1) Backwards-looking 2) Evocative 3) Homesick 4) Longing 5) Melancholy 6) Reflective 7) Regretful 8) Unhappy 9) Wistful 1) Homesick 2) Mournful 3) Old time 4) Old-timey 5) Retrospective 6) Unhappy 
• (a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia. • (a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Nos·tal'gic adjective [ Confer French nostalgique .] Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia. 
nostalgia, nostalgy, nostalgic 1. Longing to return home or to one's native land; homesickness. 2. A mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past. 3. Originally a medical term for a severe melancholia caused by protracted absence from home. 4. The pain of longing to return home, to a forme...nostalgia, nostalgic Longing for one's home or homeland is explained at nostalgia.
[SAT terms] unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things