Songs that mean more to you now than back then

You know the type that you can more relate to now than when you first heard them

Two especially for me are

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Garth Brooks - Unanswered Prayers

A lot of Journey and Chicago.

Anything Bob Dylan.

A lot of Al Stewart.

Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffiths

Funny......I was just telling daughter Allie about the song "Glory Days" because its so relevant to her own HS experience.

One of her classmates is the star LB on the Varsity Football team. Colton got a brand new $60,000 Hummer for his 16th birthday (in 10th grade), as a reward from his dad for "doing well in Football" (he made the Varsity as a soph, which is very rare at Allie's school).

Colton thinks he's hot shiznit, BMOC, etc...... but the reality is that he's destined for Sacramento State College or the local Junior College. (football stars from Division 4 teams--schools under 1000 students--rarely get Division 1 football scholarships).

Allie hates this boy......says he's a Neanderthal, etc.....

I said "Don't hate on someone who's having his Glory Days....this fall, you'll be at Harvard or U.C. Berkeley or UCLA........and this moron will be still living in the past, reliving his Glory Days for many years to come."

Oh, quit being so humble, Matt.

Old Rugged Cross!

and this moron will be still living in the past, reliving his Glory Days for many years to come."

The sad part is in alot of cases thats true....I know a guy that got a hockey scholarship when we graduated. He wound up with a BA and bad knees. You still see him hanging out with the boys Friday nights but unfortunatly the boys are all 19 and he's 38 and balding, still living in his parents basement.

The glory days are nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there again

As good as I once was - Tobey Keith

I'll second the Bob Dylan (thanx Pen), and raise you an Eagles :sqbiggrin:


I never listened to the words back then, just the music. Now, I realize they actually had something to say, and could make sense of it -- I just wasn't listening...


I could've saved myself a whole heck've lot of time and trouble, had I listened :sqerr:

Alot of Waylons stuff does that for me especially this one

I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks

I'll admit i've taken things i never should of took

You can read a different story in a lot of different books

But even then you won't really know

How it was a long time ago



Women have been my trouble since i found out they weren't men

In spite of that i stopped and took a wife now and then

They built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in

I was born with a fire down below

And i learned to fly a long time ago



Don't ask me about the years i spent out in the rain

About the ones i spent in love or the ones i spent insane

Don't ask me who i gave my seat to on that plane

I think you already know

I told you that a long time ago



Me and ol' Willie,lordy we've been sold and bought

I guess you all heard about some kind of system that we fought

We ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught

They tried to run us off but Willie's slow

I quit running a long time ago

Most of anything by CCR... another one of those,,, I bopped to the music, but never really got the meaning.....

I'll take that bet, Rick, and throw in an Aerosmith.

The first time I ever saw or heard them was after I begged until my mother gave in and let my sister take me to see the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club. (You have to remember here I was 9 at the time.) As soon as Steven Tyler's face came on screen and he started (basically) mumbling his way through Come Together I was so scared I hid my face for most of the rest of the movie. He was the ugliest man I had ever seen, not to mention he killed my beloved Peter Frampton.

It took years before I was even willing to listen to them again, but when I did it was a huge revelation. Steven has a rare gift for playing with words, Joe is a legend on guitar, and Brad Whitford is probably the most underrated rhythm guitarist in the business.

(Sits in the corner and waits for someone to call them corporate sellouts.)