# Music that has unremovable associations for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277 "2018-05-16T12:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VictoryLap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9d8465/32.png) [@VictoryLap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VictoryLap)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/41 "2018-05-17T09:19:58Z")
Anything with higher BPM and some sort of decent sub or sine wave reminds me of my previous love of Jungle or Goa Trance, man I’m getting old as fuck these days ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/42 "2018-05-17T13:05:00Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > [Baroque Hoedown](https://youtu.be/Ax00vnsZPKE?t=10) by [Perrey and Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrey_and_Kingsley) is the theme song of Disneyland’s **Main Street Electrical Parade** (1972) and later parades. I’m not sure if that fits the OP. It’s certainly iron-clad associated with the Main Street Electrical Parade, but it’s not exactly a piece of classical music, or something you’re likely to encounter casually anywhere else. I had to look around to find any of Perrey and Kingsley’s other works. The only place I found it easily was on a collection of “Disney Hits”. Aside from the Main St. Electrical Parade, the only place I ever heard it aside from that was the short “The Collector” that Mike Jittlov\* made for Disney: \*Jittlov is a truly under-appreciated animator best known for _The Wizard of Speed and Time_, although he’s made a lot of poorly-distributed, highly creative animated pieces. Have a look at his demo reel, _Animato_: [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Mike+Jittlov+Animato&view=detail&mid=66074F52629878562DCB66074F52629878562DCB&FORM=VIRE](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Mike+Jittlov+Animato&view=detail&mid=66074F52629878562DCB66074F52629878562DCB&FORM=VIRE) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/43 "2018-05-17T13:12:43Z")
I just thought of another one: “Non, je ne regrette rien” is the _Inception_ music, in more ways than one. Not only is the song itself featured in the movie, but the iconic _Inception_ “[BRAAAM](https://longreads.com/2016/12/08/braaam-inception-hollywood-soundtracks/)!” is the song slowed way, way down. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/44 "2018-05-17T13:39:18Z")
_[The Sailor’s Hornpipe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sailor%27s_Hornpipe)_ is and always will be the first part of the Popeye theme. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/45 "2018-05-17T13:55:28Z")
“The Final Countdown” will always remind me of the entrance of Gob and his [del]tricks[/del] illusions. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/46 "2018-05-17T14:53:26Z")
I’m surprised with so many Python fans on SDMB, nobody has mentioned John Phillip Sousa’s “Liberty Bell March” yet. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/47 "2018-05-18T03:58:40Z")
Vera Lynn’s rendition of _We’ll Meet Again_ always fills me with a warm glow … from the heat of [global thermonuclear war.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VlruVG81w) And who can listen to Liszt’s _Hungarian Rhapsody #2_ without imagining a cheeky mouse gliding up and down the keyboard? Not the first nor last [toon to feature this tune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1laz-7C2KM), but [T & J](https://youtu.be/E1JKd1C7izQ?t=24) was certainly the best. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/48 "2018-05-18T06:20:38Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > The Toreador song from Carmen will always be the [Palm Dairy Products](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1sScXLThg) song to me first, and the Gilligan’s Island Hamlet [“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg) song second. Oh, yes, I still hear the Skipper’s voice when I hear that song. “There’s just one other thing, you ought to do…to thine own self be true!” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/49 "2018-05-18T06:39:52Z")
Oops, double post removed. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/50 "2018-05-18T06:57:49Z")
Barber’s _Adagio for Strings_ is irrevocably tied to the game _Homeworld_ for me. This isn’t a bad thing, as it was one of my favorite games and the use of the song was inspired, given the plot–a perfect mix of melancholy and epic. But I suspect that most people don’t associate the song with “space opera video game”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/51 "2018-05-18T11:32:48Z")
I have never heard Aram Khachaturian’s **Sabre Dance** in its proper milieu, the ballet _Gayane_\* Whenever I hear it, I immediately picture some performer on Ed Sullivan or some similar show attempting to spin twenty dinner plates atop twenty long thin upright poles > **[Plate spinning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_spinning)** > > Plate spinning is a circus manipulation art where a person spins plates, bowls and other flat objects on poles, without them falling off. Plate spinning relies on the gyroscopic effect, in the same way a top stays upright while spinning. Spinning plates are sometimes gimmicked, to help keep the plates on the poles. > Plate spinning has existed since at least the 3rd century. It is likely it originated in China but it also has a long history in Western countries from evidence in medieval religious ... Sometimes it’s used for ice skaters, or some other random physical activity. After seeing it used as a signature tune for other sorts of frenetic activity, I’m kinda curious to see someone actually dance to it with sabres [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Sabre+Dance+ballet+youtube&view=detail&mid=3458747940841DDCA3D23458747940841DDCA3D2&FORM=VIRE](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Sabre+Dance+ballet+youtube&view=detail&mid=3458747940841DDCA3D23458747940841DDCA3D2&FORM=VIRE) \*(which apparently gave us the ballet suite music used in _2001: a Space Odyssey_, another irrevocable association for me) ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/52 "2018-05-18T12:47:07Z")
[Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk) will forever belong to the Chicago White Sox ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/53 "2018-05-18T13:18:51Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m surprised with so many Python fans on SDMB, nobody has mentioned John Phillip Sousa’s “Liberty Bell March” yet. I thought about that, but I couldn’t remember the name of the march and I got distracted before I looked it up. I was just sitting here, thinking, “It’s…” ---
**Author:** ![scarbrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@scarbrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scarbrow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/54 "2018-05-18T16:54:08Z")
I have a very silly one. Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and the video game Descent came out about the same time. So on certain songs, I still hear the laser blast sounds from the game. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/55 "2018-05-19T02:15:21Z")
> [@VictoryLap](#): > > Anything with higher BPM and some sort of decent sub or sine wave reminds me of my previous love of Jungle or Goa Trance, man I’m getting old as fuck these days LOL, other than ‘I’m getting old as fuck these day’, I don’t understand a single word you wrote 😃 ‘Our Love’ based on Tchaikovsky has been used in endless romantic reunions, endless love! I remember it played behind a bit about a tree growing, on Sesame Street, years ago. But it’s so swooningly romantic. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/56 "2018-05-19T03:01:47Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > LOL, other than ‘I’m getting old as fuck these day’, I don’t understand a single word you wrote 😃 … Then you might have achieved ‘old as fuck these day’ status… as have I, I’m proud to say. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/57 "2018-05-19T04:12:01Z")
All mine are naughty. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/58 "2018-05-19T17:43:58Z")
> [@BobBitchin](#): > > O’Fortuna as Ozzy’s entrance music.🆒 > ARE YOU READY TO ROCK AND ROLL?!?!?!? :eek: I don’t find [Old Spice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-IlJMQMIU) very rock and roll. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/59 "2018-05-19T17:51:20Z")
Having grown up in Boston in the 1960’s I cannot hear Camelot without thinking of the Kennedy’s. Particularly the reprise: ## That once there was a fleeting glimpse of glory Called Camelot. Don’t let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/60 "2018-05-20T07:42:53Z")
When I hear the march from [Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9GrmokeHPY) I’m not so much sad for Queen Mary as for poor Alex getting beat up by his own Droogs. Pretty much all of mine are movie associations, Singin’ in the Rain in the same movie is another one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277.md?page=4)