What's your good vibe throwback?

Yes! I hung on to that song through the long, long death of my parent’s marriage and Mom’s drinking and….. everything. I hung on to that song desperately.
Also Mother and Child Reunion.

Black Dog, Zep. Only box set I kept.
Jane Says, Janes Addiction
Give it away, RHCP

So many. 70s and 80s pop, disco, rock, R and B, New Wave and then 90’s hip hop.

Recently I was in Virginia and found a great 70’s pop station. Maybe some songs were from the 60’s but it was mostly early 70’s.

Songs I grew up with, listening to the radio or seeing groups on American Bandstand or Soul Train, and then the beginnings of music video in the late 1970’s. These all remind me of being a kid and teen.

Stairway to Heaven in junior high school.
Bye Bye Miss American Pie in high school.
Both got me through a lot of alone time.

^^^^ yes.

Two Beatles songs: Drive My Car, and Hey Bulldog.

Hey CT! It’s me, Rarebear. Still mulling over the camera issue.

Mine is Caravan “Nine Feet Underground”

Stewart! Thanks for the tip. I’ll be diving in to check out all these song memories. I must admit to never having experienced Caravan so I’m intrigued. Sony RX10IV… Just do it.

Ok Dutchess and Chyna win the prize because they noted how these song memories helped them get through tough times, or set them on a better path… I should have asked for that more clearly.

For me, taking up guitar in recent years helped me get over the loss of Pitch, my best friend of fifteen years. ,who himself got me through some troubling times. Still miss him like no other.

The only thing, and I mean only thing that could get my mind away from losing him was taking up guitar. Something that I could hold close and interact with. The guitar took my existing frustration and pointed it in a different direction of fumbling through a difficult repetitive learning process. It turned my emotional pain into a physical pain with blistered finger tips and sore cramped hands. But it rewards with dreams of future potentials that keep me moving forward emotionally. And as time passes, it becomes more comfortable, easier, giving back to me what I earlier put into it.

So yeah, not a song for me. A new friend that forces me to sacrifice and give love before getting anything in return. I’m really… really good with that arrangement.

Sent you an email.
Caravan has been my favorite band since 1977 and the current members are all friends of mine now. But Nine Feet Underground is still one of my favorite songs by them.

Bohemian Rhapsody
Later, Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Both in part because I could sing along with them. Doing that was a vehicle to separate myself from things for a while.

Oh! The Lizzie Borden song from the movie. It provided me with amusement for a while.
I had my IQ tested while i was in the Navy. The psychiatrist told me it would just take an afternoon, but I kept answering questions right so it lasted three days.
All my division knew was I was seeing a psychiatrist. They figured three consecutive days meant I was really messed up. The knife I was supposed to wear to do my job I had to turn in. I started singing the Lizzie Borden song while I worked. I gave extra passion to the bloody parts. People were steering clear of me. Meanwhile, doc was excited by how long I was successfully completing one section after another. It went forward to the point he didn’t know the answers and needed to peek to know if I was answering correctly.
We had to wait a few days for the results, and I loved how easily I was pranking my whole division. Finally, the jig was up. The psychiatrist called the facility master chief and told him I should be in officer training school.
Master Chief had heard about the recent goings-on. We had a good laugh together. He allowed me a few extra days but had to tell so I could carry my knife again.
Lol. Good times.

Freestyler, by Bomfunk MC

@Patty Love some S n G.

Brand New Day – The Wiz
It’s heavily anchored to a great week I had, some forty years ago, while on holidays with all my fresh schoolmates of the first class of high school.
I was in love, I felt confident, I felt I belonged.
When the song starts, the end of the instrumental intro, I still get a sensational feeling, an energy boost, as if I was right there, then, now!!
The feeling is so nice that I’m tempted (have been all those decades) to play it every morning, but I’m too afraid it’d wear off very quickly.
So I don’t, and I only hear it by chance.

^Sweet!

Sweet Caroline, bah, bah, bah.

Whenever I have been in a bar that played that song, the mood in the whole place changes to positive.

Patty hit it on the head, with Bohemian Rhapsody. That song can bring a crowd of people to a great place. It’s so well written, and I don’t think there’s at least a verse that everyone can’t relate to.

@realeyes Pitch was a beautiful guy.

The “FRIENDS” theme song. When I was around eleven, my favourite nights were those spent lying in bed while my parents were watching that show. I loved hearing them laugh together.

The song reminds me of cool sheets, the sound of cicacas and the mild air of Korean summers drifting in through the window. All my stuffed animals were around, I was usually looking forward to school during that year, I had nothing to do but read and sleep – so even now, the song gives me a sense of peaceful happiness.

That’s a really lovely story longgone… I visualized it enough to remember my benefit of being the eldest child still remembering my parents in love, cuddled on the sofa in their underwear on Saturday mornings. My siblings never got to see them happy and loving like that. Thanks for helping me remember.

The Doobie Brothers “The Captain and Me” album.

@kritiper I just bought a new copy of The Captain and Me because the CD was scratched (the vinyl copy died decades ago). And the next day got a new copy of Toulouse Street. I had forgotten how much the Doobie Bros. were a part of my soundtrack in the seventies.