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posted by: almsthvn (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (5:58 am) Music affects me profoundly. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition - instantly I'm back in my parent's living room, back in Charleston WV. It's a wooden floor with a giant braided rug in the middle. The couch is orange and my favorite chair is avacado (can you tell it was the 70s?). Paul McCartney & Wings, Band on the Run album. Now we lived in Huntington, the carpet is that vile avacado sculptured stuff, Dad was terribly proud of his new stereo and we CRANKED IT UP. Mom swore that Helen Wheels was "Hell On" and wouldn't let me sing it .. at least when she was home ;) ... gosh, there are so so so so many. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (6:05 am) Reply to: almsthvn I know... it's tough to list just one or two. I could go on and on forever. I love that Band on the Run album too. It was one my mom's favorites. Great stuff. posted by: billlyryan (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (6:41 am) When I was seven I found the record collection of the people I lived with and used to bring down my blanket and pillow at night to sleep next to it. It's nothing that I would listen to now but at the time, it was heaven. Conway Twitty, Porter Wagner and Dolly, Charlie Pride, Charlie Rich and so on. There was a Marty Robbins album still wrapped in plastic and a little hole poked through it on the end of the Marty's nose. Three years later I had moved into a place with 67 other kids and woke up every morning to someone playing the Rumors album. When "Don't Stop" started playing I knew I better get up before Delores The Tlingit came in and beat me up. Gosh I miss that. posted by: chicalookate (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (8:28 am) Rumors is the album my stepdad listened to the whole way from MI to TN. I loved the album, but 9 hours is a bit much. There wasn't much music in my house as a kid. So, I don't have any of those musical moments. The closest have is when I was a freshman in high school and listened to Depeche Mode's Black Celebration and Music For the Masses over and over. Those songs take me back. Oh and Material Issues's "Valerie Loves Me" makes me think of the time I lived in TN. Road trips to Nashville with my friend Jamie. We would make tapes just for those trips. posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (5:25 pm) Stevie Nicks takes me back to my living room with my dad too. Back when people would gush over my dance moves when I was just a gnagly, uncoordinated little bundle of bounce. I always thought Stevie Nicks and Cat Stevens ought to swap names... The songs that transport me most obviously to another place and time are the big dance songs, the big hits from the late 80s and early 90s... I am NOT going to name them here. Let's just say I was one of those people so talented at the Electric slide that I did it facing backwards... posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (5:30 pm) Hey! I've been waiting on you and Billlyryan to come giggle at my voice for days now... tap tap tap... posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (6:31 pm) Reply to: billlyryan Aaaah. Music that reminds me of when I got my ass kicked... now that's a list I've never thought of! :) Hopefully, Delores got her just desserts. Are your bruises healed? j posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (6:33 pm) Reply to: chicalookate I have so many music related memories from when I was a kid. More that just about anything else. But then again, I remember clearly branching out on my own, which included forays into REM, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Smiths, etc. I remember my mom hated REM... but I digress. What was my original point again? Oh ya... thanks so much for your comments. :) posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (6:35 pm) Reply to: lindy It's Electric! Wow. I can just imagine that. Is there any photographic evidence of your prowess at 80's group dances? I can just see you in your parachute pants or mini-mini skirt and skinny tie. :) posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (6:36 pm) Reply to: lindy I've been trying to open up your blog, but it has so many bells and whistles that I can't open it at home on my slow computer. I may have to try from work. But now I'm all excited about checking you out! :) j posted by: billlyryan (reply) post date: 02.26.05 (8:04 pm) Reply to: juniperflux Delores was almost six feet tall and had baleen on her wall from a whale her village caught. She was the biggest, meanest girl ever and she only beat me up in the mornings! I was lucky! posted by: surrogate (reply) post date: 02.27.05 (5:08 am) oh dear...lol. Rumors came out in 1975. (maybe late '74, not sure) It was sooo popular. And at the time I was really getting into the style of music that has always since,been my favorite niche. I remember the whole bunchof us being pissed off that Fleetwood Mac got tonds of airplay and none of what we liked ever hit the radio. So I carried a grudge against that particlular album for decades. I've since come to appreciate it....How stubborn we were back then. Wonderful post. (thanks for the link) posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.27.05 (5:13 am) Reply to: billlyryan What would you say to Delores if you saw her today? posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 02.27.05 (5:18 am) Reply to: surrogate 1977 actually... but I understand your grudge. I felt the same way in the early-mid 80's when REM was running the college circuit and bands/people like Van Halen and Phil Collins were dominating the airwaves. But then... something strange happened. REM became mainstream and although I did love a lot of their *popular* music it just wasn't the same as when I was one of just a handful of people I knew who had even heard of them. They were our tightly kept secret... and there was something pretty special about that too. Anyway, thanks a bunch for your post. j posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 02.27.05 (8:27 am) Reply to: juniperflux photographic evidence! *snort hahahaha I *still* do it... put me on a dance floor with that song and I'm literally in your face, assuming you are standing behind me doing the same ridiculous dance... Will I actually go through the trouble of recording it on tape so that my tblog friends can point and laugh for days on end? Hell no. I'm slow, but I'm not completely stupid. hahahaha. You'll have to come to Texas to see it first hand. muwah ha haaaaa... posted by: surrogate (reply) post date: 02.27.05 (8:37 am) oh duh, it was just Fleetwood Mac that came out in 75... posted by: billlyryan (reply) post date: 02.27.05 (4:52 pm) Reply to: juniperflux If I saw her today.... I'd ask her how she was doing. I'd thank her for not breaking my arm on purpose that one time in war ball. And then I'd want to hear her entire life story. |
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