This month, I’ve been rediscovering music. I know that
sounds weird to some of you – many of my friends are music junkies. But between becoming a NPR junkie and
Dillan’s desire to listen to kid songs, I kind of just stopped listening to
music a few years ago.
15 years ago, a friend of mine gave me a copy of the Beach
Boy’s “Pet Sounds”. It is one of his
favorite CDs and in his words “it sounds like what it feels like to live”. To this day it is one of my favorite CDs.
But I am a hair band rocker at heart. The Beach Boys do a lot for my soul, but the
fact that Mike Love didn’t spend the 80s with heavy black eye liner and supporting
the aerosol hairspray industry leaves me a bit empty inside.
I’ve decided to create a play list of Hair Band Ballads that
sounds like what it feels like to have lived my life this past year and where I hope
Dillan and I are heading this next year.
My own personal Pet Sounds. Enjoy
the flashback.
GnR – Sweet child of mine
Extreme – More than words
Warrant - Heaven
Poison – Every Rose has it’s thorn
White Snake – Here I Go Again
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
INXS – Don’t Change
The Kinks – Better Things
The Beatles – Getting Better (ok, not a hair band, but
totally valid)
Adam used to sing Sweet Child of mine to Grace. It's even on the hour long video we made to run during the funeral. someone said "hm, that's a first, never heard Guns n roses plated at a funeral before".
ReplyDeleteI remember blasting Sweet Child O Mine when my world came "crashing down" in college my freshman year when my closest roommate dropped out and left school. In retrospect, that event was so trivial.
ReplyDeleteBut I still love Mr. Big's Just Take My Heart When You Go, or just about anything from Journey and Boston.