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Are there certain songs/albums that take you back to a certain point of your life that you could recall what you were doing?  Maybe thoughts or feelings you had in the past either happy or sad. The Aerosmith thread make me think of the album Get A Grip.  I had just wrapped up Sophomore year in high school and it was summer time.  I recall that summer going to driving school and having a blast all vacation long.  The album was all over the radio so it kind of served as a soundtrack.

Certain songs on that album make also think of playing Revolution X in the arcade at Six Flags New England.  Particularly on cold fall nights when we'd go to enjoy their Halloween attractions.  It brings back a lot of happy memories.  

I'll mention other songs/albums but I figured I'd let you other folks get nostalgic with me first.  

One I can recall immediately is Running With Scissors by "Weird Al" Yankovic.  It takes me back to the summer of '99.  I was 15 years old, I was working part-time at a local corner store.  Al had a few videos released (The Saga Begins (about Episode 1), as well as a Puff Daddy parody), as well as having a "Behind the Music" special and an AL Tv special on MTV.  I also remember it as sort of a soundtrack in the car with friends as we'd be driving all over the place (to parties, to the movies (like the South Park movie, Star Wars Episode 1, etc). 

Just brings back these great memories of time long gone that I'll never get back, unfortunately, due to circumstances.  If I could relive that summer one more time, I'd be happy. :teddyr:

Can't explain what that summer meant to me.  Too much good stuff happened.  Life was much simpler then. :bluesad:

Beat It by Michael Jackson makes me think of my brother's reaction to it.  I didn't personally see the video until later but I recall my brother coming home one night completely flipping out about the video.  He talked about it like it was the greatest thing he had ever seen.  I think he had caught it over his friend's house who unlike us had MTV. 

Speaking of that, I recall the rotation that was on MTV when we first got extended cable.  Guns And Roses had just hit big with Sweet Child O Mine (I didn't like them at the time though) and was playing what seemed like every other video.  MTV had a top 20 video countdown which I wactched all summer long.    I recall around this time discovering the early days of Nick that had shows like You Can't Do That On Television, Finders Keepers and Double Dare among others.  Like Happy pointed out, much simpler times. 

Oh, that kinda takes me back.  Sadly (or not so sadly), MTV and Nick developed my musical and television tastes for years to come.  Sounds like a bad thing, but not really.  My aunt (not much older than me, by like 5 years) was more like an older sister to me.  She had MTV on all the time in the '80s, so by the time I was 8 in the early '90s, everyone else was listening to pop radio, while I was listening to college radio, as they played what I had heard on MTV (Talking Heads, Cure, Elvis Costello, Weird Al, R.E.M, Pearl Jam, Adam Ant, Devo, and The B-52s, amongst others.)

And, good or bad, Nick had the best tv shows (Double Dare, You Can't Do That On Television, and my all-time favorites: Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life.)  Nickelodeon: What happened to ye? :bluesad:

The compilation albums of 70s or 80s always were chock full of hits (or semi-hits) that I grew up with.  I own the whole set of Have A Nice Day: Hits of the 70s, and Radio Daze: Hits of the 80's.  As for non-comp albums:

Boston (debut)
Boz Scaggs-Silk Degrees
Journey-Escape
Foreigner-Head Games
Foreigner-Double Vision
Foreigner-4
Asia (debut)
Blondie-Parallel Lines
Toto-IV

Hey!  General Akbar!  Gimme break!  Enough with the brine shrimp...  This should be youtube thread... flavor no tongue can repel!!!  :bouncegiggle:  :drink:  :cheers:
STARBUCK "Moonlight Feels Right"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOirZ-rg6Q   

PILOT "Magic"    Follow the link to youtube for this one, it's well worth it if you don't know this classic '70s top 40 hit.  :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc    

SWEET "Fox on the Run"  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MDCbIhTa_w 

GARY WRIGHT "Dream Weaver"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJEuiibhpcE 

GERRY RAFFERTY "Baker Street"   Follow the link to youtube for this one, it's well worth it if you don't know this classic '70s top 40 hit.  :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU   

Guns and Roses' Appetite for Destruction takes me back to the summer of '89, going to the drive-in and waiting for it to get dark. I'd just graduated high school. In fact, I saw Star Trek V at the drive-in on the same day I finished school. Had that tape playing in the car constantly that summer. That and Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (1979), which stirs up similar memories.

Alice Cooper's Constrictor reminds me of jogging at night around the same summer. Had that tape in the walkman on auto reverse and just kept listening.

Heart's Brigade reminds me of a summer in the early 90s. Three friends and I packed up and drove to Toronto for the Labour Day weekend. Strictly a last-minute thing, and the only accommodation we could find was at a shabby motel in an industrial area. When we went out on the town, this was what was in the tape deck. Wasn't my car. To this day, Fallen from Grace still reminds me of riding in the backseat through the streets of Toronto after dark, on our way to the Hard Rock Cafe, the CN Tower, etc.

Sweet Home Alabama reminds me of the annual camping trips I used to take with the same bunch of guys every May long weekend. The official start of summer for us. We were playing Skynyrd in the campsite, the car, the boat. That and Stompin' Tom Connors' A Proud Canadian album. But Stompin' Tom reminds me more of doing home improvements at my best friend's house in the early to mid 90s. It was our working music, played during whatever job we were doing.

This list could go on and on.

The Very Best of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons- Takes me back to the summer of 2005.  I had just turned 21, and my summer vacation.  We vacation every year at the Jersey Shore, and my grandfather had just be re-diagnosed with lung cancer (had it once, beat it, then two years later it came back), and he would blare his Frankie Valli cd on a loop the entire summer.  Particularly while we'd be driving all over the shore.  Which was a great soundtrack, having the 'Jersey Boys' playing while cruising the Jersey Shore.  Really was the best vacation I'd had, as I'd be at the beach and boardwalk all day, then at night I'd cruise the nightlife (I just turned old enough to drink), then head back to the motel to party with my friends and family from midnight to 4AM.

Bohemeian Rhapsody reminds me of the summer Wayne's World came out and the song was everywhere.  My class had taken a trip to the beach in June.  I went through the 50 bucks my dad had given me on mostly games in the arcade on the boardwalk.  I had to bum a buck off a kid I know for a drink because I was beyond thirsty and out of money.  Overall, it was a great time.  It seems my fun in high school lasted through 10th grade and went downhill after that. 

Jill Jones - Jill Jones takes me back to the summer of 1987. I was a huge Prince fan and also bought every album of his protegees. I remember being so happy that I was able to get Jill Jones on CD! A friend of mine was working at a record store back then and she was kind enough to order me a copy. It was my most played album and I loved each song and had such a huge crush on Jill  :teddyr: Another highlight that same summer was catching a rare showing of Jill's one and only music video from the album, "Mia Bocca" on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1488biMTg

I started my first job in September, and Jill was accompanying me on my portable discman when things got boring during my shift. I still own the (long OOP) CD which at some point went for a couple hundred of dollars on e-bay and amazon a few years ago.

Pretty much every song by L.A. Guns makes me remember being dressed like a hooker, getting thrown out of bars and fighting with my ex-girlfriend.

Is it wrong of me to say that I really like Sweet?

Nothing wrong with liking Sweet, even if Brian Connolly looks like a banana with a vest in this video.  I love to karaoke this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XGjnQgsJA

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Yeah, I was born 1980, did most of my musis listening in the 90's.  I'll post the 80's edition of my albums later (I'm at work right now, and there's downtime).

Songs that take me back ... hmm I have a few.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfdWQcfs4yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj1ktBPjMMk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxOoZXyO48

Kim Wilde - Kids in America;  always makes me think of being over at my girlfriend's house in San Diego, senior year of high school.  I'd pick her up for school every morning, spend a half hour at her house.  That's when I first heard that song.

Eagles - Hotel California.  Driving my Mustang in San Diego, nicely buzzed on some Apaculpo Gold Thai.  Came over the top of a small hill, the setting sun was a big golden globe, that song was playing.  Pure paradise.

Def Leppard - Pyromania album.  The drummer in our band loved that album, pretty sure it was the only tape he had in his car.  Brings back memories of driving around Minneapolis in his old Monte Carlo, with his car stereo amplifier that made a buzzing sound that rose and fell in unison with the car engine.

Def Leppard's Hysteria album reminds me of working as a janitor in a local tourist trap when I was in high school. It was after hours, and we all had tunes playing in our respective areas. One guy was playing this all the time, which is actually how I discovered I like Def Leppard. Must have been 1987 or 88.

Ragdoll, by Aerosmith - My last year of high school, late May or early June. It was 1989, the school's 50th anniversary, and all of the students were gathered in the playing field for an aerial photo. We were spelling out EDSS 39-89. One friend of mine (actually more of a friend of a friend) who was kind of a conceited doofus from a rich family, spent the whole time circling the streets around the school in his brand new red Mustang convertible, blasting this tune. The photo is still on display in the school foyer, and I've noted the cars of other friends in the parking lot, each with stories of their own, but come to think of it, I've never looked for the red Mustang on the street. The song still takes me back to that day though.

That reminds me of another friend, not rich or conceited but still kind of a doofus, who seemingly played played nothing but Roxette's Joyride in his car for weeks. It was not long after the album came out. When I think of that song, I think of one summer evening. He had recently bought a Pontiac Grand Am, and drove it everywhere at high speed with the tunes blasting. A few of us were sitting in our local watering hole one Friday evening, not much was happening, and somebody decided we visit a popular country bar about half an hour away. So, we all pile into this guy's car and take off. We covered the half-hour drive in about 15 minutes, doing over 160km/h (96mph), and he just kept playing Joyride, rewinding and playing it again, all the way there and all the way back. Incidentally, I was driving out of town a couple of months later, and spotted the Grand Am upside-down in the ditch on a tight curve, so the driving did eventually catch up with him. At least he wasn't hurt. Anyway, Joyride reminds me of that drive, a bunch of funny things that happened that night (I still have a souvenir in fact) and the Grand Am in general. I've never deliberately listened to the song, not being a fan of Roxette, so I seldom hear it. But when I do, I'm always transported back to one really memorable night.

Any old tharsh/death metal (only the good stuff like carcass, sepultura, living death, crumbsuckers,) the band Sword. metallica's original garage days ep, I could go on and on.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8bpitsbyh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC9o24m0siI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrE80-zNoFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlwYstqOD0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czn6LHYUedw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8t2dJZRRW0
I'm not ashamed to admit that the garage days ep was my first encounter with Killing Joke.

TODD RUNDGREN "Hello It's Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsezr0qiFIc&feature=related 

TODD again "I Saw The Light"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4&feature=related

LITTLE RIVER BAND "Reminiscing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5RDn5Y0D_0&feature=related


Found a better clip.   :wink: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCuQQcISZTM&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FabM1RJTkrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrCw8po7JKo

Takes me back to the time when I got barred from the same pub twice. This song was playing in the background both times lol. First time I was accused of snorting cocaine (mistaken identity), which is crap, 'cause the clown man has never done drugs! Second time was for fighting in the toilet. Some dudes from a band I bad-mouthed tried to jump me in there, so I lamped one of the scrawny b***hes right in the teeth. Before you know it, I had about 3-4 guys on me shouting at me to get out and I went like a gentlemen.....only to start more chaos in the street.  :lookingup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFG85n5qsHM

This one always reminds me of the time, to my shame, that I'd slashed my wrists and the police had bashed the door in to stop me. I ended up getting the crap kicked out of me by 3 police officers and then remember getting thrown in the back of an ambulance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KrL7BQBpc

This was a big tune when I first went to college. It was on the radio every time we drove home from OSU and back. Lots of time spent drinking in bars and playing Tempest arcade game. If it hadn't been for my closeted gay roommate being a pain, I'd almost want to go back to those days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6I4pT_tVA
I recall as a young DarkSider my brother (who was at work at the time) asking my mom to go pick up a 45 record.  It wasn't this one but I insisted that it was and we came home with it.  My brother wasn't too disappointed though.

Here's another one along the same "line": 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuv7m-5_gw 

Here's another one from those club-hoppin' speed-snortin' days: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_vLzsG2TCU

Heh.. White Horse.  That song cracks me up.  :bouncegiggle:

This song here takes me back to the beginning of Jr. High:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl5GI59MmmE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GAnfxKHMQ
The first time I ever walked into a strip club this song was playing.  Nuff said...

The first time I walked into a strip bar this song was on, the women were hot, sleezy but hot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgZjARAykjk

Goodtimes, I remember I got some chics number as well ...

I never called tho. I was married. (true story lol)

"My Name Is" by Eminem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmdRauWVbwg
I was about 15, and this was a summer jam that everyone was singing when we got back to high school.

"The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY0536g_6Wc
I was a young, dumb and angry kid and for whatever reason, he provided the soundtrack for a little bit.

"Summer Girls" by LFO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20
Boy band from the late '90s.  Main reasons I liked it were: A.) it was a funny song, and B.) a girl I liked in High School mentioned it and was impressed I knew all the words.  We got tighter for a while.

Why would you care what anybody else thinks of what you like?  But, yeh, it most certainly okay to say you like SWEET; they were great. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswKeWhjaUc 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_WL-q_T-n4&feature=related

I think I was in 3rd grade at the time I first heard this.  I recall roller-skating at the local rink to this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RJPaj97H24

When I was in grade school, some of the popular songs were:

* DELTA DAWN
* TIE A YELLOW RIBBON 'ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE
* SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM
* SEASONS IN THE SUN

Ah, the memories . . .

All those K-Tel/Ronco/Sessions comp albums we collected... gads.

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* * * SHUDDER * * *

And why was SPIDERS AND SNAKES by Jim Stafford on most of these compilation albums????

K-Tel compilations! Now that does take me back. Goofy Greats was my most played as a kid.
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Followed by one called 20 Top Hits, which is virtually impossible to Google, being the "John Smith" of album titles. But like Goofy Greats, it had some Ray Stevens content as well. Oh, and this tune....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw
But my favourite cover, one I still have kicking around the office somewhere is this...
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Robbie the Robot sure got around.

"Billie Jean" and "Beat It" takes me back to my youth as does "Thriller". Michael Jackson was a huge star when I was a little kid. We had sticker albums with him on it even. Imagining licking Michael Jackson  :buggedout: - I did lick his sticker. Kinda disturbing nowadays given what we now know or suspect anyways  :buggedout:. Baseball cards you name it, we had it with Jackson on it when I was a kid. Aside from Jackson, mainly I listened to my Dad's old Jim Reeves records although he wasn't too fussy with me scratching them all up which I inevitable did. Actually I still like Reeves music to this day and a lot of Jackson's too to be honest.

Cyndi Lauper and Madonna takes me back too as they were very popular in the 80s. Lauper too was involved with WWF wrestling  (remember the rock 'n' wrestling connection?) with makes her stick out more in my memory. Aside from them, it was mainly Duran Duran and canadian rockers Bryan Adams and Corey Hart we listened to as kids.

When videos became more popular though, heavy metal hair bands became all the rage especially Twisted Sister with these rebellious videos for "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" and Van Halen with "Jump". I recall watching these videos quite a bit with my friends.

The next phase that stands out in my memory was the rap/techno fad of the late 80s with Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Run DMC, Technotronic and DEE-LITE bursting on the scene. I associate this era with high school mainly as that was what my friends listened to at the time.

By the 90s though, going to university I got into college music and became more familiar with classic R.E.M., the new groundbreaking Nirvana (who I recall hitting it huge during my first year in university) and bands like Barenaked Ladies and other Canadian classics like Spirit of the West and the Skydiggers. Eventually I would also stumble across punk from the 80s and it had the raw sound I found I liked best of all and it's still the music I most prefer nowadays yet I also love a lot of these others mentioned too. A good tune is a good tune regardless.

Alice In Chains Facelift/Dirt sometimes reminds me of when I first got my Sega Genesis.  I had just bought both albums on tape and listened to them often while playing Sonic The Hedgehog.  

Albums by White Zombie, Prong, NIN, Korn and the Crow Soundtrack kind of made up my college days.  It was a time of freedom for me but also a time of frustration and agression.  

Queen's Gimme the Prize, Nazareth's Hair of the Dog and Instruments of Destruction by Kick Axe all remind me of lifting weights in the basement as a teenager.

I like them regardless.  It's just that whenever they're brought up in casual conversation, there's a general look of disgust followed by something like: "Ugh, them? Really?" :lookingup:

How could anyone hate Sweet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBDivsSe3k

THE SWEET ARE AWESOME!  :thumbup:

Don't ever be ashamed to say you like the Sweet, as they helped define a decade, blurring the lines between bubblegum pop and hard rock. They had hit song after hit song and inspired a whole new generation of glam rock.

Hey Andy, great minds think alike; I posted that song on page 2 of this thread.   :wink: 

Anybody remember BADFINGER? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um4pnvJr07A 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHGVO1DsPM&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAu3ijigeA&feature=related

Oh man, I remember getting that album for my 6th birthday.

I could never understand the appeal of Spiders and Snakes.  Perhaps worse even than Dead Skunk.

I always loved Badfinger.  One of the saddest stories in rock music history though.

Ah, Dead Skunk takes me back to the early 90s, driving home from the drive-in during the wee hours of the morning. It was maybe half an hour of mostly back road driving back to my place, and we happened to pass by a dead skunk in the middle of the road. I think this might have been back when a CD set called Fun Country came out, so my memory had been refreshed, vis-a-vis that particular song. I don't know if it was my buddy or I who started it, but soon both of us were belting out a chorus of "It's dead, it's in the middle, dead skunk in the middle!"

Sleep deprivation, night driving and too much cola can do strange things to your mind. :teddyr:

As dumb as that song is, it's fun to karaoke and stand back and watch all the "WTF!" faces.

I still have these (pix found online) but mine bought in a convenience store bargain bin of LPs probably in 1980, they were sealed back to back and I'd bet $2.99 or less, and these records were goldmines for my cassette taping days, nigh on 20 years ago when those days ended: 
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I'd bet there may be recordings on these, not so obvious or overcollected, that I haven't found on any collection since.  However, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes... on Funky Favorites, JIM STAFFORD's "Spiders and Snakes" is included...  :lookingup:  :bouncegiggle:  :thumbup:  :thumbdown:  :twirl:  :bouncegiggle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj76br_aLdQ  turn this one way up...

PEGGY LEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9kKf7SHco 

PET CLARK!!! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCnHWas3HQ 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6iz2Otd2M&feature=related

How 'bout 10CC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIiWBPdhPH8&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FURAEvQwOK4
 

Unfortunately, too many videos disable embedding, these, too, are embedding disabled, but if you doubleclick or grab the youtube link, you can watch the videos over there.   :bluesad:

I'm of a younger generation, so I grew up with Blink 182

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVhnv_qLuRk

Hey Darthchicken, "embedding disabled by request". 
I'm of an older generation and grew up with ELVIN BISHOP:   :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsZKvZjEvs 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn43E7GXHwY
 

These two songs are often confused LITTLE RIVER BAND and STYX:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ2QeUCm0eI     

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUU7SEWW0dE&feature=related (totally bizarre, but perhaps not with hindsight)

(http://www.filtersage.com/uploads/Sublime.jpg) :lookingup: my favorite band  :cheers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWN1mz-sQE&feature=related

TOTO!  Good one. 
NILSSON: another seriously mismanaged talent that left us too soon: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJ9Yxef5zI
This last one is an embarrassing lipsynch to the original recording.   :bluesad:

Geez.. I'm one of the few people who remember hearing this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Pm8w5C7po&NR=1

Remember it?   :wink:  CHARLIE DORE went to #13 in March 1980...

Well, I mean people would not likely remember it today by its title, they'd have to listen to it for a while and MAYBE then they'd go "oh yeah!".
Here's another song that takes me back to early grade school:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6iQ2_dvlc

Hey Darksider, I could pick songs for this thread all day long, but finding 'em on youtube is sometimes not possible.   :bluesad:  

Here's an okay clip of T. REX - the best I could find - on German TV before MARC BOLAN's early death.  We get to see T. REX about 12 seconds after ze Cherman Fampyre stops talking...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HI0Luy_kQ

AHD,
It's sad how many tragedies occured in the '70s to music icons.  Right around in the early to mid '70s especially.. Bolan, Allman, Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison.. jeez.

On a lighter note, I always loved this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FQVRQ8hhU

Probably about when you were a year or two old retrorussell , this was a big hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhCYC_TEFw

I was 2.  Sylvia looks really, really stupid in that outfit.  :bouncegiggle:

There is an ex-girlfriend that I dated back in the mid 90's that loved for us to have sex to Pink Floyd's The Division Bell for some reason whenever she could. Didn't really matter to me. She found it to be great mood music for her.  I was really in love with her and she broke my heart seriously. Ripped it out of my chest, stomped on it a bit, ran over it with her car, played basketball with it, used it for fetch with her dog and then put it in a juicer.

So, I seriously still to this day can't stand to listen to anything from that album as it brings up too many bad memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmiiW936jqw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E5JNYoDT48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckqZDY_E7Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmh-8AqXBA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNPXFNRU99M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Brlp57fZ6A

Gotta love BOZ SCAGGS. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBdFyE7PeE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvgD8nP_FI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAYDL8CJy8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387ZDGSKVSg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfcOriVKBM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NdAUnnU9Ac

And that, my friend, is what women do . . .

Amen brother  :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKInjg66fY&feature=related  :lookingup: :teddyr: Absolute drivel.   (...and I love it...)

Okay, this one, also by GILBERT O'SULLIVAN, I really liked when I was 11, but though certainly an important nostalgia song for me, that I truly love, I do of course recognize it is drek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8  
I don't know which one's more ridiculous, but they both have beautiful tunes and clever lyrics, if not, eh, perplexing...  

Don't much hear these anymore:  
ANDREW GOLD is kind-of out of the same vein, but some years later; his "Lonely Boy" was huge for a couple of months in early 1977:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81fwLNklSM&feature=fvw  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pRxLxkVS4&feature=related
Gimme hot black chicks in ridiculously funky costumes with great tunes anytime:  AMII STEWART "Knock On Wood"  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw

Geez AHD, it's like you're looking through my oldies collection.  I've got another one, but I'll have to wait till I get home as we can't post vids at work.

Y'mean one of these...?  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35FqbbZWPsM&feature=related  THELMA is LIVE!!!  (Over a track, of course, which is why you do not hear backup singers.) She is awesome.

How 'bout...?  These guys are all lipsynching...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9T4XoOJtEA
How 'bout...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Ni7LGXW7g&feature=channel  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLgWxhyt98&feature=channel
Ah, well, y'get the idear.  

This one, a favorite of highest regard for me: ANDREA TRUE CONNECTION "More More More"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJGrIyt-X8  

Fast forward:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNERRLdT-JA&feature=related

I remember this Gilbert O' Sullivan hit best, from our comp album way back when:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrKkbZZMNWg&feature=related

And there's this one too..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdcZqG02Ls

More one-hitters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCc8wyBBsbA

And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS_VlIhKn6c

And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dleViv2nc

And this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc

Burton Cummings a one hitter? You've got to be kidding. The guy's got plenty of hits, with and without The Guess Who. Sacrilege, I tell you! :hot:

Anyway, Juice Newton can take me back to around 1980 just by playing a few notes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGkscrvMjE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BdqsTXPt-g&feature=related

I think this video was my introduction into sex...at a young age.  And I loved it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2TLAxTY9Xs
Yet, oddly this video kind of creeped me out as a kid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYoh_sV35eA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMCO7Ro4tRI
Quick story about this song.  My brother and his friends were participating in a lip synch gong show idea at his college campus.  So they decided to imitate this video.  They worked for weeks on the choreography, my brother went out and bought the "Choose Life" shirt and they thought they had it down pat.  Well, one minute in they were gonged. 

Lip-synch contests. Reminds me of a number some friends of mine practiced for a school contest way back when. Can't remember how they fared, just remember them practicing in my basement, as their own parents didn't want the noise. I did some lighting effects for them, flicking lamps on and off mostly. We all thought it was the coolest thing, but I imagine we all looked like dorks. I think I now understand the smirks on my parents' faces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ37ZYTFhGs&feature=related

I forgot to mention Bonnie Tyler as having a similar nostalgia-inducing effect as Juice Newton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VGQTtENSs&feature=related

Okay, I posted MAGIC "Pilot" pages ago... do homework.   :wink:  MARIA MULDAUR is redemption, but Embedding Disabled by Request... "Brandy" yeh yeh.  "Stand Tall"?   :lookingup:  Poor you.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ
"...You are a radio star... you are a radio star..."   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo 

Shoot, didn't remember Pilot being posted.  Way back on the first page.  Cut me some slack, meanie! :tongueout:

Andy, Burton didn't really have anything too high on the charts apart from Stand Tall.  Of course, with the Guess Who he had a lot of hits.  But hey, maybe you've heard  more of his singles than I.  I just go with the pop chart rankings (I have numerous books on this).

What's that conversate wit ol' Andy?  Y'must be respondin' to no private message...  :drink:   :wink:  
The only books you need are JOEL WHITBURN's Billboard Top 40 Hits in any edition since 1986... (heh heh) and the Billboard Top 40 Albums is also essential.  
As for music criticism, I have the 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide which excluded many artists, but no one in the mainstream at that time (I bought my falling apart trade paper new in 1979) now, I also have the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide which upgraded artists from critical oblivion (like BLACK SABBATH) to enshrine them, and includes all kinds of low-rent one-off juvenile wind, yet ignores artists like BARBRA STREISAND, and CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (though he made their Top 100 of their Top 500 albums of All Time in 2003 =  :lookingup:) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time)   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1qFXGWejE

Andy was thinking Burton was not a one-hit wonder as a solo artist.. I say otherwise.  His take was on the previous page.

I have Joel Whitburn's Top 100 hits dated up to 2000.  I also have a book of the top UK Hits up to 2004, a book on "Bubbling Under" songs (that made the top 101 to 130), and a book of semi-biographies on various bands.

Another goodie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWfYLrN5a08

Well, maybe Burton's bigger in Canada.

Anyway, here's a good one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ch794M9SM&feature=related

BURTON CUMMINGS had two Top 40 hits...
Retrorussell, your books sound even more essential than mine (but I have to tell you I'm fascinated with the Top 40) but my tastes definitely lean toward the uncharted; I've spent the last 20 years mining the records Americans didn't buy...  

Always liked this one very much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4Y4FWWkn0

Yeah, Wildfire made me cry when I was little because the horse "died one winter, when there came a killing frost".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE79UxDu7Xc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ki-8XuStK0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZub3M3jSdw&feature=related

(http://i35.tinypic.com/2gvudro.gif)

When me and my ex-fiancee were staying at my parents, we used to stay up all night playing this album over and over and singing along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zz1Ps-ZLSA

This reminds of the time I was gonna get married (yeah the clown man nearly tied the knot!) but alas, we never made it. I remember the b***hing and the arguments and her not believing that I really wanted to be with her. I got so p**sed, that I just tore the papers up in the end.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE "Family Affair" from There's A Riot Goin' On 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RmKBFND9SY

Jawbreaker- unfun

that whole cd takes me back! also lemonheads, descendents and sonic youth. can't help but get nostalgic when i hear those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op0upKxdvLs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMl_a9A&feature=related

I always think of the old WWF days when I hear The Final Countdown.  It would often play when a wrestler approached the ring.

Bryan Danielson used "The Final Countdown" as his entrance music in RING OF HONOR.

And speaking of Burton Cummings, I just saw him last night on TV in a film entitled Melanie (1980) as the hero who comes to the rescue of an abused housewife. Man he looked so cheesy and so very much like a 70s porn star but was also reminscent of many late 70s/early 80s heroes with the dark moustache and hairy chest. UGH!  :buggedout: :bouncegiggle:

Oh jeez, Melanie! I haven't seen that movie in years. I caught it on TV in the very early 90s, and had, until then, been completely unaware that Burton Cummings had tried his hand at acting. Weird. I remember it being not too bad, though, and it had some good songs on the soundtrack. It helps that his character is a piano-playing singer-songwriter. One part that cracked me up was Melanie buying his album during the climactic "getting their s**t together" montage, and the cover is The Best of Burton Cummings with the character's name subbed in. I've had that album for years, so it struck me as funny. Here's the montage, with a great song, "Something Old, Something New."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_HAY0Lgc0

I did know that he'd done some comedy in the past. He makes an uncredited appearance on the MacLean and MacLean comedy album, Bitter Reality, including a couple of songs he sings as "Frankie Fontaine, the King of Genital Rock." His voice is unmistakable. Try to imagine Burton Cummings singing a song about a guy whose wife lost her hands in an industrial accident:

Keep those rusty hooks away from me
You almost ripped it off yesterday
Baby, baby, keep those rusty hooks away
Or else you'll rip it off today

Couldn't find a clip of it, but here's something else from Bitter Reality. Not exactly in keeping with the theme, but it is an album that takes me back. Definitely NSFW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiWMunVcAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfdmiVku2Cc

"Only Wanna Be With You" by Hootie and The Blowfish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WQqRDrCo
Song from when I was about 11 years old.  Reminds me of a girl who used to live down the street and we were pretty tight at the time.

"Punk Rock Girl" by The Dead Milkmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYjr-vUKZM
Another girl, another song.  This one girl is a punker of sorts...tattoos, piercings, was my first kiss.  Still talk to her.  Her dad may be giving me my first tat, actually.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffIImx3oemQ

I remember this playing a lot when the family would drive to Malibu Gran Prix on weeknights.  Raised on video games and great music, good times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennMD1fPtXA

There are a lot of songs that I was a bit ashamed of liking back in the day; being a Rock fan, we weren't supposed to like artists like LEO SAYER or anything that smacked of Bubblegum or Disco.   :lookingup:  By the '80s I was listening to so much weird sh!t that nobody liked, and was old enough, that I didn't care what anybody thought of my tastes anymore, but there are still so many guilty pleasures from '70s Pop that I always enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsN7RbrsU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XucbKof0HcU 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_96uyfmqgo&feature=related 

Heh heh..  One more from little Leo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2M3ewE60Q

Might as well toss in some Leo Sayer as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mBsC8LTBU

And a mellow instrumental piece from Mr. Chuck Mangione.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWSevt_i51w

More instrumentals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_tmH6y7ng&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49hO1fZBRw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhi73iORiM&feature=related

Going back to my childhood, these LPs were in frequent rotation at Xmas time at my house.  It brings me back to a time when I enjoyed the holiday...
Oak Ridge Boys Xmas
(http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/qq256/tts_posters_2008/Music/album-christmas-with-the-oak-ridge-.jpg)
Kenny Rogers Xmas
(http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww109/ariel0103/Christmas/KennyRogers-ChristmasGreetings2000.jpg)
My mother also owned an 8 track with a mix of tunes with this version of The Little Drummer Boy from the Harry Simeone Chorale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMNMLsAHa4

My parents had a few Christmas LPs I used to enjoy as a kid. Nothing as recent as Kenny Rogers or the Oak Ridge Boys though. :teddyr: The ones I remember most fondly are:
Johnny Mathis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHqhLrLL1U
Andy Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtb3EtjEic
Perry Como
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5WqegfuyE

My wife, on the other hand, doesn't think it truly feels like Christmas until she's heard Elvis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUyuGFoiWJ0

OAK RIDGE BOYS and KENNY ROGERS Christmas albums...  No wonder you hate Christmas.  

Here's another instrumental: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo

One more instrumental before I go to karaoke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8jd8WhxoI

Yet another instrumental. Much better than Gary's version with words, although he looks pretty goofy up on the stage not singing. Mind you, he looks pretty goofy anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAxb72cssGE

Another great instrumental by the Family Guy musician!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGQVETVVGf0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9nl3T31wI

uck.  Never liked that. 

Me, having recovered from listening to 60S and 70S BEATLES, STONES, LED ZEP, PINK FLOYD, YES, CREAM, KING CRIMSON, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, EAGLES, FLEETWOOD MAC, I totally shifted gears to an era when I bought many more records than ever before, which is also nostalgic for me, the '80s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zelVvrgcK_g  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r6E4RyCk4g   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHywdqH3F6Y 

Hey, I put Major Tom on the 2nd page!  You do YOUR homework!  :twirl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4RtUo5s0g

A few I NEVER hear anymore..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBJt_KCsFwc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42IPlbC9H_Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZITC4tEes

That last song always makes me think of My Bloody Valentine, as they came out the same year.

Yes, you did...in English.  My post is in German.  :wink:  
Here's a few that take me back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whehyybLqU  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_lNROQ9qKc  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyGdk23KNU&feature=PlayList&p=0800369A510A681F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IsJEOVfnw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joB2-baMCBg

Yes, you did...in English.  My post is in German.  Wink 

Gott in himmel! :buggedout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXs93KbBCgY

Ah, Grace Jones. That takes me back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IJq3CWlUw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSwJ2rjUSdc  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7xyjU-jsU  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATmiX1tofBY 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLpaiH2hbQ 

I was still in kindergarten when this came out.  Jeez..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x65iIpDk2So

He he.. this cheese poured non-stop from FM radio in 1978.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0UdP5oEn68

We had this .45.. for some reason I thought the RSO bull was the coolest record company logo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xfFqWaK1s

A couple more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_am1ydf8QRA&feature=related

Ray Parker Jr. in his pre-Ghostbuster days.  Love this song, from 1979.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wghmv15Rgzs

(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/95/12inchesofsnow.jpg) (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/12inchesofsnow.jpg/)

Informer, Runaway and Lonely monday morning.

I love that record, and watching ALICIA BRIDGES makes it all the more fun... torn between the Rock/Disco rivalry, I have always loved good music, no matter what the genre, but kind of kept my lip buttoned 30 years ago about my admiration for lots of Disco... Got To Be Real, indeed! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gqKOo-Ih0M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bXs9Er3iw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHSADyRR8x8

Love THREE DOG NIGHT 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdpEyxS0988 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAlzo_pqys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7zb5FMmLM 

Me too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzzOiuoGCc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKcd7yPLdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdkCs5RdQg

Bleck.. not a fan of that one.  I have it on one of my "Have A Nice Day: Hits of the 70s" CDs.  But here's some others from that same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPeAL657lnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA

So whatta you know?   :wink:  You're too young and know most of your selections from compilations discs...  :tongueout:  Where can any of these old records take you back too?   :wink:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvFarMRXPM  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVF4r3fLBrU&feature=fvw  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsggWxwsbc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El2TM4KvZz8&feature=channel  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02-CbuRsdgo&feature=related

I got the comp discs mostly because I remember nearly all those songs from my youth.  Plus, a lot of them were one-hit wonders.

I'm not really a fan of slower, more soulful stuff (Gaye, White, Green, etc.); I like it more peppy, funky, faster, more busy.  I do like Ooh Child and More Today Than Yesterday quite a bit.

Speaking of one-hit wonders.. more from later in the '70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ejlr-c5Yfg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeP45NpMj4w&feature=related

Since you don't like AL GREEN, this is not for you...  :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiE9fYZ6KQ0&feature=fvw 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71DkcOnKdBI&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exzwmcAFW4Y

Playground In My Mind.. Ouch  :bouncegiggle:

More pain!  :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xryMJD9TKZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9rtQbijR8&feature=related

And a decade later, but just as painful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

I have many fond memories of MELANIE...  and "Playground In My Mind" was compelled by my dearest friend... :smile:
All TAVARES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmzWzfd2WN0  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6WwvBaJmGQ  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrWWZta4bHg  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWSrJL3FZtw

Keep 'em coming?  :teddyr:  Time to consume our Christmas bonbons in the New Year, some not so appealing, or sticky even, and some mighty tasty, all old and most, though, are non-nutritive:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR3hhc_Nfg8
:smile: It's called "Rock On".  And it doesn't Rock at all!!  :lookingup: :thumbup:
Love it! Great Dumb record!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-4N0IPVh8  VICKI LAWRENCE's record was huge.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-L0NpaErkk&feature=related Always liked this silly record.   :twirl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68i4tMmv9F4&feature=related Couldn't remember if we'd hit this one THREE DOG NIGHT one, I know we swapped several; "Black and White" is not a favorite of mine, but most certainly one of "those" songs that take me back.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmBPCYt5LY&feature=relatedBTO are old memories.   :smile:

I certainly have all of them!  I don't think we did Black and White yet.
More..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRxQo2uUy8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5b65hociXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mOUtxJDOV8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-IXJLgRnvs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VGxYAVx-0

If I was going to go for AMERICA, this'd be my first choice, though I do like all their hits: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnhKcCwZwl8 

More goodies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMQbedCZj0  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cQ47VVzU0  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S46OE902tM&feature=fvw  

Whee!  Let the nostalgia keep rolling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94wzka9ZgVA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEWwZ7o57I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-5Y5PX2qHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU

ALVIN LEE was cool. 
Did we cover this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEF470mXqU4 

I had bought only one CCR album back in the day, and this was the first track on it, which really takes me back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVhKjsImeI 

This was a favorite post BEATLES former BEATLE 45. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MubU8qHutY 

I don't think we did Summer Breeze yet; I remember seeing it on ALL those comp albums way back when.

Here's my favorite Ringo song (which was also on a Heinz Ketchup commercial):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-2Etc6c_0

My folks had Cosmo's Factory, one of the greatest albums ever.  My fave from that album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhAEjnFqis

And this one, a bit sped up here but still great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U&feature=related

You don't mean "Anticipation"?   :wink:  Playin' piano in the wind of the Swiss Alps "...don't come easy..."  :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptbokGsRdAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0b_zo3puzc

Those are good ones too, AHD. 
And no, both songs: Carly Simon's "Anticipation" and Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" were both used for Heinz commercials.  I remember both.  I think at one point I even heard "Stand Tall" used in one where a fork or something was stuck in a big jar of Heinz and it never tipped over.

More Branigan, who left us way too early..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG9OV1efasQ

I actually really dislike both of LAURA BRANIGAN's biggest charters...  :lookingup:  But I had a "Self Control" moment.  

This is my favourite Laura Branigan track:  :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpZdjQ6Sc4E

Yeh, I believe it, just bustin' yer chops.   :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawntB1J1Zw

More in the vein of the last post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxTVxGhHFM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHOIT1ROk8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4wcNVbYOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2VYP0FCAUE   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcy-V6YIuI&feature=related

"Girly" songs closer to my youth..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LfY_1MTxj8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxUtR6V6O70&feature=related

And on a more juvenile note, I used to play this one constantly on my little plastic record player in the mid to late 70s. I think the original recording was better than this version, but the video is funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AOikY323zc

Another one I used to play over and over as a little kid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYS0Epyyu3k

Looking back, I must have driven my parents nuts.

I remember how stupid the movie Convoy was.  Just awful.

Disco flashback gems..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUclIoNpPO0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l-ecUZWTW4&feature=related

NEIL YOUNG wrote that song, and recorded it on his Comes A Time album.  

And this does take me back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZD8fPdMWZU  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhdf9_IO4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6CMSuT98-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVGerWFYotQ

Don't those belong in the "Songs you NEVER want to hear again thread...?   :wink:

Yeah, I knew Mr. Young wrote that song.. sure glad Nicolette sang it and not him.

I used to love The Streak.  Pardon me sir, did you see what happened?  Yuh, I did.. :teddyr:

Hopefully these aren't repeats from earlier posts, mine or others..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxwwQxzKE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNSVKFqh5A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJQpSzDgC0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2BjJbKQkgc

I think these two are...

Dang it, yer right.. you had those 2.  Fine, I'll think of something else.. (grumble grumble)

Early teen memories..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNi8aW8Nf6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HhaJhQ8Fs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e4WLdLNajs

SPANDAU BALLET reminded me of these... all songs I liked then, some more than others, but none are now represented in my own collection, though I had most on vinyl... then. 

Now this one takes me back... BOY GEORGE looks like a crazed nun; not so sure I want to go there: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFVAmSML7oE&NR=1 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhvqVqLAdLI&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uyWAe0NhQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p4RWBCEFRo&feature=related 

This one could have been taken and I'd overlook it, it was way overplayed... 25 years ago!!  (Longer...)   :bluesad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q

For a long time in the late 80s and early 90s I shunned the R&B/hip hop of the time.  Probably because I was such a METAL fan.  However I knew damn well the pop junky deep down inside of me loved it.  The genre is still a huge guilty pleasure of mine. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASkqVnqBy7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YejxyaFyUHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpbMM0RT8c

These bring me back as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43U0OeWg3Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Lj6xf9XPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8jRfWiLHGY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LweA7NLPB0c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjIoDeDWTY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI7N3cHHbMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX1Q48Uqses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ePSJ44Fiw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLoOXWn-EJo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Z7PWl7RaI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKNU2ocLxMY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeRa3RtBiIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrL9MV6jSk
THIS DESERVES TO BE POSTED BY ITSELF

I actually admitted to liking their songs in the "against the grain" thread.  Very catchy pop anthems that unfortunately got lost in the scandal. 

Yeh, "The Night Chicago Died" was covered.   :smile:  
The only problem is, they weren't "their songs".   :wink:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUKBuAkr4Lg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ0Oollj5ns

WHAT!  They werne't actually singing?   :buggedout:

Yeh, "The Night Chicago Died" was covered.   :smile:  
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G**DAMMIT!!!  :hatred:  Not again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnSWJHawQQ&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqKN8yhA54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjcZulxe8ok&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsuRgEZS2yc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x59IG5iui9Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E7y-48aer4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e70gT1unKPc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmIdLNuCqvs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kEDU7m2z14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyp0f8L5nd4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBttQmhDBw&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIsiR43Zw5Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLB3nKYn9mw 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY41o-iZStI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhBFU7cEkQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2guhGt227A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW3rb5fZRb8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMZ4amjbqhU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMFMf9cN64U
I remember pretty much everyone in my house dug this song when it first came out.   

I remember seeing the Georgia Satellites open for Robert Plant in the late '80s!  :buggedout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dF2WcrdxdQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6OJOHGmv8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CImrIKNmBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GtyMeEcPPE

I love this version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnejLmQGYhg
...and speaking of awesome 80s covers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUc629OcQPo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFQZyxxyyM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7WPwH8Rd6g