I was running late for a night downtown
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ventaOn Fridays this year, we ask...
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
Today in The Box we have:
Thunder - Backstreet Symphony
You must remember that the primary purpose of my tape collection is to keep me entertained on long car journeys. And, pretty much regardless of your opinions of hair metal, there's nothing like a bit of late 80s rock for a singalong as you charge up the motorway.
Backstreet Symphony has all "the" Thunder songs on it - in fact, I did just go to Wikipedia to check that it was a proper album and not a best-of. So I know now that it's their first album, and that it was released in 1990. I don't care. It's still late 80s music if you ask me.
I bought this album a while back, and, on its first playing, warbled along happily to She's So Fine, Dirty Love and the title track. Then a more ballady intro started, and I figured it was a song I didn't know. It trundled on for a while, and suddenly reached the chorus...
"That's when LOVE walked IN through my DOOR..."
Fortunately, I had no passengers. Love Walked In is an orgiastic excess of wanky guitar solo, big chorus and fat chords. Oh, and daft words:
That's when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I'd had once before.
OK, so far. A bit contrived, but we'll let that pass.
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange.
Eh? Is it strange, or is it familiar ?
Like a long-lost friend
Oh, make your bloody mind up. OK, so it's not up there with the great excesses of lyrical inconsistency, but it's always vaguely got on my nerves.
Thunder - Love Walked In [link expired]
[Poll #1229451]
The choice of band is to ensure I get at least one comment. You know who you are :)
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
Today in The Box we have:
Thunder - Backstreet Symphony
You must remember that the primary purpose of my tape collection is to keep me entertained on long car journeys. And, pretty much regardless of your opinions of hair metal, there's nothing like a bit of late 80s rock for a singalong as you charge up the motorway.
Backstreet Symphony has all "the" Thunder songs on it - in fact, I did just go to Wikipedia to check that it was a proper album and not a best-of. So I know now that it's their first album, and that it was released in 1990. I don't care. It's still late 80s music if you ask me.
I bought this album a while back, and, on its first playing, warbled along happily to She's So Fine, Dirty Love and the title track. Then a more ballady intro started, and I figured it was a song I didn't know. It trundled on for a while, and suddenly reached the chorus...
"That's when LOVE walked IN through my DOOR..."
Fortunately, I had no passengers. Love Walked In is an orgiastic excess of wanky guitar solo, big chorus and fat chords. Oh, and daft words:
That's when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I'd had once before.
OK, so far. A bit contrived, but we'll let that pass.
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange.
Eh? Is it strange, or is it familiar ?
Like a long-lost friend
Oh, make your bloody mind up. OK, so it's not up there with the great excesses of lyrical inconsistency, but it's always vaguely got on my nerves.
Thunder - Love Walked In [link expired]
[Poll #1229451]
The choice of band is to ensure I get at least one comment. You know who you are :)
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