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Aoooooo!

Driving back from Kitchener I was scanning the radio trying to find a CBC 2 signal that wasn't breaking up on me. Instead I hit a rock station playing this.

 

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What songs do you just have to stop and listen to when they come on?

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Walking in Memphis

Barrett's Privateers

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oooh, Barrett's Privateers -- yup, had me humming along for a good 1/2 day when that one came up on Pandora the other day.

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Sterton wrote:

Walking in Memphis

Marc Cohn is an old favourite of mine.

 

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ok, this is an old one, but Rise Up by Parachute Club makes me want to dance.

and Great Big Sea's  Ordinary Day make me smile and break into song.

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Oh, I have so many! But mostly the 70's classics. I grew up with some great music on road trips as a kid- those nostalgiac ones always stop me in my tracks. Oh, and anything from Supertramp Breakfast in America.


Gonna take a freight train...down at the station Lord...I don't care where it goes....

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Can't help it...I like this...

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But my liking that song is not for political reasons, it's just a catchy tune. So. To balance things out, here's Neil: oops. Try again... Here's Neil

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Anything from this album:

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Some 80's

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Guilty pleasures on the a.m. dial (don't make fun of me):

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I'm self censoring. After really listening to the lyrics again and reading about them, I don't like that song. I like the tune and tempo. That Clash song goes. This one can stay instead:

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Wow. They looked cool, even though it was 1981.

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I have varied taste in music. I could think of gazillions.

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 I'd be interested in seeing others posts on what they like....

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I won't bother you with my grunge favs. Here's some 90s Lenny Kravitz.

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Thanks for the thread, Mendalla. It's reminding me of mix tapes.

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Yes. Please. Sorry.

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chansen wrote:

Sterton wrote:

Walking in Memphis

Marc Cohn is an old favourite of mine.

 

 

Walking in Memphis is one of my favorites.

 

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definitely a shot of coffeesatori

 

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(the car is a good place because it contains my horrific screeching)

 

this one grabs a hold of my mind and my language cenduuurrrrssss---

 

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this one is nostalgic for me, mythic memories of my youth, the okanagan, the shallow graves

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this one makes me laugh out loud and would make me more of a driving hazard than i already am

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=we%27re+on+a+road+to+nowhere

 

this one heals and breaks my heart all over again, such fleeting beauty

beware the katattafish

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There are too many for me, but if I had to pick only a few:

 

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

Hallelulah - KD Lang

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Walking in Memphis - Cher

80's Ladies - K T Oslin

Country Roads - John Denver

Candy Man - Sammy Davis Jr

Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

Unchained Melody - Everly Brothers

American Pie - Don McLean

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Good ones!

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Lots of earworms here, eh Kimmio?

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oops, duplicate post

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guess it's time to take your Surface back

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Pinga wrote:

Lots of earworms here, eh Kimmio?


Totally. I've had earworms in my ears all day. I could get a little too carried away posting...


Inanna, "Walking' in the park just the other day baby...waddya, waddya..." that one gets stuck in my head.

Here's another that I used to play repeatedly in high school- mix tapes on the old Sony Walkman (my parents had a great collection- it got me through high school)

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Little ditty 'bout Jack and Diane... (ok, ok, where's that old earworm thread?)...these are seriously songs I've got to hear if they're playing somewhere, otherwise, I rarely think of them unless they become pesky earworms!

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Just one more....this should've been my first one. I'm not otherwise a big Phil Collins fan, but I love this song and I HAVE to listen until the drum solo!

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Pinga wrote:

and Great Big Sea's  Ordinary Day make me smile and break into song.

 

Or When I'm Up.

 

Or their cover of Slade's Runaway.

 

Or...

 

Okay, GBS just  does this to me a lot.

 

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This song stops me in my tracks everytime I hear it.

 

Calendar Girl by Stars

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i also like musicals (surprise)  Especially Rent and Yentl 

MY favorite songs from each

 

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Mendalla, It was in the weeks after go-live of the Canadian financials / distribution modules  for PeopleSoft at our company. I was the tech lead for ap / purchasing for data migration and integration...a crazy project ..lots of fn stories.

 

We were in offices rented from a leasing company, meeting rooms, small kitchen, and 30 or so cubes.  We had admins that ordered food, went on coffee runs, and helped make travel plans.  

 

The accounts payable lead was sitting behind me, and many hours had been spent  balancing, reviewing data, driving through the codes, looking for hours.

 

One afternoon, about 3pm, SB stood up, blasted her sound, and started dancing and singing to Ordinary Day.

 

 

 

lol, it was that kind of a project, and an image that I will remember with laughter for a long long time.

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Loving all the songs posted. I've always been stopped in my tracks by songs that come on the radio that I haven't heard for a long time and memories become forced to the surface. So.................

 

I've always a soft spot for bands that incorporate an orchestra into their musicical presentation, love the Moody Blues, Chicago,Lighthouse, etc...  but here's a bit of ELO:

Living Thing:

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Telephone Line:

 

 

 

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Can't forget Turn To Stone:

 

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oooo ELO *shiver*

 

Mr Blue Sky totally sends me

 

Writing from the train in white rock

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made it across the border (i had to slip graeme a micky to keep him from the young border guards -- i need him to be my mark twain in merryca *waggles eyebrows*)

 

nary a jihadist in sight

 

at mud bay r i got to see two proud bald eagle parents and their kid in a tree :3

 

going to my father-in-law's military funeral.  never been to one before.  hope they play 'black magic woman'

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waterfall wrote:

I've always a soft spot for bands that incorporate an orchestra into their musicical presentation, love the Moody Blues, Chicago,Lighthouse, etc...  but here's a bit of ELO:

 

Me, too. The Moodies, in particular, are near the top of my favorite bands list, though not just because of the orchestral sound. Justin Hayward has one of the finest pop voices in his generation.

 

Which of course brings me to another of my "stop and listen" songs:

 


 

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the lost chord?

 

vetran cosmic rocker?

or this?

 

 

"

I think... I think I am. Therefore I am! I think...

Establishment: Of course you are, my bright little star... I've miles and miles of files Pretty files of your forefather's fruit And now to suit our great computer You're magnetic ink!

 

First Man: I'm more than that I know I am... At least, I think I must be

 Inner Man: 
		There you go, man
		Keep as cool as you can
		Face piles of trials with smiles
		It riles them to believe
		That you perceive
		The web they weave...
		And keep on thinking free"
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Ah, Graeme Edge's poetry. He's no Leonard Cohen but I can't picture the Moodies without it.

 

Breath deep the gathering gloom

Watch lights fade from every room

Bedsitter people sit back and lament

Another day's useless energy spent

Cold hearted orb that rules night

Removes the colours from our sight

Red is grey

And Yellow White

But we decide which is real

And which is an illusion...

 

 

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squeeeeeeeeeeee

 

listened to death the african trilogy as a kid

SOOOOOOOL SOOOOL-AY-MON!

I AM THE LION!

so much energy in neil diamond's stuff

 

 

 

 

COMIN TO AMERICA!!!

 

(i'm already there...in tacoma)

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InannaWhimsey wrote:

squeeeeeeeeeeee

 

listened to death the african trilogy as a kid

SOOOOOOOL SOOOOL-AY-MON!

I AM THE LION!

so much energy in neil diamond's stuff

 

 

 

 

COMIN TO AMERICA!!!

 

(i'm already there...in tacoma)

I know!! You just can't turn away. He was a family fav on road trips for me too! So much awesome 70's cheesiness too, when he wore those big collar satin shirts. He's got one of the best voices ever.

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More awesome 70's (slightly cheesy) talent:

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Here's one probably not many people have heard. Was my mom's fav- it grew on me too. It used to be too 'country' for me.
Now I love his voice (Hoyt Axton was an actor too- always played a county sheriff.)

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Ooooh! This one!!!! (okay, time to stop) Inanna, anyone, you know this one? The 70s had the best music. (1974)

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Kimmio wrote:
More awesome 70's (slightly cheesy) talent:
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If Bob is slightly cheesy, then I guess I'm slightly cheesy.

 

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Given the recent news about them (Malcolm Young is apparently ill and the band was rumoured to be breaking up, though Brian Johnson now says they will do a new album this year, just not sure about a 40th anniversary tour that many fans were hoping for), thought I'd put a couple AC/DC must listens up.

 

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Lol. I'm slightly cheesy too. Mostly whiney. :)

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