Songs that take you back to a specific time and place

Your basement must be getting quite full.

My basement wasn't the only thing getting full.

being a daft pup embarking on adolescence and thinking "I can't wait to feel what "In These Arms" is all about"

Circa summer 96. Amazing!

You have an attic too?!

*Cheese alert* For me, this is what makes Bon Jovi my favourite band. Above other artists that I might listen to more or consider better or consider more credible I think their songwriting sets them apart. By growing up listening to them each listen transports me back to a time and place - whether I like the song/album or not. This knack of writing songs for the masses is something that Bon Jovi do better than anyone else.

I agree. I've been on break from the band, but when I do come around the songs hit deep. Even albums I wasn't crazy about wind up sounding better with age due to how the songs mark a time and place.

Hmm.. I have a few but none are really worth commenting on.

The most significant one is 'River Runs Dry.' It reminds me of my last year in secondary school and it was a song I used to listen too a lot in the summertime walking home after a game of footy in the school. Always brings back memories of when I left every time I listen too it. As does 'Walk Like A Man.'

Losing my virginity to New Jersey. It probably lasted as long as the LYHOM into. I was 14 at the time. She was 15. I still bump into her every so often even now. She is still a Jovi fan.

These Days and DA take me right back to being a teen struggling with becoming an adult.

I'd just gotten into the band with Always when TAALS came out in 1995. Summer 1995 was great - it was scorching hot and TAALS was typical Jovi. Big chorus, hit written all over it. It sort of fit the summer. I got the album at Christmas and that's when I started to struggle with life. Not in a way that a lot of people here have, just being a teenager and trying to get my head around what adult life would be like. Growing pains I suppose.

I didn't like These Days at first. But when I heard a guy singing about the things I was feeling and I was struggling with, it gave me hope and, in a strange way, was the most optimistic of the Bon Jovi albums. Some of the other stuff, particularly post 2000, is too one dimensional to relate to. "Life is shit but just hang in there, we all feel like that sometimes. Keep going - what's the alternative" is far more believable than "Get up off your knees, you can do anything you want".

Then DA came out and that was at a time when I was leaving school and fell in love for the first time. It was an amazing album. Again I thought Midnight in Chelsea was shite but when I got into it, it (and the album) really became the soundtrack to a very difficult period in my life. I remember locking myself in a dark room listening to both albums. It was cathartic. I hit what I thought was rock bottom and life went on. I remember going out walking at 3am in the morning listening to those albums and they helped hugely.

Funny thing is, 15-20 years later, I've grown up, I'm a different person but I still get a lot from those albums.

to be honest i have been into Jovi that long I have memories from all Jovi albums.

1st 5 (got into the band 88 ) - my first ever girlfriend - as in my post above. We were 14 and went out on and off for 7 years. We were real Outlaws Of Love. Corny yes but I thought we'd be together for ever. We listened to Jovi 24.7

These Days - the end was nigh for me and that girlfriend we had grown apart and the dark and moody TD was perfect.

Crush - A few years later and I had got married (to a different girl!). A Jovi song was our first dance. Forget which one.

Bounce - My boy had just been born so was well happy with this double release so to speak!

100m fans cant be wrong - my knee had shattered and my marridge was over. Not a good place to be but this boxset helped a lot. Its so ironic but me and the ex wife are mentioned in the booklet.

Have A Nice Day - life was better - new girl (now the wife) but I lost my job with Universal Music after 6 years just before the MK Bowl gig in 06.

Lost Highway - Got a job working on a golf course and it was fun but paid awful. Not long after this album came out my wife told me baby no 2 was on the way!

The Circle - I had lost 4 stone in weight just before this album came out so I remember life feeling great.

WAN - Probably the only album with nothing to associate it with. But I love this album and Hyde Park was great.