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  • Jérôme Frenchise
    ROTH ARMY SUPREME
    • Nov 2004
    • 7218

    The songs that used to stick in your minds

    There are songs that are as many landmarks in your life, aren't there?
    I mean, just remembering them will give you the whole picture, the smells and tastes of the time when you heard them - just like a smell or the taste of something, by the way.

    I won't mention French songs, for very few members could give a fuck about them. :D

    So, and considering what was actually on air back then, here are a few songs that I remember I really dug in the 70s when I was a kid.

    First there's Clapton's version of "I shot the sheriff". The backing vocals and the beat literally hypnotized me.

    Then the year after (1975) there was that sugary Spanish pop song that was sung by Jeanette. She just propelled me in the stratosphere. :D
    Here's the song, from a French TV show - I'm almost sure I saw that at the time.
    But every time I heard that song on the radio, in shops, etc, I would stop thinking of anything but the song itself. I confess it's the only song that's ever got me that way.

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    Then, in 1976, there was Abba's "Money money money", that almost did me the same - I was in love with both singers.

    In 1977, I was a bit older (7), so my ears began a little more "formed". I dug Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", especially the final guitar solo.
    There was other stuff that I dug, but I chose not to mention more than one song a year.

    In 1978, once again if I have one song to recall, it's Queen's "Bicycle race". My mum told me it was my song, and it was, though I didn't understand English, I couldn't stand "Star Wars" and, like so many of us who grew up in the 70s, all I wanted to do was riding my bike!

    In 1979, it's the video for "You really got me" - yes, the French are often late. Damn, the musical shock of my life!

    In 1980, well... Hells Bells. I used to play pinball in a bar with my best pal, without our parents knowing about it of course - and I was already a crack at it. So, the great oaves - 15, 16, 17 year-olds - who kept waiting for us were raging. But we pissed them twice, as every time they would play the pussy Italian pop on the jukebox, we would slip two francs for "Hells Bells" and the B-side, "You shook me all night long". Priceless memory! :D

    If there's one song from 1981 that stuck in my head like glue, it was the Police's "Every little thing she does is magic" - I still think it's their best song. Simply beautiful.

    1982, well, the most kickass thing I heard - and really, really dug - was "I love it loud" by Kiss (one of the rare songs by them that I dig, but damn, this one redeems all that I don't like!
    The tribal chorus, the minimal riff, man, unbeatable!

    In 1983, I started getting into music like mad. So it's hard for me to choose just one tune.
    Ah, yes. "Fields of Fire" by Big Country, you know, the very, very good Scottish band. That tune made it a trifle more than anything else.

    1984 = "Hot for Teacher".
    Van Halen was very poorly aired before "Jump", and when I realised I'd bought an album from the same band that got me amazed 5 years before, I bought the rest in no time.
    It's still the album I've most listened to of all time by any band, but under torture, if Ihad to keep just one track, it would be that one. Even if they had never made the video.
    "Hot for Teacher" is the ultimate hard rock song IMO.

    I think I'd better stop there for now.
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  • DrMaddVibe
    ROTH ARMY ELITE
    • Jan 2004
    • 6686

    #2
    My 1st place with no roommate...I had a 2 story townhouse. The Master was upstairs and had its own balcony...I used to leave the door open almost all the time. It had a fenced in back yard too. On the other side of the fence was the elementary school bus stop. You could hear children's voices. One day I was listening to Supertramp and it just took me back to that place for a moment. The kids at the beginning of "School".

    Another is listening to "Black Sabbath" on a rainy day...the music and lightning were in sync with each other. My friends and I were freaking out at how eerie it was for almost the whole song.
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    • binnie
      DIAMOND STATUS
      • May 2006
      • 19145

      #3
      There are 10-15 albums that I've listened too reguarly for about 15 years.

      I mean the ones that never go out of your playlist, the ones you adore.

      As for songs that stick in my head, it's genrally the ones I don't want there!
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      • svrwthr
        Head Fluffer
        • Oct 2006
        • 271

        #4
        This is a sick thread.


        I love metal but grew up to country then to ABBA and found Kiss, scorps, van halen, rush.


        What is sick is all the disco music that pops into my head at work out of no where from when we used to roller skate. Arrrrrggggghhhhh. Some fucked up song by ABBA was last one that popped into my head.

        If you think about like I do, I was high and drunk from age 13 on. Listening to the hard rock of the day through the mid 80's when shit like devo, flock of seagulls, cindy lauper etc.. started popping up more on our favorite heavy metal stations. Those fucking songs still pop into my head. No matter how much metal I listen too and how much pot I smoked, those fucking bands keep popping into my head!. Smoking pot obviously did not kill enough brain cells to rid my memory of all that music that was so shitty it was catchy and sticks in the back of the brain.
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        • SparkieD
          Veteran
          • Sep 2006
          • 1772

          #5
          Originally posted by svrwthr


          What is sick is all the disco music that pops into my head at work out of no where from when we used to roller skate. Arrrrrggggghhhhh. Some fucked up song by ABBA was last one that popped into my head.


          Kinda like The Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me."
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          Three words. WE WERE THERE.

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