King of Pain,
Judging from your list, I can tell that we grew up at around the same time.
I'm going to have to sit down when I have more time and come up with a list of "Musical Moments".
Nevertheless, here are two songs that always make me stop and listen and bring back memories:
Tom Browne's Funkin' for Jamaica
Bobby Womack's If You Think You're Lonely Now
I LOVE remixes! Yeah!
thanks for this, and welcome to the King o pain! and thanks thanks thanks for the musical soundtrack to this long day of work ahead of me.
My goodness. This is all I could think of.
Blue light in the basement parties
Crime Mob
Circles
I'm an ever spinning top
Whirling around 'till I drop
Oh, but what am I to do
My mind is in a whirlpool
Give me a little hope
One small thing to cling to...
[Chorus:]
You got me going in circles
Oh, around and around I go
You got me going in circles
Oh, around and around I go
Bong field parties 
Traffic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z...h?
v=ZVlbgqmxXNY
When I met my man
Patti Austin
In My Dream
http://www.amazon.com/In-My-Drea...991577&sr=102-
1
My wedding on the beach in St. Lucia
Dianne Schur and BB King
At Last
http://www.amazon.com/gp/
product...=dm_mu_dp_trk10
The memorial service for my father
Eva Cassidy
Way Beyond The Blue
http://www.amazon.com/s/
ref=nb_s...eyond+the+blues
My goodness. This is all I could think of.
Blue light in the basement parties
Crime Mob
Circles
I'm an ever spinning top
Whirling around 'till I drop
Oh, but what am I to do
My mind is in a whirlpool
Give me a little hope
One small thing to cling to...
[Chorus:]
You got me going in circles
Oh, around and around I go
You got me going in circles
Oh, around and around I go
Bong field parties
Traffic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z...h?
v=ZVlbgqmxXNY
When I met my man
Patti Austin
In My Dream
http://www.amazon.com/In-My-Drea...991577&sr=102-
1
My wedding on the beach in St. Lucia
Dianne Schur and BB King
At Last
http://www.amazon.com/gp/
product...=dm_mu_dp_trk10
The memorial service for my father
Eva Cassidy
Way Beyond The Blue
http://www.amazon.com/s/
ref=nb_s...eyond+the+blues
sorry about the double post
The first time I sang Always and Forever to my high shool girlfriend while we slow danced in my bedroom.
The first time I sang Always and Forever to my daughter when she was a baby.
The first time I heard She Used to be My Girl by O'Jays after my high school girl friend broke up with me.
Listening to No Count Sarah while high in my bedroom as a teenager.
The opening horn introduction in the first two bars to This Time It's Real by Tower of Power.
Listening to a drum battle in the eighth grade between two of the baddest vatos to ever pick up sticks, Danny Bejarano and Alex Lopez. Mind blowing and chill inducing the realization that I kicked it with two talented boys.
The sense of calm that came over me after an ass whipping I got listening to the Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East.
Hearing Herbie Hancock's Chameleon on the college radio station while getting stoned at my friends house.
Gee Whiz I gotta stop. Most of my best memories came when I was alone. Except when my sister came into to the room while I put my chonies on after a shower when I Want You Back came on the transistor.
That really brings back memories of listening to the classic soul stations of the 70's-90's. At first on the south side of Chicago (WVON and WGCI), Huntsville AL (WEUP), Rome NY (had to rig some serious antennas), and LA, till the post telco act consolidation destroyed radio as we know it.
Tuning in the radio to hear some grand soul or gritty funk was always an epiphany. Be it a half remembered tune or something brand new that hit you upside the head like a baseball bat, it was a grand experience.
I remember in college hearing that the new Lakeside track was coming up next on WGCI. At that point Lakeside was the gold standard for funk with "Something About That Lady", "Your Love is on the One" and "Fantastic Voyage". The song that played was "Raid", not bad, classic, but not an epiphany. But then the next track that played was "Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" by Cameo. Up to that point my experience of Cameo was ballads like "Sparkle". This, on the other hand was a nuclear barrage of pure funk, from the stupendous opening chords to the last note. Mix in the political content of the lyrics and you have a song that is engraved on your brain.
Or the time in a record store in Huntsville hearing "Funkin' for Jamaica" and "Hangin' Downtown" back to back, both for the first time. Or the many, many times in the late night the opening monologue of "Why have I Lost You" drifted through the speakers "Let's talk about loneliness/You know sometimes it can fool you/ into believing you're on top of the world...".
Or the decade I spent trying to track down the album with that Bobby Womack song the one with the lyric "...Just like a tender young virgin in a first love affair/ I doubted if she'd ever do it again/ or she'd even care...", finally tracked it down on vinyl ("Love Has Finally Come at Last").
That long slow saxophone wail at the beginning of Michael Franks' "Love Duet"...
As for RUN/DMC, "King of Rock" is still my standard.
As for TLC it was hearing "Silly Ho" the first time around and realizing: Damn! These girls can mutate faster than the AIDS virus!
Mine still haven't changed since the last time we took a dip in old Lake Nostalgia. One thing about this follow up post that did bring a wistful smile of remembrance to THE FACE OF MOI - I've known Anita Baker since my freshman med school days, back when she was still a struggling Detroit club scene chanteuse who most people thought couldn't sing. Little did they know 'Nita, little did they know...
The opening horn introduction in the first two bars to This Time It's Real by Tower of Power. - bumpster
The horn kick out at the end of "You're Still A Young Man" bumpster. Oooo yeah!!!
my list is the same..as for what im listening to right now...well are the kids around or not 
with kids, laurie burkner and zane cook a lot (cahtch that train). alogn with didybops and clasical
no kids alot of korn and rage right now...wonder what that say about my mood recently...folks at work are morons
Music that grabbed me when first heard:
Mahler's Sym. No.1.
Parry's Blest Pair of Sirens.
Stanford's Symphony No. 5.
Bax's Symphonic Variations.
Martucci's 1st Symphony.
Wagner's Parsifal.
Max Reger's Four Tone Poems after Bocklin.
Nicolas de Grigny's Complete Works for Organ.
Granville Bantock's Celtic Symphony.
Martinu's Frescoes of Piero della Francesca.
Frankie's Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Sorry, Jackson Browne's "Pretender". I feel like that every day. Sometimes good enough, sometimes not.
I loved "Sideshow" as a kid. So sad. There's something about that melancholy 70s R&B that gets me. There's a certain beautiful loneliness you experienced listening to songs like that on your little AM radio in the dark. Even as a kid way too young to understand what they were singing about.
Skylark's "Wildflower", the Manhattans' "There's No Me Without You", the Stylistics' "You are Everything". Has malaise ever sounded so good?
Have to second "My Cherie Amour". What a great song (as is anything by Stevie Wonder)!
In no particular order:
"The Ride of the Valkyries" performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Eugene Ormandy. Quite a dramatic piece of music.
"So What" by Miles Davis (or anything that genius has done). Fell in love with it again when I saw the movie "Pleasantville". It's played in the diner scene when things are beginning to turn to color.
"Keep on Tryin'" by Poco. Simple and heartfelt.
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", but Jimmy Smith's version. Wow, what that man could do with a B-3 was amazing.
"Blue Rondo A La Turk" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Not that I have anything against "Take Five" or anything else on that first million-selling jazz album. It's just that "Blue Rondo" has some really interesting Turkish base rhythm that suddenly switches to an all-out swing.
Just about anything that Oscar Peterson did. Particularly "Something's Coming" (from West Side Story). Perhaps he had the fastest hands ever to touch a piano keyboard and it all made sense.
"A Dream Goes On Forever" by Todd Rundgren. He could do a "wall of sound" as well as Phil Spector.
And there is plenty more, know I am forgetting some stuff.
There were no real significant life stories to tell about these songs, they just bowled me over when I heard each one.
A long time ago with I know not who joined together in an empty apartment in a building in Riverside. One asked if a guitar was handy, a seven-string preferable. One was handy, we smoked and talked. Quietly the guitarist started as if merely tuning up, then we realized this guy was doing something serious. I love music, but this was the highlight.
Another time in Sacramento in a little bar a jazz pianist and and a blind singer, me having a few drinks after everyone had gone to bed. The music wasn't good enough to concentrate on, until all of a sudden the piano played magical. I stopped at their table as I left and complimented, the pianist said I would never hear it again.
July, 2001. Was casually laying next to my then partner and she mentioned that she thought she was getting more grey hairs. I said something like, regardless of that, I would always see her as a young woman, which was followed by her
giving me one those meaningful looks. The radio was on, and just then they started playing "Forever Young" by Alphaville.
Wow. From the looks of the music cited, I have a few years on most of you, but the experience seems to be universal. My progression starts with the pop and country stuff my folks listened to on the radio, moves on to my teens with Dylan, the Beatles, The Who, the Stones, Marvin Gaye and all the rest. It was the soundtrack for a dumb, upstate NY whiteboy's awakening to the fact that the world was a VERY different place than what he had been told. I loved every minute.
Jimi is in a class by himself. I just watched the You Tube of him doing "Like a Rolling Stone" at Monterey. How in the world are we going to explain THAT to the grandkids?
The rest home is going to be a wild place, folks.
Selah.
Thanks for sharing. Mine is more like a top 25; and some of them (*) are albums; and I can’t even begin to sort out the Motown/Philly/Chi-town that became part of my subconscious.
Allman Brothers - Melissa
Joan Baez – Vanguard Sessions: Baez sings Dylan
Ray Charles – Genius Loves Company*
Jimmy Cliff, et al – The Harder They Come Soundtrack*
David Allen Coe – Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy*
Miles Davis (+ Cannonball Adderley John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb) - Kind of Blue* [or anything with Coltrane]
Dire Straits – Alchemy*
Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room*
Derek and the Dominos – Layla*
The Doors – The End
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
BobDylan – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Visions of Johanna
Aretha Franklin & Staple Singers – We Need Power
Luther Ingram - If Loving You is Wrong (like he said, ‘haunting’)
Wynonna Judd – Wynonna*
Mbongeni Ngema - Sarafina! Soundtrack*
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter, Wild Horses
Buffy Sainte-Marie – It’s My Way*
Bob Seger – Nine Tonight*
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense*
Peter Tosh – Steppin’ Razor
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Tina Turner – Better Be Good to Me
Traffic – Dear Mr. Fantasy
Vivaldi - Lute Concerto in D major
The Who – Tommy*
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