What song from way back when automatically take you back to your childhood everytime you hear it?
Posted by theSavageGypsy@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 583 comments
For me, I get flashbacks instantly when I hear Simple Minds- Don't you forget about me...la, la la la la, la la la la la la la la
Stardust_Crunch@reddit
Even The Losers - Tom Petty
Mantis914@reddit
Kansas - Carry On, Olivia Newton-John - Physical, anything BeeGees and ELO
GenX4Life1@reddit
Almost every song. I hear it and immediately flash back to either when I first heard it, or to a memory associated with the song.
MiscMel70@reddit
Actually it’s intro to TV shows that snatches me back.
The into to Gun Smoke & intro to MASH.
I’ve randomly caught these shows on throw back TV & now I’ll even go to YouTube to hear them.
I literally go back to under 10 years old, in Georgia, lying on the sofa on a hot summer day with the drone of a box fan going, my beloved grandma dozing in her fav chair by the window, and the smell of her Azaleas coming thru the door.
Jesus is almost like I’m physically there. I have a visceral reaction.
There are a few songs for me as well but they don’t transport me totally like these do
Pitiful-Asparagus940@reddit
this is gonna date me for sure.
but two songs in particular I heard when I rode the school bus to/from school (so it wasn't my choice!)
Loving You - Minnie Riperton
Love will Keep us together - Captain and Tennille.
PhotosByVicky@reddit
“Let’s Hear It For The Boy” by Deniece Williams
Fluid-Engine3578@reddit
Funny, I loved this song and at the time didn't really know who Madonna was yet. Every time Lucky Star came on I thought it was going to be LHIFTB and then felt let down when it wasn't.
Let it be known I love both those songs.
Fluid-Engine3578@reddit
The intro to Lucky Star by Madonna is like a time-travel machine for me.
Meltsn21der@reddit
Baker street, Gerry Rafferty. Long summer days on the cape.
CatWranglingVetRedo@reddit
Double Dutch Bus.
Dismal-Vacation-5877@reddit
Down Under - Men at Work
ConclusionAlarmed882@reddit
Anything by Carpenters. They used to be the absolute soundtrack of the ice skating rink I went to.
jbenze@reddit
Born in the USA. My best friend’s father was a Vietnam vet and they lived over the fence from us. He played that song non-stop the entire summer the year it came out and I have a really vivid memory of sitting in my backyard with my mother on my swingset. It’s one of those memories I can hear and smell.
DDlg72@reddit
Baby Come Back- Player
kevinsju@reddit
Born in 1973, there are definitely two. "Let 'em In" - Wings and "Fly Robin Fly". Nostalgia for riding around in the back of the blue Dodge Dart with the NY Islanders window cling (took me a while to figure out the NY wasn't a sloppy M with a hockey stick).
GreatGraySkwid@reddit
For me it's "Call Me Al." Takes me right back.
SuperK123@reddit
The Beach Boys Honda song. From my grade 4 classroom I could see a 50cc Honda motorbike parked on the street. One of the high school kids must have owned it. That was so cool!
ScientistNo7927@reddit
White Rabbit
circa68@reddit
ABBA, Dancing Queen. My mom and I would sit at the kitchen table and listen and play piano on the table to it
MuddyPig168@reddit
Dreams by Fleetwood Mac…always think of weekend visits to the local Pizza Hut and the song was often playing on the jukebox
TheLordMed@reddit
The Osmands - Crazy Horses
Kenny Rogers -Lucille
WimpyZombie@reddit
Kenny Rogers.... "Lady" was my mom and step dad's song. Hard to hear that song without thinking of Mom.
Salty_Finance5183@reddit
How Much is that Doggie in the Window? ( I'm old)
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
🤣
Irideflamingos@reddit
American Pie. I could sing the whole song as it took me one mile to walk home from school as a kid.
WimpyZombie@reddit
The big thing I remember about "American Pie" was that I had a 45 of it....but the song was split between 2 sides! Who the hell ever came up with that brilliant idea????
hoseb4brose@reddit
This one for me, too! I still remember every word. It came out when I was 3.
xczechr@reddit
It's not Christmas at my house until I hear Bing's Crosby singing about it. Takes me right back to my childhood.
maddylime@reddit
It's not Christmas at my house until I hear The Carpenters singing about it.
Mk1Racer25@reddit
Puff the Magic Dragon
WimpyZombie@reddit
When I was a kid, my dad and his cousins and buddies always had jam sessions on the weekend. They were particularly good with "Joy to the World" from Three Dog Night and "Down on the Corner" from Creedance Clearwater Revival.
fuzz_nose@reddit
Boys of Summer, spring break 1985.
SafePreference908@reddit
There it is - this one right here
aeon314159@reddit
10cc – “I’m Not In Love”
Loki-Skywalker@reddit
I Feel Love by Donna Summer
jellyfishthreethou@reddit
Mama Said Knock You Out-LL Cool J
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Yes, also I Need Love always takes me back
amigammon@reddit
Bobby Hebb -Sunny
bolaixgirl@reddit
My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry. I loved this song as a kid.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Salt-N-Pepa, Push It
Hurryupslowdownbar20@reddit
This!! I used to dance on my older sisters bed to this song!!
WickedDeviance@reddit
Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash My dad had this album on cassette he played in the car when I was young. Horrified my Mom that I could sing the whole song when I was 7. Good times.
hoseb4brose@reddit
😂 I didn’t hear this song till I was an adult but it’s a great one!
GoGoPokymom@reddit
hoseb4brose@reddit
Oh Beth I hear you calling
hoseb4brose@reddit
American Pie (the day the music died).
CB_Chuckles@reddit
Just about anything from ABBA. Immediately flash back to second grade when we were living in Holland and they were hugely popular.
25709@reddit
Surfing USA
BruceTramp85@reddit
Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder. It takes me back to being a little and sitting in the back of my parents’ ‘75 Nova.
highlander1551@reddit
buggles ,, video killed the radio star my first 45 ,,late 70s early 80s
FarCompote4@reddit
we moved out of state when I was in 3rd grade. recently we took a road trip through the state where I was born. House of the Rising Son came on the radio. that was such a shock you could have knocked me over with a feather. I hadn't heard that in so long, and probably not since we moved across states.
thevoicesarecrazy@reddit
Any Tears for Fears song
iangeredcharlesvane2@reddit
“Hot Child in the City”
My sister had a bunch 45s (she kept them in a little case that looked like a pink fuzzy jim Henson puppet lol) and our family had one of those cabinet looking record player systems that basically looked like and acted like furniture.
That song was popular well ahead of my time, but that record was one my of my favorites. I also liked her “YMCA” record and my favorite was her full-sized double record of the soundtrack to “Grease”.
My brother had a birthday 45 record they got somewhere that said his name but we used it for all of us. “My name is Zoom, and I live on the moon… I came down to earth just to sing you this tune! Hey Jason, it’s your birthday! Today!” That was a fav too … anyone else know that one?
Obvious-Drive-1405@reddit
Turned my four year old daughter to hot child in the city but she thought it was hot chocolate in the city
Obvious-Drive-1405@reddit
I think I love you by the Partridge Family
jaredrun@reddit
Everybody wants to rule the world
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Probably the one song trending the most on here. So good
xela520@reddit
Jump- David Lee Roth
SaltyFee7765@reddit
Van Halen
dvoigt412@reddit
Yesterday once more by the Carpenter's
Fast_Spray_1927@reddit
Alice Copper GAIL
PineapplePast7338@reddit
Brass In Pocket American Girl Everybody wants You The Stroke Don't Stop Believin Turn The Page Round and Round Any album or song from Boston Refugee Another One Bites The Dust Holy Diver Juke Box Hero Fantasy Girl Coward of the County Jolene Gloria Summer Nights/Grease Working For the Weekend Call Me Loving, Touching, Squeezing I could go on forever.....
SaltyFee7765@reddit
I think you and I must be the same age.
Icy-Cardiologist-958@reddit
Probably “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
DeadCatBounce00@reddit
Boys of Summer by Don Henley gets me every time reminiscing long summer holidays when i was a kid.
SKULLDIVERGURL@reddit
I can never decide if Boy of Summer or End of the Innocence is his best solo song. Love them both.
Relevant_Ad6908@reddit
Perfect way from Scritti Politti
ionchannels@reddit
Paradise City and Jump
tlgexlibris@reddit
Take it to the Limit by the Eagles puts me back in a car at the bowling alley waiting on my boyfriend who became my husband.
jstoner44@reddit
We built this city.
Maleficent_Lake_1816@reddit
Nothing personal but that song occupies four spots out my top five most hated songs of all time.
jstoner44@reddit
I don’t like it either. Was too young to turn the channel on mom though and had to endure.
Maleficent_Lake_1816@reddit
Oh sweet Jesus I can’t imagine the horror.
ikoisad0g@reddit
Electric avenue- every time I hear it, it takes me back to lake Barcroft watching Georgia German come out of the water in her black and white striped bikini
Tweet614@reddit
Poison. Bell Bic Devoe
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Love some BBD
LieOhMy@reddit
Never trust a big butt and a smile.
Open_Appointment1091@reddit
Detroit Rock City, my first album I bought as a kid in 1976.
unicornwantsweed@reddit
Harry Nilsson Coconut. Every time I hear it I remember my Dad singing it as he worked on his car or just about any other minor chore.
sour_patch_bih@reddit
A little ditty about Jack & Diane.... Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp
Staying Alive - The Bee Gees
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
Raesling@reddit
Night Moves, Bob Seger -- sitting on Great-Grandma's front porch in Oklahoma with my cousin. She lived on the corner, but there was nothing for miles and you could see the lights of the city in the distance but the sky at night. On the night that this was coincidentally playing, there was a storm rolling in across that sky. I've loved watching storms roll in ever since. But, every time I hear this song play, I'm back sitting on that porch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7cSSKnkL4
Affectionate-Tank-70@reddit
Babe from Styx
Nicky2Nuts@reddit
That’s All-Genisis
StatisticianFine9368@reddit
Scarborough fair - S&G
It’s a sacred song to me that one.
Maleficent_Lake_1816@reddit
All their stuff
MissSplash@reddit
Turn the Page by Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band. The live album.
We taped it onto cassette, and hung a portable, battery operated tape player on a saddle and went trail riding.
Everything I hear it, I'm 12 again and running through the woods on a horse with my friends. Total freedom.
Tbf, I love the whole album, but that sax riff takes me right back.
I'm headed to the barn today. I'll play it on a device that connects me to the world, wishing it was a cassette instead. Those were better days. ✌️
itizwhtitiz72@reddit
Let it whip by Dazz Band
jmerhaut@reddit
Boston - “More than a Feeling”
ldefrehn@reddit
Cruel Summer by Bananarama
sane-asylum@reddit
American Pie
JaiBoltage@reddit
"Old Cape Cod", Patti Page. Our family has had a cottage there since 1920.
alanwalls66@reddit
Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun”
TheLordMed@reddit
I’d forgotten this one and posted a couple of others but my god that’s the one that takes me back
Bizzife@reddit
Mr Big. I’m the one who wants to be with you
Frosteecat@reddit
I remember listening to Blue Bayou performed by Linda Rondstat, laying in the back of my family station wagon. Half asleep, I dreamed of being in the song. It’s beautiful and haunting and always reminds me of being a child. https://youtu.be/Kp9G0zkorio?si=P34fwYoXvEHI7OLr
Zestyclose-Dream-409@reddit
Anything by John Denver - my dad was a huge fan.
Mean_Possibility5947@reddit
Sister Golden Hair by America.
Teaspoonbill@reddit
Ooh, hadn’t thought about that one in a long, long, time. Loved that song as a child.
Headfullofyarn@reddit
Tom Sawyer by Rush. Instant transport to the roller rink.
Jmckeown2@reddit
To the roller rink? For me, that’s “Jam on it” by Newcleus.
How do you want your toast again? I forgot…
Jam on it!
MomOf2Chicklets@reddit
For me, “The Roof is on Fire” reminds me of roller skating.
MistressPaine666@reddit
Operator by Midnight Star brings me right back to the skating rink.
Foreign_Waltz129@reddit
The day the music died.. riding in the car with my dad
SlickDumplings@reddit
Take it easy Eagles
KWS1461@reddit
"Say you, say me, say it for always, that's the way it should be."
ayyxdizzle@reddit
Any thing by The Rolling Stones or Eric Clapton will always remind me of my Dad 💖 Thank goodness he is still here but anytime it spontaneously comes on it is my rreminder to tell him I love him so much.
Aggravating_Job_9490@reddit
Only in my dreams by Debbie Gibson. Brings me right back to summer and being a kid.
Middle-Mirror2017@reddit
Madness - Baggy Trouser
TFF - Everybody wants to rule the World
mados123@reddit
Safety Dance
RonanH69@reddit
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland;
Our House - Madness
Syfysamurai@reddit
Land Down Under by Men at Work
AcanthocephalaDue715@reddit
Cherie by Journey
wanderover88@reddit
Rhiannon
…though I had **no idea** what she was saying until **decades** later…
🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Liv-Julia@reddit
This Diamond Ring by Gary Lewis. I remember sitting in the back seat of the car and my heels didn't reach the edge of the seat. I was that young.
Petula Clarke's Downtown does the same thing to me.
SHELLEBELLEATX@reddit
Hey Jude was my very first album. Got it for my sixth birthday.
StephDos94@reddit
Crocodile rock
JBMama@reddit
S-A-T-U-R-DAY NIGHT! The friggin’ Bay City Rollers
SHELLEBELLEATX@reddit
Takes me back to the roller rink on a Friday night!
dlr16973@reddit
Boys of Summer or Life in a Northern Town.
clamup76@reddit
Def Leppard’s Love Bites always takes me to middle school crush drama.
sammy99x@reddit
Def Leppard Photograph
chillfire12@reddit
Promised You a Miracle - Simple Minds
VicSara_696@reddit
The Forest by The Cure
Separate-Relative-83@reddit
Sultans of Swing
TheMrsT@reddit
I to this day don’t know the artist but it is something like “I am coming up like a flower “
TheMrsT@reddit
My childhood was pretty dark due to other circumstances. But that songs still rings in my head
jellyfishthreethou@reddit
Hangin’Tough- NKOTB
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Surprised this is the 1st mention of them
queen_frostine313@reddit
Born to Be Alive - at the Rainbo roller rink - Friday nights.
Master-Conflict481@reddit
Seasons in the sun
Cautious_Entrance573@reddit
Jeremiah was a bullfrog…
Cake_Donut1301@reddit
All of them man
ZombieJoesBasement@reddit
Crimson & Clover by Joan Jett. Takes me back to the skating rink...
NotAtAllExciting@reddit
Boys in the Bright White Sportscar by Trooper. When you hear that on CHUM it meant the beginning of summer 🇨🇦
marKRKram@reddit
Hello fellow Canadian
mp3bear@reddit
"Convoy" by C W McCall
sunnyoboe@reddit
Classic
stavago@reddit
Janet Jackson - “When I Think Of You”
FloofySnekWhiskers@reddit
That bass line ! such good stuff
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
She had so many great songs
Own_End8247@reddit
Teddy Bears’ Picnic. Theme song for the Big John and Sparky radio show.
sweetsourpus@reddit
Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World.
FloofySnekWhiskers@reddit
Just the intro alone gives me the warm and fuzzies.
ShotPen3893@reddit
Flash dance
Impossible-Aspect342@reddit
Sugar, sugar. The Archies
SuthernGent691@reddit
Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
LuLuMarie1313@reddit
I Think we’re alone now by Tiffany
LilMissKrazy1@reddit
Total eclipse of the heart. Singing this in the car with my aunt, on the way into town.
__perigee__@reddit
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
My Sharona - The Knack
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Fabulous-Piglet1721@reddit
Just heard Sister Christian the other day! Had to drive around a bit so I could sing along to the end. Moterinninninnninnninnnnnn
KellyCakes@reddit
YES!!! Great list! For each song you mention, I could see a place from my youth!
__perigee__@reddit
I now have to hear each of them and the inevitable rabbit hole seeking them out will lead to. Every one of these was a Skate Ranch staple.
Grimalkinnn@reddit
Eye of the Tiger
l31l4j4d3@reddit
I think we’re alone now. Tommy James and the Shondells
MaximumJones@reddit
Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry.
I had amazing disco skate moves as a kid. People would stop skating to watch me.
Ah, the glory days.
Sad-Cryptographer828@reddit
Early teen years - Round and round- Ratt, Looks that kill - Motley Crue, Run to the hills - Iron Maiden, and You've got another thing coming - Judas Priest
Jew-zilla@reddit
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=fxaVhq5RZ08&si=078OTxF9UatuF79a
“Hey Julie” by Blackfish
MissAnth@reddit
Hey now, hey now, don't dreeeeam it's over.
KellyCakes@reddit
I saw a Youtube video of these guys performing that song in recent years and for no reason, it just made me tear up.
discovery999@reddit
Supertramp
The1Ylrebmik@reddit
This is probably not what OP means, but honestly the one song that instantly reminds me of childhood is:
"C is for cookie, that's good enough for me, oh C is for Cookie that's good enough for me, C is for cookie thats good enough for me, oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C"
KellyCakes@reddit
"Oh I looooove trash! Anything dirty or dingy or dusty. Anything ragged or rotten or rusty! Yes I love trash!!!"
CorrectCondition9458@reddit
My son gave that as a ring tone to his friend from school when she had her daughter. Baby is now 20 and he hasn’t changed it. He says it always makes him smile and know he going to have an upbeat conversation with some laughs.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
🤣 hey, we can all relate. Whatever takes you back. Haven't heard that in forever
Tehboognish@reddit
Not in a good way but Baker Street. I heard that damn song every night in my dad's American legion. From the tender age of 9.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
😥I'm sorry
MageZero@reddit
FloofySnekWhiskers@reddit
Loving you. is easy cos you’re beautiful
Everything that you doooo, WeeeeeeerEeeeeOooooooEeeeeeOooooooo
KellyCakes@reddit
Yes!!! It's imprinted in two or three separate time periods in my life -- original on the radio, singing it in the car with my young nephew and son as we drove 30 miles to the brand new Old Navy store in the next town, and as an adult on a very memorable date. I visited Minnie's grave when I was in California (it's in the coolest downtown cemetery I've ever seen).
DontTrip333@reddit
The bad boys song of the TV show cops.
SomeGuyClickingStuff@reddit
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,tweeellllve
HPLoveBux@reddit
Self Control - Laura Branigan
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Nu Shooz- I Can't Wait...get flashbacks on carnival rides in Germany when I hear it
HPLoveBux@reddit
Hard to argue with this one … takes you right back
Breadetstars@reddit
Big mouth The Smiths, anything by REM, Depeche Mode, The Cure... We had the best!
HydraHead3343@reddit
But not Tonight by Depeche Mode was my choice.
nocturneOG@reddit
Modern Day Cowboy. Tesla
vengefultacos@reddit
Earlt 70's Chicago (Saturday in the Park, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?), Lots of Elton John like Daniel (which I thought was about the baboon in Kimba), Saturday Night's Alright, Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, Doobie Bros. Black Water.
Lowry27B-6@reddit
My very first thought was also early Chicago. Driving in my parents station wagon with the windows down. Listening to AM radio. Cheers🤘
lambent_ort@reddit
Irene Cara "What a Feeling". My cousin taught me how to sing the song when I was 8.
skamansam@reddit
Have you seen the stars tonight? By Jefferson Airplane. I grew up in bfe and could see a lot of stars. I used to crank that up and lay on the lawn and watch the stars. I miss the stars.
Vampyr_Six@reddit
Sunny day Sweepin' the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet
Top-Nose2659@reddit
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
The_Pharoah@reddit
More than this - Roxy Music. I was born in the mid 70s.
dwightnight@reddit
Styx "Fooling Yourself" + Kansas 'Carry On..."
From the only 8 tracks we had on the pontoon boat, on Missouri River growing up.
Know both albums well.
Taffy_the_wonderdog@reddit
Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth. It was my fave as a 10 year old.
Dangerous_Jeweler@reddit
Yellow Submarine
Consistent-Ad-910@reddit
Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival
CantFeelMyLegs78@reddit
Lightning crashes.
Wheedoo@reddit
Little ditty Bout Jack & Diane
Dangerous_Jeweler@reddit
Credence Elvis
zetagrrl@reddit
“Love will keep us together” 🤗
yetiduds@reddit
Wake me up before you go go, im 3 or 4 with a donut in my hand jumping on the back seat of the pinto going to the bowling alley to see my dad
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
❤️
Impressive_Duck_3569@reddit
I can't even name one bc of singing (in my head) all of these great ones y'all have named. Thanks for the memories, fellow Gen-Xers!!!
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
❤️
Mockchoi1@reddit
It’s not my FAVORITE song but for whatever reason the one that brings me back the hardest is Heat of the Moment.
And now you find yourself in ‘82
The disco hotspots hold no charm for you.
Dangerous_Jeweler@reddit
Have you ever seen the rain
ABSOFRKINLUTELY@reddit
I'm from Miami so anything from 2 Live Crew.
Also Woomp der it is
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Tag team back again! Definitely takes me back
PaintedSilverRiver@reddit
How far back?
The first I remember really affecting me was.🫣..”Puff the magic dragon” I understand growing up but I will never understand abandoning your pet dragon. 😭
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Lived by the sea...Great cartoon. We had a lot of great cartoons too
PaintedSilverRiver@reddit
We did!
The grape ape or Johnny Quest, land of the lost was awesome too.
Saturday mornings were the absolute best!
peasnotwar@reddit
Don’t worry be happy
FAx32@reddit
Hilariously --- Afternoon Delight.
The neighborhood kids used to sing it on the swings at the park as we jumped off. We had no clue.
EX1500@reddit
Invisible Touch always takes me back to the summer of ‘86 & spending afternoons at the pool.
Dangerous_Jeweler@reddit
Stairway to Heaven Angie
melty75@reddit
I Love A Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbit
Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton
KingPabloo@reddit
Jaws theme
oldschoolhc@reddit
billy joel - my life
Beneficial-You3416@reddit
How about Only the Good Die Young! My best friend was a catholic school girl and this was her theme song one summer.
Anarolf@reddit
That piano intro rips away the years and Im 8 again and lighthearted!
oldschoolhc@reddit
i always remember it playing in the department stores lol
thelastcubscout@reddit
anything by paul williams
or "through the eyes of love" (Ice Castles theme) https://youtu.be/9NAXgTw3cuM
this banger by jack wagner https://youtu.be/zLue7V9ap5Q
or a lot of those James Bond movie songs, like For Your Eyes Only or View to a Kill
Beneficial-You3416@reddit
I loved All I Need. Such a good song. It was the theme song at a dance. Primarily remember Polo cologne at those dances.
Equivalent_Vast_1717@reddit
Stars on 45 - Grade 5
Let’s Hear It For The Boys - 3rdyrHS
Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You - 1styrCOL
And many more. Amazing that songs remind me of very particular year or events in the past !!!
thatzmine@reddit
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip …
Armthechihuahuas@reddit
Always and Forever,
It was always the last song at tge school dance.
no_kimmer_only_zuul@reddit
I Love a Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbit.
Beneficial-You3416@reddit
My mom convinced my little sister that he actually had rabbit ears. She was pretty little.
Melissaschwart@reddit
I was really young when I heard that song.
No_Needleworker_4704@reddit
Seasons in the Sun, Yesterday, Bad Bad Leroy Brown
GelatinousGoober@reddit
Burning down the house and Mr roboto,
Both_Chicken_666@reddit
Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
LazyMom1983@reddit
Diamonds and Pearls by Prince and NPG
PumpikAnt58763@reddit
Same album as Seven?
splorp_evilbastard@reddit
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
lovebeinganasshole@reddit
Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants to rule the world. Senior year 1985.
Substantial_Layer_79@reddit
We had the best music and movies, imho. Class of 1985.
Substantial_Layer_79@reddit
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy. 1975 my oldest brother had a girlfriend who loved horses. I was 7.
Impressive_Duck_3569@reddit
You have no idea how I just almost jumped out of my seat when I saw this! Whenever I bring this song up, nobody knows it. I was 4 years old when it came out. I loved it SOOOO much, and even now, at 54, this song brings tears to my eyes. It's just SO beautiful and takes me back to being so young - when everything is so uncomplicated and easy. Thanks for bringing back such a wonderful and wholesome memory!!!
Substantial_Layer_79@reddit
I'm glad someone else appreciates it, too. It also played at the skating rink every time I was there. So many members in this one song.
Woody_Roger@reddit
Sundown you better take care...
PumpikAnt58763@reddit
Dream Weaver.
Dangerous_Jeweler@reddit
The Lion Sleeps Tonight- The Tokens
Spiritual_Sail_8969@reddit
True Faith - New Order
rainbowroger68@reddit
Saesons In The Sun
Acrobatic_Ocelot_461@reddit
(Oh) Pretty Woman, the Van Halen version takes me back to summertime and riding around town with that little bike radio.
oogabooga1967@reddit
Like, little kid childhood? "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. I distinctly remember singing and dancing to it with my best friend Kim in probably 1st grade.
CrapStick01@reddit
Anything Whitesnake. But specifically Here I Go Again. Prom night
Nagoonberrywine49@reddit
My Sharona by the Knack. Heard it on the radio last night.
KerryBoehm@reddit
Two Princes by Spin Doctors.
Met a girl in OC, MD early 90’s. Next day picked her up and went roller blading. It was playing on the radio. Always wonder what happened to her.
Substantial-Chip-102@reddit
Brandy
UnclesaurusChuck@reddit
Mama used to say take ur time young man
Effective-Usual4152@reddit
Rubber band man takes me to gym class in Jr. High, running laps around the gym….
cuzitsathrowawayday@reddit
Night Moves by Bob Seger
NotoldyetMaggot@reddit
Anything from Thriller. It was the first tape I had with my generic store brand walkman. I was 7, so 84 or 85. Put the headphones on and crank the volume.
UnitedIntroverts@reddit
MASH theme song.
Dorkotron2@reddit
I had to go to bed when it came on 🛏️🤣 but got to start watching it after a few seasons. Pop it on Hulu and still think "aw man..."
Jillery25@reddit
Sailing by Christopher Cross. That opening just sends me right back to junior high
Drewcifer70@reddit
Dude Looks Like A Lady
pinkbev71@reddit
Starbuck Moonlight feels right
clutterdcollector@reddit
Rush, Spirit of the Radio
dizkid@reddit
The Witch Doctor.
keirmeister@reddit
“How Deep Is Your Love” by The Bee Gees.
Every time I hear that song, I’m 5 years old again, in the car with my parents, going to the first funeral I ever experienced. It’s weird, that it’s so specific, but there it is.
rocco409@reddit
King of the Road Roger Miller
ignored_rice@reddit
Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues. Dad would play the record, and I still love it to this day.
kpaddler@reddit
My brother played that album over and over.
Grouchy_Vet@reddit
Romeo’s Tune
As soon as I hear the opening notes, it’s like going back in time
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMu2qgOiJs&list=RDvYMu2qgOiJs&start_radio=1&pp=ygUMcm9tZW8ncyB0dW5loAcB&ra=m
ooftymcgoofty@reddit
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
cleveland_leftovers@reddit
I had a stuffed raccoon named Ricky in the 80’s.
This was our song.
ooftymcgoofty@reddit
Awww, how nice.😆 Did you know Ricky in his living years? And what happened to him?
well-it-was-rubbish@reddit
I don't think Ricky was a real, taxidermied animal. 😬
ooftymcgoofty@reddit
Why did I think that? Jesus . . . creepy. At any rate, thank you.
cleveland_leftovers@reddit
Omg this. was. fantastic. My bad…..I had a stuffed animal raccoon, named Ricky. Damn, is there any way to NOT leave that sentence open to interpretation? 😅
u/well-it-was-rubbish indeed was correct, but I appreciate the hell out of your vision of 4th grade me hauling around a 20 lb, dead raccoon.
housevil@reddit
The theme to Sesame street.
Extension_Golf_3102@reddit
Or… Doing the Batty Bat!
zedgrrrl@reddit
Free to be you and me, Marlo Thomas and Friends
Limp_Ice_3248@reddit
Childhood is Teddy Bear's Picnic. Tween-hood is anything from the soundtrack to Grease.
piratelegacy@reddit
Back in black AC/DC. Instantly transports me to driving around with my bestie in the 80’s
Housing-Beneficial@reddit
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Strong-Raspberry5@reddit
Her comes the rain again - Eurythmics Original Sin - INXS
icedyoga@reddit
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy- Rod Stewart
Embarrassed_Wrap8421@reddit
Well, not quite my childhood, but “Stayin’ Alive”. I loved this way back when, when I was young and frisky.
ResponsibilityFew318@reddit
Convoy Theme song.
Rare-Pirate-4223@reddit
Anything by the Mamas and the Papas or the Monkees
newtonrox@reddit
Great thread for a playlist! Thanks to all.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
❤️
0rder_66_survivor@reddit
Summer of 69
newtonrox@reddit
Nostalgic song for nostalgia! Great song!
VoiceCharming6591@reddit
Paradise by the dashboard lights
Equivalent_Tea8061@reddit
Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart Elton John and Kiki Dee. I’m on the school bus eating cherry Now and Laters and it’s almost summer break❤️😊
kixco@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
Crossfit46@reddit
Electric avenue
newtonrox@reddit
This song is a banger
pwatershed@reddit
I'd bless the rains down in Africa! Nobody gonna break my stride, nobody gone slow me down, oh oh. I've got to keep on movin.
greenlawn69@reddit
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
Acceptable_Stop2361@reddit
Rhinestone Cowboy by Glenn Campbell. For some reason puts me out on the street playing with neighbor friends and this was playing on someone's radio. I was five I think.
jomara200@reddit
Purple People Eater. I remember being outside in the summer listening to it on am on my litle transistor radio.
gcpuddytat@reddit
Band on the Run - Wings. Back of the family station wagon driving upstate for a weekend with the extended family. I thought the lyrics were Man on the Rug 🤣
ProfileTraditional28@reddit
Me and my sister used the run in circles singing Dance on the Rug, one of first memories 😂
gcpuddytat@reddit
lol 😂
RS_Annika_Kamil@reddit
Blinded by the light.
Roller skating in the 7th grade
the_real_MBAPROF@reddit
Heat Wave-Martha and the Vandellas. Summer of 1963. On everyone’s car radio playing loud. We lived close by Highland Park (Michigan) High School. All the cars radios set on 1270 am WXYZ.
Grand_Taste_8737@reddit
Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
NPC261939@reddit
Black Sabbath, Tom Petty and Guns N' Roses.
user_error101@reddit
There's a man I meet, walks up our street He's a worker for the council. Has been twenty years.
Xiolaglori@reddit
Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
Imma double dip: Drive by The Cars and Don Henley's The Boys of Summer. I actually hated those songs as a child, I found them disturbing and sad. Now I love them but there is like a longing for something gone, a sense of nostalgia in them that bothered my child mind.
NotoldyetMaggot@reddit
The Boys of Summer! It takes me back to sitting in my room, listening to the radio while I read a book or drew something. In 7th-ish grade.
Honest_Tutor1451@reddit
This is the one I was going to say. Every time I hear it I think of running though the yard of my childhood home with the sun shining on me in the summer
Melissaschwart@reddit
I always liked the boys of summer
Emergency_Line_4591@reddit
“Summer Breeze” by Seals and Crofts, “Kiss on My List” by Hall and Oates, “Young Turks” by Rod Stewart
pops2three@reddit
Just can’t get enough - Depeche Mode
parkerhalem84@reddit
Everybody wants to rule the world, Tears fo Fears
CitizenjaneEast@reddit
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart.
LylaDee@reddit
Top 10 for me!
Beneficial_Bat_1206@reddit
Stopped scrolling after this
sjbluebirds@reddit
Playground in my mind.
" My name is Michael, I got a nickel. I got a nickel all shiny and new"
lavida195@reddit
Take on me by Aha
bushpusher@reddit
You beat me to it! Alternate would be Belinda Carlisle - Heaven
lavida195@reddit
I liked China in your hands!
LisaOGiggle@reddit
Up, Up & Away by Fifth Dimension.
The entire soundtracks of Hair & Jesus Christ Superstar.
Anything by Carole King, James Taylor, the Beatles—
pluckyfemme2@reddit
Tide is High by Blonde
Primary-Move243@reddit
Night Moves by Bob Seger.
Skunkwks@reddit
Like a rock. By bob seager
“My hands were steady, my eyes were clear and bright. My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light.”
killslikeaninja@reddit
Men At Work, Down Under.
phillyvinylfiend@reddit
Rooster whistling from Disney's Robin Hood
This is the 10 hour long version.
Girl_with_no_Swag@reddit
Physical by Olivia Newton John.
It was the last secular song of my childhood that I heard before my parents “found Jesus” and banned secular music in our home. That moment is just burned into my brain. My sister and I were jumping around, dancing and singing with one of those old Get In Shape Girl ribbons.
My mom came in and turned off our tape and told us no more music, no more dancing. That it was evil etc.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
When I hear Physical, I always get work out video images in my mind too
Flashy-Army-7975@reddit
Against all odds hits the spot for me.
UtherPenDragqueen@reddit
“Just You And Me,” by Chicago. I’m in the back of our ginormous brown station wagon, and my mom’s taking me to swimming lessons.
Dixieland_Insanity@reddit
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
butterflygardyn@reddit
I came here to say that!
Cold_in_Lifes_Throes@reddit
Takes me right back to the skating rink.
PlumIndividual3382@reddit
Silly Love Songs -Wings
Numerous-Coast-2592@reddit
Cure just like heaven. I was probably 8 and my brother 18. I was watching cartoons, minding my own business while my brother milled around in his room upstairs and took a shower. He comes dow stairs, whips me up in the air and starts dancing with me to this song. Come to find out he was peaking on acid and needed to make sure I was real. But damn I love that memory and it makes me 8 years old every time I hear it. He passed away a few months ago.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
😥I'm sorry for your loss
Englishman_1972@reddit
Little Red Corvette- getting the 45 in 5th grade not realizing what it was really about.🤣 Never deterred my love for Prince!!
SnooPickles55@reddit
Oh, wow, what was it about? I'm a tad bit older but never heard any lore on the song at all.
Englishman_1972@reddit
Fast girl! Line from song - I guess I must be dumb cause you had a pocket full of horses. Trojans and some of them used!
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
A one night stand
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Great song!
prefabsprout1@reddit
Love will keep us together
Working-goddess@reddit
Wake my up before you go-go - Wham!
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Wham! had so many good ones
Otherwise-Knee-6461@reddit
Lets Go by the Cars, rollerskating, i can hear the wheels on the wooden rink
borisdidnothingwrong@reddit
Not a song per se, but when watching the OG Star Wars, seeing the 20th Century Fox logo followed by a trumpet blast and the GIANT YELLOW LETTERS scrawling up the screen takes me back to the summer of '77, at five years of age, sitting in the front row of the theater with my brothers while our parents sat in more reasonable seats near the rear of the theater.
Those trumpets mean childhood wonder to the music storage part of my brain.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Makes sense to me
KDLG328@reddit
Anything by Paul McCartney and Wings
aline328@reddit
Lying Eyes - The Eagles.
Living_Road_269@reddit
Afternoon Delight.
My older sister and her boyfriend/husband took me with them to the beach when I was about five. It was a sunny beautiful day and I learned to skim across the top of the water on a little board. I also got a sunburn but it was worth it I had so much fun.
This song played on the radio and no one would explain it 🧐
houdini31@reddit
Hold Me by Fleetwood Mac
PufferFishInTheFryer@reddit
Sweet Dreams the Eurythmics
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
💯
Gene-reader@reddit
Bad,bad Leroy Brown. I was in the car with my aunt and she was singing along with the radio. That was the first time I ever heard my aunt say a curse word. I was shocked. I know now that she watched her language around younger me and probably didn't even realized that she had cussed.
InvisibleDio@reddit
Purple Rain…last song of the 8th grade dance
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
That's definitely a classic
boston_homo@reddit
Toy Soldiers, I hear it so infrequently whenever I do I’m transported right back to childhood.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Ooh, Martika...that's a good one. I feel the same
WildUnderstanding919@reddit
Summertime - will smith
madeyoulurk@reddit
Careless Whisper- George Michael
Always heard at A&P with my mom as a little 🥲
sand-castle-virtues@reddit
Sammy Davis Junior singing the candy man. My first 45
stabbingrabbit@reddit
One piece at a time by Johnny Cash. Got my first clock radio with a cassette player and one cassette with this song and a few others I cant remember. Listened to it before bed. Could also pick up AM stations from 300 miles away on a good night.
Brilliant-Bus-3862@reddit
You Got Lucky by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. I was 6 and that video blew my mind. It made me a life long fan of Tom💔 🎸
Poutiest_Penguin@reddit
I’m Not In Love by 10cc Brandy by Looking Glass Anything by Tony Orlando and Dawn
PGHNeil@reddit
Anything by ELO. I went to see them last year in Pittsburgh. Only Jeff Lynne is still with the band, the rest are replacements. My wife got me floor seats about 7 rows back and I smiled the whole time, feeling like I was 9 years old again. If yinz got a problem with it don’t bring me down, Bruce.
Proud_Ruin7514@reddit
Life’s been good
NDT03076@reddit
You Dropped a Bomb on Me
Oh_Witchy_Woman@reddit
Calling Occupants, but really anything from The Carpenters. It was a family favorite road trip tape, and it always makes me think of being sleepy in the back seat.
Tacosweaty@reddit
Do Wot You Do - INXS
LuckyAd2714@reddit
Anything by Seals and Kroft
talldogguy23@reddit
Any Bon Jovi. Not because I was a big fan but everyone around me was. Makes me think of my sister and friends in their later teens and me being a little kid. Picture myself in the backseat of my dad’s Oldsmobile while my sister and her friends are belting it out.
FrankiesMom6@reddit
My baby does the hanky panky. All of a sudden I'm in the back of the school bus, keeping beat with my plastic ruler
Kitchen-Zebra-4402@reddit
Let’s Go - the Cars
cowboyJones@reddit
Police - King of Pain. I’m taken back to 6-7 grade and drawing D&D maps on graph paper thinking I was creating a great adventure.
Asmenoth@reddit
There are so many for different times but the one that really throws me back to my childhood is the “I’d Like To Buy the World a Coke” version of “I Would Like To Teach the World To Sing” song. It always takes me back to my youngest years.
wyohman@reddit
Take it to the limit. - The Eagles
Outrageous-Pause6317@reddit
Don’t you want me, The Human League.
Jennvds@reddit
This always takes me back to roller skating in grade 7…
Outrageous-Pause6317@reddit
Exactly!
Major-Chance5248@reddit
Do It Again by Steely Dan
Georgiapasorider@reddit
Africa Toto.I remember waking up in the middle of the night on a 12 hour car drive and my dad was listening to it.I was so excited to go to the beach and see my grandparents and I felt so safe with my dad driving us.
mp3bear@reddit
TV show themes:
Murder, She Wrote
Dukes of Hazzard
Dallas
Dynasty
Mr. Merlin
The Waltons
Beauty and the Beast (The 1987 series with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton)
Carol Burnett Show ("I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together")
The Jetsons
The Flintstones
Hardlock1@reddit
Seasons in the Sun
Sally4464@reddit
Lovely Day by Bill Withers
Ok_Kick_3998@reddit
Youth Gone Wild. And I recognize the irony. Still crank it.
TwiztidKitten78@reddit
Anything by Bronkski Beat
ParaHeadFun_SF@reddit
Pet shop boys - west end girls
coryphella123@reddit
Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carmen. My mom died in 1989 just before I turned 13. She had cancer and for years in the summer my sister and I would accompany her to her chemo appointments in Boston. That song came on once right as we were passing the Citgo sign and now every time I hear it I’m back in her car at that sign.
Coup-de-Glass@reddit
Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
retro_lady@reddit
Pretty much any 80s song takes me back to childhood. But "Raspberry Beret" comes to mind. I remember being on the porch of a neighbor friends house singing that song with them, while we ate ice cream.
Anarolf@reddit
I had never heard anything like it.... keeping rhythm with violins....
_Vrumpus_@reddit
Nothing compares to you
PatienceandFortitude@reddit
Sesame Street Larybug Picnic and Alligator King
Anarolf@reddit
"Take this crown my 7th son, I hope you don't mind the dents...."
PatienceandFortitude@reddit
I bought it on sale at a discount store. Cost me all of 7 cents
Creatableworld@reddit
They had twelve sacks so they ran sack races, they fell on their backs and they fell on their faces, the ladybugs twelve, at the ladybugs' picnic!
phitzy79@reddit
Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft.
Anarolf@reddit
Yesssss! Blowing through the jasmine in my miiiiinddd
drumbo10@reddit
Big country the crossing.
Famous_Influence_441@reddit
Fly like an Eagle
Creatableworld@reddit
Anything off Carole King's Tapestry takes me back to early childhood. Also Rubber Soul and Revolver by the Beatles.
MapleLeafTruck@reddit
Spanish Train
SnooChickens9974@reddit
Too many to list.
PringleChief@reddit
“America” by Neil Diamond
PM_ME_YOUR_FLAIR@reddit
Philadelphia Freedom- Elton John
cherilee7@reddit
Boston's Don't Look Back
Anarolf@reddit
Nowhere man, Logical song, Come on feel the noise,('83 version) in that order. 1. pulling my mom's hair playfully from the back seat of the 120y while it played on AM radio. 2. Exploring FM stereo for the first time on the Panasonic 8 track receiver. 3. 7th grade in junior high fresh after summer break.
robspiro@reddit
Sing by The Carpenters. Goes all the way back to watching Sesame Street.
okee9@reddit
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
cherilee7@reddit
Yes! This was my first favorite song as a young'un. I had the 45 and would play it on my plastic suitcase style hand-me-down record player.
Entire-Flower1259@reddit
That’s a sad one there.
Jolly_Werewolf_7356@reddit
Quiet Riot "Cum On Feel the Noize"
9trystan9@reddit
I Want to Know What Love is - Foreigner
art_will_save_you@reddit
The Locomotion by Kylie Minogue
dreamrdad7@reddit
There’s so many! Here’s one…
Sleeping Satellite by Tasmin Archer
After_Evidence_3020@reddit
The Search is Over by Survivor
greydove98@reddit
Separate ways by journey
rexperfection@reddit
Right Down the Line by Gerry Rafferty and Whenever I Call you Friend by Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks
mp3bear@reddit
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels
WrecklessOptimist@reddit
Toni Basil "Mickey". I remember freaking out on my little sister when she came in my room while I was trying to record it off the radio.
mp3bear@reddit
"The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia" (Original Vicki Lawrence version)
R4t4t0skr@reddit
Theme song from M.A.S.K.
dawnwc@reddit
M.A.S.H? If so, same
R4t4t0skr@reddit
No, 80ies cartoon M.A.S,K, Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand: M.A.S.K intro
dawnwc@reddit
Ok, not familiar 😊
Outrageous-Back-5980@reddit
David Bowie's "Magic Dance" from Labyrinth or Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It," and because I always hated the song so much-"Low Rider."
Unfair_Bluejay_9687@reddit
Petula Clark’s Downtown
mp3bear@reddit
"Run Runaway" by Slade
choctaw529@reddit
Smoke on the Water - my brother and his friends practiced playing a lot of Deep Purple and Eric Clapton on guitar
danthefalconfan@reddit
Shout it out loud by KISS from the Destroyer album peaked my music interest and then More than a feeling by Boston cemented my status as head banging, fist in the air guitar loving rock ‘n’ roll-et and I’ve never changed.
Tollowarn@reddit
ELO Mr Blue Sky, takes me right back to me sat in the back of the car, driving up to Dartmoor from Plymouth. Sunday afternoon to fly my Peter Powell stunt kite. Me and my sister's singing along. I still have the song on my car playlist.
yougoboy64@reddit
Dream Weaver.....!🤘
Exact_Insurance@reddit
Staying Alive and YMCA...ah to go back in time
SnooWoofers5115@reddit
Anything from Billy Squier or Pat Benatar ❤️❤️
mp3bear@reddit
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
DiamondContent2011@reddit
Right Back Where We Started From by Maxine Nightingale
mp3bear@reddit
"Music Box Dancer" by Frank Mills
mp3bear@reddit
"Take On Me" by A-Ha
AstroZombie1138@reddit
Can You Picture That
mwatwe01@reddit
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
mp3bear@reddit
"Live to Tell" by Madonna
Winter_Judgment7927@reddit
Ghost town by The Specials
Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins
Hit me with your rhythm stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
KerrAvonJr@reddit
Slip-Slidin' Away
Estilady@reddit
Granma’s Feather Bed.
Parents were big John Denver fans and we always drove on vacation.
mp3bear@reddit
Don't forget:
Calypso
Thank God I'm a Country Boy
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Rocky Mountain High
Annie's Song
therocketn00b@reddit
Rainbow Connection
Neverending Story
Silent Running
Melissaschwart@reddit
Foreigner I want to know what love is
rikerismycopilot@reddit
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me - Billy Joel
Melissaschwart@reddit
Same
eastern_ninja25@reddit
Welcome to the Jungle. Thriller. 1999.
boondoggler@reddit
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom River Bottom Nightmare Band - River Bottom Nightmare Band Hughes Corporation - Rock The Boat Parliament - Flashlight Reminiscing - Little River Band Strutter - Kiss December 1963 - Frankie Valli
Melissaschwart@reddit
Also 867-5309 was one I remember when I was 8 or 9.
Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit
Mr. Mister’s Kyrie, a lot of Richard Marx’s music and Pat Benatar’s Hit Me With Your Best shot.
I Wanna Go Back is another big one. I realize that makes me feel the same nostalgia for the 80s that Eddie was singing about for the 60s.
Melissaschwart@reddit
Same
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Pat Benatar, Love Is A Battlefield
DiaDhaoibh@reddit
The Touch from the Transformers movie.
mp3bear@reddit
"Little Willy" by The Sweets
Independent_Sock_213@reddit
"Your Love" - The Outfield
Melissaschwart@reddit
Same I was 12 when that came out.I loved that song
GoldenBoyBlue@reddit
I once had to bust a 5' diameter hole through 8" concrete then dig a 7' hole underneath to find my target. If you're not willing to give that kind of effort I'm certainly not going to invite you to dinner anywhere but burger king.
OldManThumbs@reddit
Echo Beach
elkram3@reddit
Margie but Fats Domino
PizzaWhole9323@reddit
Magic by The cars. Honorable mention everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears.
Melissaschwart@reddit
Same
Snacks75@reddit
Any Fleetwood Mac. My dad was a junkie...
Minimum-Dare301@reddit
Rock me Amadeus. Loved the song so much that I would call into the local radio station every 10 minutes to request it and it was number the number 1 on the request show for a month straight. I was 10
RabidWeaselFreddy@reddit
'You Dropped The Bomb On Me' by The GAP Band
grandedaddy@reddit
Jack and Diane by John Cougar (that's right, pre-Mellancamp). Reminds me of me and my summer day camp friends sitting in the park across from the YMCA while we waited for our parents to pick us up. Every time, image clear as day pops into my head of 10 year old me sitting on a small grassy hill on a sunny summer day with for other boys around a boom box.
Melissaschwart@reddit
Same
Automatic_Acadia_766@reddit
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance.
Melissaschwart@reddit
Yep good one
Wu_Oyster_Cult@reddit
I was nine and I ditched KISS for her. Been damaged ever since.
T-Ruxpin@reddit
Saw the album cover for Parallel Lines in a record store. I was 12 or 13. She was the one!
cre8majik@reddit
😆
1kpointsoflight@reddit
Ahhhhh Freak out! La Freak - Le Chic
chadnorman@reddit
Anything from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Melissaschwart@reddit
Jessie’s girl Rick Springfield
Mikey317717@reddit
Anything from Neil Diamond's Tap Root Manuscript. Used to listen to it on the way up to Southern Oregon to go fishing every summer.
My favorite memories of childhood, and even some in adulthood are from Diamond Lake, OR.
North-Country-5204@reddit
Kung Fu Fighting and The Night Chicago Died.
mexipimpin@reddit
My dad had that classic stereo in the glass cabinet and would record his vinyls to cassette so he could play at work in his Walkman. He’d get made if I walked too hard and the needle would skip and jack up his recordings. The one song that stands out to me from that time is The Police - King of Pain.
Think_Selection9571@reddit
Our House by Madness
calico_queen75@reddit
This is mine too!
anon2univ@reddit
Take It To the Limit. I have a vague memory of hearing it while in the car going some where.
IllustriousCake974@reddit
Electric Avenue IS 3rd grade.
Teaspoonbill@reddit
I think the first song from the radio I ever really took note of was the Stylistics -You Make Me Feel Brand New. Can’t say I listen to it too often these days, but when I do it transports me to listening to AM Top 40 on a portable transistor radio.
Glittershitz37@reddit
Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Definitely a good one
danglinfury27@reddit
RIP Rob Base
Jcamp9000@reddit
Mama told me not to come. 3 dog night I believe
Gloomy-Athlete701@reddit
Joan Jett “I Love Rock and Roll” — instantly back in time on the bus for our 5th-grade-end-of-the-year field trip.
DawnInDesMoines@reddit
Fly like an eagle - Steve miller band
Sea_Brush4156@reddit
Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen. I can remember sitting in my aunt's car, speeding along to this song when I was a little kid.
Here Comes the Rain Again or Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by the Eurythmics. I can't remember which one, but I remember one rainy weekend in my childhood bedroom, hearing one of these songs playing on the radio, and it's imprinted on my mind.
bamaroll420@reddit
Howard Jones- Things Can Only Get Better
Express_Grape_3818@reddit
Kiss On My List at the roller skating rink during the couples skate.
si_tu_te_vas@reddit
What's up - 4 Non Blondes No rain - Blind Melon
NotoldyetMaggot@reddit
This was the summer soundtrack in (it's been so long I don't know) 1992/93. You have to sing along in the car!
itwillmakesenselater@reddit
On the road again. Dad was a Willie fan.
well-it-was-rubbish@reddit
My mom had the soundtrack to 'Honeysuckle Rose', and it was pretty good; I only like old-school Country like Willie, Hank Williams, Sr., Patsy Cline, Everly Brothers, etc.
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
My parents both loved Willie. My Mom almost ascended when he did a collab with Julio Eglacias
Apokoliptictortoise@reddit
Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues
InevitableCodeRedo@reddit
Rock The Boat. Such great summertime vibes as a lil guy headed to the beach.
TCE326@reddit
Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold and Playground in My Mind by Clint Holmes
Stefgrep66@reddit
Are friends electric Gary Numan Tubeway Army.
ATFGunr@reddit
As soon as this song starts I’m 7 again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STugQ0X1NoI
well-it-was-rubbish@reddit
My mom had the 45 record of that song.
Unlikely_Professor76@reddit
Oooh, love this one!
heretik77@reddit
Baroque Hoedown. The Mainstreet Electrical Parade song from Disneyland. I’m immediately 3 years old again and in awe.
Diligent_Lab2717@reddit
Jingle bell rock.
The trauma remains.
pintofendlesssummer@reddit
Wizzard, See My Baby Jive and also January by Pilot. Yeah im old.
sunnyoboe@reddit
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit
Fernzero@reddit
This song will forever be ultra nostalgic for me
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
So good!
JackFuckCockBag@reddit
So whatcha want by the Beastie Boys immediately takes me back to the summer I turned 13.
Tutmancometh@reddit
Van Halen's Jump
EidelonofAsgard@reddit
"What a Fool Believes" I remember dancing to it when I was a kid while sweeping the garage.
notade50@reddit
Live Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tennille. I was like 4 when this came out and it was my favorite song. I remember riding in the back of my mom’s car singing along.
ShoppingFlimsy7298@reddit
Joan Jett's I Love Rock n Roll (Put Another Dime in the Jukebox Baby) always takes me back to about 4th grade and Roller Rink birthday parties
ChevronSugarHeart@reddit
Ventura Highway reminds me of being in my parents car
Edge of Seventeen I’m seventeen
Can’t Touch This and I’m 21 in a club
Landslide and I’m a young mom
MartinBlank96@reddit
Lyin' Eyes. Puts me right back in the car with my older brother driving me around.
Don't Go Breaking My Heart.... not sure which sibling had this on repeat but...yeah it takes me back.
Freeze Frame and Angel in a Centerfold by the J. Geils Band.
Band on the Run... Wings
Some disco tunes... that was my siblings' jam. Thr only reason I won't automatically skip the Bee Gees or Yvonne Elliman. Lol
She Blinded Me With Science... one of my sisters was more New Wave thank god lol
run_squid_run@reddit
Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar on Me. This was the last song I heard before we reached the airport so we could move to England as my father had been stationed there.
LadySlayinem@reddit
Dream on Aerosmith
yearsofpractice@reddit
D.I.S.C.O by Ottowan
Visible-Plenty-1202@reddit
Gillan's version of Trouble
Beneficial-You3416@reddit
Looking For Love in all the Wrong Places. Takes me back to being a kid in the backseat of the Chevy an our way to Silver Dollar City.
MixCalm3565@reddit
More than a feeling
Narrow_Pepper_1324@reddit
Bohemian rhapsody
Atomic_Gumbo@reddit
Don’t Bring Me Down by ELO. When I was 6yo I inherited my sister’s tiny little FM radio when she went to college and I remember hearing that song through its tiny little speaker while I danced in my bedroom. That driving beat, the guitars, the harmonies, freaking everything about it still gets me.
EyelanderSam@reddit
Brick House...Commodores- Lionel Richie!
Sideshow_Industries@reddit
Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Grey Cell Green
BFS8515@reddit
Pass the Dutchie
Unlikely_Professor76@reddit
Riding with a car-full of girl cousins, singing loud with the windows down on the way to see my first movie in a theater without my parents. I was 5. Movie was Bambi?!? Song was one hit wonder, Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey
Unlikely_Professor76@reddit
This is a close second
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-tPcc1ftj8E&si=f3o99p4pnRreoOrZ
Cheap-Definition-954@reddit
Pour Some Sugar On Me, Jump, Wanted Dead or Alive. They all immediately transport me back in time.
9inez@reddit
A lot of songs take me back to different points.
The first one that popped in my head is “Slip Slide and Away.” It puts me squarely at Skateboard City, the first (I believe) concrete skate park in Houston. Since the song came out in 77, that would put me in 6th/7th grade. I can visually recall skating and hearing that song.
“Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” has me sitting in my sister’s bedroom in which she had hippy beads instead of a closet door, and had painted Hang Ten feet going up her wall and across the ceiling. I’d be like 6-8 years old.
“Love Rollercoaster” had us listening intently for the supposed murder/scream as a 10/11 year old.
A ton of others linked to high school experiences.
pbredd22@reddit
Baker Street
Puzzled-Locksmith-42@reddit
“I think I love you” Partridge Family
bm1949@reddit
Pretty much anything by Pablo Cruise.
My first gifted album was Warren Zevon so anything by him.
Allman Brothers Eat a Peach.
Anything I heard on album first really. Before I heard it on the radio, before cassettes, and before MTV.
joemamah77@reddit
Whodini - Freaks Come Out At Night
According-Hat-5393@reddit
Raindrops are Fallin' on My Head, I Got a Name, Cat's in the Cradle, BAD, BAD Leroy Brown, Convoy, Dirty Deeds, Another One Bites the Dust and SOOO MANY others!!
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
It is hard to pick just one!
randy_trevor@reddit
Summer breeze
plaingooseprime@reddit
Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers hits every time. It immediately puts me right back in the passenger seat of my parents beat up station wagon.
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
That takes me to my first spring break at age 17, I cannot believe my parents let me go!!! That song had just hit and was EVERYWHERE.
GingerA0712@reddit
That whole album is so good
daleardenyourhigness@reddit
Duran Duran, "The Reflex" (flex flex flex flex flex)
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
For me Hungry like the Wolf
enola007@reddit
I saw you.. and him.. walking in the rain
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
❤️ we were holding hands and I'll never be the same
nyxblackroot@reddit
UB40's Red Red Wine and Bobby Mc Farin's (sp?) Don't Worry Be Happy.
They were playing on the radio while I was working at the shore in NJ one summer - August 1988 - driving an Eddie Bauer Edition of a Ford Bronco. Lol
Xavelle@reddit
Red red wine was playing at the restaurant my friends and I went to for lunch one day. Idk why that memory has stuck with me but everytime I hear it, I think of lunch that day.
nyxblackroot@reddit
I can hear either one of those start and I'm instantly back in that truck with the windows rolled down. 😊
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Love some UB40
Equal_Trash6023@reddit
Two out of three by meatloaf
Wonderful-Forever450@reddit
Anything from jock jams
SettleDownAlready@reddit
Sailing Christopher Cross
CrimsonDawn1970@reddit
Such a beautiful song
cptwranglr@reddit
The theme song for The Dukes of Hazzard
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
My favorite show as a 7 year old, could not understand why my parents hated it.
Random0s2oh@reddit
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me by Culture Club
Workin' for the Weekend by Loverboy
Any song by the Stray Cats
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
Oh those are good ones!!!
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Culture Club for sure! ❤️
Diasies_inMyHair@reddit
Any of the Parts of Speech songs from Schoolhouse Rock. They always bring back the fun that was Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Perfect_Fennel@reddit
Conga by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine. I was briefly in jazz dance and it was the song we used in our recital. Idk why but every time I hear it that's where my mind goes. The weird thing is recently I've been hearing it a lot in random places, I NEVER play it myself.
guiltyas-sin@reddit
Anything by the Who.
BuccoFever412@reddit
Winger ‘Headin For a Heartbreak’, Van Halen ‘Jump’, Aerosmith ‘Love In An Elevator’
Syyklops@reddit
Weird mix: Ride the Train by Boxcar Willie. Tusk by Fleetwood Mac. Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth.
Unlikely_Professor76@reddit
TUSK is a visceral force that immediately transports me to my Gen Jones cousin’s high school graduation party/kegger
sassyfontaine@reddit
The side two medley on Abbey Road was on Sirius radio yesterday and boy, did it take me back! Vinyl in our old living room where the floor was too bouncy and squeaky to really dance to records because it made them skip.
hatezel@reddit
Summertime DJ. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. I knew the first time I heard it that it would always make me think of that time.. it's like I knew it would make me nostalgic when I first heard it and it does.
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Yes! We had so many good songs back in the day
sarcasticorange@reddit
Short People by Randy Newman
My older brother used to tease me with it.
MrPrimalNumber@reddit
Conjunction Junction
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
What is your function? Lol
Apart-Cream-4940@reddit
Elvira. My parents and I drove to see my grandparents, and we waited in the car for the song to end before getting out of the car. Just a nice little memory
Enlighten-Pasta@reddit
Rikki don't you lose that number . Takes me back to being in my Dad's truck driving in the rain .
theSavageGypsy@reddit (OP)
Yes!
2PlasticLobsters@reddit
For me, it's a tie between Candy Man and Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.
My parents used to take me to a local bar & grill that had them on ther jukebox for quite awhile.
mldyfox@reddit
Dreams by Fleetwood Mac. Reminds me of the school year I had to stay with my grandma and aunt so I could stay in school. That song would come on the radio every morning when we were getting ready to leave for the day.
StOnEy333@reddit
We didn’t start the fire by Billy Joel.
Patient_Character730@reddit
Wallflowers One Headlight.
Agreeable_Charge1084@reddit
AC DC. You shook me all night long
funnyfaceking@reddit
Up, up and Away bt the 5th Dimension
SplodeyDope@reddit
Funky Town
OldBanjoFrog@reddit
Japanese Boy by Aneka
takingastep@reddit
Level 42 - Something About You
upv395@reddit
Jeremiah was a Bullfrog
R_437@reddit
Any of my moms favorites : Patsy Cline > Hank Williams > Freddy Fender
sd_glokta@reddit
Flash Gordon - Queen
yothisismetrying@reddit
I’ll stop the world and melt with you - Modern English
Expensive_Rhubarb_87@reddit
Adam and the Ants Stand and Deliver.
Right back in the cookie cutter house on the compound outside Taif.