Do songs trigger early CD memories?

[Katie Ellen]

Recently I've had the luxury of listening to XM radio. They have stations dedicated to various decades, 60's, 70's, etc. I've heard songs lately that I haven't heard in years. Mostly from my teen years.

Some of them really trigger memories of my early days of crossdressing. It's like I can remember exactly where I was and what I was wearing.

Anyone else have this happen to them?

[Katrina]

Its more than just CDing...songs bring back memories of just about anything that I associate the song with. There are specific songs that I associate with CDing though...

[Tasha T]

Yes. For me it's pretty much anything from Diana Ross, either solo or when she was with the Supremes. I was listening to that stuff at the time when I first started dressing up and going out. I would have to say that 70's disco music in general really brings me back to that time and place. I love it!

Also there are a few early to mid-nineties albums by Saxon that bring back memories too. They kind of remind me of the loneliness that I felt as I isolated myself to dress up as a woman.

[occdresser]

now that you mention it, it is music with women in it.:2c:

[Scotty]

Yes. For me it's pretty much anything from Diana Ross, either solo or when she was with the Temptations.
Also there are a few early to mid-nineties albums by Saxon that bring back memories too. They kind of remind me of the loneliness that I felt as I isolated myself to dress up as a woman.

My favorite - I'm coming out - I want the world to know, going ot let it show LOL

For me it's an old 80's tune called "What about me" from Moving Pictures.

But music always has a place with me. I can tell you what I was doing in life when a song came out, be it in college with Mike and the Mechanics or in the military with U2 and the Joshua tree....

[Deborah Jane]

When i was younger i used to dress up and dance in front of the mirror singing into my "hairbrush" to Bonnie Tyler, Madonna and other 70s/80s female singers:o:o...I still do sometimes:o:heehee:

[Marla S]

Big Mouth Strikes Again by the Smiths comes to mind and the album the Queen is Dead in general.

Had big lovesickness and my little secret partly caused it.

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us.
To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die .... tralalala

Great album to feel sorry for oneself:D

-I know it's over:cry:
-Never Had No One Ever:cute:
-Cemetry Gates:gn:
-The Boy with the Thorn in His Side:whew!:

with some true aspects

-There Is a Light That Never Goes Out:belly:


and with some humorous aspects

-Some Girls are Bigger Than Others :straightface:
-Vicar in a Tutu:evilbegon

[trannie T]

A few songs bring back memories but not of crossdressing. I do think of crossdressing when I listen to "Lola" and "Take a Walk on the Wild Side."

[Jodi]

Yes. For me it's pretty much anything from Diana Ross, either solo or when she was with the Temptations. I was listening to that stuff at the time when I first started dressing up and going out. I would have to say that 70's disco music in general really brings me back to that time and place. I love it!

Also there are a few early to mid-nineties albums by Saxon that bring back memories too. They kind of remind me of the loneliness that I felt as I isolated myself to dress up as a woman.

Trisha, I don't ever remember any female singing with the Temptations. Diana Ross was with the Supremes.

Jodi

[docrobbysherry]

A few songs bring back memories but not of crossdressing. I do think of crossdressing when I listen to "Lola" and "Take a Walk on the Wild Side."

Yeah. And anything by the group, AC CD.
RS

[docrobbysherry]

Or, several numbers from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
RS

[Sinthia]

A couple of songs do, mostly by Judy Collins . . . but as has been mentioned by others in the group, songs bring back memories about my whle life. When I first heard a song, what I was doing then, who I was with, etc.

[Tasha T]

Trisha, I don't ever remember any female singing with the Temptations. Diana Ross was with the Supremes.

Jodi

You are correct. I edited my post accordingly. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

[KarenMichelleLuv]

Katie,

Absolutely! In my case, I relate music to most of the significant events of my life, including several CD thresholds. My particular list of musical artist triggers includes:

o Several Ballets
o Petula Clark
o The Beatles
o Joni Mitchell
o The Kinks [Lola]
o and the list goes on...

[alysonatl]

Oh, honey, this girl has a soundtrackack for every mood. I've made CDs that provide some inspiration in preparing a femme persona. When I'm in my "tough chick turned sexy secretary " mode, I put on a compilation of great Girl Groups like the Ronnettes, The Crystals, The Angels, and most especially, the queens of teen trauma The Shangi Las.
When I dress and feel more sophisticated, it's more Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and those swinging girl singers like Doris Day and Rosemary Clooney.
I have a standards tape featuring Carly Simon, Barbra, Linda Ronstadt and other conemporaries, and listen incessantly to Amy Winehouse (there's a Halloween costume winner--Amy is already a cariacture).
I have a Motown Girls mix, and one of the '80s.
I've doen a Crystals song (He's A Rebel) at karaoke, but that's another story for another time, sweeties!

Smooches,

[BarbaraTalbot]

Dude looks like a lady... I remember the video of a rock star with women to spare attracted to him while crossdressing.I was jealous on the one hand, aware on the other that it was in a way making fun of dressing in drag...

[Gretchen]

Memory floggers.........Yeah....
Summer of '67: The Doors (Light My Fire)
Bobbie Gentry (Ode to Billie Joe)
The Association (Windy)
Scott McKenzie (If you're goin' to S.F)
The list goes on and on......The soundtrack of my youth is the music of the '60's.
Gretchen.

[boygirlman]

You bet... Any song from the Rocky Horor Picture Show.

I remember seeing that for the first time! Wow! I was just a lad. I had no idea that it would have a man dressed in my fantasy clothes. The first time I saw Tim Curry in lingerie I had an immediate reaction! I also realized that if he could get away with it on screen I could dress like that at home or wherever. I could not wait for Halloween! Unfortunately by the time Halloween came around I chickened out on that costume. Love to be able to do that over!

[WendyCD]

Ohhh yea

"Piece of my Heart" - Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. I'd turn the lights off, shine a spotlight...and belt out those blues (air mike??)- say what, 35-40 years ago??

others...

Son of a Preacherman...How about Uma in Pulp Fiction playing that on the reel to reel while putting on her make up..?

Bonnie Raitt - Early Stuff...didn't she cover "Send me an Angel that Flies from Montgomery"?

Alice Cooper - "Pretties for You"...Remember the panties as the inner sleeve for "Schools Out"....(for those who remember vinyl:happy:)

and...of course, New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, Bowie (Ch,Ch,Changes...)


NOW...

Diana Krall - how sexy is she????...Heck, she made me go back and try to learn how to play piano - wow!!!:happy:

Madeleine Peyroux - "If you think that time will change you, well, honey, don't wait too long..." from "Careless Love". Shades of Billie Holiday, yea!!

I won't even get started about Peggy Lee...:D

OK, I'll stop....

[Lisa Golightly]

Errrr... The most striking is me old mate Martin Degville's group Sigue Sigue Sputnik... It was more than a simple song... it was a whole trans... something. Still a big part of my life.

[alysonatl]

Ohhh yea


Son of a Preacherman...How about Uma in Pulp Fiction playing that on the reel to reel while putting on her make up..?
OK, I'll stop....

I get mjor chills from that song. Would love to have a big blonde bouffant,
a tight pastel gown and rered nails and sing that song for a karaoke night. I'd die happy on the spot.

[Scotty]

Memory floggers.........Yeah....
Summer of '67: The Doors (Light My Fire)
Bobbie Gentry (Ode to Billie Joe)
The Association (Windy)
Scott McKenzie (If you're goin' to S.F)
The list goes on and on......The soundtrack of my youth is the music of the '60's.
Gretchen.

No Zager and Evans in there? :)

A bit before my time but I love that song In The Year 2525

Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown" and Carly Simon "You're So vain" - first songs I can relate, I was wearing my sisters clothes at age 6 or so, and playing with her dolls and little bake oven she had...

[AmandaM]

Don't forget Rebel, Rebel!

[vivianann]

yes the song I am the happiest girl in the USA, I use to sing to the radio when I was growing up wearing dresses when that song was playing, I would love to here that song again.