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May 24
2007
08:56 PM ET
The PopWatch Confessional (Vol. 17)
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Whoa, Steph, nice Bonham reference. But wouldn’t have “Guilty” been a better Bonham choice? Or better still, what about Hardline’s “Can’t Find My Way”? Since we are starting up with the metal ballads and all…
On my 13th Bday wkend my extended family went camping w/ my grandmother staying with the younger kids, of which I was one. She had a heart attack and we didn’t know what to do…for some reason Bridge over troubled waters gets me right back there. Also I’ve never known my fathers identity so anything with a parents love gets to me…Don’t take the girl, and mike and the mechanics, but i can’t remember the song. Also, during college my best friend loved Celine Dion, yuck and Titanic(he watched it over 10 times @the theater)double yuck, but when he was killed, my inability to watch/listen to any of this was changed, going from it’s too cheesy to it breaks my heart. Also singing Neil Diamonds american anthem like song?? after 1-5 day in Navy boot camp.
Ron,
Never heard of Hardline. I once worked with a library clerk who used to manage White Lion. I have a thing for Scandinavian men, so as a teen I thought that Mike Trampp was kinda cute. lol. Oh and how about that annoying ballad, “I’ll never let you go (Angel Eyes)”. Who sang that? Ugh.
Sad to say, but “wind Beneath My Wings” by Bette Midler got to me after my sister told me that this song is how she feels about me. (She denys this now.) Hated her rendition of it on AI–she needs to hit some scales to get that remarkable voice back in playing condition.
aramis–I love Suddenly Seymour! Sounds like a special moment for everyone. Wish I had been there!
I am moved reading all of these stories — thanks, everyone, for sharing!
Some of my strong musical associations:
“When I See Her Smile” (Bad English): accompanied my first ever slow dance with a boy in 7th grade!
“You Oughtta Know” (Alanis Morissette): my personal anthem after I learned that my first college boyfriend was sleeping with my roommate (really!).
“Save Tonight” (Eagle-Eye Cherry): song that I cried to when my second college boyfriend (now husband) took an out-of-state job after he graduated. Sniff!
“Heaven” (Live): This one’s the real weeper. Our second daughter experienced complications while in utero and nearly did not survive her emergency delivery. After a blood transfusion and 10 days in the NICU she was OK, but it was still the scariest event of our lives, obviously. My husband tells me that after leaving the hospital for the first time in days after learning that she’d be OK, this song was playing in the car, and he completely broke down. AWW!!!
In high school, my girlfriend loved the Bangles, and proclaimed “Eternal Flame” as “our song”. I hated the song, and it only served as a reminder that my girlfriend’s eyes were not as hot as those of Susanna Hoffs. BUT, I was nuts about her – and at least she didn’t choose a country song.
My late sister loved REM – I did not she wondered if I was human but everytime I hear Night Swimming her fav – I cry like a baby.
Sad Cafe and Boys of Summer just make me blue – I love both songs but they just have that effect on me
I used to like “Eternal Flame”, but I always thought that the melody sounded too much like “Here, There, and Everywhere” by The Beatles. It is one of my favorite songs to date. If that was done on purpose, did The Bangles ever get permission to use it?
That would be Steelheart, Steph.
Excuse me while I go punish myself Opus Dei style for even knowing that.
Mea culpa, peeps.
Cyndi Lauper’s Time after Time. I was about 8 when it came out & i wasn’t allowed to watch videos when i was that young. I stayed up late with my teenage sister and saw the video and cried for the rest of the night! It was just sad. To this day, i get sad when i hear cyndi’s version and my sister and I joke about it.
but now i’m sad that EP Sato’s ENGAGED! You’re my super secret crush! I (usually) always agree with your posts & they make me laugh
Summer between junior & senior year in high school,I was at a leadership conference for a week & they had the “big dance.” I had a crush on one of the counselors. The song, “Right Here Waiting,” by Richard Marx came on. Roy (the crush) asked me to dance. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I bought the cassette the next day & wore it out.
Way back in 7th or 8th grade, I had my first boyfriend. We only saw each other at school things, because we lived too far apart to see each other any other time. I bought the 45 rpm of Chicago’s “Wishing You Were Here” and played it over and over and over, ad nauseum
At the time, it seemed so romantic. That relationship didn’t last too long, thank goodness, but even today, the song nearly makes me ill any time I hear it on the oldies stations.
I will always remember the last rally of my senior year when they played Queen’s “We Are The Champions” and I thought it was dumb when it started… but by the end, I was almost teary-eyed! It was an interesting choice because I graduated in 1991 so I guess nothing current at the time fir or something.
I know I’m horrendously late to the party on this one, but I have to throw another vote to “It’s so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” (is the title really that long?) by Boyz II Men. It served as the score to a highlight video for my childhood hero, Larry Bird, put together by a local TV station the day he retired from the Boston Celtics in 1992. I still get misty-eyed picturing the various game-winning shots, no-look passes, etc. … The thing literally made me cry in my parents’ basement. Don’t tell anyone.