# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 5: A Song That Reminds You of Someone. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232 "2016-04-15T00:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/1 "2016-04-15T00:18:58Z")
[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8) (Hey There, Delilah). Not going to share the story behind it this time, and you don’t have to if you don’t want to… …but if you don’t mind, who does it remind you of and why? And here is a list of every poster on here that will get paid, per my “Whoever does all of this with me will split 100 bucks” rule, provided they keep replying to each of these for the remaining 25 threads. This list may continue to grow shorter as time goes by, though…and with each person off the list, the remaining will get more and more money split among them. Anyone can reply to these threads if you want to share your songs, though, still on the list or not. I welcome any, because I originally made this so that I could open my world to new music that affects people in memorable ways. **dada2fish Drunky Smurf Eddie The Horrible Emtar KronJonDerSohn Face Intentionally Left Blank fachverwirrt faithfool Gatopescado GuanoLad Half Man Half Wit Helena330 Jack Batty journeyman\_southpaw kayaker Mahaloth Moonchild panache45 Philliam Sahirrnee scabpicker shunpiker stillownedbysetters TheInimitableMaven WOOKINPANUB** ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/2 "2016-04-15T00:39:49Z")
**[“Rhiannon” by Fleetwood Mac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8)** I actually once knew a classmate in middle school named Rhiannon. Her mother worked at a restaurant in town, and revealed to my parents and I during a visit there one day that, yes and not surprisingly, her daughter was named after the Fleetwood Mac tune. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/3 "2016-04-15T00:57:44Z")
The Foundations, “Build Me Up Buttercup” reminds me of my ex-wife. It was one of the songs of our courtship when we didn’t realize we were anything but good friends hanging out together. I probably should have treated the lyrics as foreshadowing. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/4 "2016-04-15T01:04:34Z")
[I Want My Tears Back Now by Nightwish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2C9_MAJ0E) Reminds me of my daughter and wife, just before we picked up my son in Korea. We changed “tears” to “cheese” and sang it with her while we danced to it. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/5 "2016-04-15T01:19:34Z")
I had an ex who really screwed me and my life up royally. He is the personification of this song and it has to be the Limp Bizkit version for maximum douchiness. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hdVXr2WqgA0/maxresdefault.jpg "Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit Version (Acoustic Cover)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdVXr2WqgA0) I’m sorry to The Who, but Paul can still kiss my ass. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/6 "2016-04-15T01:29:40Z")
**Dance with Me.** Gina. Madison, Wi. Summer, 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/7 "2016-04-15T01:35:23Z")
Queen, '39. A favorite of mine, and it became a favorite of an ex-g/f who I introduced it to when we were dating. (She’s the only one I’ve ever had that I’m still friends with, btw.) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/8 "2016-04-15T01:41:05Z")
I was dating a guy I really liked back in the 80s when this song came out. It reminds me of him and that time. We’re friends on Facebook now and I still really like him! What might’ve been… [Survivor - I Can’t Hold Back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMcsKtBDwE) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/9 "2016-04-15T01:53:03Z")
A good childhood friend of mine from my High School years was really into “The Police”. When I think of him I am reminded of them, but also when I hear a [Police song from that era](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buuso8Cbp6k)\* I am reminded of him. \*_Rehumanize Yourself_. Has a very naughty word in it. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/10 "2016-04-15T02:32:28Z")
“Boogie Wonderland” by Earth, Wind, and Fire. Reminds me of a guy I was desperately, passionately in love with. We went to a lakeside roadhouse, no A/C, with screen doors and a huge fan going. It just opened for the evening, at sunset, and we were about the only customers in there. We got beer and put money in the juke box, and this song just EXPLODED, and we danced. We had the whole dance floor to ourselves. It was such a rush! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/11 "2016-04-15T02:44:31Z")
“Catch” by the Cure. Reminds me of my first real girlfriend. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkTYAQ2EqY) This is actually the first time I’ve watched the video. I love the song but I hate Smith’s twee mannerisms. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/12 "2016-04-15T03:02:39Z")
Richard Foltz was a dear friend of mine who died way too young. Every year, at Christmas time, he composed a song and shared it with his friends. Fortunately, before he died, he put thirteen of these songs together in a CD, singing two of them (the prophetic “[Christmas Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVoyValwFZc)” and “Christmastime”) himself. I’ll always have his music – and many wonderful memories – to remind me of the wonderful friend I have lost. [Richard Foltz / A Songwriter’s Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Songwriters-Christmas-Various-Artist/dp/B0000516XR/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1460686680&sr=1-1&keywords=richard+foltz) ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/13 "2016-04-15T04:59:09Z")
“The Winner Takes It All” by ABBA was in heavy rotation in 1980 when I had a break-up with a friend who went back to her former boyfriend. Still can’t listen to that song without that feeling of longing…damn. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/14 "2016-04-15T05:04:39Z")
[Lipps Inc - Funkytown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsRZLA_JzNE). This is the song that was playing in the coffee shop the moment I met my future wife. I always maintained that this was therefore “our song,” **FOREVER.** ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/15 "2016-04-15T05:06:16Z")
Starsailor, Tie up my Hands: [starsailor tie up my hands - Google Suche](https://g.co/kgs/X7i4X) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/16 "2016-04-15T05:58:40Z")
I’m not in this game but I wanted to say “The Analog Kid” by Rush. Song came out just about the same time I knew her, too. (One wonders what that “fawned-eyed girl with sunbrown legs” is up to these days…) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/17 "2016-04-15T08:19:43Z")
I don’t really need the money, but now I feel like this is a reality/game show! Either way, I do it for the love of the game. 🙂 Alice Cooper’s [Under My Wheels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJ9WiNy09M) always makes me think of a specific moment riding around with my sister and smoking weed when I was a kid. I had heard Alice Cooper many times before, but it was the first time I had heard that song. Every time I hear that intro, I’m reminded of her face while she turns the radio up and sings along while smiling at me. For a moment in my mind, it’s that late spring afternoon a long time ago; and I feel fresh, young and happy. I’m still largely the same person I was then, but I know a lot more now. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/18 "2016-04-15T08:20:16Z")
I have songs that remind me of old girlfriends, I have a couple songs that remind me of old friends. . .think I’ll go with this one, which I doubt anyone else will choose. [Experiment in Terror - Al Caiola](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKDRpl8IpU) My dad was an asshole in many ways, and a good guy in virtually no way, but there were 3 things we shared: One. On the 2 weekends he’d have me each month(which turned into once a month, once every 6 weeks, a few times a year, then not at all by the time I turned 13), we’d go fishing on Sunday mornings in the summer months. B. We’d wake up and have a killer breakfast - pancakes, sausage, scrapple (for him), etc, and watch Steeler football in fall/winter. 3. We’d struggle to do both, because we’d stay up WAYYYY too late Saturday nights, popping popcorn and watching Chiller Theater and bad, bad horror movies. I’ll never hear Experiment in Terror (the theme music) and not think of Chiller Theater, my Dad, and some of the very few good memories I have of him. Kind of appropriate, now that I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/19 "2016-04-15T12:20:31Z")
At first I misinterpreted the OP as asking who\* Hey There Delilah\* reminds us of and that would be a work friend of mine who, knowing how much I detested it (sorry, **Idle** )would sing it to me. As for a song that reminds me of someone. . . heck, all of them? But if I’m picking just one I’ll say Styx’s _Light Up_. My boyfriend in 8th grade was real music fan (and a stoner) and I remember hanging out at his house and listening to this song. Obviously we listened to all kinds of things but this one stands out because I was still kind of new to smoking weed and I had a stoner’s “wow dude, they’re songing “light up” and we are lighting up. It’s like they’re singing to _us_” epiphany :smack: I can just about smell the strawberry scented incense he used to burn. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232/20 "2016-04-15T13:31:19Z")
[Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nEfuE8Pw4U) Reminds me of my Dad who was a white guy from the midwest who loved old school soul/ R&B and could dance like James Brown. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-5-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-someone/752232.md?page=2)