Songs that trigger nostalgia (Page 2)

Ditto.  I can't remember conversations, people I've met... but a song can put me right back at a place in the blink of an eye.  Both good and bad.  I couldn't stand Depeche Mode for many years because it was tied up with a painful time.  But put Journey on and I'm 19 again, back in the passanger seat of my best friends red pickup truck, and we're singing at the top of our lungs and laughing our butts off.  (it was 'oldies rock' at the time... don't start doing age math on me...)

Here we go..

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight 

Freshman year of high school dance after a football game... my long-time crush and mr. popular asked me to dance to it.  omg. 

Let me help you keep it in your head with the best part:

Well I remember, I remember don't worry
How could I ever forget, it's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, 
no you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you or me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord

Wrong thread. The "Songs that trigger... nausea" thread is here: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=85106&posts=41#M906413

Wow. As a budding high-schooler I thought it was cool when Phil launched into the drum solo in "In the Air Tonight" as Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise are gonna "do it on a real train."  Guess I gots some more thinking to do.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/quotes

But your post may be a quote from a different movie. What do I know?

Apparently not 80's Movies.  It was from RISKY BUSINESS...

Any boy around high school age remembers the train scene and "In the Air Tonight" very very well.  Probably why we all love the song, and Bear, you hold it in contempt.  You need the visual, as seen through the eyes of a near-pubescent lad.

**sigh** I know the Risky Business scene. But you totally missed that Jim's post was a quote from American Psycho.

uh, oh yea, well, of course I got that.  Not.  I stand corrected.

The first song ever to slap me in the face with meaning-

"Every Rose has a Thorn". 

I just broke up with my HS girlfriend, was driving home when it came on the radio, and realized that every rose does, in fact, have a thorn.  Who knew that Brett Michaels and the gang were such philosophers?  Deep stuff. (Now I gotta get back to reading Sartre and comparing his existentialist theories with glam rock)

Last night I'm doing dishes and I've got the house sound system playing tunes off some radio station.  I hear a couple of notes of the beginning of a song and jump over and turn it as loud as it will go.  I go back to doing the dishes and bopping around the kitchen.  Jen says I can barely hear but it's along the lines of "WTF?"  I shout, "Hey, it's not every day you get to hear the German version of Rock Me Amadeus!"

OH OH OH AMADEUS!