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May.21.2010
For me, music is oxygen. I can't remember a time when I didn't have music playing in the background, or running through my head.
Some of my earliest memories are of music. I remember being 2 or 3 years old, baking Christmas cookies with my family and hearing "Cherish" by the Association...
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May.21.2010
I was up early, as usual, computer on, checking my email and trying to get a handle on the day. The radio played softly in the background, more for company than entertainment.
The DJ cued up a Carlos Santana song, the one that goes, “All you killers, leave your lights on.” It was a song I...
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May.21.2010
One of the privileges of aging is watching pop songs evolve into classics.
From Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and the Jackson Five to the Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, back to Brenda Lee and the Platters and around again to Akon and Kid Rock, old pop songs gilded "...
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May.21.2010
Normaly I have an eclectic taste in music. I go for 40s and 50s show tunes and movie sound tracks, I'm always ready for the Beatles and Rolling Stones, I'll listen to operal just as well as the Dixie Chicks and Madonna, and I'm a fan of oldies like Peter, Paul, and May, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez,...
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May.21.2010
I sit here at this cluttered computer desk and contemplate what playlist I should put on, what grouping of songs match my current mood. I'm caught somewhere between masturbation and murder, feeling 100% alive and regretting it. Feeling ever so masochistic, I need music to further this...
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May.20.2010
Still Chained to an Unchained Melody
I recall Peggy saying 'yes' when I asked her to dance at our Catholic 8th grade graduation dance in 1964. Not knowing all the intricacies of “slow dancing” as it was called back then, I did know it was the closest thing to having sex while 10 nuns were...
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May.20.2010
I pretty much fell out of the whole "pop music" thing years (maybe decades) ago, listen only to what absolutely forces its way into my consciousness against my will, without my permission. Still, despite my addiction to National Public (Talk) Radio, it's not the case that I don't have...
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May.20.2010
So what’s in a song’s lyrics that drive people crazy over it? For every chapter of my life, there is a corresponding song attached to it – a theme song you’d rather say, the soundtrack of my life. A song that describes my predicament that time, the emotions, what feelings are locked deep inside...
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May.20.2010
Sometimes, timing is everything. When this subject was first brought up, the song that immediately came to mind was "Won't get fooled again" by the Who. Those of you who are considerably younger than me may be surprised to know that politicians were just as reviled then as they are now. I...
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May.20.2010
My favorite pop song back in the day was Rupert Holmes' 'Escape', better known as the Piňa Colada song. There is something about the story telling in that song that is so wrong because it's an endorsement for cheating, yet so right because it acquiesces to a happy ending. When I hear it, even today...
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