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

Main Street by Bob Seger

Every time I hear it I think of The Happy Note Lounge. That song had to be the most played song on the jukebox.

All of Third Eye Blind's self titled album does this to me.

First longish term girlfriend I ever had (I was a HS junior) and I had really different musical tastes. She liked country, I was into rap and some rock.

That album was the main one we could agree on, so we wore it out. It very strongly reminds me of being 16-17. It's also a good, consistent album, so I can listen to basically any song on it.

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Night Moves

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almost a universal "nostalgic" song.

I could add

Paradise by the dashboard light

Mid 90s Alternative and Pop always seems to do it.

I remember When I Come Around by Green Day being the first video on MTV I recall actually paying attention to and listening to/loving the song.

More obscure songs that primarily played on KNLU in Monroe by bands like Eels, the Rentals and Superdrag. When I hear those songs I instantly think of being 13 listening to my dual cassette radio in my room.

But then, forgotten about pop songs from that time like In the House of Stone and Light by Martin Page, You Gotta Be by Desree and stuff like La Bouche and Real McCoy takes me back to those days too.

I didn't say it was all great music, but I connect those sorts of tunes to a particular setting in my life more than most.

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Mid 90s Alternative and Pop always seems to do it.

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all the mid-late 90s modern/contemporary/adult rock always gets me feeling nostalgic.

TGOAT....


Steely Dan “Pretzel Logic”
I would love to tour the Southland
In a traveling minstrel show
Yes I'd love to tour the Southland
In a traveling minstrel show
Yes I'm dying to be a star and make them laugh
Sound just like a record on the phonograph
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago, oh yeah
I have never met Napoleon
But I plan to find the time
I have never met Napoleon
But I plan to find the time
'Cause he looks so fine upon that hill
They tell me he was lonely, he's lonely still
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago, oh yeah
I stepped up on the platform
The man gave me the news
He said, You must be joking son
Where did you get those shoes?
Where did you get those shoes?
Well, I've seen 'em on the TV, the movie show
They say the times are changing but I just don't know
These things are gone forever
Over a long time ago, oh yeah

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Anytime I hear Boston,off of their first Album,I'm cruisin the boat harbor again,in my first car.

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Me too... It's the lake all over again and skiing with hot 18 year old's in bikinis.

Of course there's the flip side with "Can't Find My Way Home" and a particularity poignant breakup, all alone and some 1500 miles from home.

There's was wandering into the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band doing Sweet Home Alabama. They were downstairs in my hotel lounge and the crowd got up and it got wild fast. It was my first ever big solo trip (this time Colorado) having ventured out alone for an extra week before everyone else could go. So naive I thought it was just something we had back home and yet it made everything so much better. Funny how suddenly you can be back there again.... And feel the youth like yesterday.

There's lot's more but so does everyone else. Some songs can capture it all, entirely, and oh so fast.

Lil Boosie - Wipe Me Down

Always brings me back to senior year of high school when we could leave campus if we didn't have class that period. We would go flying down the cane field roads of Cade, LA blaring that song, sub-woofers on full blast.