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I'll start with a sports related one. My baseball team is the Rockies and one of our stars is Charlie Blackmon. His walk up song is Your Love by the Outfield. They play the line "I don't want to lose your love tonight" but the sound goes down before tonight and crowd shouts that part. I liked the song before this but has an extra fun feeling whenever I hear and now I always shout out the "Tonight" part.




 
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I’ll begin with one of my earliest music memories that I can pinpoint to a specific time.

Timeframe: 1969-ish
These songs remind me of eating cereal. Even today, on occasions when I eat Golden Crisp (The Cereal Formerly Known as Super Sugar Crisp) I get nostalgic.

(I tried to attach a pic of the box, it isn't working.



Appropriately, this includes a needle-skip in a couple of places:



Post also had cereal-box single for “Sugar Sugar,” but we had the actual 45, so I didn’t need to get that one. (I still have the single).
 
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Timeframe: 1977

I have a Christmas-season birthday. New's Eve 1977, my close neighborhood friend mixed an 8-track (!) of Kiss "Alive II" as a gift, unveiling it when our families had our annual New Year’s Eve get-together.

It was my first exposure to Kiss. We listened to the tape multiple times that night. I was hooked. Over the next year or so, I purchased Alive!, Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over, Love Gun and the debut album.

She skipped opening songs “Detroit Rock City” and “King of the Nighttime World” and the live closers (“I Want You” and “Shout it Out Loud”). She said she diidn’t like those songs. In retrospect, those omissions are questionable. :)

Anyway, this is the first Kiss song I heard, song 1 on side 3. Not sure why she started there, but she did.

 
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Timeframe: Fall 1984.

If my memory is reliable, the first R.E.M. song I heard was “Radio Free Europe.”

Not long after that, one of my friends made an R.E.M. cassette for me, with “Murmur” on one side and the “Chronic Town” EP on the other. Both entered my heavy rotation, but I gravitated first toward C-Town. This song is what I most closely associate with my introduction to the group.



And my second favorite from the EP



"Gardening At Night" is cool, but I like it less than those. Many REM fans will disagree.
 
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In the two years between HS graduation and starting ISU I worked full time at HyVee. I was an aisleman and also dairy, receiving the milk shipment at 5 AM. The only other person in the store was a baker and maybe the end of the janitor shift. The milk cooler was metal lined so you could not get any radio stations. I had a tiny portable cassette player and one cassette. So I played it every day.

Still one of the most evocative albums of my life

 
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Summer 1969. Sister and her neighbor friend and myself and two other brothers spent the whole day at Wild Cat Den State Park. Hiking, wading in the Mill Creek etc. My Dad got chicken at KFC and met us for supper. But all day long these two songs were on heavy heavy rotation. One of those "I wish I could live that whole day all over again memories."



 
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Probably more than any other song, this is the one that reminds me of my friends from high school. How did Brian Adams go from the guy that could play this kind of rock to wedding singer guy?
 
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A while ago my fife and I were fishing in the backwaters along the Mississippi River on a hot August day. We met a boat with four 50ish year old men. They were drunk on their butts, and all sunburned to a crisp. The stereo was blaring and they were singing "Running Bear loves Little White Dove" at the top of their lungs. We both still laugh when we hear that song.
 
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Certain songs remind me of certain girls that I've dated.

On my first date, I went to a non-formal dance with a girl. The conversation was awkward and, quite frankly, I wasn't a very good dancer. As I was driving home after dropping her off, this song came on the radio and parts of it were super appropriate.

By the way, I'm an awesome dancer now.
 
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My first year of college, I met this girl that I got along with really well. She seemed to like me but, being pretty shy and awkward, I wouldn't ask her out because I felt she was way out of my league. We were in her dorm room talking and she played this song and and it seemed appropriate and I finally got around to asking her out.
 
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A little while after college, I had been dating a girl for a couple of months pretty seriously. I sensed a change because she started coming up with dumb reasons to not see me. Soon after, she said that she had been in a relationship with a guy for a couple of years and didn't want to be in a serious relationship right now and that she couldn't not be in a serious relationship with me. This song came on the radio when I got back to my apartment.
I cried my eyes out... in a manly way, of course.

Thanks for listening to this series of the courtships of JCyclonee.
 
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You guys (and gals) that came of age in the 60's and 70's have a huge advantage here. The music of your generation has (largely) held up really well.

My high school years were the 90's and, by comparison, that music has not held up well, IMO. Mostly pretty lousy stuff.
 
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Timeframe: Spring 1982
These songs remind me of riding the bus to and from track meets. One of members of the girls’ track team had both these cassettes and played them a LOT on boom box, especially the opening/title tracks. I nearly got sick of the songs. Oversaturation fatigue eventually dissipated. (I have a lot of bus-music memories for some reason — I just thought of another I may post in a while).



 
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You guys (and gals) that came of age in the 60's and 70's have a huge advantage here. The music of your generation has (largely) held up really well.

My high school years were the 90's and, by comparison, that music has not held up well, IMO. Mostly pretty lousy stuff.
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Although some genres & trends don't seem to last as well as others, in my experience generational music quality becomes more balanced with passage of time. Cream eventually rises to the top and the dreck fades into the background.

Over the years, I've come to realize every era has some outstanding music, some average and some that doesn't endure, and sometimes that's a matter of taste within those parameters.

As an avid music consumer. I feel fortunate to have that perspective — so many people I've known have a cutoff point of experiencing new music, styles and artists, falling into the "today's music sucks" or "music hasn't been good since (Period X)."

Granted, I don't hear as much new stuff as I did 20 or 30 years ago, due to more prioritizing compared to my youth. But I haven't shut out exposing myself to modern sounds, and hope I never do.
 
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