Conference back40::soapbox

    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
    
      My pal Thomas' good-bye party when he was going to go to Alamosa,
      CO. Skinny dipping in the pool. Quite outrageous and exciting for
      16-year old walking hormone-bombs.
    
    
    Joan Jett - I love Rock'n'Roll
    
     My first night-over out of the house. We watched 'Rockpalast' on telly
     until 2:00 AM, recorded the song on tape and then played it for
     another hour.
       
    
    Depeche Mode - Somebody
    
     Alexandra went to Australia for couple of months. With the goodbye
     kiss she gave me a tape, which included this song. Later I laid on my
     sofa, listened to that tape and felt so lonely and left behind as I
     have never in my life.
    
    
    Beethoven - Overture to Egmont
    
     Biking home from the Disco late at night, Walkman on full power with
     classical pieces.
    
    Propaganda - Machinery
    
     For 9 months, I used to drive to the army on Monday mornings 4:00 AM. 
     Week after week tmy friend would be playing the same tape. Week after
     week this song would be the last to listen to, before entering the
     barracks.
    
    Rush - A farewell to kings
    
     Me on a pupil's exchange programme in England. Lying on the floor,
     playing Yahtzee with my 'brother', sipping a hot chocolate. He puts on
     the Rush LP. (this song starts very slow and calm, then the electric
     guitars start with tremendous noise). I jump off the ground from the
     unexpected change of volume, spilling the choclate all over the
     carpet. They had to replace it :-)
    
    Heiko
    
    
    Heiko
    

    
    
    "Shannon"  by Henry Gross I think.  Was my first love, and her name was
    Shannon.  We went together for almost 4 years when her folks up and
    moved them to Arizona.  Broke me heart it did.  That song could get me
    all choked up thinking about her at the tender young age of 17. 
    Thought my world was at an end.
    
    
    Mike

    "Heroes" - David Bowie as performed at the very first Band Aid concert
    in 1985(?). a momentous day in world history and showed what might be
    achieved in this global village.
    
    "Three Little Birds" - Bob Marley. played a lot on a very special
    holiday i went on with a very special girl. there always seemed to be
    three little birds outside our doorstep singing sweets songs every
    morning.
    
    "One Love" - Bob Marley. played whenever i despair over the future of
    the human race.
    
    "Voodoo Child" - Jimi Hendrix (the long slow version). beats Ravel's
    Bolero for making love to!
    
    ric

"i'm not in love..." 10cc

i was for the first time deeply in love.......and suffering!




andreas.

 Marshall Tucker's "Heard it in a Love Song"..the first time my then wife and
 I went to Colorado Springs that song was on the radio..everytime I  hear it 
 I think of that day..


 "Beulah Land"..sung last night at the close of weeklong revival service at
  my church.



 Jim

    
    By Neil Young....
    
    "A Man needs a Maid"  At my wedding, we presented the bouquet and
    garter to our best man Steve, and his girlfriend Linda.  They had
    been living together for ten years.  We had the DJ play this song
    while Steve put the garter on Linda's leg, and then made them dance 
    to it.  It was quite a hoot. :*)
    
    
    
    "Did you Tell Her She Was Sleeping In the Bed You Made For Me?"
             By Highway 101
    I mailed a tape of this song to my husband, (Now ex-husband) on
    our anniversary, two weeks after I left him. :*) Gave me great 
    pleasure. :*)
    
    Terrie
    

    Getting taken out in town over the hood of a local taxi. Wist riding me
    bike, listening to Hotel California. The original version, and then
    finding myself in a hospital, on an X ray machine. And mirors on the
    ceiling, pink champaine on ice. We are all prisioners here of our own
    divice.
    
    I slid over the hood in a head on crash. The taxi, and me on a red hot
    10 speed. And having flash backs of my crashing into it in slow motion,
    with the sun sparkling on the spokes and watching grains of sand coming
    off the wheels. Wierd!:)
    
    Suzy-Q by CCR, late 60's, riding down the Lampry River in Epping in a
    tire tube, watchin a low flying chopper buz the tree tops.. and visions
    of unfriendly fire on TV and what was hot in the jugles of VietNam...
    
    

    Racing for the Red Light. Outlaws. Making it here to work one morning,
    on the late side. Gotta punch in and anser the red light on the
    phones...:)
    

     Er, what the hell is a mopic?

    
    
    another atrocious alliteration

    
    Spinal Tap: Big Bottom
    	
    	"big bottom, big bottom,
         talk about mudflaps,
         my girl's got 'em
         I just can't leave her behind"
    
    Ah yes, that brings it all rushing back! :-) :-)
    
    -b

Mammories... all alone in the moooonlight ...

ME

    How are they alone when they're together? ;-)

    bra vo!

    The last dance with some-one very special at the Watford Town Hall 
    the night before we left for Canada.
    
    "Some-one to watch over me"
    
    
    
     Played by Ted Heath
    
    
    joan

    Bob Dylan: Stuck Inside of Memphis with Mobile Blues Again.
    I memorized this annoying song so that I could peeve off all my punker
    friends.
    
    Richard Hell and the Voidoids: Love Comes in Spurts.
    I once met a girl who was so impressed that I knew this song that we...
    
    Timm Curry: Sloe Gin.
    At a party long ago at Turkey Point on Lake Erie some bikers from the
    Outlaws showed up to terrorize the little cottage community which they
    did, and they finally settled down at the cottage I was staying in. One
    of the "good old boys" or should I say "bad old boys" nah they're all
    the same anyway, one of the bikers was drinking a bottle of sloe gin
    and sing this song so I joined in and I felt safe and hey I'm here to
    tell you the story so I guess it worked!

    <--------  you memorised everything but the title you mean.
    Stuck inside a mobile with the Memphis blues again.   :)
    Peter

    
    	"Open Arms" by Journey.  Was played on the flute at the funerals
    	of two friends of mine, killed my junior year in high school. 
    	They were in a car accident, they died two days apart.
    
    	"Electric Dreams" (don't remember by who) and "Didn't We Almost
    	Have It All" by Whitney Houston remind of a very special man.
    	If we had met a few years later than we had, I'd be the happiest
    	woman on earth.  But alas, we met too young.  Fortunately, we've
    	stayed good friends.
    
    	"Footloose".  Reminds me of my junior prom.  The band we had
    	(there wasn't much to choose from where I grew up) didn't have
    	any music to play in between their sets.  So my date and one
    	other guy went to get his boom box, my friend Sherry grabbed
    	her Footloose tape out of her car and we played our own music
    	between the band's sets.  A floor full of 16 and 17 year old
    	girls in long gowns and bare feet bouncing around the dance 
    	floor like crazy.
    
    
    	JJ

    "Someone Saved My Life Tonite" By Elton John.
    
    Whenever I hear it I think Hampton Beach, the summer when I was in the 
    7th grade, it was one of the most popular songs on the radio during
    that summer.
    
    "Wonderful Tonite" by Eric Clapton.
    
    Was the theme to my senior prom.
    
    

Another Elton John one, `I'm Still Standing', reminds me of the first
time I was camping rough.  Great fun!

Anything from the early 80's, particularly Adam & The Ants, Toyah Willcox
or Ultravox, reminds me that school wasn't really such a bummer time
after all.

And ZZ-Top's `Afterburner' album, for some bird I was going out with
at the time...  :(

Chris.

    "Must the winter come so soon?" from Samuel Barber's opera "Vanessa." 
    I still absolutely LOVE it, but the circumstances it recalls are no
    longer fondly remembered.

>but the circumstances it recalls are no longer fondly remembered.

I hate it when that happens.  I still can't listen to Black Sabbath's
`Changes'.  (Another bird...)

Chris.

    RE:.9
    
    >Er, what the hell is a mopic?
    
    	Military-speak for motion picture I believe.

    "My Kind of Lover", Billy Idol
    
    I still smile when I hear this.  I dated a guy in college in 
    one of those infamous "long distance" relationships.  I worked to
    pay for gas for the car and my phone bill.... When we fought we 
    fought like devils, but oh boy could we make up! :-) :-)
    
    "It Might Be You", Stephen Bishop
    
    "Our Song" for my ex-husband and I.  Our first dance at the 
    wedding.  Still can cause sniffles.
    
    "Sailing" Christopher Cross
    
    First canoe trip I'd ever taken.  A bunch of us went down the
    Concord river.  It was an absolutely perfect day.  When we got
    back into the car I told myself I would always remember this day
    by the first song I heard on the radio.  That was it.
    
    
    
    Mary-Michael
    

    I don't associate any particular song with this, just a group:
    10CC. During the summer before my senior year of high school,
    I worked in a theatre group in NYC. Among the other students
    was a woman from Paris. She was a perfect beauty. Tall,
    thin, skin like cream, dark hair and eyes. She had studied
    ballet in Paris most of her life and she moved with such
    grace... she embodied poetry in motion. She was assigned
    as my dance partner in several productions that summer.
    She was three years older than me.

    Ahhhhh....

    It was the first time I ever fell in love. She turned me on
    to 10CC, but more than that she turned me on to life. The
    big V was lost that summer. But much more was gained. It
    was really a joke going back to high school after that and
    smiling as the zit faced buffoons called me a fag for being
    a dancer... if they only knew...

    -b

Glady's Knight and the Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"   This was my 
first "grown-up" concert.  Dad didn't want to go and Mom really did, so 
she took my brother (11 years) and I (9 years) and we had a great time.
Last year my brother went midnight toboganning with a huge inner tube they 
had found on the ski hills near our chalet with a friend of his (boys will 
be boys) and almost killed himself when they ran out of control and he 
slammed into a tree, basically pushing all his innards either up or down. 
His friend had rolled down the mountain and had to climb back up to my 
brother, get him back on the tube and then somehow manage to get to the 
bottom of the mountain where luckily, the girls (who had not been as 
foolish as the boys) were waiting with the truck. They got Mark to the 
hospital, and Dad and I spent the next 5 days travelling back and forth 
from Toronto to Collingwood (1.5 hours north) to see him in intensive 
care.  I made up Mark a tape to listen to in the hospital and the very 
last song I put on it was "Midnight Train to Georgia" - wanted to remind 
him that we share special memories and not to be so quick to throw it 
away!  I think I made him cry.  ;-(

    
    
    "changes" by david bowie makes me think of high school, because that is
    one of the songs edited in on my video yearbook, and it is very true.
    
    "beth" by kiss makes me think of when i was a little girl just because
    i used to like them when i was a wee lass and the song always made me
    cry.  still does sometimes.
    
    there are a lot of songs out there that make me think of a lot of
    moments in my life.  (way too many to mention)  i don't know what i
    would do without music.
    
    

    Miracles- Jefferson Starship
    
     From my first real (non k-tel) album. I must have been all of 11 or 12
    at the time. I pretty much knew what it was about then, but I
    definitely got a greater understanding while in college...
    
    Hibernation (live)- Ted Nugent
    
     Lots of emotion in the guitar playing in that tune.
    
    Hell Bent for Leather- Judas Priest
    
     The opening song of the best concert I've ever seen.
    
    side 1 of Point of Know Return [especially the Spider and Portrait (He
    Knew)]- Kansas
    
     One of my favorite albums to crank over the headphones and space out
    in total darkness during my misspent youth.
    
    

    
    >Hell Bent for Leather- Judas Priest
    >
    > The opening song of the best concert I've ever seen.
    
    
    	I saw 'em twice on the "Turbo" tour and by then they were using
    	that as 1 of the encores ... complete with Harley on stage.
    
    	They opened with "Out in the Cold" ... excellent power ballad.
    

     They'd sold out long before Turbo. Too much money and nekkid girls.
    I saw them in a triple bill at the Orpheum with Def Leppard and the
    Scorpions. Tremendous show.

    Wadn't "My Kind of Lover" by Billy Squier?
    
    

    
    	"Forgot to Be a Lover" was Billy Idol, I believe.
    
    	At least, I think that's what he's saying.

    Re: .29
    
    >side 1 of Point of Know Return
    
    Is that out on CD?  I checked for it whilst browsing at Lechmere's, but
    perhaps I need to go to a music store.

    
    RE: .34
    
    Yes PoKR is out, as are several other early Kansas albums.
    Good stuff, if very dated.
    
    -b

    
      Walleye fishing in my boat on lake Erie. A mid July evening about
    8:45pm, the suns going down, a wonderfull sunset. Sippin some Jack,
    the stereo playing Pink Floyds - Comfortably Numb!
    
    Mike