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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:20 PM
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What songs really take you back to your youth?
Y'know, the ones that put you there — awash in the memory of driving to high school, cruisin' Main Street or just listening to the radio in your room.

This is one that takes me right back to being 16:

The Raspberries: "Go All The Way"

These take me back even farther, to when I was just discovering rock 'n' roll:

The Ronettes: "Be My Baby"

The Crystals: "Da Doo Ron Ron"

The Crystals: "Then He Kissed Me"



The nostalgia is so thick, it makes me tear up.



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:22 PM
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1. Don't have links but...
Bachman Turner Overdrive

Hughes Corporation

Three Dog Night

Spiral Staircase

Boston

Kansas

Foreigner

Chicago

and on and on...


Oh, and Jim Croce and Harry Chapin.


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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:30 PM
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5. I keep forgettin'
You're a young'un. :)



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:55 PM
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12. only 3 years younger than you
;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:01 PM
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18. Musically
it's like an entire generation. :P



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:05 PM
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21. ...
:P

so educate me...

;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:07 PM
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22. Can't
You hadda be there. :)



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:08 PM
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23. ...
:(

I was there. Almost...
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:20 PM
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26. Guess I had an advantage
My sister is two years older'n me. Our cousins lived next door, and they were four and eight years older, respectively, and Richard (the oldest) was in a band. I remember him trying to teach me to sing "Duke of Earl" when I was no more than 4.



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:27 PM
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28. I'd pay money for a video of that
;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:28 PM
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30. You'd pay a *lot* of money
He was trying to teach me the bass part. :D



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:30 PM
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33. Hehe...
:rofl:


at 4 years old?? Ha!
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:25 PM
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2. Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue
It was playing when I made out with a girl I liked. :evilgrin:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:29 PM
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4. Wow, a Crüe song I actually like!
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 07:14 AM
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75. Yup.
Every time I hear it, I remember making out with the girl with cubic zirconia studs glued to her pink fingernails. To.Die.For. She was my biggest crush in high school. Every time I hear that song I think to myself "I do love to give women the gift of a nice hummer." Yes, Home Sweet Home, indeed.

I shall leave it at that so I don't get your thread locked.
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:26 PM
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3. First song I remember hearing was Downtown by Petula Clark
It reminds me of going to downtown Bridgeport on the bus with my mom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRK0ZeMB4gI

Blowin' in the Wind reminds me of my house in Newtown, Conn. where I lived until I was 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvkhzkS4bw



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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:00 PM
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17. Wow. Great memories.
DOwntown and Blowin' are both *very* significant memories for me, too. I mean "name the top 10-12 song memories from your childhood" and they both make the cut. The depth of Dylan's lyrics--even the P,P&M version--kind of unmoored you a whole generation, I suppose, from safer pop-sensibilities. Downtown's seemly broad appeal is maybe harder to get at, but I think it's just this incredible interlocking of 3 melodic sections into a logical whole, and the way it moves *builds* from quiet and pensive--"The lights are much brigther there" to that triumphantly, joyous chorus.

Thanks again.
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steelemagnolia Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:53 PM
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38. Oh, I remember both of those
Love them both!
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BuddhaGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 11:04 AM
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88. "Downtown" takes me back as well!
I remember being very young, hearing that on the car radio with my mom, driving around downtown Los Angeles. I remember looking at all the really tall buildings thinking, "wow, this is downtown!" :-)
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skater314159 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:32 PM
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6. For me its Nirvana and Primus...
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 07:39 PM by skater314159
... or if I wanna go back to Elementary and Junior High, http://www.youtube.com/v/FqzpDr7pOJk&rel=1 ">"Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode and http://www.youtube.com/v/RIdfeGaxh1w&rel=1 ">"The Great Commandment" by Camouflage get me there.

Wow. I'm having an "I'm old!" moment here! :silly:

skater pi
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:42 PM
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7. This one takes me way back to the 4th grade
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:42 PM
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8. Here are a few
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA ">Timex Social Club - Rumors
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P_eSnmYv0KA ">Animotion - Obsession
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0X7RyGBq2E8 ">Madonna - Holiday
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QUuV-FE8uE0 ">Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ ">Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U ">A-Ha - Take On Me

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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:53 PM
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9. Well the "way back" is Marty Robbins' "El Paso"
My Dad's 45:


In terms of my "ownership" of the music, it would be:


On Vee Jay records and the heaviest vinyl I ever owned. I swear, when I hear any of these hits from these on the radio, I smell the entire experience, from cardboard to platter to tubes warming up on Dad's hi-fi.

:hi:
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:54 PM
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10. "A Little Bit Of Soap".....The Jarmels
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 07:55 PM by Tikki
The sounds and smells of a flathead Ford, mohair upholstery....Camel cigarette smoke....Jade East aftershave
and a boy named Bobby....I was 13.

1962...and this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6JOgslsHDc


Tikki
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:59 PM
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16. I had no idea that was that old
I remember it from around 1968. Maybe someone covered it. :shrug:



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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:36 PM
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34. Here's the scoop.....
paraphrasing from wiki....

"A Little Bit of Soap" was a song, first sung by The Jarmels, reaching #12 in September 1961.
The song has been covered many times since: Paul Davis's rendition reached #52 on the
Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1970, and Nigel Olsson's rendition hit #34 in June 1979.

Mine was the 1961 release for sure...


Tikki
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:55 PM
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11. "My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison
whenever I hear it I am a very young girl again :)
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:27 PM
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29. yep...
:hi:
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steelemagnolia Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:54 PM
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39. My sister and I warped the 45 of this, playing it so much eom
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:31 PM
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48. yes
I remember hearing it on the car radio a couple years ago - when the DJ said it was 35 years old it made my head spin :D
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:56 PM
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13. wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:56 PM
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14. 18,Pinball Wizard, Green River, Purple Haze
And the Beatles.
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:39 AM
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86. I haven't heard "18" in about 30 years! nt
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 07:56 PM
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15. The Motown sound!
Love it all.

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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:09 PM
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24. That's what *I'm* talkin' about!
I could listen to the Wall of Sound all day, man.



Just dug up this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WEPSaaXwHM



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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:02 PM
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19. The Alphabet Song, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other,
and many other Sesame Street songs composed by the brilliant and wonderful Joe Raposo, Sr.

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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:03 PM
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20. The Magic Flute - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Every time I hear it, I am reminded of the smell of the bubonic plague and all that incense that was supposed to protect us from the evil spirits that caused it.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:10 PM
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25. The Minute Waltz
oh yeah, baby!
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:25 PM
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27. Disney!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:29 PM
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32. Nope
But, whadda you know from music? You're 9 years old. :P



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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:39 PM
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36. I am not!
You meanie!


When I was really little I listed to what my parents listened to; Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, The Stones, The Beatles, Kingston Trio, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Mamas and the Papas, The Four Tops, Neil Young, Dusty Springfield, The Hollies, The Zombies,, The Kinks, Cream, The Righteous Brothers, Three Dog Night. To name a few. :P

I danced with my dad all of the time to "At The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. I remember had a road trip to Oregon when I was about 7, and we listened to all sorts of 50's music. And Fleetwood Mac was my lullaby music. :P


And on the the other side, my parents loved Green Day and Nirvana when they first came out. :7
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:58 PM
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41. That's why I expected you to post something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv22GTTe5AI



(Note that even on American Bandstand in 1958, White People clapped on the wrong beats.) x(



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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:05 PM
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43. LOL!
But, they were so hip! :rofl:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:21 PM
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46. You can't be that white and be hip
It's against the laws of nature, physics, 42 U.S. states and everything that's right and holy.



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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 06:58 AM
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74. I like your parent's music.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:29 PM
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31. "Life's Been Good"
Driving around my small town with my buddies in the summer of 1978. The sweet smell of herbal medication wafting out of the car. Joe Walsh on the radio. My friend Pete, who could not carry a tune in a bucket, singing the lead.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:38 PM
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35. Here's some tunes and/or bands
BOA-Jim Dandy First ever Rock and Roll show I ever saw. I still love those guys. JD Mangrum is apparently too ill to make anything new at this time. Yeah right.
Me too.
Tommy Bolin- Post Toastee. The bastard did exactly what he said not to do and I partied with him.
ZZ Top- LaGrange. I love this band and I partied (heavily) with the guy who doesn't have a beard, Frank Beard.
Anything by the greatest Rock and Roll band the world has ever seen, the Rolling Stones. Fuck the Beatles, The Stones had the Blues and flaunted it. Kick ass!
Free Bird- Yeah, I know a lot of people profess to hate this song, but if you walk into their house, it's being played, and played loud. One of the greatest Rock and Roll songs ever.
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steelemagnolia Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:52 PM
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37. Here Are the Five That Come to Mind: Too long to list; take a listen
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:43 AM
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87. "Rocky Mountain High" Great song.
I saw John Denver in concert and I'm so glad I did. What an incredible voice and what a range!
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steelemagnolia Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 08:41 PM
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100. I saw him too in 1976
When I was 13; he played for three hours. Let his band go for about 20 minutes and played by himself. He played every one of his songs. He said that he didn't want anyone to go away disappointed because they didn't get to hear him play THEIR favorite song. It was the most awesome thing I'd ever heard an artist say. He had a gentle spirit and, to this day, it is one of the best concerts I have ever seen.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 08:57 PM
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40. I'm only 37 so thanks to my parents for these memories...
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 09:37 PM by leeroysphits
I can help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr645Ti4ju8

Wild world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXpnZi9Hzs&feature=related

Saturday in the park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiMy4NaSKc&feature=related

These songs bring back a flood of images and even smells and feelings for me.
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:00 PM
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42. sort of don't know how to answer...my music? my sibs?
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 09:29 PM by RainDog
edited for obligatory link to LSoHHB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPQSBB6BoY

I have sibs that are 15 and 11 years older than me, so I heard The Beach Boys, surf guitar ala Dick Dale, Elvis... that sort of thing... Then my sister is 4 years older and I associate her with The Young Rascals (and I bought her a cd of their music and she didn't even remember them!! she listened to them CONSTANTLY. And The Supremes (who I did not like) and James Brown (who I did)

My friends and I played "Beatles" on the playground in elementary school... sang and tossed our pixie cuts... We used to bring in 45s to play before school started and by fourth grade I'd bought Van Morrison...I particularly remember bringing that one in because we danced around to Brown Eyed Girl. And I'm sure we listened to tons of bubblegum... Hermans Hermits, Freddie and the Dreamers...

My mother liked to listen to Rufus Thomas when I was a little kid, and soul music in general... Stax, etc. The silly stuff... I put a spell on you...

The first albums I ever bought were when I was starting middle school. I got Tommy, Deja Vu, and Led Zepplin and Mad Dogs and Englishmen... I got to tell my brother about the FM station that was starting up... got happy with Sly and the Family Stone...

Got 3 older stepbrothers then heard lots of Allman Bros, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, James Gang, Little Feat

High school ...Dark Side of the Moon, Traffic's Low Spark of High heel Boys, - those two are high school for me. it seemed like they played every other night, all the way through for DSoTM, plus entire Sgt. Peppers... (ah, fm...) Stevie Wonder... plus tons of other things that I cringe when I hear - like Fly Like an Eagle - or anything by the Eagles (tho I hated them from the start b/c at that time I had also discovered Blue Grass and Hank Williams and earlier The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was it (for my sister, actually, but I was always bugging her.) Discovered Bob Dylan, too, when a friend of mine had me listen to her favorite album EVAH.

even with all this, I'm sure there's lots I've forgotten.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:05 PM
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44. I'm probably the only one who remembers them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L_To4EfMK4

The Keane Brothers

I was smitten.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:29 PM
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47. When did those guys find time to record
what with Cub Scouts and all? :shrug:



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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:05 PM
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45. What? You want me to break DU. ??
huh? DO you? You do. Don't you.

This question is making my head hurt :D
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:37 PM
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49. Take yer best shot




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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:40 PM
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50. If I listed all the songs that take me back to my "youth"
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 09:40 PM by Tuesday Afternoon
I would break youtube and DU :D

You are going to have to define youth better for me ;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:50 PM
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52. I dunno if I can define 'youth' in this context
I can't even explain the feeling I get from certain songs — not much better than I did in the OP, anyway.

Like I said, the songs put you there, and it's the songs that decide where "there" is.

It's so much more than just "I remember." It's kinda like "I never stopped being that."



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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:58 PM
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54. yeah,,,,but, I know what you mean. My problem is that I was
raised in a muscial family. I can go back to baa baa black sheep and be 4 y/o again. You mean like that? I can hear a song to this day and go instantly back to where I was the first time I heard it. There is a lot of music I can not listen to because it "takes me back". I love it, but it hurts too much.

just leave at baa baa black sheep. I would sing it to myself as a comfort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTgiBhs3htI
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:59 PM
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55. apropos to my era
I got high listening to Pink Floyd DSoTM without any external substance. Sitting in a dark car, eyes closed, waiting for a friend. When I did smoke d-weed, it was almost the same experience. their music is like that, man. oh wow, man that is freaky.
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DaDooRonRon Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:43 PM
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51. Well, my best friend used to listen to "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo"
when we were home from college, but I had nothing to do with it.

Hey, his old man had a stocked bar downstairs - the trade off was worth it.

To say nothing of the all-girls Catholic College about two blocks from his house.

"Penguins!!" :)

(first LP I ever bought was Dick Dale and The Del-Tones - so there)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:53 PM
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53. Which one?
I've still got their first LP.







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DaDooRonRon Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:11 AM
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81. One in the same from '62!
Let's go trippin'!
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:07 PM
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56. Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:25 PM
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57. That was HUGE around here
Since it was "local."



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:35 PM
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60. It was big in Cincinnati too
That's where we were living in 1970...

;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:37 PM
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62. Didn't people in Cincinnati think
Mill Valley, Kollyforniya was full of banana-smoking hippies? :)



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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 08:22 AM
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77. I don't know
I was only 9 when the song came out...

;)
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IzaSparrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:28 PM
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58. Green Day
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:34 PM
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59. My sister took me to see Green Day on my 15th birthday.
They played with Bad Religion. My sisters friend Michelle had slept with the band ten years earlier so we got to sit in the van and drink beers with Green Day.
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IzaSparrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:37 PM
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61. I saw Green Day play with Blink182 opening
that concert pretty much ended my romance with blink182--especially after I'd seen them before with Bad Religion. Bad Religion opened for them, what a mistake!
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:58 PM
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68. I saw Blink-182 at the Seattle Warped Tour.
They were the headlining band.. Fucking horrible. We left halfway through.

Seeing Ice-T and Suicidal Tendencies was cool. And Pennywise put on a good show, The Vandals too.
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:38 PM
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63. How young?!
If i want to feel 6 again, it's Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein". That was the first "45" that i ever owned, and it was a birthday gift from my mom's baby brother (only 8 yrs older than me).

8 would be an assortment of Alice Cooper. I went to my first real concert that year, and it was that same uncle who took me.

If i jump up to 11, it's anything off of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors", or MeatLoaf's "Bat out of Hell". MY favorite aunt would play them loud through the windows of her house while we pulled weeds in her garden, or sat on the porch and shelled peas and snapped beans.

13 is "The Logical Song", or "Hotel California", which my friends and i sang over and over while recording ourselves, Karaoke-style.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:41 PM
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64. Ohio
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 10:52 PM by Xipe Totec
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BuelahWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:43 PM
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65. My first memory of music was around '66
The first "pop" song that I remember liking was Winchester Cathedral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRKoNLCGf38&feature=related

About 6 years later I really got into this guy :P :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsn4KZkUBeg
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:51 PM
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66. Anything by Fats Domino.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:56 PM
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67. "Rockbox" by Run DMC
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:58 PM
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69. Joplin: Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/janisjoplin/mercedesbenz.html

Hair: LBJ took the IRT
http://janfox.com/sixties_live_lyrics.htm

and further back

Silverstein: A long time ago when the earth was green
(sung by the Irish Ramblers)
http://www.siu.edu/~compcomp/compucomp/Activities/Revision/unicorn.htm
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:03 PM
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70. Funkytown. Rollerskating to Funkytown.
that really takes me back. of course, I remember a lot of songs from before then and a lot after, but Funkytown is the one that I can't hear without picturing my youth again.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:05 PM
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71. "Pinwheel"
This was the OLD Nickelodeon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThn0HVcglQ
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tainted_chimp Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 04:56 AM
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72. Early 70's ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IG7vu16Fug - Harry Nilsson - Lime in the Coconut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owIBVSendIY - Melanie - Brand New Key

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMLV05lqsx8 - Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1soeHOIZnYg - Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ08HUsEAfs _ Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 04:00 PM
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93. Well I remember it.
Late 80s, early 90s.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 05:59 AM
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73. Krokus - "HeadHunter"
and Judas Priest " Turbo "

My older sister is to blame for my Heavy Metal addiction.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 08:03 AM
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76. Anything Motown
reminds me of my elem. and Jr. High years. Especially the Supremes :-).

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Doors, etc. all remind me of High School.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 09:10 AM
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78. Early Beatles, such as "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "I Should Have Known Better,"
"Thank You Girl," etc.

"Rockin Robin." "Problems" by the Everly Brothers.

And the earliest I remember: "Tonight You Belong to Me," by Patience and Prudence.
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 09:14 AM
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79. My list..........
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7dQLkxz6c2E">"Ana Ng"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aX1PwkgwsG0">"Killing Moon"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kvUx6N8g7WU">"Hard Woman"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f6RqcEuxY_Q">"Alone Again Or... (The Damned's version)

Thanks Friday Night Videos!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 09:27 AM
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80. Kodachrome
We all felt we could especially relate to the first 4 lines:

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
Its a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasnt hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama dont take my kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know theyd never match
My sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama dont take my kodachrome away


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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:19 AM
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82. Stones: "Satisfaction"
Sixth grade.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:22 AM
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83. Boston - we wore out that album the summer i graduated from HS
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:29 AM
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84. Now here's a juxtaposition
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:38 AM
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85. Anything by Bob Dylan.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 12:01 PM
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89. Anything by Three Dog Night
Takes me right back to high school ...

Bake
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gbate Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 02:52 PM
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90. Saturday in the Park by Chicago
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 03:47 PM
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92. Nice one!
Wish I could say I was eight then.
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adabfree Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 03:45 PM
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91. HMMMMM...
Just my imagination by the Temps

Ain't no Mountain High Enough by Diana

Ben by Michael Jackson

Gonna take a lotta love by Nicolette Larson

Baby Come Back by Playa

Tiny Dancer by Elton John

Respect by Areatha Franklin

Cosmic Slop by Parliament/Funkadelic

Biggest Part of Me by Ambrosia

Machine Gun by the Commodores

Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond

War by Edwin Starr

Hot Pants by James Brown...

I grew up in a big family...lots of older siblings--music was big in my household..and varied too
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Ramsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 05:29 PM
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94. Let's Groove Tonight - EW&F
Celebration- Kool and the Gang
Brick House -The Commodores
Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meatloaf
Don't Stand So Close to Me- The Police
Planet Claire and Rock lobster- The B-52s
Only the Good Die Young- Billy Joel
Rock the Casbah- The Clash
Anything from Rocky Horror Picture Show

All with big associations to my high school days!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 06:27 PM
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95. junior high - Joy to the World (3 Dog Night version) and Bowie
High School - Close to the Edge (Yes) and Jethron Tull

College - Frampton Comes Alive (gag) - freshman year
The Ramones - I just Want to Have Something to Do, Rockaway Beach, I Wanna be Sedated

post-college - Joy Division- She's Lost Control





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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 07:11 PM
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96. Bowie's LET'S DANCE, DON'T YOU WANT ME BABY BY Human League take me back to late teens.
Also, anything by the GO GOs. But for my youth - my childhood - probably nothing more than Billy Don't Be a Hero, or Angie Baby by Helen Reddy, or I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 07:52 PM
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97. "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"!
Edited on Mon Feb-18-08 08:01 PM by WinkyDink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkwVWH-Ia0

Not to metion:
Purple People-Eater
Running Bear
The Twist
Mashed Potatoes
Loco-motion
Tell Laura I Love Her
Sherry
Get A Job
Runaway
Lonely Teardrops
Hound Dog
Music, Music, Music (Put Another Nickel In)
How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
Mairzy Doats
Moon River
Tequila
The Lonely Bull
Secret Agent Man
Itsy-Bitsy....Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini
My Wooden Heart
Blue Velvet
Johnny Angel
ETC>!!!!!!!!
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jumptheshadow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 08:10 PM
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98. Here's a second "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
Edited on Mon Feb-18-08 08:13 PM by jumptheshadow
Also:

She Loves You
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Shirelles version)
Going to the Chapel (and We're Going to Get Married)

Then, in high school, our official senior class song: Time Has Come Today, can bring the memories flooding back.

The nuns confiscated my Beatle cards collection in grammar school! It probably would be worth some $$, too.


Edited to insert the link to the l-o-o-n-g version of Time has Come Today:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6nuiIqMQ4sA
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 08:14 PM
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99. Ah, the British Invasion. Life will never be as good again.
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