London boys and I'm 13/14 again. Extreme remind me of my GCSE year's, especially song for love that was released to raise money after Freddie Mercury died. Wake up boo and common people remind me of 1995 and my boyfriend when I was at 6th form college. He was lovely and although we broke up when I went to uni I still remember him fondly. Poison (Alice cooper) reminds me of overtime at my old job. When the boss went home the radio came out and one for some reason that song sticks in my mind. Stand by R.E.M. takes me back to uni again and a load of us dancing in my best friend's room. Is this love by Whitesnake reminds me of DS1's dad and our intense but very troubled relationship.

London boys!!

Strawberry Switchblade- Since yesterday, singing and dancing with my sister not long before she died. Always makes me smile but teary too.

74 75 by the Connells.

Mine and DPs first trip away together, 2011 or so when we hadn't been together long. We both started singing along to it in a bar at the same time.

Dylan's Lay, lady,lay..lay across my big brass bed....

Bridge Over Troubled Water
I was in the staffroom of a children's home in Wimbledon the first time I heard it.

Sweet Baby James by James Taylor. Always takes me back to the time when I had a sweet baby James!

Gorillaz Feel Good Inc, heard it for the first time as me and DH (, boyfriend at the time) relocated from one end of the country to another. We had had a really stressful move but this song really lifted our spirits on the motorway that day. It lifts us now all those years later

Summer of 69 - lying on the banks of the River Cam in the middle of the night, first year exams just finished, some friends and I were "guarding" the marquees for the May Ball the next day by camping out there. We heard that song, which I already loved, drifting up from another college's outdoor party, and it felt like we were young and free and had the world at our feet.

Oh Tilly I love that song 💕

Every Rose Has it's Thorn by Poison. Going to Blackpool in my parents Renault 9, the cassette was then stolen later when someone stole the radio out the car back at home. Dad was devastated.

Elton John - Sactifice, going to a games hall to play badminton with Mum.

Ub40, Kingston Town. Grandpa and me in his montego going back to primary school after lunch

@aManForAllReasons I worked in the Wine Vaults in 1997 - I've probably seen you singing that song; I'm pretty sure every group that came in eventually did.

"Ever Fallen In Love with someone"
A field trip

Smoke on the Water
A yacht club disco

Sing if you are glad to be gay
A school disco

Lola
a freshers disco

Blue Monday
hall disco

Hope it's ok to bring in classical music but Sibelius Karelia Suite reminds me of driving in the car past the fairground rides of aldeburgh festival to eat our fish and chips on that road next to the sea that goes to the Martello towers.

Mit Mir - Rosenkavelier : My mum breaking up with her boyfriend