Whenever I listen to the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour it reminds me of when I was about 7 because it was the first tape that I ever got and I played the hell out of it.

I still remeber the first time that I saw the It smells like teen spirit video. I was 5 and my family was at a hotel and my dad was watching MTV. I just remeber seeing this weird video, I didn't realize what it was till I was 14 and started listening to Nirvana.

ZZ Top's Le grange reminds me of my best friends becuase we covered it for our senior year talent show.

Somebody please pass me the Geritol.

I'll take a glass as well.

Our daily Metmucil is coming up next! Followed by an Ensure shake! Good God, are my Depends leaking again?? Why can't I find "Murder She Wrote" in the TV Guide????

Listening to 'Black' by Pearl Jam while sitting on a cliff in the Western Highlands looking out to the Atlantic then realising music has a crappy 'spoils nature' effect and then vowing never to stick headphones on in a wild setting again.

The entire Webb Brothers Maroon album conjures vivid memories of driving east on Addison, over the Chicago River bridge, coming up on Lane Tech from the west. Passing Bradley Place and the WGN studios on the north.

Not because I listened to it at that time (I never did), but because it just brings to mind that image for some reason.

I also visualize driving into Bucktown, passing the corner of Fullerton and Clybourn... home of the Liars' Club. (For obvious reasons.)


EDIT: This is the kind of thread revival you get when you harangue me for repetition!

buying 4 copies of Beastie Boys 'Pauls Boutique' on cassette so I could have the red, green, blue, and yellow colored versions. I was silly like that.

Agonizing over whether to buy Huey Lewis Sports! or KISS Animalize on cassette with my hard-earned allowance, opting for Sports! first, then KISS a few weeks later.

Ice Cube: The Predator, Reminds me of high school wrestling
Radiohead: OK Computer reminds me of college life, specifically studying at a coffeehouse and just hanging out in a dorm room playing video games.
Portishead: Dummy, just makes me think of making out.

Ok Todd..this is a great thread...I'll revisit this one more than a few times. I'll start with a real early one and move forward as they come to me. Whenever I hear "Mr Kite"... Sitting with my parents on their bed in our apartment listening to Sgt. Peppers...I'll date myself but I was probably 4 or 5 and it had to have been 1969 or 1970.

Another. I've been schooling my 2 teenage sons for awhile in musical history. Whenever we crank some late mid-late 70's classic rock in the car it brings me back to this. The endless plugging of my junior highschool jukebox for "Train Kept a Rollin'", "Rock'n'Roll all Night" and "Rock'n'Roll Hoochikoo"

And one more...

"Waiting Room" always puts me back to the the day I got the vinyl...I had been waiting for Fugazi's 1st ep with such anticipation..and it was even better than expected when I put on the headphones the 1st time.

Peace

Nas-"Hip Hop Is Dead"

Aww hell, Greg. You brought back another one for me.
I was 7 or 8 and my dad brought home 2 albums: Sgt. Pepper's and Magical Mystery Tour. We opened them both and listened on my cheap stereo while sitting on my bed.

He let my sister and I choose which ones we wanted. I took Pepper, based on the album cover.

We both won, really.

Dropping Acid for the first time and thinking Yo La Tengo-Spec Bebop went on forever.

Seeing Radiohead for the first time at the Masquerade in 1997, they started off with a slow song (Lucky) and then went into Just and I thought the floor was going to cave in

Me and a friend driving down kelly drive in Philly when Spanish Harlem is played on my MP3 player and the awkwardness that followed when we realized we knew all the words.

Listening to Television right now and "Prove It" is bringing me back to Evanston, in the parking lot next to the hot dog stand, next to Dyche Stadium and across from the Evanston Theater on Central. It's autumn and it's gray and I'm excited about hearing this new album that I've been hearing so much about.
This was the first song that grabbed me, and this was where I was sitting when it did grab me.

Listening to Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" when I was 12 while simultaneously eating way too many Andes chocolate mints (not really Andes mints, either; they were the dollar store version). Every time I hear that song to this day, I still get a stomach ache.

Listening to "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" for the first time when I was 18 (I was raised on the red and blue collections, not the albums), volume to 11 in my friend Tony's red car (I don't know from cars, but I remember that it was red, dammit). Amazing what you hear when the volume's so loud it's shaking other people's car windows.

I love this thread, by the way.

Every time I hear James - Laid (not just the song, but the whole album) I picture making a left turn onto Western Ave. from Howard.

Every time I hear Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers, I think of Dead Grandma's House in Autumn