What are some songs that take you back?

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If I wanted to learn something...which I always did..   I rode my bike to the library.

I used to hang out at 'The Archives' down the road from my house... it was a historical building where they kept all the old newspapers and census books etc. I would look at yearbooks and newspapers and stalk down people who usually had been dead for decades. I'd see who their families were and look all of them up. The ladies who worked there were all super old and I know they had to wonder what the actual fuck I was doing.

Oh, when I was in about 5th grade, we had these special calculators in school one day. They were Texas Instrument calculaters.. and there was only about one for every two or three kids in the class, so we had to get into groups to use them. They were as big as a large dictionary and they had to be plugged into the wall.

Holy shit. We've come so far... and it really seems like it's fucking everything up.

I remember when Fleetwood Mac's Rumors came out and was a smash hit. My sister bought the record. Yeah... an actual record, and I stole it from her. I played that record a lot. 

My first car had The Beatles White Album on 8 track cassette in the glovebox. The car had an 8-track player and that was my only 8-track I could play in it, so I know the playing order of that double album by heart. Any time I hear a song from the White Album, I half expect the next song to play right after it.

Rumors was one of my favorites too. I listened to that and a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits CD, and the ABBA Gold CD until they were WORN OUT.

The White Album reminds me of the early 2000s. I had become obsessed with it around that time... my favorite song from the record was 'Long, Long, Long'.

I'll bet those old ladies thought you were amazing and cute for wanting to go hang out there. That sounds like something I would have done.. and really enjoyed. I've always loved stuff like that. In High School I used to go to the school's library and old books off the shelves just to open them up so I could look at the cards inside to see the names and dates of the people who checked them out. I'd try to find the oldest, last-checked out book and I found some going back to the 1950's. Granted, this was in 1979, but the 50's was still ancient history to me and I thought that was the neatest thing.

We have come far, but we aren't any more fuicked up that we always were. In the 70's we polluted lots more and had lots of crazy shit that people would be shocked at these days. We were a lot more wasteful I think too. It really is true that things were not very much different in day to day life. Everybody still did and acted the same as people today. 

You have good taste in music! You and I would get along well in real life I think! I think it's so cool that you got into the White Album.. and I really love that album. It's so unique and there are so many different kinds of styles on that album, but it's all fucking incredible. Long Long Long is like a perfect song for the spot it had on the album too. Since I first had it on 8 track, I just always played the album straight through..... you can't rewind those.. and it's a pain in the ass to fast forward them. I'd just pop the second cassette in when the first one started repeating. But listening to it that way made me appreciate listening to it as a whole, whereas I normally probably wouldn't have. So to me, every song on that album is essential to the thing as a whole. 

Ah... what a great thread, Trix!