If anything this is a post about my LA/Long Beach days, a time I hold dear in my transformation.
Once I made love to these songs down on fascination street:
If anything this is a post about my LA/Long Beach days, a time I hold dear in my transformation.
Once I made love to these songs down on fascination street:
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Love this time machine.
and you forgot one of the best pop songs ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0
I listened to the Disintegration album end to end a couple years ago, and was shocked how every song on there is STILL just as brilliant, and holds up this many years later.
Every song.
I’m a singles guy, was never much of an LPer, but damn, that’s an amazing album.
And don’t get me started about the Church…
This is definitely a generational thing. If you throw in the Smiths, Love & Rockets, and Jane’s Addiction, then you’ve summed up my early teen years.
Keep speaking to me Reverend!
@Jerry,
How did I know you’d like this post. You and I will always have the 80s baby. ALWAYS!
@Mike,
Yeah, agreed on Fascination Street, my favorite in retrospect, everything Pornography wasn’t. And The Church is a band I knew so little about, but Starfish was introduced to me by a girlfriend at the time in LA, and that entire album is stuck in my head semi-regularly. So many good songs, but it pains me to see their videos, I’ll be quite honest about that.
@Chris,
Speaking in tongues is my job 🙂