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AIBU?

Songs that take you right back to a particularly time and place

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Ithinkyoullbejustfine · 23/04/2021 19:02

Let Loose - Crazy for You takes me right back to being 13 on holiday in Majorca with my family and a beach bar that we went to almost every evening for dinner

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BackforGood · 23/04/2021 19:27

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen was been played everywhere during a wonderful Summer when I turned 21 out in the UAE, loooooong before it was developed into the destination it is today.

Gregorsgirl · 23/04/2021 19:28

I'm a scatman, the fair, circa 1995

TangoWhiskyAlphaTango · 23/04/2021 19:30

Fleetwood Macs greatest hits listened to on a long drive to the Isle of Wight around 1989. Still listen to it all these years later and it takes me right back!

fightingirish · 23/04/2021 19:33

Jennifer Rush - the power of love, brings me right back to the place, the feeling, and the time, my first love, I'll never forget him, we were just too young.

funinthesun19 · 23/04/2021 19:33

Spice Girls- Stop

Reminds me of a caravan holiday in 1997/1998 and me dancing away to it at the disco.

ItsGotABitOfPink · 23/04/2021 19:35

Adele someone like you.
Very happy times just before my life changed a lot!

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 23/04/2021 19:36

The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

Played on the radio as I was getting ready to leave the house for my passing out parade. Such a sunny, warm, laid back song for 5am on a stressful snowy morning ⛄️

user1471453601 · 23/04/2021 19:37

Baker street. Walking out of the underground, rainstorm stopped, early evening sun comes out and busker playing the saxophone right from Baker Street.

I have no idea why, 30 odd years later that memory stays with me. I wasn't with anyone special or going anywhere particularly nice. But that moment is still with me years later

lanbro · 23/04/2021 19:38

Celine Dion Think Twice takes me right back to playing Theme Park on the Amiga 500!

ShinyMe · 23/04/2021 19:40

I heard I'm in the Moooood for Dancing the other day on the radio as I was driving to work, and i was instantly back at uni, with my best mate, getting ready to go out out.

Ithinkyoullbejustfine · 23/04/2021 19:42

Spice Girls 2 become 1 and I’m 15/16 reading Shout in my bedroom and wearing my baby doll dress

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LoveFall · 23/04/2021 19:43

Glen Campbell, Wichita Lineman transports me back to childhood, camping in an almost deserted campground in the Fall with my family. We had a portable record player.

niceberg · 23/04/2021 19:44

Salt-N-Pepper Push It. First holiday with friend rather than parents. 1988. Butlins 😁 Priceless.

MumofPsuedoAdult · 23/04/2021 19:45

@ItsGotABitOfPink

Adele someone like you.
Very happy times just before my life changed a lot!

Adele - Someone like you - takes me right back to my worst and most painful break up :(

Frustratedbeyondbelief · 23/04/2021 19:45

The logical song by supertramp... how old am I ??

Brainwave89 · 23/04/2021 19:46

Living in the love of the common people. Snogged a boy I liked at school to this. He eventually become my first. Great times with few cares.

stillcrazyafterall · 23/04/2021 19:47

Barry Blue Dancin' on a Saturday night, sitting in the woods by a stream singing with my mates. Silver Machine by Hawkwind, first holiday (in a caravan) and taken to a disco by my (strait laced) parents. I was 11.

MumofPsuedoAdult · 23/04/2021 19:47

Madness - It must be love - takes me right back to a little 24 hour bar with a jukebox that my friends and I used to go to after night shifts at a restaurant in the early 90s (another country)

Brainwave89 · 23/04/2021 19:47

@LoveFall

Glen Campbell, Wichita Lineman transports me back to childhood, camping in an almost deserted campground in the Fall with my family. We had a portable record player.

I love this song. I first heard it only a couple of years ago and it is truly lovely. However, I did have to google to see where Wichita was, and what a lineman was....sorry!

Oatsamazing · 23/04/2021 19:48

Missing by Everything But The Girl takes me back to doing A level Art. There were only 3 of us on the course and the other 2 rarely showed up so I had the class to myself, we had little supervision. This song was always on the radio.

ListeningQuietly · 23/04/2021 19:48

Blue Monday

he's been dead 5 years
I still miss him viscerally

my husband accepts
not sure how I feel other than sad and old

PermanentTemporary · 23/04/2021 19:50

Groove is in the Heart by Deelite. University, night out at Cindies, with a group including the lovely previous ex of the man I'd just broken up with. When I got together with my next boyfriend who id fancied for years it turned out that he'd shagged her too. She was a great girl tbf. So, lighthearted complications but nothing too serious, before adulthood got going.

thatonesmine · 23/04/2021 19:50

The Green Manalishi by Fleetwood Mac. I'm 13/14ish and sitting in the back of my parents car as it plays on the radio, on our way to Cornwall.

JoanWilderbeast · 23/04/2021 19:51

I Found Lovin', The Fatback Band. We were the last to leave Le Beat Route one night and the DJ played this. I remember dashing over to him to ask what it was :)

Knackered1986 · 23/04/2021 19:52

Sams town by the Killers. Driving around South Africa on holiday with my soon to be husband and his sister, brother in law and niece

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