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What song do you not like as it brings back unhappy memories?

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polomint Mon 01-Feb-21 23:38:23

The song I dont like is "eleanor Rigby " by the Beatles. I was 8 months married and 3 months pregnant and living in a condemned tenement building. We had no phone,an outside toilet and my husband and i werethe only inhabitants in our close. I moved to my husbands town and had no friends and he was at work all day every time that so g came on the radio I burst into tears as I felt so lonely just like the eleanor in the song. Thankfully my life is so much happier now but still cant stand the song!

Lilikemaho Tue 02-Feb-21 11:25:09

Your song by Elton John my husband passed away 3 years ago this was our favourite song also many more as my husband was always singing I can't listen to the radio as music upsets me

Kim19 Tue 02-Feb-21 11:30:51

Johnny Mathis 'Twelfth of Never' continues to crush me mind, body and soul.

susieq3 Tue 02-Feb-21 11:36:12

Humbertbear. Same for me. It was Annie’s song. John Denver.

Lilyflower Tue 02-Feb-21 11:39:46

'I Want to Go Home.' It ran through my head continually when my mother, one day, instead of letting my sister and I go to school, bundled us into her lover's Mini and took us away from our home to London. She rented a hideous room with flashing neon lights outside the window and left us with bags of cheese and onion crisps to go out with her chap. My heart literally ached for home.

Gingergirl Tue 02-Feb-21 11:40:08

“Always look on the bright side of life”, played at a funeral! (An unusual choice!) Gone off it since!

Annaram1 Tue 02-Feb-21 11:41:08

They tried to tell us we're too young... My first fiance and I sang that together when we were both 21. Sadly , it all went haywire. Luckily that song is rarely heard now.

GrammarGrandma Tue 02-Feb-21 11:42:58

Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. I can't say why.

schnackie Tue 02-Feb-21 11:43:01

MamaB257 what a sad youth you had, and how lovely of that officer to sing that beautiful song to you!
I have several songs that affect me, but in a different way - the film " Kramer vs. Kramer" - my husband and I were in a doomed marriage, and I was working the 3 - 11 pm shift as a nurse, so he had all the evening childcare. We walked out of that film and he literally said "So, I can get custody when we divorce" and chills went down my spine. He did in fact get custody and although I had my son at holidays it was never the same. When I see that film come on television I still get those chills.

westwoodirene1215 Tue 02-Feb-21 11:50:46

Goodbye English Rose Elton John
My mum had a stroke just after princess diana died and died just as the song came out for Diana

Dee1012 Tue 02-Feb-21 11:52:14

I was in the kitchen with my Dad and a song called Secret Love came on the radio, it was the Kathy Kirby version. My Dad grabbed my hand and we danced / jived around the room together.
It became "our song"
I only have to hear the first note and it breaks my heart.

Sararose Tue 02-Feb-21 11:53:43

Danny Boy always upsets me. My lovely granny sang it when she was confined to her bed for several years before passing away over 50 years ago.

Chicklette Tue 02-Feb-21 11:55:39

Faith by George Michael. I was 9 months pregnant with second DD. My H loved the song and played it constantly. When I was in labour he admitted he was having an affair and left the next week. That song just brings it all back.

TrendyNannie6 Tue 02-Feb-21 11:57:47

Everybody hurts played at a funeral of a close friend

Apricotdessert Tue 02-Feb-21 12:01:48

REM's Everbody Hurts. Absolutely hate the song. Reminds me of when DH played it on repeat after his DM died following a long illness. It obviously said something different to him than to me.

Ksing Tue 02-Feb-21 12:12:54

My emotional memory of a song is “You raise me up!” sang by Westlife! Our daughter was born very prematurely at 26 weeks! She spent 3 months in Special Care Baby Unit! When the Doctor who was responsible for making decisions which ultimately saved her life retired, a fashion show and a retirement event was organised for him, involving children who had spent their first weeks of life in the unit! All ages attended, Dr Lloyd was presented with a gift, and all able bodied children stood up and thanked him by singing this song to him! Not a dry eye in the house! Wonderful man!

halfpint1 Tue 02-Feb-21 12:27:44

Enya, played it at my Mum's funeral , it was perfect;
Have to remove myself or silence it whenever I hear it
now.
Funeral music really needs some thought.

Growing0ldDisgracefully Tue 02-Feb-21 12:32:46

The soundtrack to the Sound of Musi. This was the only CD Mum's care home could find as some background music for us while we sat with Mum in her last hours. She actually drew her last breath during the wedding march, so I suppose I could envisage her walking down the aisle to be with Dad again as a small crumb of comfort but I now can't bear to hear any of the music from it.

HannahLoisLuke Tue 02-Feb-21 12:33:12

I want to know what love is by Family. I’d rather not say why.

Grandma11 Tue 02-Feb-21 12:34:39

Foriegner, Do you Know Where Love is? It was always playing in my Car Radio just before my Divorce from my First Husband.I

Then Later, Roberta Slack, The First Time I Saw Your Face. My Daughter chose this to be played at her funeral as a Tribute to her husband who she had married in the same Church 4 years previously. It was a Total surprise to everyone, and even my second husband who had brought her up since she was seven years old and the type of guy who never cries, broke down sobbing.
Kay was 36 when she died after a two year battle with an aggressive form of Cancer.

Shawlands2000 Tue 02-Feb-21 12:37:44

Skins by Rag ‘n’ Bone man. It was always playing on the radio when I was travelling back and forward to hospital to visit my very ill daughter who had late stage MS. She sadly died aged just 37.

Ro60 Tue 02-Feb-21 12:38:00

MamaB247 what a beautiful story. The words of the song brought tears to my eyes seeing it from his point of view.
I hope your life has improved & you feel safe now.
Amazing Grace - my Dad's favourite - we had it at his funeral & everyone was so choked up we could barely sing it.

Growing0ldDisgracefully Tue 02-Feb-21 12:39:56

MamaB hugs to you and thank you for sharing such an emotional story.

sazz1 Tue 02-Feb-21 12:41:06

Make Believe by Glen Campbell
I loved him but he was in love with someone else who didn't want him. Always something missing from that relationship but still makes me sad years later

Niochorio Tue 02-Feb-21 12:41:38

I had a phone call from my Dad to say my Mum who was terminally ill had passed away at home. As I drove to their house ‘In the living Years’ by Mike and the Mechanics was playing on the radio. Still makes me tearful all these years later.

Lilikemaho Tue 02-Feb-21 12:42:27

Heard alone again naturally by Gilbert Sullivan on TV the other day broke my heart