<p>Have you done this? I do it all the time and it really annoys me. </p>
<p>Like, Helena Beat is one of my favorite songs, but I listened to it nonstop on the bus while we were reading Jane Eyre in school, so now whenever I hear it I think of Helen Burns and the beginning of the book.</p>
<p>Also when the Wii came out I was around five people too late to get it at Circuit City, and Welcome to the Black Parade was playing so now I hear the song and get depressed.</p>
<p>(Closure: I got the Wii the week after on Black Friday xD)</p>
<p>I guess I associate Three Days Grace’s hit song, “I Hate Everything About You” with many people…</p>
<p>Or Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls) was in a music video thing for the Australian Open so I always think of tennis.</p>
<p>I associate pretty much every song with the first time I ever listened to it. I don’t mind it, because it allows me to relive my memories in a way.</p>
<p>It seems like someone is a big Foster fan…</p>
<p>I am too!!!</p>
<p>Cool, I like Foster the People too!</p>
<p>Ah, yeah, CSI, I do that a lot too…like on the way to a mission trip with my youth group last year Call Me Maybe came on like 50 time (not even kidding) and we sang and danced every time it came on so now I always remember that whenever I hear it come on…</p>
<p>My family and I moved recently. Late one night when the house was nearly empty but for my things, I was alone at the house, packing the last of the boxes in the garage. My phone didn’t have much music on it, but one album was Darkness on the Edge of Town, which for a while I’d been meaning to listen to. So I listened to it while working.</p>
<p>That night was the first time it hit me that “wow, we’re really leaving the place where I’ve lived for 20 years.” I was happy to move, but still a bit sad, and it was eerie to see the house empty. It was also very quiet and solitary, after all the open houses and furniture-moving that had been going on for the past few weeks. It was finally the right time for me really to start thinking about big changes in my life, and about moving on.</p>
<p>I’ve never listened to a better album that would go along better with that setting. It has a soundscape evocative of a desert road and a temperament that is sometimes harsh, sometimes sentimental, always contemplative of the struggles and joys of ordinary people, treasuring the moments during travel when there’s nothing but thoughts and the road ahead through the wilderness.</p>
<p>Anyways, it’s one of my favorite albums now, and I associate it with growing up, moving on, and becoming more down-to-earth.</p>
<p>I had a panic attack the first time I listened to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and it took me a year before I could enjoy almost anything by The Beatles. I still feel a bit tense when listening to Getting Better, but I like the album too much to let that get in the way of listening to it.</p>
<p>This thread reminds me of my junior year. I attended a Philly area Catholic high school. In order for the bus to get to school each morning, we had to take two highways: I-95 and I-476 (known around here as the “Blue Route”). One day, while we were going down the I-95 entrance ramp, Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John came on. It is a really beautiful and awe-inspiring song. As this song was playing, I was just watching the beautiful sunrise against a cloudless morning sky. When we got on the Blue Route entrance ramp, the chorus played against the beautiful morning backdrop. It was perfection! From that day forward, every time I get onto I-95 and 476, I play Philadelphia Freedom on my iPod!</p>