Okay, there are a few songs that do this for me... some of them are absolutely ridiculous coming from me, but I don't care.



This song always seemed to be on at the batting cages down in Five towns when I was a kid. I loved going to the cages with my little league teams, and with my dad, and just hitting the crap out of the ball. Things were simple and good back then; the biggest concern was making sure my homework was done and that it was done before practice. Sometimes I'll still go to the cages, play this song on my ipod and just be in my glory.

Pretty much the entire RHCP album "By the Way". It reminds me of how much fun I had the summer it was released. It had to have been in my cd player for months straight. I would listen to it nonstop, laying out in the sun at my grandmas house, bbqing over there almost every weekend with my parents, driving past this girls house who I had a massive thing for back in sophomore and junior year of hs. Good times, but a little bittersweet.



I love this song! It's another one from those carefree summers of high school. I don't remember when my friend got his license, but this song would always play at least once in his car when he came to pick me up. Now that I think about it, it's the same summer as the Chili Peppers album, when I started to come out of my post 9/11 depression and general haze I was in.



This album came out right as I graduated from High School, and this song, while about drug addiction, came to lead me to the decision to break up with my high school girlfriend, as I was starting college about four hours upstate. I remember sitting on a bus... the bus that did the rounds to the prisons up there, coming back from freshman orientation and just meeting so many awesome people and having just an amazing time. I maybe listened to it 10 times in a row, and it just seemed like the right decision to make. She didn't take it too well, and started stalking me and camping outside of my house, calling me to come down so we could talk. It was rough, but it was worth it in the long run.



This song became an anthem for me when I was in the process of breaking up and fighting with my other, more infamous ex, "Hurricane." I took a lot out of it and it really gave me the inspiration to finally say **** it and walk away. It was also played a lot during the glorious summer of 2007, when I played softball for hours every weekend, none of us had any money, but we made the most of everything. I absolutely loved everything about that summer, and I still consider it to be the best summer in the history of ever.