Posted on 09/20/2008 4:30:40 PM PDT by stand_your_ground
LOL!
I guarantee, every one of them (except maybe "Jessie's Girl"), has been remade as Muzak.
Shut up. 1964 . . big old Bubble hairdos ratted up to the ceiling . . Beatles . . Vietnam and not understanding it but treated to a MSM showing of it night after night . . the civil rights movement and not understanding that all that well either . . Elvis . . the space program and working at NASA for a summer, watching Von Braun drive around in a golf cart inspecting the Saturn V missle pieces laying out in a warehouse being manufactured . . “She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah . .”, “Telstar” . . Bonanza on TV . . Kennedy being assassinated while I was in typing class my senior year . . .
Class reunions to this day . . cannot stand it for the most part . . just call me a bad attitude . . a bunch of ageing people huddled in a loud, noisy dark room, dancing to a rock and roll band some falling out in the floor drunk . . watching the Elvis impersonator . . unable to see or hear each other . . same old cliques playing the same old games . calling the same old insulting nicknames that weren’t funny to the people being called the nicknames long after they no longer look like the nicknames suggest . . but for a night, they haven’t been seen as the successes they’ve been in life . . just as the comforting old status affirming stooges the elitists in the group still need to ridicule in order assure themselves that nothing has changed in the status quo. (No, I’m not in the nickname crowd, but I feel for those who are still shamed and belittled by supposed “adults” and supposed “classmates” who have evidently changed but little.) - I called a halt to involvement in those “reunions” five years ago at the 40th; figured I’d been marginally participating at picnics and mostly left off the drinking parties over the years. Nothing against anybody, but high school for me was not the whirl of “belonging” that’s promoted by so many.
What does THEAT mean?
You Poor Bastard, LOL!!!!!!!!
Speaking of Foreigner, what year was “Dirty White Boy”? I was in a rock band in the late 70s right after college, and we played that one, along with Player (”Baby Come Back”) and a few others, like “Sarah Smile.” The rest were pretty much older (50s & 60s) rock, country, and blues. We even did (God help us) a couple of Tom Jones.
What the heck, we got gigs...
Do you feel like I do?
1979. My second favorite Foreigner song, right after "Urgent."
Hey - I liked Hot Blooded and Dust in the Wind!
Have to agree on the rest, though. Absolutely horrible.
Not really Southern rock, but I liked.
Class of’78 here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi41K4zY8O4
I was wearing out my vinyl copies of Cheap Trick's "Live at Budokan" and "Dream Police" just to stay sane, LOL!
1968
1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
2. Hey Jude - Beatles
3. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
4. Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
5. Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells
6. Jumpin’ Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
7. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
8. White Room - Cream
9. Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
10. Revolution - Beatles
I remember Alice Cooper and ZZ Top being my favorites. After graduation, Peter Frampton came alive.
Then the barforama of disco started appearing. I started immersing myself in RUSH to keep my sanity.
Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! - Devo
But Seriously Folks - Joe Walsh
The Cars - The Cars
Dog and Butterfly - Heart
Hemispheres - Rush
If You Want Blood You've Got It - AC/DC
The Last Waltz - The Band
Molly Hatchet - Molly Hatchet
Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag
Pieces of Eight - Styx
Stranger in Town - Bob Seger
Van Halen - Van Halen
Waiting For Columbus - Little Feat
Who Are You - The Who
You're Gonna Get It! - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Just had my 20 three years ago.
sometimes it seems time has flown by other times it seems like a LONG LONG time ago.
I wish i was young and glad i’m not at the same time.
UGH!!
“That’s why I graduated in ‘76. It was a much better year musically. And it was the Bicentennial. :^)”
Aw c’mon dude, I graduated in ‘76 and I remember hearing “Afternoon Delight” on my car radio as I shuttled in my 64’ LeMans between graduation parties. I said: “God, PLEASE kill me now!”. He didn’t listen. Maybe it’s for the best.
Best not to admit that 1978 ever happened.
I always got a kick out of that song, but it's been a while since I heard it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he quoting what the woman in his life told him with those words?
That's about the only thing I remember from the cartoon "American Pop".
If those songs bug you, just sit back and imagine Pee Wee Herman singing them. ;-)
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