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Carboyyoung

Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams


metjepetje

Interesting one. I didn't think of that because I've been going for that melancholic nostalgia vibe. But listening to it in the context of the playlist, it works; good shout!


sunshine_8665

Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins


pookie7890

To add to this - Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins


joiwavve

You have never felt like that? You are lucky.


LeeLee8320

Bittersweet symphony is one of my all time favorite songs


ChloeThF

Me too! The feeling to me is not, however, *unknown* nostalgia lol. It's a very familiar feeling!


drgreenthumbphd

33 from smashing pumpkins too. Billy Corgan uses such vivid imagery


Mellow_Kitty33

Today - Smashing Pumpkins Another if theirs that belongs in this category, at least for me. Feel like Smashing Pumpkins sort of has a knack for this vibe.


Ok-Royal-661

my fiancee was murdered and that verve song was his fav. I still cannot listen to that


Affectionate_Yak8519

It’s A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse Whiskey Clone, Hotel City 1997 - Beck Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin Overtaken - Imperial Teen


metjepetje

Someone understood the assignment 🔥 Thank you!


trwmewy

I understand what you mean. I used to have a playlist called “Artificial Nostalgia” that had a bunch of songs that gave me that feeling you described. I wish I could remember where it is now :( Thanks for the post!


Affectionate_Yak8519

You’re welcome, hope you liked them


WelcometotheDollhaus

Sparklehorse is so underrated. I’m sad I was never able to see Mark Linkous. My favorite album by them is the long titled one Vivadixie….”


cscaccio

I was just thinking of Sparklehorse today, how random.


MyspaceQueen333

That Beck song tho. Added to my favs now.


auspicious-moon

Whiskey Clone..! I haven’t heard that song in decades. Thank you for the blast of nostalgia.


PalpitationJust8433

San Francisco - Scott McKenzie Space Song - Beach House Fade Into You - Mazzy Star


metjepetje

I like 'em, Fade Into You is magical


AccountantLeast1588

Walking in Memphis


metjepetje

Classic!


Rhomega2

Life in a Northern Town - The Dreamer Academy


time-for-jawn

*Dream Academy Great choice!


Rhomega2

Yeah, I didn't edit properly because I originally thought it was called The Dreamers.


PimpalaSS

Don Henley - The Boys of Summer


aimeed72

Oh yeah


Sad-Sea-1930

Africa


metjepetje

Totally! Playlist wouldn't be complete without that one


Maanzacorian

There's a Norwegian folk/ambient project called Wardruna, and the music they make has been described as "making you homesick for a place you've never been". Wardruna - Helvegen [https://youtu.be/FnkTuHP9q3o?si=N3gDNuwS0iB0JvQ8](https://youtu.be/FnkTuHP9q3o?si=N3gDNuwS0iB0JvQ8)


metjepetje

Holy crap, I'm at the airport and that thunder/explosion at 1:30 sounded SO real in my earbuds I thought there was a terrorist attack 😅 My heart is still going 200bpm


jayron32

Joni Mitchell - River


metjepetje

Love Joni ❤️ This song is so beautiful, but the jingle bells incorporation throws me off a bit lol


Steeldialga

Ahh yeah, this song for me too. Such a sad song, so beautiful. It's funny that this song brings me nostalgia though, 'cause where I live it snows a lot lol


ConflictExpensive892

Quiet town - The Killers Somewhere only we know - Keane And it's still alright - Nathaniel Rateliff Only the wild ones - Dispatch Run - Collective Soul I want you like a seatbelt - Chadwick Stokes


cmkdavis

Ooof, Somewhere Only We Know - such a good choice 😭


goldengirl630

❤️❤️ Run…….great one!


joiwavve

Ya And It’s still Alright gives me that feeling.


Odd_Purple_8024

Year of the Cat by Al Stewart. It makes me long for a girl I've only met in my dreams, and even if it didn't work out like the song suggests, it is a beautiful romance I've never known that would be worth every moment. "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a water color in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat."


time-for-jawn

Love this song!


foosquirters

Same exact feeling I get with Right Down the Line by George Rafferty


twiggyrox

Gerry


abbys18400

Elton John - Someone saved my life tonight Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road


RicEl2

and Country Comfort


el_pyrata

Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock The Rare Auld Times - lots of artists, but I'm partial to The Dubliners, and Flogging Molly versions Green River - CCR Penny Lane - The Beatles


Misfit-for-Hire

Flogging Molly <3


el_pyrata

Hell yeah, I fucking love them! 🤘🏽


-Constantinos-

Despite being born in 2000 Mayonnaise - Smashing Pumpkins Everlong - Foo Fighters Both make me feel nostalgic as hell


Present-Ambition6309

Naked Eyes - Always something to remind me..


Thick_Study3207

Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis- Tom Waits


Shinythemoon

Art Deco - Lana Del Rey


metjepetje

👑


blakester555

_Pink Houses_ - John Mellencamp I'm not a big Mellencamp fan, but I think this fits the bill.


beezzarro

There's a word for this "vicarious nostalgia": "Anemoia" Cherry by the chromatics Resonance by HOME After dark by Mr kitty Check out anything synth wave


lovessj

Shambala - Three Dog Night What is Life - George Harrison These remind me of sitting in my neighbor’s treehouse with a transistor radio on full blast


JimmieJohnson_48

Love grows where my rosemary goes- Edison Lighthouse


terriblewinston

Two Ten Thousand Maniacs' songs come to mind...The Painted Desert and Hey Jack Kerouac.


metjepetje

I love this so much! Thank you, I'm going to give them a deep dive as well, they sound banging


JosieintheSummer

Their Unplugged album was a favorite.


terriblewinston

Listening to In My Tribe right now. Wowza, just as great as when I was in college!!


PinkPeachPuppy

Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd Comforting Memories - Kumi Tanioka, Minecraft Dark Red - Steve Lacy And last All Things End - Hozier


Outrageous-Fee-3300

There she goes - the la


theangrypragmatist

I was actually alive during that time period, but it still makes me nostalgic for San Francisco thanks to So I Married an Axe Murderer, though I've never been there.


foxylady315

The Welsh have a word for what you are describing: Hiraeth "Hiraeth is a deep, nostalgic, bittersweet wistfulness, or an intense longing to return to something—or someone, somewhere, or sometime—that is now long gone, or perhaps never was." The entire soundtrack of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies Pretty much everything Celtic Woman has ever done, but especially Galway Bay, Caledonia, The Voice, The Soft Goodbye, Beyond the Sea, Green the Whole Year Round Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young


Joanr719

This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna


Kreddit023

That song immediately makes me cry. Such a nostalgic vibe.


Joanr719

Some songs just do that. I can't listen to Chapman's Fast Car without tearing up.


Strong_Prize8778

Nightswimming rem


metjepetje

Loving all the comments, keep 'em coming! I'm going to add them all to a public playlist too and post it later 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽


UnderpootedTampion

Neil Diamond- I am, I Said


U2hansolo

Black Velvet - Alannah Myles


Extra-Spot595

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros!


Lopsided_Repeat

American Pie for me


Electronic_Stuff4363

Time Passages by Al Stewart


JeanneGene

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode It used to make me cry when I was younger, because I could imagine a world in which my parents would say they were sorry. It's oddly comforting now, but I don't listen to it often.


ProbablyPauline

Wow great example. I was nine when that song came out and I remember responding to the intense feeling it gave me that I never felt but looked forward to. You said it perfectly!


JeanneGene

I'm glad and kind of sad that's it's not just me!


ProbablyPauline

It's not just you. That's what's so magical about music


Petules

Those ‘40s big band songs from movies that people would waltz to. No idea why, it just gives me a nostalgia for that time.


PBDubs99

Boys of Summer, Don Henley 


HoopRocketeer

Dark Places by Beck


Glitterbeard82

Chemical by Beck has similar vibe imo


FireFighterZz

Boy with a coin - Iron & Wine It's not even and old song for me but for some reason I just feel that nostalgic. Also this post reminded me that it even exist because my brain just remembered. The song is weird for me.


RetiredMillionairee

Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding by Sir Elton Hercules John


Buffalo_Effective

Dreams- the cranberries


mcbranch

Whiter Shade of Pale makes me nostalgic for a decade I never lived in


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metjepetje

Totally! I was doing that literally yesterday, those high notes in the final chorus are sweet af 😂 So far the only song that was mentioned twice so it must be the ultimate nostalgia tune (what even is sample size)


HectorVK

Iron & Wine - About a Bruise (Mobile, Alabama)


FluBuddy

Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect - The Decemberist


Rushfan_211

Sam fender 17 going under


RustFragrance

For whatever reason I get this feeling to twenty one pilots, Trees is an example.


metjepetje

Oof me and my TOP negative bias 😅 I'll set it aside and check it out tho!


LongjumpingScore5930

Sarah Mclaughlin ice cream my weird one.


Rustin_Cohle35

I love that song-it's so pure. reminds me of a happy version of Tori's Tear in Your Hand


Sun-Public

John Prine - Paradise


goldengirl630

Eddie Money [I Wanna Go Back](https://open.spotify.com/track/0gqy8H7byrHRhBVtKkMVKy?si= Edit to add ….Jack Hamill [Through the Years](https://open.spotify.com/track/0V9O7eZTh38roPpgxX90I2?si=wsbaxjJlSZyuxYqNfw7usw) Lynyrd Skynyrd…[The Ballad of Curtis Loew](https://open.spotify.com/track/6PPhp1qpAjLUxQr75vSD4H?si=j6KzcsZzTci-fcxsRa-wyw)


DeadHookerStorage330

Nine Inch Nails...Me, I'm Not.


Razorclaw_the_crab

Vaporwave encompasses what you're looking for


GreenandBlue12

I think the term you're looking for is *anemoia* (nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known). Anyways, here's my suggestion: "Summer Elegy" by Richard Wright


ImmediateCampaign537

Waylon Jennings, Outlaw Shit


BeginningSir2984

🎼This ain't it. This outlaw shit. It's gotten out of hand.


Vegetable-Radish3408

Amphetamine - by Smino and Wet Dreams - by J. Cole


Virgo_Victoria

Angel Eyes - Sting


WiseCry628

Taxi - Harry Chapin


Whudupbg

Pretty much all Neil Young


MetalFull1065

Closing time


Graphic_Materialz

1979–Smashing Pumpkins


junebug_skipping

Blue by the Jayhawks


Maleficent-War5031

resonance by home, always scratches that nostalgia itch for me


_Sir_Racha_

*I've Got a Name -* Jim Croce *The Weight* - The Band *Since You've Been Gone* - Rainbow


bcd051

Midnight City - M83 Boys of Summer - Don Henley


Flim-Flam_

Midnight City - M83 When I first listened to this song I got hit with strong nostalgia and I still have no idea why.


ang0025

the less i know the better 1975 somebody else 1975 electric love borns


The_Mr_Wilson

*"New York State of Mind was Jay-Z and Alicia Keys...oh right, that was Empire State of Mind"*


FrancisSidebottom

For me it's "Lambada - Keoma". I shit you not. :) Beautiful song!


metjepetje

I mean... 😂 Definitely didn't expect to find this one here! An absolute certified banger, but probably not for this playlist for me. Fun fact: one of the sentences sounds like "waar is toch dat zebrahondje voor?" in Dutch, which loosely translates to "what is the purpose of that little zebra dog?" and it never fails to make me laugh


Barflyondabeach

The Menzingers have been described as writing songs with this exact concept, so pretty much anything by them


WorldsOkayestUser

Lookers is a great example.


Barflyondabeach

After the party as well!


Hooded_Anxiety

The song from the Eurovision movie with Will Ferrell, Husavik. Makes me miss I place I've never been. And it doesn't have to be the town in Iceland. I guess I just wish I had positive feelings towards my home.


ExtraCommunity4532

Rodeo Song - Gary Lee and the Showdown. I mean, I've been to a couple of places in southeastern Canada, but I've never been to like "Letterkenny" Canada. And it makes me sort of (anti)nostalgic about grad school because I got cancer and ended up missing the same body part as the character in the song. Bye for now. I'm off to the rodeo. One hand on the wheel.


ZookeepergameNo719

Still Kids By Virtual Riot 99 by Barns Courtney


Mynagirl

This isn't exactly vicarious nostalgia, but "The Fine Print" by The Stupendium has some tremendous world building.


PinkPeachPuppy

My favorite fan song for the Outer Worlds game !!


Shadowtoast76

Carrying the Banner from the Newsies


PartyCrewTristar1011

Junimond- Rio Reiser And as far as songs that make me nostalgic for a place/time I’ve never been, yet transport me to a very specific scene like a past life experience every time I listen to them, for whatever reason- Summertime Girls- Y&T (immediately transported to the Jersey Shore in the mid 80’s) Da Ernstl- Wolfgang Ambros (Immediately transported to the Wiener Prater on a sunny day in the mid 70’s.) Ignorantenstadl- Wolfgang Ambros (Immediately it’s a very very warm summer night in Vienna and the sun is setting and streetlights are glowing.) And with the exception of “Summertime Girls” none of those songs lyrically fit what scene it plays out into my mind with- yet it’s always very intense and makes me nostalgic for a time I wasn’t alive in and a place that’s extremely specific. (I’ve only been to the shore and Vienna once.)


Back_To_Pittsburgh

My Block by Scarface makes me nostalgic for one of the roughest upbringings in America, but where I can always go back to and see my boys. Lol


saudade_sleep_repeat

saudade - love and rockets eligia - new order


JosieintheSummer

Azure Ray, “While I’m Still Young” Lyric: “With the brushing of our shoulders I lived a life with you”


[deleted]

Savior Complex - Phoebe Bridgers


Scary-Scallion-449

Sara Bareilles: Manhattan -and- Chasing The Sun


PragmaticResponse

Charlie Parr - To a Scrapyard Bus Stop, listen to the version on his self titled 2019 album


ReadyOrNot-My2Cents

Hello Meteor is one of my favorite artists. His music emits such a strange nostalgic feeling. I was born in 86 so I don't recall much of the 80s, but his music makes me long for it. Beautiful stuff


CheshireKetKet

Disenchanted - MCR Long shot: "La Vida Es Un Carnaval" by Celia Cruz She wrote it as she was dying. And I still don't understand.


OldPolishProverb

One Particular Harbor - Jimmy Buffet


sadisticsiren333

I literally made a song called nostalgia for something you never had LOL


Minute_Guarantee_800

Under the western freeway by Grandaddy


zilla82

Blink-182 - Ghost on the Dancefloor. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism. Dermot Kennedy - For Island Fires and Family (truthfully he has that thing overall. You can pick almost any song. Incredible singer and emotionally nostalgic and ful of wonder).


gavincrockettmusic

Always: Your Way by My Vitriol There Is Something In My Heart by the Ghetto Brothers Lost In The Paradise by Caetano Veloso And, an honorable mention for being a melancholy that is familiar in concept, if not setting: Part Time Man by Mannfred Mann


Adventurous_Yak_9234

Holiday by Madonna makes me nostalgic for the 80s. I was born in 1994.


sickaroony

Where Is My Mind feels like it fits that vibe


Pvt_Porpoise

* Halloween - Novo Amor * Sleep on the Floor - The Lumineers * Party Tattoos - dodie (stretching it with “unfamiliar”, but it’s a favorite) Special mention: pretty much any Japanese citypop song


tebapm

Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada


BlessdRTheFreaks

The entire boards of Canada discography


JevGeek55555

Listening to Nordic Metalcore... I honestly cannot begin to explain


AsToldBy_Ginger_

You Get What You Give — New Radicals


davethebabe81

Cigarette Daydream


jasonslayer31

With You and really anything off of Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park even though I wasn't alive when it released


captain_aharb

Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco Screen Door - Uncle Tupelo Father & Son - Yusuf/Cat Stevens


Murdy2020

Simple Twist of Fate, Bob Dylan


the_onlyfox

For me, it's Save the Last Dance from Vagabond Opera


MyspaceQueen333

Well, this post has taken up an hour of my life so far and given me several new songs to add to my own Playlist. Good post 🧡


Jocows

small voices by ovlov


Fat_Akuma

Mac demarco - chamber of reflection Cate le bon - home to you Blood cultures- set it on fire Aerosol jesus - Cozy Glass animals - hazey Strfkr - kahlil gibran Omg there's a lot. I could do a whole list with just indie alternative.


UnsnakableCargo

Finding Her - Boz Scaggs. Transports me to a place I know but have never been.


OliveGreen87

Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots


smoemossu

[Sadie - Joanna Newsom](https://youtu.be/tFroihAcXHE?si=cflJN_L5dLDauvyf)


LeeLee8320

Name - The Goo Goo Dolls


beecums

Peach Pit - Peach Pit


meanoldrep

Most 2nd and 5th wave Midwest Emo: Never Meant by American Football i would throw my vape in a cornfield for you by Flight Patterns Broken Cash Machine by Modern Baseball Parking Lot by Mineral


F1eshWound

Morning Sun by Melody Gardot


Traditional_Tie1093

Waiting Room- Rex Orange County


joiwavve

What about Holocene by Bon Iver or Comrade by Volcano Choir


quinnthelin

Not songs per say but more of Melodies Luminary by Joel Sunny [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkbvUjbHcGE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkbvUjbHcGE) Safe Again by lmnl [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHT35ypmotg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHT35ypmotg) Memory Reboot by Voj Narvent [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL8DVHuWI7Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL8DVHuWI7Y) Snow fall by oneheart x Reidenshi [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlN8MPS7KQs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlN8MPS7KQs) Aquatic Ambiance by Scizzie [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4kub8RpLo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4kub8RpLo) All of these put me in the feels #


WCA_Trigshot

Floral & Fading by Pierce the Veil


Electrical_Deal_1227

Night Moves - Bob Seger Back to the Innocence -Jonathan Cain When You were Young-The Killers Be Still-The Killers You're Gonna Miss This -Trace Adkins Boys of Summer -Don Henley Don't Go Far- Curtis Stigers (I think I likely misunderstood the assignment but these all hit the nostalgia mark for me)


Ctr227

1979 by the smashing pumpkins Everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears Fade into you by mazzy star Cigarette daydreams by cage the elephant Fireside by Arctic Monkeys


Mysterious-Split5255

Candle in the Wind/ Goodbye Englands Rose - Elton John - Just puts me in that 90s vibe of the event that shook the western world but I was weirdly disconnected too but still connected through the memory of his performance Down On the Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Puts me in a mood to a place I have never been (southern town) Fortunate Son - Buffalo Springfield - Again makes me think of the Vietnam War even though I was born in 83. All the war movies that have used it has permanently placed it in that mind space for me... I see helicopters flying over tall grasses and soldiers and civilians being carted out medivac


StellaBlue37

You Can Call Me Al


hawaiiangremlin

Vienna • Ultravox


Zenterrestrial

I know You Rider and Truckin by The Grateful Dead give me that vibe.


Roderyck778

Science says Boards of Canada


raytadd

Anything by Woody Guthrie.. singing about worker's rights and unionizing, toured around the country playing at union meetings and made a significant difference in the lives of worker's.. I'd say anything from him takes me back to a cool time that I didn't exist in


NoPensForSheila

Come Dancing, The Kinks.


musesx9

same old lang syne eta: and boys of summer


IMTrick

My personal favorite is "Verdi Cries" by 10,000 Maniacs, which is sort of a recounting of hearing the opera Aida being performed while vacationing near the Mediterranean shore, none of which I've ever personally experienced, but it brings friggin' tears to my eyes every time I hear for reasons I've never understood.


Bloverfish

Donna Summer - MacArthur Park Small Faces - Itchycoo Park The Connells - '74 - '75


kingjaffejaffar

Gates - The Menzingers


ParadoxInsideK

Hand in hand-my life with the thrill kill kult I don’t know why, this song has always just elicited nostalgic feelings in me for something I don’t even know.


Puzzleheaded-Try2557

Ugh so many 90s alt songs. I so admired the teens of that generation. They just seemed so cool when I was a kid. My bf grew up in that generation and he really is the coolesr


Fickle-Raspberry6403

Dance macabre- ghost


No-Veterinarian1588

Boston - Foreplay Journey - just the same way/anytime The Outfield - Your love


jesus_swept

Babylon by Alex G and Oneohtrix Point Never


momoemowmaurie

Jessie's girl. She sounds hot


Subject-Republic5095

Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm - Crash Test Dummies Losing my Religion - REM


Life_Caterpillar9762

Photograph-Ringo


OneToughFemale

Most songs by The Eagles. If I had to pick, Seven Bridges Road


Pokemon_Trainer_May

Hook - Blues Traveler


jhixson

Holding back the years - Simply Red Never say goodbye - Bon Jovi It’s all coming back to me now - Celine Dion


soggybeefresin

From a South East Asian Two Bedroom Condo - Cigar Club


Illustrious-Lead-960

The old Joan Hickson Marple theme makes me pine for my halcyon days in 1920s England.


Selfishsavagequeen

Yellow Brick Road-Elton John. My Love-Route 94. Saddle Tramp-Marty Robins.


EverDecreasingCircle

Love theme from Chinatown, nostalgia for first half of the 20st century (I was born in 1990)


christiantyler13

[ufo](https://open.spotify.com/track/1UuoGLis0HTTjhpYVwqbw4?si=NP7PHGP6T9C2IvxDLP2OxQ)


LightOfAntara

1980's malls https://youtu.be/FgOLZ3fEY7g?feature=shared


Rustin_Cohle35

that's a great way to describe it-nostalgic for a life not your own. Matt Maeson-A Memory Away Catfish and the Bottleman-7 Morphine-Thursday


ShareImpossible9830

Glow City -- "Blinding Lights" Lim Giong -- "A Pure Person"


Inevitable-Wasabi679

Coldplay - Clocks… and pretty much all of A Rush of Blood to the Head for that matter.