Granted a smell or a taste will take me back from time to time but music man depending upon the song it can take me back to an instant in time.
Especially the stuff I listened to in High School and College.

There are a ton of songs that I could list.

I can specifically remember riding in my buddies red Honda Civic with his brother and my brother and they debuted Matchbox 20s Push on the radio. I know exactly where we were and get taken back there every time I hear it.

Emery’s The Weak’s End takes me back to a rough time in my life (or at least I thought it was at the time).

I could go on and on.

Anything instantly take you back??

Yep.

Moonlight mile. By the rolling stones.

Smell takes me back moreso than music. I think there have can a couple of studies that claim that our sense of smell forms the deepest associations with memory, and a believe it. If I walk by someone wearing the right perfume, I get a rush of emotions.

Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" does bring me back to one of the best Summers I've had though.

Indeed. Any number of alternative-rock selections airing in the late '90s take me back to some "interesting" episodes in my life in that era.

When I'm in the right mood, I'll relive a few via an applicable Pandora music channel.

I concur re: smell. There are just certain scents that reconnect me to some of my best childhood memories instantly.

Countdown to Ecstasy. Any tune from this Steely Dan classic is a time machine for me.

Indeed. Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right" brings back a flood of college memories. Bo Wagner's marimba solo is just nothing short of great. Perhaps being in the South back then made the song and the times unforgettable.

I have a habit of when I hear a new song that I really like, I usually listen to it over and over again until I burn out on it. So some songs remind me of very specific moments.

Mid-80's music and I'm right back in high school and college.

Yes, 2 come to mind.

One is Gloria by the Shadows of Knight. I remember laying in my bed at night listening to it on my Zenith clock-radio, 1966. I was 12-13. That song help me get into music.

The other one is Sister Golden Hair by America, 1975. I just spent abut 30 minutes trying to figure out the song name and band. I know the song when I hear it but can never remember the name or group. When I hear I'm instantly back to a night in 1975 right before I left for Coast Guard boot camp. I was in a bar/club with several buddies. The next thing I remember is being at the home/apartment of 2 attractive but a bit chubby blonds, and none of my buddies. Don't know how I got there, and all I remember is hugging and cuddling, and am pretty sure nothing else happened, with Sister Golden Hair playing on the radio or maybe they played the album.

Yep.

One brings me back to a specific time and place in HS, another does the same with college. Then there are ones for girls that where really important part of my life at one time or another.

For me it's Pink Floyd's Animals album. The summer the album came out, I came down with chicken pox.

Living in the east county of San Diego without air conditioning, during the summer, chicken pox, and in 10th grade.

I still have that piece of vinyl.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
Smell takes me back moreso than music. I think there have can a couple of studies that claim that our sense of smell forms the deepest associations with memory, and a believe it. If I walk by someone wearing the right perfume, I get a rush of emotions.

+1. Smell is supposed to be the most “prehistoric” sense and certain scent can snap me back. There are definitely a few songs that bring me back too though.

Music does it for me. And seeing cars from the 60s and 70s

Can't listen to Dire Straits, Sultan of Swing without seeing myself working my first job in a pizza joint. My Sherona, football locker room everyone singing loud as we could. Alabama, a concert and proposing to my wife... 33 years ago.Yea, I guess you're right.

Smells are pretty intense too. Interior of my old Mustang, I got in one a few years ago, BAM it was 1978 again and I'm in my '67.

Smelling canvas will

You bet it does. My first thought when I hear an oldie? Wondering what I doing at the time.

why sure.....but sometimes old music gets in fast before my sensory filters it out: Guy Lombardo, Lawrence Welk, and House of the Rising Son.....

Ozzy's "Momma I'm Coming Home" takes me back to the E-club while at Marine Combat Training in Camp Pendleton.

Garth Brooks' "The Dance" and SRV's version of "Little Wing" take be back to Millington, TN.

"Blurry" and "She F*****g Hates Me" by Puddle of Mud take me back to my divorce in 2002.

Tony.

For me, it's seeing a cherry '57 Chevy Bel Air Sport Coupe.

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Originally posted by elde:
Indeed. Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right" brings back a flood of college memories. Bo Wagner's marimba solo is just nothing short of great. Perhaps being in the South back then made the song and the times unforgettable.

Agreed that music can take you back in an instant. So many songs come mind.

Check out Bo's solo here in a 70s unitard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFPK5paOXnU