Mapping Influences Over Time
Suddenly, the music turned sad and soulful. Suddenly all the songs were about heartbreak and loss. Were they always there? I spent my days in a fog. Trying to figure out what could have happened. Trying to get her to talk to me. Trying to negotiate a return to how things were just a couple …
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If I had to graph my relationship with Lisa during The Rise & Fall Of ’84, I feel it would look like this. It was a steady climb that suddenly reached the stratosphere only to instantly come crashing back to earth in flames. So I go on that church weekend and after it was over …
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So has the braiding of College Intermission, The Rise & Fall Of ’84, and The Metal Years been OK to follow? Do you see why I think it is important to represent them as three simultaneously occuring but yet separate threads? I guess it could have been less emotional and more chronological. I’m just giving …
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Up until the summer of 1984, Pink Floyd was synonymous with Dark Side Of The Moon for me. I knew that they were more than that. I had even heard Confortably Numb at Chip’s house way back in the Academy Days. In August if 1984, my concept of Pink Floyd would be expanded and The …
The Blackout album cover belongs on my list of iconic album covers. That is to say that I had seen this cover numerous times before I knew anything about Scorpions. It always drew my curious attention. Look at it. How couldn’t it. I, like most American teens in 1984, was just discovering Scorpions music. Again, …
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am I the only one that keeps accidentally calling this album 90210? It wasn’t always that way. 90125 refers to the catalog number of the album not a zip code. By the time 90125 was getting air play, I had heard a few of the classicYes songs. This album although quite good didn’t sound much like …
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Oh look. Another band that has a song named after the previous album. That was a coincidence unless subliminally, I had it planned all along and just was not consciously aware. After completely enjoying Def Leppard’s Pyromania I had to get more. At that time more meant On Through The Night or High ‘N’ Dry. I …
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Helix? What? Are they Canadian? Of course I had to by Helix’s No Rest For The Wicked. They were the Heavy Metal Love guys fromt he radio. Maybe No Rest For The Wixked wasn’t the heaviest or the metalist but the album had a few good cranker-up-ers. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Helix …
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With all the great Scorpions music out there, I’m almost ashamed to admit that my entry point was Rock You Like A Hurricane. Sure, that is a good song too but I tend to skip over that one most of the time. Maybe it is just a victim of being played to death. This album …
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In August, Lisa had encouraged me to take part in some church weekend for teens. She was a Catholic girl but in the style of Biily Joel and not Frank Zappa. How could I refuse her. So I went to Our Lady Of Good Hope and actively participated. I wanted her to know that I …
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