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Stranger Everywhere You GoLOCATION: At Home, In the Dorm, On the Road , College Town, Middle Tennessee & Small Town, Northwest TennesseeYEAR: 1985TAGS: Middle Tennessee, The Damned, college, indie, punk, Eighties, spring, hometown, fallPUBLISHED: May 1, 2008I've gone through so many copies of The Damned's The Light at the End of the Tunnel now, both on cassette and CD, it's not even funny. If you're going to have only one album by The Damned, this "greatest" compilation is the one to have. But long before it came out in 1988, I had many favorite Damned songs and albums. Probably one that means the most to me is "Stranger on the Town". There's just something about it - the melody, the almost cheesy horn section, the kind of un-Damned-likeness of it. It's just special. It's another one, too, that brings back memories of my first year in college - for some reason, specifically, the fall of 1984 and the spring of 1985, the times of year when the weather in the Mid-South is just so great and beautiful and fabulous. But also the "stranger" aspect of it kind of gets to me, as that was a time when it was almost like I didn't really have a "real" home. I was in college, living in the dorm, and though that's where I "was" - it wasn't home. And I'd left home to go to college, so though that was "home", in a way, it wasn't anymore. It was like, for a while, anywhere I was - even though I might have been living there or was where a lot of people were who knew me - I was kind of a "stranger" in my own town(s), and that sort of really hit home (no pun intended) with me for a while, listening to the song at the time.
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