American Pie

I can still remember, how that music used to make me smile.  For the 2 or 3 people that might still read this, I'm sure you've noticed I like to attach songs to these posts.  Some are more relevant than others, sometimes a song just pops into my head while I'm writing so in it goes.  Like many people music has always been important in my life, and I'm one of those people that has songs attached to different events throughout my life.  Dixieland delight comes on, boom I'm driving down the back roads in Nashua with Sara and Sarah in highschool.  Mama Told Me Not to Come, cruising down Antioch road in my dads old work truck.  I can't get two notes into I Believe In  A Thing Called Love by The Darkness without laughing about how a faulty cd kept this from being the song played as Denise and I walked out of the church after our wedding, and likely saved my life.

Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step.  So I've had a couple rough years.  Well, obviously not just me, but this is my blog so we're talking about my problems.  Deal with it.  Scattered employment, money issues, Denise's health problems, the general stress of living through a recession, and going back to school, I've got a lot of reasons to get a little wound up from time to time.  Whenever it happens though music still works.  Whether it's Frankie Valli or Threes Days Grace, my choice in songs may fluctuate but the result never does.  It has a calming effect that can be very hard to find anywhere else.  Denise likes to yell at me about having it up too loud, fortunately I have good speakers on my computer so I can just turn it up a bit more so I don't hear her.

The day the music died.  Denise and I share some tastes in music, but not a whole lot.  On top of that, she's a tv watcher, music is something to pass time in the car for her.  So, there are a lot of days in our house that the music and tv volumes have to compete with each other.  Did I mention I have really good speakers on my computer?  A while back we did find an unexpected musical connection.   A song that we both loved.  She was watching a documentary on Celine Dion and I was singing along to "It's All Coming Back To Me Now". She asked what I was doing singing a Celine song, and I said "I don't know, what's Celine doing singing a Meat Loaf song?".  She didn't believe me, a couple minutes later I had Meat Loaf on the computer singing it.  Up until whenever she reads this, I've had her convinced that Celine did the remake.  The truth is however, the song was originally written for Meat Loafs BAT OUT OF HELL II album, but the writer felt it was a song better suited for a female vocalist, and it ended up going to Celine first. The funny part is though, that ever since finding out Meat Loaf recorded the song she doesn't like it anymore, even though it was one of her favorite songs before hand.