Music is really subjective. My top ten songs would probably be totally different from your top ten. But this music list has nothing to do with how good the songs actually are. This list is all about where the songs take me when I hear them.
Example: Any time I hear a Coldplay song, it takes me back to a fantastic nap that I took in 2002.
Everyone has songs that for some reason or other are tied to specific moments in their life. These are my top ten. (part one)
10. Paradise City by Guns N Roses- In 2012 I went to see the reconstituted G N R at a club in New York. They came on stage late, as usual, but they put on a fantastic show. Axl at 50 can still belt it out. They closed the almost three hour long set with Paradise City. Confetti cannons went off and Axl threw the microphone into the crowd. It flew directly over my head, just out of my reach. I turned around to try to find it, only to see two or three guys rolling around on the wet club floor, apparently fighting over it. I realized that my OCD would never permit me to get anywhere near whatever liquid was on that floor after a nearly four and a half hour show (including the opener). In fact, I was a little upset that I was even standing in it. This song takes me to that moment.
9. Top Gun Anthem– A month or two ago, my six year old was doing interpretive dance to this song in his tighty whities. I will never again hear it without thinking of that.
8. Riders On The Storm by The Doors- A Burger King parking lot in western Maryland. I sat there in my 1988 Honda Accord, which was filled with most of my earthly possessions, eating a BK veggie burger. It was raining,,, I think. I was there to check out Frostburg State University. I went on to spend one semester of my illustrious academic career at the home of the Bobcats. I was on the dean’s list. And I made absolutely no friends, because of my Stranger Danger List.
7. Anything by Marc Anthony– Okay, this should just be latin music in general, but I had to narrow it down. This Thanksgiving eve, my wife and her best friend were listening to latin music, rather loudly, while preparing food for the next day. In the next room, I was watching a hockey game. I have now decided that hockey should always be watched this way. Turn the commentary down, and put on some salsa music. It takes your brain a whole period to get used to it, but when you watch a guy with a name like Sergei Plotnikov celebrate a goal to Vivir Mi Vida, you’ll see how awesome it is.
6. Seein’ Red by Unwritten Law- The Pizza Hut kitchen in Clementon, New Jersey was a rocking place. If you’ve never delivered pizza, your life experience isn’t complete.
LINKS
- This lady is the bride of the year. Perhaps the decade.
- A Spanish galleon containing an unreal amount of treasure has supposedly been found off the coast of Columbia.
- The new Point Break comes out in theaters on Christmas day. Instead of going to see it. Watch the old one. I guarantee it’s better. Here’s the original trailer.
- USA Today’s list of the the best German Christmas markets in the US.
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