Good thread. Let's keep it going. My list:
Boomtown: "Being Alone Together." This was the song I most often found myself singing as I worked a perfectly terrible job selling cable TV door-to-door. "Being alone together, making talk about the weather . . .." My life those days was a series of hollow conversations designed to get small-town grandmothers to buy the Disney channel so young visiters would want to hang around & possibly take the loneliness away. My reaction to the song is more visceral than intellectual. It still blows me away like something good wedged into the darker days.
Bedtime: "All For You." A new friend of mine had gone to school in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where they played both Boomtown and Bedtime Stories tracks relentlessly on the radio. She had the cassette and loaned it to me in September, shortly after we met. She got it back (along with an apology) in October . . . of the following year. I played it every day in between, and this song, the story it tells, the delivery, still nail me.
Triage: "Nobody." This summer I played this one for a class I was teaching. Several of the students are/were interested in going into police work, and the usual glares of incomprehension were mixed that day with interest. "I got out of the army, guess I didn't know what to do, so I joined the police force. But I was still too young, I'd seen too many movies; I asked for the gang squad . . ." Wow. I have loved every song on Triage, but this one usually gets top spot.
AFM: "Why?" I can't believe no one has mentioned this one much on this board. Read the lyrics without the music, and it's still perfect. Listening to it, it's just that much better. "The night can make a ghost out of an ordinary man . . .." In a pile of diamonds, this song catches the sun for me.
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Good thread. Let's keep it going. My list:
Boomtown: "Being Alone Together." This was the song I most often found myself singing as I worked a perfectly terrible job selling cable TV door-to-door. "Being alone together, making talk about the weather . . .." My life those days was a series of hollow conversations designed to get small-town grandmothers to buy the Disney channel so young visiters would want to hang around & possibly take the loneliness away. My reaction to the song is more visceral than intellectual. It still blows me away like something good wedged into the darker days.
Bedtime: "All For You." A new friend of mine had gone to school in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where they played both Boomtown and Bedtime Stories tracks relentlessly on the radio. She had the cassette and loaned it to me in September, shortly after we met. She got it back (along with an apology) in October . . . of the following year. I played it every day in between, and this song, the story it tells, the delivery, still nail me.
Triage: "Nobody." This summer I played this one for a class I was teaching. Several of the students are/were interested in going into police work, and the usual glares of incomprehension were mixed that day with interest. "I got out of the army, guess I didn't know what to do, so I joined the police force. But I was still too young, I'd seen too many movies; I asked for the gang squad . . ." Wow. I have loved every song on Triage, but this one usually gets top spot.
AFM: "Why?" I can't believe no one has mentioned this one much on this board. Read the lyrics without the music, and it's still perfect. Listening to it, it's just that much better. "The night can make a ghost out of an ordinary man . . .." In a pile of diamonds, this song catches the sun for me.
Herring405
Boomtown: "Being Alone Together." This was the song I most often found myself singing as I worked a perfectly terrible job selling cable TV door-to-door. "Being alone together, making talk about the weather . . .." My life those days was a series of hollow conversations designed to get small-town grandmothers to buy the Disney channel so young visiters would want to hang around & possibly take the loneliness away. My reaction to the song is more visceral than intellectual. It still blows me away like something good wedged into the darker days.
Bedtime: "All For You." A new friend of mine had gone to school in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where they played both Boomtown and Bedtime Stories tracks relentlessly on the radio. She had the cassette and loaned it to me in September, shortly after we met. She got it back (along with an apology) in October . . . of the following year. I played it every day in between, and this song, the story it tells, the delivery, still nail me.
Triage: "Nobody." This summer I played this one for a class I was teaching. Several of the students are/were interested in going into police work, and the usual glares of incomprehension were mixed that day with interest. "I got out of the army, guess I didn't know what to do, so I joined the police force. But I was still too young, I'd seen too many movies; I asked for the gang squad . . ." Wow. I have loved every song on Triage, but this one usually gets top spot.
AFM: "Why?" I can't believe no one has mentioned this one much on this board. Read the lyrics without the music, and it's still perfect. Listening to it, it's just that much better. "The night can make a ghost out of an ordinary man . . .." In a pile of diamonds, this song catches the sun for me.
Herring405
