Thursday Thirteen (Vol. 65)

Thirteen Songs From Before His Birth that my Son Plays on Rock Band

I really wish I could insert a video here, but my son, my daughter and their friends have been absolutely entranced by Rock Band for X-Box. Instead of being horrified by the video game obsession (after all, I was a 1st generation Tetris addict), I am thrilled to hear the strains of "classic rock" pouring from the play room instead of the drone of rap or hip-hop!

1. Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who
Year: 1971

Lyrics that mean something:
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

2. Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi

Year: 1987

Lyrics that mean something:

It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I'd drive all night just to get back home

3. Mississippi Queen by Mountain

Year: 1970

Lyrics that mean something?:

You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine

4. Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones

Year: 1969

Lyrics that mean something:

Oh, a storm is threatning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

5. Detroit Rock City by KISS

Year: 1976

                                                       

Lyrics that mean something?:

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6. In Bloom by Nirvana

Year: 1992

Lyrics that mean something:

Sell the kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again

7. Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones (Uncle Craig would be so proud!)

Year: 1975

Lyrics that mean something:

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The blitzkrieg bop

8. Long Time by Boston (OMG!!! We did a pom-pom routine to this in high school...yeah, like you didn't already figure out that I was a cheerleader.)

Year: 1976

Lyrics that mean something:

It's been such a long time
I think I should be goin', yeah
And time doesn't wait for me, it keeps on rollin'
Sail on, on a distant highway
I've got to keep on chasin a dream
I've gotta be on my way

9. Highway Star by Deep Purple

Year: 1972

Lyrics that mean something:

Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that I'm on the road again
Oooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything
Like a moving ground an open road

10. Orange Crush by R.E.M.

Year: 1988

Lyrics that mean something:

We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now it's time to
Serve your conscience overseas (over me, not over me)
Coming in fast, over me

11. Paranoid by Black Sabath

Year: 1971

Lyrics that mean something:

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

12.Suffragette City by David Bowie (I saw Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse...I can remember shouting out "Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am" as this played in my dorm room and my roommate and I rocked out to it)

Year: 1976

Lyrics that mean something:

Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket

13. Train Kept A-Rollin' by Aerosmith (When Steven Tyler could REALLY hit those high notes and Liv Tyler was just a sparkle in her Daddy's eye)

Year: 1974

Lyrics that mean something:

I'm in heat, I'm in love,
But I just couldn't tell her

So, my friends, there is hope for the next generation. They can't refer to any of "our" music as anything but "oldies" until they adopt it officially into their generation. So, as soon as my son gets Pat Benatar's Heartbreaker on that game, I'm in:

Year: 1979

Lyrics that meant something:

Your love is like a tidal wave
Spinnin' over my head
Drownin' me in your promises
Better left unsaid

By the way, thanks to Tim for the Pat Benatar comment about my hair yesterday. That's a nice way to start the day...and I've canceled my haircut for today!

Which of these albums did you have in your album collection?

Di

Comments

[Haley-O]

I love The Who! :)

[Rian Fike]

Rock Band is amazing for just this reason. Such great songs, so worthy of greater publicity.

Great idea!

[Comedy Plus]

We sort of did the same thing, but you did it so much better. Have a great TT. :)

[Linda]

Ramones, Boston and Pat Benatar WERE in my collection. Too bad we couldn't trade them in for CDs.

[Harris Channing]

Wonderful list...I was around when most of these where new! God, I feel old!

~Harris.

[pussreboots]

This is a great list. Happy TT.

[mapsgirl]

That is a great list!! My neighbour's son has that game and at 11, he was born waaaaay after those songs too! But what a fun game!

[Nicholas]

Those were all recorded after my birth, but I'm afraid I don't know any of them.

[Noelle]

Hi, I'm testing your captcha to see if either I can get passed it without doing it, or it has a built in accessible alternative. You might not have captcha enabled, but most typepad people do for some reason. Typepad provides a particularly evil form of captcha, because it sneaks it in right at the end.

Cheers!!!
Noelle

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[Kip]

I kept looking for "the Bozo's" or the Plastics, no huh?