# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 7: A Song That Reminds You of a Certain Event.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 23, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857 "2016-04-23T01:58:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/1 "2016-04-23T01:58:15Z")
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI) one always reminds me of the day my father died.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/2 "2016-04-23T02:18:16Z")
Walking down to the Expo '86 grounds in Vancouver (in 86, of course), zonked out on shrooms, and just before we got there we walked by a dude with a blaster on his shoulder that was blaring “Low Rider”, which became my theme of our Expo exploits.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/3 "2016-04-23T03:24:45Z")
**The Unforgiven** , _I Hear The Call_ reminds me of a Mountain Air concert I went to. It was early in the morning, they were the first band, and I was nearly the only person there.
**ZZ Top** headlined what seemed like a week later.
I’m likely to lose this challenge, due to computer
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/4 "2016-04-23T05:33:38Z")
Since the board is still really wonky for me, I won’t link to the video, but we listened to a lot of Rod Stewart (??) while planning our wedding. So, every time I hear “Maggie May,” I remember all the excitement and stress and promise and fear and love.
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### Author:  [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/5 "2016-04-23T06:06:08Z")
[David Lee Roth - A Lil’ Aint Enough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=konUjNnCy14). This song entered heavy rotation on the rock radio station right around the time that Operation Desert Storm began in January '91. The station also read Gulf War bulletins in between song blocks, so I always associate this song with that.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/6 "2016-04-23T10:18:45Z")
Guess I’ll have to go back 47 years. This is Sly & the Family Stone, [Dance to the Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=607eFLYuJ_g), at Woodstock.
(Except the original wasn’t in Mono, and came with a few unmistakable aromas.)
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/7 "2016-04-23T14:37:03Z")
2003 at a kind of weird party but with a big dance floor. Two dear friends and I decide to just dance and this was on:
[The Weather Girls - It’s Raining Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E)
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/8 "2016-04-23T15:02:09Z")
I first heard the song [Viva the Beautiful Game](http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-beautiful-game-lyrics-beautiful-game-the.html) During the Yankees/Mets Subway World Series in the year 2000. I rewrote the lyrics to Viva The Yankees and Mets.
They’re our teams and we support them.
Who’ll be the first team to win four?
This isn’t the election, it’s more important.
So to hell with Bush and to hell with Gore.
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### Author:  [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/9 "2016-04-23T18:15:50Z")
**[“Cult Of Personality” by Living Colour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ver7VKnSOUU)**
October 28, 2003…the Halloween game for the Carolina Hurricanes that year/season, an early birthday gift (with my birthday being in three days), and the BEST DAMN game I ever attended between my seats (originally ten rows behind the Canes’ bench, but a friend and I got to move down to just three(!!!) rows) and the game itself consisting of a shutout and a natural hat trick (by Josef Vasicek…may he RIP ☹ ) by the home and favorite team. They played “Cult Of Personality” sometime during the third period, and it just put that much more of an exclamation point on a thoroughly terrific night.
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/10 "2016-04-23T21:39:31Z")
(I swear I’m not going to just post classical/opera in these threads.)
[Brahms Requiem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBMhP0UcdU). I sing with the St. Louis Symphony Chorus. We did the Brahms Requiem last season in the fall. At the performance, just after intermission, after the orchestra had tuned and more or less exactly when the maestro had gestured to the chorus to stand, a Michael Brown flash-mob protest started in the house. Banners unfurled from the balcony, and perhaps forty people stood up and sang a protest song (the specific song escapes my memory). I was very confused at first.
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/11 "2016-04-23T22:12:24Z")
[“Living in America”, by James Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58), reminds me of the one and only time I went down to Point State Park on July 4th for the fireworks and festivities. A few friends and I, including a young lady I kind of had a crush on, hung out at The Point for 4 or 5 hours before the fireworks started, and one of the local rock stations was blaring music the whole time. They also had the fireworks choreographed (sort of) to a music track, which featured a lengthy remix of Brown’s song and a way-too-indulgent use of the part where he sang, “Pittsburgh, PA!”
A great time and fond memory.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/12 "2016-04-23T22:42:40Z")
[“Get Ready” by Rare Earth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAwY2Q96Ps) reminds me of the night I lost my virginity. 3:30 AM on a warm autumn night, and I had just dropped her off at her mother’s house when it came on the radio. It’s a long song, and it played me all the way home.
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### Author:  [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/13 "2016-04-24T00:12:53Z")
This one has been a challenge
Of course now that I’m posting something I’ll start to remember other songs
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU)
I had just had my tonsils taken out and snippets of this song were in my head. I had never heard the song before and it was making me crazy wondering where it had come from. Finally I heard it on the radio.
I’ve heard that some surgeons play music during surgeries, so perhaps my surgeon was a fan.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/14 "2016-04-24T01:22:51Z")
[Long Gone Day by Mad Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2dN1x_k_8) reminds me of my 1987 Escort, driving with a friend down the road in the summer of 1997.
Kind of a time and a place, but there it is.
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### Author:  [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2016, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/15 "2016-04-24T06:50:33Z")
When I hear Blue Cheer do '_Summertime Blues_ I remember sitting on the floor of the Fillmore in '67 getting blasted by the real thing. Those amps did go to 11 !
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/16 "2016-04-24T21:14:46Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI) one always reminds me of the day my father died.
First of all let me say, let me say it dosh garn it, that is sad, that that is sad. I give you my condolences for his loss.
But, (shit I can’t, I can’t say “but” because that sounds like I am dismissing your loss of your dad and that makes me feel like an asshole, but (well here we go again) I don’t know how else to transition the story, so here we go, me being the a-hole)
I too have an **Enya** story. Though not as sad as **Idles**.
Once, in High School, me, my brother and his friend skipped school to just go driving around town.
And we went by a Nudist Colony that, surprisingly, wasn’t too far out of town.
We drove in to the entrance, where there was a guy stationed at a “toll booth ticket booth” thing, and we stopped and then immediately drove the hell out of there because we saw the “Nudist” people.
Now the good news of that story was we got to see a 70+ year old ladys’ boobies. Which was cool, because boobies are boobies **amirite? High Five!** I love you!
But personally I had mad respect for that lady. If you wanna let em hang out there then let em hang my sweetness.
This goes for you guys too and your own boobies. Let em swing baby!
And on that day we were listening to **Enyas’ “Paint the Sky with Stars”** album. So I will link to my favorite track:
[Caribbean Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl8iYAo90pE)
Though I will say that [Orinoco Flow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw) is a close second.
I will
I totally forgot what I was going to say up there in that last line, I was editing all the crap up before it because I suck at typing.
Call your mother, she loves you and misses you.
And don’t be too hard on yourself.
You are a beautiful person and you deserve all the love and respect because you are you.
Continue to be you. And love you.
I love you.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/17 "2016-04-25T00:01:26Z")
**Drunky** , I have no idea what’s going on with you lately, but Namasté, you adorable smurf you.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/18 "2016-04-25T01:08:42Z")
There’s a song that really creeps my sister out in a visceral way that for a long time I didn’t understand. But I think I figured it out.
One day in 1984 we were called to the hospital as our Dad was getting worse and nearing his time. We lived a long way from town, so it was a harrowing 30 minute drive there. The radio was playing but we were all silent. I think [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqM3P7LziIc) was playing at some stage through the drive, and now my sister associates it with our Dad’s death.
_(I actually like the song, and the video has particular… appeal.)_
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/19 "2016-04-25T01:18:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
>
> [Long Gone Day by Mad Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2dN1x_k_8) reminds me of my 1987 Escort, driving with a friend down the road in the summer of 1997.
>
> Kind of a time and a place, but there it is.
No one but me cares, but I meant to indicate the entire summer was the event I was referring to. It was special for reasons to difficult to explain here.
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### Author:  [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-7-a-song-that-reminds-you-of-a-certain-event/752857/20 "2016-04-25T01:22:30Z")
[Sia - Chandelier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-TM) Reminds me of a con I went to a couple years ago. I attended a late-night panel run by some friends, and ended up drinking with a couple that had a large bottle of Coke with all kinds of alcohol in it. I accidentally offended a guy I was trying to impress, watched a shirtless Wolverine cosplayer dance in the convention center concourse while cheering him on, and was eventually put on the shuttle back to my hotel by the people I drank with. When I got back, all I could do was lie around watching TV with the people I was rooming with, and eventually this song came on MTV. It was the first time I heard it, and it fit the occasion perfectly, in my opinion. I also remember I was cosplaying Revy from Black Lagoon that night, and we watched the episode where she goes to a church and drinks with some violent nuns.
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