The year was 1981. After graduating from high school, I had officially become an adult. I was a man-child of eighteen, excited yet apprehensive about of my future. Living in the suburbs and about to attend an art college in the big city of Detroit, I had always wanted to become a great commercial artist. Later in my third year of school, a teacher told me to seriously reconsider my dream of being an artist. Lacking the required self-confidence and being very practical, I eventually decided to drop out of school. This setback forced me to rethink my life plans and hastened my goal to move out of Michigan.
Throughout the disappointments that are inevitable in life, music has always helped me get through and comforted me while I was feeling insecure. The quirky and high-energy sounds of new wave was emerging during this time which I gravitated towards yet this music was not being played on my local radio station. I heard many of these songs on MTV and on a Canadian version called MuchMusic. Here are a few of my favorite songs of this year which covers a wide variety of music of the day:
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Monday, February 14, 2011
THIS IS FOR THE LOVERS. . .
This is that so-called "holiday" where people feel obligated to scramble around to buy expensive gifts or forced to go out to dinner where restaurants rob people blind by hiking up the prices to obscene levels, all of this in a commerical way to show someone how much you truly "love" them. Like JLo wisely said,"My love don't cost a thing" Worst still, people who don't happen to have a lover are made to feel particularly lousy today.
Despite all of this nonsense, Valentine's Day is a great excuse for me to share a few love songs that I love.
Enjoy them alone or with someone you care about:
"I Think I Love You " The Partridge Family
"My First Love" - Rene & Angela
"Love Will Never Do (Without You)" - Janet Jackson
"Love, Need, And Want You" - Patti LaBelle
"Love, Etc." - Pet Shop Boys
"All In Love Is Fair" - Barbra Streisand
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