Top 6 Songs of My Life
Man its been a while since i posted anything here...
I have some topics to write about but i dont have enough creativity to follow thru, at least not at the moment.
I listen to all sorts of music, i dont really follow a certain genre or favor one over the other, so my CD/MP3 collection is quite eclectic in taste.
From as far back as i can remember i liked the late 70's, early 80's soft rock, the radio friendly stuff. Especially the Love-Gone-Wrong/Hurtin' Tunes that came out of that era from the likes of Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Kansas, Chicago, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Nazareth, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ToTo, Yes, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller and many, many others.
During the summers i would herd sheep for my grandma and on weekends we would take daylong trips to Gallup or Farmington where we would come home until around midnight or so.
On these trips to Farmington, i would get a treat. I dont know if i ever told anyone else at the time why i liked going to Farmington but i liked going because there used to be a radio station from Cortez called 98 KISZ.
On our drive home leaving Shiprock in the late evenings, i would sit next to my aunt who was driving and while everyone else was happily snoozing, she would turn the station dial to 98 KISZ and turn the volume up a little more than usual.
6 - Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon
5 - Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
4 - Dust In the Wind - Kansas
3 - The Logical Song - Supertramp
2 - Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
1 - Synchronicity II - The Police
As i got older i began to like different music, but mainly because the format changed at KISZ, hehe, but im serious it was basically becuz the formats changed.
In midschool, we moved to Crownpoint and i spent about 2 years in their school system. During this time my father became the hardline disciplinarian, with his strict rules of no rock music, no black clothing and no athletic shoes... thereby effectively barring me from having many friends.
I found myself involuntarily sportin grey Tony Llama roping boots, creased wranglers, listening to Earl Thomas Connely religiously, spitting Skoal and feeding my horses and cows. This was also the time i began riding bulls on the high school rodeo circuit. (more on that another time)
Alot of the music i was exposed to was of the country music variety, the likes of George Strait, ETC, Don Williams, Waylon Jennings, Gary Morris, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many others.
This was also the time i found a compilation TAPE (yes a real tape, i have actually held a cassette tape!) inside K-Mart in Albs. Something about Heavy Metal Headliners or something like that. It had songs from varying old school metal bands that were in circulation at the time and my interest was piqued. Since 'rock' music had been banned in Dalton Pass by my father. In hardrock version of the movie Footloose, I began to rebel to the soundtrack of Metallica , Judas Priest, Y&T, Krokus, Accept, Autograph, Ratt and others. This was dependent upon how much money i could get outta my dad and if i could sneak that tape into the house without being caught.
hehe.
At around the same time, I also found that i could pick up 98 KISZ in Crownpoint when i fashioned a makeshift radio antenna extender out of a wire hanger, some loose wires and duct tape. So after many, many adjustments and fine tunings, i could pick up some Glen Fry, The Dream Academy, Star Ship, Duran Duran, Motley Crue, OMD, Aha and whatever garbage.
This was long before the recordable CD craze, back then it was the cassette tape. I would hound my dad for blank tapes, which he would deny, so i would end up 'borrowing' tapes from his collection and record over them, which i would have to hide due to the constant inspections of my room. So using only the blank tapes, i would record songs off the radio, trying to get the right moment to start the song, to omit the popping from the reception and whatnot.
So this went on for about 2 years. But during that time i amassed quite a collection of songs on the few cassette tapes i had. haha. The list below would probably be something you might hear if you had one of those tapes. (plus a good list of others here.)
6 - One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
5 - Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young
4 - The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
3 - Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
2 - Im on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
1 - Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
6 - Balls to the Wall - Accept
5 - Love Bites/The Sentinel - Judas Priest
4 - To Tame a Land - Iron Maiden
3 - Slayer - Dead Skin Mask
2 - Master of Puppets album - Metallica
1 - Alexander the Great - Iron Maiden
So i spent about 2 years there in buttfuck Crownpoint, south of Hell and just north of nowhere. The following year i re-enrolled back in the Window Rock Unified School District No. 8. I was happy, i had left WR at the height of the breakdance and parachute pants craze and returned after its much welcome demise.
I do admit, i did have several pairs of parachute pants to my name, a black one with a million zippers and a cheap red fleamarket imitation, i also had a gazillion strands of fat shoelaces. hehe
So high school brought new friends, new clothes and new music and a intro to skateboarding and freestyling. Some of my friends were into rap, the old school kind like Run DMC, Public Enemy. While others liked the new brand of pop music like the dude that sings "the future's so bright, i gotta wear shades..."
I found myself liking U2, INXS, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, The Cure, Information Society, and others. So its only natural i list my top 6 below plus another top 6.
6 - The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
5 - Janes Addiction - Mountain Song
4 - Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
3 - The Cure - entire Mixed Up album
2 - Bauhaus - Hair of the Dog
1 - The Ramones - Bye Bye Baby
6 - Sweatin Bullets - Megadeth
5 - Estranged - Guns & Roses
4 - 18 and Life - Skid Row
3 - Metallica - Frayed Ends of Sanity
2 - The Tribute album - Ozzy
1 - Death Angel - The Ultraviolence
Man was that hard. I had to sit here for a long while and think about what i liked.
The newer stuff is easy, there is no Metallica involved so if youre a new metallica fan, you neednt worry yourself with that new trash.
From graduation to present is fairly easy, but there are so many choices.
As you might have noticed, if you had been reading my trist thru musical memorylane, i have started listening to less 'pussy' crap and alot more quality, anti-adult contemporary stuff.
Actually i started listening to some rap for a while there, so ill include that list first.
6 - Notorious Thugs - Bone Thug & Harmony
5 - Regulate - Warren G
4 - Cypress Hill - Prelude To A Come Up
3 - Bow Down - Westside Connection
2 - Secret Plan - D.O.C
1 - Against All Odds - Makaveli
6 - L Dopa - Big Black
5 - Last Breath - Hatebreed
4 - Love Dump - Static X
3 - Deformography - Marilyn Manson
2 - I - Meshuggah
1 - Remorse is for the Dead/Vigil - Lamb of God
6 - Pipeline/Kill Time - Sonic Youth
5 - 'Only Theatre of Pain' album - Christian Death
4 - Epignosis - Chatterbox
3 - Settle For Nothing - Rage Against the Machine
2 - Heresy - Nine Inch Nails
1 - Third Eye - Tool
I actually had a hard time with this list, being that there was only 6 spots, i left alot of good stuff out. So i guess i kind changed the rules there a little bit.
this post might be a little hard to follow since i just threw it together, but most of the info is there, learn it, live it, love it, hehehe
i pass this on to Curley, see what he can do with this, i wash my hands of embarrassment.
Go Scouts!... "only if coach had put me in during the 4th quarter.... we coulda been state champions!"
I have some topics to write about but i dont have enough creativity to follow thru, at least not at the moment.
I listen to all sorts of music, i dont really follow a certain genre or favor one over the other, so my CD/MP3 collection is quite eclectic in taste.
From as far back as i can remember i liked the late 70's, early 80's soft rock, the radio friendly stuff. Especially the Love-Gone-Wrong/Hurtin' Tunes that came out of that era from the likes of Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Kansas, Chicago, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Nazareth, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ToTo, Yes, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller and many, many others.
During the summers i would herd sheep for my grandma and on weekends we would take daylong trips to Gallup or Farmington where we would come home until around midnight or so.
On these trips to Farmington, i would get a treat. I dont know if i ever told anyone else at the time why i liked going to Farmington but i liked going because there used to be a radio station from Cortez called 98 KISZ.
On our drive home leaving Shiprock in the late evenings, i would sit next to my aunt who was driving and while everyone else was happily snoozing, she would turn the station dial to 98 KISZ and turn the volume up a little more than usual.
6 - Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon
5 - Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
4 - Dust In the Wind - Kansas
3 - The Logical Song - Supertramp
2 - Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
1 - Synchronicity II - The Police
As i got older i began to like different music, but mainly because the format changed at KISZ, hehe, but im serious it was basically becuz the formats changed.
In midschool, we moved to Crownpoint and i spent about 2 years in their school system. During this time my father became the hardline disciplinarian, with his strict rules of no rock music, no black clothing and no athletic shoes... thereby effectively barring me from having many friends.
I found myself involuntarily sportin grey Tony Llama roping boots, creased wranglers, listening to Earl Thomas Connely religiously, spitting Skoal and feeding my horses and cows. This was also the time i began riding bulls on the high school rodeo circuit. (more on that another time)
Alot of the music i was exposed to was of the country music variety, the likes of George Strait, ETC, Don Williams, Waylon Jennings, Gary Morris, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many others.
This was also the time i found a compilation TAPE (yes a real tape, i have actually held a cassette tape!) inside K-Mart in Albs. Something about Heavy Metal Headliners or something like that. It had songs from varying old school metal bands that were in circulation at the time and my interest was piqued. Since 'rock' music had been banned in Dalton Pass by my father. In hardrock version of the movie Footloose, I began to rebel to the soundtrack of Metallica , Judas Priest, Y&T, Krokus, Accept, Autograph, Ratt and others. This was dependent upon how much money i could get outta my dad and if i could sneak that tape into the house without being caught.
hehe.
At around the same time, I also found that i could pick up 98 KISZ in Crownpoint when i fashioned a makeshift radio antenna extender out of a wire hanger, some loose wires and duct tape. So after many, many adjustments and fine tunings, i could pick up some Glen Fry, The Dream Academy, Star Ship, Duran Duran, Motley Crue, OMD, Aha and whatever garbage.
This was long before the recordable CD craze, back then it was the cassette tape. I would hound my dad for blank tapes, which he would deny, so i would end up 'borrowing' tapes from his collection and record over them, which i would have to hide due to the constant inspections of my room. So using only the blank tapes, i would record songs off the radio, trying to get the right moment to start the song, to omit the popping from the reception and whatnot.
So this went on for about 2 years. But during that time i amassed quite a collection of songs on the few cassette tapes i had. haha. The list below would probably be something you might hear if you had one of those tapes. (plus a good list of others here.)
6 - One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
5 - Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young
4 - The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
3 - Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
2 - Im on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
1 - Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
6 - Balls to the Wall - Accept
5 - Love Bites/The Sentinel - Judas Priest
4 - To Tame a Land - Iron Maiden
3 - Slayer - Dead Skin Mask
2 - Master of Puppets album - Metallica
1 - Alexander the Great - Iron Maiden
So i spent about 2 years there in buttfuck Crownpoint, south of Hell and just north of nowhere. The following year i re-enrolled back in the Window Rock Unified School District No. 8. I was happy, i had left WR at the height of the breakdance and parachute pants craze and returned after its much welcome demise.
I do admit, i did have several pairs of parachute pants to my name, a black one with a million zippers and a cheap red fleamarket imitation, i also had a gazillion strands of fat shoelaces. hehe
So high school brought new friends, new clothes and new music and a intro to skateboarding and freestyling. Some of my friends were into rap, the old school kind like Run DMC, Public Enemy. While others liked the new brand of pop music like the dude that sings "the future's so bright, i gotta wear shades..."
I found myself liking U2, INXS, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, The Cure, Information Society, and others. So its only natural i list my top 6 below plus another top 6.
6 - The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
5 - Janes Addiction - Mountain Song
4 - Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
3 - The Cure - entire Mixed Up album
2 - Bauhaus - Hair of the Dog
1 - The Ramones - Bye Bye Baby
6 - Sweatin Bullets - Megadeth
5 - Estranged - Guns & Roses
4 - 18 and Life - Skid Row
3 - Metallica - Frayed Ends of Sanity
2 - The Tribute album - Ozzy
1 - Death Angel - The Ultraviolence
Man was that hard. I had to sit here for a long while and think about what i liked.
The newer stuff is easy, there is no Metallica involved so if youre a new metallica fan, you neednt worry yourself with that new trash.
From graduation to present is fairly easy, but there are so many choices.
As you might have noticed, if you had been reading my trist thru musical memorylane, i have started listening to less 'pussy' crap and alot more quality, anti-adult contemporary stuff.
Actually i started listening to some rap for a while there, so ill include that list first.
6 - Notorious Thugs - Bone Thug & Harmony
5 - Regulate - Warren G
4 - Cypress Hill - Prelude To A Come Up
3 - Bow Down - Westside Connection
2 - Secret Plan - D.O.C
1 - Against All Odds - Makaveli
6 - L Dopa - Big Black
5 - Last Breath - Hatebreed
4 - Love Dump - Static X
3 - Deformography - Marilyn Manson
2 - I - Meshuggah
1 - Remorse is for the Dead/Vigil - Lamb of God
6 - Pipeline/Kill Time - Sonic Youth
5 - 'Only Theatre of Pain' album - Christian Death
4 - Epignosis - Chatterbox
3 - Settle For Nothing - Rage Against the Machine
2 - Heresy - Nine Inch Nails
1 - Third Eye - Tool
I actually had a hard time with this list, being that there was only 6 spots, i left alot of good stuff out. So i guess i kind changed the rules there a little bit.
this post might be a little hard to follow since i just threw it together, but most of the info is there, learn it, live it, love it, hehehe
i pass this on to Curley, see what he can do with this, i wash my hands of embarrassment.
Go Scouts!... "only if coach had put me in during the 4th quarter.... we coulda been state champions!"
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