Songs That Hold Memories
“This was from a school trip a bunch of us took when we were high school seniors, touring college campuses. The girl I had crushed on all through high school was there, and she danced with me in the aisle of the bus (for which we were scolded, and there's nothing like a little rule-breaking with a girl you love to cement a memory).”
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“This song reminds me of watching the movie 500 Days of Summer with the first girl I said 'I love you' to.”
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“I was a late bloomer so I had my first kiss in college. It was with a random guy at this frat party. Luckily, he was really sweet so it was a nice memory. This was playing in the background. Always takes me back.”
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“Reminds me of the summer before my first year of college. All I did was go to the beach with my dogs literally every single day.”
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“8 years ago, I dated this girl for 2 months and genuinely felt like the happiest person in the world, listened to this song/album on repeat.”
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“I was in high school and one of my best friends at the time had just lost her dad at the time that this video came out. Every time I hear this now it reminds me of his funeral.”
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“I remember walking down by the Mississippi river in St. Paul, MN after college classes in the spring. Freshman in college, just started dating a wonderful girl, and sitting on a rock by the river when a barge slowly floated down river. When I listen to that song, I am brought back to that moment.”
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“My parents were dropping me off to start college and I sat in the back in silence with my headphones on playing this on repeat.”
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“Listening to this instantly brings me back to my 11 year old self's bedroom playing Dragonball Z Warriors on my PS2”
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“This song always makes me depressed because I used to put it on repeat after my first girlfriend broke up with me.”
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“This song was the first to come up on a random iPod shuffle as I walked out of my very last exam of my college degree. It was like something out of a movie. Like you'd see the credits start to roll right then and there.”
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“The last night of summer camp when I was 16, the kids all gone home, a bunch of us counselors were hanging out at the lake trying to make the night last forever. A few people had their car radios on and I can still remember this song playing, and whenever I hear it now I'm back with those people on that one warm night.”
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“I used to come off a 12-hour shift in New Orleans in 1975 and hit the Hummingbird Inn, an awesome dive bar, and sooner than later someone would play this song on the jukebox. To this day if I hear it, I can smell and taste and almost see that place.”
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“I found this song a year after my dad passed away. It still makes me cry when I think about the fact he won't be at my wedding. But I can almost picture him as the dad in this song. It lets me imagine what it would've been like.”
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“My aunt and uncle had bought a house outside of town, which was unusual, of the five siblings they were the only ones to move outside of town. Not far, but it was like a 45 minute drive to get there and I wasn't used to that long for a visit. The year they bought the house we drove down to see them a few times, and this song was always on the radio.”
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“Had a breakdown in the car telling my mom me and my girlfriend broke up while listening to this.”
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“I remember just like a month after graduating high school, I was getting incredibly stoned with girl I had a short fling with, and she showed me this song while we were lighting up and to this day it is one of the most beautiful moments I've shared with someone.”
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“I remember my very best friend showing it to me and it was also featured in one of our favorite shows. we went to hawaii together and we danced on the beach to this a little tipsy. the sun was setting, a full moon was out and we were going to hop in the ocean shortly after. we were both so happy”
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“On 9/11, this was the last thing on MTV before I fell asleep. (They showed music videos back then). I remember the gravity of the day hit me while it was on and it was incredibly sad. Still takes me right back there.”
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“Me and my buddy were seniors in high school. I was driving my mom's car and we heard a siren behind us. We saw what looked like a wreck in front so I stopped and the police smashed into us from the back. This was playing when we got hit.”
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“It was the 3rd of July, 2010. I was driving my then-boyfriend and now-husband to "fiddle camp" at Fort Worden in WA. He'd taken me out to a really nice dinner the night before, using our "one month anniversary" as an excuse. I told him that morning that I loved him, and he told me he loved me back.”
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“My husband told his affair partner that he felt like it was about their relationship. It was one of my favorite songs and is absolutely crushing every time I hear it.”
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“My mum was driving me home from school one day, and the song came on the radio. She doesn't usually like singing in front of/around other people, but she just started jamming out as we were waiting at the stop sign. It was great.”
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“My late wife and I were on a cruise and went into Senior Frogs in the Bahamas and it was just starting as we were walking in. There was a stage with at least 50 people on it doing group karaoke. We immediately went up and joined in. We met a lot of people and made friends with almost everyone.”
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“I'm not even a CD fan, however this was the song used at a funeral of a classmate who took their only life at only 12 years old. It still haunts me every time I hear it now, 27 years later.”
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“Everyone I hear it, I am transported back to being with my grandma in the car. We were somewhere shopping I think, not sure where, but I can still can hear her singing along with this song.”
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“Always reminds me of being in nursing school, in a cold, sterile operating room, observing the removal of an ectopic pregnancy. That moment has stuck with me vividly since that day 20+ years ago.”
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“I was in college about 5 hours away from the love of my life. He spent so much time every weekend driving down to see me. It was physically painful for us to be apart. That song was written for him.”
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“Driving my first car a '93 Saturn SC2 each cold morning and just hooking up my mp3 player to my aftermarket stereo. Just the right melody for driving alone and cold.”
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“I had just gotten divorced and rebounded with a guy I had a HUGE crush on, and he sang this to me over the phone.”
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“I remember laying on my best friends floor and us listening to this, laughing that we really didn't know the words. She got in a motorcycle accident a few years later. I know the words now.”
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“Used to play this on my CD player every day before work at the greenhouse. Each time I hear it I'm transported back to my old truck, racing down gravel roads with golden wheat fields as far as the eye can see”
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“I got a very unjust speeding ticket while this song was on the radio. Can't not think about it any time I hear it. That was 22 years ago. Lol.”
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“This song always reminds me of watching stranger things with my mom during the summer— the first summer in the new house and my dad also watching the episodes while away on a work trip and discussing the plot twists over the phone :)”
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“I was driving home from an amazing night with the woman I knew I was going to marry but somehow knew deep down that it wasn't going to last. It was like a bizarre foreshadowing of all of the good times to come and their inevitable end”
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