As Always, More to Come
X is always a hard letter to write about so I Googled best bands that being with the letter X. Most unknown to me. I don’t know much about XTC. Pretty sure I heard this song on MTV back in 1987 but that’s all I got for this one. Without further ado – Dear God.
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Bob’s boy … ‘enuf said. The band is the Wallflowers & the song is One Headlight. I’d turn up the volume whenever this gem came on the car radio.
Can you tell that I’m running out of steam? The music keeps me going though. Three more days to go!
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One of the first bands that I saw in concert was Van Halen. At the time, David Lee Roth was the front man. I had a thing for Alex Van Halen because I usually had a thing for the drummer … Too bad he never knew it. LOL. This was a time when fan posters were a thing. My walls were covered & of course Van Halen had a place of honor. I picked the song Eruption – You Really Got Me to keep the intermittent theme of tying to a movie going. This was in The Minions closing scene!
I chose a live video from 2015. Hard to believe this song was released in February of 1978!! They are old. Older than me. Ha-Ha! Except for one … is that sweet Wolfie playing with his dad? Aww how cool is that!
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I give you Doctor Doctor with legendary guitarist Michael Schenker & Phil Mogg vocals … I flash right back to the parking lot outside the skating rink. I may or may not have had that same outfit! Ha-Ha! I relate to this song with my continual search for the cure to what ails me.
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The closer I get to 60, the younger that seems. Tom was only 66 when he died in 2017. Gone too soon. Today I pick American Girl because I am an American Girl ❤ … raised on promises …One live video & the studio version …
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Short & sweet, I pick the Boxer … I will ALWAYS pick the Boxer. AND I will always sing along!!!
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This will be the final Sunday Supper for a while that includes all my kids. Pony & I take off tomorrow morning. First stop Albuquerque, then Salt Lake City, finally to Vancouver. I’ll be flying back solo & crying in my beer … or other beverage of choice. If this is a repeat of last Sunday sorry. Not very original. Today’s menu is Big Lou’s pizza though compared to my homemade eggrolls from last week.
We’ll have a little time to sightsee. Recommendation from a native Portlandian co-worker was to go to the International Test Rose Garden since roses aside, the view from the top is a view of a lifetime. That’s a big yes for me! Then he says to definitely try an ice cream from Salt & Straw. Can’t wait!!
In the spirit of togetherness, see ya later folks. I will be back to my regularly scheduled fodder on Wednesday 5/1/24. Hope I pick up some stories along my travels.
As always, more to come.
First happy anniversary to my in-laws, 61 years married. How’s that for commitment ?!?! I wish for them the best life. Very sad how their golden years are full of health woes. But together forever, through thick & thin. That’s very touching.
I had a very hard time picking from Red Hot Chili Peppers, REO Speedwagon, & Radiohead. I ruled out RHCP & Under the Bridge pretty quickly since Flea disses on my hometown of San Antonio, TX. Instead I added R.E.M to this playlist.
First up, REO Speedwagon’s High Infidelity was hard to let go. That album is the soundtrack of my youth. Released in November 21, 1980 when the world was full of possibilities for an almost 16 year old lil Jilly. I bought the album from Record Rendezvous in McCreless Mall. Someone Tonight is my pick … every song is good though y’all.
Next up is R.E.M’s Losing My Religion. I think I’ve shared before how this song reminds me of my biological father. The words hit hard. I think I thought I saw you try … I need to give him more credit. Yes I had to to be very persistent but he did more than try. He did something special for me with those family pictures ❤️🩹
Finally we have Radiohead – Creep … why? Because … I wish I was special … so fckin’ special … But I’m a creep … I don’t belong here …
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For my boy, his favorite Queen song …
For B, his favorite Queen song
For Lulu, favorite Queen song
I couldn’t pick a favorite Queen song if I tried. I had their greatest hits CDs. I spent days listening over & over without a single disappointment. The CDs disappeared somewhere, not in the small little stack of CDs that I kept after my Swedish death clean.
Now I have a very fond memory to share. Do any of the old folks remember calling radio stations to win prizes? Maybe that still happens. Be the 11th caller to answer the question of the day? Well my brother LJ Jr was the king of that kind of stuff. He somehow had the fastest dialer in the west & no matter what number caller they asked for, he got in as that person. And this was with rotary phone y’all. He is the unluckiest lucky person we know (so many stories behind why we say that ). Well this one random day he won the Queen album Jazz. Fat Bottom Girls was so risqué or so us kids thought. We’d call out “get on your bikes and ride” as we rode around the neighborhood. The best!
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In July of 2017, Lulu & I took a vacation to Minneapolis MN. We stayed at a hotel connected to the Mall of the America. Big mistake. But our room was only a place to sleep. It didn’t ruin what was otherwise a vacation of a lifetime.
We went to Paisley Park. Cell phones locked away. Toured the place where Prince lived & worked. Rumor has it that he was just one of the regular townsfolk who could be seen riding his bike around, shopping at the local grocery store, just like a normal person. He was known to have impromptu concerts … for free, where people of Minneapolis could join in at their leisure. The image of those jam sessions was surreal. Our experience was magical. There is a very long hallway on the tour with pictures of the various artists Price wrote for & worked with. I had no idea before then how truly prolific he was & how he crossed all the musical boundaries. Maybe we talked about this before in my L is for Luke Combs post. I love when musicians pay homage to one another.
Let’s Go Crazy is a favorite, released in 1984. Our year. Many life events of significance happened to B & I that year. We celebrate 40 years of wedded bliss in September. Dang y’all.
On a sort of unrelated to music side note. I ❤ Minnesota in July. We escaped the heat of TX. There was lots of outdoorsy things to do & see. We also went to St. Paul’s theater district. Baby Broadway. Oh and the MTM statute. Primo! Who can turn the world on with her smile <3. Ties back to TV. My ever changing theme.
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