I love music

Listening to our favorite music can trigger all kinds of memories and emotions. It can remind us of a certain someone or a time and place. Most of us grew up listening to our favorite music for hours at a time. In our cars, at home, or just hanging out with friends. Music was playing in our house much more than we watched TV. Of course this was before there was cable television. We may have had video games, but never really played them as much as today's kids do. As a young girl growing up in the 70s I remember my Dad playing his music from the 50s that he grew up listening to like Dean Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, and Johnny Cash to name a few. Motown was also played in our house hold, along with the rock music of that era. As we get older we start to grow into our own style of music, mostly to what our generation has evolved to.

When MTV came along it changed everything. Not only did we get to listen to our favorite music, but we got to see what our favorite bands looked like. I remember going to friends houses and sitting for hours watching MTV. We would actually have MTV parties. My taste in music was all over the place. I listened to everything from Black Sabbath to Prince. Motor Head to INXS. The 80s was a really fun time in music, and I still love to listen to it. When my son was in High School he used to tell me how lucky I was to have been his age in the 80s. He really liked 80s music at the time, and when others were wearing those sagging jeans he was wearing tight fitted jeans, and grew his hair long. Yes, I have the pictures to prove it.

By the time the 90s arrived I was married, and had two kids. I knew the songs to every Disney, Nickelodeon, and Muppet show. Of course I did make my kids listen to what I wanted to hear in the car. Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Off Spring were a few favorites. They started to like it, but of course grew into their own taste of music with up and coming bands of their generation. I remember my son listening to death metal at one point in his teen years, and that music literally scared the bejesus out of me. Now that he's grown we sometimes go to concerts together, and he will recommend bands that he thinks I would like to add to my stations on Pandora. No death metal though, I prefer a more upbeat type of music.


Music is expression. It can motivate us. It can tell a story. It can tell people who we are...

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