Best Christmas Present Ever? by 6IXSTRINGJACK

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Best Christmas Present Ever?

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:39 AM

It's a question that probably needs more than 8 days, and I wish I came up with it a month or two ago, but my idea tonight was to my Dad and brothers. The ones I grew up with as a kid and pounded on, and my much younger step bro and half bro that were far too young to beat the piss out of for no reason.

A Personal Top 10 of All Music we Loved when we were in High School. The only rules are that it had to be released to the public during the 4 years you were in high school to count.

I find that Partucularly hard for myself because I love a lot of music that was made years before but still popular when I was in HS, but then I think of my closest brother and to this day a majority of his playlist is still 80's music... Goonies 4 Life!

But the entire Metallica Black Album is off limits to any of us. None of us were in High School when it was out :(

I think this is going to be super fun. To this day, I never bothered to do the math. I have no idea what exact years my Old Man was in High School, let alone what music was fresh when he was there.

My immediate Bros and I pretty much cover the 90s.

My youngest Bro could say "Counting Stars" was on his list if he wanted to.

It's like 5 decades of awesome tracks we can share with each other.

I am going to go out of my way to bring in some tracks that were heavily played on the radio even though they weren't my normal genre, as well as some b-sides and even hidden tracks.

I worked at retail when I was a kid and I have to admit that when a great song was on, even if it was played a billion times, I just worked harder while listening to it. Overall, it was the playlist from hell, but there were some great songs I wish I could include here but they were way before my time. One song from my time was a "fake" song made for a Tom Hanks movie about the Music Industry. I don't even remember the name of the movie, but I remember one of the guys in the band was Steve Zhan and the leader of the band was the guy from American Werewolf in Paris and the lead character for most of the 1st season of "Z Nation" before it jumped the shark in the most awesome way.

It was called "That Thing You Do", and I doubt that anybody over 30 years old today doesn't remember loving this song when it came out. :)

That Thing You Do, by the O-Need-Eers.....

Nobody in my family is going to believe that's in my top 10 :)

Merry Christmas, Everyone.

Do something special for your family this year.

Chances are very good you'll get at least one more chance...

but you never know, do you?

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:59 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

... it's so hard to find uplifting songs that were popular in the early to mid 90's.

I want to add "Shiny Happy People" since we used to make fun of that song but I love it now, but that was a few years before I was in HS.....

Fortunately, I found another great one that was released a half year before I was a Freshman, but the rules are just the years we are in HS, so we all technically have 5 of them....

Seriously...

If I keep this up, they're going to think I'm a Pod Person...

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:12 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Please, if you don't mind, add songs of your own if you were brainstorming for this. Whether it was for you or just between the years of 93 and 97...

Maybe I'm alone here, but I think this is kind of fun as hell, especially when I'm trying to find the most uplifting and happy songs from my hs, instead of some of the Monsterous ones like the almost neverending NIN loop I used to pump me up during Wrestling practice and right before I OWNED whoever I was wrestling against.

Of course I was a wrestler. I was into sports. I just never played well with others....

Do you think Parody Songs by Weird Al should be allowed or not?

If so, I can't do the awesome fake song making fun of "More Than Words", but "Everything You Know is Wrong" is pretty awesome...

"Fake News?"

"Elections and the Aftermath?"

"Everything you used to think was so important doesn't matter any way because the simple fact that everything you think you know is wrong".....

Circa, 1996

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:33 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

And yes....

In case you were curious....

Weird Al played that accordion with while standing on one leg with the other leg behind his head.....

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, December 17, 2016 9:17 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

One song from my time was a "fake" song made for a Tom Hanks movie about the Music Industry. I don't even remember the name of the movie, but I remember one of the guys in the band was Steve Zhan and the leader of the band was the guy from American Werewolf in Paris and the lead character for most of the 1st season of "Z Nation" before it jumped the shark in the most awesome way.

It was called "That Thing You Do", and I doubt that anybody over 30 years old today doesn't remember loving this song when it came out. :)

That Thing You Do, by the O-Need-Eers....

A great song from a perfectly wonderful movie. Guy came up with the band name The Wonders, and then Faye and Jimmy decided to spell it differently ( "like The Beatles used an e-a" ), hence the One-ders were born. Mr. White changed it back to just The Wonders when they signed with Playtone Records. All their songs were terrific. My personal favorite, played while Chrissy Thompkins shook her stuff at Villapiano's ..

From the DVD:

Tom Hanks wrote all the songs.

Before filming began all the actors took lessons for three months to learn to play their respective instruments.

After the movie opened in Japan it became something of a national craze. Tom Hanks flew the cast to Japan where they performed their songs live on tv.

Here's a pretty amazing home-made cover of the title song ..

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