I’m washing dishes, never mind where and never mind when. KINK is playing in the background, KINK essentially being the current version of a radio station that plays music “everyone can agree on”. A fairly generic pop song from the last decade or decade and a half is playing– I don’t remember what — not a bad song, not a good song. Somebody says, “Ah. This song takes me back.”

This song takes me back.

Where? How? Why? How could that song possibly take anyone back?
Actually, come to think of it, a lot of songs take me back to very specific moments. The other day, I heard playing at a store the Soul Asylum song “Frustrated Incorporated.” That song takes me back to a specific area of time, because it was played on the radio for a very small amount of time. It is a very mundane time.
The John Mellancamp song “Dance Naked” takes me back to this one time where my sister took in a radio that she had on the local “Top 40” station that I had changed to the “album oriented rock” station (ie: Classic Rock and Pearl Jam). Since it was a cross-over song, she didn’t realize it was on the other station. When it played the next song, she yelled “Damned” and changed the station. That song really takes me back!

Likewise the minor Bruce Springsteen song “Murder Incorporated” takes me back to this time when I was riding a school bus, and someone said, “God this song is boring.”

That song really takes me back.

It’s really funny how specific songs can take you back like that. Really. It is.

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