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5-10-15-20 "Music of Our Lives" Draft - Round 14 (2 Viewers)

You're out of your room and down on the street
You can feel the crowds in the midnight heat
The traffic roars the sirens scream
Look at the faces it's just like a dream

Nobody knows where you're going
Nobody cares where you've been

 
wikkidpissah said:
Hosanna
Hey Sanna Sanna Sanna Hosanna
Hey Sanna Hosanna
Hey JC, JC won't you smile at me?
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Actually as great as Gillan and Head both are, my favorite vocal on the album might be Mike D’Abo of “Mighty Quinn” fame. “Herod’s Song” has a gorgeous melody to it but because the lyrics are so outrageous, whoever plays this part tends to ham it up (including Alice Cooper in the recent televised version.) D’Abo sings it straight without any gimmick, and it remains by far the best version ever. 

 
timschochet said:
Actually as great as Gillan and Head both are, my favorite vocal on the album might be Mike D’Abo of “Mighty Quinn” fame. “Herod’s Song” has a gorgeous melody to it but because the lyrics are so outrageous, whoever plays this part tends to ham it up (including Alice Cooper in the recent televised version.) D’Abo sings it straight without any gimmick, and it remains by far the best version ever. 
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been listening to the score since i saw your pick and am just about to that song. for all the maddening corn & hysterics of any ALW work, the textures are always transplendent

 
timschochet said:
Age 5 album- Jesus Christ Superstar 

This was the original soundtrack record with Murray Head and Ian Gillan. My dad bought a reel to reel tape player and this album came with it. I was entranced; listened to it all day long. I still love it. 
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We got this album around the same time I got my first pair of headphones.  Well technically they belonged to the whole family but I was the one who had 'em on his little head all the time.  I remember being blown away by the stereo effects on Jesus Christ Superstar.  I'd never heard the heightened reality of spatial sound before and I was hooked.  Still am I guess.

 
15 YO 1979 - Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me

Pretty much a slam dunk for people in the midwest.  There were a lot of ways I could have went with this as a Freshman in high school, but this song sounds as fresh today as in high school.  Any doubt, it was referenced in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which was set roughly to this era.

 
FairWarning said:
15 YO 1979 - Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me

Pretty much a slam dunk for people in the midwest.  There were a lot of ways I could have went with this as a Freshman in high school, but this song sounds as fresh today as in high school.  Any doubt, it was referenced in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which was set roughly to this era.
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Jumping the gun a bit?  We're only up to 10 year singles.  

 
Single - 10 yrs. old: 

Bram Tchaikovsky - Girl of My Dreams

hey!!!!

'member the song that was blasted all over humanity and playlists and charts and mixed tapes and radios and car stereos and 8 track players and Creem and Hit Parader back in the Summer of '79??!?

well, it wasn't this one ... that distinction went to the ubiquitous "My Sharona", and this superior slice of pure, unadulterated power pop was swallowed up in the Tsunami that was the Knack. 

ugggghhh. 

from those jangly opening chords, to the lilting lyrics and harmonies ... no song about a lusciously fetching blow up doll paramour ever sounded better. 

plus we got to hate on the Knack, because everyone was bonkers and bat#### over Sharona ... and we would be like "nahhhh, listen to Bram Chivekofffskee instead, man ... WE KNOW ####!!!"

no better way to ring out the last summer of such a tumultuous decade of music upheaval ... this was so #######' solid.  some 41 years later it still sounds as fresh and crisp as first listen through that crackling transistor speaker ... prolly my most listened to song of my lifetime. 

TMI nugget below ...

BONUS  - Doreen Barth remembered how much i loved this song when we finally hooked up some 4 years later (she was working the zeppole stand at the parish festival that summer of '79, and i was a fixture - i glommed so many that i began to #### ill extruded dough)  ... such a lovely lass, and definitely not inflatable  :thumbup:
 
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Age 10 Song- Jump by Kris Kross

Link

If you were 10 in 1992 than this was the song. I didn't go so far as to put my pants or jerseys on backwards but the hat went backwards and despite my age, I still wear it that way from time to time today. Not so much with the oversized sagging pants though. 

And everything is to the back with a little slack
'Cause inside-out is wiggity, wiggity, wiggity wack

 
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timschochet said:
Age 5 album- Jesus Christ Superstar 

This was the original soundtrack record with Murray Head and Ian Gillan. My dad bought a reel to reel tape player and this album came with it. I was entranced; listened to it all day long. I still love it. 
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Huh, I only knew Murray Head from One Night In Bangkok (Chess).  Learned something new....

 
Since my memory after age 5 gets better I have more backstory for my next pick...

Despite having a record cabinet and numerous albums in it, my parents didn't play any music around the house, so it was either hear country music on long drives or snippets of Bobby Sherman and/or whatever bubblegum pop my older sister was into that week (I haven't mentioned my siblings yet; my sister is 8 years older than me and to this day pretty much represents most of the negative traits ascribed to baby boomers, plus I have a brother 5 years older, who ran with a rough crowd and had more common sense than brains). Between the ages of 5-10, however, that changed as my father started getting more and more into bluegrass. We went from religiously listening to the only bluegrass-centric program on local radio (courtesy of our local NPR station, 88.5 WAMU in DC), to attending any local festival/gathering that advertised live bluegrass bands, which culminated in a festival in basically our own back yard, Cole Field House on the University of Maryland campus, which featured heavy hitters of the genre Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley as well as our favorite band, a local act named the Seldom Scene.  My dad had even splurged for front-row seats.  While we never went to any big shows like that any  more, the  Seldom Scene had a standing gig at a local 'club' called The Birchmere, which over time has become the destination for a lot of famous acts across all genres, but the original club had a cozy feel to it, and when I became a teenager, we would go down there occasionally and it was a great father-son bonding time.  Sadly, 2 of the original members have passed away and the others have retired. Other musicians have taken over and kept the name, so the Seldom Scene continues on, but neither my dad nor I follow them. Anyway, below is the link to their song that I took an instant liking to way back when.  The link comes from their lone appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in the late 70's, which is why I used this particular link.  The band members all had full-time jobs and kept their appearances limited to the MD/DC/VA area, so for them to get a call to the Opry was somewhat of a coup.  For those of you who remember the songs played at our funeral thread, this song makes an appearance there as well.

Rider by the Seldom Scene. 

 
10 Year Old Song:  Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

1980 was about the time I started discovering music on my own rather than what my parents had in the house.  While it isn’t their best song (by far), and I had heard other songs by them, it is the first time I associated the band with their music and wanted to know more about them. After that, I became a fan.  And then after seeing their Live Aid performance years later, they became one of my favorite bands of all time.

 
MAC_32 said:
5 years old - Billy Joel, Piano Man

My parents listened to a lot of really bad music. Air Supply, Jefferson Starship, REO Speedwagon, etc. I was beaten to shreds with terrible 80's music, but on one particular vacation car ride they finally got my attention with two artists. Neil Diamond and this guy. So why Billy? Cause Neil didn't have a complete album. Or at least my ears weren't exposed to one. My jaw had to be picked up off the floor the first time I heard the Ballad of Billy the Kid and I'll never forget mom smacking dad's arm listening to the lyrics in Captain Jack. So...this is it. 
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It’s a song and an album for each age, on consecutive days.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
It’s a song and an album for each age, on consecutive days.
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Song too?

Then we'll go with Neil Diamond's America. As I said in the Piano Man write up there were two artists that got my attention on that trip. America wasn't the only one to infiltrate my ears and have a lasting impact, but it was the strongest one. It fell by the wayside sometime in my teenage years, but in the age of spotify it popped up on one of my smart playlists within the last few years. I stopped what I was doing at work when I heard that opening string arrangement, got lost in it, quickly searched for a bunch of other Neil to add to our music, and now our kids even added it to their playlists. 

Did you hear she torched his Neil Diamond albums?

She torched Neil?!? You're right. She is a monster. 

edit: age 5 song

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Age 10 - Single: "Troglodite" - Jimmy Castor Bunch

10 year-old me thought this record was IT. Looking back, it doesn't hold up well from a woke perspective. And the slang may be missed by today's yute. It still kicks all kind of ###, though, with that guitar/drum workout. And Castor's vocal is funny as hell.
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Well, you come by your funkafeelya honestly, i must say. I think i'd be less scared for a 10yo being exposed to the hard pipe than have a bottom likat in his haid... 

 
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Ilov80s said:
Age 10 Song- Jump by Kriss Kross

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If you were 10 in 1992 than this was the song. I didn't go so far as to put my pants or jerseys on backwards but the hat went backwards and despite my age, I still wear it that way from time to time today. Not so much with the oversized sagging pants though. 

And everything is to the back with a little slack
'Cause inside-out is wiggity, wiggity, wiggity wack
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uh-huh uh-huh

 
When I was thinking about this age, it's interesting that the same person came to mind for both of my 10 year old picks and the picks are going to be pretty different musically.  

To anybody who knows me a little bit, this pick is going to make perfect sense.   But it's a perfect mix of a peak love of one band, and the start of the obsession with one movie.  Huey Lewis and the News was the first music that I listened to that was of my choosing.  I am sure I heard some on the radio and wanted it after that.  Sports would have come out a couple years before this, and I remember getting that and Picture This for Christmas and listening to those tapes a ton.  The love of this band went extended to the point where I named my two hamsters (or were they gerbils?) Huey and Lewis.  :lol:

Now, 2 years later, kicked in a couple more obsessions - redheads and my favorite movie of all time.  There was a girl who was also in the drum line for our 4th grade band, the only girl in drums.  We hung out a bit for practice and our first (and only) "date" was my dad dropping us at this movie in the summer of '85.  Like most 10 year old relationships that lasted about a week, but of course that kicked in next love - my obsession with movies (it was growing with stuff like Ghostbusters and Karate Kid before it, but something was different about this one) and my love of Back to the Future.  I know I had the soundtrack for this right away.  Anyway...

Round 3/Song from 10 year old me:   Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love

 
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Ilov80s said:
Age 10 Song- Jump by Kriss Kross

Link

If you were 10 in 1992 than this was the song. I didn't go so far as to put my pants or jerseys on backwards but the hat went backwards and despite my age, I still wear it that way from time to time today. Not so much with the oversized sagging pants though. 

And everything is to the back with a little slack
'Cause inside-out is wiggity, wiggity, wiggity wack
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:thumbup:

 
10 years old song “Black Water” The Doobie Brothers 

5th grade choir, spring concert. We spent a month learning this song and then leading the school assembly in the closing chant 

I wanna hear some funky Dixieland pretty mamas gonna take me by the hand, by the hand hand take me by the hand pretty mama, gonna dance with you all night long! 

All the kids in the school standing up and singing with us- we were so cool. 

 
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To be clear, this weekend is 10 years old singles. If everyone is picking today we can do 10 years old album tomorrow since the weekday/weekend distinction doesn't really mean as much these days...

 
zamboni said:
Hard to pinpoint one favorite song at age 10, as I was listening to a lot of top 40 among a handful of albums (one which will be listed as the age 10 album).

As a textbook latchkey kid, TV theme songs were as much a part of my life as anything, and this was a personal favorite.

Age 10 song - Theme From What’s Happening!! 

:fro:
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I was just reading Tim’s Doobie Brothers post and thought of that What’s Happening! episode.  Oh the trouble Rerun would get into...

 
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10yo single - Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Allan Sherman.

The post-Elvis, pre-Beatles record era was dominated by comedy music. Plenty of regular comedy - Button-down Mind, Nichols & May, the Kennedy spoof, me Da had discs of all the ol' radio shows - too, but the air was filled with parody. When i asked my peeps what might have been the main competition around the house for my 5yo album, Ella & Louis, in the 50s they both said Spike Jones & his City Slickers. Tom Lehrer and the rest of the TW3 gang, Homer & Jethro and the grownup who was more a kid than kids - Allan Sherman. If you'd made me choose between my Sherman records and my Mad Mags, idahaddakillya. My own parodying of Rock era classics (to the extent of once completely rewriting Tull's Thick as a Brick as Crushed by a Truck) led directly to my radio show and SNL audition. From the time i first heard a verse from another Sherman song on the same album as HM, HF - a parody about the French Revolution from the 50s hit You came a Long Way From St Louis - i've wanted to write a comedy verse as good as 

You went the wrong way, Ol' King Louie

We're gonna put you on the shelf

The people are revolting cuz, Louie,

You're pretty revolting yourself

 
Don’t think this one needs any kind of write up. I was in 6th grade listening to Bobby Brown, New Kids on the Block (don’t @ me, they rocked) and then I heard this along with their other single. It started me on my path to heavier and different type of music. The real breakthrough for me though wasn’t until my 15 yo song. That one had me leaving all pop behind

10 year old song Sweet Child o Mine

 
10 is tough for me. Right around the age I discovered more than pop- I spent a morning of 11 or 12yo summer slowly turning the FM dial from left to right...found a couple of college stations (kusf, kalx) playing some cool/weird sounding stuff all the way at the left. 

Also got my first three albums myself at 10 (grandparents spoiling me and older brother with a trip to the record store- my first with me picking the albums). So I'm torn between some of the pop stuff I was listening to just before that, and the college/indie stuff I was listening to just after.

Will keep thinking on it and pick later.

Albums is going to be REALLY hard...there are two that pretty much defined my adult listening preferences- one out of that grandparents three, and another I bought just on the front and back cover a couple years later.

 
zamboni said:
Hard to pinpoint one favorite song at age 10, as I was listening to a lot of top 40 among a handful of albums (one which will be listed as the age 10 album).

As a textbook latchkey kid, TV theme songs were as much a part of my life as anything, and this was a personal favorite.

Age 10 song - Theme From What’s Happening!! 

:fro:
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When I was at North, we had video editing class senior year. My group did the Whats happening theme. Keith Bullock was in it (look at me. I was friends with an NFL player)

 
AcerFC said:
When I was at North, we had video editing class senior year. My group did the Whats happening theme. Keith Bullock was in it (look at me. I was friends with an NFL player)
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Nice - didn’t know you were there when Bullock was.

 
So this song is objectively pretty bad, I think. But I've mentioned before my older brother, he's 10 years older than me, so when I was 10, he was 20 and basically the coolest person in the world to me. 

He had a car, a 1986 silver Honda civic hatchback with a huge subwoofer box in the trunk, the bass was real. His taste in music was probably fairly typical for his age in those times, a lot of what we'd now call pop metal or hair metal, you know the bands. 

We're talking early 90s here, so not exactly the hey day of most of those bands, in hindsight but like I say, he was the coolest person in the world to me, so when he'd pull up to pick me up at school or take me for a ride somewhere, nothing was more awesome than hearing these five words...

DO YOU WANNA GET ROCKED?!

Age 10 Song - Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked

 
10 year old me had an allowance.  Didn't rely on my parent's record collection, just on mom driving me to the record store.

This song is off one of the first albums I ever bought with my own money (and, yes, still own it). The first album I bought will be my selection tomorrow.

Nick Gilder - Hot Child In the City

I bought the album but pretty much wore out this track only.

 
zamboni said:
Nice - didn’t know you were there when Bullock was.
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Yup. We were in the same grade. 

Tracy Wolfson, sports reporter went there also. she was a senior when I was a freshman. She toured me around the school during freshman orientation

 
Northern Voice said:
For people who have been around the music threads here way too long (2008), I stumbled across this archived thread - some funny moments in there. I won't spotlight but I arrive about 1/3 of the way through and write several love levels to an album that may or may not currently be my avatar. @Steve Tasker arrives late in the thread with an opening line of "Is this the illegal file-sharing thread?" :lmao:  and then a page or two later seems to be the first one here to discover a certain female from Texas who then largely dominates that next decade of indie rock.  Oh and there are lots and lots of emedded Youtube videos and lots of not at all clever or discrete references to the Hoof, which I assume is what ultimately killed that thread.

Lots of @The Dreaded Marco liking the albums we associate with him ;)

Lots of KP, @Bonzai casually mentions opening for Okkervil River then no one really ever presses him on it :lol: .. I assume some of those aliases are JZilla (Dought Man?)  :oldunsure:

FBGmusic thread oldtimers - Uncle Humuna, piratemike and drpill

Lots of Finless early on too (R.I.P. :(  )
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:wub: Annie Clark

PirateMike is actually the i-person who introduced me to FBG in like 2005.

 
AcerFC said:
Yup. We were in the same grade. 

Tracy Wolfson, sports reporter went there also. she was a senior when I was a freshman. She toured me around the school during freshman orientation
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Yeah, she’s probably the most famous alumnus these days - which isn’t saying too much. I’m guessing she was pretty hot back then.

 
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Age 5 - Song - Boyz II Men - "End of the Road"

I have my mother to thank for my love of music.  These days she's more into country, but in the early 90s we were pretty early on the CD game and would mostly listen to your standard pop channels in the car.  Boyz II Men were huge at the time, and I remember them being everywhere for a period of time.  II released when I was 7, and I probably remember that album a little better because I played the CD to death, but this song came out when I was 5 and it's still great.

 
lakerstan said:
10 Year Old Song:  Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

1980 was about the time I started discovering music on my own rather than what my parents had in the house.  While it isn’t their best song (by far), and I had heard other songs by them, it is the first time I associated the band with their music and wanted to know more about them. After that, I became a fan.  And then after seeing their Live Aid performance years later, they became one of my favorite bands of all time.
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Was going to pick this one too.  I remember being in the bowling alley and this song would come on the jukebox.  My parents mainly played country music so this was something else for a 10 year old to hear.  I was in love from the start.

I'll come up with another 10 year old memory.

 
zamboni said:
Yeah, she’s probably the most famous alumnus these days - which isn’t saying too much. I’m guessing she was pretty hot back then.
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Yup

Just remembered that Adam Rodriguez of CSI fame went to North also. I think he was a junior when I was a freshman. I was friendly with his sister who was a grade below me. 

My buddies were in a band that were famous for a second. I cant remember the name for the life of me. But they toured with One Direction I think. Let me see if I can find it. 

 
AcerFC said:
Yup

Just remembered that Adam Rodriguez of CSI fame went to North also. I think he was a junior when I was a freshman. I was friendly with his sister who was a grade below me. 

My buddies were in a band that were famous for a second. I cant remember the name for the life of me. But they toured with One Direction I think. Let me see if I can find it. 
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It was Honor Society and it was Jonas Brothers not one direction

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_Society_(band)

 
10 year song - Come Out & Play, Offspring

I missed the grunge explosion. It would be a few years before I ever really understood rock music's transformation in the early 90's. I was exposed to some of it by my older brothers, but it was primarily in a what I could here through the walls manner. Cause teenage boys don't want to deal with their 7 year old brother. Between that, my parents terrible music tastes, and the nails on a chalkboard pop radio all of my friends listened to music wasn't really a big part of my child hood. Then 1994 happened. 

I was a wanna be punk full of unfounded angst. This was the year that really helped me figure out who I am. Or at least who I thought I was. And I can't think of a better song to connect to this year than:

(ya gotta keep em separated)

Many others have better stood the test of time, but the attitude exuding from this song. It resonated with me in a way nothing had before and set the path for the next few years of my life.

 
MAC_32 said:
10 year song - Come Out & Play, Offspring

I missed the grunge explosion. It would be a few years before I ever really understood rock music's transformation in the early 90's. I was exposed to some of it by my older brothers, but it was primarily in a what I could here through the walls manner. Cause teenage boys don't want to deal with their 7 year old brother. Between that, my parents terrible music tastes, and the nails on a chalkboard pop radio all of my friends listened to music wasn't really a big part of my child hood. Then 1994 happened. 

I was a wanna be punk full of unfounded angst. This was the year that really helped me figure out who I am. Or at least who I thought I was. And I can't think of a better song to connect to this year than:

(ya gotta keep em separated)

Many others have better stood the test of time, but the attitude exuding from this song. It resonated with me in a way nothing had before and set the path for the next few years of my life.
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That guitar riff is still so sick today. Reminds me of 8th grade, my first concerts and ECW (was that a wrestlers intro music?)

 
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