What song reminds you of your childhood? Mine is "Ventura Highway" by America........

[Michael.Felli]

...I am immediately transported to my youth. Thoughts of playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, riding my bike and enjoying life.

Love this song.

 

[PSU Dave]

...I am immediately transported to my youth. Thoughts of playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, riding my bike and enjoying life.

Love this song.

It was just after dark when the truck started down, the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.

 

[massimoManca II]

there are too many to list... among the most important to me: "Heart of Gold" Neil Young...

Music = a time machine... so cool how only music and certain smells can do that

 

[BLSLion]

...I am immediately transported to my youth. Thoughts of playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, riding my bike and enjoying life.

Love this song.

My Little Town

"nothing but the dead and dying in my little town" Paul Simon

 

[ralpieE]

"One".

 

[Fac]

"One".

Feeling Groovy (59th street bridge song), Happy Together and I Get Around

 

[LionDeNittany]

Anytime I hear a song by The Cars.

Somehow they are a forgotten band... but they were prominent during my childhood. So their songs are still closely tied to that period.

 

[ralpieE]

"I'm a Man"...Spencer Davis.

 

[Nit Nolte]

The Batman show theme.

 

[joeparules]

Too many to remember or write down. Almost anything from Cheap Trick, The Cars, Van Halen, AC/DC, or Boston.

If I could only pick a couple they would be More Than a Feeling (Boston) and Beautiful Girls (Van Halen). Probably listened to each one 1,000 times!

 

[tallahasseelion]

...I am immediately transported to my youth. Thoughts of playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, riding my bike and enjoying life.

Love this song.

Whenever I hear Ring of Fire, I am transported back to the basement bar of an American Legion in southern Indiana. Must have played that song a hundred times on the jukebox. My friends and I would even do a goofy dance slowly falling down into the Ring of Fire. Thanks Johnny (and June Carter Cash for writing the song). From later years, McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed always puts me int back seat of my brother's Volkswagen bug heading to Chincoteague Island with my cousin Mark.

 

[sluggo72]

It was just after dark when the truck started down, the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.

50,000 lbs of bananas !!!

 

[mhentz]

...I am immediately transported to my youth. Thoughts of playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, riding my bike and enjoying life.

Love this song.

Proabably "Heart of Gold" from Neil Young. I think that was my first ever favorite song. Could've been "Horse with No Name" from America. Can't recall which came first. "Let it Be" always takes me back to first grade at St. Elizabeth School as well for some reason.

 

[sluggo72]

I remember my radio alarm clock waking me up to this for the first day of football practice!!! Which was always a fun time!!!
(everybody talking- Nilsson)

 

[psuro]

So many to choose from - easier to look at artists/genres

Early ages:
MoTown
Vietnam and Post Vietnam Musci

Early Elementary School
Art Rock/Prog Rock

Pre-Teen
Beginning of Disco
Funkadelic

Teenager
Anti-establishment Rock (aka Punk)

Late Teenage/early college
New Wave, early RAP (hip hop)

 

[NovaPSULuvr]

Share alot of the ones already mentioned...I have to add Boston (debut album) and Frampton Comes Alive...little later Pink Floyd - The Wall

 

[CF LION]

Little Black Egg by The Nightcrawlers.

My two older brothers started a garage band circa 1968 and this song was one of their staples. My first exposure to Rock n Roll at age 6.

 

[Brazillm10]

Early age: my dad would listen to Simon and Garfunkle's greatest hits album. "the Boxer" and "Mrs. Robinson" were his favorite songs. My mom loved The Sound of Music soundtrack.

Early teens: the dawn of MTV. Thriller, 1984, and Born in the USA were my favorite albums.

Late teens/college: the dawn of grunge. Tons of Perl Jam and STP along with Pop Progressive rock like Genesis and Peter Gabriel.

 

[Sviatoslav]

I'm defining "Childhood" as anything pre high school.
Van Halen's 1984 album, Journey Frontiers, and Every Breath You Take by the Police. They played the #%@& out of that song but every time I hear it I go back to specific moments in time.

 

[mn78psu83]

...I am immediately transported to my youth. Thoughts of playing baseball with the neighborhood kids, riding my bike and enjoying life.

Love this song.

That's a tough one. So many choices. Three that come to mind immediately. I'm talking childhood though. Under the age of 10.

Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin
Yesterday When I was Young by Roy Clark
El Paso by Marty Robbins

Long stories with each.

 

[Op2]

50,000 lbs of bananas !!!

I thought it was 30,000.

 

[TheBigUglies]

Being a child of the 80s, any song from the following movies: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles or St Elmos Fire.

 

[Louisville JD]

Won't get Fooled Again
Bang a Gong
Footstompin' music......play it pregame and we'll show the students how to "jump"!
It's Too late

 

[eaksu]

"Beach Baby"--The First Class

 

[Norm Petersin]

there are too many to list... among the most important to me: "Heart of Gold" Neil Young...

Music = a time machine... so cool how only music and certain smells can do that

 

[Norm Petersin]

How about ' dead skunk in the middle of the road'

 

[PSU Mike]

Mom played a good bit of Bacharach-written Dionne Warwick songs on vinyl before I was 8 or so.

 

[CattyGuy51]

It's Hoody Doody time....

 

[Connorpozlee]

My first musical memory was leaving our house in Brooklyn at age four with my father and oldest sister as Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now" played in the transistor in the kitchen. It was very early, around 6:00 or so, and my mother sat at the table looking worn out smoking a True Green in the early morning darkness as we left to take my sister to St. Rose in Belmar, NJ. They had bought a house in Wall but were not able to move in until a couple weeks after the school year started so my father would drive her down to school every morning, then he and I would kick around the new town as he tried to get a feel for the area. That song takes me right back there immediately anytime I hear it.

 

[Op2]

How about ' dead skunk in the middle of the road'

You don't have to look
And you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in
Your olfactory

 

[psuro]

Ok just thought of this one

Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. Probably because my Dad was affected by the lyrics as much as I was

 

[Norm Petersin]

How about Iron Butterfly, Inna Godda Davida

 

[jberrie]

Don't take my man card away but Levon and everything Cat Stevens.

Sittin on the Dock of the Bay #1--easy.

When driving ... China Grove, American Band, Magic Carpet Ride.

Automatic for everyone ... Stairway to Heaven.

Too many...

 

[jberrie]

How about Iron Butterfly, Inna Godda Davida

Tubular Bells

 

[Norm Petersin]

Michael Oldfield. A classic. Eric Clapton with Layla and Let it rain were big when I was at PSU

 

[NITTANYJGK]

Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye by "Steam" . Armed Forces Radio played it every morning on AFVN radio, Saigon, when I was in Vietnam 69-70. Everytime I hear the song it brings back mixed memories from 45 years ago.

 

[massimoManca II]

Anytime I hear a song by The Cars.

Somehow they are a forgotten band... but they were prominent during my childhood. So their songs are still closely tied to that period.

the Cars are grossly overlooked.... Do yourself a favor and youtube live versions of "All Mixed Up" ... Ben Orr was a huge talent... eliot Easton a tremendous guitarist...

 

[psengr82]

American Pie...then Free Bird.