I bought
the latest Dr John album today, as it was being played on Radio 2 the other night when I was being entertained by a German girl in my car.
(jacob, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:55, Reply)

The Hives
I Hate To Say I Told You So - the first song my best mates band learnt to play - I remember sitting on his amp and wishing I could play something musical.
Rage Against The Machine Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium - the entire album reminds me of my German exchange Christmas 2003, with aforementioned best mate and sitting on coaches whizzing around the Autobahns listening to it. Good times.

Apologies for length!
(The Mysterious ., Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:53, Reply)

Fat lip
by sum 41, it stood out from all the pop shit and got me into music. dabbling in lite rock spun me out of controll and landed me in the depths of punk,black metal, heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, and Enya.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:43, Reply)

Driving
My dad only ever had about 3 tapes in the car when i was growing up so now evrytime i hear either UB40, tubular bells or Men at work i think of long car journeys.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:40, Reply)

TURN UP THE RADIO!!
(composes self) by Autograph. Reminds me of my trampoline jumping days in the late 1980s in my early 20s, when I used to wear a walkman on my head in the backyard and jump on the trampoline for hours in moonboots...and nothing else;)
(moonfire38, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:33, Reply)

ANYTHING by the Carpenters
reminds me that I've got to either risk an accident by throwing myself at the car radio to change channels or throw up violently in my lap.

Same goes for the cunting Bedingfields.
( BobbyParadise, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:33, Reply)

flashback?
Teen years, the 80's....depeche mode...great making out music when you are camping and 16!! C'mon, need i say more? Really.
(missy72, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:31, Reply)

"Candy Girl" (New Edition)
and "Who's that Girl?" (Eurythmics) were both on a top 40 tape my brother brought along on a family camping holiday in France. He only had that one tape and those are the two tracks that remind me of that holiday the most. I caught a great big carp with a bit of tinned sweetcorn too. It rocked.
( BobbyParadise, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:27, Reply)

Boys of Summer by Don Henley
...this song always brings me back to the early '90s and a relationship that had me headed toward redundancy. In the end, I got dumped for some other bloke, at the end of the summer of 1993. To this date, this song still has powerfully negative imagery in my head and I switch it off the instant I hear it.

Likewise, "Touch" by Wolfsheim has powerfully negative impact as well, it being the relic of a relationship that went FABULOUSLY bad. However, this is a really neat song and I really like it, so I am trying valiantly to reclaim it from the wreckage of that particular association.
( ronin9026, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:25, Reply)

Female of the Species, by Space
Always carts me back to the wonderful summer of (Euro) '96. I was away for a fortnight on a course when I first heard it, and it stuck all the way through the 4-1 thrashing of Holand. Or was it Netherlands? I'm confused, there was a Dutch bloke too? Anyway, brings it back more than Three Lions. oh, I didn't waste any of my expenses, Jesus was I hammered....
( the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:20, Reply)

On a more positive note...
...Eddie Holmans' soul classic "Hey There Lonely Girl" reminds me *muchly* of loves first kiss at the Friday Nite disco at the Elmhurst pavilion in Aylesbury.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:16, Reply)

The theme to "The Magic Roundabout"...
...fuck, that tune still chills me to the core. Hearing it weeknites on the TV as a kid meant that it was 5:40pm - 5 minutes to make yourself scarce/hide/pray before dad arrived home from work to "vent his frustrations" on you.
I never really thought about this until now, but if anyone ever wanted to stalk me, all they'd need to do would be to phone me at 5:40pm and play a certain recording down the phone: "...der de de derder, der de de derder..."

(Funnily enough, I have no such traumatic memories on hearing "Hectors House" and I'm pretty sure that it was in the same timeslot a few years later.)

edit: Apologies for moroseness.
edit #2: Only just noticed this weeks' b3ta challenge! Hah - a pictureless entry maybe?!
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:16, Reply)

hunger !
Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" will always be sunday dinner with my parents.

I can't explain why this mammoth disco and hen-doo anthem was chosen to compliment roast spuds and gravy but what I do know is that I get the craving if I'm ever at some 70's disco thing...

...that and Leo Sayer
( bacon and egg roll is going to be big downunder, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:12, Reply)

Mr Moose
Anything by Scooter reminds me pretty much of...well, everything else by Scooter.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:03, Reply)

You can keep your hat on
Reminds me of doing a prolonged and well-received striptease in a packed underground bar in Toulouse. My first experience of complete public nudity.

Needless to say, I went the Full Monty.
(Coomy, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:02, Reply)

Eurithmics
'There Must be an Angel', reminds me of sitting at home in my parents dining room, playing Rambo on my speccy at Christmas time. Kinda obsure, but true!
( Weetobix, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 17:01, Reply)

Hanging By a Moment
It's a horrible song, I know. But it reminds me of when I went to Florida in high school. My friends and I were walking out of Universal Studios together, and this song cam on. We were all singing along and holding hands. It was such a beautiful evening too,
(pk, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:55, Reply)

Magic Fly
by a bunch of session musicians called Space. I remember seeing it on TOTP aged about eight; the band were miming furiously in fluorescent spacesuits under UV lights. Whenever it turns up on my iPod I can hear the song that came before it (Yes Sir, I Can Boogie by Baccara) and after it (Telephone Man by Meri Wilson) on the crap K-Tel disco album I pestered my parents to get me so I could have my own copy of it. (It sounds more-or-less like Daft Punk covering "Spacelab" by Kraftwerk.)

Delia Derbyshire's arrangement of the Doctor Who theme always makes me think of the smell of my hair blow-drying after being washed in Johnson's Baby Shampoo, aged four or five.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:48, Reply)

Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Right Round
My sister played in constantly in the mid 1980's and it now reminds me of miners' strikes, Iron Ladies, Manic Miner and the freezing cold winter of 84 - 85.
(Dr GUID, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:31, Reply)

Dogtanian and the Muskahounds
Whenever I hear that "nanana, nanana", I pine for the carefree days of my youth
( When the internet was all fields, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:25, Reply)

Regulate
by Warren G and Nate Dogg reminds me of going away to army camp with the cadets. In the billets during the day, I was the only one with a tape player (and about 5 albums of grebo classics, PWEI, Ned's etc.) However, I was outvoted by the little twunts in my platoon who insisted on playing that crappy piece of saccharine R&B pop pap non-stop for a week. They didn't have any other tapes, just the cassette single, which didn't even have a B-side.

It still sets my teeth on edge, in fact I'm getting quite twitchy and aggressive just thinking about it.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:22, Reply)

Rod Stewart's Maggie Mae
Due to the half mental next door neighbour who bought a record player and that single and then started tidying his garden one sunny day. He had it on replay all day as it was his only record. By the evening, it was pure hiss and crackle.
Twat
( Ulic hissing slightly, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:16, Reply)

Christina Aguilera
Dirrty... I think the name explains a lot of the what happened.... That song turns me on ....
(bite_me38, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:15, Reply)

Stars
by Dubstar, and the subsequent Lacuna Coil cover version, remind me vividly of the first time I took an E. It was at a friend's houseparty, the day before I had to pack my stuff up and go away to university.

Great night, terrible comedown.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:12, Reply)

so much music, so little time...
but a couple of the tunes garunteed to make me grin like a madwoman have to be 'I am the Ressurection' by the Stone Roses and 'Smash' by the Pacinos (small Bolton band) for reminding me that I left school and met people I actually like and spent a lot of time in 5th Avenue in Manchester and life has been getting steadily better in the years since!

Oooooh, grinning again and feeling quite smug about life! No apologies!!!
(mckitkat, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:07, Reply)

Nas - Get Down
They were playing it in a bar where I spent the whole night acting like a twat. I drank a bottle of whiskey before going out (dont try it). I remember very little apart from telling a one-legged woman not to patronise me.

Great.
(nutsgeezer, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:05, Reply)

Odd
I don't know why but, whenever I hear an Adam and the Ants song, I smell sprouts.
(woohoo, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 16:00, Reply)

Do do do do do do do
The Trills - Big Sur or whatever it was called.

Fond memories of ordering 6 gin and tonics - downing them all.

Subsequently resulting in the removal of my top revealing a rather sturdy bra,(edit, being removed by the bouncers and waking up with only one shoe.

oh and She Sell Sanctuary - The Cult. Just Cos.
(DirtyChurch, Thu 24 Mar 2005, 15:53, Reply)