Remember those days when you had enough time to listen to music? Remember the tunes that were so great you could listen to them over and over and get goosebumps every time? Kind of a neat life history if you think about it. What were the ones that got you? Do they still?

First ones for me were the Beatles Eleanor Rigby "all the lonely people...", David Bowie "Is there life on Mars?". Elton John, Goodbye Yellow brick Road "I should have listened to my old man...", Genesis, Many too many "How could I be so blind?", John Lennon "War is over, if you want it..."

The ultimate for me is Pink Floyd's Time - even more true over the years; "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...". On the obscure level: the Stranglers Get a Grip; "Convicted for insanity and crimes against the soul, but the worst thing I ever did was play some rock and roll!" Awesome keyboards from JJ!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Answers

You groovin this morning, Janis Joplin Pearl Album, still know every song. My goats love Me and Bobby Mcgee..LOL Sherry

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

"The Wall" by Kansas still brings me to tears whenever I hear it. That song gave me the courage to make some much-needed changes in my life. I agree about Pink Floyd's Time, especially the part about living lives of quiet desperation.

The two songs that inspire me right now are Golden Streets by Creed: "I am strong enough to take these dreams and make them mine." and also Drive by Incubus. This one is so good I'm going to quote the entire thing:

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.

And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear take the wheel and steer.

It's driven me before, and it seems to have a vague haunting mass appeal.

But lately I'm beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel.

Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.

So if I decided to wave my chance to be one of the hive, will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?

It's driven me before and it seems to be the way that everyone else gets around.

But lately I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself my life is found.

Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.

Would you choose water over wine? Hold the wheel and drive!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Thanks, Sherri, for the words to that song. Eldest really likes it, and I liked what I could understand, but am getting old;) and couldn't make it all out. Cool song. Great thread, David, I am looking forward to it growing. I may come back after I give this one some thought.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

O.K.................I know that I am the old cranky kook here.......but doesn't ANYONE remember the Moody Blues, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Chicago, Joan Biaz................?????????????????????

Hummingbird don't fly away???

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Diane, Hummingbird was Seals and Crofts. I saw them at the Long Beach Arena way long ago! Drove all the way from CA to Denver just to go see CSNY, couldn't get tickets! How about YES. Close to the edge, down by the water. Saw them too. I went to the first California Jam. Saw Eagles, Emerson, Lake and Palmer (he spun with his piano in circles about 20 feet up in the air) and right now I can not remember who else was there. I saw Pink Floyed (money) and all those coins were flying up thru the air in the beams of light. Really. I was more into John Denver, but I did go to some of the wilder ones with my friends. Not many, but a few of those kinds. It was a bit too loud for me.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

I've always like Dust in the Wind by Kansas:

I close my eyes
only for a moment
and the moments gone
all my dreams
pass before my eyes a curiosity
dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind

Same old song
just a drop of water
in the endless sea
all we do
crumbles to the ground
though we refuse to see
dust in the wind

Now, donīt hang on
nothing last forever
but the earth and sky
it slips away

And all your money
won`t another minute buy

Dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
dust in the wind
dust in the wind


-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

I like that Incubus song too, Sherri.

Another song that's been around for a while that I really like is I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Yes, thank you Cindy............Seals and Croft, just couldn't remember that name. I saw them when they came to Michigan and could have been a groupy easy!!!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Lately I have been playing a lot of old Sly and the Family Stone. "Stand" has almost become my anthem. Funny, from a 49-year- old white "chick."

"Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan was also emblematic for me. Also funny, as I was a 12- or 13-year-old middle class kid with a decent home and friends. I think it spoke more to the changes that were happening in America (perhaps the world) at the time. Shudder. What a time, what a time...

In my twenties, "Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan was also a critical song. I was going through some severe changes and that one pulled me through. "I cried when I wrote this song; sue me if I play too long. This brother, is free. I'll be what I want to be!" Even the "drink scotch whisky all night long and die behind the wheel" was close to where I was at!

A good humming tune is James Taylors song that goes: "Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself because I love you." I'm trying to sing that more often.

I'm sure I'll think of others and bore you all with more drivel. But this is fun!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

All my friends make fun of me because I listen to "old" music. Anything by James Taylor, especially "Steamroller", Rolling Stones "HonkyTonk Women", and "Sympathy for the Devil". Love Cosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, got Janis Joplin in my cars tape deck right now, and I'm listening to this cd called "songs from the civil war' that always makes chills go down my spine!And Of course Pink Floyd's "Wish you were here". Great thread!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

One of my favorites was "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" or whatever the title was. I know the words to it because I sang it twenty leven million times but I'm not sure about the title. Still seems appropo today.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Reserving the right to bore you more later (if Sheepish can do it, so can I!), I think my most favorite song is The Last Resort (Eagles), followed closely by Desperado (also Eagles).

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

How about Bowie's "Ch-ch-ch-changes"? I wore out a jukebox playing that one. "Time may change me, but I can't change time".

I love old Jackson Browne stuff, like "Late for the Sky" and "For a Dancer" as well as "For Everyman". Anyone else for Laura Nyro's stuff? Miss her, she was too young to leave, eh? Never can say no to anything by Doris Day, Carole King, Dean Martin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Helen Reddy. I like new folks too, like the Indigo Girls, and many instrumental folks like William Ackerman, Riley Lee, George WInston or Paul Winter.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Anne, I loved Laura Nyro!!

And wasn't it "Changes" that said: "Turn and face the strange." ? I can't tell you how many times that went through my head when I was scared of something...

Boring as always,

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Crosby Stills and Nash, "Teach your children", "Four Dead in Ohio", and I can't remember the title, but it goes

"I'm standing in Winchester Cathedral; All religion has to have its day. Expressions on the face of the Savior make me say, I can't stay.

Open up the gates to the church and let me out of here. Too many people have died in the name of Christ for anyone to heed the call. Too many people have lied in the name of Christ and I can't believe it all.

And now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier who died in 1799 And the day he died it was his birthday, and I noticed it was mine And my head doesn't know just who I am and I am spinning back in time And I am high ... up on the altar high ... up on the altar high ...."

Emerson Lake and Palmer "Lucky Man" "The bullet that found him, his blood ran as he cried. Nobody could save him so he laid down and he died."

Arlo Guthrie, "City of New Orleans" Most anything by the Jayhawks. Jethro Tull, too many to mention but I'll at least mention "Farm on the Freeway" Pink Floyd "Wish you were here", "Learning to Fly", "Momentary Lapse of Reason", "Time" Bunches of stuff by Alan Parsons Project Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" Indigo Girls, "Closer to fine" Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee" Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Mr. Bojangles" Most everything on the Traveling Wilburys Album Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler, especially "Brother's in Arms" ZZ Tops "Rough boy" Moody Blues Nazareth "Love Hurts" Bob Dylan, "Tangled up in Blue", "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" America, "A Horse with No Name" and "Tin Man" Peter Gabriel, "Mercy Street", "Don't Give Up" Don Henley, "New York Minute", "Little Tin God", "The End of Innocence", "The Heart of the Matter" Bruce Hornsby "Mandolin Rain" and "The Way It Is" Sister Hazel "Change your mind" Sting "Fields of Gold" Linda Ronstadt "Long, Long Time" Richard Marx "Hazard" Counting Crows, too too much to mention but especially "A Murder of One" and "Perfect Blue Buildings" Train, "Drops of Jupiter" Rod Stewart, "Downtown Train" Richard & Linda Thompson, "Dimming of the Day" Mary Black "Without the Fanfare" Dougie McClean "Broken Wings" and "This love will carry" Black Crowes "She Talks to Angels" Jim Morrison "Brown Eyed Girl" Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Hornsby "I can't make you love me" Eagles "Desperado" Whoever did "Cherokee Nation"

Ephraim Lewis, the whole album but especially "Skin"

Three Dog Night, Chicago, CCR ... I better quit. I could go on and on and on and on ...

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Maybe I'm really showing my age, but does anyone remember "Elvis"?? I love almost ALL of his songs. But since I'm really a "60's" child, anything by the Moody Blues, Beatles, Beach Boys really "turns me on"!!!! Also...does anyone remember the "Surfaris"?? I grew up on the beach so maybe that's why beach stuff is what I remember the best!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Never fear Marcia! One more huge Elvis fan here. Plus all your other choices too.....Kirk

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2001

Brown-eyed Girl-Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eva Cassidy, Bonnie Raitt, actually anything bluesy. Also James Taylor, his early stuff was actually folk pop blues. Also like Emmy Lou Harris and love to listen to bluegrass. Nancy Griffin--Across the Great Divide. Actually, her Other Voices, Other Rooms is probably my all time favorite CD, album.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2001

....harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding, no more falsehoods or derisions, golden living, dreams of visions, mystic crytal revelations and the mind's true liberation....

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2001

Bad news for you Elvis fans. The site of his last concert, Market Square Arena in Indianapolis IN, was imploded and demolished this past weekend. However, they did announce "Elvis has left the building" just before they flipped the switch.

A perfectly good 27-year old sports cathedral built with taxpayer money, blown up with taxpayer money so that a newer and bigger sports cathedral can be built with even more taxpayer money...don't get me started! :-)

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2001

Makes absolutely no sense to me either, Sherri!

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2001

Joy is always and forever playing 'Name that Tune' with me when the radio is playing, and I'm just abysmal at it. Of course, when I don't know who it is singing, or the name of the tune, then I have to haul something really outlandish out of the hat and claim that it's Barry Manilow singing or something. (geez, at least she doesn't grill me on Rolling Stones!)

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2001

Aquarius!!!

Do I win some beads? Or a bong hit? (sheesh, what would I do with it?!! Cough my lungs out!)

Thanks Polly. Now that song will be running through my head for days. Oh well, not much else happening inside there these days!

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2001

hee hee!! Wondered if anyone would recognize that! No love beads handy and I sold the bong at a rummage sale years ago, but I have a nice pair of hemostats I could send you...

PS - could be worse; when I want to aggravate my partner in crime at work, I sing Lambchop's "This is the song that doesn't end...."

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2001

Polly, my nephew sings that @^%^@ song to me all the time!!! ARGGGH! And I used to like little Lambchop!

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2001