Am I the only one who thinks of certain places or things when I hear certain songs? I usually think of the place I heard it (if it's a good memory) Here are some songs and places/things I think about with songs.
Angie-Rolling Stones- Big Bend Nat'l Park.
Momma I'm Commin' Home- Ozzy Osborne- The old softball complex my sisters played at for like 10 years (I pretty much grew up there.).
Anything Dragonforce- Big Bend National Park.
I could continue, but I'd have to listen to every song on my playlist... Y'all got any?
BigMatt
I've got a few
I am a Rock by Simon and Garfunkel always makes me think of driving over the Yaquina Bay Bridge into Newport, Oregon
Paradise City by Guns 'n Roses makes me think of driving down Horseshoe Bend grade on SH-55 into Boise
Runnin' Hot by Airbourne makes me think I'm driving down Grand Avenue in Laramie
Twilight of the Thunder God by Amon Amarth makes me think I'm driving north on I-5 towards Seattle
Green River by CCR makes me think I'm in Green River (!) Wyoming- I heard it once while I was driving through it and it's stuck ever sense
Burn Down the Mission by Elton John makes me think I'm on I-84 in Eastern Oregon
Ha, I don't have any from roads, cause my mom doesn't like the same music as me. So I just have random places.
BigMatt
QuoteHa, I don't have any from roads, cause my mom doesn't like the same music as me. So I just have random places.
A few of mine (the Simon and Garfunkel and Elton John, for example) came from road trips with my parents. They have a tendency to bring like one CD with them on family road trips and listen to it over and over again, so I probably heard I Am A Rock as we drove over the Yaquina Bay Bridge like 10 times in a couple weeks, which pretty much brandishes it in one's head.
Most of them came from myself though- the Paradise City one was from the first time I ever drove to Boise by myself and the weather was crummy and it was late winter and I came out of a couple feet of snow where I live in the mountains down to the warm sunniness of Boise
Now that I think of it, the entire Offerings album by Third Day reminds me of U.S. 67, 84, and Texas 21. (My trips to Nacogdoches, Tx)
BigMatt
-Every time I hear Journey, I think of my trips up to New England, because that is when I usually hear it.
-Van Halen, I immediately think of the Albany, since my uncle who lives there loves them and plays them all the time.
-I think of the New Jersey Turnpike, specifically in the Newark area when I hear the song Cars by Gary Numan, because that is where I first heard that song.
-I think of New Jersey when I hear Bon Jovi. I'll let you find out as to why 8).
-I think of NJ route 72 in the Pine Barrens when I hear the song Pulling Muscles from a Shell by Squeeze since that is where I first heard it.
-I think of the Adirondack Northway/I-90/I-87 interchange when I hear the song Let Me Be Myself by 3 Doors Down since that is where I first heard it.
Hmm, I wonder why anyone would think of Jersey when they hear Bon Jovi... Haha :-P
Oh and when I hear Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran, I think of the Hard Rock Cafe in San Antonio, cause thats where I heard it.
because of the Youtube clip showing the Stoney Trail, I can't stop to think of Judas Priest cover of Chuck Berry's Johnny B.Goode because it was the song used in this time-lapse clip
"Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Guitar Man" by Bread, "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" by the Hollies, "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" (one of those songs that everybody knows the title of, but not the artist--Looking Glass) and a host of others from August of 1972 at a big cabin in Crestline, California that we stayed at for three weeks when I was 10.
I remember the very first time I heard Agent Orange's cover of Seek and Destroy (Metallica) - I was listening to some radio station barely coming in from the bay area, while driving down 99 somewhere between Sacramento and Galt.
For me, "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors take me back to a time not too long after I met my now ex-girlfriend. We met at a hospital where she was a patient and where I was taking care of my aunt in her last days. One particular night, we were heading back to our hotel (separate rooms, of course!) and I gave her a ride from the hospital and "Two Princes" was on the radio.
Just about any popular song from about 1983 or 1984 and anything from the group Air Supply makes me think of the 2 week trip my family took in August of 1984 to the Northern Rockies/Pacific Northwest. We had a tape player in our van and we had about 4 or 5 tapes that we played over and over and over again through the trip-songs me and my older brother recorded to tape off of our local Top 40 station, and a tape of Air Supply's Greatest Hits.
Not trying to "BUMP" the thread, but I remembered a song.
Soft Skeletons by Anberlin reminds me of I-10 in San Antonio.
BigMatt
"Opened" by Assemblage 23 reminds me of driving along I-85 in North Carolina, near Charlotte.
"Raw", also by Assemblage 23, reminds me of the freeways in New Orleans.
"The End" by Funker Vogt reminds me of I-12 heading into Baton Rouge.
"Still So Strange" reminds me of I-84 through Idaho and Utah. I had that song on loop most of the way there.
"Vertex" by Negative Format - US 69/96/287 between Port Arthur and Beaumont, TX. That stretch of freeway is more like a speedway in places.
"Space Truckin'" by Deep Purple reminds me of I-87/Adirondack Northway in the Lake George, NY area.
"Back Against a Wall" by Cage the Elephant reminds me of I-95 south of Baltimore, MD.
"Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold reminds me of I-95 in Delaware south of Newport.
"She's Crafty" by the Beastie Boys reminds me of CT 15/Merritt Parkway in the Greenwich area.
"Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd reminds me of I-87/New York Thruway between Harriman and Newburgh.
QuoteWe all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky, smoke on the water
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
I played this song very loud on my car stereo when I passed by Montreux, Switzerland this summer.
Phil Collins Do You Remember- Think about Key West as this song played on the radio as I entered US 1's last island back in 1990.
Bob Seger- Shining Brightly - Think about Mitchell, SD as this song played on my rented car's cd player while driving through Downtown there in 01.
Allman Brothers - Brothers of the Road- US 220 (now I-99 as well) between Altoona and Bedford as song played on my cassette deck back in 85.
The song Georgie Girl from the late 60s always comes to mind when driving the solo US 6 section in Milford, PA ( around the s curves at the west end of town), NJ 27 on West St. George Avenue passing the Good Year Tire place in Linden, NJ, and US 1 near Menlo Park Mall in Edison, NJ.
I finally figured out why it is so after seeing this forum. It must of played during my childhood when my parents drove me past these places and embeded in my mind. FYI, I never liked the song really either, as the artist who performed the song (two guys and a girl who I do not remember whom) had bad harmony.
It was done by a singing group called The Seekers (not to be confused with The Searchers of "Needles and Pins" fame).
Whenever i hear "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, I always remember where I was the first time i heard it. I Was on the Indian Trail Road Bridge over the Fox River in Aurora IL on the way to preschool. It is one of my first memories of childhood.