Having been at UCSD during the late 1970s, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon always takes me back to that time. I lived on campus for most of it, and it was impossible to walk anywhere in the evening and not hear that music coming out of someone’s dorm window somewhere.
Well, my family ( mother’s side ) has forever ruined Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’ for me because they’ve always had it played at every funeral service they’ve had to hold.
I will always associate the live version of Astronomy Domine from Ummagumma with my first trip to New Zealand. I was on a flight from Auckland to Christchurch and had it playing on a portable CD player while looking out the window at the fantastic scenery of North Island.
Y’All Come Back Saloon by The Oak Ridge Boys takes me back to my one true love. The one I didn’t marry.
I always picture Laurence Fishburne doing that little dance of his in Apocalypse Now.
Prince’s album “Purple Rain” was a constant backdrop to an 18 month rollercoaster of a teenage relationship. We were 14 and 15 when we started and I reckon we were in our mid-40’s by the time it ended.
Wild times indeed, “Darling Nikki” was particularly memorable seeing as she was called Nicola and seemed determined to live up to the character in the song.
On a Slow Boat to China, played by a band at a nightclub that my occasional date and I attended one Saturday night. The band was doing 1930s/1940s swing/big band in the 1980s, before that genre enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, and Slow Boat to China made us realize that maybe we should be more than just occasional dates. In the end, we didn’t last, but that song will always remind me of her.
- The soundtrack of my toddler years :
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Jeanette - Porque te Vas
Elton John - Song for Guy
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
- The soundtrack of my time in Canada :
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
- The soundtrack of my weekends at my parents when I studied at University :
Tchaïkovsky - Piano Concerto n°1
Tchaïkovsky - Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Beethoven - Piano Concerto n°4
- The soundtrack of my time in London :
- The soundtrack of my last couple of months with my ex :
Hmmm… 
Some of these make the reader fairly cry out for details* or at least a 12-part miniseries.
*Not really asking for or expecting details. At least not before the miniseries comes out.
Silver, Blue and Gold by Bad Company. My mother wasn’t long for this world. We were waiting for an ambulance to take her to the hospital when she asked me to play the silver song. She sat there with a smile on her face while it played. 5 hours later she was gone.
For my part at least no other details are forthcoming.
However I will say that though we were ultimately not suited for each other, neither of us regretted the time we spent together and we remained friends afterwards.
“Livin’ Thing” by ELO. Every time I hear it, I’m instantly brought back to 9th grade and the time I had a huge crush on this one girl.
Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down A Dream”: it will always be connected to the memory of a President’s Day road trip to Death Valley with a couple of buddies. We were driving down Emigrant Canyon Road right where the whole valley comes into view and the song comes on. “It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down/I had the radio on, I was drivin’…” I cranked the volume up and the windows down and we all started singing along. A perfect moment.
Dang. There’s a lot of dust in the air all of a sudden…
Hotel california on the day it snowed in S Florida. School day, I was a freshman invited out to lunch with some seniors. Which meant driving around getting stoned when the white flakes came out of the sky
up ahead in the distance we saw a shimmering light
When I was 14 year old (1981), I took a week-long boat trip with my friend and his parents. It was a fairly large boat (40 foot), and we went from Lakeside, OH to Port Huron, MI. My friend was from Cleveland, and he was a big fan of the band Rush. I had never heard of them. So during the trip he would play the album 2112 over and over, and he would sing along with it. I later became a fan of the band. And today, every time I put on 2112, it takes me back to that (wonderful) boat trip.
When my now wife and I drove down to Florida to see the Apollo XVII launch, “Crocodile Rock” was on the radio every five minutes. That still brings back that trip to us over 50 years later.
Whenever I hear Dancing Queen, I think of walking down a country lane in the West of England one evening in early September 1976. It was dusk and a gentle rain was falling—a beautiful memory.
On the other hand, the theme from The Paper Chase makes me think of walking down a road in rural Wisconsin during the summer of 1982, one of the worst periods of my life.
“The first years are hard ones, much more than we know…”
Bits and Pieces by the Dave Clark Five and whoosh I’m back in the Parish Hall at my eighth grade graduation dance. All the stomping! I was wearing a white eyelet dress with a pink ribbon sash and a swirly skirt. Best dance I ever attended.
The Who’s Quadrophenia was my mid life crisis album in 2019. 
Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon/Parade always reminds me of Cleveland, summer 1989.