Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Dan's Metal Memory of the Month: 11/06
October is over. Dan is blue. What better time for a classic metal power ballad? For Germans, the Scorpions put out some pretty darn good stuff between 1974-1986. I lost track after that. This video is a live version of one their more memorable throbbing, teen-crush songs, "Still Loving You," that remains etched into the hearts and minds of most recovering metalheads of the '80s (as a successful crossover tune, it actually infected most radio-listening youth of the era, too - even the bland Top 40 crowd). Aaahh... fuzzy memories of slow dancing (rolling, really) at the local roller-rink. Runner-up Scorpions ballads include "No One Like You," "Always Somewhere," "Holiday," and the more obscure "In a Trance" or "Fly People Fly." (Klaus gets more and more difficult to hear as one goes back in time though.)
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This girl Sherry (Shari, Sheri?) and I hung out for a while during lunch hours in 7th grade. Not sure how we even found eachother. She was having great troubles in her classes and with her teachers and I was quite fond of mine, and we shared not a single one. We were a weird pair. She was always decked out in her fringe jacket and tight jeans tucked into her brown mocassin boots and you could usually find me decked out head to toe in Esprit -- in the brightest colors. But man we could meet at the ampitheater and belt out No One Like You like nobody's business!
Like many teens of the 80's, this song marked my first heartbreak. I used to listen to it, crying for hours and hours. As I wiped the tears, I masterfully incorporated its lines into my love forlorn poetry. The poems I received in return often had lines stolen from Led Zeppelin's Thank You. These were the pre-Dan Bummer Years.
ODA, I hope you didn't include this line in your poems:
Love, only love
Can bring back your love someday
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