Ever associate a song so much with a time/place that you don’t want to listen to it

I picked up a girl in a bar that was playing Thomas Dolby Blinded me with Science. I can smell her skunk pussy every time I hear that song.

I met a girl at the beach in high school.

She loved the movie Sixteen Candles.

I can barely listen to If you were here by the Thompson Twins.

Freebird by skynard.... during break up w long-term gf, she said to go listen to it ....my life was no fun at that time and still don't like the song ....
But in the end it was a good thing and the mrs ont tiger that came along was a significant improvement

I don’t know about “diluting” the memory, but I have a lot of songs associated with past relationships that I still avoid because of the pain associated with those relationships.

I will say, that I once got really high and watched the movie “Palm Springs”. It was unbelievably funny. I have never watched it again out of fear it won’t be funny sober.

I got my arse kicked really bad back in the early to mid 70s after a basketball game and the song "Realing in the Years" by Steely Dan was on the car radio on the way home. I love Steely Dan, but hate that song.

That's art. If it can take you to a time, place or uncover an emotion - that's art. Go with it.

Got my arse kicked at the old Capri in Shreveport in the late 80’s with the Cult’s She Sells Sanctuary playing in the background. Still like the song but it brings back vivid memories of that haymaker knocking me out.

Much of the Weezer teal album of covers, but more specifically Everybody wants to Rule the World. Both the weezer cover and the original make me sad.

It took me a bit to figure out why I’d get a very deep sadness when I heard it.

My dad was dying from a compounding series of health conditions. We knew the end was near. During that time, I was carpooling my son to school and that album came out. He wanted to listen to it every morning. We usually made it through the first few songs. Now I associate those songs with the sadness of those weeks and his death.

I still like them but the somber tone of Everybody Wants to rule the world will make me bummed out

Degas as a bruins fan i completely agree