Atlas Hugged« Founders Fun | Main | I'm gonna buy you a really big hammer »
April 27, 2007
skin on skin let the love begin
before i left nashville this afternoon i decided to stop in at my favorite target/marshall's shopping complex on lebanon road. this particular complex is a favourite of mine because it was located a mere 4 miles from my old apartment on stewart's ferry pike. and some might argue that these large chain stores are the same no matter where you go - but that's not necessarily true. it has been nearly a year since i relocated to chattanooga and i've yet to purchase one item from the local marshall's. and our target is flat out lame. of course it doesn't help that it's a good 20 minute drive out to the dreaded hamilton place. chattanooga is a relatively small town but for whatever reason they decided to plop every retailer you can think of into a relatively small area and...i'm off topic.
i didn't find anything at marshall's today but as i strolled through the cd selection at target i came upon a display of cd's for $9.99 and the display banner said something about these particular cd's being essential - which i found amusing. i mean there were definitely some discs there that were worth the $10 speakerboxxx/the love below, pet sounds, sgt. pepper but of course there were the requisite duds no doubt, dave matthews et. al. i was thinking about picking up the stones exile on main street because i don't actually own any stones albums but just as i started to walk away i saw the familiar cover art to def leppard's hysteria and i had to have it.
once i hit the hiway i cranked up the radio and was transported back to 1988 - the glory days of high school cruising around town in el gato's amc pacer talking earnestly about the merits of segal v. van damme and wondering why lori katherine pinder was only interested in being friends...and i know i've talked about my un-ironic love for def leppard before...but seriously folks - they rocked. side 1 of hysteria: women - rocket - animal - love bites - (the ubiquitous) pour some sugar on me - armegeddon it. i don't care how sophomoric the lyrics are - how overzealous the production...you'd be hard pressed to find a better side 1 in your own cd collection.
and that music was fun...too much of the music that i listen to these days takes itself too seriously. and that's fine. i like it that way. but sometimes you need to roll down the windows let down the mullet and let the glorious power chords of love take your breath away.
| By young_christopher | 10:10 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://atlblogs.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/9756
Comments
Posted by: Nick at April 30, 2007 5:26 PM
Posted by: No Man Is an Island at May 1, 2007 7:06 PM
Posted by: young_christopher at May 3, 2007 11:35 PM
Posted by: No Man Is an Island at May 4, 2007 5:33 PM
Posted by: Nick at May 10, 2007 5:16 PM
Posted by: No Man Is an Island at May 11, 2007 9:03 PM