Music is emotionally branded.
When I was in the USN back in the Seventies, I awoke aboard the USS JFK the morning we were anchored off Rota, Spain to OUTCHOP back to the USA after our deployment to the song: “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty, and I cannot hear that song without being transported back in time...:)
I love a lot of music in that way. Funny, my wife doesn’t get that at all, and never listens to music. Totally foreign to her, but...my life can be be measured by hearing music I listened to at the time.
In Japan for “Hey Jude”, the Philippines for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and “Cant’ Get Next To You”...that kind of thing!
Exactly. It's no coincidence that our musical tastes crystallize in our very emotional teen years.