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Nothing can stir our emotions like music. A song will come on the radio and we are instantly transported to a place and time in the past. We've had topics lately asking what you listen to when you're working but what music can stop you in your tracks and send you back? What song just brings you to your knees?
I put on the Eagles Hotel California album earlier today and it was like I was in high school again. I remember vividly the days my parents brought home Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Led Zeppelin IV, Madman Across the Water, Tea for the Tillerman. I can recall laying in the backseat of our car late at night listening to TINY DANCER on the radio when it first came out. When Simon & Garfunkle reunited at this year's Grammy's I had goosebumps.
There was always an album playing in our house. We had an old car and old furniture but we had a good stereo. My father was the only person I know who could listen to Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick - BOTH SIDES - all the way through.
Lest this topic be deemed completely OT - this was one of my father's favorite signs he did. We spent days going through stacks and stacks of sheet music to find the right look for the letters. (He was kind of anal like that). Most of his favorite songs had too few notes for the sign to look right. We finally pulled out FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND by Elton John. One of his favorites and chock full of notes.
Looking back on the songs that my father loved, it's readily apparent that poignant lyrics and most importantly, haunting harmonies were what knocked him out.
What knocks you out?
Our wedding song (mine and Clay's)was Someone Exactly Like You by Van Morrison - gets me every time.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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Hi Kimberly, that's a beautiful sign! To answer your question: what comes to mind spontaneously (sp?) is "Love Hurts" by Nazareth. I had one tape recorded both sides with nothing but this song. I don't want to rememeber why...
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I too have been amazed by the time-travel possible through music. I don't know offhand of a top contender for sending me back. You mentioned Madman Across the Water & Tea for the Tillerman.
I had a good friend I met in third grade who lived halfway around the block from me. (it also turned we shared my birthday, birthyear, as well as the hospital we were born in. Weather it points to possible value in astrology or not, we had much in common) Anyway his older brother turned us from listening to WLS on am radio to hearing all the great tunes on WXRT FM (Chicago stations) I was in 6th grade & at 9pm when all my other friends were required by their parents to return home, I would go to jacks house & hear brand new records like Low spark.. by Traffic, bothe the Elton John & Cat Stevens records you mention, Emerson Lake & Palmer & the Who's Tommy as well as many others.
A recent TV commercial was a blast from the past when I heard "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe. That was the first 45 in my house brought home by my older brother after hearing it overplayed along with "Crimson & Clover" on the jukebox at the bowling alley.
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Yeah I think back to when I was a little hippy signmaker....I would record all my cassettes .... Songs were carefully faded in and out of other songs right back into another. (hash was readily available in those days too) Firefall.....T-Rex.....AC/DC...Pink Floyd...Santana...my music was always on.
Times haven't changed. I always have music going. And when I have extra bucks.....I head on out to buy new CD's. My first paying sign job was for an album store.
Music has inspired me.....moved me.....helped me and soothed me too many times to say. A good stereo system has always been one of my most important posessions......at home...in the car...and at the shop.
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Well, when ya get my age, there's quite a few memory jogging songs in the vault. Oldies stations have me bouncing all over time and space. I can remember a friend of mine dragging me home to his house aftre school in the sixth grade to hear this really cool record his brother just bought the night before "That'll be the day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Whenever I hear that song I go back to that day. The older guys turned us on to music early. Beach Boys songs always bring back happy memories. What knocks me out? LYRICS, I'm big on lyrics, heavily layred music is another one, but I'm really into lyrics. John Prine, Dylan,Neil Young, Steve Goodman, Lucinda Williams, folks that have a way with words. One of my all time favorites was by Jimi Hendrix "Wait until tomorrow" the guy was not only an awsome guitar player but a hell of a poet.
Dolly Mae, girl, you must be insane
so unsure of yourself leaning from your unsure window pane
do I see a silhouette of sombody pointing something from a tree?
click bang
what a hang
your daddy just shot poor me
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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My emotions are arrested by poetry in music. The description of experience in a manner that brings me into someone else's world. The folk musicians from the sixties and seventies do that a bunch. John Prine and Eric Anderson and Steve Goodman and in todays world how about Greg Brown. If I want to go back to High school I might put on Dion and the Belmonts or Little Anthony and the Imperials.
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6718 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I grew up listening to 50's and 60's music. That is all we had in our house. The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were my favourite. I remember too as a young kid watching the the movie "Dead Man's Curve" based on the Jan and Dean story.
It is funny how we can relate a certain time in our lives to music. When i hear Joan jet's "Put another dime in the jupe box" it brings me back to when i was in grade six, Van Halens "JUMP" Grade eight.
-------------------- Robert Carney Fergus, Ontario Posts: 131 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2001
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Dr. John's "Remedies" is a collection of songs, lyrics and feeling of my hometown. It brings back memories long since past. Few here will understand the meaning or context of the lyrics, as they could easily be passed off a a jumble of non-sensical words. Other N.O. R&B artist that have a similar effect are: Irma Thomas, Aaron and Art Neville, Ernie K-Doe, King Floyd, The Meters, Oliver Morgan, Bobby Blue Bland, Sam Cooke and a host of other that made up the Cavelcade of Stars.
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My father was the only person I know who could listen to Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick - BOTH SIDES - all the way through. 
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Firefall.....T-Rex.....AC/DC...Pink Floyd...Santana...my music was always on. 
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