To ask which song "takes you back"...?

[Tessie87]

Mine is Baby One More Time by Britney, don't particularly love it but it reminds me so much of being a carefree teenager, much simpler times! So, what's yours?

Disclaimer - I currently have the Hello song from Something Special going round my head on loop so I NEED to get it out...

I bet that you look good on the dance floor - Arctic Monkeys.

Takes me right back to early university days in Manchester - feeling so nervous, like a child in an adult world and everything was so different from my old life at home. Huge, hot crowded indie clubs where the air was thick with cigarette smoke and the floors sticky and covered in broken glass.

A confusing but quite fun time in my life. Bittersweet memories.

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus ,
The bar I worked in had a old vinyl juke box , it played a supposedly random single if no one had put money in it for a while , this was one of the juke boxes favourite's .

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It also liked Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

( this is very outing if anyone on here went in that little pub )

Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden came on Alexa today. I was straight back into my teenage bedroom in 1997.

Related, telling Alexa 'play 90s pop' has been the best revelation about having one so far. I have spent many a happy hour singing along ever since.

Also, All My Life by KC and JoJo takes me straight back to discos and parties where all my friends had boyfriends and I never had anyone to dance with when it played.
I actually texted DH when it came on a couple of weeks ago to say that we should have had it as our wedding song as I finally had someone to dance with 15 year old me still feels the sting of those parties.

Midnight at the oasis by Brand New Heavies and Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. Multiple festivals and teenage summer shinanigans in Cornwall

oh gosh-Mary Hopkin! I was always singing 'Those Were The Days' around the house to the point where I was told to shut up by my mum who referred to her as 'Mary Ockey'.

Crash and Burn by Savage Garden. A great time in my life.

'Love Changes Everything' Clime Fisher. Swoon

Summer of 69. It reminds me of that summer and that boy. I was 17 and I had friends and a future. It was the only time in my life that I was ever happy. At the end of the summer he left me and I never had love again.

'Reflections' by the Supremes. Yes, I'm old.

Don’t go breaking my heart. Elton John and Kiki Dee. The summer of 1976. There are many more but that one always makes me happy.

Faithless insomnia as mentioned by PP. as soon as it comes on I could be standing in that field for my first rave.

James Taylor - Carolina in my mind.
He wrote it in Europe when he was homesick for his home in N.C.
My family live in the same place he grew up and just now have sent me pics.
Today I'm homesick and heartsick.

*Crazy by Let Loose!

Reminds me of being just a pre teen and a good summer before senior school started out playing and not having a care in the world*

@pinklillie I came on to say exactly the same! Except I was 13, it was on the radio constantly that summer and always makes me smile.

'Schools Out' by Alice Cooper Went on a mediterranean school cruise and the resident DJ played it all the time by request, even as the first radio song to wake us up in the morning. Definately our anthem that summer.

Daft Punk- Digital Love. Used to spend all my free time in Brighton in the summer with a group of friends who lived there, great times.

Donnell jones "say what". .... A bit too far back?

Jilted John - still being played regularly in the September of 1978 when I went back to school at the start of my O Level year.

Even now, hearing the refrain of "Gordon is a moron, Gordon is a mo-oo-ron!" takes me straight back to being 15 years old, dangling over the banisters at the top of the Science Block with my best friend Mandy to make the most of the echo in the stairwell, and serenading our unpleasant deputy head - whose first name was Audrey - with a rousing chorus of "Audrey is a moron! Audrey is a mo-oo-ron!"

We then hightailed it to our form room and sat there looking innocent and studious when she came huffing in, having charged up three flights of stairs to try and catch the miscreants.

Happiest autumn of my entire life...

Lovefool by The Cardigans.

My memory gets flooded with images and smells.
It's like time travel.

Gabrielle - When a Woman wants her Man
Eternal & Bebe Winans - I Wanna be the Only One
M People - One Night in Heaven

Instant time travel for me!

Quite a few from what must have been the Easter holidays in 1975; Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar by Duane Eddy, There's A Whole Lot Of Loving by Guys and Dolls and Swing Your Daddy by Jim Gilstrap. I was only four but I always think of my local airport when I hear these songs, among several others. I was in the early stages of becoming a plane spotter - the airport was where our Mum used to take us bairns to get us out of the house.

Paul Gambaccini played all of the above songs on Pick of the Pops the other day.

I had a lot of isolation and worry when I was young, due to my own and a family member's health problems. Life was much better for me later on, and is now going back too much to my youth. Anyway, the song that was a comfort to me then in health-related isolation was Leo Sayer's 'When I Need You', and in these recent weeks I've been playing it over and over. 'It's cold out, but hold out!'

Super Trooper by Abba and Seasons in the Sun

Also Tie A Yellow Ribbon round the old oak tree

Can you guess my age? LOL

bizmum1, I remember both records and I'm 49 so you should be at least my age.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit
Do you really want to hurt me by Culture Club.