The Songs That Make You Go, "Hmmm...", Welcome to Nostalgia Alley... Options

[McBadgere]

Mind the cobwebs... ...

I had a thought the other day...No, stop applauding, I know it's a rare thing...

But this thought was one following the hearing of a certain song...

I'm sure we've all got songs that take us straight back to certain places, times, people, events etc...So, the thought was this...

Here's a thread where we post the songs, and - maybe - tell the story behind the song that makes it special for us...In few words or many, is fine...

Or not...As you wish... ...

Song + Event = Nostalgia...

Oh, if you have many...Eak them out...One at a time...Maybe?... ...



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Stone Roses - Fools Gold...


This song was played everywhere around the time it came out...Especially the pubs around the village where I lived...There was three btw...We were quite well stocked for pubs, I have to admit...Then again, there was also a big church, so that might explain it...

Aaaamywho, this was all around 1990 and the time I started visiting said establishments with my chums...And Fools Gold seemed to be on the jukebox all the time...

Yes, if you do the maths, I was actually, technically too young to go in them...But, despite knowing my Dad, very well... ...I was still served with no problem... ...

What?...How old?...Um... ...16-17... ...

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This post has been edited by McBadgere: May 16 2014, 01:19 PM

[McBadgere]

Cheers both of you for the rawk stuff... ...Reminded me of something...But that'll be for later... ...

Never heard much Tom Waits...I can imagine that listening to that voice for an entire album needs gradual training up to... ...

And you can tell that Southside Johnny song was written by Springsteen... ...




Anyways...To mine!!...




Tony Banks - I'll Be Waiting...



It's Something like '93-'94...It has to be vague, because all this started around '91 and ended messily in '95...So '93-'94 puts it smack bang in the middle, when everything was cruising along "Happily"...

And I have the most heartdestroyingly massive case of unrequited love on my best friend's fiancé...

We'd met her, pretty much at the same time...But his lack of full-time job meant that he managed to spend an awful long time with her, and they started dating...Awesome...

Me being me...And less...Angry...In my youth...I was just very happy to be her friend, she was totally awesome...

So as a group of friends...There were more of us in said group, not just we happy three btw... ...Yeah, so as a group of friends we went about doing youth-y type stuff...Much fun!...

Yet all the time, I had fallen totally completely and utterly in love with The Girl...

Managed to hide it pretty well...So I thought...And even through that time...Drink/parties/girls...Y'know?...Aaaamywho...

Somewhere around '92 my Genesis obsession started with the release of their We Can't Dance album...And, me being me, and me having a job meant that I bought every single album that was able to be bought...Whether by Genesis themselves, or solo albums...And buried on an album called Bankstatement, was I'll Be Waiting...Which said, totally, what I was feeling at the time in the depths of my lurve-thing...

Things did not end well...

We both fell out with my friend...I was getting...Frustrated with his attempts at being Peter Pan and various other lifestyle choices, and She...Well, their engagement didn't last...

Then, as there always is in these stories, there was the one night...Drink, talking deep stuff...One thing to another etc...

Aaaand then she started dating another of our friends...

That hurt...That hurt big...

So in the end, it got stupid...After she finished with this one, she then started with yet another friend that I'd introduced her to...

Her reasoning - she told me towards the end of our time as friends - was that if she'd started dating me, that would have been it, we'd have been together forever, and that was not what she wanted at the time...I suppose that in there is a compliment of sorts...

However, by then I was angry...And my drink problem had spiralled completely out of control...

So then there was a big messy falling out and, y'know...Screaming cats/chickens/tyres rolling out of burning wrecks etc...

Then, not long after all this had gone down, I went to our local nightclub for my usual drink pile-on...As it happened my most favourite band of all time - Marillion - were doing a meet and greet for their latest album...Upstairs, where the album was playing on a loop, were a bunch of people sitting and talking...As I finished one drink at the bar, I decided I would lurch over there to talk Marillion with them...

One of said people...Was McWife...Who, I'll be honest, was at the time, McOtherbloke'swoman....But, I've mentioned that elsewhere on the forum... ...

I'm very happy to be able to say that McWife cured me of the drink and The Girl...And what I felt for the other, while in no way nothing or worth nothing, it was still absolutely nothing compared to what I felt very quickly for McWife...

Anyways, a long and boring story, I know...But as my memory is running away pretty quickly at the moment, I felt I needed to get it down somewhere... ...

Thank you...How much an hour was that again?... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: May 20 2014, 04:08 AM