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

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NellG Tue 02-Feb-21 08:45:52

Goodbye Yellowbrick Road - it was playing in the ICU when my middle child died. If I hear it now I am slammed back to that moment. I can sit with it now, but it took a long time.

sodapop Tue 02-Feb-21 08:39:10

Definitely Dolly Parton singing Jolene. It applied to my life at the time even down to the name.

Georgesgran Tue 02-Feb-21 08:31:20

I have to mute Drive by The Carrs if it comes on the car radio. All I can see is that poor child trying to stand in the Live Aid concert.

Rosepaul Tue 02-Feb-21 07:30:56

Season's in the sun was out just as my beloved Nan died, still can't listen to it now although it was years ago

Blinko Tue 02-Feb-21 07:29:17

Beach Boys 'God Only Knows'.... breaking up with someone I was in love with. A while ago, needless to say.

nanna8 Tue 02-Feb-21 06:47:14

Knights in White Satin which they played at a funeral of a young lad who used to go out with my daughter. He was 17 and it was 30 years ago now but I still get tears every time I hear it.

Lollin Tue 02-Feb-21 01:41:20

Back in the days when we had full funerals - don't mean to make light of the fact - but the trend for a person's favourite song to be played. It takes me years to stop feeling sadness

welbeck Tue 02-Feb-21 01:26:23

i can't write it, but it was possibly about the same time as yours.
just looked it up and was slightly later, even doing that has upset me a bit, seeing the exact dates of release, and both, yours and mine were significant dates for me.
music is so very evocative isn't it, for good and ill.

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!