I'll have a serious post tomorrow, and I do appreciate all the comments below this morning's post about "looking", but I just thought I'd report that in honor of my twenty-year reunion this past weekend, I've been downloading songs that meant a lot to me in my high school. A couple of these I already had, but behold Hugo's Reunion Top Ten, and shudder, shudder at my taste.
1. "Cum On Feel the Noize", Quiet Riot (Itunes only has the inferior 1999 version)
2. "Tuesday's Gone", Lynyrd Skynyrd (Believe me 'twas a big slow song at our high school dances)
3. "Holy Diver", Dio (Oh, that intro!)
4. "The Zoo", Scorpions (My favorite song of theirs... and I had ALL their pre-1985 recordings)
5. "Crazy Train", Ozzy (Guess who cried when Randy Rhoades died in that 1982 plane crash?)
6. "Tom Sawyer", Rush (Oh, to admit one liked Rush... painful.)
7. "Paradise By The Dashboard Light", Meatloaf (Now, that's still a great song)
8. "In the Dark", Billy Squier (Oh, I owned a couple of his cassettes. Wince.)
9. "Shout at the Devil", Motley Crue. (Off the only album of theirs I really liked.)
10. "Foolin", Def Leppard
Hard to see the makings of a bluegrass lovin' Christian pro-feminist.
0/10 with ten strikeouts, my friend. I suppose I'll concede #1 has it's mild charms, but the rest... In the interests of fair play and full disclosure, for a brief period in my teens I considered "Where the Children Cry" by White Lion one of my favorite songs.
Posted by: djw | October 27, 2005 at 11:21 PM
Speaking of reliving one's musical youth - I just got back from the Anthrax concert.
Posted by: Benjamin | October 28, 2005 at 01:18 AM
Hugo, please do yourself a favour and download the original Slade version of Cum On Feel The Noize - vastly superior to the rather tragic imitation by QR... ;)
All in all, a pretty tragic indictment on your record collection circa The 80s, sir... ;)
Posted by: Steve | October 28, 2005 at 02:46 AM
Why is admitting you liked Rush painful? Moving Pictures is a great album. (Though I suppose if I did a list like this, it would be equally weird and equally weird and embarassing...)
Posted by: Russell Arben Fox | October 28, 2005 at 06:12 AM
Steve, I have heard the Slade version, and it just doesn't do it for me....
And there's something, Russell, about Rush that today strikes me as so stunningly pretentious -- the insistence that they were creating meaningful art rock seems a bit too shrill.
Posted by: Hugo | October 28, 2005 at 08:56 AM
I so have Holy Diver stuck in my head now, which means that in a minute, Jackyl's "I Stand Alone" will end up in there, too. Grr.
Posted by: aldahlia | October 28, 2005 at 10:07 AM