70s oldies: Nostalgia I can live with

[vanillafluffy]

I've got one of the digital music channels set to 70s rock...occasionally, I find myself singing along with something I haven't heard or thought of in 30 years. The amount of brain-space that's apparently retaining useless pop lyrics is truly scary

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[pwcorgigirl]

Ah, 70's music -- so much good, so much very bad. Week before last we watched the first half of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," and I wish to goodness somebody had warned me that the karaoke scene that opens it is set to "Never Been to Me" because I had it stuck in my head for days. Until, that is, I got the eagerly awaited DVD of "Foul Play" from SwapADVD. Then I had the movie's theme song, Barry Mannilow's "Ready to Take a Chance Again," on auto-play for another week. The movie is one of my all-time favorites, but the decades since I'd seen it in the theater had erased that sappy song from my mind.

*Edited because I can't seem to keep track of what week we're in.

[vanillafluffy]

My mental jukebox obligingly supplied both tunes, thanks so much.

Ah, Foul Play. "Cops have the best dope." Burgess Meredith and a python named Esme. I haven't seen it in 20 years, but again, trivia retention---which still isn't as bad as water retention, IMO.

[pwcorgigirl]

Happy to share. :D

"She was one tough old mama" and the Scrabble game are two of the funniest things ever.

[vanillafluffy]

Or, better yet, there to take care of Asshat.

[cbtreks]

I love both 60s and 70s music and am always surprised how many songs I can sing along to from beginning to end. (Even more surprising when you realize we didn't listen to much secular music in the house - though we did in the car, particularly from the mid-70s on.) Thank my cousins D and L and their massive collection of 45s for that.

[vanillafluffy]

Likewise with the 45 collection. I didn't get into LPs until the 80s, and by then, they were phasing them out for CDs.