Oh, so bad, but "Funky Cold Medina" and "Push It" have me back at my middle school dances. Every damn time.

Oh, and I can top your lousy class song. Instead of "Times to Remember" by Billy Joel, my stupid class chose "You Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.

Good choice, NOT

Well, won't THIS make me sound old!! LOL. Anything by the Bee Gees and I'm eating lunch in the cafeteria in Turkey. Especially chili, for some reason. ?????

There are 2 songs I used as a backdrop for the video in damages mediation for two of my most heart-wrenching cases, so I had to purge them from my music collection. Plus, I start crying whenever I hear them on the radio.

"Put one foot in front of the other" from the Santa Claus Christmas special (the one with the claymation type figures and Kris Kringle and his girlfriend Jessica?) tickled my son a lot, so we played it over and over when he was learning to walk. Every time I hear it, I think of his chubby little toddler body doing the drunken sailor shuffle from me to Navy Guy.

And there's one song, of course I can't remember the title now, about a guy calling home and telling his family to imagine he's there and it played a lot when Navy Guy was on deployment to the Middle East and I cried every time I heard it. Even now, my eyes are tearing up just thinking about it. The first notes of the song evoke the loneliness and pain of that separation, and the fear that he wouldn't make it home.

Whew. Need a happy "note" to end on - LOVE SHACK forevermore will remind me of Eileen and Cindy Holby at RT!!

We'll miss you!1

Is it a sign of a sick mind that I love Styx, Simple minds, AND the Carpenters? And Air Supply. I would die for Barry Manilow. And Freddy Mercury. I am a sick, sick girl.

Our class song was actually kinda cool: Never Say Goodbye by Bon Jovi. Of course, we were the geeks playing Graduation Day by the Beach Boys as we drove to Baccalaureate in a rust old VW Bug.

Sigh... the 80s were so cool. Maybe that is why I am so psyched that pink polo shirts are back for guys. Much to my husband's horror.

Yeah, I won the book. Thank you so much. I can't wait to read it. I've loved everything by the Literary Chicks. You girls are the coolest.
I don't remember what we played at Graduation Day. First note of We are the Champions and I'm freezing my butt off in the arena in PEI during the Bantam tournament. Don't you Forget About Me is Toph's basement, hanging out singing, dancing and watching the guy's practice. It's Been Awhile by Stained is an ex. Can't hear it without sensory overload;the scent of his skin at the curve between neck and shoulder, golden skin; ahh maybe I'll stop right there. :) Thanks for the Memories

I dunno, Jen-- seems like at least "Can't Touch This" was timely as opposed to ten years out of date. But I feel your pain-- Hammer instead of Billy Joel. *shudder* And for me, "Stairway to Heaven" will always be the song that propels me back to middle school/junior high dances. It was always the last dance of the night.

>Every time I hear it, I think of his chubby little toddler body doing the drunken sailor shuffle from me to Navy Guy.

I love that song-- (I love the whole "Santa Clause is Coming to Town" cartoon, anyhow) and now I have a great image to go with it. I'm also going to drive myself insane trying to figure out what the titleless song is--

Cate-- Freddy is a GOD. There's no shame in that. Air Supply and Barry OTOH... an intervention may be necessary, sweetie. Especially if you tell me you have Barry's new album with his butchering of "Unchained Melody." Barry, Barry, Barry-- enough with the key changes and modulations already! *g*

Barb,

What a great topic! I hear Bette Midler singing The Rose and I am immediately back at The Rat at Wash U. drinking beer with my buddy, Celine.

And Alesia? Tin Roof, baby!

Eileen

No, no, no! The old Barry. Looks Like We Made It Barry. This One's for You Barry. Not bad-remakes-of-old-songs-that-we-butcher Barry.

And Freddy is a God. Thank God someone understands that! +

Oh man, this post is so perfect on so many levels!
Alesia, I think the song you mean is by Lonestar, and it's called "I'm already there". It gets sung to me on the phone whenever Shane has to leave town on business. Thank God our Navy deployment days are over. Six months I could not take again!
Don't you Forget About Me??? OMG, I love that song. Totally takes me right back to high school football games. Of course, our graduation song was ok too. It was "For Just a Moment" from St. Elmo's Fire. That song still gets to me.
The one song that really defines my life is "Angel", by Sarah McLachlan. That song is the reason that I am married today. If it weren't for that song, I would have never danced with my husband, he would have never kissed me, and I would never have told him that I loved him. So yeah, that's the song that takes me right back to a moment, and holds me there until the very last note. I even blogged about it recently. http://deeceetalks.blogspot.com/2006/06/when-you-know-its-right.html

Whenever I hear Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", it;s like I'm right back in the discotheque in Italy, carousing with my friends when I'm supposed to be filling out grad school applications.

And Sublime's "What I Got" always makes me grin--my friend Alyssa used to sing it from the backseat of my car when we would cruise around Los Angeles. She would get drunk, announce, "I know the whole rap to this song" and belt it out, syllable for syllable, at the appropriate moment. Good times.

Yep, every time I hear "Don't You Forget About Me", I think "that should have been our class song"! "We've Only Just Begun" was just a pathetic choice. I don't think anyone was happy about it.

Hi Barbara! It's Erica - your fellow Class of '85 Pioneer! Congratulations on the book - I'm looking forward to reading it.

And, I probably shouldn't say this, but Pink Floyd's, "Comfortably Numb" is the song I lost my virginity to, so that one stands out the most for me.

Anne Murray's "Can I Have This Dance" takes me back to my wedding and dancing with my husband to this song. I sang it in his ear and it still gives me goose bumps whenever I hear it... And her song "I Fall in Love With You" or whatever it is called--yeah, well, I can't tell you what we were doing when I sang THAT particular song to him *wink, wink* but you get the idea, I'm sure!! George Straight's "You Look So Good In Love" takes me right back to a little room that I lived in over the stables I worked at in Chicago. I can see the entire room, my little Army cot of a bed, small dresser, night stand with my tiny B&W TV and clock radio, the 120 cases of old soda in TIN CANS in the other corner of the room--long story... Wow. That really takes me back a ways...

Erica!! OMG!!

Y'all, I was in school with this girl in KINDERGARTEN!

And yes, "We've Only Just Begun" lives on as a lame choice.

Not going anywhere near "Comfortably Numb" or Sheri's "I Fall in Love With You." ;-)

Man, this is so cool! This totally makes my Literary Chicks experience.

Well, I don't know if it counts in this topic, but I've had "Let's Drive A Wooden Stake Through the Evil Heart of Garth Brooks" blasting through my head all morning. It's driving me nuts. Maybe I can push it out with "Muskrat Love"... aaaaaarrrrggggghhhhh

Sorry. Now back to your regular discussion.
Cowboy

It's quite a bit late, but Vincent Guarldi's score for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" sends me reeling back to more innocent times of my life. Ashamedly, I must admit to having "Lucy and Linus" as a ringtone on my cell phone. That infectious little bass lick on the piano at the beginning really breaks-up and brightens that somber afternoon meeting.

Behind as always...

There are many for me but the first one that popped into my head (no doubt because this year was my 20th college reunion), was Hey Mickey! by Toni Basil.

I still remember my friend across the hall *blasting* this during freshman year's finals week during the one hour that we weren't silent in the dorm and dancing to it down the hallway.