Was listening to the radio this afternoon and heard a song that instantly took me back to times i remembered with a smile on my face.
Made me wish i was back then enjoying myself.

The song for me was:

Prefab Sprout : The King of Rock and Roll.

Does anyone else suddenly get the "good time flashback" because of a certain song?, and what is it.?

Pete Wylie - Sinful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr41XANKAlE

It reminds me of getting ready to go out on the town when I was a young thing.

Seal - Kiss from a Rose

Reminds me of the 1995 summer holidays. Best holidays ever.

Like A Prayer by Madonna, or anything on The Immaculate Collection.

I was in junior school when it was released and she Blew. Me. Away.

She was the absolute bollocks.

Anything by the Spice Girls

It reminds me of all the school disco times when I was younger.

Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor or Sledge Hammer by Peter Gabriel..takes me right back to being a kid in the 80s.

Born Slippy - Underworld

Reminds me of leaving School and getting upto no good

Dubstar's "Stars" and Suede's "Trash"

Reminds me of Summer holidays when I was 6. I had a compilation tape with these two on which I listened to religiously the entire holiday on my walkman. I only recently heard these songs again, brought it all back.

The Stranglers - Golden Brown and Freeez IOU take me back to being an early 80's kid. Happy times

CJ Lewis- Sweets for my sweets, reminds me of going to the fair when I was 14, any cheesy pop song from '99, to 2002 reminds me of Butlins cos I worked there.

Snap..I was too young to remember much 80's Madonna so when I heard this when I was about 12 I was hooked and bought The Immaculate Collection and have loved her music ever since. Every poll citing the best Madonna song always has LAP at the top..it is iconic

TLC - Waterfalls. I used to love this when I was a kid. I still have their album "CrazySexyCool"

Two songs.

Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders

I Want Candy - Bow-Wow-Wow

Woman In Love by Barbara Streisand reminds me of eating pancakes and french toast with maple syrup in a deli in New York.

Anything 80s

I'm Mandy Fly Me by 10cc

and Your Song by Elton John.........

I am transformed back to my schooldays, walking along, home from school, carrying my heavy school bag (ergonomic back packs had yet to be invented ) listening to the dinky little tranny, that my mum and dad "bought" after having saved Green Shield Stamps for what seemed like a million years......

I loved that little radio.......listening to the charts on a Tuesday with Johnny Walker.....

"just like a rolling stonnnnnnnnnnnnnne".......

I am there........

Country House- Blur

always the line 'lives in a house a very big house in the country'

used to always sing it when i was younger -had no idea who sang it for agges lol


and ELO cause my dad always played it in the car on tape LOL

aztec camera - somewhere in my heart
Danny wilson - Marys prayer.

Takes me back to being 10 years old, with my new record player listening to them in my bedroom they were my two fave records

I was in hospital aged eight and the hospital radio kept playing two songs that were around at the time, 'Mated' by Jackie Graham and David Grant, and 'A Certain Smile' by Midge Ure. Heard both these songs again for the first time in ages within the last 12 months and was instantly taken back to a hospital bed
I reckon the songs that do this best are the ones that weren't such big hits. Huge hits such as 'Like A Prayer' for instance no longer belong to the era in which they were released, cause if u listen to enough radio, you will have heard it once a week for the last 15 years! But the Midge Ure song, for instance, has hardly been heard by anyone since November 1985, so when I heard it a few months ago, it seemed dislocated and still to 'belong' to that specific time.

Recently had an experience with 'Never Be Lonely' by The Feeling. It was playing in the pub and a girl with whom I have fallen totally in (so far unspoken) love was singing along, oblivious to me for a second just gazing in total adoration. And I know if I hear that song in ten, twenty years time, I will instantly be taken to that moment, and her, and how I felt so totally in love. Whether or not anything ever happens between us, I'll always remember that song and that moment. If we ever marry, I'll tell her and say I want it as our first dance

The Clash's London Calling reminds me of a wonderful week in....yes you've guessed it - London!
When I was in Uni I listened to Blondie continously. Whenever I hear Heart of Glass and various others it reminds me of happy drunken times in halls

How much time you guys got????

Sultans of Swing - 1978 - laying on our backs at the park, watching the clouds go by, chewing grass and listening to our small portable radio, with the huge antenna

Bohemian Rhapsody - 1975 - Watching Freddie on TOTP not realising my mum was watching it too!!! Then came the remark about what the hell is he wearing, and is that his own lunchbox

Wonderful Tonight - we won't mention what year, as it was viginity night, or rather loss of

God, I could go on all night, songs are as powerful as smells, they transport us right back, and everything we remember is just so vivid.

I actually have a really bad flashback.

I had to take my cat to the vets to be put down (she had cancer) and I was crying buckets. Anyway, we came out with her all wrapped up, got in the car & just as we start the car, what do I hear on the radio but "When your day is long, and the night, the night is yours alone" (Everybody Hurts )

Can't think of no good ones really.