Favorite Travel 'Music' memories anyone??
 

Just recalled a brilliant memory of an old clunking ferry boat trip to Koh Samui 16+/- years back, listen to Fleetwood Mac singing 'Wverywhere', just as a bit of fun, anyone else have particular songs that they remember from their travels that truly have stuck in their memory and will 'forever' remind them of a particular travel time or place??

Typo: Fleetwood Mac's " Everywhere"..

Another Fleetwood Mac song, "Thunder only happens when it's raining" brings back memories of sitting around the Tropic Star Lodge, Pinas Bay, Panama back in the early 90s. Every time I hear this song again and it's an immediate flash back to Panama. Don't really know why!

'Thunder only happens..' yeah, another great one, I think Fleetwood Mac does well for 'memories'.

A couple of odd ones... I remember staying at a place in Chaing Mai at Christmas time many years ago. The only Christmas music they had was the "Chipmunks" singing Christmas Carols in English and German. They played that same music over and over and over during our stay! While I can't say that I've heard the chipmunks since, I find myself thinking of that from time to time.

A memory more along the lines of your memories was driving to the Dieng Plateau from Jogja many years ago. The one tape the driver had (which he played over and over and over) was a Grateful Dead tape. Every time I hear Stuck in Lodi Again, I'm back in Java.

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Come on everyone, I thought we'd at least get a Top 10!

At the monebnt it's just:-
1- Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)
2- Thunder only.. (Fleetwood Mac)
3- Chrsitmas with the Chipmunks
4- Stuck in Lodi Again (Grateful Dead )

Any Brazilian music makes me think of Carnival in Rio and of course the scantily clad women.

Okay, I have two:
1. Local Thai music - song name was Sabai Sabai (not sure on spelling). Was playing all the time when I stayed at Sea Sand Club in Bangsaray back in late 80's and fell in love with the people. The song was emotive of their gentleness even though we couldn't understand a word.
2. Phil Collins Long Long Way To Go from No Jacket Required. Always played it when we were winding our way up mountain to snow fields back in Melbourne Oz.

yep I'm a sentimental sap

1 Suavememte by elves Crespo reminds me of first time went too Bangkok and danced some salsa with a bunch of thai chicks in a Latin club.

2 just about any Tango reminds me of walking by bars and brothels in colombia when I was a kid..

3 Rap songs with arabian beats brings me back too Cairo where I sat back smoked a hookah pipe. and watched beautiful belly dancers and thieves do their trade..

This has nothing to do with Thailand or SE Asia, but I really enjoyed cruising on the Star Princess out of LA to the Mexican Riviera. Each time the ship pulled out of port, the music of "Wish upon a Star' (and not the "When you wish upon a star... from Giminy Cricket) and "Time to Say Goodbye" played. It was really nice! I almost get chills thinking about it! I'd stand on my balcony and toast my glass of wine to the folks standing on the dock waving goodbye. A lovely memory or a really nice cruise.
Carol

I have great memories of sitting on the top deck of a dinner cruise boat in Bangkok,and having the song
'she' by charles aznavor sang to me by the lead singer of the group that were playing.Also while we were waiting at heathrow marriott,before our trip to Malaysia,'row ,row, row ,your boat[gently down the stream]was playing ,we always laugh about that one.
sue

Thailand....Zombie by the Cranberries. I heard a great rendition of it sung in Thai by a club performer.
The words might have been changed because it sounded a little too upbeat for its subject matter. (children, family, and man's inhumanity to man)
Also...Cher's Do you believe in love after love?, which was very popular there.
The theme song from Titanic always reminds me of my visit to Japan for the same reason

'She' was a classic, it was done again by Elvis Costello. Sabai-Sabai, oh yeh, there was a song late 80's 'Clap your Hands together' very melodious, I had forgotten until I heard if from a bar in Pattaya on Cristmas Eve and it too took me right back to the late 80's of Pattaya.
If we get doubling up we can do a Top 10 in a few days.

I'm willing to bet my memory is different from all others ...

I was in Venice on a beautiful night, quite late. There was a group of German men (presumably tourists) sitting on a veranda belting out a famous melody from Wagner's Die Meistersingers.

If we are going afar , I remember Jimmy Hendrix singing at Woodstock in White Lake, Ny at Yasgers farm. It reminds me of the 60s every time I hear Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Wow, doesn't time go by...Tusker has just posted similar on the Africa Board and it reminded me that we had done one, perhaps time to update some, we never got our Top 10 did we!

Anwone have a special song that brings back some memory? have had 2 heady nights at the festival in Pattaya I feel in a muscial mood...

Well, I take Joni Mitchell's "Hejira" with me everywhere. I'm an addict, and "white lines on the freeway" will always remind me of a New Years Eve in West Africa the year Mrs T fell from grace. Otherwise, "Take the Weather with you" and the whole album (Crowded House) from a trip Egypt to Kenya.

There are two and both are a bit quirky. Good topic BTW. The first happened during our 1st trip to Jamaica in 1987. The resort had a trio going table to table serenading the diners. They sang "Yellow Bird" for us and though this isn't one of our favorited we politely thanked and tipped them. They must have thought we really liked because they played it for us EVERY night thereafter. :-) Personally "Shame and Scandal" is one I preferred.
Secondly we were in PR one year at the ESJ toweres. At breakfast this one particular waiter was in love with the song "Strangers in the Night" and would sing it all the time. The thing was all he every sang were those first 4 words! Over and over and over again.
We still laugh whenever we hear those songs or something else reminds us of those times. :-)

Oh, yes....every major period in my life is represented by some song or artist.

Traveling-wise?

1. "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees (my favorite band) reminds me of my time Egypt and Israel (long story).

2. "Senza una Donna" by Paul Young and Zucchero. Heard it on a plane on the way to a tiny country in Eastern Europe.

2. "Sadness" by Enigma always brings up memories of my first trip to Bangkok (heard it played in one of the bars of the NEP).

3. "Emotion" by the Bee Gees and Samantha Sang brings back memories of Ayuthaya.

4. "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison; I've heard this song shortly before I departed for Bangkok, and it stuck for the duration of the flight. I think of BKK whenever I hear it.

That's all I can think of right now, but there's definitely more.

I have tons, but I remember sitting in the Hard Rock Cafe in K.L. in 1996 during happy hour and Don't Speak by No Doubt came on...Everyone went crazy, singing, dancing....We met alot of locals that night...

Another one was sitting in a small lounge overlooking the caldera in Santorini thinking I was in heaven, when suddenly they begun to play my favorite CD by Jack Johnson...And the whole thing yet..Drank many beers that day!!

That is all I will mention for now!