Wacky Songs That Make Me Warble

I have another secret, perhaps even deeper than the Reality TV Confession a couple of weeks ago...I love the craziest kinds of music.  I think growing up the youngest of 6 made my musical spectrum expand.  As a little girl I didn't listen to Sesame Street soundtracks, or more than an occasional Broadway musical, my musical education came from 3 teenage sisters and a magical 8 track stereo. 

Chronologically I'm a musical child of the mid-late 80s - I Walk like an Egyptian, understand that Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and cry Papa Don't Preach.  These are the songs that take me back to the halls of my Junior High, Livin' on A Prayer made by heart twitterpate, I wondered right along with Whitney Houston How WIll I Know? and Depeche Mode was the stuff of dreams.  When I am humming along the road and hear Take Me Home Tonight or Manic Monday I'm transported back to my 13 year old bedroom and all the excitement of discovering the teenage freedoms I had always longed for.

 

But deep down I still love me some 1970s goodness.  I may not remember which child has a field trip this week, or what I made for dinner last Tuesday, but I know the words to every single Air Supply song---just ask my kids.  I adore ABBA, the Eagles, Styx, Barry Manilow and the rest of my musical childhood.  Sometimes I don't even realize I know a song, and I've been singing right along for the past 2 minutes.   It's funny how those early childhood memories embed themselves.  I clearly remember cleaning the house with my sisters while Neil Diamond's Jazz Singer 8 track rang through the halls.  

The funny thing is that while I love the soundtrack of my childhood and my early teenage years, they don't blend together in the clearest of ways. It's still that way.  I like all kinds of music, and very few kinds of music make me want to change the station.

For example-skip forward a few years to when I was 16 and met and started to "hang out" with my future husband..and he liked this kind of music---->
And, so I began to enjoy myself some 80's hair bands, especially the ballads-wow, could those boys sing a power ballad that was sweet to dance to.  And, dance we did, and cruise along on many a date accompanied by mix tapes that included these guys and all their glamour rock buddies.  When he made me a mixed tape for Christmas (insert sigh here) it was full of power ballads, and guitar solos.  So that was the soundtrack I fell in love to, and I still love me some Guns N Roses, Cinderella, and Bon Jovi and admit to cranking up the radio to unmentionable levels when Paradise City or Welcome to the Jungle come on.

My musical wackiness continues to extend, if you check my iPod you'll find every genre except Rap, that's where my line is drawn.  I love this version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow just as much as I love Seether's Rise Above This, or Jack Johnson's You and Your Heart.  In fact I've listened to all of the following songs as I typed this post, and I love all of them.  Go ahead, take a listen, maybe you'll discover a multiple musical personality as well.  Or maybe you'll just discover you like a song outside of your usual genre, go ahead, give it a try!

This post is part of Miss Jenny's Alphabe-Thursday, take a look at my classmates here:

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