No, not music you ripped bongs to in high school and college. I mean the music you remember your parents playing while they took you to the grocery store and road trips when you were growing up. What song, what album brings you back to the back seat of your parent's Buick Skylark?

Any song off Don't Henley's End of the Innocence immediately transports me back to the back seat of my parent's Dodge Caravan on the way to visit my grandparents in Green Bay.

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Don't take it personally.

Puff the Magic Dragon
Take the Long Way Home

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songs i only heard today that transport me back in time:

- diamond girl and get closer by seals and crofts

- listen to the music by the doobie brothers

- so into you and imaginary lover by atlanta rhythm section

- sir duke by stevie wonder

all 70's staples on the am radio when i was a kid...heard them today on satellite radio driving to and coming home from work. visual nostalgia is when i see a commercial during the first week of december for 'santa claus is coming to town' or 'rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" animated specials. more visual nostalgia is any quinn martin tv production from the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHdRkeEnpM

Dad was a HUGE fan. The orchestral blasts were to him what power chords of heavy metal were to me.

I can admit his music was much more beautiful than mine. I'm listening to this one right now, thanks for the memories!

We have to be about the same age. Those all work for me too.

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Don't take it personally.

Listen to What The Man Said

Billy Dont be a Hero

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Sinatra and Lois Armstrong for my dad

Elvis for my mom

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Let ‘Em In
Lido Shuffle

Anything from Neil Diamond or The Carpenters since my mom was fans of both.

Plenty other stuff from the 70s.

55 next month. easy for me to compartmentalize -

music as a kid

music starting h.s. and first/first few massive crushes

music during h.s. good times/partying/serious relationship

don't understand how music works today to fuel culture and sub-cultures. download music, you-tube? in 1981, it was a big deal for a peer to get a car and cruise around. pitching in for gas money. extra points for a fm radio. more extra points for an amp and woofers. 8-tracks were going out of style and cassettes were in. simple pleasures, i guess.

my memories as a kid are the am radio, the great 89.

Even more points if someone could score some beer…

Oddly enough, heard some Gin Blossoms today and had a flashback to 7yr old Antioch on the way to Door County.

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When I was a kid we would spent a good portion of the summer at my Aunt and Uncles cabin on the Tippecanoe River. The entire time they would have country music playing from the late 70s and early 80s. Back then I absolutely hated it. But now I miss those days a lot and I enjoy country music from that time. Takes me back to fishing on their pier and going to the garage frig and grabbin beers for them while they were playing cards in the evenings.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

was never really a problem. it was a different time - no cameras at 7-11s or chris hansen catch a predator types lurking around. if an older guy pulled into the 7-11 strip mall to buy smokes - we'd ask him to buy us beer, the police wouldn't be there to swoop in and nab a potential abuser. cigarettes...never a problem. they'd sell to 14 y/o kids back then. cops caught us drinking in a park they'd only make us dump the beer.

just a different time.

just a different time.

Heard Billy on xm 70s yesterday. Had been 35 years. Hopefully I will be dead before I hear it again. BTW button push 25 seconds in.

Totally agree

America and Beautiful Noise. Neil diamond.
Everytime I hear those songs I think of my Mom.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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Mom did not care for music that much, and absolutely not in the car - so we never had music on long driving vacations. Dad liked the easy listening stuff when he first came to the US, because it was easier for him to understand the well-ennunciated lyrics. He especially liked Nat King Cole.

For me the nostalgia music is late 60s/early 70s Motown and Atlantic music, WGCI and the old original WBMX. The former was what my dad's cooks had on at the restaurant, and the latter was what my school bus drivers listened to.

I was fortunate that in graduate school the student union had a fantastic listening library with a huge selection of 45s, and subscriptions to Billboard and Rolling Stone. That helped me tie my musical interests together into a mix of Los Angeles session rock, HDH era Motown, the horns of Earth Wind and Fire and Chicago (who later toured together), and the Thom Bell era Philadelphia sound.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Was Listen to What the Man Said the B-side to Band on the Run? I remember hearing it all the time in my house but know that I would never have bought it for that.

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Mom was those light early 80's songs that I remember. Hall and Oates (Which for a long time I thought was Hauling Oats which I thought was an odd name for a band), Air supply.. You know shit like that. That was the stuff she left playing while we sat in the car while she ran in for groceries from Walt's on 64. I can't hear "I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues" without thinking about sitting in that old station wagon and her bringing us out a piece of candy from them bulk candy they had.

Dad.. Man, if was Magic 104 all the time. The Runaway, or Love Potion number 9 takes me back to the back seat of that Buick Riv as he drove us into the city for whatever game we were going to go see. When we would drive out to Pennsylvania to see my grandparents he would listen to that station with it crackling and breaking up to damn near Ohio and then I think he would either turn it off or if the Bears's were playing we would listen to that until it broke up.

Climax Blues Band - I love You and December 1963 by the 4 Seasons. For some reason, as a yoot I remember these on the radio a ton.
Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs - Sugar Shack. One of the new songs my Dad would just whistle all the time.
Kenny Rogers - Lucille.
Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues

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