What music takes you back to a specific part of your life?

Yacht Rock 3-6th grade

New Wave Jr High

Seattle Bands were early 20s and the club scene

KISS takes me back to the 70’s, to my pre teen years skateboarding and swimming with my friends all summer long.

I’m old, Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” was playing on the AM radio of a 1968 Mercury Marquis land barge while 15 year old me was in the back seat fondling a pair of breasts for the first time. Every time I hear the song it takes me back to that.

Pop punk is teenage years for me, but Memory - Sugarcult brings back a specific memory of my crush and I sharing earbuds listening to music on the school bus en route to an away football game (we were both in the marching band)

Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover

High school late 70's early 80's

Lots of metal, hard rock. Miss cruising with the fellas.

Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver-Deceiver.

KISS growing up as a kid. Nirvana and grunge my teenage years. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock fresh out of high school.

Spot on for me too brother.

Driving around w/ my dad when I was in elementary and middle school, to and from baseball, or just running some Saturday afternoon errands, Motown.

Went to high school in the early 90s and got in to rap. If I hear ‘93 Til Infinity these days randomly, I’ll stop in my tracks and am immediately taken back to hanging out w/ my buddies, smoking and being so carefree.

Got in to the Strokes, Hold Steady, rock in the Aughts, first jobs, living in NYC. I used to hang at this one bar that didn’t have a stereo system, just a jukebox. They’d give the regulars $5 bucks out of the drawer, and let them pick a few songs every once in a while. I figured, might as well pick the longest ones possible. Whenever I hear Nina Simone’s Sinnerman, I’m back to my late 20s. It’s one of my favorite songs ever, if just for the mood it puts me in.

Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Baker Street’ sends me right back to college. It’s also a perfect drive at night song.