{Embarrassing) Songs with personal historical significance to you...

Scritti Politti, "Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)"

sure, it's got Miles Davis on it, but it's roundly considered Green's nadir...but it reminds me of the first time I got dumped, and soundtracked the long, painful recovery from a relationship whose demise I was pretty much thanking God for in a few months time...

Sophie B. Hawkins
'As I Lay Me Down to Sleep'

I'd bought my first CD player in early 1994, and 'Whaler' was the second album I ever purchased. I liked the cover. Though it wasn't a radio hit until '95 'As I Lay Me Down' became my favorite song during two weeks of summer camp at which I was daily beaten and humiliated by sadistic staff members. My torture was bad enough that at least once a day I tried to run away, and on one night I ended up hiding in the cabin of the camp manager's daughter. She was 17, beautiful, pregnant, white-trashy, and we formed a secret friendship.

I was clearly in love with her, and though I doubt very much she was much taken with a fat and bruised 15-year-old geek, she once told me 'If you were a year older and I were a year younger...' behind which (in my mind) always plays the electric-organ intro to 'As I Lay Me Down'...

Janet Jackson
'Again'

I was in love with Linnea and Linnea was my sister's best friend. I thought we had Something. As it turned out, she found me 'moony and a space-cadet.' I worked harder to be her friend; we actually became close. Linnea and her brother Alex shared a cassette of 'Again' and after a particularly amazing day at the beach, Linnea told me she would give it to me. When she went to fetch it upstairs, the tape was missing. We learned that Alex had given it to MY sister, and that Linnea had walked in on them kissing.

Naturally, this negated the potential for our relationship.

A few days later I snuck into my sister's room and stole 'Again' and crushed the tape with the heel of my Vans. But from '93 - today, whenever I hear 'Again' I'm able to call up a rhapsodic romantic mood.

Mötley Crüe
'Starry Eyes'

While this song was playing, my friend's drunk father threw a Nintendo controller at my friend's head; it deflected and smashed me in the mouth. I lost this friend later; he turned 'bad' ; I can't hear the song without thinking of him and feeling guilty.

Pretty much any song off of John Mellencamp's Lonesome Jubilee album. It is really lame but I can remember riding around in a gray ford windstar singing these midwestern anthems at the top of our lungs.

live's "throwing copper". yep, between that album and bush's "sixteen stone" you pretty much have eighth grade for emily. still listen to "lightning crashes" once in a while.

Sting "Fields of Gold"

Band camp, senior year. I had a wicked crush on the college student the director hired to run our drumline, and I made eyes at him the whole week but chickened out of kissing him at the end. I don't know whether that song had just come out, or whether he liked it, or what, but for some reason, there it is. Incidentally, his name was Jeremy.

I also discovered the Sundays through him, so I can't complain.

Kryptonite by the 3 Door Down. Based on that single's strength, I bought the CD, the first album I ever bought. The rest was awful, but what's more embarassing is that for a month or so I refused to see that.

The Dawson's Creek song -

Once in college I was really hung over and getting a bagel and oj and suddenly it came on and I thought it sounded really pretty and my eyes watered up.

Sorry, I guess that's not really significant, just embarassing.

ok, this one is really bad.
hands down by dashboard confessional. it was my freshman year of high school, i had just gotten dumped by my first girlfriend ever, who i had been in "love" with for over two years, and i was apparently boring and too distant. just remembering that first night we had spent together as a couple and listening to that song... oh early high school love. i haven't listened to it in years, but i can imagine that if i did, i'd get pretty sentimental.

"black or white" by michael jackson..........dancing in my friends living room, as a young, young, child....kinda creepy

you said embarrassing, so here goes:

"#40" by Dave Matthews

I think I'll go listen to the mixtape I made for that girl now.

Wow, this is the best thread on ILM.
I think I'll turn Remy's life into comic strips.

"Field of Gold" is good!

"#40" wasn't worth learning all the chords

'falling' by julee cruise and cher's version of the shoop shoop song remind me of a school camp where i got a snog

more remy episodes pls.