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Share a favorite song that's stayed with you all these years.

Totenkindly

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Purple Rain... wow, that does bring back memories. I saw it on HBO, I think, a few years after it came out.

I feel embarrassed (well, technically) to admit that the first album I ever bought was Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits. I loved "Mandy" and "I Write the Songs."

There is also the surreal moment of going to my first prom in a limo, curled up with my date in the backseat, and this nutty song came on -- "I Wanna Be a Cowboy [and you can be my cowgirl]." I can't say I loved the song, but I will never forget that moment.

Middle school dances (and now we're talking about 1980 here) would have never been the same without J. Guiles Band "Freeze Frame" and "Centerfold"; Journey's "Open Arms" (and I still like to crank up "Separate Ways" in the car, my kids will BEG me to do that, they love it too); Air Supply's various ballads; "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap."

Billy Joel is another favorite of mine. "She's Always a Woman to Me" and "Just the Way you are" lingers in terms of slower music (and I like a lot of his faster stuff too)... although my favorite song by him overall is "Lullaby."

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcnd55tLCv8"]YouTube - Billy Joel - Lullaby[/youtube]

But here is a song only the CCM heads would know, off Amy Grant's "Straight Ahead" LP: "Jehovah." I don't know why, but every time I play that song, it evokes the internal senses and memories of how I felt as a teenager. I remember laying in the dark in my bed, even after I left for college, and playing that song in the dark for some reason musically just resonated with me. It's more the music progressions and sound than the lyrics per se, and I know "better" songs musically and lyrically ; but it resonates with who I was and still am on some level.
 

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^ wow lots of memories there too for me LOL.

Do you remember Keith Green?

This song still speaks to me:

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QwX6oJk3Y"]My Eyes are Dry[/YOUTUBE]
 

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^ wow lots of memories there too for me LOL.

I was wondering, since we are so close in age. :)

While I don't know the song you listed, yes, I know Keith Green well enough. (Especially because I'm a pianist/rhythm keys player, and Keith also did piano.) "Song for Josiah" meant a lot to me at that age... lots of pathos, all things considered.
 

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Heard this one first 3 years ago, but it still doesn't bore me.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXkZuq8FA0"]:D[/YOUTUBE]
 

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^ Jen, I admired the clarity of his passion, you can feel he believes what he is sharing :) That song is the last one on a cassette I had (still have I think), seems like it was a trim from a recording session, a little incomplete and I like it for that too.

--- on another note, how about this one, decidedly non-Christian:

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8N0PGvq8A"]Stroke[/YOUTUBE]
 

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The first instance of Si role relief & perhaps the Ti-Si loop

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i8264L8-N4&feature=related"]High Hopes[/YOUTUBE]

The slide esp @ 4.45, & does anyone remember the 72 flickers/min light 'hard cover' cd set and the booklet that came with it?
 

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oh lets not forget old system of a down

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ5sRUv363U"]...[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHQSuuaz88"]...[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO50RlxUb6Y"]...[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxl5xFQw6pQ"]...[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJM0Kt6PFc"]...[/YOUTUBE]
 

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These are a few good ones.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1knO1Ip9oEg"]"Winger"[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1ilTKNxRo"]"Todd Rundgren"[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-gK-9EIq4"]"Depeche Mode"[/YOUTUBE]

And the first time I heard Tori Amos was on Saturday Night Live singing this (this is not the recording but same song). I was floored.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6IJdOcoLLs"]"Tori Amos"[/YOUTUBE]
 

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Underworld - "Jumbo"

OMG, this song KILLS me in the best way. :wubbie: It's as close to perfect as I've ever heard.

Beaucoup Fish... yes! :yes:

"...and in the distance, I'm your tourist..." O.M.G.!!

[YOUTUBE="wCdvOO1vhCc"]Underworld - "Jumbo"[/YOUTUBE]

Edit: dancing like nobody's watching to this song in my headphones. Thanks to Pinot Noir and Underworld (and me, I guess), life is good, for now. :)
 

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Bad Company, though I love the cover version done by Five Finger Death Punch. But the song that has stuck with me all my life would have to be Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue. It sums me up perfectly :)
 
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