Music Meme - Day 16

[goodolmike]

Day 01. Your favorite song
Day 02. Your least favorite song
Day 03. A song that makes you happy
Day 04. A song that makes you sad
Day 05. A song that reminds you of someone
Day 06. A song that reminds you of somewhere
Day 07. A song that reminds you of a certain event
Day 08. A song that you know all the words to
Day 09. A song that you can dance to
Day 10. A song that makes you fall asleep
Day 11. A song from your favorite band
Day 12. A song from a band you hate
Day 13. A song that is a guilty pleasure
Day 14. A song that no one would expect you to love
Day 15. A song that describes you

Day 16. A song that you used to love but now hate

Day 17. A song that you hear often on the radio
Day 18. A song that you wish you heard on the radio
Day 19. A song from your favorite album
Day 20. A song that you listen to when you’re angry
Day 21. A song that you listen to when you’re happy
Day 22. A song that you listen to when you’re sad
Day 23. A song that you want to play at your wedding
Day 24. A song that you want to play at your funeral
Day 25. A song that makes you laugh
Day 26. A song that you can play on an instrument
Day 27. A song that you wish you could play
Day 28. A song that makes you feel guilty
Day 29. A song from your childhood
Day 30. Your favorite song at this time last year

I am, and always have been, a wannabe. That's just how I roll.

At one point, I was a total wannabe Eric Clapton fan. Tears in Heaven is an absolutely beautiful and touching song, but beyond that, I couldn't name two others. I was only in to him because he had a cool nickname, "Slowhand", and he had awesome hair.

After the Rush soundtrack came out, I had big ambitions to buy all of his albums, specifically a monster box set called, I think, Slowhand.

Then, he came out with the Unplugged album. It had an equally heartbreaking rendition of Tears in Heaven plus a semi-ironic, acoustic version of Layla! Wow! I just though it was the bee's knees.

Ironically, I never actually bought any of his albums, including Unplugged, but I did learn Sunshine of Your Love and Cocaine one summer. (That's kind of a joke. Both songs have the exact same riff.)

A few weeks ago, we were in Dublin, and my old friend, semi-ironic-acoustic-Layla, came on. I guess I'm now at the age of not believing, because it couldn't have sounded lamer to me. Oof.

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Comments

[boomerz1.livejournal.com]

I once walked out on one of his shows during "Layla" - no statement about the song, just that it was going to take us forver to get back to the car and we got a head start. Other audience members were shooting us looks like we committed a sacrilege.

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

I love that story. I'd leave early, too! :)

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that it was THE most overplayed song of whatever year it came out. I swear I heard that song two hundred times, and I certainly didn't buy the record or know anyone who did.

It marked the height of the "unplugged" thing, which to me was a bit of a scam... the idea being that this was somehow a much more "pure" recording, yet I'm quite sure it still had much of the studio EQ/compression/reverb/etc. of any conventional recording.

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more with that last paragraph.

[titoagogo.livejournal.com]

I've been a Cream fan for pretty much all of my life but YOU! made me realize that "Sunshine" and "Cocaine" are the same effing riff!!!!!

Even thought Clapton has committed many crimes against rock and roll, he will always be OK in my book because Eric Clapton was my first ever concert.

AND!

The solo on "Sunshine" is the melody to BLUE MOON by the Marcels.