Today’s music thread is about nostalgia, songs that remind you of times in your past or the past itself. Songs that take you back to a memorable moment in time, whether it’s just a year ago or decades ago. First loves in high school, moments with your own children, exciting adventures and meaningful times.
One of the first songs I remember hearing as a young child was what played on every radio station back then:
I Wanna Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
I remember being on the school bus and someone’s radio playing:
I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
One of the first concerts I went to:
Dogs – Pink Floyd
Ah, those ol’ New Wave days and a hairstyle I’d rather forget:
Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears
The rebellious Grunge days and the first Lollapaloozas, mosh pits and railing against Bush 1:
Alive – Pearl Jam
Your turn!
This is for Kalima, k’es and Patsy. You kids were talking about Dione Warwick and Burt Bacharach. I had heard an interview on the NPR program ‘Fresh Air’ withe him and his partner Hal David. They loved writing for Dione and her voice.
Thank you bito, it was very interesting and Dionne’s voice was always something special to me.
Visual Nostalgia – Do you Recognize Anyone?
Wow. Patsy, those are not just pictures of the greats of jazz. They’re exceptionally beautiful, crisp works of art that also happen to feature the greats of jazz. Artist meets artists! Thanks for posting. What a treasure for Oberlin.
Just found this. It might make you cry.
This is nostalgic since like for a week, but I love it.
Kominas – Sharia Law in the USA [only problem is trolls don’t get irony]
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrypdueIJew
And finally, this is the song that is my husband’s and mine –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlShC-GxFNw
We have a hell of a history and am not comfortable in sharing it but we believe that we were FATED to meet and live happily ever after and we are doing just that!
My third date, and believe me, I’ll never forget this one.
I was asked out by a pot dealer and I would not allow him to meet my parents as he had long hair and a beard, and my good old-fashioned Catholic parents couldn’t handle that!
It’s amazing that they let me go out with him!
I waited out front and he picked me up in an Opal – remember that little shit-shaking car?
He handed me a tin – a small cigar tin – and told me that he had 5 joints from 5 countries and one of them was a killer and it was up to me to choose a joint and whatever we smoked – wouldn’t matter, as we’d smoke them all before the night was through.
I don’t care what anyone says, but pot back in them days was better than the pot available now.
Except for when we were in Amsterdam, and then that pot brought back memories.
We went to a WHO concert at Cobo Hall in Detroit, and we sat in the nose-bleed section, but joints were being passed liberally and the WHO – they abuse their audience – they are assholes but their music is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
Funny thing, was that it was so crowded and I had to pee so bad, but jeepers it was so crowded and I was so high.
He then took me to a restaurant afterward, and I had to pee so bad, but was embarrassed for some youthful reason, so I ate dinner while never going to pee and how stupid was that of me?
It was the real WHO we saw and the last concert at in Detroit with the real WHO.
Oh, and he didn’t kiss me then!
Damn.
My second date was YES in Detroit and there’d been a riot, and the guys that we were going with told my boyfriend at that time that he should not bring me, but he did it anyway and god, memories are flooding me – but there weren’t any problems-
My favorite tune from when I was in grade school and when I was dreaming of falling in love and getting married forever –
I was/am such a huge Neil Diamond fan but when he was younger –
My first date ever was a Neil Diamond concert and Albert Brooks was the opening comedian and then – just my luck – we went out for pizza afterwards and he choked on a mint and puked – there was no alcohol or even pot on my first date and needless to say that guy never asked me out again!
LOL
He broke my heart, and I never got my first kiss.
Even though it can produce the stupidest comments at times, gosh it’s sometimes cool to hear people sharing their thoughts on memories and music on YouTube. I went to this song, and started reading where people were when they first heard it, etc.
That’s what music is about, man.
Yeah, totally remember my beat up glowpainted stereo and sitting beside it with the black light on. Back home from school and in my room, all to myself. Those were some painful times, and some magical times of discovery. All at once.
Pearl Jam – Once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPkz7bZoq18
Nirvana – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVLD0L-9u0g
I got made fun of for being really quiet between classes with my nose in a library copy of Will There Really Be a Morning?
Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1N_qX_r4Iw
Alice in Chains – Dirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgMJewR5MS0
There, that all took me back sufficiently to ages 13-14. Trick is sometimes to pick the songs on the album that aren’t played on the radio. Of course, this also works with one hit wonders, which haven’t been played since. 🙂
Have always loved Dionne Warwick and her older songs- Walk on by.
Sorry it wouldn’t embed, click on “Watch on youtube” please. Thanks.
One of the best vocalists ever, Kalima. Underrated, I think.
I have to agree on the “underrated” and “one of the best” kes. I first heard her as a kid in Germany, when my soon to become new father brought a small transistor radio he had bought at the PX and had tuned it to AFR-American Forces Radio. I loved her voice then and still do today. I haven’t been able to find one of my favourite songs on youtube because I can’t remember the title. All I remember are the words,”here I am, and here I’ll always be.” Not much help I know. 🙁
I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one, Kalima. Now I’m intrigued and want to hear the whole song! That voice is gorgeous: delicate, flexible and powerful at the same time.
O/T, However…I realize you may have more email correspondents than you can possibly deal with, but one of these days, if you don’t mind, I’d like to ask AdLib to forward my email address to you.
I’m sitting here on my sofa with the song going around in my head, and it’s driving me batty. I wish I could hum it to you. 🙂
Kes, I would never be too busy to email with you. You can reach me anytime at kalima@planetpov.com
It will come to me directly and I can then give you my private email address. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Have you heard any news from bito, his last post was about a week ago today. I hope he’s ok.
I actually went to YouTube and played a few Dionne Warwick songs hoping to catch those lyrics, but no luck! It’s haunting me, too!
No word from b’ito recently, unfortunately. These silences make me worry a bit. Time to go into prayer and candle-lighting mode, perhaps.
😆 sorry to get you involved in my loss of memory.
Last year I was trying to remember a song I used to dance to, all I could remember was Cuba, and I thought that the name of the group was Cuba. A few weeks ago I tried a again and found it, the song was “Cuba” from The Gibson Brothers and I left it on our music thread when AdLib was in Vegas. My shoulders felt much lighter after that.
I sent him an email about one week ago, but haven’t heard anything. I don’t think that his next chemo date was this early, was it?
😆 An aunt once asked me to help her with a song: “I can’t remember the title or the artist, and I’ve forgotten the melody,” said she. That was great for a laugh for a long time after…!
I was under the impression b’ito had at least a month’s reprieve from chemo, in order to gain weight. I do hope all’s well with him.
That’s worse than me, at least when I try hard enough I remember some of the melody. I’d ask hubby, but he can’t hold a tune, and makes up all his own words too. 🙂
I was under the impression it was after August too.
I have prayers and candles in abundance, can’t hurt.
Kes, Kalima, Could it be all that Burt Bacharach material?
Luther Vandross – House Is Not A Home – Live
httpsh://il.youtube.com/watch?v=9yynBiabn18&feature=related
I love this live version too…
httpsh://il.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOA9Fw8AZI&feature=related
http://www.bacharachonline.com/bacharach_hits.html
😆 Oh gosh Patsy, now I’ve started you off too.
I spent the last 40 minutes of my night on Google checking out the lyrics to many of her older songs, some were missing, so it was a fruitless quest. 🙁
Thanks you for the Luther Vandross videos, I’m a huge fan.
Patsy, those are beautiful renditions of Bacharach’s song! It always amazed me that a guy who didn’t have the greatest voice in the world (how he struggled to reach those high notes, tilting his head to the side), could understand so perfectly how to write music for great, flexible, rangy voices. But he did it…perfectly.
Patsy, I can’t thank you enough. I found the song in your last link, the title is “Here I am” so I wasn’t all that far off. Now I just have to figure out how to buy it from here from iTunes, as when I order to download from Japan, I automatically am transfered to iTunes Japan, and can’t read a word.
Thank you so much 🙂 it’s been keeping awake many a night.
Unsuccessful attempt to buy, will order the album from amazon.com later today.
Another Burt and Dionne masterpiece
Don’t Make Me Over
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgxuE7WD6U
This is a little window into that great collaboration of Bert/Dionne, Patsy. Interesting to see all the work that goes into producing a three minute (or less) song. It surely was worth it!
Songs that remind you of your kids?
Oh Boy Goody !!
This is a wonderful song and it’s been covered many times by a variety of various artists
but I like the Kermit version.
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM&feature=related
I still remember the first time I heard this one …
I was living at my parents house in Ohio.
I knew it was going to be a huge hit, right away!
Michael Jackson-Billie Jean-30th Anniversary Special
httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l74Y_p6or00