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Sumter, SC One of those songs
In the car, cranked up to maximum volume, pulsating through speakers not designed to channel music quite so loud. Fists beating on the steering wheel....
Read Memory Lansing, MI 9 in an '81 Escort.....
Of course the place "to be" as a teenager when you live in my neck of the woods is Michigan State University. During our spring break (high...
Read Memory Reno, NV The song that scared me
The first time I ever heard this song on the radio, I couldn't sleep that night because this song actually scared me. The synth background is what did it. I...
Read Memory Hayes, VA New Rock and Roll to ME
This is an extended memory which begins with "Glass Houses" [around '85] and ends at the Hampton Coliseum [~'87]. I was about 12-13 and most of my...
Read Memory Washington DC In a Circle
Western Rollerama somehow managed to look condemned even when it was freshly built, and when my parents moved nearby after I left for college, I craned my...
Read Memory Sumter, SC Neon, hairspray and leg warmers
I remember being four and five years old and already falling in love with any upbeat tune that came through the gigantic speakers that stood on the floor of...
Read Memory Saint Louis, MO The Cool Teacher
I had just transferred to a new high school. Not far, geographically, from my old one, but it may have been another country.My former school was known for...
Read Memory Washington DC Beyond Pinwheel
MTV was not allowed in the house when I was a child. I am now thirty one, a married lady with her name on a mortgage and a television set she bought her own...
Read Memory Saint Louis, MO Tim's Leather Jacket
Tim had the coolest leather jacket. He'd taken a tee-shirt with a picture of Lily Munster on the front, ripped it up, and pinned it to the back of his...
Read Memory Saint Louis, MO Nostalgia: aisle seven
I had almost forgotten this song ever existed until I heard it being played in a Drug Emporium about ten years ago. Like Proust and his madeleines, I was...
Read Memory Pompano Beach, FL My First AND Last Video on MTV!...
Okay, it's August 1st 1981, I am a 10-Years old and already a music junkie and I find out that we are about to get MTV. I am losing my mind for weeks...
Read Memory Rockwall, TX Backyard Pom Squad
Twelve-year-old girls can be ridiculous creatures. I regret to say that I was one of them. I was a teenybopper in the late 80s and early 90s, and Debbie...
Read Memory London The song that defined a decade
Whether I like it or not, I'm an 80s boy, and as a result I find it impossible to hear this song and not think of:Â Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flashdance,...
Read Memory Lexington, KY News Order
When I first started working at WLEX-TV in the mornings on Sunrise, often times I'd walk into the studio for work, and the morning meteorologist, Tom, would...
Read Memory Everywhere Intro in the 80s
My friend Mike introduced me to Lloyd Cole and the Commotions debut record in 1986 when I was in ninth grade. I never stopped listening to this album and...
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