The Songs That Make You Go, "Hmmm...", Welcome to Nostalgia Alley... Options

[McBadgere]

Mind the cobwebs... ...

I had a thought the other day...No, stop applauding, I know it's a rare thing...

But this thought was one following the hearing of a certain song...

I'm sure we've all got songs that take us straight back to certain places, times, people, events etc...So, the thought was this...

Here's a thread where we post the songs, and - maybe - tell the story behind the song that makes it special for us...In few words or many, is fine...

Or not...As you wish... ...

Song + Event = Nostalgia...

Oh, if you have many...Eak them out...One at a time...Maybe?... ...



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Stone Roses - Fools Gold...


This song was played everywhere around the time it came out...Especially the pubs around the village where I lived...There was three btw...We were quite well stocked for pubs, I have to admit...Then again, there was also a big church, so that might explain it...

Aaaamywho, this was all around 1990 and the time I started visiting said establishments with my chums...And Fools Gold seemed to be on the jukebox all the time...

Yes, if you do the maths, I was actually, technically too young to go in them...But, despite knowing my Dad, very well... ...I was still served with no problem... ...

What?...How old?...Um... ...16-17... ...

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This post has been edited by McBadgere: May 16 2014, 01:19 PM

[McBadgere]

Ooooh, I like that ^ ...Sadly, iTunes doesn't have it... ...I'll just have to watch the Youtube loads... ...




Fleetwood Mac - Oh Diane...


So it's early 1983...The year the titanic forces of adult relationships and parental strife decided to tear my world apart...*Sigh*...But that's besides the point...

From the age of about 6 until just after my 10th birthday, there was this girl who lived nearby...And we decided, pretty early on that we were Boyfriend and Girlfriend...Not that at that age there was any real concept of what that meant or anything...But we were...And that was that...

Then, just after the Christmas of 1982, Fleetwood Mac returned to the charts with Oh Diane...Which, just happened to be the girl's name... ...Well, that was it!...I declared Fleetwood Mac my favourite band for life and this song the best ever...

It's quite possible...Actually, it's more than likely that I watched the TOTP performance that's used in the video up there...

Well, thirty years later and Fleetwood Mac are still one of my favourite bands...And I do still love the song, so at least I wasn't far off then... ...

Sadly, in the September I was moved away from where we'd lived and I've only seen Diane twice, very briefly, since...*Sigh*...

But I always think of her when I hear the song...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: May 18 2014, 04:44 AM