Life In A Northern Town

When I first heard this song it made me think about the small northern town that I grew up in. I have been told that we were kind of like in a backwards time warp, because we were a hair behind with progress, when compared to more populated areas like cities. And when we talked, we didn't talk like we were well educated, even though our school taught difficult subjects.
I use to remark to others that if you would blink your eyes, while you were driving through our small town, you would miss seeing it.
I know, it wasn't that bad, but we even talked different than people, whom I met when I was in the Army. Kind of like a mix of french Canadian English, and American Indian English, which gave us a weird sounding accent, which I didn't realize that I had until I moved away from my home town.
I don't really know, what else to compare it to, so don't hate me if you are originally from my small town, because it is not meant as an insult. The accent is what makes us unique as individuals.
I hope that you enjoy this song as much as I do when I listen to it, because it really is a very peaceful sounding song.



Did you grow up in a small town?

Toy Soldiers

This song is actually a break up song, but I found myself liking it because I have been through a couple of sad break ups, which actually brought tears to my eyes. I had mistakenly believed that we were on the same page, when it came to our feelings for each other, when in reality, we were not.
I have come to the conclusion that we are put on this earth to live and learn through our mistakes, and that if we find ourselves in a relationship, where the love chemistry isn't really there, then we start to learn that there is no place for the relationship to go, except down hill, without it.
Being married to the wrong person for 21 years, turned out to be a devastating disaster for me and my children, because as the years went by, it slowly emerged that the ex and I had very little, if anything in common, which he had kept hidden from me, because my ex pretended to like the same things that I did, for a long time, but then one day he finally told me to turn down my head banging music, because he didn't like it. It wasn't even that bad really, but it helped me to see, what a farce of a marriage I had actually been experiencing. I chose to stick it out until my youngest child turned 18 regardless, by putting my feelings aside, so that I wouldn't have to put my two children through a court battle, which could have possibly been devastating for them to deal with.
With that said, I am happy to report that the current relationship I have been in, for a little over 5 years, has the right kind of love chemistry, and we really do like the same things as each other, so three cheers: WOO WHO! WOO WHO! WOO WHO! are in order.



Have you ever been in a relationship that didn't work out because one of you pretended to be like the other person?

And She Was

I am a big fan of the Talking Heads, and this song was one of my favorites from them. It is New Wave music at its best. I use to think of David Byrne's music, as being very close to Alternative music.
David Byrne is very talented and imaginative, so that his songs bring on new meaning to what one might think is the true meaning of the songs that he writes.
According to David Byrne, he wrote this song because of a girl he knew, who use to take LSD, in a field next to a Yoo-hoo beverage factory in Baltimore, Maryland. This song reached #54 on the U.S. billboard hot 100 chart, and #17 on the British single chart in 1985.

Blue Monday

This is one of the coolest sounding synthesized songs, made with pre-recorded sounds, which were played on keyboards. I wanted to use a live video, so that you could see, what could be done, with electronic keyboards, during the early 80's. I believe that this type of music, was the gate way, toward the 90's alternative music trend.



Do you agree, that certain types of music, from an earlier decade, plays a key role into the next music trend, of the next decade? Even if you don't agree, I would still like to hear from you.