Yeah, I am sorry I forgot your name...but, I can sing every word to "Ice Ice Baby"
My sibs and I have a soundtrack to our lives that was created by our warped parents taste in music, musty recordings of Disney tunes from Grandma’s basement, and the wonderful, blissful years of MTV in its toddler years before it became the non-music garbage it is today.
We used to play this game (OK, we still do) where you flip through the channels on the radio and the first person to name the song before it is sung gets a point. To accommodate every one's strengths, you could also earn points for artist. I love this game. I totally kill at this game. A skill I still hoping will someday lend to a lucrative career. Growing up, we could play this game for hours. Cheap entertainment based on something we all loved... what could be better?
I love music. It plays in the background of every memory. I have an arsenal of songs lodged deep in the corners of my brain. They reside there amongst the 87.8 billion useless bits of pop culture trivia. I have no hope of remembering a person’s name or worse yet new phone numbers (sorry Beaner, but I do have you on speed dial). But, I bet I can name that tune or tell you who played Brandon and Brenda on 90210.
Lets spark some memories shall we…
Manic Monday
Like A Virgin
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Bear Necessities
Amanda by Boston - Sobbed for hours after 6th grade break-up... he started dating Amanda...that bitch (OK, still an open wound)
Man Eater, Hall and Oats – Dancing in the living room on Main Street, Weyauwega. Beaner’s famous dance.
Rod Stewart’s Infatuation- “Oh no not again”… 5 year old Queenie shouting the lyrics while drugged up after she broke her arm.
Jethro Tull (any song) – Dad in Bugle Boy jeans banging on the car dash or playing air guitar.
Maggie May - Thoughts of Mom in the 80’s…Feathered hair, bare feet.
The Flame (and Cheap Trick’s Greatest Hits) – Greatest camping trip!
Queen or Big Chill Soundtrack - Time to clean house girls… Like Pavlov’s dog, hearing any song from The Big Chill soundtrack or Queen’s Greatest Hits, makes me feel the need to pick up a can of Pledge.
What are some of your examples?
3 comments:
Are we on the same wave length or what I was just thinking these last days of Queen and cleaning house. Maggie May will always bring the 70's and 80's to the front line. Jetho Tull and air guitar, I remember well. (you know before, "the girls") like I said before Play me a song Piano Man.
"Alright. Stop. Callobrate and listen. Ice is back with a brand new invention. Something grabs ahold of me tightly, flows like a harpoon, daily and nightly. Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know. Turn off the lights, and I'll glow. To the extreme I rock the mic like a vandal....."
queenster is brought back the days of old MTV in the house on Wisconsin St. and dancing to that song. Then getting jealous when the oldest sister got the VHS of the video. Word to yo motha.
i remember telling dad that i was going to grow up to a man-eater.just like that hall and oats song.
i am never tired of the teasing i got and still get from my sisters about my famous dance to that song.
love,bean
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