What song makes you nostalgic?
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December 3rd, 2009
I was born in the 90’s and all the old hip-hop and rap that my family listened to while I was growing up makes me really nostalgic (All my uncles and aunts were in their teens so they listened to a lot of Dre and 2Pac).
Sometimes songs that I’ve never even heard in my childhood make me nostalgic. Sufjan Stevens and Wild World by Cat Stevens makes me nostalgic.
So I’m wondering what songs bring you back to your past?
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Anything by The Offspring, Rise Against, etc.
Trees get wheeled away- Bright Eyes
@Sonnerr Lua by Bright Eyes makes me cry
@naivete there are a few songs by conor that make me do so…
“all the old hip-hop and rap that my family listened to while I was growing up makes me really nostalgic’
Wholly God please shoot me! :-)
Well, I grew up in the 70’s toss any hippie music at me.
Land Down Under – Men at Work (oh, the 80’s)
“He just smiled and gave me a veg..e..mite sandwich”
I’m dating myself.
Well, this is totally embarrassing, but… Roll Out the Barrel. My dad used to carry me and polka around the kitchen while singing this song when I was 3 or 4. Then he and Mom got divorced and we only had a couple of years of visitation. After that I didn’t see him for about 20 years.
Also “Top of the World” by The Carpenters. I would listen to it on the 8 track in his car (lying down on the front seat back in the safety-conscious 70s) when he took me back to Mom’s at the end of a visitation weekend.
I like pop music too much to narrow it down to one song!
Band on the Run by Paul McCartney. This is the first rock song I remember liking a great deal. I remember listening to the 8-track of the album it came from in the car on drives to the countryside. I would’ve been 4 or 5. Around that time, I was also introduced to The Beatles.
Rich Girl by Hall & Oates. I was probably about 6, long before I even knew what Daryl Hall looked like (I found out when Kiss on My List came out a few years later and I was utterly smitten). I remember thinking when I first heard it in my guardian’s friend’s car, “Ooh, he said a bad word!” when the lyrics got to “It’s a bitch, girl…”
Head Games by Foreigner. We had a guy like Otto the bus driver on our bus when I was in 2nd grade, but since this was a few years before the Walkman™, he would blast this and other “rawk” songs from the transistor radio he hung near his window. I was the only kid on the bus who liked any of the music he played.
How Deep Is Your Love? by The Bee Gees. Our bus driver that year played pop music. There were a couple of girls on my 4th grade bus who would sing along to this with me, and since we were all church-trained singers, even at 9, we got the harmonies down. So much fun.
@ChazMaz It’s what I grew up with ):
I used to think that it ‘Nothing but a G thang’ by Snopp Dogg the lyrics were: It’s like this and like that and like this NANA” (as in grandma) ... but it was really just: “It’s like this and like that and like this and uh”
It’s more like ‘what doesn’t make me nostalgic.’ I associate everything with music and if it was a bad memory, I don’t want to think about it. If it was good, I don’t want to admit that moment’s gone.
Sandstorm makes me think of my trip to England in 2005
I would say The Rose (most recently sung by Westlife) gives me the shivers, as it reminds me of someone that I did not lose physically, but in a way that is almost just as bad.
Layla by Clapton. More specifically, the 87 year coda.
Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush
Loves Me Like A Rock by Paul Simon. Mom used to dance me on her toes to this.
Not Angry Anymore by Ani Difranco
Fake Fight by Team Dresch
The Land Knows You’re There by The Carawan Family
Just As I Am (hymn). Makes me cry everytime and sends me back to the horrible places I’ve been and the journey out of them to the safe place I’m at now.
Alleluiah (old folk tune). We sang this at camp and it was haunting. We were up on vesper hill and the sun was setting over the lake. It was so quiet except for our pre-teen voices. It can bring me to tears still.
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