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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.
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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