Yesterday's picture of my old jean jacket has put me in a nostalgic mood. So I got down the Presto Professional Deep Fryer box from the top shelf of my closet that holds all my old cassette tapes and found 5 cassettes that embody the whole decade of the '80s for me.
Poison--This was the first tape I ever bought. Every Rose Has Its Thorn? Awesome. Fallen Angel? Can't be beat. Nothin' but a Good Time? Best played with windows rolled down and volume turned up.
Whitney Houston--This may have been the second tape I ever bought. I love Didn't We Almost Have It All.
Indigo Girls--Who doesn't love Closer to Fine? It appeals to my folksy side.
Terence Trent D'Arby--I stayed up super late one night because a local radio station was going to play Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby in its entirety. I put a blank cassette in the HUGE stereo we had in the den and recorded the whole thing. And then I listened to it 1,185 times. Wishing Well is still my favorite. He's reinvented himself and goes by the name Sananda Francesco Maitreya these days.
John Mellencamp--My all time favorite artist. I've listened to The Lonesome Jubilee so much that the words on the cassette have been worn off. Nothing tops this album. I'm thinking that I need to have a third son just so I can name him Johnny Cougar. I don't think WD would go for that, though. Maybe Sananda Maitreya...
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Did this nostalgia come about because we were tightrolling our jeans last Saturday? And, I've got pics of that, btw!
ReplyDeleteFirst your jacket TOTALLY took me back. I had one, too -- actually went through a few that I just plain wore out. One that I loved was tossed after a classmate wrote "Ganja" on the back. That went over well at home.
ReplyDeleteAs for the tapes -- I don't even have a tape player in my house or car anymore. My tapes are under my bed, boxed up, wishing I still loved them. My first tape was Amy Grant's "Straight Ahead." :)
I totally lived and breathed that Indigo Girls album for a year or so. Especially loved Closer to Fine. Can't remember the last time I listened to it, though.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...wonder what my five would be? I may have to blog about that.
Wow a flashback. Did you have big 80's hair too?
ReplyDeleteI still love my tapes: Gino Vanelli and Steely Dan Woo-Hoo. My friends still laugh at me because I found these all on CD. But I don't care I love the stuff, let them tease on...
You are a legend LOL
ReplyDeleteI had that Whitney cassette too! I had John Mellencamp too. Remember how he kept changing his name for a while there? It was so confusing!
ReplyDeleteI love how music can relate so much about a time.
ReplyDeleteyou guys were pegging (what we clld it) your jeans! That jacket rocks, cool that you still have it.
ReplyDeleteOh, wishing well. I loved that song too. What ever happened to Terence Trent D'Arby. Wow. Memories for real!
ReplyDeleteWow, I have many of these. And that Poison cd? I actually still put it on once in a while! lol I DO!
ReplyDeletePopped over for a visit. Loved your blog. Can't wait to read more. Come by and visit me sometime. http://wwwhiwit.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteare you in some kind of la la land....what about elvis, neil diamond, cher, barbara striesand, willie nelson, waylon jennings, chris chistopherson, johnny cash, you are really out of it if you list pioson as a hot music treat....bye bye love
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