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Old 17-10-2009, 05:23
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Brothers Johnson.....

Mista Cool

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Old 17-10-2009, 08:01
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Ash - Girl from Mars
Shed 7 - Chasing Rainbows
Dave Lee Roth - California Girls
Alesha Dixon - Breath Slow
Underworld - Born Slippy
Mika - Happy Ending
Evanessence - My Immortal
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Blind Melon - No Rain
Guns n Roses - Patience

Loads more but those are the prevalent ones.
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Old 17-10-2009, 08:43
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Zager & Evans- In The Year 2525....
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Old 17-10-2009, 12:23
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Michael Jackson's Human Nature. Sonically it is just stunning!
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Old 17-10-2009, 13:32
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Practically everything from the '80s.

Specifically

B-Movie's - Nowhere Girl
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
The Associates - Club country and Party Fears Two
Paul Haig - Sense of Fun
Propaganda - P Machinery

Most Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure, Dead Or Alive and Pet Shop Boys songs i have strong associations with school and university days.
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Old 17-10-2009, 13:44
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One of my flatmates at university used to play Dylan's Desire album on a loop so that is very evocative. Another flatmate in later years used to play Alison Moyet's Invisible* album and Sade's album so that has the same effect. Also the Bends album by Radiohead and What's the Story, Morning Glory (and Missing by EBTG) are redolent of happy times for me! Also, there was one time when i was walking through Soho on a sunny day to meet a friend for a drink and 'Alone Again Or' by Love came on my Walkman and it nearly had me in tears.


Edit: I meant 'Alf'!
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Old 17-10-2009, 13:46
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When I hear Happy Up Here by Royksopp, it's April, the sun is shining, I'm on the top deck of the 75 bus and I'm happy
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Old 17-10-2009, 14:06
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All of the 'summer songs' from previous summers. Every time I hear Umbrella, I'm suddenly on a rock in Donegal.
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Old 17-10-2009, 14:23
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'Breaking Ties' by Oceanlab.
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Old 17-10-2009, 14:46
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All of the 'summer songs' from previous summers. Every time I hear Umbrella, I'm suddenly on a rock in Donegal.
Me too!
I Kissed A Girl plays and I'm drunk on a beach in Greece

Same with Winter as well, when I hear The Loving Kind I feel all cold
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Old 17-10-2009, 17:08
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This instantly takes you back to another era http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P457OwwZnQU

In fact so much so I used it on the splash page for a site I'm developing dedicated to historic broadcasting..
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Old 17-10-2009, 17:40
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Paradise Cafe 02:00 am by Barry Manilow. The whole album is like being in a real nightclub and listening to the blues. I always play it at night as it seems the perfect time and for me this is his best album.
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Old 17-10-2009, 18:09
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The Grease soundtrack. I was severely ill in hospital at the time and never saw the film, but had the soundtrack on tape. Every time I hear it it whisks me back then.
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Old 17-10-2009, 21:33
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Porcupine Tree - Trains.
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Old 17-10-2009, 23:27
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Robert Miles - Children
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Old 18-10-2009, 00:08
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just about everything from the 80s.

But at the moment I'm looking at the Vienna New Years Concert, and that always takes me straight back to my childhood, was always on telly on New Years Day.

I do that when I'm soppy
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Old 18-10-2009, 00:29
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Mike and the Mechanics- Looking Back Over My Shoulder; takes me back to being in the car driving up to my nans when I was about 10, with my dad playing this in the car. This song has always stuck with me, and takes me back to those moments.
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Old 18-10-2009, 01:42
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The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Nelly Furtado - (All Good Things) Come To An End
Sugababes - Hole In The Head
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
Sash - Stay
MGMT - Kids
All Saints - Pure Shores
Morrissey - Lost
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