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* Music/InformationSociety - "Back in the Day"
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* Donna Summer - "[=MacArthur=] Park"

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* Donna Summer Music/DonnaSummer - "[=MacArthur=] Park"Park" (CoveredUp from Creator/RichardHarris)
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* Music/{{Steps}} - "One For Sorrow"
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Being built on bittersweet emotions, a LoveNostalgiaSong has a kind of emotional universality: it can be depressing to one listener and happy or hopeful to another. This can help it to resonate with a wide audience.

A [[{{MusicTropes}} Music Trope]]. Compare LoveWillLeadYouBack, when the narrator has not moved on and still believes their lover will return.

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Being built on bittersweet emotions, a LoveNostalgiaSong Love Nostalgia Song has a kind of emotional universality: it can be depressing to one listener and happy or hopeful to another. This can help it to resonate with a wide audience.

A [[{{MusicTropes}} [[MusicTropes Music Trope]]. Compare LoveWillLeadYouBack, when the narrator has not moved on and still believes their lover will return.
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* BonIver employs a lot of [[WordSaladLyrics word association and stream-of-consciousness]] in their lyrics, but "Calgary" seems to be this.

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* BonIver Music/BonIver employs a lot of [[WordSaladLyrics word association and stream-of-consciousness]] in their lyrics, but "Calgary" seems to be this.
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* The ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' series has "Remember You" by NM featuring Julie Frost.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0oNxl26S4 Each Night He Comes Home To Me]] from ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Underground'''s OST, whose lyrics conclude with the death of the singer's husband in [[WorldWarII the war]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0oNxl26S4 Each Night He Comes Home To Me]] from ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Underground'''s OST, whose lyrics conclude with the death of the singer's husband in [[WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]].
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* Music/ArminVanBuuren feat. Justine Suissa - "Burned With Desire"
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* Kristine - "(We Used to Listen to the) Radio"
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* Music/DeadOrAlive - "Something In My House"
* Music/{{Ayria}} - "The Box Under My Bed"
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* Music/LordHuron's "The Night We Meant"

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* Music/LordHuron's "The Night We Meant"Met"
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* Music/LordHuron's "The Night We Meant"
-->I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you
-->Take me back to the night we met
-->I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you
-->Oh take me back to the night we met

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** As well as "That Summer":

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** As well as "That Summer":Summer", with the twist being that the narrator was a teenager who had an encounter with an older widow:



* Music/PamTillis -- "Maybe It Was Memphis"

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* Music/PamTillis Pam Tillis -- "Maybe It Was Memphis"



* Kevin Denny - "That's Just Jessie"

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* Kevin Denny Denney - "That's Just Jessie"



* Blackhawk - "Every Once in Awhile"

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* Blackhawk - "Every Once in Awhile"a While"
* Brothers Osborne - "21 Summer"
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* Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://youtu.be/SSEIuy7J1t4?list=PLjACqN5i5sDXDvaCSm4yTRQBZpdod7HHD Skin]]," deals with a speaker meditating on his grief at a failed relationship he can't get over, in the house he and his beloved once shared.

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* Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://youtu.be/SSEIuy7J1t4?list=PLjACqN5i5sDXDvaCSm4yTRQBZpdod7HHD be/SSEIuy7J1t4?list=PLjACqN5i5sDUEienDV52g85W6J7chzLXV Skin]]," deals with a speaker meditating on his grief at a failed relationship he can't get over, in the house he and his beloved once shared.
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* Deadmau5 ft. Kaskade - "I Remember"

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* Deadmau5 Music/Deadmau5 ft. Kaskade - "I Remember"
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* Kristine W. - "One More Try"
* Jocelyn Enriquez - "Do You Miss Me?"
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* Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://youtu.be/SSEIuy7J1t4?list=PLjACqN5i5sDXDvaCSm4yTRQBZpdod7HHD Skin]]," deals with a speaker meditating on his grief at a failed relationship he can't get over, in the house he and his beloved once shared.
-->This house is full of stories we both told\\
These rooms their very stage where they'd unfold\\
These walls they whisper secrets and memories thereof\\
But this door no longer leads us to that love

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* Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer" (see page quote)
* MariahCarey - "Don't Forget About Us"
* BarbraStreisand - "The Way We Were"



-->The smile of garbo
-->And the scent of roses,
-->The waiters whistling
-->As the last bar closes,
-->The song that Crosby sings,
-->These foolish things
-->Remind me of you.
** Along the same line, "Always Something There to Remind Me", best known today for the 80s synthpop version by Naked Eyes.

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-->The smile of garbo
-->And
[[Creator/GretaGarbo Garbo]]\\
And
the scent of roses,
-->The
roses\\
The
waiters whistling
-->As
whistling\\
As
the last bar closes,
-->The
closes\\
The
song that Crosby sings,
-->These
[[Music/BingCrosby Crosby]] sings\\
These
foolish things
-->Remind
things\\
Remind
me of you.
** Along the same line,
you
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"Always Something There to Remind Me", best known today for the 80s '80s synthpop version by Naked Eyes.Eyes.
* Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer" (see page quote)
* Music/MariahCarey - "Don't Forget About Us"
* Music/BarbraStreisand - "The Way We Were"



* VanMorrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
* EltonJohn - "Mansfield"
* {{Adele}} - "Someone Like You", written because after tearing her ex-boyfriend to pieces (musically) in "Rolling in the Deep", Adele still considered him to be an important figure and broke down when thinking that he might just be happy without her.
* KatyPerry - "The One That Got Away"

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* VanMorrison Music/VanMorrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
* EltonJohn Music/EltonJohn - "Mansfield"
* {{Adele}} Music/{{Adele}} - "Someone Like You", written because after tearing her ex-boyfriend to pieces (musically) in "Rolling in the Deep", Adele still considered him to be an important figure and broke down when thinking that he might just be happy without her.
* KatyPerry Music/KatyPerry - "The One That Got Away"



* ABBA - Our Last Summer

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* ABBA Music/{{ABBA}} - Our "Our Last SummerSummer"



* JimCroce - "Photographs and Memories"

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* JimCroce Music/JimCroce - "Photographs and Memories"
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* JimCroce - "Photographs and Memories"
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* Donna Summer - "[=MacArthur=] Park"


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* Deborah Cox - "House is Not a Home"
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* DeathCabForCutie - "We Looked Like Giants"

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* DeathCabForCutie Music/DeathCabForCutie - "We Looked Like Giants"



* MotionCitySoundtrack - Fell In Love Without You
* {{Ludo}} - "I'll Never Be Lonely Again"

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* MotionCitySoundtrack Music/MotionCitySoundtrack - Fell In Love Without You
* {{Ludo}} Music/{{Ludo}} - "I'll Never Be Lonely Again"
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* TheKinks - "Days"
* TheAcademyIs - "Everything We Had" ("Take the pain out of love and the love won't exist...")

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* TheKinks Music/TheKinks - "Days"
* TheAcademyIs Music/TheAcademyIs - "Everything We Had" ("Take the pain out of love and the love won't exist...")



* BarenakedLadies - "In The Car"
* GreenDay - "Whatshername"
* GinBlossoms' "Hey Jealousy" mixes love nostalgia with self-loathing and a hint of hope of starting something new:

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* BarenakedLadies Music/BarenakedLadies - "In The Car"
* GreenDay Music/GreenDay - "Whatshername"
* GinBlossoms' Music/GinBlossoms' "Hey Jealousy" mixes love nostalgia with self-loathing and a hint of hope of starting something new:



* MeatLoaf has "What About Love" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now."

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* MeatLoaf Music/MeatLoaf has "What About Love" and "It's All Coming Back to Me Now."

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* Music/TrishaYearwood - "Georgia Rain"

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* Music/TrishaYearwood - "Georgia Rain"Rain", "The Song Remembers When,"



* Music/TimMcGraw - "Something Like That"

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* Music/TimMcGraw - "Something Like That"That", "Everywhere," "For A Little While," "Some Things Never Change."


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* Blackhawk - "Every Once in Awhile"
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* Music/DollyParton, Music/LindaRonstadt & Emmylou Harris - "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0oNxl26S4 Each Night He Comes Home To Me]] from ''MedalOfHonor: Underground'''s OST, whose lyrics conclude with the death of the singer's husband in [[WorldWarII the war]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0oNxl26S4 Each Night He Comes Home To Me]] from ''MedalOfHonor: ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Underground'''s OST, whose lyrics conclude with the death of the singer's husband in [[WorldWarII the war]].
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-->Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go,\\

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-->Those ->''Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go,\\



After the boys of summer have gone.
-->--'''Don Henley, "The Boys of Summer"'''

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After the boys of summer have gone.
gone''
-->--'''Don Henley, Henley''', "The Boys of Summer"'''
Summer"
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* THe Field Mice - "Emma's House" ("Emma's house is empty, so why do I call it Emma's house?")

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* THe The Field Mice - "Emma's House" ("Emma's house is empty, so why do I call it Emma's house?")

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* BobDylan - "If You See Her, Say Hello"

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* BobDylan Music/BobDylan - "If You See Her, Say Hello"Hello" and "Girl From The North Country".


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* Music/TheMagneticFields - "Suddenly There's A Tidal Wave", "Busby Berkeley Dreams", "I Don't Want To Get Over You"... Stephin Merritt really likes this trope.
* THe Field Mice - "Emma's House" ("Emma's house is empty, so why do I call it Emma's house?")
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* [[{{Blink-182}} Blink-182]]'s "Feeling This", recalling memories of sex with an ex-lover.

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* [[{{Blink-182}} Blink-182]]'s Music/{{Blink 182}}'s "Feeling This", recalling memories of sex with an ex-lover.

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