This morning I heard Paul Robeson singing “Joe Hill” on the radio, it was one of Alex Salmond’s Desert Island Discs.

It really took me back. My Dad used to sing it to me when I was a kid. He died 15 years ago and often a week or two can go by without me thinking of him, but on hearing this I was a 5 year old drifting off with him singing me to sleep. Happy memories.

No, no I’m fine really, I’ve just got something in my eye…

Power of Love – Huey Lewis, always takes me back to the 80s …and the 50s

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‘Nobody Does It Better’ by Carly Simon.

Early memories of going to see The Spy Who Loved Me at the cinema and also the scene from I’m Alan Partridge when he re-enacts the opening scene of the film because his tapes have been recorded over.

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Never heard it on a night out, but even sitting at work listening to it now it can ignite certain feelings from so many good ones…

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Wild West Hero by ELO.

Used to hear this on the radio when I was getting up for school.

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Power of Love – Huey Lewis never takes me back anywhere cos I turn it off immediately.

Armagiddeon Time, The Clash. Christmas morning 1979 (or 80?) 7″ vinyl, sat on my bedroom floor, playing it on the music centre.

On a Clash theme, White Man In The Hammersmith Palais, first listening on John Peel with radio under the bed sheets. Skipped school next day to buy it.

This sadly, damn..

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Pulp – common people. Takes me back to the end of school and the start of college.

Tight fit – the lion sleeps tonight. Was doing the rounds on the radio when I was very young, pre school with just me and my mom in the kitchen. Happy times never to be repeated again.

Hugh – similar to you – Peter Sarstedt ‘Where did you go to my lovely’. My dad was giving me a lift to my Saturday job as a kid and it came on Radio 2 and I loved it. He told me who it was etc and we just chatted about it in the car.

He left us just over two years ago and it always makes me think about him.

TSY the first streets album takes me back to a lost week in London about 10 summers ago with a very attractive girl I met a couple of weeks beforehand when she was visiting Newcastle…

Add It Up- the first girl I ever properly pulled in a club introduced me to Violent Femmes. The lyrics still make me grin with the memory of dancing with her..
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There are many songs that remind me a lot about my trips, my friends and relatives, the minutes of happiness. ABBA’s “Happy New Year” is always associates with Christmas holidays in my childhood.

Warton – The Streets are a funny one for lads of a certain age. They were always a bit, well, crap in my mind. But Mike Skinner seemed to perfectly capture so many things that were going on in my life with his music… so I like them… does that make sense?

Way too many to mention. Music is a real memory trigger for me. I’m sure I once heard that the sense of smell was the biggest memory trigger that we have but for me it’s definately music.

It doesn’t seem to matter if I like the tune in question or not either.

Robbie William’s ‘Angels’ brings back memories of my beautiful wedding to my darling wife. When she walked down the aisle in her gigantic meringue dress to the tune I welled up like nobody’s business.

Now every time I hear it I get a tear in my eye. Such a beautiful song for a gorgeous woman.

Funny, ‘Angels’ and ‘Wonderwall’ wedding anthems always make me cringe.

This takes me back to U5th and 6thform parties at Andrea Walsh’s house. happy days.
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I lol’ed at GlitterGary’s post. Don’t know if I was supposed to. 🙂

[edit]her gigantic meringue dress Yep, guess I was!

TSY – Agree completely on The Streets, they/he just summed a few things up.

Anyway, Hey Ya by Outkast as it reminds me of an incredible year I had in New Zealand.
Beat Mama by Cast becuase it was playing when I met my girlfriend 8 years ago.

ghost town – by the specials reminds me of my primary school days when everyone wore dr martens boots in 1981?
real gone kid – by deacon blue being played at by local radio at the end of a stage of the milk race in malvern in about 1990
for an angel – by paul van dyke being played by pvd at bournmouth convention centre at a xmas opera house special 1998
pretty fly for a white guy – offspring played on a dive boat north of Cairns in 1999

happy dayz

New Generation by Suede – Cos it was playing on Top of the pops when I was getting ready to go see them play live on a date with my first proper GF. ALWAYS makes me smile no matter what. (even if I’ve been sworn at in a shop)

New England by Billy Bragg. One song I can remember from the first concert I ever went to. On the Red Labour tour when I was about 6 or 7. Took my dad to see him in Wolverhampton and Billy Bragg was stood next to me during the support act talking to me, while I had no idea who he was. He then asked me my favorite song by him and why so I explained it. He said he remembered the gig cos it was in an old peoples home. I said that was the one. He played it for me and my dad though and mentioned us 🙂 That made my dad and my night 🙂