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.
What songs do you just have to stop and listen to when they come on?
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Sterton
Posted on: 04/22/2014 16:35
Walking in Memphis
Barrett's Privateers
Pinga
Posted on: 04/22/2014 16:40
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.
chansen
Posted on: 04/22/2014 16:46
Walking in Memphis
Marc Cohn is an old favourite of mine.
Pinga
Posted on: 04/22/2014 16:53
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.
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 17:14
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....
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 17:16
Can't help it...I like this...
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 17:21
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
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 17:25
Anything from this album:
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 17:30
Some 80's
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 17:38
Guilty pleasures on the a.m. dial (don't make fun of me):
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 20:18
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:
Wow. They looked cool, even though it was 1981.
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 18:03
I have varied taste in music. I could think of gazillions.
Pinga
Posted on: 04/22/2014 18:14
I'd be interested in seeing others posts on what they like....
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 18:16
I won't bother you with my grunge favs. Here's some 90s Lenny Kravitz.
Thanks for the thread, Mendalla. It's reminding me of mix tapes.
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 18:16
Yes. Please. Sorry.
Beloved
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:14
Walking in Memphis
Marc Cohn is an old favourite of mine.
Walking in Memphis is one of my favorites.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:33
definitely a shot of coffeesatori
(the car is a good place because it contains my horrific screeching)
this one grabs a hold of my mind and my language cenduuurrrrssss---
this one is nostalgic for me, mythic memories of my youth, the okanagan, the shallow graves
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
Beloved
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:23
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
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:46
Good ones!
Pinga
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:48
Lots of earworms here, eh Kimmio?
Pinga
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:48
oops, duplicate post
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/22/2014 19:52
guess it's time to take your Surface back
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 20:28
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)
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 21:04
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!
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/22/2014 21:14
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!
Mendalla
Posted on: 04/22/2014 21:25
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.
Mendalla
Alex
Posted on: 04/22/2014 23:48
This song stops me in my tracks everytime I hear it.
Calendar Girl by Stars
Alex
Posted on: 04/23/2014 00:09
i also like musicals (surprise) Especially Rent and Yentl
MY favorite songs from each
Pinga
Posted on: 04/23/2014 00:20
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.
waterfall
Posted on: 04/23/2014 09:09
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:
and
Telephone Line:
waterfall
Posted on: 04/23/2014 09:15
Can't forget Turn To Stone:
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/23/2014 10:53
oooo ELO *shiver*
Mr Blue Sky totally sends me
Writing from the train in white rock
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/23/2014 11:13
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'
Mendalla
Posted on: 04/23/2014 11:33
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:
Mendalla
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/23/2014 11:38
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
Mendalla
Posted on: 04/23/2014 13:55
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...
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 14:33
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 14:35
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 14:45
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 14:48
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/23/2014 15:21
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)
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 16:34
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.
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 16:48
More awesome 70's (slightly cheesy) talent:
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 17:01
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.)
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 17:44
Ooooh! This one!!!! (okay, time to stop) Inanna, anyone, you know this one? The 70s had the best music. (1974)
Mendalla
Posted on: 04/23/2014 18:20
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If Bob is slightly cheesy, then I guess I'm slightly cheesy.
Mendalla
Posted on: 04/23/2014 18:33
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.
Mendalla
Kimmio
Posted on: 04/23/2014 18:35
Lol. I'm slightly cheesy too. Mostly whiney. :)