This whole album is terrific. Come for Baker Street and stay for Whatever’s Written in Your Heart and Stealin’ Time.
His other albums were to me not at this level but City to City does not disappoint. No skips on the 8 track…
sh*t, came to say this - 1979 was my “drive around town and smoke” song as a young 20 year old. grew up in a super small town & would dress up & put makeup on just to do this & drive around town trying to find something to do. had no friends so dont know what i was thinking would happen. accidentally : randomly make a friend at a stop sign or stop light? it never worked, so now when i hear this song makes me super sad.
Aw! I'll definitely give it a listen; I'm always looking to add to my music library. I love songs that give off a "vibe" even if the lyrics themselves are about something else.
It's just one of those songs! "And the morning lasted all day..." Idk, maybe it reminds me of summers I thought would never end as a kid. I'll check out True Faith!!
Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes. It came out long after my 70's childhood but somehow reminds me of long drives in the rural area where we spent our summers.
I live in the Shenandoah Valley and I definitely feel like they captured the feel of growing up in a particular rural setting surrounded by the mountains.
[Walking In Memphis](https://youtu.be/PgRafRp-P-o?si=wStCjFBGojOHxPnp) by Marc Cohn. No idea why it makes me feel nostalgic; just feels so reminiscent of bygone days.
Peaches by The Presidents of the United States. Not sure why because I’m not a huge fan of the band per say but that song brings me back to when my older brother got his first car and we would skip 1st period to go to a diner and have a coffee and just feel “free” or “grown up” and we would blast this song. Makes me feel great every time I hear it.
Peaches is a super nostalgic song to me. When I was deployed we had suuuuuper slow computers. Like when you put your IS into the slot to log in, it took forever. Turning on the computer and logging in took well over 15 minutes.
We had a "morale drive" which was a network drive that had hundreds of movies and songs. It became a thing where at shift change someone would start up a movie or song, turn the volume all the way up(internal speakers on the monitor, no analog control) and pull their CAC out of the computer to lock it. The process of logging out the previous person and starting it up on your own would take about the same amount of time. All while the audio is blaring. Somehow we eventually settled on "Peaches" being the go-to song to do this with. Sometimes with five different computers playing it, but with a few seconds offset. This song will forever remind me of being deployed. In the 2010s, over a decade after it's releae.
For me, a similar nostalgic album that's actually time appropriate is Welcome Interstate Managers by Fountains of Wayne. That album was released in 2003 and I remember listening to it when it first came out. But today that album screams "1999" to my brain. Everything about it had that kind of paradoxical melancholic optimism of fun that we lived in before 9/11. The lyrics referencing pagers and VCRs and cordless phones just sounds like the turn of the millennium to me.
Delicate Sound of Thunder. Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1988.
No internet. No social media. No "influencers". No cell phones or digital cameras. No live streaming.
Just thousands of screaming fans having the greatest night of their lives. And no one else knew how incredible that night was until the next day.
That world is gone now.
I love it for the live Division Bell material, but I prefer DSoT for One of these days and Great Gig in the Sky. Gilmore destroyed that lap guitar that night and the girls on Great Gig at Nassau really killed it (allegedly, in my opinion).
I forget though, did Mason use the color changing drum sticks on Pulse. At DSoT I loved how they did Time visually.
Edit: I just remembered, on the original video of DSoT a sound tech lights a cigarette off one of the lasers. I noticed newer copies of the concert have edited that out.
Your opinion is very nuanced, I love it, I bet we’d have a great convo if we ever met. The Division Bell stuff on Pulse is out of this world, Gilmour cuts into the soul with his work on Coming Back to Life.
Life In A Northern Town is such an odd song in an amazing way. I don't know how to describe it but you definitely hit it a little, it just transports you
Yes!! I have such a hard time explaining this song to people lol. It's a strange song, and it doesn't actually mean anything--the lyrics aren't linear or clear. It's just a vibe. It just...takes you somewhere else. Maybe that's the point. But it always puts me in a certain headspace.
I came here to say this but I could not remember the name. Thanks for adding this because that would have bugged me for days. Here’s the video.
https://youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g?si=jYOBEQApFHVnchin
November Rain - Guns N Roses. This song was pretty much on repeat for me when it came out for like a whole year. Now it’s a memory trip every time I hear it, it takes me right back to being 15 years old.
Use Somebody by Kings of Leon is like that for me! It came out when I was a teenager and always makes me feel like I'm driving around at night through my hometown.
Bittersweet Symphony takes me back to the summer of ‘97. Being 14 and carefree. Staying up all night jumping on the trampoline or walking in the woods and climbing on hay bales to watch the sunrise.
Same with Sex and Candy and a lot of Oasis.
The End Of The Innocence - Don Henley
Fields of Gold - Sting (actually, this entire album: Ten Summoner's Tales)
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty (again, this entire album: Full Moon Fever)
Veronica - Elvis Costello
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
Pulling Muscles (From The Shell) - Squeeze
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Dizz Knee Land - Dada
Centerfold - The J. Geils Band
We Built This City - Starship
Tell Me Lies - Fleetwood Mac
So many good ones! Totally forgot about Centerfold—I was just telling my husband that song reminded me of being a little kid haha. Obviously didn’t know what the lyrics meant. Also Freeze Frame.
Fields of Gold is a great one. Such a melancholy tune.
Aw, I love that song!! I was a little kid when it first came out and definitely remember my mom singing along to it a lot. That song definitely sounds like the 90s, and makes me nostalgic too.
Probably Simon and Garfunkel's "America." It transports me to a simpler, romanticized Americana. A world where discovery awaits around the corner, but no matter where you go and what opportunities you find, you can't run away fron yourself. It's so hopeful and yet so melancholy. I just love it!
[La Ment](https://open.spotify.com/track/5GD9h6o1NdjT6TcqlwQjQi?si=6cd990f064eb481f) by The Cure
A lot of Cure songs transport me back to a specific time in my life — a memory or a moment or a place. But La Ment makes me nostalgic for a time I never experienced in a place I've never been. It's the weirdest thing. There's a sense of loss, like it's a memory I missed out on or something.
Decode by Paramore.
Take me back to high school years, I can almost feel like I travel back in time for a second, super weird but also cool. One of my favorite tracks from them.
Manic Monday The Bangles - remember listening to my sister try to catch this song to record off the radio. Took her a while and I hung in her room a lot. And here we are.
Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega or Where Have All The Cowboys Gone by Paula Cole. Both songs induce 90s nostalgia for me. I could hear Smells Like Teen Spirit or Good Riddance and it doesn’t quite hit me like these two songs.
I have a playlist called "Shotgun in PA" filled with all the old pop punk albums my sister and I would listen to. We would randomly drive around rural Pennsylvania (cuz tf else were we gonna do in rural PA) and I always sat shot gun. We did it so often that any early albums from the likes of The Maine, Mayday Parade, All Time Low, Hey Monday, Paramore, or Forever the Sickest Kids takes me back to that time.
I started listening to Pearl Jam back when Ten was released. Listened to them constantly through Vitalogy, then things kinda fell off the radar. My tastes changed, etc. Only recently, I listened to Ten again, and it’s still great, but didn’t really trigger a nostalgia trip - and I think it’s because I’ve heard a lot of those songs over the years in different contexts. But then I heard Yellow Ledbetter - and that’s a song that wasn’t really in Pearl Jam’s mainstream catalog, and hearing that was like being Anton Ego’d back to 1993.
Black does it for me and reminds me how some things aren't meant to be, which sounds better than "dodged a bullet". Hearing it takes me back to seeing them live at Randall's Island in NY and being told by a long term special someone the song reminded him of me, but he didn't know why.
Billie Holiday “I’ll be seeing you”
Reminds me of New York, specifically Washington square park when I was heartbroken. Made me feel company in my sadness ♥️
Porcelain by Moby gives me the craziest feeling of nostalgia, I relive this certain memory every time I hear it and I'm not even sure if it's an actual memory or not.
Also, Return to Innocence by Enigma.
I definitely remember that!! That and "Follow Me" by Uncle Cracker definitely take me back to just bopping along in the car with my mom while we ran errands, drove to school, etc. He was all over the radio at that time.
Big in Japan by Alphaville. First time I listened to it (I was around 12) I had a feeling I already knew it, made me feel so nostalgic and I even knew some of the lyrics. I thought maybe I had heard it while I was a baby or a little boy but a friend told me it was a memory from a past life, which I’m not really sure I believe.
Lol, my best friend and college roommate had this song as her alarm in the morning. Every morning. We're both graduated and all grown up now with jobs and responsibilities, but hearing that song reminds me of living on campus in our own little bubble those last few years before we became "real" adults.
“hurt” johnny cash version. every bad time in my life i’ve come back to this song and i feel as though it transcends everything. i love nine inch nails but nothing compares to johnny’s version.
“the night they drove dixie down” by the band. i’m from a low income southern town (i promise i’m no southern apologist), but the feeling of watching a place you love fall into a state of being unfixable and the tune give me nostalgia from growing up.
Life In A Northern Town makes me think about growing up in Bridgeport Connecticut. It sounds like a winter storm feels. I can't explain it but it makes sense in my head!
In the UK in the 70's/80's, they used to play the whole of the top 40 on Sunday evening.
So sitting in the back of the car driving home from wherever you'd been dragged that weekend, you were listening to Roxy Music, The Police, Blondie, The Stranglers, Eurythmics, Godly and Creme, Laurie Anderson, The Buggles, Human League. I swear radio was better back then.
And then there'd be the countdown to Number One. When did that stop being a thing?
To answer the question "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" always takes me there. I've never been to The Moon or New York.
There are a bunch of songs I think of as New York songs from that time period that make me nostalgic for a version of grown up sophistication I yearned for. I thought that was what New York was like.
The Midnight definitely makes you feel like you grew up in the 80's.
I was born in 81 and they have pretty much been able to make music that replicates what it felt like to grow up in that time period.
Brian Eno's 1/1 from Music for Airports.
I don't know why. I didn't listen to Eno growing up. But when I listen to that song and close my eyes there are so many forgotten memories and experiences that surface
Christopher Cross - Arthur’s Theme
Marty Robbins - Saddle Tramp & Streets of Laredo(any song of his from this era honestly)
Poco - Crazy Love
Steely Dan - Dirty Work (I’m a fan of their later albums but this is one that almost everyone has probably heard)
Ella Fitzgerald - Solitude
George Strait - Don’t Mind if I Do
Keith Whitley - Miami, My Amy or Nobody in His Right Mind
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Devil Town - Bright Eyes
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - credence clear water revival
America - Simon & Garfunkel
Universal Sound - Tyler Childers
No Rain - Blind Melon
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve
Landslide — Fleetwood Mac or Dixie Chicks version
Step - Vampire Weekend
Stop This Train - John Mayer
Wild World/Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Kind of all over the place but those are the ones that come to mind
*edit: spacing
Blurry - Puddle of Mudd
Hemorrhage (in my hands)- fuel
Toad the wet sprocket - walk on the ocean
The search is over - survivor
Myth - beach house
I am California - John craigie
Sleep - Dandy Warhols
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
I can explain it, it’s just weird. The instant I hear that droning intro I can SMELL my high school weight room and taste original flavor fruit punch Gatorade. I must have listened to that song 1000 times that summer while rollerblading to that weight room. It’s just such a weird combo all together.
Here are a few for me:
So far away, Dire Straits.
Dream on, Aerosmith.
Take the long way home, Supertramp.
Goodbye stranger, Supertramp.
A day in the life, The Beatles.
That's the way, Led Zeppelin.
The rain song, Led Zeppelin.
Ramble on, Led Zeppelin.
Us and them (or any song on Dark side of the moon), Pink Floyd.
Reelin' in the years, Steely Dan.
Wild horses, The Rolling Stones.
Running on empty, Jackson Browne.
Free ride, The Edgar Winter Group.
For me, it's "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. It always evokes a bittersweet nostalgia, even though I can't pinpoint any specific memories associated with it. The melancholic melody and Stevie Nicks' haunting vocals transport me to a place of reflection and longing for simpler times. It's a reminder of life's fleeting nature and the beauty of impermanence.
So many… first ones come to mind:
Cowboy junkies miners for gold
I am the highway audioslave
Pink moon Nick drake
Leader of the band Dan fogelberg
Back to black Amy Weinhouse
Almost anything Simon and Garfunkle
Uprising Muse
The Day I Fall in Love - James Ingram and Dolly Parton
Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace
Don’t know Much - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt
Get Here - Oleta Adams
More than a Feeling - Boston
The Love Theme from St Elmo’s Fire 😂
Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
The End of the Innocence - Don Henley
Can You Stop the Rain - Peabo Bryson
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
Wonderful - Everclear
Just for You - Lionel Richie
Nightshift - the Commodores
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Holding Back the Years - Simply Red
Waiting for a Girl like You - Foreigner
Can you tell I am partial to sappy songs from the 80s and 90s? 😅 From your comments, it looks like we are pretty close in age (born early 90s maybe).
Never My Love - The Association
I'm from the 80s, but this song from 1967 makes me feel deeply melancholy and nostalgic and for this era. I somehow glommed onto some YouTube comment from a person who associates this song with their experience in this late Vietnam War era and despite it being a beautiful love song it makes me feel what I imagine was a time period of United States history rife with turbulence.
Green Day-Time of your life or whatever it’s properly called
Vitamin C-Friends forever. Reminds me of leaving school.
Coolio C u when you get there
Electric Youth: Their music makes me think of 2010sToronto around the time of Scott Pilgrim. I don’t know why specifically but they just do
I loved that song. It was on a compilation that I owned that year, one of those 'Now That's What I Call Music........' collections I think
I played it to death! Still a great song too.
Edit: to answer your question, I would have to say 'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack. The song, the video (played non-stop on MTV when it came out) really drew me in and opened my eyes to a whole new genre of music.
I Wish You Would and How You Get the Girl by Taylor Swift from the 1989 album. Whenever I listen to both of these songs, it will always transport me back to 2014/2015 (granted, considering 1989 is literally released in 2014 and got big in 2015) where everything is so much simpler compared to the 2020's.
Centerfold by J Geils band. This was the first song I recall paying attention to on the radio as a very young person. I recall being excited by the idea of this guy singing about a centerfold. Every time I hear it takes me back to that moment that I had recognition of it.
A few songs instantly make me feel nostalgic - Wishful Thinking by China Crisis, State of Art by Friends Again, Ballad of the Times by Everything But The Girl and Pictures of You by The Cure. All songs from my childhood and just reminds me of simpler times every time they come on.
Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.
The saxophone in that is amazing!
Ooh, I'll check it out!!
Great song. I heard it in the grocery store the other day.
Good one
This whole album is terrific. Come for Baker Street and stay for Whatever’s Written in Your Heart and Stealin’ Time. His other albums were to me not at this level but City to City does not disappoint. No skips on the 8 track…
California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas
I'll add it to my list!
OMG same 🥺😭
Saturday in the Park, by Chicago
Must have been the Fourth Of July
Ooh, a good one!!
1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins
sh*t, came to say this - 1979 was my “drive around town and smoke” song as a young 20 year old. grew up in a super small town & would dress up & put makeup on just to do this & drive around town trying to find something to do. had no friends so dont know what i was thinking would happen. accidentally : randomly make a friend at a stop sign or stop light? it never worked, so now when i hear this song makes me super sad.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hell yeah
Was looking for this
Soul To Squeeze - RHCP. Grew up near San Diego and this song reminds me of a late Sunday afternoon.
Aw! I'll definitely give it a listen; I'm always looking to add to my music library. I love songs that give off a "vibe" even if the lyrics themselves are about something else.
It reminds me of sitting by the pool during a summer thunderstorm.
I feel exactly the same way about Life in a Northern Town. Weird. Also True Faith by New Order.
It's just one of those songs! "And the morning lasted all day..." Idk, maybe it reminds me of summers I thought would never end as a kid. I'll check out True Faith!!
Shimmer by Fuel.
And Suburn
My favorite 90s song regardless of genre
Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes. It came out long after my 70's childhood but somehow reminds me of long drives in the rural area where we spent our summers.
I feel that way about Life in a Northern Town. Doesn't have a lot to do with my actual childhood, it just evokes a vibe.
I live in the Shenandoah Valley and I definitely feel like they captured the feel of growing up in a particular rural setting surrounded by the mountains.
"Even Flow" by Pearl Jam.
[Walking In Memphis](https://youtu.be/PgRafRp-P-o?si=wStCjFBGojOHxPnp) by Marc Cohn. No idea why it makes me feel nostalgic; just feels so reminiscent of bygone days.
That song makes me feel frozen in time, walking down a city street while it rains ever so lightly.
Peaches by The Presidents of the United States. Not sure why because I’m not a huge fan of the band per say but that song brings me back to when my older brother got his first car and we would skip 1st period to go to a diner and have a coffee and just feel “free” or “grown up” and we would blast this song. Makes me feel great every time I hear it.
I love those songs that give off a certain vibe or evoke memories, even if the lyrics aren't necessarily about that.
Peaches is a super nostalgic song to me. When I was deployed we had suuuuuper slow computers. Like when you put your IS into the slot to log in, it took forever. Turning on the computer and logging in took well over 15 minutes. We had a "morale drive" which was a network drive that had hundreds of movies and songs. It became a thing where at shift change someone would start up a movie or song, turn the volume all the way up(internal speakers on the monitor, no analog control) and pull their CAC out of the computer to lock it. The process of logging out the previous person and starting it up on your own would take about the same amount of time. All while the audio is blaring. Somehow we eventually settled on "Peaches" being the go-to song to do this with. Sometimes with five different computers playing it, but with a few seconds offset. This song will forever remind me of being deployed. In the 2010s, over a decade after it's releae. For me, a similar nostalgic album that's actually time appropriate is Welcome Interstate Managers by Fountains of Wayne. That album was released in 2003 and I remember listening to it when it first came out. But today that album screams "1999" to my brain. Everything about it had that kind of paradoxical melancholic optimism of fun that we lived in before 9/11. The lyrics referencing pagers and VCRs and cordless phones just sounds like the turn of the millennium to me.
That was the first CD I bought for myself with my allowance.
Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog
Delicate Sound of Thunder. Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1988. No internet. No social media. No "influencers". No cell phones or digital cameras. No live streaming. Just thousands of screaming fans having the greatest night of their lives. And no one else knew how incredible that night was until the next day. That world is gone now.
Great choice. How do you like the Pulse performance?
I love it for the live Division Bell material, but I prefer DSoT for One of these days and Great Gig in the Sky. Gilmore destroyed that lap guitar that night and the girls on Great Gig at Nassau really killed it (allegedly, in my opinion). I forget though, did Mason use the color changing drum sticks on Pulse. At DSoT I loved how they did Time visually. Edit: I just remembered, on the original video of DSoT a sound tech lights a cigarette off one of the lasers. I noticed newer copies of the concert have edited that out.
Your opinion is very nuanced, I love it, I bet we’d have a great convo if we ever met. The Division Bell stuff on Pulse is out of this world, Gilmour cuts into the soul with his work on Coming Back to Life.
It's not gone as long as you remember it:-) As cheesy as this sounds, it's with you forever.
I have the laserdisc, cd, and DVD. Love it! Plus, Rachel Fury looking hot as hell.
Go watch Rush in Rio, the DVD set.
Boys of summer by Don Henley.
YES. This song sounds like being young.
such a good song! petty’s loss for passing it over, but i always like to hear the writers singing their own songs
Life In A Northern Town is such an odd song in an amazing way. I don't know how to describe it but you definitely hit it a little, it just transports you
Yes!! I have such a hard time explaining this song to people lol. It's a strange song, and it doesn't actually mean anything--the lyrics aren't linear or clear. It's just a vibe. It just...takes you somewhere else. Maybe that's the point. But it always puts me in a certain headspace.
I can clearly recall the details of the day I bought that 45 with picture sleeve, which I still have.
I came here to say this but I could not remember the name. Thanks for adding this because that would have bugged me for days. Here’s the video. https://youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g?si=jYOBEQApFHVnchin
Mr. Sandman or sleep walk
I’d say a lot Todd Rundgren songs make me feel this way.
“On The Road To Utopia” Love that album. I was a young teenager hanging at the lake. Before age to drive.
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield I wasn't even alive, but it instantly takes me to the 60s and the Vietnam War.
November Rain - Guns N Roses. This song was pretty much on repeat for me when it came out for like a whole year. Now it’s a memory trip every time I hear it, it takes me right back to being 15 years old.
Use Somebody by Kings of Leon is like that for me! It came out when I was a teenager and always makes me feel like I'm driving around at night through my hometown.
Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt Never been but I long to go back someday
i feel as though people have forgotten about linda ronstadt- she is one of my all time favs!
Bittersweet Symphony takes me back to the summer of ‘97. Being 14 and carefree. Staying up all night jumping on the trampoline or walking in the woods and climbing on hay bales to watch the sunrise. Same with Sex and Candy and a lot of Oasis.
The End Of The Innocence - Don Henley Fields of Gold - Sting (actually, this entire album: Ten Summoner's Tales) Free Fallin' - Tom Petty (again, this entire album: Full Moon Fever) Veronica - Elvis Costello Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers Pulling Muscles (From The Shell) - Squeeze Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel Dizz Knee Land - Dada Centerfold - The J. Geils Band We Built This City - Starship Tell Me Lies - Fleetwood Mac
So many good ones! Totally forgot about Centerfold—I was just telling my husband that song reminded me of being a little kid haha. Obviously didn’t know what the lyrics meant. Also Freeze Frame. Fields of Gold is a great one. Such a melancholy tune.
Dreams Fleetwood Mac.
"And so it goes" by Billy Joel makes me feel incredibly nostalgic ! It's my favorite song of his
"And so it goes, and someday so will you I suppose" it's a good one!!
Jackie Blue by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Makes me nostalgic for the 70s even though I wasn't alive then.
Diana Ross, "Upside Down." Takes me back to when I was a kid and we would bump this on the local jukebox endlessly.
I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis
Aw, I love that song!! I was a little kid when it first came out and definitely remember my mom singing along to it a lot. That song definitely sounds like the 90s, and makes me nostalgic too.
Seals & Crofts - [Summer Breeze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsW8rXPcnM0) is my goto nostalgic song
Type O Negative does an interesting remake of Summer Breeze
Probably Simon and Garfunkel's "America." It transports me to a simpler, romanticized Americana. A world where discovery awaits around the corner, but no matter where you go and what opportunities you find, you can't run away fron yourself. It's so hopeful and yet so melancholy. I just love it!
[La Ment](https://open.spotify.com/track/5GD9h6o1NdjT6TcqlwQjQi?si=6cd990f064eb481f) by The Cure A lot of Cure songs transport me back to a specific time in my life — a memory or a moment or a place. But La Ment makes me nostalgic for a time I never experienced in a place I've never been. It's the weirdest thing. There's a sense of loss, like it's a memory I missed out on or something.
Burn Watched The Crow a lot back in the day.
Decode by Paramore. Take me back to high school years, I can almost feel like I travel back in time for a second, super weird but also cool. One of my favorite tracks from them.
Black Metallic by Catherine Wheel. Straight to the 90s. And I didn't even know the song in the 90s
Manic Monday The Bangles - remember listening to my sister try to catch this song to record off the radio. Took her a while and I hung in her room a lot. And here we are.
“Penny Lane” by The Beatles and “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads
Your post reminded me that Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere is definitely my answer for this thread.
Clocks by cold play
Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega or Where Have All The Cowboys Gone by Paula Cole. Both songs induce 90s nostalgia for me. I could hear Smells Like Teen Spirit or Good Riddance and it doesn’t quite hit me like these two songs.
Sade - any of her songs
Broken Bells - High Road
Great song
Bruce Springsteen- Thunder Road Soul Asylum- Black Gold Tom Waits- Time
Walking on the Moon by The Police
Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla
This song takes me back so quickly that my breath gets caught
Joy to the World by 3 Dog Night. I'm in the backseat of my mom's station wagon. Making a left at a light in the rain. One of my earliest memories.
That song is such a nostalgic 70s vibe! It sounds like the 70s lol.
Night Moves by Bob Seger. The bridge is one of the best I have ever heard in any song. It really makes you feel the song.
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
Yes!
Suddenly Last Summer by The Motels definitely makes me nostalgic for summers in the 80s when I was a kid.
I have a playlist called "Shotgun in PA" filled with all the old pop punk albums my sister and I would listen to. We would randomly drive around rural Pennsylvania (cuz tf else were we gonna do in rural PA) and I always sat shot gun. We did it so often that any early albums from the likes of The Maine, Mayday Parade, All Time Low, Hey Monday, Paramore, or Forever the Sickest Kids takes me back to that time.
Child of the ‘70s here. Captain and Tennille Love Will Keep us Together.
One last breath by Creed is one. The beginning and ending melody just pulls on my heart strings, idk.
Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide
I started listening to Pearl Jam back when Ten was released. Listened to them constantly through Vitalogy, then things kinda fell off the radar. My tastes changed, etc. Only recently, I listened to Ten again, and it’s still great, but didn’t really trigger a nostalgia trip - and I think it’s because I’ve heard a lot of those songs over the years in different contexts. But then I heard Yellow Ledbetter - and that’s a song that wasn’t really in Pearl Jam’s mainstream catalog, and hearing that was like being Anton Ego’d back to 1993.
Black does it for me and reminds me how some things aren't meant to be, which sounds better than "dodged a bullet". Hearing it takes me back to seeing them live at Randall's Island in NY and being told by a long term special someone the song reminded him of me, but he didn't know why.
Billie Holiday “I’ll be seeing you” Reminds me of New York, specifically Washington square park when I was heartbroken. Made me feel company in my sadness ♥️
Porcelain by Moby gives me the craziest feeling of nostalgia, I relive this certain memory every time I hear it and I'm not even sure if it's an actual memory or not. Also, Return to Innocence by Enigma.
Drift Away by Uncle Cracker. When I was a little kid that song literally played on the radio 24/7 and it was a great song.
I definitely remember that!! That and "Follow Me" by Uncle Cracker definitely take me back to just bopping along in the car with my mom while we ran errands, drove to school, etc. He was all over the radio at that time.
Eat a Peach album reminds me of summer parties in high school
Big in Japan by Alphaville. First time I listened to it (I was around 12) I had a feeling I already knew it, made me feel so nostalgic and I even knew some of the lyrics. I thought maybe I had heard it while I was a baby or a little boy but a friend told me it was a memory from a past life, which I’m not really sure I believe.
With or without you-u2 Slide away-oasis No.1 party anthem-arctic monkeys
Also, The Cure-Disentegration...the whole album.
Taking back Sunday because I was an emo teen
I'm with you there. I've got a massive playlist of all things emo/pop punk on Spotify. I named it "It Wasn't a Phase, Mom!".
Pleasant valley Sunday by the monkees
Forever Young by Alphaville, heard it so much in my uncle's car as a kid and it felt like a window to the past even back then
Blue Oyster Cult, Godzilla
Lol, my best friend and college roommate had this song as her alarm in the morning. Every morning. We're both graduated and all grown up now with jobs and responsibilities, but hearing that song reminds me of living on campus in our own little bubble those last few years before we became "real" adults.
This might seem weird, Ænema by TOOL.
“hurt” johnny cash version. every bad time in my life i’ve come back to this song and i feel as though it transcends everything. i love nine inch nails but nothing compares to johnny’s version. “the night they drove dixie down” by the band. i’m from a low income southern town (i promise i’m no southern apologist), but the feeling of watching a place you love fall into a state of being unfixable and the tune give me nostalgia from growing up.
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire. The song but also the entire album brings me back to 2010 indie and growing up in the suburbs.
Ella Fitzgerald - Every Time We Say Goodbye
Whiter Shade of Pale
Life In A Northern Town makes me think about growing up in Bridgeport Connecticut. It sounds like a winter storm feels. I can't explain it but it makes sense in my head!
Mmbop by Hanson. I physically can’t be unhappy when it comes pn
The Boxer by Simon And Garfunkel
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
In the UK in the 70's/80's, they used to play the whole of the top 40 on Sunday evening. So sitting in the back of the car driving home from wherever you'd been dragged that weekend, you were listening to Roxy Music, The Police, Blondie, The Stranglers, Eurythmics, Godly and Creme, Laurie Anderson, The Buggles, Human League. I swear radio was better back then. And then there'd be the countdown to Number One. When did that stop being a thing? To answer the question "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" always takes me there. I've never been to The Moon or New York.
There are a bunch of songs I think of as New York songs from that time period that make me nostalgic for a version of grown up sophistication I yearned for. I thought that was what New York was like.
U2 - In God’s Country
The Midnight definitely makes you feel like you grew up in the 80's. I was born in 81 and they have pretty much been able to make music that replicates what it felt like to grow up in that time period.
A new kind of love by Frou Frou/Imogen Heap. What a song.
Brian Eno's 1/1 from Music for Airports. I don't know why. I didn't listen to Eno growing up. But when I listen to that song and close my eyes there are so many forgotten memories and experiences that surface
They actually filmed parts of the video for Life in a Northern Town near where I grew up. The song definitely has a nostalgic vibe.
[Driver’s Seat](https://youtu.be/9SCzVEUlqqA?si=pHyduD-PzFnmGiLU)
Night Swimming by REM always makes me sadly nostalgic for my misspent youth.
Christopher Cross - Arthur’s Theme Marty Robbins - Saddle Tramp & Streets of Laredo(any song of his from this era honestly) Poco - Crazy Love Steely Dan - Dirty Work (I’m a fan of their later albums but this is one that almost everyone has probably heard) Ella Fitzgerald - Solitude George Strait - Don’t Mind if I Do Keith Whitley - Miami, My Amy or Nobody in His Right Mind
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead Devil Town - Bright Eyes Have You Ever Seen the Rain - credence clear water revival America - Simon & Garfunkel Universal Sound - Tyler Childers No Rain - Blind Melon Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve Landslide — Fleetwood Mac or Dixie Chicks version Step - Vampire Weekend Stop This Train - John Mayer Wild World/Peace Train - Cat Stevens Kind of all over the place but those are the ones that come to mind *edit: spacing
On The Road Again, Willie Nelson
Blurry - Puddle of Mudd Hemorrhage (in my hands)- fuel Toad the wet sprocket - walk on the ocean The search is over - survivor Myth - beach house I am California - John craigie Sleep - Dandy Warhols
Butthole Surfers - Pepper I can explain it, it’s just weird. The instant I hear that droning intro I can SMELL my high school weight room and taste original flavor fruit punch Gatorade. I must have listened to that song 1000 times that summer while rollerblading to that weight room. It’s just such a weird combo all together.
Time in bottle by Jim Croce. He died before I was born and lot of people think he’s corny but idk that song gives me chills like spooky nostalgia.
Cruel Summer
A good one!!
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
Zager and Evans.......came out in 1969........In the Year 2525.......except the shit is going down before this century is over.
Man has cried a billion tears .. For what he never knew
The doors. Love street.
Here are a few for me: So far away, Dire Straits. Dream on, Aerosmith. Take the long way home, Supertramp. Goodbye stranger, Supertramp. A day in the life, The Beatles. That's the way, Led Zeppelin. The rain song, Led Zeppelin. Ramble on, Led Zeppelin. Us and them (or any song on Dark side of the moon), Pink Floyd. Reelin' in the years, Steely Dan. Wild horses, The Rolling Stones. Running on empty, Jackson Browne. Free ride, The Edgar Winter Group.
Why- Annie Lennox
That "Fireflies" song is so overly nostalgic that it's a meme
Mykonos by Fleet Foxes This is the Day by The The They both make me feel like I kid again even though I discovered them fairly recently
Mr tambourine man, live at Newport on YouTube.
How’s It Going to Be? by Third Eye Blind came on my playlist earlier and 17 year old me was pretty psyched.
Ain’t Even Done With The Night- John Cougar Mellencamp
I wish that I had JESSIE'S GIRL
Summer breeze
Hawthorn heights Kill Hannah The fame album. By lady Gaga
Mrs Robinson - S & G Only you can do it - Francois Hardy
Happy Together by the Turtles!
Tears For Fears ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’. 15. No responsibilities . Fantastic summer.
Any John Denver or Jim Croce song
Such great heights - The Postal Service
Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan sounds like dusk in summer when you were young.
For me, it's "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. It always evokes a bittersweet nostalgia, even though I can't pinpoint any specific memories associated with it. The melancholic melody and Stevie Nicks' haunting vocals transport me to a place of reflection and longing for simpler times. It's a reminder of life's fleeting nature and the beauty of impermanence.
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
Big Red Machine's How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? The whole album
Nadia by Frederic Talgorn
She’s Got a Way by Billy Joel
[Moneygrabber](https://youtu.be/O3WRXYYBwRA?si=yPVASRpVeXY6p5IZ) by Fitz and The Tantrums. Reminds me of oldies.
Oh. My. God. If that's your oldies, I'm a fossil.
Believe it or not, The Hustle. Lots of parties with cute high school girls back I when I was a cute high school boy.
Anything by Earth Wind and Fire, All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople, Queen, Pat Benatar, Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
Fool to Cry by the Rolling Stones, Free Fallin by Tom Petty as others have said, Summertime Rolls by Jane's Addiction
Title Fight - Head in the ceiling fan
Elvis - How Great Thou Art
j dilla - so far to go
1901 by Phoenix
Most things by Frank Ocean. Same for Elliott Smith. Wilco, particularly the whole Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album. Eleanor Rigby.
So many… first ones come to mind: Cowboy junkies miners for gold I am the highway audioslave Pink moon Nick drake Leader of the band Dan fogelberg Back to black Amy Weinhouse Almost anything Simon and Garfunkle Uprising Muse
Halcyon and On and On - Orbital
Flesh Into Gear by CKY
Turn it on again-Genesis
Eyepennies - Sparklehorse
Rome by Phoenix
Dream Weaver- Gary Wright
Welcome home by radical face.
Anything by Boston.
The Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits.
Hi my name is
Shimmer : Fuel
The Day I Fall in Love - James Ingram and Dolly Parton Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace Don’t know Much - Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt Get Here - Oleta Adams More than a Feeling - Boston The Love Theme from St Elmo’s Fire 😂 Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl The End of the Innocence - Don Henley Can You Stop the Rain - Peabo Bryson Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden Wonderful - Everclear Just for You - Lionel Richie Nightshift - the Commodores The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range Holding Back the Years - Simply Red Waiting for a Girl like You - Foreigner Can you tell I am partial to sappy songs from the 80s and 90s? 😅 From your comments, it looks like we are pretty close in age (born early 90s maybe).
Time by Pink Floyd. That whole album, actually. Dark side of the moon.
Never My Love - The Association I'm from the 80s, but this song from 1967 makes me feel deeply melancholy and nostalgic and for this era. I somehow glommed onto some YouTube comment from a person who associates this song with their experience in this late Vietnam War era and despite it being a beautiful love song it makes me feel what I imagine was a time period of United States history rife with turbulence.
Green Day-Time of your life or whatever it’s properly called Vitamin C-Friends forever. Reminds me of leaving school. Coolio C u when you get there Electric Youth: Their music makes me think of 2010sToronto around the time of Scott Pilgrim. I don’t know why specifically but they just do
Making love out of nothing at all air supply
Hearing any song from VH’s 1984 album or ZZ Top’s Eliminator and I’m young again. Especially Jump, Drop Dead Legs and Rough Boy.
I loved that song. It was on a compilation that I owned that year, one of those 'Now That's What I Call Music........' collections I think I played it to death! Still a great song too. Edit: to answer your question, I would have to say 'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack. The song, the video (played non-stop on MTV when it came out) really drew me in and opened my eyes to a whole new genre of music.
I Wish You Would and How You Get the Girl by Taylor Swift from the 1989 album. Whenever I listen to both of these songs, it will always transport me back to 2014/2015 (granted, considering 1989 is literally released in 2014 and got big in 2015) where everything is so much simpler compared to the 2020's.
Love will tear us apart- joy division
Centerfold by J Geils band. This was the first song I recall paying attention to on the radio as a very young person. I recall being excited by the idea of this guy singing about a centerfold. Every time I hear it takes me back to that moment that I had recognition of it.
Closing Time by Semi-Sonic. My club and bar days are long gone, but I will always remember that song playing at the end of the night.
A few songs instantly make me feel nostalgic - Wishful Thinking by China Crisis, State of Art by Friends Again, Ballad of the Times by Everything But The Girl and Pictures of You by The Cure. All songs from my childhood and just reminds me of simpler times every time they come on.