This month I confess my adoration for cheesy 70s music!
Since I grew up on the AM radio of the 70s (and used to use a tape recorder to save my favorite tunes when they played on the radio), I've come to treat the songs not only as a form of nostalgia, but as something I genuinely enjoy listening to.
Whenever I hear certain songs, it immediately snaps me back to a particular place in time.
I see myself standing on my aunt's porch in the summer listening to Paul McCartney and Wings' "Silly Love Songs". I can feel the breeze blowing through my hair while riding a bike if Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" (one of my top 5 favorite songs ever) comes on my iPod. I see sunlight shimmering off the cool, crisp water of Blue Dell swimming pool as Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" starts with the drums, then adds the guitar.
There are so many more too...and what started me thinking about it was hearing Sanford Townsend Band's "Smoke From A Distant Fire" while driving today.
And when I was in college, I used to go to the local mall every weekend where the chick who worked at the Musicland would save the Super Hits of the 70s: Have A Nice Day volumes for me each time they would arrive in the store. Lol. I'm not sure who was more excited...her or me!
Maybe that's why music has always held a special place in my heart...it sends me to a place where I feel comfortable and serene...and, to a certain extent, happy.
Happy Gilmore had his "happy place"...we all do...sometimes we need those to fall back on when everything seems bleak and bereft of hope!
Now go out and enjoy your favorites today...and tell me all about what memories it brings back!
9 comments:
LOL I think I actually KNEW that skitch fact ... but that's just cuz i is so smrt ;-)
I was a tad nervous you were going to break into some disco!
*giggles* now I've got you pictured in a leisure suit with bell bottoms. Thanks Sean, that put me in my happy place >:)
~K~
K,
I hope that image you now have includes me roller skating to a couple skate...a couple skate...
...or doing the Limbo...lol.
;)
Do you also have platform shoes that are high enough to contain water with fish swimming around inside?
Brian,
No, but I do tend to check my flypaper and see what's stickin'!
;)
Interesting thing, I'm stuck in the 80s....mostly. 80s music brings me back to College, which was a happy time for me *conveniently pushes aside memories of huge Psychology text book chapters*. That is when I really started to come out of myself and stop being so shy. It's also when I discovered Alternative Music, which my father says is well-named because it's an alternative to music :)
When I think of college, there are a few songs that come to mind..."Valerie" by Steve Winwood, "Breakout" by Swing Out Sister and for some reason, "When Smokey Sings" by ABC...lol
I was still into the cheese in the 80s too! ;)
Face it Sean you're just a cheesemeister, lol. You should write a paper on cheesy music through the ages..
Karen,
But who would buy it? Lol
Noone, Sean, articles are published and cited in future articles. You become famous and are paid to give lectures.
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