With the power of the internet, it has opened some really odd/strange things for me, so in no particular order…
- Old homes where I used to live – I watched a video the other day, which was put up when one of my former homes was put on the market.
Included with the pictures was a short video, showing me around the downstairs, as it looks now, I spotted reminders of times with the family gone by. - More former homes – this led me to search for other homes I used to live in. Just photographs this time, but houses on the same street, as mine were not up for sale anytime recently.
The layouts of the houses was just the same as I remember. - Tunes of my childhood – it never ceases to bring a smile, when I catch a tune on tubeyou, from my childhood.
To think that I can click on a link and play a video/tune from the 70s or 80s, that I watched in black and white and listened to on the radio (no breakfast TV in those days!) - Still on childhood music – I was in New Look the other day, while the sprog took something back.
An 80s Annie Lennox tune was piped across the store, while I waited outside the changing rooms, only it wasn’t Annie Lennox singing it, it was some modern day artist, complete with auto tune.
These old tunes from my childhood were all originals, originally written and not heard of before and played to death on radio, always on in the background.
Written by some fabulous original artists that had gone into the studio and wrote the tune, not covered or re-released with a backing track.
Some of the absolute stars we grew up with…
Karen Carpenter (absolute corker of a voice and a mean drummer, right up there with Cozy Powell!) – I’ve got some of her tunes on while I write, lists of endless hits and album tracks.
Alan Hull – Of Lindisfarne fame
ABBA – not just the hits
Queen – outstanding
The Eagles – note perfect
David Bowie – right through the years
And many, many others…
Not just studio tracks either, live versions, acoustic versions, in concert, in radio studios, etc.
Today’s generations have no idea, they are fed a stream of corporate edited cover versions that sound like shit when put up against the originals.
If you want to hear/watch the originals, they are only a click away, amazing.
I will no doubt add more to this post, as I come across them.