Nostalgic Music

What songs or music "do it" for you on a nostalgic level? What songs bring you back a decade or two, be it good or bad times? List the music, post a video, and tell a little bit about where it takes you.

I shall start.

No Rain - Blind Melon

1992-1993. The end of 1st grade and the beginning of second for me. My mother had been moving me and herself around a lot for a couple of years after she divorced my dad. I was living in the second to last place I would in Abilene before moving out West. It was this crumbling little trailer park on the outskirts of town. The trailer was packed out with roaches but I don't have much else to complain about the actual trailer. The trailer park was filled with really scummy people. I was friends with the rebel of the park, a 6th grader named Johnny who had a blonde rat tail, a tattoo, and a love of hip-hop and rap. Johnny smoked and with all this together, he just seemed dangerous as all hell and I admired him for it.

The few other kids we hung around in the park all had something horrible going on with their home life. You would hang out with them for a while and then some secret would come out about some sort of abuse, neglect, or whatnot. This park was bad, and even now when I occasionally drive passed the place when visiting family, it looks like a frightening place to live.

It doesn't make sense to me, but all this is a good memory for me. There was bad all around, but I don't remember having complaints at this point in life. When I hear this song, it always calms me and takes me to a point where I had no complaints. In fact, I don't remember having any real problems yet in life, and maybe this was the last time for that this was true. Maybe, it's a memory of the last relative innocence I had. At any rate, I still love hearing this song, and I'm always reminded of of how many firsts I was experiencing at that time. Beavis and Butthead, Power Rangers, meth. I'm joking about the meth, but the others were there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58

Wow way to hammer home that I was 22 and wondering why such a thin sound came out of such a HUGE acoustic.

I think I was 14ish for blind mellon, the video brings back a lot of memories of the era because of its icnic image.... kinda like November rain, teen spirit etc where the song has been overshadowed by my nostalgia and I can abrely hum it anymore but I recall the silly mtv spots like it was yesterday!

for me my #1 nostalgia album is Depeche mode's violator as it came out right when I was getting more into buying records, got a tape boom box and I think my 1st sony discman around this time abandoning my 45 collection and baby record player nd it was also the 1st electronic record that didn't sound wimpy to me (though there was stuff out there, not a lot of 10 year olds knew about skinny puppy)... it had been out for awhile when I bought it the 1st time (I have owned more copies of this album than anything else save Ziggy stardust)... every time I listen to it (which is a lot lately) it takes me back to some great times I ahd all through the 90s 'finding myself' as a teen and young adult! Yet as nostalgic as it makes me feel it still sounds fresh and interesting to me even though I know every note by heart.... I can't say that of other albums I bought around the same time like Metallica's Black Album or Use Your Illusion 1&2 that sound hopelessly out of step with what came before and after. This was a little before Nevermind and like that record it got me really interested in SONGWRITING over just bashing all the time....

here it is, listen to its glory... the intro to world in me eyes gets me every time.... so cool

https://youtu.be/kJQ9KoxS40g?list=PLPwPdfsfcDCWasKgwEQ6vj6_p9aFdrfar

this is album to me is OF its time but not defined by it and it takes me back while carrying me forward whenever I listen to it

Nostalgia. an incredible thing. I wrote a song within minutes of first hearing "Teen spirit" explode across the radio... The song was called Awaiting Yesterday and it spoke of wanting to go back in time to have that moment of first hearing the song explode through the radio again. I remember hearing the song and heading in, picking up the guitar and writing, stopping only when my friend came over. I played it to her and while impressed, I don't think she got it at the same level. I still see that day in my head, the memory as clear as if I was still standing there, although in my memory there was a wardrobe in the loungeroom...

Although cliché, The way teen spirit hit the world was a moment of opportunity. I had played in many bands before this, doing standards and covers, nothing too exciting.. there wasn't a market for original music that captured the crowd imagination. With the release that became Nevermind, doors were thrown open with enough force to break the hinges off and let any creativitiy that was ever harboured just explode. I could name a thousand other songs that bear relevance, but this needs to be acknowledged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ZyrTyyH2Y

Gonna throw another isolated track on here... just to let people appreciate the behind the scenes efforts that sound engineers go to, just to make a good song great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNLahMKS1ug

sounds about average for a finished vocal mix when soloed... you would eb surprised how much treatment is on even stuff like Nirvana.... I think Kurt really disliked ALbini's mixes of in utero because the vocals were originally pretty dry, uncompressed and lowish in the mix even by 90s standards... he got used to the butch vig processed vocal after nevermind

I've got two that go hand in hand.

Intro Theme for "The Legend of Zelda"

Between the ages of 3 and 4, I spent my time either playing in the creek of my apartments, watching VHS tapes from my dad's movie collection, or playing NES. I remember spending about as much time just listening to the music and letting it play for long periods of time as I did actually playing games. This one in particular can still give me goosebumps. I used to stick my ear up against the speaker of the TV and let those leaping bass notes do their damage to my eardrum. This music was the first time I remember hearing harmonies that off-set each other slightly. I didn't know WHAT it was, but I knew I liked it and it made me feel powerful and centered. The way the first high melody plays almost sheepishly and in a shy way only to be shadowed by another sheepish and small, but deeper melody for a few measures before coming together and making one strong, epic unit of music. As a kid, it just gave me a soul boner, but as an adult, I find that it perfectly complements the idea behind the game. You start off as a weak, pennyless, unarmed elf boy, but as you gather items, weapons, and the triforce pieces, you become stronger and more able to do what must be done. I didn't know anything about music, but I felt like the music was somehow a piece of me. Like when I was created, the music was there with me already. The game itself came out in 1986 and both my parents played the Nintendo that was in my room, so I imagine I heard this music a lot before even having memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMKWJ5e1kg

This next one you will want to listen to from start until 1:30 in... as the first three songs are all great.

Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest OST

This was yet another game where I would start the game, just to let it play in the background. The music and the scenery are perfectly harmonized into a Gothic architecture. I grew up on horror films and this game was the first one I was ever exposed to that felt familiar as a horror genre. The soundtrack goes through slow and creeping tunes, to fast and energizing ones. If the bass isn't going fast, the keyboard/guitar parts are. The sound effects to this game are programmed into my phone as ringtones and texts; have been for years, and I am still not tired of the music. The faster beats in this soundtrack inspired me to rock my jaw from side to side with the notes to make a sort of drumming effects in my head. I had no real way of expressing my love of music yet at this time except for singing specials for churches, which did not give me the same sort of high this other music did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1VNQRQ6wfc

Precisely why I posted it. Many people on the pages are getting established in music and hearing this lets them get (With a reference they can compare to) that you can't just shove it in dry. It needs to be wet to get the movement and let it slide right in to the mix. Yes, it sounds sexual. A good mix is the difference between passion and molestation.

oh, I get ya now -- I guess a lot of people are ostensibly musicians but don't really have a lot of studio experience outside someone's bedroom

wow. I'm out.

wow. I'm out.

say what now?

I'm not following either

my brain is mush today after a week of the 'why does my mix sound crappy?' kid -- people are so nutty

and god has my toddler become a tiny terrorist.... I am wishing I was at work just for the peace and quiet!

I only just now looked at that thread and still feel I won't ever read it. I avoided it because I didn't feel like reading on mixing issues and then by chance I clicked it and regretted it.

Your kid is 3 now right? Terrible twos over. Give him a shovel, tell him it's minecraft, and have him dig you a swimming pool.

its a little wet for digging this week

I think I am going stir crazy only seeing my house and my office 6 out of 7 days a week....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOzwOeONBhQ

I didn't really have a lot of music playing around me. My two older sisters had their boy bands and 2000's biggest hits, etc. I just found this on YouTube and I was excited by what I heard. Frankly, I still am. I'm sure there's some other random crap I heard that, if I dig hard enough, might just find. Anyways, this is the earliest song I can remember ever being fascinated by.