Anyone else have a song that provokes a memory??

[AlexissFreeenncch]

Video killed the radio star cameo my Spotify shuffle this morning and straight away it brought me right back to me and my mother in the car, driving to the shop to get something my dad needed while he was working outside at home. Sunny day, windows down and smell of cut grass in the air. I literally see us in the car driving round a corner on the way to the local shop as the chorus kicked in. I would’ve been around 15.

Anyone else?

It's not a very well known song but "Slipping Through My Fingers" by Abba reminds me of a sad time when my parents split up, my dad moved away and I missed him terribly. I had no idea it was in Mamma Mia and I was a blubbering mess when it came on (it's a sad scene anyway).

James Blunt's Goodbye My Lover makes me think of the time I was in the MRI scanner when they found some cancerous cells on my cervix and of how terrified I was (I had to take a cd for them to play through the headphones because it's so noisy in there and that was what I had in the car). Then they played it at my step-dad's funeral! I now can't listen to that song at all!

Vampire Weekend's This Life reminds me of being a GCSE invigilator for some extra cash a few years ago. It was all over the radio and was stuck in my head for weeks.

'Will you' by Hazel O'Connor always provokes happy memories for me. I was 18 and at college at the time,had just started dating a gorgeous bloke,and was having the time of my life.

I have absolutely loads. Songs that remind me of holidays, car journeys, parties, people etc

It's a Christmas song the first line is "so this is Christmas" the next line sounds like "what have you done" I absolutely hate it my parents always argued at Christmas always blamed us kids always got pissed and beat us it was always what have you done it Christmas why are YOU acting this way we always got the blame for there SHITTY relationship

The consequences are I hate Christmas I mean I try but I fail every year to make it "special" it just burns me i can't give my children the Christmas they deserve

Loads of them. Happy one.The intro of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Relax' and I am back in that nightclub in central Birmingham very underage, dancing away, and having the time of my life.

Nowadays it's Podcasts. I've done a few long car journeys for quite sad reasons and waiting outside hospitals for hours. I put a podcast on and I know that in the future I won't want to listen to them any more.

@Theunamedcat your children will remember that you did things with and for them. I remember my childhood Christmases as special because the household regarded them as special. We had stockings, presents, church, meal, people we loved. Nothing spectacular but they were good.

Answering the question: the Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms - specifically Your Latest Trick. We listened to it sitting on the front steps during break on an orchestra course, played through David's Walkman and fancy speakers that plugged into the headphone socket.

Gosh, Video Killed The Radio Star takes me right back to being in bed and listening to Radio 1 cos I had flu. I was there for days, and couldn't watch TV cos couldn't get out of bed. I was 14. Bloody hated that song, and still do!

I remember being terrified of Bohemian Rhapsody as a child. It was always on the radio and I though the song and Queen were sooo creepy. Still hate it.

Tiesto and Nelly Furtado - who wants to be alone.
It reminds me of a dark time in my life.
I was 21, had found the courage to leave my abusive fiancé, yet he continued to make my life hell at our work place and eventually got me fired. I loved the song at the time but when I found it on an old CD last month, it immediately put me back to driving my car home, in tears after having been fired. The next 3 years were my darkest times. Thankfully I met my now DH at 25 and managed to turn my life around!

I go to an event that takes place every five years and I have two songs that instantly transport me back to these events, sandstorm by darude (if you’ve been to this event you’ll know 😉) the opening just makes me well up because it brings back such happy memories of being surrounded by my friends, having the time of my life and I gotta feeling by the black eyed peas, the last time I went to this event I was a member of staff, had worked my arse off all week and was completely shattered but my friend and I danced our hearts out to this, it was at a really shitty time in my life but we had a blast and for one night I was able to forget about all the bad stuff.

Farewell is a lonely Sound by Jimmy Ruffin reminds me of my first boyfriend.

Manics - Design for Life. 1996(?) 16 years old and carefree.
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 16/17 years old parking up at college with my Mum driving. We listened to the whole song, full blast and Windows open, just so we could hear who it was and what the name of the song was called!!!!

Best time of my life, mid nineties....

Oooh and The Cranberries - Dreams (and every song on the same album) 1993/4?

Ahhhh memories!!!!! Xx

I have loads of song memories, some good, some bad but a daft one is Captain Sensible's Happy Talk reminds me of being in the car with my dad and my brother who was trying to tape it from the car radio onto one of these and getting annoyed at us chatting. I can see it clear as day

So many!

These Are The Days of Our Lives by Queen. Reminds me of driving home with my mum after dropping my grandmother home, the year my grandfather's dementia forced him into a care home. It was so accurate for the situation we were in.

Faithful Heart by Libera reminds me of singing it at a wedding, it was a very good time in my life although I didn't recognise it at the time.

Hallelujah by Katherine Jenkins was played at my other grandfather's funeral and those opening bars of backing singers take me straight back to walking up the aisle behind his coffin and sitting down. I remember sitting there listening to the words and realising it was about a breakup, so not necessarily reflective. But he liked KJ so it fit.