Gotta be one of my all-time favorites. Wherever I am, I hear those notes and I never walk away until it's finished playing. I especially love the point where he croons: "Oooohhh Wahhhhh" ....
Since covid it's been my habit to get in and out of stores as quickly as possible. But this song comes over the store audio system, and I want to stay a while.
I also associate it with a time long ago ..... a Sunday morning, lying in bed and it came on the radio. It's funny how you have these odd little moments .... you don't recall 99.9999-plus per cent of the individual minutes of your life but then you have two or three nondescript minutes that stand out clearly. Moments that have no real importance other that you remember and can visualize exactly where you were and what you heard at 7:22am on this random Sunday in 1982.
Making this into a mostly 80's playlist .....
- Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver .... Another favorite to hear over the store audio system.
- Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World .... I'm usually a pretty courteous driver when it comes to playing the radio too loud, but this song comes on and the volume's way up and I'm the only person on the road or in the world. When this song came out, it was the worst of times for me. When I hear it these days, I think I try to make up for the pleasure and joy that I couldn't feel back then.
- General Public - Never You Done That
- Big Country - Restless Natives
- Jolene - Pensacola
- Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All .... I love the obvious Beatles influence and inspiration.
- Peter Himmelman - Eleventh Confession ..... 'I needed to tell you I needed surrender. I never was good at playing pretender."
- Warren Zevon - Searching For a Heart .... Just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. About damn time!! I love the line in this song: "They tell me love requires a little standing in line."
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