Posted on 08/01/2006 12:20:52 PM PDT by pissant
You forgot "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors.
I saw the Moddy blues in concert in 1980 or so. The whole show felt surreal.
Freedom of Choice - Devo
I will anyway. Why?
Not from my era of pop music, I'll have to assume.
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen.
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan.
Rivers of Babylon - Boney Maroni.
"Is that like Itchycoo Park?"
Man....between that one and "Inagaddadivida" you just know that a serious number of brain cells bought the farm.
The entire early Beach Boys collection of songs brings me back to California's golden era.
Mama Tried -Merle Haggard
Hells Bells -AC/DC
La Grange -ZZ Top
Those first few guitar cords (or whatever they're called) of Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd always gets me playing air guitar like a dork.
Welcome to the Jungle by GnR makes me want to sing loud and drive fast.
that's definitely a winner. Just not the Cowboy Junkies' version though.
"Smack me in the Face" by the Cornerstones
Or I Like Chinese, by some unknown singer. ;o)
"Since I Fell For You" -- Lenny Welch
Most Depressing Song Ever:
"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro
I suppose there are two songs that take me back to the time when I was a "desert rat," stealing cactus from the deserts of Nevada, California and Arizona and reselling them to plant nurseries throughout the midwest. I lived a free and easy existance on the verge of lawlessness. I was also young, careless and stupid.
1. Horse With No Name
2. Hotel California
"The entire early Beach Boys collection of songs brings me back to California's golden era."
Yep!! Before the days when the place was completely infested with fruits, nuts and flakes!
Where the hell is Mr. Peabody and his "way back machine" when we REALLY need him?
Don't know Boney, but the first two, definitely.
Cinderella She seems so easy
It takes one to know she smiles
then puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style...
LOL. Very true!
Ahhh, yes... the summer of 1978, her parents were at the beach...
With autumn closing in...
Uh, oh... chub alert!
Okay, okay... forget that. How about...
Neal's Fandango, Doobies - Short and sweet and I'm always gauranteed to crank it up.
Free For All, Nugent - The kids didn't know what to think when I cranked that up one Saturday evening and sang along with Ted.
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