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Post by someguy on Aug 29, 2014 1:56:39 GMT -5
Like sabre14, I used to go online and check out the country charts during downtime in class (but I wouldn't do it all class long ). In grade 9, I had to take a computer keyboarding class for a semester (which was mandatory at the time). Once in awhile we got free internet time, where I would always head to Billboard to check out the country charts. Back then, I had a computer at home but not the internet. I got my chart information from Country Weekly back then. I remember going on to check the charts, and being really happy to see Reba McEntire's "One Honest Heart" move 17-12*, when at the time I wasn't even aware that it was even in the top 25. It's funny the random details that you remember.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 5, 2014 15:22:08 GMT -5
Kind of an extension of the school story I had, but I was just realizing how much time I spent (or wasted depending on how you want to look at it) focusing on country music. I think that my entire freshman year of high school, I had a study hall during my last period of the day, which was great cause it basically meant my day ended a period early. I would of course listen to my CD Player (remember those?) the whole period. Not only that but I specifically remember doing chart predictions for the upcoming week. Then when the period was over, I would leave my headphones on from the time I would walk to my locker, to the time I got off the bus at my house.
What's nerdy is that my country music fix didn't end there. When I got home I would turn on GAC and/or CMT since the latter would actually play videos back then. Thursday's were the best since that was when the CMT Top 20 Countdown show would be on after school. Plus the charts for R&R came out that day, so I definitely would have picked Thursday's as my favorite day of the week other than Saturdays. I would also listen to WYRK for a few hours while either doing homework or playing video games (usually Madden, NHL, or Grand Theft Auto).
I would say most hours from the age of 12 to 17 would be spent on something country music related. It's unfortunately harder to commit that much time to that now and days with college, work, or running errands. I think that those kind of things happened to most of us here and it is sad to think that those days are over.
BTW: I would get an iPod for Christmas in 2005, so I wouldn't be listening to that CD Player for too much longer. Best Christmas gift ever. That thing never left my side for two solid years. :)
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Post by Markus Meyer on Sept 5, 2014 15:45:35 GMT -5
Kind of an extension of the school story I had, but I was just realizing how much time I spent (or wasted depending on how you want to look at it) focusing on country music. I think that my entire freshman year of high school, I had a study hall during my last period of the day, which was great cause it basically meant my day ended a period early. I would of course listen to my CD Player (remember those?) the whole period. Not only that but I specifically remember doing chart predictions for the upcoming week. Then when the period was over, I would leave my headphones on from the time I would walk to my locker, to the time I got off the bus at my house. What's nerdy is that my country music fix didn't end there. When I got home I would turn on GAC and/or CMT since the latter would actually play videos back then. Thursday's were the best since that was when the CMT Top 20 Countdown show would be on after school. Plus the charts for R&R came out that day, so I definitely would have picked Thursday's as my favorite day of the week other than Saturdays. I would also listen to WYRK for a few hours while either doing homework or playing video games (usually Madden, NHL, or Grand Theft Auto). I would say most hours from the age of 12 to 17 would be spent on something country music related. It's unfortunately harder to commit that much time to that now and days with college, work, or running errands. I think that those kind of things happened to most of us here and it is sad to think that those days are over. BTW: I would get an iPod for Christmas in 2005, so I wouldn't be listening to that CD Player for too much longer. Best Christmas gift ever. That thing never left my side for two solid years. :) Just want to say that this is an amazing story.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 18, 2014 18:13:41 GMT -5
This is a story I just remembered today because of a song I heard on the radio, and it kinda fits the theme of Garth making his comeback recently.
I can't remember what age I was (probably 13 or 14). I was with my Dad and my oldest nephew who would have been 8 or 9 then, and we went to eat at a Denny's on a Saturday evening (the one on Maple rd. in Amherst for anybody in the greater Buffalo area). Anyway, while we were waiting for our food, I saw that they still had their jukebox machine there, which I believe they have gotten rid of since. So I took my nephew to the machine and of coursed looked for anything country. Low and behold I came across "The Thunder Rolls". I instantly selected that one and me and my nephew went back to our table. No one had selected anything on the jukebox while we were there, so "The Thunder Rolls" came on fairly quick. What I nor anybody in the Denny's realized, was that for some reason the volume was unexpectedly high on they're stereo. So obviously if you've heard this song, you know it can get pretty loud during those chorus'. I was so embarrassed when numerous people were visibly upset that the volume was so loud - though I'm sure most didn't know I picked that song, so I really shouldn't have been looking back now (cue Maggie Rose).
I don't quite remember what happened after the song was over, or even what I had ordered that night, but definitely a pretty cool memory going back to it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 23:06:32 GMT -5
I remember on August 31st of this year my mom and I had to drive my aunt to the airport and it was cold and rainy that morning. It was still very early after we dropped her off so we decided to get some breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Well of course it didnt open for another 15 minutes and we wouldve walked back to the car, but all of a sudden we heard a song that they were playing. A song about a pocket knife that was really good. So we waited until they opened and i went hunting for a cd that had a title with something about a pocket knife. Well thats when i picked up "The Secret Sisters Put Your Needle Down" sure enough track 4 was "The Pocket Knife" and thats how i discovered one of thr best albums of this year so far
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Post by sabre14 on Oct 3, 2014 16:59:03 GMT -5
I remember from 2003 to 2005 my sister lived in Gowanda with her husband and children. I've mentioned this before but it was over an hour drive to get there from my house in Amherst which as a northern suburb of Buffalo. Usually what would happen is her two oldest (which would be my nephews) would come over on some weekends throughout the year. Not quite every week since it was such a long trip but often enough where it was an ongoing occurrence. Me and my Dad would pick them up on Saturday and bring them back Sunday night.
Since the drive was so long it would mean many hours spent listening to the radio (WYRK). Some of the best memories where those drive backs at night when there would be hardly any traffic. Half the drive was interstate and the other half was the country. I distinctly remember hearing songs like "Tough Little Boys", "Real Good Man", "Three Mississippi", "Playboys Of The Southwestern World", "Long Black Train", "Backseat Of A Greyhound Bus", "Almost Home", "Good Little Girls", "Look At Us", "You're In My Head", "Mayberry", "Paint Me A Birmingham", "How Am I Doin'", "Baby Girl", etc.. Sometimes if I hear a certain song I instantly think of those long drives. I remember always saying to my nephews that they wouldn't be able to stay awake on the drive back to their house. They would of course say they would, but sure enough they'd both be sleeping 30 minutes into the drive. ;)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 17:11:33 GMT -5
As a small kid (6-8 yrs old) my dad was very into country music and so were his brothers. I always remember going to my uncles house and he had a big cabinet of CD's to choose from and we'd listen to tunes all day and night. My favourite was Marty Stuart's "This One's Gonna Hurt You", couldn't get enough of "Hey Baby".. I guess you could say that's how I got into country music. We still get together every now and then and listen to the classics.
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Post by sabre14 on Dec 16, 2014 0:47:21 GMT -5
As most probably know, I'm a huge hockey fan (my screen name and avatar is all you need to know). Well, in youth hockey, you usually have to get up super early on Saturday mornings. I mean really early - like 5:30 or 6:00 a.m. early. My Dad would always make sure he'd get up first so he could get me up. I remember him joking saying "How come you get up right away for this but it's like fighting with you when you have to go to school", lol. It would usually be a practice that started at 7 or 8 a.m.. The first few years was easy since it was a house league (play at the same rink for all games) but sometimes we would have to travel when I was on a travel team to another rink. Either way, the whole drive to the rink and back, it was country music - think anything from 1999 to 2004. I distinctively remember hearing songs like "Riding With Private Malone" and "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out" on my way to practice or games on Sunday's. Especially on the drive back. We would usually stop at Tim Hortons or McDonalds afterwards.
You can't ask for much more when you're 12 years old on Saturday mornings than hanging with your Dad, hockey, food and great country music. :)
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Dec 16, 2014 0:53:10 GMT -5
When I was 16 and 17, I played organ at a very small church in East Tawas. I hated every second of it, although I'm usually okay with the finer aspects of churchgoing. This just happened to be a very boring church: the hymns were slow and unfamiliar, the preacher inarticulate, the doctrines confusing.
Anyway, on the way back from service, we would turn on WATZ since on Sundays, WKJC does church services until noon, and WATZ was the only other country station in the area at the time. It was through this that I came to become a regular listener of Bob Kingsley despite having only listened to him sporadically before. After the boring church closed, I would listen to him after services at my home church starting at 11, then continue listening to him through the rest of the show while bundling and/or delivering the newspapers for the route I had at the time. In turn, I began to listen to WATZ the rest of the week too, and I realized just how many songs they were playing that WKJC wasn't. My sister heard them play "Hillbillies" by Hot Apple Pie before it even hit the charts, and she begged WKJC to add it for several months until they finally did. I still listen to WATZ to this day because the boring church got me into the habit.
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Post by sabre14 on Dec 23, 2014 13:48:58 GMT -5
I switched to a Catholic school in the 5th grade and went there til high school. Most of the time I took a small bus, though it really wasn't a "bus". It was more like a station wagon looking vehicle that could fit 3-4 people. Since I lived about 20 minutes away from my house, the student vehicle I took home would stop at two to three other schools along the way. No joke, it took me about 50 minutes to get home, since even though I was usually the one first picked up, my house was the furthest north, so the bus just stopped at the other kids house on the way first. I didn't mind too much since it was only a few others that rode this thing. By the end of my time at the school, it was just me and another kid.
It also gave me plenty of time to listen to WYRK. The final two years I went home on that bus, the driver would have WYRK on. So there were many songs from 2003-2004 I would often hear. It also seemed like I would always hear the same 6-7 songs every day too. I know in 2003 I heard plenty of "What A Beautiful Day", "I Believe", "The Love Song", "Walking In Memphis", "There's No Limit" and "Raining On Sunday". In 2004 I always seemed to hear was "Desperately", "I Love You This Much", "Me And Emily", "Songs About Rain" and "Loco". The one song that came on every single time was "Streets Of Heaven". WYRK played the heck out of that song and it always seemed like some woman called in to request it. They would say what you would expect them to say, like "That's such a sweet song" or "It makes me tear up". That was really the first exposure I ever had to Sherrie Austin since I was only 13 at the time.
Whenever I hear those songs along with others in that time period, I think about those days.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 14:16:09 GMT -5
I remember at my preschool graduation, my classmates and I were lined up on a stage and there was a microphone in front of us (for our teacher to congratulate us and all that), anyway right before my teacher came up to the stage, i grabbed the mic and started singing "Up!" by Shania Twain (my moms favorite song at the time) to a crowd of other parents, my mother and of course her co-workers.... Everyone just kinda laughed and applauded and i got the mic taken away from me...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2014 1:48:18 GMT -5
Double posts are allowed on Christmas Heres a story i came up with out of the blue: Twas the night before Christmas and all through the web not a Pulse member was stirring with their computer mouse The happy holidays were posted in the subboard with care In hope that everyone would see them and feel blessed The posters were snuggled all snug in their beds while zack97 posted this poem in his head, and my mom in her kerchief as i type in CAPS are going to settle with the rain for a long winters nap And with that Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 30, 2015 21:12:09 GMT -5
I was listening to Y2Kountry's Throwback 30 tonight and the #1 song got me thinking about a rather sad story.
When I was 15 my dog got ill with internal bleeding. He was a German Schnauzer who apparently are prone to that form of death. I knew he was going to have to be put down and one morning my Dad was going to drive him to the vet for the inevitable. Before I left for school I have him a hug and left with my brother for school. His face looking at me from the backyard as I walked away still is hard for me to relive.
When I left in my brother's car, what's the first and only song I hear on the radio on my way to school?
Diamond Rio - "One More Day"
Out of all the songs that could have played, they pick that one in my 7 or 8 minute drive to school. Plus this was in October of 2004 - three and a half years after "One More Day" went #1. It was the #1 song in the Y2Kountry Throwback 30 tonight. :)
Really sad but I thought I'd share.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 19, 2015 23:56:11 GMT -5
Why not, lol. Not sure how many people read these but oh well. :)
Back in 2007, I actually changed my life pretty drastically. I lost a bunch of weight (like a lot of weight), though I rather not share exactly how much, lol. I will say I'm 6 feet, 155-160 pounds, so I'm pretty skinny now and I wouldn't change that for anything.
Anyway, that was also the year my grandpa passed away from a stroke in early April. That's pretty much when I changed my ways and took it upon myself to get back into hockey and exercising regularly. From May through October I would roller skate (since I did not run then) most mornings. I started at 5:00 a.m. (no, seriously) and went til 6:00 or 6:30 a.m.. I would skate through my neighborhood to one of the main streets by my neighborhood called Robinson road. From there I would skate down to the local Wegman's parking lot (grocery store) and finish skating there. I would skate back through my neighborhood.
There's no way I would have gotten through any of it without country music. My iPod was as valuable as, well as nothing; that might have been my most valuable thing at 17 years old, lol. Over 1,000 songs of all my favorites, that helped me get through my exercise. Songs like "As The Crow Flies" by Gary Allan, "Doin' It Right" by Steve Azar, "All Comes Floodin' Down" by Brain McComas, "One Blue Sky" by Sugarland, "Bama Breeze" by Jimmy Buffett, "Two Pink Lines" by Eric Church, "Swinging For The Fence" by Billy Dean and "A Real Fine Place To Start" by Sara Evans were just some of the songs I would play on a regular basis.
Looking back it was actually pretty relaxing considering the weather was perfect most days since the sun wasn't in full effect yet and there was nobody out. Saturday and Sunday mornings were deader than a doornail. It felt like I Am Legend with Will Smith, just no zombies, lol. I do remember this one worker at Wegman's who got there at the same time every morning and would read the paper and eat breakfast in his truck before heading in for work. I actually met him one day and he was really nice. I think he just wanted to know what I was doing every morning and have I lost my mind? Lol
That was the year I also the year I got my father to get back in shape with me and on weekends that summer, he and I would get my hockey gear and head to a local parking lot in an industrial park. I had gotten an XM satellite radio for Christmas in 2006 and when we got to the parking lot, we would open every door in the car and crank up the volume to listen to it while playing. Every now and then we would restart the car and rest it, so to not drain the battery. Usually we would just set our net up and play "take back" rules. Basically similar to basketball rules, since there was just two of us. We would put goaltender pads down across the bottom portion of the net, so it was harder to score. Sometimes I got a friend or my nephew to come play and one of us would be goalie. We would seriously play for 2-3 hours. With country blaring in the background. This was May-September of 2007, so plenty of "Lost In This Moment", "Never Wanted Nothing More", "I Told You So", "Tough", "Everyday America", "Wrapped", "Johnny Cash', "I Need You", "As If", "Isn't She", "Ticks", "Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go)", "I Got More" and "Guys Like Me", among others.
I would also hear plenty of songs that XM loved to play that summer, that were not hits, like:
Waycross - "Nineteen" Stephen Cochran - "Friday Night Fireside" Mark Wills - "Days Of Thunder" Heartland - "Let's Get Dirty" Crossin Dixon - "Guitar Slinger" Gretchen Wilson - "One Of The Boys"
Definitely one of the best summers of my life. Didn't know how good I had it but now that I'm grown up and driving my own car and doing my own things, I know those days are gone forever.
Anyway, thought I'd share since it would be nice to see some other stories in this thread, lol. :)
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Post by someguy on Jun 20, 2015 9:13:21 GMT -5
I also used country music the year I really got in shape (though I can't say that I kept it up as well as sabre14 ... I can't imagine being 155 pounds, haha). I need to get back into it like I was that year. The summer of 2007 is when I really got back into running, and the songs that I listened to all the time while running on my iPod were "Never Wanted Nothing More" (Kenny Chesney), "Because Of You" (Reba & Kelly), "If You're Reading This" (Tim McGraw), plus i used the Enjoy The Ride album from Sugarland. I still run now, but I was never more into it than I was the summer of 2007. That was the summer after I graduated from university, but before I went to grad school. I lived up at my family cottage that summer, so I ran all over Muskoka. (Going from the cottage to where I was working).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2015 10:00:43 GMT -5
Like sabre14 did, I am trying to lose weight as well before I head off to college. I can totally understand what he means when he says that country music helps him. Every morning at 6 I walk/run around my hometown (never really have a destination lol) and it's been so relaxing with the sunshine and the quiet as I do it. I will say I'm a pretty heavy guy so the exercise routine will take a while Anyway, some stuff that I've been really enjoying as I do that has been Gretchen Peters "Blackbirds", and Houndmouth's "Little Neon Limelight". Ones a pretty dark album (yeah surprising for me right? Lol) and the other is a pretty upbeat, fun album that is more suited for a workout playlist. Anyway, sorry it's not really a story but I just wanted to share some thoughts lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2015 10:37:04 GMT -5
A double post is allowed because I'm sure sabre14 wouldn't mind another story in the thread :) I've been extremely fortunate to attend a lot of concerts in my life, and one that just came to mind was the first time I saw Dierks Bentley back in the summer of 2013. He was playing at a festival known as Jam In The Valley, which for those who don't know, it's a 3 day event held literally in the sticks lol. There was no parking when we got there, so my mother turned it around. Thankfully we found a man who was willing to let you park in his backyard for 10$. The guy literally looked like Willie Nelson, I got a big kick out of that. Anyway, the openers for the show were Chris Cagle and Scotty McCreery. Before the show you could buy a signed copy of Cagle's "Back In The Saddle" album as well as a meet and greet for 15$, so I figured why not? Both Cagle and McCreery did excellent in their sets. Then when the sky finally blackened, Dierks came out. I'll never forget the energy he brought to the stage and how well he connected to the audience. Now, I don't know if it was the venue, or the atmosphere or what, but this next moment really stuck with me and influenced me. After he played the eighth song in his set, "Tip It On Back", the stage totally blacked out. I knew it was way too early for an encore and was wondering with amazement what was going on. Finally the stage lit up and Dierks and his entire band were all up on risers (no pun intended) and they ripped into "Up On The Ridge" which sounds perfect in the sticks lol. I had forgotten how much I loved that song and remember looking for that album as soon as I got home. After the song Dierks said to his band, "See, I told you they'd like that bluegrass stuff". That brought a huge smile to my face. I couldn't help but feel a bit bad for him either because the time I saw him was around the same time that "Bourbon In Kentucky" had peaked and I knew it had been his first song to miss the top 40. He still played a bone chilling performance of it too. He also played "I Hold On", which he said was a "totally brand new song" that would on his album released "later that year" (yeah we know how that turned out, thanks a lot country radio). He told the story of "I Hold On" prior to singing it about how he went to Nashville with his dad and how he still has the same beat up guitar with autographs from several country legends. Then after the concert was when I got to meet Chris Cagle so all in all it was a lasting experience to say the least. I loved the venue but unfortunately the guy who runs it seems to be having financial troubles as he went from headliners like Dierks that year to Colt Ford the next year..... I'll be going back there this year to see The Band Perry with Jerrod Neimann and Chris Janson so I'm hoping for a good time! :)
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Post by Todd on Jul 26, 2015 21:04:12 GMT -5
One summer, many years ago, my family took a vacation to Nashville. The travel package we purchased included a sight seeing tour with a travel company (Johnny Walker tours, maybe?, I can't remember), where you you ride around on a minibus and see the homes of the stars. There were several other stops, as well, including the Hall of Fame. At the end of the last stop, our tour guide/bus driver got on the intercom and told us that he was a singer/songwriter who had moved to Nashville with hopes of making it in the country music business. He then sang us one of his songs, which he also had available on tape for purchase. We bought a copy of his album and I still have it to this day. If I told you his name..........you would not recognize it. I wonder what ever happened to him?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2015 21:40:33 GMT -5
Back when I was just getting into Country music in 2002, I attended a Toby Keith concert (my first Country show), with a few family members. I wasn't familiar with the opening act, but I remember hearing one specific song and falling in love with it instantly. I had my Mom go out and buy the album, and I know I wore out a few copies. Fast forward a few months later, and that song by that "unknown" band that I had (seemingly randomly), fallen in love with was the first #1 for Rascal Flatts, "These Days."
To this day, I consider "These Days" to be one of those songs that introduced me to Country music, and it brings back lots of great memories. My Mom and I have pretty different tastes when it comes to music, but "These Days" is also one of her favorite Country songs, so it's something special for us.
Another one I hadn't shared here before:
Back in the summer of 2010, we had just put down our family dog that my siblings and I grew up with. We had buried our dog behind a tree in a backyard earlier that day, and it was really emotional for us. My Mom turned on GAC to cheer me up, and what song starts playing? "The House That Built Me" by Miranda. My Mom said she viewed it as a "sign" that we happened to hear that song in a time of so much grief.
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 31, 2015 14:26:07 GMT -5
A couple more. :)
Back when I was 14 or 15 years old, I would regularly play video games during late summer nights or even Friday and Saturday nights during the school year...and I mean really late at night...like well after midnight, lol. Anyway, the main reason why I played so many video games (I actually say many but in reality, it was the same three games in a loop -- Grand Theft Auto series, Madden, NHL) was to listen to WYRK on my radio. I knew even at that age how each segment was programmed. Usually a brand new, lower charting song would get played about 40 minutes past the hour, and I knew the songs that WYRK allocated to overnight spins. I would seriously listen just to hear songs like "Hillbillies" by Hot Apple Pie, "Dream Big" by Ryan Shupe & the Rubberband, "The Middle Of Nowhere" by Brian McComas, "XXL" by Keith Anderson, "I Would Cry" by Amy Dalley and so on.
I spent so much of my pre-teen years listening to the radio. I would jump at every opportunity to help run errands with my Dad on the weekends, just for the shot to spend a good 2-3 hours of radio listening time. 2002-2005 have so many of those memories. When I hear some songs from those years, I think of those rides in my Dad's car and I have a photographic memory of exact situations; for instance, whenever I hear "Look At Us" by Craig Morgan, I think of a summer day I went to Dairy Queen to get a Blizzard and that song was playing in the car while eating. I have no idea how I even remember something as insignificant as that, lol.
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Post by Andy on Jul 31, 2015 19:35:59 GMT -5
I used to play video games a lot while listening to music too. To this day, I often associate certain songs or albums with the game I was playing when I first heard them (or listened to them a lot), and often a specific area/level. For example:
-I remember listening to "Little Moments" by Brad Paisley a lot while playing blitzball in Final Fantasy X. -I heavily associate Eric Church's first album with Ico, especially "These Boots." - Gary Allan's "Sorry" makes me think of some fire area in Metroid Prime. -I listened to Kenny Chesney's The Road and the Radio a lot while playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, especially "Somebody Take Me Home." I also associate John Anderson's "Money in the Bank" with that game. -Tracy Byrd's "Crazy Every Time" reminds me of some forest area in Jak II. -I got Jason Aldean's Relentless album while playing Super Mario Sunshine (didn't play that game 'til 2007 for some reason), and I associate several tracks like "No" and "Back in This Cigarette" with that game. -Keith Urban's Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thang and Tim McGraw's Dancehall Doctors albums both take me back to playing Ratchet & Clank.
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 31, 2015 19:52:58 GMT -5
OMG, Andy, I used to listen to that Kenny album while playing GTA San Andreas too! Though I could say the same for many songs and albums, lol.
"Somebody Take Me Home" is definitely my favorite album track on that record. Wish it would have been a single.
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Post by zjames on Jul 31, 2015 20:35:04 GMT -5
I went to a Catholic High School and just graduated this year. To graduate, seniors had to complete 40 hours of community service. I was already an active member of my local church by taking part in youth events and making casseroles for the food pantry, so this wasn't really hard for me. Anyway, this spring I signed up to volunteer for a 5K Run/Walk for pediatric cancer. I had to be there at 6:00 am on a Sunday. I was out really late Saturday night and honestly I didn't want to go. I almost didn't wake up but I somehow got myself out of bed. As I was driving to the event, WXTU in Philadelphia played a song as part of their infrequent Back When Again segment: "The Chain Of Love" by Clay Walker. It was the first time I'd heard the song. It really helped me see the importance of what I was doing and how to do good deeds without expecting and needing something it return. It gave me a better attitude for that day and community service in the future.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 23:21:28 GMT -5
To elaborate on that video game thing, I always think of Kenny Chesney's "Hemingways Whiskey" along with "The Best Of Chris Cagle" whenever I play GTA: Liberty City Stories.
Also, whenever I play Mario Kart 7, I think of Kristian Bush's "Southern Gravity" lol. Video games are definitely something I'll have to give up before college starts.
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Post by zjames on Mar 18, 2016 14:50:05 GMT -5
I played baseball for most of my life. From the age of five until my senior year of high school, baseball was a major part of my identity. Little league, travel teams, and tournaments took up a ton of my childhood.
Even though I did not get into country music until my freshman year of high school (about five years ago), the connection between my high school baseball days and country music is so clear. While we took batting practice, we would blare country music from the speakers behind the bleachers (and teammates would ask me to name the song, and I would answer correctly in 1.7 seconds). When we took a bus to road games, my teammates would get pumped up to rap as I listened to mainly neotraditional country music. Our coach even would say, "I like it, I love it, I want some more of it," after we worked hard at practice and, "Did I shave my legs for this?" when our game got rained out. One of my favorite memories is jamming out to "Chicken Fried" in the parking lot with my team before practice. I just find it fascinating to think in hindsight about the little ways country music made an impact on my team and experience.
A lot of my teammates weren't true country music fans, I'd say. They would often say things like, "I only like country music in the summer," which I've experienced to be very prevalent among young people probably thanks to the rise of bro-country and party songs in recent years. But I do see where they're coming from thanks to the baseball and country music connection. There is something really unique about being out in the 90 degree heat and hearing "My Kinda Party" by Jason Aldean or "Round Here" by Florida Georgia Line. I've also discovered that Jason Aldean tends to be the go-to for country music at baseball practice, probably because of his rock leanings and many good-time songs. There's definitely something about the smell of the fresh-cut grass and dirt on your spikes that lends itself to country music. Even though I don't traditionally listen to those songs, they perfectly fit the mood at high school baseball practices, that mood being a bunch of teenagers just having fun and looking forward to the night or weekend.
This is one of the reasons I don't really bash anyone for their country music tastes. Even with songs I don't like or are poorly written, I understand that there are certain situations or conditions where those songs have an impact. No, I'm not gonna listen to "That's My Kind Of Night" or "She's Country" right now, but those kind of songs really contributed to an atmosphere at a specific point in my life.
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Post by sabre14 on May 22, 2016 0:04:47 GMT -5
Back in 2006, I was a total junkie for sports (hockey/football) and Country music/charts -- what else is new?. Don't get me wrong, I still am, but these days a lot of my time is dedicated to school, work, internships, errands, dates, family get-togethers, etc...but back then, I spent my whole free time on those two things. It was August or September of 2006 I discovered that DirecTV offered XM radio channels at the end of the dial and I for the first time discovered satellite radio. I thought it was amazing at the time. You mean, "No commercials? Is that allowed?" lol I also discovered the Opie & Anthony show but let's not get too off track here, haha. Probably my most memorable memories of that time was from October to December of 2006. Every time I wasn't in school (or watching sports -- the Sabres were unbelievable that season), I would confine to my room and listen to that main Country channel (Highway 15, I believe) and do my chart predictions/analysis. I had cool little lamp lights that were in the shape of guitars (about as tall as a ruler) that would illuminate my room overnight hours as I got my Country music fix (ugh, now that word is forever ruined). So when you see me be right on top of things when it comes to remember every charting single that was released back then, there's a reason. lol Anyway, the Bills weren't very good that year -- they weren't terrible -- just your usual 7-9 type blah season. I remember the last 2-3 home games being blacked out because fans had enough that year. Since the games weren't on television, I had to listen to them on my radio set...I would also have my TV on for my music, while listening to the game. What I think I remember doing was having the music on low volume and I would turn it up when a good song would come on -- or vice-versa -- turn down the music when something important happened in the football game, which didn't happen very often, haha. My most vivid memory was the Bills playing a home game on Christmas Eve against Vince Young and the Tennessee Titans. I recall there being a big uproar because the NFL blacked out the game even though it was on Christmas Eve. People called the NFL saying, "Look, can't you guys make an exception for the holiday?" and the league said back, "Well, the holiday doesn't start until the evening"... Technically, they're right, but it made everyone laugh since we all just assumed, "There's the NFL being holier than thou again -- they're telling you when you should start you Christmas holiday" lol The game ended in overtime when Vince Young ran a touchdown in from like 30 yards out. I still recall waiting for my brother to pick me up so we could go to my family's Christmas Eve party after the game ended, that they held every year. While waiting I managed to hear songs like: The Wreckers - "My, Oh My" Eric Church - "Two Pink Lines" Darryl Worley - "I Just Came Back From A War" Joe Nichols - "I'll Wait For You" Ashley Monrore f/Ronnie Dunn - "I Don't Want To" George Strait - "It Just Comes Natural" Rockie Lynne - "More" It also snowed that evening, so I thought it was funny when I heard "Snow Montana, was three feet high" in Joe's song. Here's an old "Billboard/R&R" chart I have from that time frame of 2006. And yes, that's my scribbles. :)
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Post by Mr. Thonk Eyes on Jul 14, 2016 23:32:57 GMT -5
This story happened to me 3 months ago so I should've just told it then, but I guess I'm just doing it now, lol.
So this past year I joined FFA and one day in my agriculture class, the teacher said said she needed someone to be on the poultry judging team so I agreed to it. Anyways, on the first Saturday of April, we went to a poultry judging contest in College Station, which is a bit over an hour from our high school. We were getting close to the contest site and our teacher had it on a Country station, then Florida-Georgia Line's "Confession" came on. I was in the backseat of the ag-truck with two other guys who were singing along once the chorus kicked in, but even though I think I can sing that song pretty well I'm shy as hell so all I could do was hum along. One of the guys noticed me humming and commented, "Awww it's so cute how he's humming," lmao.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 15, 2016 0:43:39 GMT -5
One of the guys noticed me humming and commented, "Awww it's so cute how he's humming," lmao. Was he cute? Did you get them digits tho?
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Mr. Thonk Eyes
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Post by Mr. Thonk Eyes on Jul 15, 2016 0:58:02 GMT -5
One of the guys noticed me humming and commented, "Awww it's so cute how he's humming," lmao. Was he cute? Did you get them digits tho? I'm not gay, but yes I do have his number. I think the teacher is reeaaalllly pretty though, I'll admit that.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jul 15, 2016 1:30:44 GMT -5
When I was about 12, my mom was a member of a board that dealt with foreign exchange students. We would drive all the way up to Hillman, a small middle of nowhere town west of Alpena, just to meet in the basement of the church. Since WKJC's signal didn't go that far, this was my first exposure to WATZ.
One of the first trips up there, I remember Shania Twain doing a seatbelt safety PSA that had a very badly spliced "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" in the background, and ended with her saying "If you're not in it for safety, I'm outta here."
Thinking back on these trips, I remember hearing a lot of country songs that WKJC never played. I remember off the top of my head: "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down" and "Every Little Whisper" by Steve Wariner, "Guilty" and "She Wants to Rock" by The Warren Brothers, "A Bitter End" by Deryl Dodd, "When Mama Ain't Happy" by Tracy Byrd, "No More Looking over My Shoulder" by Travis Tritt, "By the Book" by Michael Peterson, "I Was" by Neal McCoy (also remember asking my mom what "William and Mary" was), "Your Own Little Corner of My Heart" and "I Need You All the Time" by Blackhawk, "The Fun of Your Love" by Jennifer Day, "Me and Maxine" by Sammy Kershaw, "Love Trip" by Jerry Kilgore, "Lonely" by Tracy Lawrence, "Jimmy's Got a Girlfriend" by The Wilkinsons, "She Ain't the Girl for You" by The Kinleys, and of course, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue" by Shane McAnally.
I also remember sitting in the parking lot of the Alpena Walmart and hearing "Wrong Five O'Clock" by Eric Heatherly.
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