It doesn't have to be a song from your childhood, but it best represents how your childhood felt.
Which song feels most like your childhood?
Rec.Me: theme/moodI love this song! I was named from this song. My mother went through the alphabet and came up with the letter T for "Taunna Lee"
"Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee"
Well there are later variations on how it was actually spelled, this is the spelling my mother took it from back in the 60s when the song came out. Yes, my mom took liberty on spelling my name but the song was the full inspiration.
I always imagined it was Honahlee. One word. I was 10 in 1970, when I was listening to a lot of that stuff. Just starting to listen to music seriously. I liked the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, Mamas and Papas, Simon and Garfunkel. I still like all that, it's my roots.
There are a lot of debates on the original spelling but taken from the poem by Leonard Lipton it was spelled Honah Lee. Peter Yarrow of the band decided to turn it into a song. Unfortunately, the original poem from 1959 was lost.
Ummm...the word in the song is indeed "Honah Lee." Not sure how your mom got it that there was a "t" in the word!
Got a cab ride to Hanalei, Hawaii which is a nice surf spot in a cove with a small mountain ridge on the far side of the cove when you arrive. The driver told us if you look at it a certain way, the ridge line looks like a dragon, and the wispy clouds curling off the point look like smoke the dragon is puffing.
A certain way to look at it, if you’re Peter, Paul, and Mary, by being stoned to the gills.
Allegedly, they wrote that song there. Now you must go on a roots trip to discover the origin of your name, and whether or not it was cab driver BS. Seemed 100% plausible.
I really enjoyed hearing about this. Great name
I loved that song as a child.
I don’t see how anyone could not love this song!
Damn, that was such a sad song to me as a boy. It raked me over the coals. The dragon befriends the boy, shows him a happy, wondrous time only wanting the boy's happiness in return, and the boy abandons him without a backward glance. I was enchanted by the song but thought it was very cold, and wouldn't sing that part when we had music-class singalongs in grade school.
I totally feel that! I love/hate this song for that reason. I always always thought “Damn Sam! I’d kill to have a dragon for a friend!”
Nailed it. Had 5 come to mind then saw yours. It's Puff the magic dragon for sure.
I adore that song. It’s so innocent sounding.
What a wonderful World. Louis Armstrong
For me, that's a funeral song. I've heard it at too many wakes.
Ugh
Interesting
Any song by Fleetwood Mac. My mom loved them and would play it on our big speakers and fill the house, it was the best.
Anything Stevie Nicks dings! My dad is still in love with her and plays every record he still has. Eric Clapton Crossroads, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix. Motown. Do-Wop. That. Ll being said, my offer is The Righteous Brothers with Unchained Melody.
When I was in rehab they had us play a song that speaks to us and mine was Rhiannon (the acoustic version). Ive been clean for 7 years but that song still speaks to my soul.
oh god yes
Head Over Heels-Tears for Fears(that piano intro automatically takes me back to my childhood).
Love that soooong!
Close to You. The Carpenters.
All star - Smash Mouth
she was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb and the shape of an L on her forehead
I had to play this song in marching band 😂
All That Glitters Is Gold
All That Glitters Is Gold
only shooting stars break the mold
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
I remember that! I also remember playing it over and over, as a child.
Sing from Sesame Street
Expose - Point of no Return
Bobby Caldwell - Heart of Mine
Santana - Black Magic Woman
George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
"Buh-buh-buh-buh-baaaaad!"
Upvoted for point of no return. That was my jam too
Forever Young - Alphaville
Moby- Porcelain
Dandy Warhols- Nietzsche
Rage Against the Machine- Renegades of Funk(cover)
When a redneck gains a fuck!
When a redneck gains a fuck!
Pokerface - Lady Gaga
Welcome to Paradise by Green Day. I was 12 when it came out and just starting to develop my own taste. It's obviously a song about being young and the feelings you have when you're no longer under parental protection. Still,No matter how many times I hear the song, that baseline always takes me back to that time where I was (and still kind of am) as an insecure little girl. It's comforting and painful at the same time.
Anything off the dookie album does the same for me
Same! Couldn’t have said it better myself. I still listen to Green Day. They’re my comfort blanket
Ducktales woo-ooo
Life is a hurricane, here in duck-burg/ race car, lasers, airplane it’s a duck-bur
might solve a mystery or re-write history
ABBA- Arrival.. I was about 8 yrs old. Danced around the whole house lol.. the best memories 👩🌹🎵
As a younger child, Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel As a teen, Take on Me - A-ha
My son's first dance was Cecillia. She was not breaking his heart.
That’s my song!
Brown eyed girl..Van Morrison
Almost anything by The Carpenters. My mother would sing along when I was little.
American Pie - Don McLean
Ooo me too! We had the 8 track tape and used to listen to it on road trips!
Baba O'Reily - The Who Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Mad World by Gary Jules
No rain- blind melon
In your eyes - Rogue wave
These songs always make me emotional and/ or think of my childhood. Not in a good way lmao 🥲
Cigarette daydreams - cage the elephant (This one especially is a punch in the gut..)
All of Depeche Mode thanks to my parents. The Smiths, Cure as well.
same to all 3! my dad loves that kind of music
Your parents have good taste!
Van Halen's debut album. When my mom put that on, you knew the house was getting cleaned top to bottom that day. I hear that bassline to Running with the Devil, and I smell pinesol, I swear.
I raced BMX as a kid. My earliest memory from racing was a beautiful warm sunny summer morning, and everyone had their cars parked alongside the track. Someone was blasting Van Halen's Runnin' with the Devil from their car stereo as one of the local pros threw the flattest tabletop I had ever seen off of a big double jump right in front of where we were parked watching.
I was 9 and it was the "raddest" thing I had ever seen. That moment is etched into my brain, and that song instantly brings me back to that moment. I won my race that day and all was right with the world.
The sad song Empty Garden by Elton John. I avoid it because no matter how old I am, I'm still triggered by childhood trauma.
Right there with you. I was 24 in Dec 1980. My entire childhood was lived to the music of The Beatles. A big part of me died that night, too.
The greatest hits tapes from both The Doobie Brothers and Steve Miller Band. Dad was (and still is) a fan and we wore the cassettes out in his pickup. 🥹
Aerosmith - toys in the attic
Or Paul Simon - late in the evening
Orelsan - La quête
🤝 Notes pour trop tard un peu plus vieux aussi
Remember Everything-five finger death punch
I love that song. But I’m sorry you feel like that describes your childhood
Hell Is For Children - Pat Benetar
😂💕 my mom HATES that song. i used to blast it at top volume on auto-repeat.
I don't actually like either and don't equate it with my childhood, I was just being surly. It's a fucked up song no doubt. Your hilarious for doing that to her though. I fully approve.
That didn't come out until I was an adult, but God, it describes parts of my childhood with painful accuracy.
Analog Kid by Rush
Don't stop me now- Queen. My very first ever favourite song at 4
MacArthur Park. O Saturday mornings, mom would light up some incense, put this song on (and other various easy listening 70s songs), and clean the house. Problem is, she would dust the Zenith (which took an hour because it was so big) when I was watching cartoons. Then, she would vacuum and I had to WALK over to the tv to turn it up.
Bachs Cello suite #1.
Soundtrack to Chariots of Fire
The ballad of Curtis leow
Shaddap you Face- Joe Dolce
Whassa madda you?
There's 103 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it... so the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it!
Korn - Daddy
Oof - sorry to hear that
Black Hole Sun
Wooon’t you come
Hammer time 🔨
Cat's in the Cradle, Harry Chapin
Resonance - HOME
Deacon Blues by Steely Dan Do You Feel Like I Do by Peter Frampton The Rubberband Man by The Spinners
So many more but I shared a sprinkling from the 70's as a young tween. Life was beginning to fill with sound and colors. I was discovering my independence.
The 80's brought an entirely different type of music and life experiences...
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys or "Our House" by CSNY
Enter Sandman.
Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts. Growing up on the beach in L.A.! Good times.
Heart of Glass
It's a Beautiful Morning, The Rascals
Put your records on- corrine Bailey Rae :)
The greatest hits tapes from both The Doobie Brothers and Steve Miller Band. Dad was (and still is) a fan and we wore the cassettes out in his pickup. 🥹
All Star - Smash Mouth
Material girl
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Lyrically, to summarise my childhood, that song would be The Day You Died by Arch Enemy
A precious child
With an innocent mind
Born to suffer in this life or for another
So hopeless and relentless
Falls this remorseless day
The dark remains
Of a violent world
The day you died
My tears ran dry
I feel you
I hear you
Echo in my soul
I failed you
I miss you so
The day you died
Echoes in my soul
This world's on fire
Turned its back on us
A lost horizon
Left behind
So hopeless and relentless
Falls this remorseless day
The dark reality
Of a hostile world
The day you died
My tears ran dry
I feel you
I hear you
Echo in my soul
I failed you
I miss you so
The day you died
Echoes in my soul
A-ha - take on me
Like a Rhinestone Cowboy. This is the first song I remember loving. I guess I was around 5. Then years later … I was about 12 … it came back via an Australian comedian with the refrain ‘Like a Rhinestone cowboy … getting up on his horse, and having intercourse.’
Beatstreet. I can still recall every word of that rap. I was about 11 when this came out. Totally obsessed.
here comes the sun by the beatles! im getting a tattoo of it bc it reminds me of my childhood and family
The oldies...my dad and his friends would sit around listening to okdies and playing dominoes while playing the oldies station...
If I had to pick I'd say it's a tie between 2... Poison Ivy- Coasters and Every Day-Buddy Holly
Ball of confusion- the temptations
Tom Dooley
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
My early childhood was very Walkin’ After Midnight by Patsy Cline. I spent so much time living in cars driving around in the middle of the night, while it played and it was very me, as well. My later childhood was more Hunger by Florence + The Machine. The lyrics and visuals in the video are on the nose for what was going on with me at that age.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Not because it’s a song literally from my childhood, but because it was my mother’s favorite song.
Let it Be
One of the loveliest songs ever.
The long and winding road
Blackbird. The Beatles
I Think We're alone Now ~ Tommy James & The Shondells
HR Puffenstuff theme song
John Jacob jingleheimer Schmidt....
Pilot - Magic
You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon
Puff the magic dragon
Rose colored glasses
Good time charlie
High Hopes by Frank Sinatra
Hold Your Head Up-Argent
Jack and Diane john cougar
Everclear & Sugar Ray -> All. My mom was always playing one of those bands
Pissing the night away
The entire Berlin album by Lou Reed because my dad would listen to it obsessively
“Man I feel like a woman” by Shania Twain
All She Wants To Do Is Dance - Don Henly
Every song from the Sublime album brings back my teenage years
Cat Stevens "Where Do the Children Play?"
Moon shadow
Call me maybe (Don't remember who)
Sesame Street
Don’t Cry Out Loud by Melissa Manchester. It’s my first memory of music on the radio. I was about 6 years old.
Let’s hear it for the boy - Denise Williams
It's a tie between Drops of Jupiter and Crocodile Rock
Tina Turner - what's love got to do with it
For some reason that song takes me back to being a kid riding in the car eating Reese's pieces
Spandau Ballet - True
Aha - Take on Me
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Strawberry Fields Forever, it’s feels picturesque but something feels off. But I’m certain I was truly happy back then or at least blissfully ignorant
Reading Rainbow theme song.
Black is black I want my baby back lmao
Band on the Run : Paul McCartney and Wings
Summertime.
Lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Yellow Submarine by the Beatles
Somewhere only we Know-Keane
Big Girls don’t Cry-Fergie
Steal My Sunshine by Len.
Upside Down - Jack Johnson
No Sleep Till…🎤….. Brooklyn!!!!
Livin da vida loca, Ricky Martin (I remember my mom playing that song on repeat over the summer of 99’)
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You.
Yesterday
Huey Lewis & The News - If this is it. As soon as I hear that intro drum fill, it’s right back to 1984.
Eye of the tiger
Smash mouth, all star
Dont worry be happy - bobby mcferrin
Yesterday by the Beatles
Hot Fun in the Summertime and Big Band music
Hotel California. 1976, Southern California, I was 8 and my friend had the 45….
That song is a Time Machine — I stop whatever I’m doing and I enter that world.
My dad used to play the Kenny Rogers / Dolly Parton duet “Islands in the Stream” st breakfast every day for what seemed like years.
And if we begged him to stop he would just turn it up and sing louder. (He was a horrible singer).
Good times!
Theme song of Adventures of Pete and Pete
Get Low by Lil John dropped when I was in 1st grade, so that
Come on With It by Tower of Power. I remember dancing to this in the living room with my dad and sister
Can we talk - Tevin Campbell
Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog
You belong to the city - Glenn Frey
Kid Rock “All Simmer Long” was my teens. Partying by a lake, making love with my girl, Skynyrd. “Man I’d like to see that girl again.”
Walking on sunshine
Caught Up - Usher
I was around 5 when it came out. I would ask Mom to play it allllll the time 😂
Still my jam to this day!!!
Anything by Olivia Newton John.
Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tenille.
Blowing in the wind
Hot in the City by Billy Idol
I had a Barbie that came with a tape and on it was "I'm Walking on Sunshine"
That was a song from my childhood and representative of my childhood- very happy and upbeat, it was the 80's man!
Killer Queen, by Queen.
I had gotten into Queen, so for my 9th birthday, my dad got me the 3-CD collection of their hits. And Killer Queen was my FAVOURITE! Now it's Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy haha
everything she wants by wham my mom used to play this like every morning and every car ride
Animal crackers from Shirley Temple
Fortunate Son
Take On Me- Aha
Break My Stride- Matthew Wilder
The Way by Fastball
Or
Smooth by Santana/Rob Thomas
Small town-JC Mellancamp
My Girl - The Temptations, and Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Neil Sedaka - Laughter in the Rain
That song captures the vibe of that weird period in the mid-70s where old crooners and early punk and rockers and metal and prog and folk and country and R&B and soul and psych and disco were all on the same FM radio stations at the same time. It was awesome and gave exposure to such a wide spectrum of music that you really don’t hear any one place today.
Eight Days a Week By The Beatles is one.
The twist, by Chubby Checker
Eye of the tiger without a doubt
I was only 3 when Every Morning by sugar ray came out but that was my jam forever, still kind of is. I can't think of any sentiment the song has to me other than enjoying it for so long but it definitely reminds me of elementary summer breaks
Dont go off wandering by Limp bizkit reminds me of the winter and any other Limp Bizkit song reminds me of summer
70's born. 80's raised. Childhood song? From 2016.
Kiss Me
Sixpence None The Richer
Around The World in 3/4 Days by Good Luck Humans
Hurrian Hymn No. 6
"17 Crimes" by the Band AFI
Dryers Eve- Metallica
Montréal - Ariane Moffatt
I'm from Quebec so I heard this song a million time but it feels so much like childhood
Puff the magic dragon