Sinéad O'Connor singing Nothing Compares 2 You immediately takes me to the beaches of Okinawa in the early 1990’s.

Van Halen Hot for Teacher immediately takes me to high school and playing dungeons and dragons in the library.

Stuck in the Middle takes me to watching Reservoir Dogs for the first time.

Iron Butterfly - Ina Gadda Da Vida takes me to late 1968 - 69 in my 1957 Chevy. Tenna 8-track tape player with 2 - 6 X 9 speakers in the rear package shelf. Sound level at blastin. Country road around Marietta Ga., windows down, long neck Bud in my hand.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Rockets me right back to my second year in the USAF at K.I. Sawyer.

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Iron Butterfly - Ina Gadda Da Vida takes me to late 1968 - 69 in my 1957 Chevy. Tenna 8-track tape player with 2 - 6 X 9 speakers in the rear package shelf. Sound level at blastin. Country road around Marietta Ga., windows down, long neck Bud in my hand.

I like that picture!

Not a song but a band. The band REO Speedwagon takes me back to let’s say, date night.

How about a certain CD. DAD's "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims", puts me hanging out in the local park, in the late 80's. Hanging out with my friends, my future wife, eating pizza and just doing stupid stuff that you did when you were in your early 20's. To this day if I'm ever in a bad mood I listen to that CD and it puts me right back there, and it just makes me feel better.

When I was in the USAF I was at Mc Guire AFB for a time. The C-141's would bring in the dead from VN occasionally. When they did , if You were nearby on the flight line and they went past we would all stand at attention.

We had a tape player wired in to one of our Munitions trucks. We played 8 tracks while we waited for the F-105's to come in for arm/rearm.

One day the Beatles are on, and one of the 141's is taxiing by and we see the Honor Guard out. That acft had dead on board, returning home.

As we stood outside at attention, "Let it Be" started to play. To this day, when I hear that song it takes me back to that day and exact moment.

"Your Wildest Dreams" by The Moody Blues always makes me think of the girl I had a crush on in junior high.

This takes me to Savannah whenever I hear it.
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I got a couple:

Bob Seger Night Moves: Went to his concert close to our High School Graduation and ended slow dancing with a cheerleader I had a crush on from the 9th grade on (she was a black haired beauty with.....) while he played that song. That summer lryics in that song occurred several times.........yeah, Night Moves.



Another one that sends me back is the first time I did a TDY to Clark AFB in the Philippines as a Town Patrol SP: Al Stewart's The Year Of the Cat: On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime......takes me right back there.



The last one one is Jimi Hendrix's Along The Watch Tower: we were doing air assault training and the helicopter pilot and crew chief were both big Hendrix fans. I vividly remember the first time repelling out of the helicopter while they jammed Along The Watch Tower.

George Harrison's What Is Life takes me back to my yellow 1969 396/325 horse 4 speed bench seat Chevy Nova (drove like shit W/O power steering...but it beat the '67 Renault R8) and my dates to the Varsity Drive-in in Atlanta...I've left that place with tires smoking onto North Avenue ...

Ignore Kam Nelson's dancing if you can...(she is one of us )...




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Too many to list, but anything Depeche Mode takes me back to 1986 sitting on the grass in the general admission section at Park West in Park City on a warm summer night with the prettiest girl in school.

Madonna's Crazy for You takes me back to every high school dance.

High school




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Better days




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Cool change > Little River Band

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Ignore Kam Nelson's dancing if you can...(she is one of us )...

Yeah, like I could ignore that.

While studying the video, I noticed the dance is a 10 second loop and The Dancing Troll uses the same loop on all his videos.

The first one to come to mind is "Happy Together" by the Turtles. In '67' while in AIT at Ft. Ord, 3 buddies and I would go to Stilwell Hall and drink copious amounts of beer and we'd sing Happy Together while walking back to the barracks. Good times during hard times.

Jim

George Strait - The Man in Love with You

I'd elaborate, but it's too personal...

Pink Floyd - Animals.

Shortly after the album came out, I came down with chicken pox just after coming out of the 11th grade.

In the summer.

In a house without air conditioning.

Yes, I was miserable. That music took me away from said misery. With ever I listen to that album (still have that same piece of vinyl to accompany a CD version), I am taken back to that summer, the heat, the misery.

The reality of it for me is though, it was a great time in my life. I came closer to Christ and realized if I worked harder, there was a slight chance I could make the 1980 Olympic swim team. I remember the music as a defining moment in life.

Kenny Chesney's "Anything But Mine" brings back a lot of memories of the last woman I dated before I met my wife. The video to this song was shot at Myrtle Beach at the old Pavilion, which was a special spot for us. I'll never forget her, and I'll never hear this song without some really fond memories.
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