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My list is personal and the meaning of these songs may not be the intent of the artist (or it may be). Give us your Top Songs and why. These songs are chronological milestones in my life and not necessarily a ranking.
1. AC/DC Back in Black:
First rock album that I embraced that expressed a difference between myself and my parents. as a teen.
2. Hank Williams Jr.'s "A Country Boy Can Survive."
I am a city boy and I couldn't run a trout line without google. I do have a shotgun and a 4-wheel drive (now). It was my first few months alone in the Navy trying to figure out how to make it under stressful cirumstances. This is a survival song for me when I was 18yrs old and on my own, 2000 miles from anyone on whom I could rely.
3. ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovin."
Actually the whole Eliminator album was when I was starting to feel more secure in the Navy. I ended up liking their older stuff for you ZZ Top purists, but this was my first.
4. Tone LoC's "Funky Cold Medina."
I was aboard ship and I liked to break the mold in which people liked to categorize me. A white boy with Buddy Holly-like birth control glasses who was quiet, all of sudden was rapping Funky Cold Medina among black shipmates. Ha! I am not really a rap fan, but I like the humor of this rap song. Also, Salt -N - Peppa's "Push It" for the same reason.
5. George Thorogood And the Destroyers' "Bad to the Bone."
Working like a fool as a Greyhound Driver, but on my off time it was craft beers and Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk and this song. Don't judge!
6. T-Rex's "Bang a Gong."
The significance of older songs sometimes strike me differently from when they were popular. Although released in the early 70's, this is the song I connect with the 1999 Super Bowl winning St Louis Rams.
7. Aerosmith's "Dream On," and Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care of Business."
I was never good at school and graduated High School by the skin of my teeth. My wife and mine's small business started doing well and she was worried constantly with my being on the road. I was breaking down physically and mentally from overwork by driving commercial vehicles and when I walked away from it, I was done. I loved doing it, but I had a million commercial miles under my belt and my "fun meter was pegged." I tried to write a dystopian novel, but I felt that I didn't have the tools to do it. I felt that even if I had written it, who would buy it from an ex-bus drivin', know nothin', wanna be author? I didn't have the alphabet soup initials after my name, so no one would take me seriously. At least I felt this way, right or wrong.
With more self awareness than I had as a kid, I exerted the work ethic I had gained over my life and attacked University and put no limitations on myself. Well, I found my limit in internediate level Computer programming and Calculus II. I wanted to become an actuary and now that was done. I remembered an early American History teacher telling me that I should consider a major in History for which I saw as a money loser. I wanted to be an actuarial pro that wrote fiction on the side. I realized that with my interests in family geneaology and the lack of knowledge of their place in the city's history in which they lived in the early 1900's, angered me. No one knew who they were and they were a large family in the hey day of the town. They were lost in the dust bin of history and I determined to raise their memory from the dead and so I would get degree(s) that would help me do that. I am near the end and the above songs helped me to succeed beyond anything I ever thought I could do when I was a kid. I listened to the above songs many times when I was tired of University or feeling like giving up.
Ok, now you know a little more about me. What is your story along with your pivotal songs?
1. AC/DC Back in Black:
First rock album that I embraced that expressed a difference between myself and my parents. as a teen.
2. Hank Williams Jr.'s "A Country Boy Can Survive."
I am a city boy and I couldn't run a trout line without google. I do have a shotgun and a 4-wheel drive (now). It was my first few months alone in the Navy trying to figure out how to make it under stressful cirumstances. This is a survival song for me when I was 18yrs old and on my own, 2000 miles from anyone on whom I could rely.
3. ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovin."
Actually the whole Eliminator album was when I was starting to feel more secure in the Navy. I ended up liking their older stuff for you ZZ Top purists, but this was my first.
4. Tone LoC's "Funky Cold Medina."
I was aboard ship and I liked to break the mold in which people liked to categorize me. A white boy with Buddy Holly-like birth control glasses who was quiet, all of sudden was rapping Funky Cold Medina among black shipmates. Ha! I am not really a rap fan, but I like the humor of this rap song. Also, Salt -N - Peppa's "Push It" for the same reason.
5. George Thorogood And the Destroyers' "Bad to the Bone."
Working like a fool as a Greyhound Driver, but on my off time it was craft beers and Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk and this song. Don't judge!
6. T-Rex's "Bang a Gong."
The significance of older songs sometimes strike me differently from when they were popular. Although released in the early 70's, this is the song I connect with the 1999 Super Bowl winning St Louis Rams.
7. Aerosmith's "Dream On," and Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care of Business."
I was never good at school and graduated High School by the skin of my teeth. My wife and mine's small business started doing well and she was worried constantly with my being on the road. I was breaking down physically and mentally from overwork by driving commercial vehicles and when I walked away from it, I was done. I loved doing it, but I had a million commercial miles under my belt and my "fun meter was pegged." I tried to write a dystopian novel, but I felt that I didn't have the tools to do it. I felt that even if I had written it, who would buy it from an ex-bus drivin', know nothin', wanna be author? I didn't have the alphabet soup initials after my name, so no one would take me seriously. At least I felt this way, right or wrong.
With more self awareness than I had as a kid, I exerted the work ethic I had gained over my life and attacked University and put no limitations on myself. Well, I found my limit in internediate level Computer programming and Calculus II. I wanted to become an actuary and now that was done. I remembered an early American History teacher telling me that I should consider a major in History for which I saw as a money loser. I wanted to be an actuarial pro that wrote fiction on the side. I realized that with my interests in family geneaology and the lack of knowledge of their place in the city's history in which they lived in the early 1900's, angered me. No one knew who they were and they were a large family in the hey day of the town. They were lost in the dust bin of history and I determined to raise their memory from the dead and so I would get degree(s) that would help me do that. I am near the end and the above songs helped me to succeed beyond anything I ever thought I could do when I was a kid. I listened to the above songs many times when I was tired of University or feeling like giving up.
Ok, now you know a little more about me. What is your story along with your pivotal songs?
