What are you listening to?

[Bageleth]

(07-20-2011 12:04 AM)Rey Wrote:  

(07-19-2011 11:12 PM)CanyonDancer Wrote:  So, here's a 80's pre-flashback...I'm seeing Journey, Foreigner and Night Ranger on Thursday...I think I'll break out my neon leg warmers and can of Aqua Net for that one...

Journey! It was just a few weeks ago, during one of those moments, after a romantic evening and lying on the bed, in the dark with the cool fan blowing on us, and the stereo still playing in the other room. Just then the radio station put on “Open Arms”. Yes, sounds corny, but it was just awesome right at that moment. And hearing that song again really took me back, I think it was ’82 when I was in eighth grade, when Escape was out and Open Arms was just THE song all the girls loved. I mean, they were just nuts about it. Its funny how certain songs can just rope in all the girls (all us guys liked this song called Tom Sawyer, go figure).

So it made me wonder, does Open Arms still have that magic? Can it appeal like it did to the young girls of today? So I decided to give a copy of Escape to my young niece, who is at that young, music impressionable age (she was crazy about someone name Justin Beaver or something). So I told her be sure to listen to Open Arms, the very last song, and I also told her my favorite one was the second song.

I saw her a week later and asked her, “So? What did you think of the CD?”

“It was okay”, was all I got. Oh well.

That's about the same reaction that my kids give to 80's music. Sometimes there are loud protests, or groans, or the word "old" comes up when Husby and I have it playing on the radio.