Blues Traveler's Carolina Blues reminds me of endless soccer practices in high school.

Fugazi's "Waiting Room" on the lax pre-game tape while we were practicing/playing baseball in high school.

Haha, also that 4 Non Blondes song from football.

We were on the bus going to an away game, and it wasn't uncommon for people to have a Walkman with some sort of pre-game tape in it (Pantera! Metallica! Ice Cube!) for the ride. This one douchebag (my backup), a King-Sized Douchebag who managed to play four years in three sports and never start a game, and rarely saw any playing time, had on some headphones.

Someone tapped him on the shoulder…"Hey, Wood. Whatcha listening to?"

Completely serious, he replied, "4 Non Blondes".

I'm old and have lots of these

Van Morrison: "Moondance"
- sends me to fall, when the leaves are peaking.

Husker Du: "Celebrated Summer"
The spring/summer before I went to college (1986)

Slayer: "Hell Awaits"
My few months in a metal/punk band during my freshman year of college.

Flaming Lips: "Jesus Shooting Herion"
Smoking pot with two friends at college in Pittsburgh.

Guns and Roses: "Paradise City"
Drinking Penn's Best and grilling with a hibachi on the front porch of my frat house one summer evening.

and lastly
Metallica "Damage Inc." A car ride with Sketch when he was 12 or 13. I played this for him, and he was pretty awestruck when it hit the part that says "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets"

He was dangerously close to being an Asia fan at the time, so I think it made him the music maven he is today, though he probably doesn't remember.

it's funny how women deal with things...

HA,
"Turning Japanese" reminds me of HS swim team practice. The one girl who practiced with us, when it was her turn to bring in the music always brought in The Vapors. Coach made fun of the "weird music". But then we heard Talking Heads - Little Creatures a lot, too.

"even in his youth" the b-side to "smells like teen spirit"

i was bored at an indoor track meet and my friend (who normally only bugged out about rap) had the cassingle and was going on and on about how awesome this band was. He accidently played me "even in his youth" first and i couldn't understand why he was so damn excited. Then we realized what happened and he played me "teen spirit" and i bugged out and i listened to both sides of the cassingle over and over.

Now whenever i hear "even in his youth" i'm taken back to that track meet.

"Genius of Love" by Tom Tom Club reminds me of JV basketball weightlifting days (Tuesdays and Thursdays, I think). Without fail, we'd always in unison scream, "JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES BROWWWWWWWWWWWWWN, JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES BROWWWWWWWWWWWWWN!!!"

Good times...

Andrew Gold - "Lonely Boy" something that happened at CMJ that I can't remember. But I still picture the layout of the board when I hear it.

Mclusky - "To Hell With Good Intentions" trying to run down art students in my car

Rolling Stones "100 Years Ago" - walking to my drugs & behavior class every day of my first semester of college.

Every N.W.A. song ever - driving around in high school and smoking pot.

The Band "The Weight" - sitting around with my sisters and telling them they were going to die because they smoked cigarettes.

Leon Redbone "Polly Wolly Doodle" - every time I smoked pot in high school and wasn't in a car. It's a long story.

Europe actually, but yeah. I don't remember the Damage, Inc. listening, but I was on definitely on board after my first ...And Justice For All listening a year or two later.

On the prior board, I had a decent write-up that talks about you picking me up at O'Hare in '93 and the two of us listening to Copper Blue on the way back to your apartment. Said write-up is now in the ether.

"My Sharona" = the summer before I started high school...hanging out at the public swimming pool almost everyday. Touching parts of girls I dared not touch before. And, you know, them not actually minding that I do so.

Just heard the Ramones doing Sweet, Sweet Little Ramona and remembered how vividly that reminds me of some 16 year old girl white trash girl named Ramona that used to live downstairs from me that was dating some creepy 35 year old drunk. (No, I was not the 35 year old drunk, I was only like 18 at the time)

ZZ Top's Tush was playing the first time I smoked the pots when I was 14.

Getting high on Louisiana backroads in a 1990 Buick LeSabre with couchlike seats and losing it with completely uncontrollable laughter:

Primus, "The Air is Getting Slippery"