Play me a track that takes you back to a very specific time and place in your life

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I heard Mr Loverman by Shabba Ranks today.
I was immediately 18 again, and the best thing since sliced bread (of course!)
Just been dropped off to my first year uni halls by my brother and sister and I was feeling homesick already!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J83TLc4UrN0

Wannadies....(sp?!). You and me.Song from Baz Lurmans Romeo+Juliet, watched the film in Standard Grade English...was entranced by Leo!

All together now. The Farm. Every night out at university. Can’t hear it now without feeling warm and fuzzy, thinking about baggy jeans, curly perms and secret snogs (male and female).

Ramjam Black Betty takes me back to biker festivals, the smell of petrol and leather and liaisons with hairy men.

on another level, Miles Davis and Sketches of Spain takes me back to DS being a baby and spending time at my parents’ caravan where we played and he bopped along to the music. He still has eclectic taste

Oh wow! Hot a memory of the Cheshire Cat in Nantwich Cheshire and the 6th form!

Rock Your Baby - George McRae is associated with a very specific and vivid memory for me. I'm about 9 or 10 years old, sliding down the helter skelter at the travelling fair that used to come every summer to a field in the small town where I grew up. The helter skelter is cream and red and as you come off the bottom there's a stall where you hook plastic ducks to win a prize directly opposite. I can almost feel the itchy mats you slid down on and smell the mixture of diesel fumes from the fairground rides and candy floss when I hear that song!

Spaceman by Babylon Zoo. I'm sitting my GCSEs in a roasting hot sports hall, knowing I'm nearly done with the school I hated and about to start the rest of my life. It was stuck in my head constantly then!

Daft punk, around the world. When on an Erasmus placement in Utrecht for 3 months. Such fun times

Perfect 10 by the beautiful South takes me right back to a really happy time at school

Me too, Don't you want me by Human League reminds me of my brother being born in December 81.

The Way We Were by Barbara Streisand. Playing in the pub when the ex- who I thought was "the one" dumped me.

The most stereotypical Bristol scene. Sat on a sofa in The Bearpit listening to Inner City Life by Goldie around 1997.

Born Slippy by Underworld.

It was the soundtrack to one of the best periods of life. I loved where I lived, loved my flatmates. We had a ball of a time. J had a huge social circle and if j went out on my own clubbing, I'd always meet pals.

I had a great job which took me travelling alll over europe with long stints in cool cities where my friends would join me. I worked part time in big clubs around the country meeting big name djs. I also ran an after hours club from 1am to 8am on a Sunday morning.
I was full of confidence,living my best life and felt like I was starring in my own movie.

This song was the banger for a while and seemed to play at just the right moment.

God I miss those days....

I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney. My first foreign holiday to Yugoslavia (as was) aged 14.

Daydream believer - takes me back to dancing in The Cavern, Liverpool at 17 (I'm 51). See also Groove is in the Heart.

Sit Down by James. In another club circa 1989, i remember everyone sat on the dance floor in a big circle holding hands wben this was played!

C"est La Vie, Bewitched. Remember it playing at a bbq the year i met my dh. We were at the bbq together. Also associate Hey Baby and She Bangs with that time.

Paranoid - played at our wedding! Bo Rhapsody because my brother and dh "performed" it at our reception!

Two stand out as ones where I almost feel I’m there again as soon as I hear them;
Avicii - Hey Brother always takes me back to the young farmers Christmas ball 2013, was always a good night out but that year was brilliant. I was 19 then.
Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden, played by my wedding band as one of their last two songs (also rage against the machine, same feeling), they read the vibe so well. That party was absolutely incredible, everyone was on their best form and the DJ who followed the band didn’t wrap up til 5am.

Here Comes the Sun

Played on the piano by my lovely uncle the night my sister was born, and I was staying with my grandparents.

Nothing Compares 2U

Playing in the student bar my first night at university.

Bryan Adams' Robin Hood Prince of thieves soundtrack

Driving down the A19 in Teesside to my first job

Shanks And Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate. I was 16 when it came out. I’d finished my GCSE’s, no more school, it was summer and I was starting art college soon. Change was in the air.

This ones a bit cliche, but Mr Brightside by The Killers really takes me back to my uni days.
The indie scene was big in Leeds at the time, this song played in all the bars and everyone would go nuts singing & jumping around. Fun times! 😄

Some amazing memories and really cool tunes, only a couple I haven’t come across.

All that she wants by ace of base. Heard it today and I’m back in Kos age 20, having the time of my life.

Stay Another Day by E17 reminds of me of ds1 being born. It was no 1.. Ds1 lived two hours... 💔 💔
Forever Love by Gary Barlow came out the week ds2 was born. It wasn't no 1 but was played all.the time. I remember looking at him in his hospital crib and crying.
Its My Life by Talk Talk reminds me of a dear dear friend killed in a car crash.
Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison was my song with my late DH.
I Wasnt Expecting That by Jamie Lawson was playing when my late DP and I drove home after his cancer diagnosis.. 💔 💔

Billy Joel's Uptown Girl reminds me of my first love - 1997
Macy Grey's I Try - when we broke up in 1999!

Titanium by Sia & David Getta. It was out when I lived in Australia and with Sia being from Adelaide her songs were on all the time. Takes me right back when I hear that and good feeling too. Good times!

So very many, but right now one that springs to mind...

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It is a warm June evening and I am still in my school skirt and my summer blouse. I'm 16 and Just hanging out for hanging out's sake at my mate's house. His parents will have what seems like the longest holiday ever and we will spend all summer partying, loafing about. Ah...

We must be similar age. I was 14 when dirty dancing came out. My parents were strict wouldn't let me watch it. Went to my friends and we spent all Saturday watching and re watching the video. 🤣

Taylor Swift, All Too Well

Was having the shittest year ever, bereavements, tough time at uni and feeling very isolated, MH struggles and got into a dodgy relationship with an older guy who was emotionally abusive/love bombed me and then kept trying to make out I’d made it all up. I got a summer job in an estate agents and used to belt the song out loud in my car in between viewings.

Ended up with golden circle tickets to see the Red Tour and was in the front row as she say at the piano and cried her way through an extended version of All Too Well. I also sobbed. From that moment on, I knew it was going to be okay and that I would get over it. It was so validating that I wasn’t going crazy, there are men out there who do that kind of shit- Taylor knew it and so did thousands of other women in the room!

10 years on, saw Era’s with my best friends and lovely DH. Sobbed again for the young woman who was so so lost and alone and how far she’s come- every time I hear that song, I remember how that year felt and am proud that I get to sing it without that pain!

The Corrs Breathless - dancing to the song, in the rain, at party in the park at 15yo. I just remember feeling so free and happy.

Working in Australia the summer of 2006. We had a radio in the office that seemed to play love generation all day long. Everytime I hear that song I’m baking in Sydney heat. Trip of a lifetime!