Too, too many. Love it when they come up in my play list. A few:
God Only Knows
Color My World
Your Song
Touch Me in the Morning
Hello, It’s Me
My Love
Time in a Bottle
I Choose You
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Many.
But these two take me to a very particular time in my life.
Upside Down by Jesus and Mary Chain takes me back to my amazing semester of study abroad in London and spending the weekends in Camden Market, buying clothes my dad hated.
As soon as I hear Firestarter by Prodigy, all the tension is released. I have to drop everything and pretend I’m at a rave, even though I am a bit past the age of ravers.
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Anything by Billy Joel.
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No, but that song (Better Boat, Kenny Chesney) really speaks to me.
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@ChoatieMom - what a beautiful story re: the Billy Joel lyrics and putting them on the wall of your home! So cool!
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Snoopy vs The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen - 6th grade first boyfriend
The House at Pooh Corner - Loggins and Messina - 10th grade summer painting in the studio
Rock Around the Clock - it plays and I’m looking for someone to dance with
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot - breakup song in college
How Can I Keep from Singing - Enya - I’m not a big Enya fan, but this song gets me every time
Enter Sandman - Metallica - brilliant lyrics married to the perfect tune
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails covered by Johnny Cash
Burning Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash - because that first swoosh of love and desire is pretty intoxicating
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This song by Alanis impacted me when I heard it a year or so ago because the sweetness of it contradicted her earlier work.
More than Words, Extreme
Lean on Me (heard it for the first time in sixth grade on a juke box)
Foolish Heart, Steve Perry
September, EW & F
Happy, Pharrell
Copperline, JT, saw him for the third time three weeks ago
Death with Dignity, sufjan Stevens
100 Years to Live, Five for Fighting
People help the people by Cherry Ghost always makes me tear up. I don’t know why.
Birdy has a nice version of it too but it doesn’t hit me in the soul as the original.
So many more…
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Your Song is #1 for me. It is the musical equivalent of watching the final scene of Field of Drams (You wanna have a catch?). Both of these take me back to my childhood/early teens.
Any song by Taylor Swift
Call it Love, Poco
One Moment in Time, Whitney
I’m Gonna Miss You, Milli Vanilli
Blow Me One Last Kiss, Pink
Escape, Enrique Iglesias
It Might Be You, Stephen Bishop
Almost Paradise, Footloose
Feel Again, OneRepublic
One More Try, Timmy T
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Carole King Child of Mine so much so that I can barely listen to it anymore
Louis Armstrong Oh What a Wonderful World…the first song my DH and I ever danced to and the first dance at our wedding
Kenny Rogers Baseball Song…my son was a pitcher
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Get Lucky. We call it Charlie’s song. 
(Here is the reason:
The pup looks like our beloved Charlie. RIP!)
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Though Father of Mine by Everclear came out in 1997, I hadn’t heard it until a few months ago., and I was just stunned as I listened to a near retelling of part of me.
Even checking the lyrics and release date just now tears me up a bit.
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long tall glasses by Leo Sayer. I was hired for a job once that I was not qualified for. The chorus of this song helped me know that of course I could do the job if the person in this song couldn’t dance then of course he could dance. It is all in one’s confidence and taking the steps to learn what is necessary.
Debussy’s Clair de Lune also can transport me to another place when I hear it, unlike anything else.
Though Satie’s Gymnopédie No.1 comes close.
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The songs/lyrics/videos are so haunting:
Concrete Blonde: Joey
Suzanne Vega: Luka
Soul Asylum: Runaway Train
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