The Wall and Crazy Train

1980 had a few decent albums come out...

Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQMA_noRYQ

Released in 1971; still one of my (many) favorites. I have the intro as a ringtone on my phone.

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I'm right there with you.

Turned 16 in late 1969 - In the Year 2525

Anything Boston.

I've got a few songs that will take me back to very specific moments during that adolescent time. If I hear one of them unexpectedly, I'm instantly back in that moment with a level of detail that I can never recall when simply trying to remember something.

1) Coolio - Gangster's Paradise. Riding around town in the back seat of a friends convertible Mustang with the top down sitting next to my future wife. We weren't dating at the time, but had dated a few months earlier. There was something special about that night and I knew then and there that she was the one for me. I really don't like the song though.

2) Violent Femmes - American Music. I was cruising 264 after leaving a friend's house late one weeknight without a care in the world. The windows were down, the road was empty, and the volume was up. Just me and the road and the blissful ignorance that is 16...and the cop that was following me for a few miles that I didn't notice at all. It was my first ticket. As he was handing me the ticket, he said "I really didn't want to pull you over. I gave you two miles to slow down. Just be aware of what's going on around you next time, ok".

Summertime and going to the beach. Of all the songs out it's this one hit wonder.

I dont know about a single song, but if allowed an album, I'd name sammy hagar's standing hampton.

Lots of air play for this one during my 16th summer.

America, Sister Golden Hair

Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQYMne6tMpA

Blowin in the win by Stevie Wonder.

Turning Japanese by the Vapors. I still associate that song with my 'puppy love' 40 years ago, Sharon L. Also Tainted Love by Soft Cell. And Whip It by Devo. Regarding Devo, I brought the 'Oh No, its Devo' album home and my dad was drinking scotch, he said 'do my eyes deceive me or is those young men adorned with toilet seats?' I beat a hastey retreat because the question was the answer.

Finally, to make a long answer longer, Listening Wind by the Talking Heads. And Disco Man by the Damned.

Doobie Brothers and The Eagles - just started listening to them on the radio after we moved out it our small town so I was hearing them all for the first time

Communism in Eastern Europe and eventually the Soviet Union finally collapsed the year this came out.
Also I turned 16

The Rascals,Good Lovin
The Troggs,Wild Thing

I can't get no satisfaction...Stones

1996 brought 2 of my favorites