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WCGreen

(45,558 posts) Fri Aug 17, 2012, 12:56 AM Aug 2012

One of my favorite memories is from the era when this song by Yes came out....

It was back when I felt so alone, so isolated.

I was 11 or 12 and my mom moved us to a new school where they had strict dress codes and really harsh disciplinary things.

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It was music like this that I could fall into and lose myself in that helped me get through those very difficult years.

Years later, decades really, I saw them in concert and they perfomed this song with such gusto and I felt such relief.

Just thought I would share that, maybe get some other folks to post a song that means a lot to them.

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One of my favorite memories is from the era when this song by Yes came out.... (Original Post) WCGreen Aug 2012 OP

That's a cool song... CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2012 #1

ELP - From the Beginning @10:40 Ellipsis Aug 2012 #2

The first really hard song I learned to play was From the Beginning.... WCGreen Aug 2012 #4

and Wishbone Ash - Warrior - 1973 Ellipsis Aug 2012 #3

I loved these two songs back in 1986. Denninmi Aug 2012 #5

Those are great years for me.... WCGreen Aug 2012 #6

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,683 posts)

1. That's a cool song...

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 01:14 AM

Aug 2012

This one has always spoken to me:

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Ellipsis

(9,124 posts)

2. ELP - From the Beginning @10:40

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 01:46 AM

Aug 2012

"The Endless Enigma (Part One)" (Keith Emerson, Greg Lake) – 6:37 "Fugue" (Emerson) – 1:57 "The Endless Enigma (Part Two)" (Emerson, Lake) – 2:00 "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:14 "The Sheriff" (Emerson, Lake) – 3:22 "Hoedown" Taken from Rodeo (Aaron Copland) – 3:48 "Trilogy" (Emerson, Lake) – 8:54 "Living Sin" (Emerson, Lake, Carl Palmer) – 3:11 "Abaddon's Bolero" (Emerson) – 8:13 Bonus track on the 2002 CD reissue "Hoedown" (Copland) - 4:06 (Live)

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)

4. The first really hard song I learned to play was From the Beginning....

Reply to Ellipsis (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 02:35 AM

Aug 2012

It's a great album!

Ellipsis

(9,124 posts)

3. and Wishbone Ash - Warrior - 1973

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 01:53 AM

Aug 2012

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)

5. I loved these two songs back in 1986.

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 04:06 AM

Aug 2012

I guess at 20 going on 21, I thought this was just incredibly cool. I was really into the 80s British New Wave/British Second Invasion stuff:

'Election Day' by Arcadia

'Goodbye is Forever' by Arcadia

A lot of women thought Nick Rhodes was really hot in the 1980s. Maybe I would have gotten more dates in college if I wore purple lipstick? Nah, that's just not me.

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)

6. Those are great years for me....

Reply to Denninmi (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 04:27 AM

Aug 2012

I had quite drinking in 1984 and smoking in 1985. I met a guy who was patient enough to see me through my fumbling to play guitar and sing. By 1988, we were out playing at least 3 gigs a week and I picked up the keyboard as well. By the time we stopped playing 1989, I had made enough money to pay for all of my instruments and enough left over to pay for my honeymoon.

Good music from back then.

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