I should re-name this title "Rockers & MY MEMORIES OF THEM: Then & Now"....
I remember back in the day getting to go to the record store and picking out a new album. I usually bought 45's, but sometimes my mom would let me buy 33's.
BLONDIE
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| Deborah Harry, then and now. |
I started listening to Blondie in 1980, and in 1983 I died my hair white and wore electric blue eye-liner.
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| I had this 45 record. I remember I wanted that tube top with the crystals on it. |
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I remember singing this song in the Jack in the Box Drive Through sitting in the back of my mom's Jeep CJ-7, while my teenage cousin drove it. We had the music blasting and this song playing, and we would go really fast over the bumps in the road so my brother & I would hit our heads on that roll bar and hold on with our hands. There you go mom, there's the truth of our summers driving around in that Jeep with no seatbelt speeding down Northhaven Road. |
MY FAVOURITE BLONDIE SONGS:
(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear
Die Young, Stay Pretty
Dreaming
Fade Away and Radiate
Hanging on the Telephone
Heart of Glass
One Way or Another
Rapture
Rip Her to Shreds
Sunday Girl
The Hardest Part
The Tide is High
Atomic
Call Me
See her sing on SOLID GOLD, 1981 (yes, THAT Solid Gold!)
THE ROLLING STONES
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I remember a picture like this being on the back of my "Waiting on a Friend" 45 single. I don't know why, but in 5th grade, I thought that skull ring Richards was wearing was SO cool. Maybe it was because I was really into concert t-shirts and 'Member's Only'. I remember sitting in the back seat of the station wagon on the way back from Piano Lessons, and my mom let me buy this single. I distinctly remember this conversation like it was yesterday: "Mom, I think I have found a new idol. It is Keith Richards." (Not smiling a bit, and glaring in the rear view mirror) "I think you should choose your Idols more wisely". |
MY FAVOURITE STONE SONGS:
Satisfaction
Angie
As Tears Go By
Beast of Burden
Brown Sugar
Emotional Rescue
Hang Fire
Honky Tonk Women
It's Only Rock n' Roll
Let's Spend the Night Together
Little T and A
Miss You
Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
Paint it Black
Shattered
Start Me Up
Under My Thumb
Waiting on a Friend
You Can't Always Get What You Want
DAVID BOWIE
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| Did you know that Bowie has two different coloured eyes? You can really tell in this photo. |
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I have to say this about Bowie's wife IMAN. I had the pleasure of meeting her about 3 years ago in a very small intimate environment. I was on the board of directors for the first Dallas chapter of the non-profit business Dress for Success. It is a wonderful cause, which helps women learn work skills and pick out free clothes from donations who are just re-entering the work place due to hardships, homelessness, bankruptcy, incarceration, any reason really. We had a boutique here that we set up where we would have meetings with the women, and set them up with interview skills and new outfits for interviews and jobs. It was really inspiring. Well, IMAN Cosmetic donates a percentage of her profits to Dress for Success and she is REALLY involved. She flew down to Dallas to meet a group of women for a beauty workshop. Our office is not glamourous, it was not publicized, and she showed up and stayed for a very long time. I had heard stories from local hairdressers and such that she was a diva not to be reckoned with -- that she made make-up artists and hairdressers cry. I was scared to meet her. She couldn't of been more of the opposite. We were somewhat unorganized and she didn't complain one bit and was quite gracious, sincere, and of course absolutely STUNNING. She gave the most heartfelt inspirational talk to these ladies that I think we all took something from. I just really like her now and it makes me like David Bowie even more too. What a couple.  |
| I LOVED this album. They played it on MV3 all the time. NOT MTV, but the syndicated MV3. Anyone remember that show? |
MY FAVOURITE BOWIE SONGS:
Ashes to Ashes
Changes
China Girl
Fame
Golden Years
Heroes
Let's Dance
Modern Love
Rebel Rebel
Space Oddity
Suffragette City
Young Americans
Ziggy Stardust
HEART
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| This is what I looked like at the time I listened to Heart. Gotta love that outfit. Maybe I'm crazy, but I swear these Nike's have made a comeback. The stirrup leotard? Not so much. |
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| Anyone with Guitar Hero has realized the guitar genius of Barracuda. |
MY FAVOURITE HEART SONGS:
Barracuda
Crazy on You
Magic Man
Straight On
These Dreams
JOURNEY
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| Oh Steve Perry.... Where do I start? You were the BOMB back in the day! |
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| I remember in 6th grade mastering how to write the word "ESCAPE" like the album title on all my notebooks. What a GREAT album. I STILL crank up Journey with my girlfriends and sing at the top of my lungs. Perfect Road Trip music. |
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| "Steve Perry is so OOH-LA-LA!" That was the caption on my friends Teen Beat magazine she had in her room on Carriage Ln. (Remember that Jennifer?) I had a shirt like this too, but it was a Q102 jersey. |
MY FAVOURITE JOURNEY SONGS:
Don't Stop Believin'
Any Way You Want It
Separate Ways
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin
Feeling that Way
Wheel in the Sky
Lights
Stone in Love
Don't Stop Believin'
Who's Crying Now
Anytime
Send Her My Love
Just the Same Way
Only the Young
VAN HALEN
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| David Lee Roth. Oh MY. He was the ultimate "high kick splits in the air in spandex with big hair" rock god, wasn't he? |
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| And talk about Guitar Hero. Eddie V is the only guitar solo that I will pull out my air guitar to. |
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This is me circa the JUMP album. That look on my face is because my little brother barged in and took a surprise picture of me. I have to make a disclaimer. Winged hair was really in back then. hahahah Apparently we did our homework on the floor? Looks so uncomfortable! I remember every stuffed animal in there. The RCA dog. The pink pig. And my room was allllll purple. |
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| Another logo my friend and I practiced on our notebooks in 6th grade. |
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| I bought this album for my "boyfriend" Justin in 1982 and gave it to him at his birthday party at Josey Skate. |
MY FAVOURITE VAN HALEN SONGS:
Panama
I'll Wait
Jump
You Really Got Me
Hot for Teacher
Dance the Night Away
Jamie's Cryin'
Pretty Woman
And the Cradle Will Rock
Beautiful Girls
Everybody Wants Some
Ice Cream Man
U2
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My first memory of U2 was listening to them on my walkman at summer camp in 1982. or was it 1983? I do remember the song. Sunday Bloody Sunday. That is the defining moment for me regarding U2. |
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| Then all through college we would make mix tapes. |
MY FAVOURITE U2 SONGS (AGAIN!):
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Elvis Presley & America
Bad
New Year's Day
I will Follow
Until the End of the World
When Love Comes to Town
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
One
Gloria
The Electric Co.
Where the Streets Have No Name
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Desire
Walk On
Running to Stand Still
Mysterious Ways
One Tree Hill
Electrical Storm
Bullet the Blue Sky
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
In God's Country
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Pride
Vertigo
Dirty Day
Two Hearts Beat As One
Numb
Red Hill mining Town
Angel of Harlem
The Unforgettable Fire
40
Ultra Violet
A Sort of Homecoming
Zoo Station
The Fly
Magnificent
October
MLK
Silver and Gold
All Because of You
When Love Comes to Town
Original of the Species
Red Light
THEN (mullet & mono-stereo & all)
NOW (and still kickin' it)
And Funny to Boot....(sorry about the annoying ad)
