Songs are the vehicle that brings up memories most times for me.
"Burning down the house" by The Talking Heads, for example.
When I hear that I can instantly go back in time to probably 1986 when our band first started playing out. We were in a dive bar in a farm town and our soundman would play songs like this that really didn't have any connection to our music or what the "guests" wanted to hear.
He was a great engineer but a little "off".