It came out the year I started College..had it in my Dorm room till I lonaned it away and never got it back...It was an "Album" for you youngsters had to use a "turntable" to play it. The band had no imagination.... the title of the album was
It was 1973....I had collected all of the albums and at the time my boyfriend liked them, so I gave them all to him. Found out after we were married that he had sold them all. Pooh! The things guys do. Still have a turntable for the thousands of albums we have. Love that vinyl! Don't like the space it takes up now days. Wasway you are up, Tom you are funny!
I remember an afternoon long ago I was wondering through the local Monkey Wards killing time and wandered through their small record department (yes they had one)... I'm just looking through the albums seeing if anything catches my eye... there's this double album there by some group called 'Chicago Transit Authority'... hmmm... only $3.99 for a double album! ...I decide to take a chance, double albums usually cost $10.99 so I'll give it a shot... loved it, taped it on a cassette so's I could listen to it in my car... about 3 months later they were all over the place... you knew they would be, that first album had no fillers, all "good strongs"... alas, when I was out WOW one year my mom sold it at a yard sale for fifty cents... I've only about 40 vinyls that were saved from her...
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bulwinkl
It was played on album oriented stations so that counts. I remember it I just can't think of the song right now
bulwinkl
Don't know the title but then I never did like the stones to much. unless it was covered by Flying Burrito brothers also which would make it dead flowers but I think that's another song.
WordWolf
Once beneath the stars, the universe was ours. Love was all we knew, and all I knew was you. I wonder where you are, I wonder if you think about me Once upon a time, IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS. It mig
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wasway
thats a very wierd tune from a very wierd band, souix
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Siouxzahn
Lol...I know! They look so odd, don't they?? Yet to hear the song, what a shock!
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Ca_dreaming
sounds like a movie theme,,,, from Pirates of the Carribean. Don't know?
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Siouxzahn
Ca dreaming, it was from a movie, yes. Not that one. :)
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Siouxzahn
Here's another clue:
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
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wasway
at least the group is not a bunch of "ankle" biters
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Siouxzahn
Ha ha Wasway...
I think we should move on to a different song, what do you think? And you go ahead and take a turn. :B)
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Ca_dreaming
If we are going to move on, please tell us the name and artist of the song, please.
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Siouxzahn
The song is entitled New Slang, by The Shins.
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Ca_dreaming
I hope you don't mind if I go!
This one hit the top 10 on the Billboard as a single. In what year did this come out and what album?
After what you've meant to me
Ooh baby now, I can make it easily,
I know that we both agree
Best thing to happen to you
The worst thing that happened to me,
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Tom Strange
I was feelin' stronger about a certain song... but one of the words is different in your last line so I must be mistaken....
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wasway
It came out the year I started College..had it in my Dorm room till I lonaned it away and never got it back...It was an "Album" for you youngsters had to use a "turntable" to play it. The band had no imagination.... the title of the album was
"VI"
FEELIN' STRONGER EVERY DAY "Chicago"
Such fond memories
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It was 1973....I had collected all of the albums and at the time my boyfriend liked them, so I gave them all to him. Found out after we were married that he had sold them all. Pooh! The things guys do. Still have a turntable for the thousands of albums we have. Love that vinyl! Don't like the space it takes up now days. Wasway you are up, Tom you are funny!
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I remember an afternoon long ago I was wondering through the local Monkey Wards killing time and wandered through their small record department (yes they had one)... I'm just looking through the albums seeing if anything catches my eye... there's this double album there by some group called 'Chicago Transit Authority'... hmmm... only $3.99 for a double album! ...I decide to take a chance, double albums usually cost $10.99 so I'll give it a shot... loved it, taped it on a cassette so's I could listen to it in my car... about 3 months later they were all over the place... you knew they would be, that first album had no fillers, all "good strongs"... alas, when I was out WOW one year my mom sold it at a yard sale for fifty cents... I've only about 40 vinyls that were saved from her...
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I still have my vinyl of CTA. I got it at a garage sale for 50 cents.
Just kidding.(I do still have it though.)
Remember all the intrigue surrounding "25 or 6 to 4"?(second album, I think)
Everyone knew 25 was code for LSD since it was an abreviated way of saying Lisergic Acid Diethilamide 25. But what was 6 to 4?
Turns out it was just about a guy looking blurry eyed at the clock as he tried to pen a new song in the wee hours of the morning.
Still got some Cold Blood and Zephyr too but that's another story.
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Tom Strange
dang you waysider! I want my CTA album back!
Cold Blood... wasn't that Lidia Pence (sp) and her crew?
I guess we're waiting on wasway now...it's cool, cloudy and rainy today in the keys...
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wasway
I still Listen to CTA regularly... Have the whole album as a single MP3 on my cellphone, too
Since you brought up the last line Tom lets try a lyrical intertwining..
Girl, I heard you're getting married
Heard you're getting married, this time you're really sure
And this is the end, they say you really mean it
This guy's the one that makes you feel so safe, so sane and so secure
And, baby, if he loves you more than me
Maybe it's the best thing
Maybe it's the best thing for you
But................................
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Tom Strange
oooooh!
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waysider
The Worst That Could Happen-----
Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge
Man! What a range that guy had!
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wasway
Good call WS. yer tern
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waysider
Don't make a fuss
Don't tell your friends about the two of us
The original,please.
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Tom Strange
Are you talking "in the 70s"? ...that was the first time I heard it... and the name of that band had something to do with the "average amount of..."
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waysider
I think you have it.
Go ahead and give it a shot.
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Suda
Know the song is "I'm Not in Love", but can't remember who the artist is.
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