Excellent entry Brian. Fantastic stories to go along with your choices. I like the off the cuff and natural delivery, no script. Great memories for you to fall back on. Good luck in the contest.
Hi Brian. Love the records, love the stories. Amazing how sound in general connects us to memories. The sound of coffee percolating will always reminds me of my Aunt Sally. Music holds so many memories. In those memories we have many different emotions. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video Brian and good luck. Loved hearing those heartfelt stories and isn't it amazing how music can be such a time piece in life and transport you right back to a great memory. Well done and enjoy your weekend and take care . John
Hi John - I agree that it is truly amazing how hearing a song can trigger a memory or a feeling. It even happens with songs I first heard as an adult 🙂
Hi Brian - Thanks for sharing; I enjoyed listening to your stories. So many of my albums are connected to special people and times in my life. The power of music is amazing. "It Takes Two" has special meaning for me.
Some Girls is an excellent record. I read about Larry Mullins Jr. after my 1st message. It was his band for about 10 minutes at Larry's home until Bono took over ! Haha 🎵 I love it.. He is a terrific front man. The Edge let's him take all of the pressure onstage LoL !! ( I liked being the 2nd guy as well ) 👍
To a music lover many albums have a specific story. I have albums that make me highly emotional when I think about them as they remind me of a departed loved one. The beauty of music
Brian! Thanks so much for jumping on this and more importantly, sharing these stories. I think this was a positive unintended side effect of this contest is just learning so much more about people. My dad passed away 14 years ago this year as well. Beautiful stories and thanks for sharing. Cheers my friend!
I think this is a great contest for getting to know our VC friends a little better. I enjoyed hearing your stories, Brian. I think there was time for a funny story.
I enjoyed them too, although I did feel old when I took the time to reflect on these albums. It seems to take forever until I was of legal age to drive, and vote, and drink, and then time has moved brutally fast ever since. I don't like it 🙃
Great entry Brian, and we always have time to hear a funny story. This is a cool contest and I’m going to post one next week. I’ve been mulling over my picks. Italy this summer with an old friend? Fantastic.
Next time I think of a funny story I won't edit myself 🙂 I'm looking forward to your video on this. This will be my first trip to Italy, so I am very much looking forward to it.
Warm words on this one. Loved it. 'Rumours' is undeniably great, 'Some Girls' my favourite Stones album too, and despite having an overwrought poseur as lead singer U2 deserve their success. 'Red Sky' feels like a lightweight thing these days.
cool selections dude. that U2 lp was my intro to band. my brother had that. played it a lot. finally went to see a concert last summer at red rocks. was a dream of mine ever since i heard that U2 album in 80s. enjoy italy. where yall heading? i was there back in like 2017 working on a show in milan. but was able to escape to venice one day and lake como another which was awesome.
We will be in the Florence area and Rome for a total of two weeks 🙂 Hopefully, we will check out other places on day trips. It will be my first Italy trip, so I am looking forward to it. I just need to learn some Italian . . .
Great stories, Brian! I just posted my entry today, too. I am a lot like your father in the way he listened to 8-Tracks. I tend to find a record I love and play it to death. That last record was certainly a surprise! Good luck, Brian!
Well, at least with a record, you have to get off your butt and flip it over, so there is a bit of work involved! I often try not to play albums too much, lest I get tired of them 🙂
Really enjoyed this video Brian. Alex came up with a really good contest. I can’t wrap my brain around an idea for one, I still have to offer up that record my musician friend signed and got me but… Anyhow, like I said, enjoy the stories behind your picks. Awww… Some Girls 😊I also have sibling memories attatched to that record. Good and best of luck Brian.
Interesting topic for a contest. I agree with you on Alex's content, informative and entertaining. Thanks for sharing those stories about your family. What did you go to college for? Hope you're having a good week! Oh and happy Celiac awareness month! I didn't know that is a thing, but apparently in the US, Canada and Europe it is and it is in May!
Here's a surprise: I am already aware of Celiac Disease 🙂 But, obviously, we would like more people to be aware! Maybe I should stand on a street corner with a poster. In Canada, there is a move to make it easier to deduct food expenses on your income tax for this condition. I am all for that. My undergrad was History and Political Science. I assume you did some post-secondary education? By the way, I can't recall from the invite if you said that you are going to MGK's party?
Oh I'd definitely join you with a poster! I'm also all for deducting GF food as food expenses. I am invited and am going to MGK's Big BBQ Summer Bash. Are you going? MIke sent it to my phone at first and it said it was delivered from the screenshot he sent, but I never got it. So he emailed it to me. I'll be bringing some gluten free stuff. I went to school for political science, but never did anything with that degree. I'm working in tech now as a help desk technician, but have been thinking about going back to school.
I told Mike that I am driving down. I have booked a place, so unless something changes, I will be there! I did discuss the menu with Mike, but I have no clarity on ingredients. There will be salad! Going back to school is a good idea. I have lost the passion for education 🙂 I need a beach retirement plan 👍
Oh cool! Us GF guys will have to stick together! It will be awesome to meet you and so many people in person! I'm a fan of history and have been thinking of a Master's in lirary sciences or archival sciences. What do you do for work? And a beach retirement plan or somewhere warm retirement plan sounds good to me!
Steve - I found you on Facebook from Mike's channel. I am going to send you a longer message. I hope that is OK with you. You might find it very interesting 🙂
Wonderful entry Brian. I'm glad that you can still tolerate Rumours. I had a friend who only had an 8-track of Grease in his vehicle and I got so sick of that soundtrack and really never want to hear it again. I'm not sure what Rolling Stones album is the first one I heard, but Some Girls is a good one.
Good tales - I love that U2 album- it was played to death by everyone when I was at school in that gap between Live Aid and Joshua Tree - and that Billy Idol album is a banger !
“Without even thinking about it, I came up with five albums that fit the criteria” “Ideally in a perfect world I’d be sick of this record”…I need a clean copy of Some Girls. “Oddly that led me to buying cassettes, which I regret”…Kirk sounds cool. I have some fun roommate stories. My equivalent to your childhood friend Keith is my buddy Rene I mention in my videos. He might be coming to the party in July! On Billy Idol “Clearly his high watermark of success” …”It takes two”…very entertaining video Brian. ✌️
Mike - I can count on you to remind my of the key quotations from the videos. But, seriously, why did I buy cassettes? The cassette revival mystifies me, though I do get that the cassette format is very cost-effective for some acts and labels. I think we have seen Rene in one or two of your videos?
HP back on the comp train. I would have to show Billy Joel if it was for my Dad and it was a pleasure to rebel. I think I remember the video of your sisters records & she had a cookin' collection. I'm not so fond of U2 and I will mention it today and every other day I get a chance. I love the 80's hip hop look with all the gold chains. Nice entry mate. Cheers...SMG
Billy Joel! Even my dad didn't like him, but he did like Doris Day, which is way worse! I may have said this before, but I quite like The Unforgettable Fire, even if it makes me appear really uncool. I tried the gold chain look, but I couldn't pull it off. I think I must prefer silver 🧑🦳
@@benrankins4446 In the back of my mind, I sort of thought you might say that about Doris. It looks like U2 and Billy Joel among the few of your favourite things!
@@EmbryonicRobot Cat Stevens is another one. That was the only 8 track my dad had in the car. Tea For The Tillerman 🤮Harry Chapin, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Disco Bee Gees, Boz Scaggs, Dire Straits, Supertramp, Simon & Garfunkel and on and on. My parents were soooo MOR!
I will restrain myself and not mention who on that list of artists you have just mentioned that I have in my collection. I will say that I really like Crime of the Century. It's clearly their best work! 🙊
Brian, I really enjoyed this video, it triggered some nice memories for me. My brother, Robert, at a young age, became an Audiophile, he was not a music fanatic like me, but he only cared about having the best sound system. At the time I had hundreds of albums, tapes and 8-tracks but Robert had less than 5 vinyl albums. Steely Dan's ''Aja'' was one of them, so every time I play that album, I think of him. My buddy Steve would get on the dance floor whenever the DJ played, ''It Takes Two'', he became a ''chick- magnet'', which also helped me out with the women, when he dragged me into the spotlight with him and his entourage! Billy Idol, to me, is mediocre, his songs seem to fall apart, and his snarl becomes boring.
Very cool memories! It took me ages to enjoy Aja. Maybe it hits you at a certain age. Who knows? I find it funny how some memories will make you enjoy songs you would otherwise not like. I feel sort of that way with Billy Idol. If not for my friend, maybe I would appreciate it at all. His snarl may be overdone 🙃
Nice entry. I'm a little older. While I have the first 4 records, I have absolutely no idea who Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock are. Then again, I don't own a single rap album. It is by far, my least favorite genre - though I do adore Beasley Street (John Cooper Clark) and There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards (Ian Dury).
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Excellent entry Brian. Fantastic stories to go along with your choices. I like the off the cuff and natural delivery, no script. Great memories for you to fall back on. Good luck in the contest.
Thanks, Rich! As it happens, I remembered another record I should have included. Oh well... 🙂
Hi Brian. Love the records, love the stories. Amazing how sound in general connects us to memories. The sound of coffee percolating will always reminds me of my Aunt Sally. Music holds so many memories. In those memories we have many different emotions. Thanks for sharing.
It is interesting how certain songs can bring back vivid memories. I guess smell is similar, even the bad smells 🙂
@@EmbryonicRobot True. Both fortunately and unfortunately 😳
Excellent video Brian and good luck. Loved hearing those heartfelt stories and isn't it amazing how music can be such a time piece in life and transport you right back to a great memory. Well done and enjoy your weekend and take care . John
Hi John - I agree that it is truly amazing how hearing a song can trigger a memory or a feeling. It even happens with songs I first heard as an adult 🙂
Hi Brian - Thanks for sharing; I enjoyed listening to your stories. So many of my albums are connected to special people and times in my life. The power of music is amazing. "It Takes Two" has special meaning for me.
Well said. It Takes Two will forever be a classic 🙂
Some Girls were so good on release and still is ! I watched a video on Larry Mullen Jr. last night, I guess he was the founding member.. I think ?
Yes, I think you are right about Larry Mullen. Some Girls holds up, I think ... or maybe it's nostalgia 🙂
Some Girls is an excellent record. I read about Larry Mullins Jr. after my 1st message.
It was his band for about 10 minutes at Larry's home until Bono took over ! Haha 🎵 I love it.. He is a terrific front man. The Edge let's him take all of the pressure onstage LoL !! ( I liked being the 2nd guy as well ) 👍
Cool. I learned something about U2 today!
Great entry Brian, U2, Fleetwood Mac. Billy Idol, hahaha. Nice stories, very heartfelt!
It's good to know I can be heartfelt. I never really knew 🙃
Well done Brian, and thanks for sharing those stories. Very heartfelt. 😎🎶 I'll look to submit an entry myself-a cool contest!
Thanks. I am looking forward to your video 🙂
To a music lover many albums have a specific story. I have albums that make me highly emotional when I think about them as they remind me of a departed loved one. The beauty of music
So true and well said! 🙂
I love this video. Thank you!!!
You are welcome 🙂
Brian! Thanks so much for jumping on this and more importantly, sharing these stories. I think this was a positive unintended side effect of this contest is just learning so much more about people. My dad passed away 14 years ago this year as well. Beautiful stories and thanks for sharing. Cheers my friend!
This contest theme was a stroke of genius! I've enjoyed the videos I have seen and will look forward to more of them 🙃
I think this is a great contest for getting to know our VC friends a little better. I enjoyed hearing your stories, Brian. I think there was time for a funny story.
Maybe I can revisit the funny story some day. I agree, this was a very good contest!
I enjoyed these stories Brian.
I enjoyed them too, although I did feel old when I took the time to reflect on these albums. It seems to take forever until I was of legal age to drive, and vote, and drink, and then time has moved brutally fast ever since. I don't like it 🙃
@@EmbryonicRobot very true. Time is moving faster and faster. And I dont like it.
Great entry Brian, and we always have time to hear a funny story. This is a cool contest and I’m going to post one next week. I’ve been mulling over my picks. Italy this summer with an old friend? Fantastic.
Next time I think of a funny story I won't edit myself 🙂 I'm looking forward to your video on this. This will be my first trip to Italy, so I am very much looking forward to it.
Thanks for inspiring me to jump on this thread/drive/contest Brian. Was nice to reminiscing 😊
Thanks, Morten, I enjoyed your video 🙃
@@EmbryonicRobot Glad you did Brian 🙂
Warm words on this one. Loved it. 'Rumours' is undeniably great, 'Some Girls' my favourite Stones album too, and despite having an overwrought poseur as lead singer U2 deserve their success. 'Red Sky' feels like a lightweight thing these days.
I still love early U2. I don't really know much beyond Achtung Baby, but I agree with your assessment 🙂
Awesome video
Thanks! 🙂
Great stories Brian. Keith’s got great taste, I love that track. You were very quick out the blocks with this one. Mike
Ha ha. Sometimes you just gotta get things moving! (Maybe I had nothing else in the pipeline 🙂).
I enjoyed hearing the stories. It's always great to see Rob Base and E-Z Rock. Good luck in the contest!
Hi Randy - Some people were surprised by the Rob Base and E-Z Rock. I still love the title track very much 🙃
cool selections dude. that U2 lp was my intro to band. my brother had that. played it a lot. finally went to see a concert last summer at red rocks. was a dream of mine ever since i heard that U2 album in 80s. enjoy italy. where yall heading? i was there back in like 2017 working on a show in milan. but was able to escape to venice one day and lake como another which was awesome.
We will be in the Florence area and Rome for a total of two weeks 🙂 Hopefully, we will check out other places on day trips. It will be my first Italy trip, so I am looking forward to it. I just need to learn some Italian . . .
@@EmbryonicRobot make sure ya try the Chef Boyardee Beef-a-roni. hahaha.
@@STEVEHEROLD Of course! I'll put it in the to-do list 🙃
New subscriber. Nice channel.😊
Thanks very much for the great comment! 🙂
I love the way music connects us to the people we care about. Music is a bit like a time machine in that way eh.
Great entry.
I hadn't thought of that before, but the time machine comparison is right one. Now, I just need a way to make myself younger!
Great stories, Brian! I just posted my entry today, too. I am a lot like your father in the way he listened to 8-Tracks. I tend to find a record I love and play it to death. That last record was certainly a surprise! Good luck, Brian!
Well, at least with a record, you have to get off your butt and flip it over, so there is a bit of work involved! I often try not to play albums too much, lest I get tired of them 🙂
@@EmbryonicRobot You're a wise man! I have some sort of mental disfunction in that area.
We all struggle with our own VC-style mental disfunctions!
Well done Brian! This is one of your rare videos in that I have all of the records shown here😁
Amazing. We have more in common than I thought 🙃
Really enjoyed this video Brian. Alex came up with a really good contest. I can’t wrap my brain around an idea for one, I still have to offer up that record my musician friend signed and got me but… Anyhow, like I said, enjoy the stories behind your picks.
Awww… Some Girls 😊I also have sibling memories attatched to that record.
Good and best of luck Brian.
I agree. Alex hit this one out of the park!
Interesting topic for a contest. I agree with you on Alex's content, informative and entertaining. Thanks for sharing those stories about your family. What did you go to college for? Hope you're having a good week! Oh and happy Celiac awareness month! I didn't know that is a thing, but apparently in the US, Canada and Europe it is and it is in May!
Here's a surprise: I am already aware of Celiac Disease 🙂 But, obviously, we would like more people to be aware! Maybe I should stand on a street corner with a poster. In Canada, there is a move to make it easier to deduct food expenses on your income tax for this condition. I am all for that. My undergrad was History and Political Science. I assume you did some post-secondary education? By the way, I can't recall from the invite if you said that you are going to MGK's party?
Oh I'd definitely join you with a poster! I'm also all for deducting GF food as food expenses. I am invited and am going to MGK's Big BBQ Summer Bash. Are you going? MIke sent it to my phone at first and it said it was delivered from the screenshot he sent, but I never got it. So he emailed it to me. I'll be bringing some gluten free stuff. I went to school for political science, but never did anything with that degree. I'm working in tech now as a help desk technician, but have been thinking about going back to school.
I told Mike that I am driving down. I have booked a place, so unless something changes, I will be there! I did discuss the menu with Mike, but I have no clarity on ingredients. There will be salad! Going back to school is a good idea. I have lost the passion for education 🙂 I need a beach retirement plan 👍
Oh cool! Us GF guys will have to stick together! It will be awesome to meet you and so many people in person! I'm a fan of history and have been thinking of a Master's in lirary sciences or archival sciences. What do you do for work? And a beach retirement plan or somewhere warm retirement plan sounds good to me!
Steve - I found you on Facebook from Mike's channel. I am going to send you a longer message. I hope that is OK with you. You might find it very interesting 🙂
Wonderful entry Brian. I'm glad that you can still tolerate Rumours. I had a friend who only had an 8-track of Grease in his vehicle and I got so sick of that soundtrack and really never want to hear it again. I'm not sure what Rolling Stones album is the first one I heard, but Some Girls is a good one.
Grease on 8-track in a car sounds like a prison sentence!
Good tales - I love that U2 album- it was played to death by everyone when I was at school in that gap between Live Aid and Joshua Tree - and that Billy Idol album is a banger !
Thanks! Rebel Yell sort of plays like a greatest hits record.
“Without even thinking about it, I came up with five albums that fit the criteria” “Ideally in a perfect world I’d be sick of this record”…I need a clean copy of Some Girls. “Oddly that led me to buying cassettes, which I regret”…Kirk sounds cool. I have some fun roommate stories. My equivalent to your childhood friend Keith is my buddy Rene I mention in my videos. He might be coming to the party in July! On Billy Idol “Clearly his high watermark of success” …”It takes two”…very entertaining video Brian. ✌️
Mike - I can count on you to remind my of the key quotations from the videos. But, seriously, why did I buy cassettes? The cassette revival mystifies me, though I do get that the cassette format is very cost-effective for some acts and labels. I think we have seen Rene in one or two of your videos?
HP back on the comp train. I would have to show Billy Joel if it was for my Dad and it was a pleasure to rebel. I think I remember the video of your sisters records & she had a cookin' collection. I'm not so fond of U2 and I will mention it today and every other day I get a chance. I love the 80's hip hop look with all the gold chains. Nice entry mate. Cheers...SMG
Billy Joel! Even my dad didn't like him, but he did like Doris Day, which is way worse! I may have said this before, but I quite like The Unforgettable Fire, even if it makes me appear really uncool. I tried the gold chain look, but I couldn't pull it off. I think I must prefer silver 🧑🦳
@@EmbryonicRobot Given the choice I'd go Doris over Joel every time. What were you Brian's (Eno & You) thinking when it comes to U2?
@@benrankins4446 In the back of my mind, I sort of thought you might say that about Doris. It looks like U2 and Billy Joel among the few of your favourite things!
@@EmbryonicRobot Cat Stevens is another one. That was the only 8 track my dad had in the car. Tea For The Tillerman 🤮Harry Chapin, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Disco Bee Gees, Boz Scaggs, Dire Straits, Supertramp, Simon & Garfunkel and on and on. My parents were soooo MOR!
I will restrain myself and not mention who on that list of artists you have just mentioned that I have in my collection. I will say that I really like Crime of the Century. It's clearly their best work! 🙊
Brian, I really enjoyed this video, it triggered some nice memories for me. My brother, Robert, at a young age, became an Audiophile, he was not a music fanatic like me, but he only cared about having the best sound system. At the time I had hundreds of albums, tapes and 8-tracks but Robert had less than 5 vinyl albums. Steely Dan's ''Aja'' was one of them, so every time I play that album, I think of him. My buddy Steve would get on the dance floor whenever the DJ played, ''It Takes Two'', he became a ''chick- magnet'', which also helped me out with the women, when he dragged me into the spotlight with him and his entourage! Billy Idol, to me, is mediocre, his songs seem to fall apart, and his snarl becomes boring.
Very cool memories! It took me ages to enjoy Aja. Maybe it hits you at a certain age. Who knows? I find it funny how some memories will make you enjoy songs you would otherwise not like. I feel sort of that way with Billy Idol. If not for my friend, maybe I would appreciate it at all. His snarl may be overdone 🙃
Nice entry. I'm a little older. While I have the first 4 records, I have absolutely no idea who Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock are. Then again, I don't own a single rap album. It is by far, my least favorite genre - though I do adore Beasley Street (John Cooper Clark) and There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards (Ian Dury).
Yeah, Hip Hop is not for everyone. My least favourite genre is country music! I know the Ian Dury track and Beasley Street! That's a fun track.