Early Driving Memories
I first listened to this album in my brothers car, when he'd just passed his test. I remember pelting around in his green Vauxhall, clinging on to the seat...
Read Memory Washington, DC Ditched on the Road to Geneva
Here's a time twist. My memory involves the terrific song, Rest Stop, by Matchbox Twenty, which came out in 2000. But my memory happened in 1983 along the A6...
Read Memory Foley, AL Early Childhood Summer
Growing up on the coast, we spent a lot of time on the beach. My best days always started sitting on a hot vinyl car seat, with the windows rolled down...
Read Memory Gainesville, FL Entering the Gateways to Bonnaroo
It is a miracle we even made it up there. It was the summer of 2006 and a bunch of friends and I packed into four different cars to make the 13 hour drive....
Read Memory Seattle, WA The loss of love
It was the first night we were together as a couple, and i was so glad to be with him. nothing could have made me happier. he told me to choose a song that...
Read Memory Canada speeding through the night
2AM around the end of a 10hr drive to the Gaspesie Peninsula. We had already almost run out of gas, gotten lost in nowhere Quebec (never go off the freeway!)...
Read Memory Canada driving at night
it was only days after i had finally gotten my liscence, and so i took the car out for the night. after spending some time with myfriends, i made my way...
Read Memory Mexico That night
It was a strange day...I enter to that car and my friend played this song on the stereo. He drove for two hours. Then we stopped. A moment of silence...but...
Read Memory Italy When I see you again
Late evening, driving home. I was listening to Billy's tape and I realized I had never listened carefully to the lyrics of this song which all of a sudden...
Read Memory Allentown, PA As a young listener
When I was little, I remember listening to this song so much that I was getting used to the melody and knew some of the words. I'd was in the car with my...
Read Memory Berlin, NH From the beginning
I am merely nineteen years old. Probably a child to many of you on this site. But Billy Joel has played just as much a role in my life as he has in those...
Read Memory Litchfield, CT Driving with the Babysitter
One of my earliest and most fond "musical memories" was of this one day when my babysitter and me, Bryan, were driving in her red convertible when...
Read Memory Leander, TX I saw the rain
I had just gotten out of a horrible relationship, I was in a job that made me beyond miserable, and I was putting on weight like it was almost time for...
Read Memory Springfield, MO Car ride
I remember it was 1993 because of the flood. We were leaving the vast parking lot that used to be my playground, but was now being used to fill burlap sacks...
Read Memory San Antonio, TX A Solitary Van Ride Amongst Friends
I had just moved away from home, from all of my friends, my family. My whole world was waiting an hour, or what at the time seemed like a century away. I...
Read Memory Atlanta, GA Riding to Plasma
A large portion of my tuition was paidwith by money made from donating plasma. Gross. I know.No, it doesn't hurt that bad. It's just like donating blood. You...
Read Memory Atlanta, GA Ella-ella-a- a-a...
Do you remember the first time you heard this and Rihanna was going "Ella-ella-ella-a-a-a" and then the rest of the day you, too were going...
Read Memory Atlanta, GA Not Everything Makes You Stronger
I remember first hearing this song and thinking, again, that Kanye West is as good as he claims to be. I remember wanting to dance and learn the words to it...
Read Memory Tucson, AZ My Baby Moving
I probably should have known from the moment I got pregnant that my daughter was going to be a music lover. Once she started moving in my belly, I noticed a...
Read Memory Baden, PA Who Doesn't Long for a Soulmate
So I finally get Natasha's album and I'm like a kid in a candy store, tearing off the plastic (with intense force because those things are sealed tighter...
Read Memory Douglasville, GA Can't Keep Running
There always seems to be a story from almost everyone about how they used to be picked on by students in school. I am not an exception to this fact, because...
Read Memory Osterville, MA In the Backseat
I was driving back from a failed dinner with my brother. I was cold and you held me. And when you played this song, you tilted your head back, closed your...
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