Had a brainstorm of how not to just play the usual music video but to do something different while still being interesting to this new me I am learning about! So I had this thought to think about my major friendships and/or relationships in terms of what song was the song which either was their favorite song, our favorite song, or the one which reminds me of them.
For a starting place, Kris free of any female influence. Yeah I did really like British Invasion music, but Alice Cooper still has a strong appeal:
In 1972 my high school girlfriend got hooked on this tune! I liked the tune but the words really bothered me - because it was about using someone, and I never have approved of that in any aspect of life! We were not created to be used by others - I even knew this as a non-Christian back then! It is entirely possible that she liked the song simply because I was incapable of even coming close to this guy's vocal range! Had many fun hours trying though ... I was sad when the Raspberry scratch and sniff sticker finally wore out :(
When I was in college in the Seattle, Washington area, I had a friend I nicknamed Critter. It stuck, everyone called her Critter and she actually sort of liked having a nickname for the very first time! Today, I am a little embarrassed about that but at the time, Critter was definitely whom she was! So why an old tune? Because we went to some song fest (in the days before Karaoke) and we did quite well doing this song. We had never even practiced, we just got up and did it! Since I was now a Christian, I seamlessly modified the wording a bit and she just followed along. It went very very very well! We were requested to do this song so often that when ever I hear the original I keep thinking something is just wrong with it - then remember I had modified it. LOL!
My fiancee, The Faithless Bride, was over at my apartment one time and found an old cassette from high school when I sang in a group called Brothers and Sisters, how 1970's! So, she popped it in my player and it was a few of us in the group doing The Beach Boy's, Sloop John B, acapella. She of course told her father, whom then said I was lying to her because there was no way I could have won any singing competitions. It was so frustrating, I do not tell lies - I am not my father, and yet I am always accused of being the very thing I am not! So, in the end, I had to go to her home, play the tape and sing along with myself! He just stomped out of the room and complained about the style of music as being inappropriate. Really? Sorry about the sound quality!
Gaelic Girl had been running around with me for a few months when she bought me Supertramp's, Breakfast In America. It was sort of a toss up for me. I liked the Logical Song, for obvious reasons, where she liked, Long Way Home.
Finally, however amongst the greatest influences in my growth and life since my nature was so forcibly changed has been my new friend. And so hard for me to define musically, not because they do not like music, but that so many songs seem to define them. The Cowsills, Flower Girl; The Hollys, Bus Stop, would be songs I would pick. A joyous song, a feeling song, something personal because our relationship is personal. But, certainly, this song seems to have a feel to it that reflects well and was the last one messaged me to listen to:
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