Keg beer, Jager and an odd selection of music November 12, 2007
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Twenty songs that remind me of college for some reason or another:
“Captain Jack” by Billy Joel
“Ride Wit Me” by Nelly
“What’s Your Fantasy” by Ludacris
“Ms. Jackson” by Outkast
“Sittin’ at a Bar” by Rehab (the version from 2000, not the redone version from 2006)
“Drops of Jupiter” by Train
“If I Had $1 Million” by the Barenaked Ladies
“If He Tries Anything” by Ani Difranco
“New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra
“You Don’t Have to Call Me Darling” by David Allen Coe
“Grace is Gone” by Dave Matthews Band
“Love Shack” by the B-52s
“Tiny Dancer” by Elton John
“Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond
“Carry On” by Pat Green
“Lit Up” by Buckcherry
“Thunderstruck” by ACDC
“No Such Thing” by John Mayer
The Sex and the City theme song
“Limp” by Fiona Apple
Oh, I think we went to college at the same time. I’m all warm and fuzzy with feelings of nostalgia and memories of being drunk at bad frat parties.
Some of the same stuff too, but it’s out of context. By the time I got to college I was on a musical exploratory journey, and I was in a rare city where some of this could happen & be indulged. So doing late night shifts I listened to lots of obscure Jazz & Blues, and plenty of classical stuff too. I think what I recall the most were the peculiar ’sign off music’ of the radio disc jockeys. Some of them had been using the same ones for years, and perhaps decades.I can hear them yet.
Gymnopédies by Erik Satie for solo piano.
Billy the Kid Suite by A. Copeland
‘Nightmare’ by Artie Shaw
Barrelhouse Boggie by Pine Top Smith, Meade Lux Lewis, Jimmy Yancey & Albert Ammons.
12 St. Rag. (Various Piano artists)
‘Stanley Steamer’ by Erroll Garner
Earl Hines, Fats Waller & Jelly Roll Morton.
India, The John Coltrane Quartet.
Bach Organ works (Mostly on Sundays)
Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, by Glenn Gould
Artur Schnabel playing Beethoven sonatas
Bela Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin & piano pieces Mikrokosmos
Herbie Nichols’ ‘House Party Starting’
‘After Hours’ by Avery Parish.
T. Monk’s Riverside piano collection
‘Round Midnight’ (T. Monk composition, Miles Davis Quartet)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Hard Bop: 1960’s ‘Night in Tunisia’
Horace Silver’s ‘Nica’s Dream, Song for my Father, Dat Dere, The Jody Grind & “Filthy McNasty..
Willy ‘The Lion’ Smith.
Roger Miller &Johnny Cash.
Dizzy Gillespie.
I can recall when I first heard them or actually came to appreciate them more deeply. When there’s nothing on on a dreary Sunday morning but Bach’s organ music, you have to listen to it for awhile. And then switch over to the only other station broadcasting music at 4-5AM, and discover the great voice of Mahalia Jackson warming up for a local preacher’s early service. Their choir would arrive early though, and could carry you through the morning. There was little automation back then, you had to be there to turn the knobs and place the records or rack the tapes. There was no other way to do it!
Cheers, ‘VJ’
Hard to argue with Sittin’ at a Bar (yes the original version), good times and memories there for me as well. Ditto for a number of other songs on that list.
You have totally motivated me to revisit my college days. I always hear songs from the 90s on Sirius radio that bring back memories.
I like singing Sweet Caroline really loud at the bars
“Ms. Jackson” by Outkast… that was THE song of my freshman year of college.
Another one for me… “Midnight Train” by Journey
What about James Laid
Half of these songs compose my list. And “You Don’t Have to Call Me Darlin’” was the last song played at my wedding. But me and that song go way back. I’m from the country.
Good songs. “If I Had $1 Million” reminds me of 10th grade, but I think that’s because my best friend was from Canada.
I might also add ‘Out to Lunch’ by Eric Dolphy, which was used as a ‘bumper’ in many places. Cheers, ‘VJ’
Anybody who has Neil Diamond on their list is cool in my book.
I’ve been reading your blog for a couple of weeks now, and hope you don’t mind. Anyway, I’m delurking to say that while others focused on the actual songs in your post, it’s the title that encouraged me to comment.
I, too, have memories of college: Jager is the drink that memories are made of, or lack thereof.
Also, it’s nice to know that somebody else admits to listening to at least one song by Rehab!