I sometimes listen to a song and everything comes back to me; pictures, sounds, smells, emotions, even physical feelings. I thought, the story of my life could be told though music.

I thought, I'd love to hear what everyone else has for the songs that embed in their lives, and I'll tell you mine... Ironically most of the songs in this are not my favourite songs, they were probably someone elses or passing phases thanks to circumstance, but they mean a lot to me all the same

I think my first real experience was moving from my home in cheltenham to somerset when I was 9. Oh, the glorious 90's. Praise you, fatboy slim, takes me to my old home in the summer, with the house becoming bare and myself enjoying the space where the furniture would have been witout realising at all what exactly was happening, that I would never live there again. I remember the dust from the furniture playing in the sun through the window...

The next real example is my last year of school and my first real CD i stole off my sister, it was More than you think you are by Matchbox Twenty, yeah I didnt realise that everyone else I would meet thought they were lame, i loved them then and I love them now, I'm so cool... When my mum was first diagnosed with cancer, the song Downfall was the only thing that stopped me from losing it alltogether, and it's still my favourite song today for that reason. some tough times were to be had in the next 2 years.

Later, at college, lets get retarded - the black eyed peas, takes me back to some wild house parties we had at my house when we were 17, really awesome house parties with lots of drama and excitement and underage drinking and music. I feel the euphoria of some of my first real parties when I hear that, as well hiding in my garden in the dark and cool air hiding from all the bustle but loving everything and everyone

At uni, old classics like 'summer of 69' take me back to the adventure, and the total social anxiety, of first year uni and nights out. It also brings me the smell of my dorm kitchen i shared with 7 other people, the winter sun and chatter of students, and the sound of trains

The circle of life, the G4 version, always reduces me to tears. Not only was lion king my favourite childhood disney film since forever, it was played at my mums funeral when i was 18. enough said.

the clash, patrick wolfe and placebo were the tunes of my second year uni house. Idlewild's album make another world (if it takes you home in particular) makes me feel like I'm back on my bed in harriet street revising for my exams, the taste of chicken 8p noodles, enjoying the sun and sneaking off for a cheeky pint of cider in beer gardens. Good studenty times. That and the strokes.

Dream catch me - newton falkner - my first boyfriend. And, 2 months later - hide and seek - imogen heap - the very end of my very first relationship, sat on my bed the day i first arrived alone in london, confused and overwhelmed.

But also, the beginning of my new life. I lived with a crazy 58yr old scottish woman in a filthy council flat where she got very drunk, ate all my food and demanded her rent early in cash - she is a whole other story. But how far we've come - matchbox twenty (yes, still a fan, saw them on this tour live, loved it) takes me back to watching the busses on abbey road while I ate my breakfast on my windowsill, the cold cold trip to the train and the bright colour the leaves were that autumn was beautiful.

I escaped from crazy lady, to live with kiwis in kensal green in london, and it is there since then I have called home. When I first moved in I discovered deathcab for cutie, reminds me of when I had the room downstairs, how clean and light it was, and the cat that used to come through my window.

Jimmy eat world - 23, i realised I had really fallen in love and it was a massive risk i was scared to take. alongside that inexplicable feeling I remember my heart thumping in my chest when sat in my room, reading my messages at night, and the taste of tea and toast.

Punk was discovered (and camden, thankyou camden), and it was after an anti-flag concert the boys took me to, and 'the press corpse' and 'I'd tell you but' were not only heralds of my new life but I took that risk, and I'm so glad, I've never looked back.

Anyway, these are a few major points in my life that songs remind me vividly of, theres a ton of other songs that take me strongly back to nowhere in particular, I love discovering them, like going back to my past for a holiday (good or bad). I just really wanted to write them down because they mean a lot to me. They've been sat in my head for a while! I think its so important to keep remembering them because they make me who I am, some make me stronger and some make me love and some just make me remember things that need to be remembered.

So, tell me your memory songs! And all of the weird things that come with them!