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    Posted: March 25 2014 at 21:02
Which song or songs always transport your mind back to a memory created during the first listen of that song/those songs? What's the memory?

For me, the first time I ever heard 21st Century Schizoid Man was on a bench in my school before class started. I was blown away and could barely concentrate on that class that day (I believe it was English).
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Limelight by Rush. 
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Any early Hawkwind as that seemed to be the only music played in the school common room
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Every time I hear "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" (Zappa/Mothers), I am reminded of the first time I heard it, in my teenage bedroom, reading along with the lyrics and being completely blown away.  Music had never sounded like that before, and by the time he got to "smother my daughter in chocolate syrup", my brain went over the edge and probably hasn't returned.
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Pretty much everything I'm listening to right now as I am cycling back through my collection and the year is 1979.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Some Tool, Rush, Tull, Zeppelin and Animals as Leaders makes me remember the video game I was playing at the time of listening to that song. Embarrassed
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Most music has memories of when I first heard / bought / got into it. One of my oldest would be Bob Dylan - Blowin in the Wind which I used to play on the juke box in the cafe that my mother used to meet her friends in. I would be given a few pennies so they could get peace and would always pick the Dylan song - this was pre-prog obviously. Tongue
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Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

Some Tool, Rush, Tull, Zeppelin and Animals as Leaders makes me remember the video game I was playing at the time of listening to that song. Embarrassed


YES that happens to me all the time
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Black Sabbath Electric Funeral-gave me the willies 1st time i heard it,but i was quite young-seemed as if i shouldn't be listening to such a song-like i was breaking the law or something.
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The most nostalgia-inducing song I can think of is Middletown Dreams by Rush. I used to play the mess out of Power Windows my senior year of high school, and those lyrics really resonated with me at the time.

I'd say another one would be Plague of Lighthouse Keepers.
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Anything from '88
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Obviously "Living in The the Past" by Tull. Not just because of the title; it really does take me back to 1969, and yes, I do remember that year!
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The entire "Songs of Distant Earth" album by Mike Oldfield takes me back to growing up in Alaska during my elementary school years. It's amazing how just hearing the opening seconds of the first track instantly evokes feelings of nostalgia. I listened to that album non-stop (it's still my favorite of all time) and it's become ingrained as the album of my childhood in Alaska.
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Biggest time-space transporter that I can think of right now is Peter Gabriel's compilation album Shaking The Tree. The last time I was in my grandmother's old house before she moved, I was listening to it non-stop. The most nostalgia-inducing track is, ironically, "I Don't Remember," which is forever associated with the guest bedroom I always stayed in at that house. Just thinking about it now, I can feel the rug under my feet, smell the musty air. Powerful stuff.

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There are many of these for me - here are 10:

Yessongs (all of it)
Endless Enigma and Hoedown from Trilogy
Side 2 of Watt by Ten Years After
Musical Box
Side One of Woodstock
She Loves You - Christmas aged 7, a record player as a present
Join Together (the Who)
The Wizard (Uriah Heep)
Question (Moody Blues)
Starman (Bowie)
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Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd.  Believe or not this was the first time I had ever heard Pink Floyd before.  Everytime I hear it I go back to 1987 and remember the cool video of this song that was on MTV almost non-stop for awhile.  At the time I thought it was the greatest song I had ever heard.  When I hear "Land of Confusion" from Genesis it takes me back to 1986 and that funny video with the puppets in it.  The Invisible Touch album was the first time I had ever heard of Genesis. 
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Points: 20468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2014 at 10:56
Too many to list.....
I Talk To The Wind
ITCOTCK
Nights In White Satin
Tuesday Afternoon
Ride My See Saw
Watcher of the Skies
Whiter Shade of Pale
New Day Yesterday
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Ten Years Gone - Zeppelin
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