That song association game

Today we're going to play a game where I associate songs to places; places I've had the pleasure to call home.

Bogor
My favourite city. The year is 1994, I'm in my first year of college and Sheryl Crow's All I Wanna Do, Dada's Dizz Knee Land, and Counting Crows' Mr. Jones get heavy airtime and form a soundtrack to that particular year, but none so more than:

It was a late afternoon and I was in my room when I heard the song playing from a television set in the room opposite mine. I went to check it out and concluded that the singer in the video clip was a cool cat and that the song summed up where I was at the moment: clean air, excited to be away from my parental home, exhilarated to be going to college, grateful to be going to college at all, ambitious.

Wormerveer (NL)
My hometown. Recently I've come to appreciate how big an influence my childhood has had on my adult life: soccer, the books I read, the movies I watched, Saturday morning cartoons, the teachers at school, family gatherings at my grandparents'. The Doobie Brothers' Listen to the Music, which I got exposed to when a cover band was practising at the yellow-painted community centre, and Spandau Ballet's Through the Barricades are all reminders of these, but none so more than:

After I took in the video clip on TV I might have stepped outside the door and into the crisp air – the sky featuring wisps of white clouds but otherwise clear and blue, the apartment building blocking the sun and casting a shadow onto the street below – and trying to decide how to spent the rest of the day in ways that should be nothing less than most excellent.