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?

Foreigner I want to know what love is, gives me the creeps. I used to work behind a bar and on a Saturday lunchtime it was usually men who came in straight from finishing work to have a couple of drinks. Most of them were really nice liked a laugh and a bit of a chat and would give me money to put music on the jukebox. One bloke used to come in and stand by the jukebox starting at me and he constantly played bloody foreigner. I was 18 and he was around 40, he asked me out several times and would hassle me when I went to collect empty glasses. It got to the point where the landlord had a very strong word with him. I hat that bloody song

James Taylor - Smiling Face
Takes me back when I was a small child playing barbies with my best friend.