Tonight at the Party we're going for songs that take you back. You know, like a tune that will come on the radio and suddenly you're seventeen again, cruising the town in a car full of friends, partying and singing along until one of those friends loudly sings out, "tonight!" all by themselves at the wrong point in the song and everybody almost pees their pants laughing? Oh, wait...maybe that was just me! Yeah, well, it was this tune right here...

You're All I've Got Tonight

That oldies mix tape that I warned my friend I wasn't done with, that the tabs weren't popped out of, but she needed to borrow it, swore she'd be careful, but somehow this tune wound up with the words "it was juicy" embedded into it...

Build Me Up Buttercup

Now, damn near any Hank Williams tune reminds me of my Dad, but this one here takes me back to the big old family picnics we used to have where Dad would play his guitar and he and my uncles would sit around drink some beers and play into the night and us kids would beg him to play...

Kaw-Liga

Sometime in '97 my little sister told me she was singing with a band and asked if I would come out to see her perform and bring some friends. Of course I would! She introduced me to the male singer who was somewhat rude and told me he wasn't social. I asked my sister if he wasn't kind of an ass and she said, "Yeah, but he's really good." Yes, yes he was. Five years later I went to see them perform again on New year's Eve and I kissed that ass at midnight, he is now my husband. This is the first song I ever heard him sing...

Push

Once upon a time we had our own place and I had two dancing babies and we were all really happy. I can't hear this song without seeing bouncing pampered butts and bobbing toddler heads and I'm back there again dancing with my boys...

Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Some of you know this tune- it takes me back to many happy nights sitting in a dive bar and always, always gauging how it was going over and occasionally having somebody ask, "who does this?" as if it were something from the radio and being able to say, "he does."

Vengeance

So, what tunes do it for you, transport you to another time when you hear them? You don't have to tell the story, but don't you have a few trigger tunes? I'm going to share a few more of mine, won't you join me?