Songs about nostalgia

Maybe A Stretch

This might be a stretch but how about Jackson Browne with Fountain Of Sorrow?

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer

 

Wow, no one has mentioned Don McLean's American Pie yet? Not nostalgic in a literal sense, but the lyrics are more about a moment that he realizes that he can't go back. I feel that the nostalgia is implied in the bitterness evident in being forced to grow up, that people die, and life moves on.

 

How about "In My Life" by the Beatles and "Shades of Gray" by both the Monkees and P.K. Limited.

 

'Dance Hall Days' - Wang Chung
'Video Killed the Radiostars'- The Buggles
'November rain - Guns and Roses
'Our house - Madness
'Under the bridge' - Red Hot Chili Peppers
'Only the moment' - Marc Almond

 

"I Wanna Go Back" - Eddie Money

 

4 Seasons-December '63 (Oh What A Night)
Dream Academy-Life In A Northern Town
Bob Seger-Makin' Thunderbirds
Nerf Herder-Van Halen
Bowling For Soup-1985

 

(Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard - Cat Stevens

 

"Yesterday When I was Young" - Chales Aznavour
"Yesterday" - The Beatles
"In My Life" - The Beatles
"Just Like Yesterday" - Bread (from "Baby I'm A Want You")
"Old Days" - Chicago
"Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore" - Harry Nilsson
"Fire And Rain" - James Taylor
"Wandering" - James Taylor (from "Gorilla")

 

" There Used To Be A Ballpark" - Frank Sinatra

 

"Our Last Summer" - ABBA

 

Not only Old Days by Chicago, but Take Me Back To Chicago

 

How did I miss "Take Me Back To Chicago"? (from 1977 album Chicago XI, the last Chicago album with the late great guitarist Terry Kath)

It's a great great nostalgia song.

 

"We're Turning Again" - Zappa
A pointedly anti-nostalgia song. Even though it contains typical low-brow Zappa invective, I think he really meant it towards the end:
"Everybody come back/ No one can do it like you used to
If you listen to the radio/ And what they play today
You can tell right away:
All those a******s really need you!"

 

"Glory Days" and "My Hometown", Bruce Springsteen

 

Statler Brothers - "Do You Remember These?"

 

Not only "Old Days" and "Take Me Back To Chicago", I think they have another one nostalgia song.

Saturday In The Park - Chicago

"I think it was the 4th of July"

 

It's Been a Long, Long Time - Bing Crosby w/ Les Paul playing the guitar, Doris Day, etc.

 

Roxy Music - If It Takes All Night

"Ohhhh here it comes, that old ennui - I hope it won't stay long...."

 

Styx - Borrowed Time

 

That's a good call -- I hadn't considered the song that way, but you're right. From the very opening line, "A long, long time ago..." that's definitely a nostalgic trip.

 

How is there no Penny Lane yet?

 

The Movies-Statler Brothers
Memories-Elvis Presley
Remember When-Alan Jackson

 

Deep Purple's "'69" and "Hungry Daze" are nostalgic songs looking back at their early years.

 

"Junk" by the Cute Beatle...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAQHhWbImyY

 

Reelin in in the Years?