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If you're reading this thread please listen to this song and tell me it doesn't fit
If you're reading this thread please listen to this song and tell me it doesn't fit
music and where we were at the time
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Bkreutz
US Veteran
I do believe that was the anthem to every unit in country. (at least that's the song that I remember most)
Playing pool at a friend's house, when I was 14. His big brother had lots of music. He put on his latest, Strange Days by The Doors. The world was changing.
1971, Rare Earth-Live. Hanging out at the local A&W, looking for street races, chasing skirts, and other activities, best left unsaid.
1971, Rare Earth-Live. Hanging out at the local A&W, looking for street races, chasing skirts, and other activities, best left unsaid.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
Wow, Smoke, that one just about broke my heart.
Memories of the Right One, who died eighteen years ago.
Memories of the Right One, who died eighteen years ago.
Ranger514
Member
1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience totally changed the face of Rock for me.
1969: Led Zeppelin's first album came out and "Good Times, Bad Times" became my anthem the summer after I graduated high school.
1971: Driving to a friend's house, I heard BB King's "The Thrill is Gone" for the first time. It affected me so much that I had to pull over while it played, or risk an accident.
1969: Led Zeppelin's first album came out and "Good Times, Bad Times" became my anthem the summer after I graduated high school.
1971: Driving to a friend's house, I heard BB King's "The Thrill is Gone" for the first time. It affected me so much that I had to pull over while it played, or risk an accident.
Jst1mr
Member
Approaching any one of dozens of "kegger" parties, inevitably "La Grange" by ZZ Top would be rolling down the street....
And, well, let me just mention "Stairway to Heaven" and leave it at that.
And, well, let me just mention "Stairway to Heaven" and leave it at that.
Sweltering summer days in the early 70s sitting inside a Brooklyn Pizza Place (Avenue U and E29th). White T shirts, straight leg dungarees. Door propped open to the street traffic, pumping quarters in the jukebox to repeatedly hear "Tumbling Dice" and "Sweet Black Angel" from "Exile on Main Street" by the Rolling Stones, over, and over, and over, and...................
"Hey, Vinny, c,mon, how bow anotha slice and a coke over he-uh, eh?
"Hey, Vinny, c,mon, how bow anotha slice and a coke over he-uh, eh?
June 23rd, 1994. Mom called at about 0530 that morning and said my Dad had collapsed and the ambulance was there working on him. I told her I would meet her at the hospital. Jumped into the shower and "Objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer than they are" by Meatloaf was going through my head. I knew then Dad was gone. I got to the hospital before Mom, and the Paramedic told me he had died. I already knew that.
Still miss him
Jim
Still miss him
Jim
takes me back
There was a really syrupy song in the early 70's called 'Stay Awhile' and I was driving my old car to a school Latin Club party at a country club. I was a new driver and I had that, 'Here I am driving myself to an out of town function" feeling. Happy memories, crappy song.
'Afternoon Delight' (another lousy song) puts me right back into my VA hospital office in the later 70's.
I don't know why but I really remember lousy songs, just like I remember bad commercials.
Standing around the back porch with my friends when 'Iron Man' came on, which we thought was the coolest thing we ever heard.
Byrds "Mr. Tamborine Man"..... I'm laying on my sister's bed listening to her radio.
"Bohemian Rhapsody". Did you see ''Wayne's World'? My name is Wayne and that scene in the car was us.
"Take it to the Limit" puts me back in calculus class
How could I forget this one. I was in my room and had broken up with my GF (now my wife) "It Don't Matter To Me" by Bread was on the record player and I blew my top and tore the record to pieces and threw it in the trash. HELL YEAH IT "MATTERS TO ME"!!!!!!
There was a really syrupy song in the early 70's called 'Stay Awhile' and I was driving my old car to a school Latin Club party at a country club. I was a new driver and I had that, 'Here I am driving myself to an out of town function" feeling. Happy memories, crappy song.
'Afternoon Delight' (another lousy song) puts me right back into my VA hospital office in the later 70's.
I don't know why but I really remember lousy songs, just like I remember bad commercials.
Standing around the back porch with my friends when 'Iron Man' came on, which we thought was the coolest thing we ever heard.
Byrds "Mr. Tamborine Man"..... I'm laying on my sister's bed listening to her radio.
"Bohemian Rhapsody". Did you see ''Wayne's World'? My name is Wayne and that scene in the car was us.
"Take it to the Limit" puts me back in calculus class
How could I forget this one. I was in my room and had broken up with my GF (now my wife) "It Don't Matter To Me" by Bread was on the record player and I blew my top and tore the record to pieces and threw it in the trash. HELL YEAH IT "MATTERS TO ME"!!!!!!
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By myself
Eric Carmen did "All By Myself"
A song that would fit that situation pretty well would be "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O' Sullivan
Eric Carmen did "All By Myself"
A song that would fit that situation pretty well would be "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O' Sullivan
fat tom
Absent Comrade
Very often. Some good memories,some not.
f.t.
f.t.
When I left the good old USA for my first tour over seas it was May of 1963 and nobody in this country and ever heard of the Beatles. When I came back home 13 months later They had 7 of the top 10 hit tunes being played on the radio. It's about all you could hear.
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in Southern California so to this day when I hear any Beatles music, especially any from the first years it gives me that California feeling. I try to fight it but, well, what can I tell ya?
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton in Southern California so to this day when I hear any Beatles music, especially any from the first years it gives me that California feeling. I try to fight it but, well, what can I tell ya?
There are so many different songs that encapsulate different periods of my life, but I'll keep it short. Just about any Boz Scaggs ballad from the late eighties & early nineties will remind me of my ex, as does the song You Better You Bet by the Who. So does I'll Stand By You, by the Pretenders, or at least it did before Geico ruined it for me!. Two songs that remind of the end of that relationship are Coming Around Again, by Carly Simon, & Company, by Rickie Lee Jones.
hangnoose
Member
IF YOU KNOW WHAT A CYO DANCE IS
You may be old enough to remember. 1970-ish? at the CYO when someone played the new LED ZEP lemon song, Mr Manning sprinting to go smash the album, almost had himself an apaplexi.
You may be old enough to remember. 1970-ish? at the CYO when someone played the new LED ZEP lemon song, Mr Manning sprinting to go smash the album, almost had himself an apaplexi.
Several songs over the years at different times in my life, and different lives. Two stand out over the years. Fall, 1962, sitting in my roommate's 49 Mercury, in the college dorm parking lot drinking Coors and listening to "Sherry" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. (In those days beer was not allowed in the dorms.) Summer, 1963, bumped into ex girl friend at a wedding party for a friend. She was engaged at the time but with her girlfriends........slow dancing to Elvis' "Are You Lonesome Tonight".........it turned into a memorable night............ 'nuff said.
foggood11
Member
? & the Mysterians - "96 Tears"
Memorable to me because that must have been the only working record in the jukebox of a choke & puke burger joint, situated directly across the street from my junior high school.
During the lunch hour, it was full of kids, and ? (I read somewhere that the lead singer actually changed his name legally to the "?" symbol) kept the joint hopping with his song, which seemed to play on an endless loop.
Memorable to me because that must have been the only working record in the jukebox of a choke & puke burger joint, situated directly across the street from my junior high school.
During the lunch hour, it was full of kids, and ? (I read somewhere that the lead singer actually changed his name legally to the "?" symbol) kept the joint hopping with his song, which seemed to play on an endless loop.
I was standing in my front yard in the middle of August, 1968. I was eleven years old. It was dark, hot, and the fireflies were out. I looked up the road and saw a '67 or '68 Camaro approaching me. It was doing a slow cruise with a low rumble from its headers and glass packs. It would pass under a street light and you could see the color of the car and then it would go back into darkness between the street lights. As it got close I heard the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" playing on the radio. You could see the glow of the cigarettes being smoked in the car. The ends of the cigarettes would glow bright when the smokers inhaled. As the car rolled past me, the guy in the front passenger seat blew smoke and nodded at me. I watched it as it rolled out of sight still playing "Satisfaction." I can still smell the exhaust and the cigarette smoke. It just summed up the 60s for me. I go right back to that day every time I hear the song.
The first time I had sex Foreigner's "Double Vision" was playing on the Stereo, I can still remember that big lighted dial on the receiver it was the only light in the room. Every time I hear that song I'm right back in that room.
Springfield Bob
Member
Music memories
The first time I had sex the radio was playing " Wonderland by night" by Bert Kempert. It was Dec of 1960
I was in my bunk in the barracks at Tinker AFB IN Oklahoma. I still love that song which brings back such wonderful memories.
=Smoke;137767969]The first time I had sex Foreigner's "Double Vision" was playing on the Stereo, I can still remember that big lighted dial on the receiver it was the only light in the room. Every time I hear that song I'm right back in that room.[/QUOTE]
The first time I had sex the radio was playing " Wonderland by night" by Bert Kempert. It was Dec of 1960
I was in my bunk in the barracks at Tinker AFB IN Oklahoma. I still love that song which brings back such wonderful memories.
=Smoke;137767969]The first time I had sex Foreigner's "Double Vision" was playing on the Stereo, I can still remember that big lighted dial on the receiver it was the only light in the room. Every time I hear that song I'm right back in that room.[/QUOTE]
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