tonymaillman Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Tunes that bring back memories for you every time you hear them ? either recent or from donkeys' years ago, usually from when the tracks were first released. Just a few that bring back memories for me are - Run to the hills - Iron Maiden Wheels of steel - Saxon Feel like makin' love - Bad Company Highway to Hell - AC/DC Crazy Train - Ozzy More than a feelin' - Boston Rebel Rebel - David Bowie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
. Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Dream On - Aerosmith Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison Patience - Guns N' Roses Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company Here Without You - Three Doors Down Those are just a few there are many more that bring back memories when I hear them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Yes, We Have No Bananas, from the film One, Two, Three by Billy Wilder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve the Original Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 in the year 2525 by zagger and evans... the first record i ever bought... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Jack Hackett Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Lost Johnny - Motorhead Hurry on Sundown - Hawkwind I Wanna be Sedated - Ramones She Sells Sanctuary - the Cult The Great White Buffalo - Ted Nugents Amboy Dukes Hanging on the Telephone - Debbie Harry Mr Crowley - Ossy Osbourne A Light in the Black - Rainbow No necessarily favourites but they do bring back memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Yes, yes. The year 2525 -- it was a good one. I can't remember the words but it was a catchy tune, and it progressed incrementally into the future. I must look it up on YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve the Original Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth Tell no lies Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth Won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your side You legs got nothing to do Some machine's doing that for you In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband Won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube Whoa-oh-oh In the year 7510 If God's a-coming He ought to make it by then Maybe he'll look around himself and say Guess it's time for the Judgement Day In the year 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say, I'm pleased where man has been Or tear it down and start again Whoa-oh-oh In the year 9595 I'm kinda wondering If man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old Earth can give And he ain't put back nothing Whoa-oh-oh Now it's been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday In the year 2525, If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Good tune Steve I remember that one .......... strange reading through those lyrics how true they may become with the way things are going Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Right -- I just listened to it on the 'net -- and it was catchy, good beat, provocative verses. Thanks for printing the words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Diana - Paul Anka. Rock around the clock - Bill Haley and the Comets. Early Elvis (Jailhouse Rock, King Creole etc.) House of the Rising Sun - The Animals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Classics Peter !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Ditto. But I wonder about use of the word 'classic'. A rock radio station in So. Calif. the PREMIER rock station has an annual One Hundred Greatest Rock Hits of all time -- and for many, many years there isn't one Elvis, Bill Haley, or Paul Anka tune among the top 100. Kids are sooooooo fickle. If it was written more than 10 months ago, don't bother me with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 My grandson went to a jukebox site in YouTube and asked me what he could play for me: I said, "Je T'Aime Non Plus, Serge Gainsborg, then Tom Jones Delilah, Pink Floyd's Brick in the Wall, and then he left. The machine was still on so I chose It Was a Very Good Year, but the William Shatner version came on from when he was a young Canadian actor just starting out in Star Trek. You've got to see and/or hear it. Hearing wouldn't do it justice. He acts it out! Amazing performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Hello everyone - I return after a lengthy absence to discover a new-style forum which I have taken some time to get used to. Despite most of the memorable tunes listed being drivel, wouldn't it be a good idea if we said WHY they are memorable. My own would be: Baubles Bangles and Beads by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet in concert at the old Free Trade Hall in Manchester because it was, quite simply, a beautiful renditon of a rather ordinary song played without any amplification. OR Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue by the Duke Ellington Orchestra again in Manchester with Paul Gonsalves on tenor sax, because it was shortly after his famous version of the same piece at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival when he played 27 choruses because Duke couldn't bring himself to stop him he was playing so well. Probably no-one on here has ever heard of either piece, but at least I have said WHY I remember them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Ditto. But I wonder about use of the word 'classic'. A rock radio station in So. Calif. the PREMIER rock station has an annual One Hundred Greatest Rock Hits of all time -- and for many, many years there isn't one Elvis, Bill Haley, or Paul Anka tune among the top 100. Kids are sooooooo fickle. If it was written more than 10 months ago, don't bother me with it. You can discover Classic Rock by tuning into Radio Warrington on Friday and saturday evenings 10pm-Midnight GMT +1 time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Adam, I remember Gerry Mulligan and I now live a couple of stone's throw away from his long time venue The Lighthouse in Manhattan Beach (California south of Los Angeles). Your suggestion of putting those memories in context is exactly what was needed on this thread, but too late. I've also been hiatus, for more than a year, and came back a month ago. As Newton Minow said about USA broadcasting back in JFK's administration, "I see a vast wasteland." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Re: Duke Ellington -- I recently saw a film that featured his TAKE THE A TRAIN and then saw a 'net blog blasting that particular film -- saying it was about a commuter train in NYC that led to Harlem, -- while in the film it was used to promote cross country travel to Chicago. There are still harsh critics among us with sharp memories. I heard Duke Ellington and his orchestra, also Count Basie at another time, sponsored by the USO back in my USMC youth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted June 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Adam - the reasons WHY some tunes may be memorable and bring back memories is an option for those posting really .............. it all depends how personal those memories may be, and also if they rekindle good or bad times. If people wish to state WHY they bring back memories then fine, if not then fine also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve the Original Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 fairly recent one "Wishing on a star" by Rose Royce Took me a long time before i could listen to it all the way through again..some song just make memorys come back.. Steve I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a dream To follow what it means I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a dream To follow what it means And I wish on all the rainbows that I see I wish on all the people who really dream And I'm wishing on tomorrow, praying it'll comes And I'm wishing on all the lovin' we've ever done I never thought I'd see A time when you would be So far away from home So far away from me Just think of all the moments that we'd spent I just can't let you go, for me you were meant And I didn't mean to hurt you, but I know That in the game of love you reap what you sow I feel it's time we should make up, baby I feel it's time for us to get back together And make the best of things, oh, baby When we're together, whether or never I feel it's time we should make up, baby I feel it's time for us to get back together And make the best of things, oh, baby When we're together, whether or never I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a dream To follow what it means And I wish on all the rainbows that I see I wish on all the people we've ever been And I'm hopin' on all the days to come and days to go And I'm hopin' on days of lovin' you so I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a star Oh;oh;oh; And I wish on all the rainbows that I see I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a star And I wish on all the rainbows that I see I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a star oh, oh, ah, ah I'm wishing on a star, oh,oh To follow where you are I'm wishing on a star, baby To follow wherever you might be Wishing in a star, oh, oh To follow where you are, oh, oh, ah, ah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kateoflymm Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 I have so many memory songs it would be ridiculous to post them all here. I can't listen to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue without longing for my dad (who used to play it on piano) or Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor without weeping for my mum for the same reason but there are so many more. One that always produces instant tears I will tell you in a moment. First, go back to 1961. I'm engaged to a young airman and my fiance and I have had a stupid row (I can't remember what it was about) and I've broken off our engagement. One night the phone rings and I answer it. On the other end I hear Elvis Presley singing "Don't". Well, that did it for me. Seven months later - I married my airman who had held the phone next to the rescord-player. I've got that track on a CD (I love Elvis) and every time I play it I dissolve in tears because my airman died 12 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners - awesome! Enola Gay by OMD - awesome, Tainted Love, Soft Cell - awesome! and this is the rock god speaking!!! Stairway to Heaven - Led Zep - awesome Knocking on Heaven's Door - Guns and Roses - awesome Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC - Awesome Variety in music - refreshing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Jerry You live a stone's throw from The Lighthouse? My God - what a privilege! Is it still a jazz venue or has it descended into the nether regions like most of the rest of popular music? Kate Thank you for sharing that moving memory. I was not expecting such personal reasons for remembering a tune, but thank you all the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Gary - don't be embarrassed one of the tunes that takes me back to a particular year is - No G.D.M by Gina X ............ Few others - Model - Kraftwerk All Night Long - Scorpions Steamrock fever - Scorpions ......... both versions live as music should be. and Tigerfeet by Mud As regards O.M.D the one tune that sticks with me of theirs is called Messages ........... good days that are now a long time ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 I have so many memory songs it would be ridiculous to post them all here. I can't listen to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue without longing for my dad (who used to play it on piano) or Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor without weeping for my mum for the same reason but there are so many more. One that always produces instant tears I will tell you in a moment. First, go back to 1961. I'm engaged to a young airman and my fiance and I have had a stupid row (I can't remember what it was about) and I've broken off our engagement. One night the phone rings and I answer it. On the other end I hear Elvis Presley singing "Don't". Well, that did it for me. Seven months later - I married my airman who had held the phone next to the rescord-player. I've got that track on a CD (I love Elvis) and every time I play it I dissolve in tears because my airman died 12 years ago. Kate you will now see your avatar - I resized it for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Adam, Yes the Lighthouse is still there and kicking. But I remembered wrong -- it's in Hermosa Beach -- that area is all contiguous and I never know who has the government franchise in any particular spot. I was first there in 1956, but haven't gone for decades now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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