I love this song and you simply can't watch this video without smiling...great music, impeccable fashion sense!
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
My cousin posted this on Facebook today and I probably listened to it about 6 times. I was chair dancing to it with my son's headphones over my ears so I could blast it straight into my brain. He walked into the room, stared at me, shook his head and left the room again.
Yeah, son, your mama likes to jam. A friend once described my preferred taste in music as 80s Pop and 70s Cheese. I think that sums it up well. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music but the common ground to everything I listen to is that it either delivers a fantastic message or it makes me want to snap my fingers and shake my assets. Earth, Wind & Fire is awesome, I love me some Tina Turner and James Brown. Gotta have my 80s classics (I'm looking at you Wham!) and my hair band rock ballads. Metallica and AC/DC changed my brain forever. I was positively in loooove with John Mellencamp and I really did want him to make it hurt so good because, well, sometimes love don't feel like it should.
I had wanted to take dance classes when I was a kid. It was a natural first step towards my inevitable career as a Solid Gold Dancer. However, I wasn't allowed. My mom claimed that "Christians don't dance." That was secret code for 'it's too expensive and I don't want to have to drive you anywhere.' So I went undiscovered and unfulfilled, secretly bopping around my room in the 80s to the enormous radio I inherited from my brother. It was decked out with a radio, a record player AND an 8-track deck. I can remember specific times in my life according to what songs I listened to at the time. "Manic Monday" by the Bangles reminds me of eating a hollow Easter bunny in my room. "Wild Wild West" by the Escape Club was popular when we moved in junior high. I remember staring at the hideous wall paper in my bedroom listening to that song. It looked like someone had cut the pages from the 1910 Sears & Roebucks catalogue and glued them to my wall. "Fly Like and Eagle" by the Steve Miller Band brings back memories of watching my cousin preen himself in the mirror in South Philadelphia in the early 80s. MC Hammer reminds me of trips to Philly in the 90s.
It's nice, sometimes, to just get lost in music, to let the sound remove all other aspects of the world for a small amount of time. I wish I had been a better musician or could carry a tune. I admire and envy people who can make an instrument sing or raise the hair on my arms when they hit a note just right. My sister bought me a ticket to see Celtic Woman in the Spring and the sound of Amazing Grace coming from the bagpipes almost brought me to tears. On the other end of the spectrum the sound of AC/DC's "Thunder Struck" on the bagpipes at the Celtic Fling sent electricity into the air and made me want to grab some randy chap in a kilt and get pagan on his ass. Luckily I was able to refrain. It was but by the grace of God no one around me was wearing patchouli. All bets would have been off. :-D (Patchouli has an interesting effect on me, somewhat like catnip)
What is your favorite music? How does it make you feel? Tell me, I want to know!
Sara Smile
80's, of course! In fact, I have iTunes on my computer at work and it is set to an all 80's station so I listen to it all day every day. However, I mixed it up the other day and put on a 70's funk station. You want to talk about chair dancing? Whew! I got down and funky with my bad self. I hope nobody saw me. Oh, who cares.....v.
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