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This is an old subject - probably done before - I've definately had the discussion with friends about it many times ..

Are there some songs that trigger in you some very clear memories/images/emotions from a very particular time and place.

specific things - not just 'such and such a song makes me sad' but something that acts as a time machine to a place so clearly you suddenly remember it as if it was yesterday ?

I just heard one for me - which made me think of this - and i have a few others ..

- Elton John - Benny and the Jets. took me back to when i was 13.
it's autumn, i have a crush on Janet Flickweert and i'm starting to get those scary but cool unfamiliar feelings that come from the awakening awareness that there is something exciting about girls. not sexual yet - but right on the cusp. I don't remember why this song is so strongly associated with those feelings - but it came to me in a rush with the opening notes (and canned applause that starts the song)

- Paul Simon - Kodachrome. i hear this song and I'm 12, sitting in the tree fort i built on the farm we had for one brief year. I can see the tree fort clearly - and even smell the old books and comics i kept in it (that the mice ate)

- Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter - I hear this song and i can taste a bagel with liver pate and thinly sliced Havarti cheese on it. I bought it visiting my girlfriend in university and while there i bought a bunch of albums. i listened to this one when i returned home - and was eating the food mentioned above before going into work on the midnight shift.


i have others that remind me of certain people .. i'm just wondering if anyone else has stronger associations - specific ones like mine ?