everyday/real world sounds that summon specific songs into your mind

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There's a certain car alarm, the one with the mid-tempo, steady horn honk, that makes me start tapping out the beat to this song every time I hear it outside my window (horn honks being the guitar minor thirds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxAa0shpx0

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:07 (seven years ago)

can anyone hear the sound of a moving truck horn without thinking of the Vengaboys

frogbs, Friday, 26 January 2018 18:10 (seven years ago)

I listen for Miles Davis licks whenever I'm in a parking garage now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOipTXvNNo

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:16 (seven years ago)

The 'new till opening' bing bong sound at my local Lidl is the direct inverse of the chimes at the start of Salad Days. I've been caught saying 'what a fucking lie, I call it a LIE' to myself as I load the radishes and shitpaper on the rolling till mate.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:35 (seven years ago)

*mat

Also, my 'put your seatbelt on!' alarm in my car is the same as the opening chord to Sloop John B. I always take it as a sign. To get some grits.

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:37 (seven years ago)

The squealing of an approaching NYC subway car makes me think of a similar sound in "Angel" by Goldie.

henry s, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:48 (seven years ago)

A colleague's ringtone was accidentally very similar to the music that plays in Nightmare on Elm Street when Freddy is nearby, that was fun

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:57 (seven years ago)

Every time I breathe on each of my glasses lenses to give them a quick clean, “Boom Boom” by Paul Lekakis starts playing in my head.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 26 January 2018 23:05 (seven years ago)

There was a stairwell door in the dorm I lived.. it's opening creak always replicated a Coltrane lick from one of miles' prestige albums

brimstead, Saturday, 27 January 2018 00:09 (seven years ago)

I've got this metal water bottle that makes a resonant pinging like the opening bars of "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" whenever it bangs into something

bernard snowy, Saturday, 27 January 2018 01:45 (seven years ago)


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