What is a song that transports you back to a specific moment in time?

[DontThinkJustDo]

The M&S advert with "Pump Up The Jam" has just been on and every time I hear it I'm transported back to being 18 again dancing in Ritzys nightclub. I can even remember what I would have been wearing at the time! Anyone else have a song that transports them back to a time and a place?

Ocean colour scene - the day we caught the train
It came on the radio on my first drive by myself after passing my test and it was just... freedom!

Alex Clare - too close
My back tattoo. At one point all I could do to get through it was listening to that on repeat

I've been enjoying that advert a lot. There's also a car one out with the same time, someone is coining it in royalties!

Around the world, Daft punk, also brown paper bag by Roni size, University.
Sit down, James, Snobs nightclub in Birmingham, 6th form
Linger, the Cranberries, 6th form common room.
Both sides now, Joni Mitchell, my dad playing it on vinyl to me in the front room when I was about 13 and allowing me to take it upstairs to my record player on the grounds I didn't scratch it.

Joe Cocker 'All I know (feels like forever)'
Dancing with my new husband at our wedding reception in 1992. We're still married.

Human League - Don't you want me.
I'm instantly back in the winter of 81... we had a ton of snow and school was shut for nearly a week.. everywhere was white and silent.
I was 13, and madly in love with my friend (he never knew). We built an igloo in the snow, and I remember being just so happy.

I still love the Dare album.

Losing My Religion by REM was on the car stereo when I pulled into a university for my interview. There were rows of beautiful purple rhododendrons along the driveway and I knew I was going to be accepted, I was so happy and excited. I'm back there in an instant whenever I hear it.

Wake up Boo by the Boo Radleys.
The summer I did my A’Levels. It seemed to be playing on the radio every morning. The sun was shining and I had to sit exams!

Fleetwood Mac Rumours . I was on a PGL holiday in North Wales and the common room played this all the time . About 1977 and I was 14 .

Fight for the right to party, by Beastie Boys
It grade six, I have on mismatched slouch socks, a knock off Varnet t shirt, my hair in a side pony, and I am ready to take on the world

So many from the '80s, church youth club disco (bottle of panda pop and packet of crisps, clinging to the outside of the room in our Ra-Ra skirts or Mini-kilts and batwing jumpers with white boots on and too much black eyeliner) playing Human League, Depeche Mode or Haircut 100. Later in Nightclubs (Smallest bottle of vodka in handbag, and £1 for a coke to mix it with in the toilets) - "Say I'm your No.1 by Princess, and Rhythm of the Night by Debarge" But my abiding memory of the time is definitely from Freez AEIOU because we had to wait in Calais Hoverport in 1983 and heard it on replay (I am laughing as I am typing Hoverport, but that was actually what it was called I feel sure) for 6 hours once to meet my Dad who had travelled to meet me, my sister, and my Mum there to continue our holiday in France. They did not waver from this song for a second of the 6 hour wait. Apart from the occasional announcement, it was straight back to AEIOU, a staggering 74 times at least I heard it. My sister and I still quite like it, but yeah, we only need the opening 1 second before we both say "Calais Hoverport", happy days ! x

Take That - Pray

When I was in Tenerife in 1993, the hotel I was staying in had a huge screen that played MTV and that song would come on every evening as we ate dinner.

Gloria Estefan - Don't want to lose you and Simple Red - If you don't know me..

Florida in 1991. The lobby played this one CD repeatedly and it reminds me of sitting there sobbing as I was having to say goodbye to my holiday romance, a Canadian boy who I 'fell in love with' ..... Still talk to him now though :)

Alanis Morisette - Jagged little Pill album...

I purchased it in Brisbane as I'd left my cassettes at home .. l listened to it over and over the entire 6 weeks I was in Australia. To this day, it's got to be one of my favourite albums.

Bitter Sweet Symphony, The Verve
Spent a magical summer with someone I really fell for

Fade Into You, Mazzy Star
Messy complicated love affair with someone who loved me very much and I took for granted. He used to play it on repeat a lot when I was round at his.

Higher State of Conciousnesss, Josh Wink.
First time I heard was in my local techno flea pit on a Thursday night. My boss and I went out after work as usual. This track blew me away and I went up to ask the DJ what it was. As I approached he gestured to me but I didn’t understand. Then I fell though a hole in the stage and trapped the decks to save myself. He came out to rescue me. We ended up laughing about it a lot every time we bumped into each other over the next couple of years and ended up pretty good mates. About a decade later we went out for a while.

Come Together, Primal Scream. Love the album for ages but one time we were having the absolute day from hell at work and I was saying to a colleague that “Nothing could make me feel better right now…except this” just as Come Together came on the radio. And the world turned golden pink instead of blackish blue.

Eminem - My Name Is
In my art class in high school, I'd have been yr 8 or 9, very liberal teacher allowed us to have the radio on in the background in class.
Eminem was new and unknown at the time (to us anyway).
Got to the part where he raps "...but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate" and the whole class stood still and gasped the there was this ripple of shocked laughter.
It seems tame now and hard to believe how stunned we were but to hear that on mainstream radio at that time, wow! I heard it recently and was transported right back 😂

Sealed with a kiss... the only song played over and over when we were on school journey at the disco aged 12.
Zoom Fat Larry's band reminds me of our slow dances with my late husband. 💔

Scatman?? Going to the fair mid 90s

Who the fuck is Alice, holiday with sister 1994?

Oasis art class 1996

Marilyn manson, free periods playing cards in the pub, college 1999.

I do have some better songs, but I listen to them often, so not very evocative

Belinda Carlisle Heaven on Earth & Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling. When I first met late dp I used to pick up ds from school on a Friday & we used to drive to Mansfield in my Fiesta singing our heads off to music from my Ipod.

Nickleback Rockstar was one of the first songs ds liked, he used to sing it all the time, I know he didn't understand the words age 3 but he loved the song.

‘Birdhouse in Your Soul’ by They Might be Giants takes me back to one lunchtime in 1990, I was 17, perched on a radiator in the sixth form common room eating a Twix. A boy called Richard (who was not really part of my friend group, but I had a bit of a crush on him) was sitting on the floor in front of me singing along really loudly.

Happy days.

Loving these - especially as there are so many from my era (are we all peri/menopausal women lying awake I wonder?!)

I’ve got SO many but here are a few:

We are The Champions: It’s the summer of Live Aid and my dad is obsessed with playing Queen’s set over and over on the video player. I’m in my Granny’s kitchen and it’s blaring through from the TV next door as Dad has brought it along to show my uncle. This song really stood out to me.

Dire Strait’s Money for Nothing album: mum and dad used to play it in the car and it reminds me so much of driving down to Devon for day trips to the beach.

The King Of Wishful Thinking: I’m 15, it’s the Easter hols and I’m obsessed with the Pretty Woman film and soundtrack. Wearing New West and every night snogging a German exchange boy that was staying in our town.

Carter USM’s 1992 album: it’s the Summer after my GCSEs and I’m mooning over some utter prick my first boyfriend. Getting pissed in the sun.

Paul Oaakenfold’s Goa mix: I’m about to live in Spain for a year and I’m sitting on the bus listening to it through my headphones while driving through Madrid and not knowing what was ahead of me. Loved that mix.

Back to Mine album by Nick Warren: when dh and I got together we would listen to this all the time. There were a couple of really evocative tracks on it by Coldcut and Craig Armstrong and they make me feel so nostalgic about our first weeks together. Also from around the same time The Beach soundtrack (loved the book, hated the film) and Moby’s Play album ❤️

Loving these - especially as there are so many from my era (are we all peri/menopausal women lying awake I wonder?!)

Yes 😂

No.1 Party Anthem by the Arctic Monkeys. I remember sitting in a beer garden with my mates in the middle of summer, I’d just finished my GCSEs and I felt like a grown up for the first time ever. I can’t listen to the song without crying now.

Jagged Little Pill and What's the story morning glory... takes me back to my A level art lessons where we would play those two albums on repeat while working.

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Yep! Sweating like I'm drowning!

Jagged Little Pill - oh yes! The soundtrack to the best summer of my life.

Losing my Religion.
REM.
A sweaty,dinghy night club.
But it was a song I grew up to.