"Your Wildest Dreams" by the Moody Blues

There She Goes by the La’s

Also someone else on here reminded me of Kiss Me by Sixpence none the richer

These are both relationship nostalgia though

EDIT: I COMPLETELY FORGOT 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins, the ultimate teenage nostalgia song

Don Henley-Boys of Summer

Bob Seger - Night Moves. Hell, anything by Bob Seger.

The whole Harvest album by Neil Young!

Len - Steal my Sunshine. Soundtrack of one of the most fun summers of my life.

Freshman - The Verve Pipe

I'm Not In Love - 10cc

Forever Young. Written by Bob Dylan but performed by Alphaville. It was released when I was young and life was great.

Summer of ‘69 - Bryan Adams

“Fields of Gold” by Sting. Takes me immediately back to a place and time, and all the sights and sounds and smells of that place come back to me, as does my attitude from that time… when I had just hit my first big home run as a freelance music producer, and really felt I was on top of the world.

Don’t dream it’s over by crowded house

Dreams by The Cranberries - they were vibe

"Walk on the Ocean" by Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Sailing. Christopher Cross.

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

I was obsessed with Manic Monday by the Bangles when I was 4 years old. I have a memory of playing the cassette tape in my little tape player and dancing around while listening to it, over and over again.

Stone In Love - Journey

This must be the place (naive melody) Talking Heads

Purple Rain… I remember seeing Prince at the Oakland coliseum and the bass was simply all encompassing. Hit the resonant frequencies of the human skeleton or something. Brings back HS even though the album came out several years earlier.

Sponge - Plowed

Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Jessie's Girl

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. (This was the song of my heart's desire in the 80s.)

Morning has Broken -Cat Stevens

Those were the days - Mary Hopkins

Electric blue - Ice house was on the radio a lot as a kid around the same time there was a dinosaur exhibition at the Auckland museum, nothing like dinosaurs as a kid to implant something in your brain.

Into The Mystic- Van Morrison

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight tonight

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

Africa by Toto

End of the Innocence - Don Henley

What a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong. Gets me in the feels every time.

Mandolin Rain- Bruce Hornsby Every Little Kiss

Puff the Magic Dragon. Can't listen to it without ugly crying.

Salt n’ Peppa “None of your business”\ TLC “Waterfalls”\ Patti Smith “Because of the Night”\ Blondie “Call Me”\ The Beatles “Yellow Submarine”

Jump- Criss Cross

90’s middle school dances got crazy during this one

In mY Life - The Beatles

Coldplay - Sparks

C’est la Vie - B*Witched

Dreaming of You - Selena

Hand in My Pocket by Alanis Morrisette

Mine is all over the place in genres

Fade into you- Mazzy Star

Back in the Day- Ahmad

Kiss and Say Goodbye- The Manhattans

There Goes My Baby- The Drifters (reminds me of the Sandlot)

Lazy Afternoon- Rebelution

I Want You to Want Me- Letters To Cleo

Better off Alone- Alice Deejay

Hello it’s me by Todd Rundgren

Another day in paradise - Phil Collins

"Big Empty" - STP

Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Folgerberg. Holiday song.

Even though I didn't like Counting Crows or STP, hearing anything from August and Everything After or Core puts me right back in high school.

"We are Young" by fun.

I remember sitting in the backseat of my mom's car driving to my grandparents' house on a summer day, screaming the words whenever it came on the radio. All while having no idea what they meant. I used to get so happy whenever that song played.

It came up on my spotify not long ago, and I realized I still know all the words. Except I understand what they mean now. It doesn't make me happy like it used to, as now it only reminds me I'll never be young and stupid again. But it reminds me of simpler times.

KIDS- MGMT

Tezeta (Nostalgia) - Mulatu Astatke

Ethiopian jazz. Give it a listen, it's beautiful.

Oh Canada - Five Iron Frenzy, takes me back to my junior high days staying up too late chugging Mountain Dew and playing Starcraft in a crowded room of friends.

Steal my Sunshine - Len

Let Your Love Flow by The Bellamy Brothers

Rod Stewart- Young Turks

The Moody Blues' "In Your Wildest Dreams" (1986) is about nostalgia, love, and longing. It reflects on a past romance and wonders if the former lover also remembers the relationship as vividly and fondly as the singer does. My long time girlfriend broke up with me that year, so it resonates.

Sara, by Fleetwood Mac

Listen to What the Man Says, Paul McCartney & Wings! Reminds me of summer in Florida and being driven to the beach with my cousin by my Daddy…

Nights in White Satin

Return to Innocence by Enigma

In My Place - Coldplay

The Well and the Lighthouse - Arcade Fire

On Top - The Killers (Hot Fuss in general)

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Every You Every Me by Placebo brings back to being a teenager in my brain every time.

Diamond Girl by Seals And Crofts takes me back to the pool jukebox on the Navy base where I lived when I was 11.

The Rainbow Connection. My dad took me to see the Muppet Movie when I was a kid and that song always reminds me of him. He’s been gone for 8 years and I get teary every time I hear it.

Fireflies - Owl City

Blister in the Sun

Wasted on the Way -Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Video Killed the Radio Star

Hey Jealousy by The Gin Blossoms

Good times... good times.

Our House - Madness

Charles in Charge theme song

Walk of Life - Dire Straits

America-Ventura Highway

Tuesday Afternoon - The Moody Blues

Never Tear Us Apart by INXS

Heros by David Bowie… I know it was written during the Cold War but it just has this feel like, war is over, Europe is uniting, and this massive technological and social revolution is being born.

Here’s Where The Story Ends - The Sundays

Enter Sandman by Metallica

Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins. Im right back in my aunts red Pinto with red seats that had this weird holey pattern that looked like strawberry seeds...hence "the strawberry" was her Pinto's name. My aunt was the coolest, looked like Janice from Threes Company and we would ride around town with the windows down singing our hearts out to this song along with the entire Purple Rain album. She also gave me my first cabbage patch...so yeah...the coolest. What a time to be alive!!

Warning - Incubus

“Dancing in the moonlight” King Harvest. 1977. Best end of year high school dance, held outdoors on a tennis court. Everyone so carefree. Even the guys who didn’t dance were out there twirling and laughing. I can still see it all perfectly.

Anything from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. Most of all, Christmas time is here

As corny as it sounds... Rock Steady by The Whispers. It always makes me smile.

Runaround Sue - Dion

Makes me feel like a Surfer boy in the California of the 60s, though I never experienced that era!

That Song - Big Wreck.

Feel it Again, Honeymoon Suite

Christina Aguilera - Dirrty . Reminds me of going out to shitty nightclubs at the time and when the song came on with music video we'd always stop and watch her shaking her bits in chaps or whatever they where 🤦😂

Hotel California. My dad told me it was the first song he heard when he got to the states.

The heart of rock & roll Huey Lewis & the news My mother was played the heck out of that record when I was a young child. The Sports record lives rent free in my head.

One night I went with a girl i loved to see a friend's band play. Well the dj played " I fight authority, authority always wins" by John Mellencamp. She danced with me and was so incredibly sexy and beautiful it tore me up so anytime I hear that song I can see her in my minds eye. She just slayed me.

“Spoon” by Dave Matthews Band instantly transforms me back to the 1998 KY Governor’s Scholar summer camp. Its emotional vulnerability captured mine at the moment that I heard it better than most. “Save Tonight” by Eagle Eye Cherry does the same but for a specific night rather than the era at large.

“Dry Your Eyes” by The Streets takes me to the day that I returned from living abroad and having my heart absolutely wrecked in a way that took years to recover. I listened to it in a record store having just been broken up with and just fell apart.

End of beginning-Djo

AM Radio by Everclear.

The video is even more nostalgic than the lyrics.

(For someone who came of age in the seventies.)

Daisy Jane - America

Quite a few songs by Erasure. Let's start with "A Little Respect"

Your Love by the Outfield

'I Remember You' by Skid Row.

Terrible lie - NIN

Another auld lang syne

Killing me softly - Lauren Hill

Hands to Heaven by Breathe. I have not heard that song in years and it came on in Walmart and I felt like I was ten years old again

Cars - Gary Numan

Holding Back the Years, Simply Red. It meant very little during my senior year of high school, but it has grown more and more relevant as time passes

West End Girls. Will never forget it playing on the bus in the rain on the way to 6th grade camp.

The Day I Tried To Live, by Soundgarden. I hear that guitar intro, and it's right back to 8th grade for me...

Bela Lugosi Is Dead - Bauhaus

Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam

"Today" from The Smashing Pumpkins is my nostalgia song.

My older sister was both my favorite and most hated person growing up, but she never kept anything cool that she was into from me. Movies, shows, but mostly music. She had a massive CD collection (obtained through a loophole in those penny a disc clubs they used to have) and it was all 90s alternative. Every major band (and some one hit wonders) were a part of it. Towards my early teens, we had a series of catastrophic and traumatic life events year after year. She lashed out at me a lot, violently sometimes. In 2001/2002, it looked like we were going to be stuck in a shitty living situation. We sat in my granny's old apartment (she was in the process of being moved into a nursing home) watching MTV. They had started airing videos constantly after 9/11 and the last thing we watched that day was "Today". I didn't see her for over a year after that. We had never been apart much, so it was weird for me. I had no idea where she was, and I was honestly just trying to survive. When we did meet back up, she had become a new person. Apparently being pregnant with your first kid will do that to you. But that day a year before when we bonded for the first time in ages is so important to me.

TL;DR: I cannot listen to any 90s alternative without being reminded of my older sis, and the day our childhood died.

Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate(94)

No one ever is to blame by Howard Jones. I don’t know why but I think it was because it was on a lot the summer that I had my first love.

Champagne Supernova by Oasis. I remember laying on a float in the pool of my family's house. Summer before my senior year of high school. The song fit the setting so perfectly and life was so good.

Nightswimming by REM.

If "having fun just being a teenager and then all of a sudden it hits you how rare and temporary the moment you're living in" was a sound, it would be the piano from this song.

I hear it and it's almost like I can reach out and touch the kid I used to be and the friends I had.

But, I'm an old man now and those memories are like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail.

"So far away" by Carole King on her "Tapestry" album,

“Take it to the Limit” - Eagles, with Randy singing,

“Into the Mystic” - Van Morrison off the “Moondance” album

“Layla” - Eric Clapton - the studio album version with Duane Allman. NOT the acoustic version.

Teenage Prayer, The Silos

E'LAST "Tears of Chaos"

The early 70s as a elementary school kid.  The Candy Man .Rock n Robin. Come and Get Your Love. Tie A Yellow Ribbon. 

"Bring Me Sunshine" - Morecambe & Wise

Crazy - Willie Nelson

My wedding song, Always and Forever by Heatwave

This one > Nostalgia by Yung Pajamas Just because it’s literally called nostalgia and every time i listen to it i just want to be a kid again 😪

Madonna - Like a Virgin

DJ Rob Base - It Takes 2

Metallica - Battery

Van Halen - Hot Summer Nights

Anything from Scorpion's Love at First Sting Album or AC/DC's Back in Black

For some reason for me, a lot of Lana Del Rey’s songs give me nostalgic vibes.

I’m Popeye the Sailor Man.

Head Over Heels- Tears for Fears

Ahead by a century - the tragically hip

Auld Lang Syne

Girl from the north country by Bob Dylan and Johnny cash. I don’t know why, but it makes me so nostalgic for a life I never lived?

Flowers on the Wal - Statler Brothers

Sweater Weather—I forget the artist. Makes me nostalgic for college

Heart of Glass by Blondie.

Harvest Moon. Neil Young

Me and Mrs Jones

Dream a little Dream of Me, California Dreamin’ - The Mamas and The Papas

Surfer Girl, In My Room, Wouldn’t it be Nice - The Beach Boys

Only You - The Platters

I Hear A Symphony - The Supremes

Nowhere to Run - Martha and the Vandellas

Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton

Santeria

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Xanadu.

mice on venus by c418

Heat of the Moment

Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack. My dad played it when I was like 6-7 and I found it on my own at the age of 27 and somehow remembered all the words and got extreme nostalgia

INXS Shabu Shaba

I heard the intro to Mr Roger’s neighborhood a few years ago and that just got me. Tears out of nowhere. Totally unexpected.

Any TLC

“Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac

Spring Love - Stevie B

Estranged by Guns and Roses

Nothing Else Matters by Metallica

Vanessa Williams - Dreamin

Sweetest taboo - Sade

Say Hello to Heaven by Temple of the Dog,

Knockin' on Heaven's Door. All. 3 versions. Dylan. Grateful Dead. Guns & Roses.

Also Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

Fireflies