Most of JT, but especially Streets, In God's Country and Trip Through, just make me feel like I am driving out I-10 between Phoenix and Joshua Tree NP area. JT is just a transcendent album that can truly make you feel like you are somewhere else.
Ultraviolet sometimes makes me feel like I am driving down a long, lonely and dark road at night.
Then I have what I call my Fall 2008 trio, lol. Allow me to explain. A girl that I really and truly liked and had feelings for that she returned wound up with another guy(a real jerk by any objective standard) just before our senior year of college. I distinctly remember Ultraviolet, The Fly and In A Little While being the go to songs for this time period.
Ultraviolet: This time, the long dark road was replaced by feelings of jealousy and desire and longing for a past. Everything about the friendship/flirting/potential relationship I had with this girl junior year of college was literally like we could "sleep on stones." It was the watered down, current boyfriend present at all times interaction I now had with the girl that felt like the "whispers and moans" and I certainly felt "all messed up" but there was still that glimmer of hope "lightbulb, hanging over my head."
Did I ever mention Ultraviolet is just a perfect song??
The Fly: This was the song I listened to instead of punching a wall! Any live performance with that scorching Edge guitar and demonic Bono vocals did the trick every time! "There's a lot of things if I could, I'd rearrange" spoke to me a lot then.
In A Little While: Passionate pining, "surely you'll be mine" "hurt will hurt no more" coupled with longing questioning "will you be there?" As strange as this sounds, In A Little While always, always takes me back to one specific place on one specific night. I was out mini golfing with my friends on a gorgeous 80 degree September night and thinking about this girl. I kept running "A man dreams one day to fly, a man takes a rocket ship into the sky" through my head and somehow, it seemed to fit my dilemma perfectly. I cant listen to IALW anymore without thinking of that night.
Some songs bring me back to the time when I first discovered them.
Trip Through, Trying To Throw and TUF bring me right back to Fall 2006.
I Will Follow and most of Boy bring me back to Fall 2005.