Sunday, September 23, 2007

A blast from the past.



This glorious song of my youth came on the German radio the other day. Munchkin looked at me like I was nuts as I rolled down the windows and rocked out in the car. And when I say rocked out, I wholeheartedly mean it. I rocked out!

The whole event inspired me to find the CD somewhere in the storage room, import it to iTunes and subject my family to it over and over again for the entire weekend. God help them if I ever hear the Misfits on SWR3.

6 comments:

c wiss said...

But only the *real* Misfits, with Glenn Danzig, I would hope. :)

prophet said...

so OK - I'm showing either my age or my geographical limitations - but I don't know any of your musical influences, it seems! Even your 'blast from the past' . . . . (and so what was that, 5 years ago? grin.)

I'm enjoying hearing them.

Non-Essential Equipment said...

prophet, more like 12 years. Peter Murphy's "Deep" album came out in 1995, just as I was graduating from college.

As for the Misfits (and loquita, of course only the Danzig version), we're talking very early 1980's.

.... said...

I know I am late on this, but after seeing your post about Massive Attack I went and looked back at your earlier posts....My younger daughter and I talked about my music favorites when I was about her age the other day ....Adam Ant was it for me from age 11 up, after showing her some of his videos, she looked at me as if I had grown 6 arms....and we are not talking Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes"...we are talking full makeup Adam and the Ants pre 1982 "Beat My Guest" "Stand and Deliver" "King of the Wild Frontier" he was a Musik God to me, lol

"Goody Two Shoes" put him on the map for a lot of people who did not know who he was...and introduced his music to the world of MTV viewers....to me....long before that I was going to marry him.... I still listen to his music...

There was not a video made for Beat My Guest that I am aware of but there were ones done for some of his other earlier work as some of his solo work, but there are live recordings on You Tube as well.

Beat My Guest
Stand and Deliver
Kings of the Wild Frontier

I did see him in concert in 1983...along with Scandal (think Patty Smyth pre Don Henley partnership on Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough.....)

Scandal's Goodbye To You their first hit as a group (followed by The Warrior)....the keyboard player, Benji King was drunk at the concert.....oh, the days of Punk Rock....

Okay so overkill on the comment, but....it really hit home for me...

Non-Essential Equipment said...

Oh, god, I loved "Kings of the Wild Frontier." Back when he wasn't Adam Ant but Adam and the Ants. Great stuff!

It's on the Marie Antoinette soundtrack, btw. If you like that old punk, definitely check it out. It also has the awesome Gang of Four song, "Natural's Not In It."

.... said...

Actually the movie was what prompted the conversation... I have not watch it, but walked in on my daughters and their friends and mentioned that I knew a lot of the music in the movie, of course that prompts the raising of eyebrows and rolling of eyes.....

And this goes along with a recent conversation in a store where Ozzy Osbourne's song "Crazy Train was playing and my oldest daughter says...oh wow, they remade Trick Daddy's song "Let's Go", to which I looked at her and gave her that YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT? look...and then went on to inform her that she was listening to a song recorded back when I was about 12 by THE OZ and that if Trick Daddy used the music, then he is the one that remade part of it...not the other way around.....she argued....lol

and Cindy Lauper and "Time After Time" being remade by many others...most recently by Quietdrive, I mention that it was made when I was young and my kids look at me like I grew antennae from my head!

Just goes to show that our MUSIC ROCKED and it still rocks, whether it was punk, rock, heavy rock....or Frank Sinatra singing "The Way You Look Tonight"....to which I love Michael Buble's version....

=) (again with the overkill comment....someone stop me!)