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I can associate just about every song with a particular moment in my life, I too have the gift of song recognition and identification. Just picking out songs mentioned above in this thread for example and what they remind me of:

"Piano Man": Partying with my exchange student friends in Kingston at Tir Nan Og pub.
"Let It Be": Nothing specific, but that era as a young teenager when I discovered the Beatles.
"Sweet Home Alabama": Alabama! It actually does because they played that song on the radio A LOT when I spent two weeks there in 1999.
"Kids Wanna Rock": My first concert, Bryan Adams, at the Saddledome circa 1991.
"Time of Your Life": High school grad, that was our 'official' class song.

Some of them are pretty random, for example Dis mentioning Montana makes me think of how David Bowie's "TVC 15" makes me think of the hot, dry landscape of MT because I was listening to tons of Bowie in August 1997 when I was roadtripping through the state.

And speaking of roadtripping, I can't listen to Cat Stevens without thinking of the Australian outback because when my ex-gf and I went on a three-week roadtrip in December 2006 all our campervan had was a cassette player and after about a week of listening to ABC radio she bought a Cat Stevens cassette at a roadhouse in the middle of freaking nowhere. So guess what we listened to incessantly for the next two weeks. She ruined him for me!