I'm listening to Elton John's Greatest Hits 1970-2002, and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" takes me right back to a feeling of childhood security and calm. My parents must have played that song a lot when I was growing up. Another artist that I associate with childhood is Hall and Oates. "Private Eyes" and "Kiss On My List" are like time machines. I'm not sure I would have such an affinity for this stuff if I hadn't grown up around it. The good feeling it gives me automatically gets me around any usual criticisms of cheesiness or it sounding dated.
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