What Song Takes You Back?

pancakeman

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What Song Takes You Back?

Brought on by another post I made, just what the title says: What song takes you back to your childhood, or generally a time you miss?

I've just gone on a e-journey, listening to all the songs I can barely remember being on the radio growing up. This was a tough order, my parents usually kept it on the oldies station, and all of the CDs I liked were Clapton or the like. So I tried hard to remember what CDs my sister had, and, with the aid of Wikipedia and Youtube, was able to hear some of those old songs.


So, for me, the song Allstar by Smashmouth does it every time. I'm sitting in the car, listening to the radio on the drive in to town for groceries, or at my sister's best friend's house, with her radio playing while we play Monopoly.

Alternately, The Way, by Fastball, as well as One Week by Barenaked Ladies.

So, OTF, what songs make you all misty-eyed and whatnot?
 

krischan

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Re: What Song Takes You Back?

The music from the sandman TV show. I was 5 at that time and IMO it's the happiest time in our lives if you are living in an intact family.
 

Supox

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New Kids On The Block, no matter what song. Yeah I hated them, but it brings back memories from the times when everything was so simple compared to adult life.

And for the Sandman TV-show... I believe that I've seen it also. If it was the guy in strange hat that threw sleeping sand in the end of show. :scratchchin:
 

krischan

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Re: What Song Takes You Back?

Sandman TV show?
When the children have to go to bed, the sandman comes and pours sand into their eyes, so they become sleepy.

We have a TV show here involving that, being broadcast at about 19:00. The sandman is coming, he watches a 5 minutes broadcast with the children and then does the sand thing. At the beginning and the end of the show, the sandman music is played. It's a TV classic here. We have it for 50 years or so and it's utterly unthinkable that it will ever be dropped from the program. I guess that 90% of all Germans know it.

Just the music:


Search for "Sandmännchen" there and you will find dozens of hits.



 

WildBerry

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When the children have to go to bed, the sandman comes and pours sand into their eyes, so they become sleepy.

We have a TV show here involving that, being broadcast at about 19:00. The sandman is coming, he watches a 5 minutes broadcast with the children and then does the sand thing. At the beginning and the end of the show, the sandman music is played. It's a TV classic here. We have it for 50 years or so and it's utterly unthinkable that it will ever be dropped from the program. I guess that 90% of all Germans know it.

Just the music:
Search for "Sandmännchen" there and you will find dozens of hits.
How did you like the East German version of Sandmann? The stop-motion rag-doll animation? Or is that actually what you're talking about?

The Youtube link is broken, so I cannot check by tune. Not that I would know it anyway, our Sandman got his own tune in 1972.



 

krischan

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I'm quite impressed that you correctly identified it as the Eastern German one. Not many people out of Germany know that. It's one of the few Eastern German things which have been taken over after the reunification.

The stop motion Sandmännchen concept is from the 60s or so and the Western German version was similar. It reminds the parents of their own childhood which probably is a key element of its success.

Regarding the broken link, it worked for me at the time I posted it. Whatever, here are a few Sandmännchen links, without Youtube tags, to save space:

Eastern Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeKVIn_X77I
Western Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7bblmlAFc&feature=related
Compilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59_MUJL8bHc

He was like the tambourine man but alot less subtle.
What do you need subtleness for in songs or broadcasts for 2-5 years old children ? :scratchchin:



 

BobCox2

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Re: What Song Takes You Back?

Night Moves by Bob Seger. Takes me back to Adolescence, 1st Real Love etc.
 

Croup

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Less Than Jake - Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts
The Living End - Prisoner of Society
Wu-Tang Clan - M.G.M.
I Against I - Ordinary Fight

All of those songs remind me of very good times with my best friend before he went into the army. Lots of random drives just hanging out.
 

TheNix

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Like Krischan the songs that really take me back are the television theme tunes. The Banana Spits, Prince Planet, Scooby Doo, that type of thing. For "real" music I heard the song "Snoopy versus the Red Baron" the on the radio a while back and I was six again.
 

DOC

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Re: What Song Takes You Back?

Bonnie Tyler's- Total Eclipse of the Heart...

The greatest song of all time in a stand alone section, but also reminds me of every event when somebody decided to break it out regardless of being serious.
 

Voorhees

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Anything from 1996 or 1987. For some reason those two years put out a ton of recognizable music and for one reason or another where also memorable years in my life.
 

Gibbzilla

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I remember in '99 when Last Resort by Papa Roach came out. My cousins and I were obsessed with that song, and thought of it as the epitome of metal.

Man, was I naive.
 

Croup

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Oh, I almost forgot:

2 Skinnee J's - Supermercado (entire album)

One of my favorite all time albums for the memories it brings back. And because it's good, but you get my point.
 

TheMadCow

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Any song from the 'Tourism' album by 'Roxette'. My first proper girlfriend bought it for me, must be 12-15 years ago now. Still got the album and listen to it regularly. Always think of her when i hear a track by them...

TheMadCow :whistling:
 

Road Ratt

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Re: What Song Takes You Back?

Too many to list all of them here are a few. Any song from AC/DC's Back in Black album, Heart of Glass by Blondie, Athena by The Who.
 

Ariadne

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for me it's usually albums, rather than songs, taking me back to times.The times often being I listened to a certain album, not necessarely when it came out, so:
1998 - Mandylion, VXI (approperiate enough that one though)
1999 - Chemical wedding, Accident of birth
2000 - Brave New World, Number of the beast
etc.
 
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