After I got off work yesterday, I went to pick up bird food at the aviary, Target and Walmart before getting home shortly before 8. The only part that really concerns this post, is the fact that I stopped at Target to look for work shoes (nope), socks (yep) and a couple of blouses for work (yep).
I also wandered thru to see if they had a space saving ironing board (nope) and on my way to a check-out counter I passed by the music CD section. I have been thinking how all the radio stations play crappy music when I am on my way home. And the talk-radio stations are just as bad that time of the evening. I haven't remembered to grab any CD's on my way out of the house in the morning, so I have been stuck listening to one Godsmack CD. Now, don't get me wrong, I like the music, but 2 weeks of listening to it has curbed my enthusiasm for playing it.
So, I passed the CD section in Target and figured I would look for something to listen to for the ride home. I found a Metallica CD (Ride the Lightning), but the real gem was a CD called 80's Movie Hits. There's no heavy metal music, or even rock music on it, but it does contain a couple of gems:
- St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) from the movie of the same name and performed by John Parr
- I'm Alright from the movie Caddieshack, performed by Kenny Loggins
- And Ghostbusters from the movie of the same name, performed by Ray Parker Jr.
I had loved these songs when they came out. But, since I wasn't going to buy a whole album to get one song (yes, I meant album - as in vinyl record), I lived without. And of course one album, in those days, cost about on what I spent on one CD yesterday - so those of little means really had to pick and choose their purchases carefully.
Although I spent the first part of my drive home listening to Metallica, I spent the last 10 miles bopping around to the 3 songs mentioned above. They put a smile on my face and probably puzzled some people as I drove by shouting "Who ya gonna call? - GHOSTBUSTERS."
Hopefully they had the tune from "Beverly Hills Cop" on it. For "electro-tunes" that one is tops.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | May 29, 2004 at 10:49 PM
No - I mentioned the 3 "good" tunes (to me anyway) - there are Tina Turner's song from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and the song from Flashdance, but I really never got into those. Then there are some others that I wouldn't listen to if someone paid me!
Posted by: bogie | May 30, 2004 at 06:13 AM
...when the boy's band did their christmas gig they did a version of ghostbusters and the crowd loved it :^)...
Posted by: billy | May 30, 2004 at 07:38 AM