You know how sometimes you hear a certain song and it takes you directly to a past place and time? Like how every time you hear the Mexican Hat Dance, it takes you to that time you got food poisoning at Taco Bell. Well, this is the second half of my top ten list of songs that take me to a specific moment. Here we go.
5. Youth Gone Wild by Skid Row- Many years ago I went to see Sebastian Bach (former lead singer of Skid Row) at the Birch Hill Night Club in New Jersey. During the show, a short older guy, who was very excited to be there, kept telling me and my friend that it was going to be out of control when Sebastian performed Youth Gone Wild. “You just wait, it’s gonna be crazy in here. Everybody’s gonna go nuts. You wait and see.” I waited. I was disappointed. I loved the show, but I’ve seen places get crazier when candy was handed out to kids.
4. No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley- When my first son was little, we took a lot of long car trips. My wife would sit in the backseat with him, and if he got upset, we would sing that song to him inserting his name instead of ‘woman.’ For the longest time he thought that the song was actually written about him.
3. Sirius (also known as the Chicago Bulls theme) by Alan Parson- Our high school basketball coach was a huge Bulls fan during their championship runs in the Jordan era. The one year that I was on the team, he would recreate the whole Bulls intro thing with the spotlight and the theme song before every game we played. It was over the top and embarrassing. Unless you were Michael Jordan. Unfortunately none of us were. I consider myself more of a Shawn Bradley, with less height, talent, and desire to play basketball.
2. Dust In The Wind by Kansas- We had karaoke at one of our high school banquets. One of my friends and I decided that we should do a song. We chose Dust In The Wind. What followed crushed any dreams of being a rock star that I may have ever entertained. It was an excruciating three minutes and twenty seconds. I’m pretty sure the guy operating the karaoke machine considered turning it off and escorting us off of the stage. He probably called all of his other karaoke machine operator friends and warned them about us. Flyers with our faces have likely been circulated throughout the karaoke community.
1. Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver- Whenever we cross the state line into West Virginia, we play this song and sing along. So it literally takes me home.
LINKS
- Today is the anniversary of the first time that the Flying Tigers saw combat action.
- CNN’s Year in photos from around the world.
- Can you eat expired food? Find out here.
- Seven things you can do in order to have a better vacation.
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