You know how some songs, and not just Dead songs, transport you back to a certain time and place whenever you hear them? Maybe you didn't even like them at the time, but three notes and there you are driving back from the beach when you're 16, or whatever.
And some songs just come to embody a particular time and place forever after.
What are yours?
Before you retch, this story does have a happy ending.
In the two to three seconds it takes my brain to process the opening strains of this piece of insipid fluff and plot and implement an exit solution, I am instantly transported back to that morning school bus ride on my way to seventh grade when I was first accosted by it. I vividly recall noticing what an obvious Sugaree ripoff the verse riff was, and realizing just how much I would rather be hearing Sugaree instead of being subjected to Rod The Odd at his worst. I even recall the DJ as opining that Rod "sounds like he gargles with Sani-Flush."
Oh, yeah. That happy ending? Next track over the AM airwaves is Casey Jones...
Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
......"see that girl", is just a numero uno. oh, happy day
As far as albums go, this one was another non Dead selection that changed my life. I remember seeing Dylan and (I think) Joan Baez - can't remember anymore - singing "Shelter From the Storm" on a TV special that coincided the album's release (again, I may be remembering this all wrong). I knew right then and there that I wanted to be part of the rock and roll concert scene as a fan and I went out and bought the album within the week. No one I knew liked it but I listened to it non-stop between my Dead and Santana albums and still think it is a remarkable album.
My favorite "flashback" songs are: "Shelter from the Storm", "Stuck Inside a Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" and "Maggie's Farm", which is one of my all time Dylan favorites, and also the song Dylan introduced himself to his "fans" in electric version. Another place in time I really wish I could have been while it was happening. I love you, Bob Dylan!
"You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music."
was a songbook of the time ...celebrating life...
awesome Gigi! Dance on!!
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"Look out of any window
Any morning, any evening, any day"
Robert Hunter
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yeah, I miss her too. Hope she comes back soon.
Sweet Seasons.
I mean, I love practically all of Tapestry too, but...
I know we could get there easily
Just like a sailboat sailing on the sea
Yow!
Hey Marye! Thanks for rollin' this time bender out for us. It's fun checkin' out the different vibes that channel our minds eye views. This is gonna be a hell of a ride! This will be a very rich treasure chest of sparkling memories and hidden visions we can share and enjoy! Into The Mystic indeed...Some Sweet Day ~ We'll be together...
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"Look out of any window
Any morning, any evening, any day"
Robert Hunter
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I love the song The GRTUD, too! I could go on and on about those lyrics and how incredible they are to me, not only in terms of a song, but the emerging history of the GD and my own life, but that's another story.
In addition to all the GD/Pink songs that bring on flashbacks for me, there's this one that always brings back that first tingling of some yellow sunshine I got hold of, back in the "day".
"Hyacinth House" by the Doors (LA Woman album)
PS - Loved that Carole King album too.
"You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music."
Her name is Carole King
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
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Oh yes, GRTUD!!! and YOU, Mr.Pid got a giggle out of me-great little story!
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Samuel Clemens