Songs that hit you in the nostalgia gut like a ton of bricks when you hear them

Supertramp - School
The Kinks - No More Looking Back
Todd Rundgren - The Last Ride

I can add a couple more from the 80s but these dont hold a candle to those 70s ones i posted

- the promise
- in little ways (lets active)

Where we used to laugh
There's a shouting match
Sharp as a thumbnail scratch
A silence I can't ignore
Like the hammock by the
Doorway we spent time in, swings empty
Don't see lightning like last fall
When it was always about to hit me

Want to get myself back in again
The soft dive of oblivion
I want to taste the salt of your skin
The soft dive of oblivion oblivion
How's it gonna be
When you don't know me anymore

True by Spandau Ballet always takes me back to being high on laughing gas at the dentist while a thunderstorm is raging. It was playing in the office the first time I had laughing gas for a filling.

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True by Spandau Ballet always takes me back to being high on laughing gas at the dentist while a thunderstorm is raging.

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Nice. Sounds like a pretty awesome memory

oddly enough

Freebird


was playing the first time i french kissed a girl.

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Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne

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immediately brings me back to riding the school bus back in elementary school

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Deep Purple memories washed over me once you posted this. My bus had an old 8 track and some dude always brought Deep Purple's "Machine Head" album. Still one of my favorites.

Highway Star

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Deep Purple memories washed over me once you posted this. My bus had an old 8 track and some dude always brought Deep Purple's "Machine Head" album. Still one of my favorites.

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I saw an episode of Classic Albums about that one the other day. Talked about how they had to scramble to find another place to record after the casino burned down during a Frank Zappa show.

Highway Star was literally written on the tour bus on the way to a gig. There was a reporter on board and he asked what the song-writing process was like. Ritchie said, "Like this" and he started playing the same note over and over real fast. Ian started filling in the lyrics, "Nobody's gonna take my car, I'm gonna break the speed of sound, etc." They played the song for the first time at the gig that night.