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takes you back to a person or event as soon as you hear it?

A Cornish beach, late at night, sat in the sand, holding hands(etc.). The waves breaking and out in the bay, lights from the boats flashing on the water. In the pub behind us, all the doors and windows open, someone kept playing ' The land of the rising sun ' on the juke box. Romantic!
Then the couple next to us told us the flashing lights in the bay were the lifeboats looking for a little girl who had vanished that morning and the couple walking slowly up and down the beach on the edge of the waves were her parents.They'd been doing that all day and were still doing it when we left much later.
As soon as I hear that song I can see those lights flashing on the waves.

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La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones.

Mykonos, 1984.

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Ravels Bolero -
...and it doesn't conjure up Torville and Dean for me
...rather an experience which the piece of music was designed to signify and which was listened to 'during' ;)

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garinda, more detail, please!
MargaretR, 15 minutes and 50 seconds! Not bad.

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Jackson Browne, "The Load-Out/Stay" ... 1982 .... watching the Northern Lights .... Ile-a-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan .... listening to the wolves, and the ice on the lake.

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Johnny Tillotson-'Poetry in Motion'(1960?). I can still see her walking towards me.

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Mr Blue Sky by E.L.O. - 1978 - was off school with tonsilitis for ages and they kept playing it on the radio -I was stuck inside and it was gorgeous outside.

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It was just a really happy time.

I'd just completed the first year of my degree course at Liverpool art school.

August '84 I'd spent working on the costumes for a film company.

In September I went to Greece by myself, aged nineteen, for three weeks.

I met some fabulous people, fell in love for the first time, and generally had the time of my life.

Windmills, Brandy Alexanders, partying on Tina Turner's yacht, reading Rupert Brooke and James Baldwin, dancing on the roof of Pierro's club with Amanda Lear, dazzlingly bright whitewashed streets strewn with rose petals, poodles in diamond collars, finally being who I was meant to be, feeling free.

The sound track to it all was Grace Jones hauntingly beautiful version of Piaf's La Vie En Rose.

Hearing it now...I'm right back there.

:)

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Grace Jones - La Vie en Rose (Official Video in High Quality) - YouTube

It's still a going out tune, I play when getting ready.

Hell's bells, it's Friday night, what the bloody hell am I doing in, posting on here?

:eek::D:eek:

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I once refered to one of our esteemed members in her younger days in that way Gordon:D

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When ever I hear of Grace Jones I remember that fateful interview with Russell Harty a few years ago:D

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When ever I hear Reach Out by the Four Tops it reminds me of my first wife

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When you started living you certainly started LIVING.
So how do you beat that when you go out on a Friday night in Accrington?
Can't say I like Grace Jone's version- a bit harsh. Who sang it originaly, was it Edith Piaf?

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There's been a thread similar to this recently. I haven't chanmged my mind - Unchained Melody, though it doesn't bring one partyicular moment back, rather a time. Likewise a Brook Benton song the title of which I have forgotten, that was in a coffee bar when I was 19. John Denver's 'Annie's Song' does it too. I think I'll stop there as I'm getting romantic.

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Yes, the Little Sparrow, Edith.

La vie en rose - Edith Piaf - YouTube

Which I also love.

But that reminds me of the summer before.

Working for the Dutch lesbian Countess in Mousehole.

:D

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Please do Bob, we are MEN after all.
I hope more ladies tell us, it would be interesting to see if their memories are triggered in a different way.

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Living on a prayer Bon Jovi was on the juke boxes and played by djs all over accy 1986 when i first started on the lash proper , nothing quite like a big brawl in the Broadway with living on a prayer as the sound track happy days. But also These arms of mine Otis redding first record i ever bought still have it somewhere 1980 i was 10, FANTASTIC.

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Ten in 1980.

On the lash in '86.

I've just reported this thread.

You'll shortly receive a knock on the door, and be arrested for underage drinking.

:D

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1986 WM they're nout but a lad:D

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I know john only 41 feeling 101:D

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Drat i have got away with it for all these years now it looks like the "big house " for me:eek::eek::eek:

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My sweet Lord and (I beg your pardon i never promised you a) Rose Garden. As soon as i hear either of them two i always remember being rushed into hospital, with a burst appendix.

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Come on, Sara, there must be a song that brings back happy memories of someone or something!

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Oh there are quite a few Gordon. Daisy Daisy, reminds me of our honeymoon in Austria in 1984. Used to visit a bar and that was the only song in English that the entertainer could sing. Also kept singing River Deep Mountain High in my head, when my husband, son, daughter and myself went white water rafting a few years ago. Scary as hell but brilliant, would love to do it again. Another is American Pie, which reminds me of spending Millenuim New Years Eve my family and friends. There are a few more, but would be here for half the night if i continued. So will leave them for another day.

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Anything by the Carpenters but in particular "Close to You" by them.

Takes me back to being a kid and listening to my Mum sing along while I was playing and she was doing the housework.

What I would give to go back there sometimes.

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Moon River reminds me of my friends sister but not really sure why, cause she lived in Jersey and I never actually met her.

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1956 - on a wind up gramophone - Nat King Cole, "When I Fall In Love"

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When Groove hears any song he usually remembers what he was doing when he first heard that song, like a soundtrack to his life...Groove thinks music is very evocative, like smells.

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No prizes for guessing who the winder-upper was (Nudge nudge ;);))

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Tylers song is "you are my sunshine"
Graces is "its all about you"
Jonahs is "banana banana"

amazed by lonestar is our wedding song, pachelbells canon is the song i walked down the aisle to :)

James-sit down reminds me of my sister in law because we used to dance to it at the disco when we were teenagers

"summer of 69" reminds me of my late auntie, she loved that song as she met my uncle in the summer of 69 :)

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You're right there Fella ..... Annoyin' Manc's ! ;) :D been a bit quiet of late mate.

As to Music, how about "you'll never walk alone" usually bawled out after an evenings revelries by all & sundry after a good few scoops. :)

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I can always wind you up as well - easy. As for your song, guess you will have forgotten the words as it is so long since you had anything to sing about:D:D:D

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Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" and some of her other songs remind me of going through Camden Town on the bus, for some reasons she is like the personification of Camden in London!