Since Alan must get his "Bob and Tom" fix, the radio in our bathroom is usually set to the local rock station every morning. So this morning I'm about to get in the shower and on comes Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog." I get all excited and am turning it way up, because this takes me back to when I was 13 and listened to that cassette no less than 100 times at deafening levels. I probably thought I was something else, listening to a song that had the word bitch in it. Today they probably say bitch on the Disney channel, for all I know. Anyway, I'm singing along in the shower when it occurs to me I HARDLY KNOW THE WORDS. How is that possible?
Well for starters, the cassettes or albums rarely came with the lyrics printed inside. And we sure didn't have the internet to look up words to any song ever recorded. So what you would do is play the song over and over with your ear to the speaker trying to write down the lyrics, or if you didn't have the actual cassette you had to have a blank cassette tape ready and waiting in your stereo in case the song came on the radio. If you were really on top of things, you called in your request to the station and sat by the stereo ready to hit the record button.
So I look up the lyrics today and um......wow, I wasn't even CLOSE to knowing the words. I had the "son-of-a-bitch" part down though.
And I'm just going to take this opportunity to beat Alan or any other pervert I know to the punch, by saying that yes, I realize I mentioned getting in the shower and being excited in almost the same sentence.
2 comments:
Hey - this is too funny, and I never knew the rest of words to that song either, except for the obvious- best part!! It takes me back in time. Wasn't it DeeBee's tape? We listened to music in your room at deafening levels and really thought we were "BAD!" lol :) We liked our rock, but we loved Eddie Rabbitt too!! Remember the song "747"????
Not knowing the real lyrics is just one of my many reasons why I only sing aloud in the car.
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