Hotel California & Life Soundtrack

Throughout my life I have loved music. I haven’t just loved music … I LOVE music. My bio Dad, before he outright disappeared, owned several bars. One of my few memories of him was standing in the middle of a dance floor (as a kid), during the day when no one else was there except the DJ, helping him to balance the music levels coming out of the speakers that were surrounding the dancing area. Even after becoming an adult, in my clubbing days, I always hung around the DJ’s and artists.

I had an ear for what was right and not. I think I got it from my Mom. She loves music too and some of my favorite memories are with her, my brother and I dancing at Granny’s house or singing in her car on our many trips across middle Tennessee.

Throughout my life there have been songs that just have stuck in my head. Hotel California, Tusk and One Winged Dove?(Fleetwood Mack), Cathedral (Van Halen), Message In a Bottle (The Police), More Than a Feeling (Boston), Rappers Delight (Sugar Hill Gang), When Doves Cry (Prince), anything by Yaz or George Michael, Blue Savannah (Erasure), With Arms Wide Open (Creed), Lots of stuff from Depeche Mode, Photograph (Def Leppard), almost everything by Dennis Jernigan, and Holland Davis, One Thing (Finger 11), If I Ain’t Got You (Alicia Keys) and on and on.

Seriously … on and on and more.

Someday, I want to create a personal compilation of songs that have been signature songs at different points in my life. It would be a kind of testimony via pop culture. It would traverse rock, to electronic/underground culture to gay pop culture to Christian culture, chill electronic and R&B with a brief stint in country.

Yes, I have been in therapy…it still doesn’t make sense.

The very first album I ever bought was Hotel California by the Eagles. I was just a kid with an allowance and that was my first music purchase. I can remember taking the album and gingerly placing it on my record player … and proceeding to wearing that thing out. I played it all the time. I knew all the words and could play the air guitar perfectly with each of the songs on the album.

I keep hearing the signature song off of Hotel California lately and that is what has inspired this whole nostalgic post. It also inspired this next question;

What are some of your life’s soundtrack songs? Songs that have “stuck” with you over time?

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