for a quick update, you were jailed and could only eat one meal 3 times a day for the week… THEN, you got out of jail and your parole officer made you join some civic organization. you joined the SORRYs, who ban all fiction book, but let you keep one. a few years into the club, the highest level of induction was reached, in which you became a governmental memory guinea pig and wiped out all but one memory. THEN, you were walking down the street and ran into a friend.
all caught up?
[from the comments prior, some of you apparently don't even remember getting out of jail]
[and, yes, i'm officially making this up as we go - we're way past what i had planned! i never intended this to be a mini-drama]
so, you had a VERY interesting conversation with your friend, who has been hired by a secret counter-memory-unit. apparently, they are working to reverse the untold damages done by this memory wipe-out program. the unit recently relocated to the city, as this is the central location for many of you wipe-outs. they are slowly collecting intelligence on each of you, and running profiles to see which subjects would be salvage-able. as luck would have it, your name is one of the top on the list.
[i know. can this whole saga get any more strange!?]
here’s the deal. the work they’ve done so far has been very experimental – using only 45 year old chimpanzees and bald gorillas. (animal rights people are giving them a hard time)…. but the work has been VERY productive, and they are ready to start with live human subjects.
they start slow. they start easy… they start with adolescent experiences. this has something to do with the raging teenage hormones having imprinted the most traumatic teen memories on our brain’s inner lining. this lining can be restored, with memories harvested from here.
[yes - this is so bizarre - i'm officially scaring myself!]
anyway, part of the treatment is to undergo 48 straight hours of music therapy, having your auditory senses overwhelmed by an album of that time. it would have to be your favorite teenage album. so what album from your teen years would you choose to be blasted with for 48 hours?
[and, OFCOURSE you're not gonna 'remember' anything about music as a teen, because your memory has been wiped. here's where i must, AGAIN, beg suspension of disbelief and writer privilege - WORK WITH ME!]
album, cd, 8-track, vinyl? what will it be for 48 hours?
John Coltrane’s Ballads.
the mixed-tape of love songs joe t. gave me in 10th grade.
Alece: Joe T? JOE T? he was the HOTTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i know, right?!?!?!
I am gonna have to go with a mixed tape too… one given my an ex…who shall remain nameless!
oh, my mixed tape was old school r&b love songs from the mid 90′s! haha
heather: i KNEW you’d come up with some r&b from back-in-the-day! LOL
Does it have to be from my teenage years? Really? Ok, if it HAS to be from my teenage years…I’m going to have to admit it….Garth Brook, No Fences. There. I said it. But seeing as that would probably have a negative on our top secret bald gorilla experiments, I’m going to have to pull my cheat card out and change the album to John Denver, An Evening With John Denver Live. Much better memories with that one!
Shame about teenage years.
That wasn’t too long ago for me.
But…It’d have to be
98 degrees.
Don’t hit me! (cowers in the corner)
I was in love with boy bands, okay?!
……. sarah. i never woulda guessed it. not in a million. Garth? really?!?!
ps: there are no cheat cards here. sorry!
P.S. John Denver was a very nice man.
He gave me a hug once.
hmm Heather, what do you know about mid 90′s R&B love songs?
OK…I get this one
only one album? Umm…Im going to have to say some Whitney Houston! Yes, that’s right Whitney Houston! I know that the song “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” was right before my teen years, but it was definitely one of my favorites! Sad as it may be…it actually is still one of my favorites!
BTW…Heather I would have never guessed R&B for you…haha! Just Kidding…give me a shout out for some Boys II Men!
Ooooh………
PROBABLY the Cure’s “Disintegration” OR “Starfish” by the Church OR Jellyfish’s “Bellybutton” OR…okay, so I’ll stop already. That’s a hard one.
“STRONG PERSUADER” by Robert Cray.
And it would be a tape on continuous playback.
Too bad, I was a teen in the ’80′s we didn’t have any good albums only one hit wonders! I would have to say a mix tape or soundtrack for The Breakfast Club
Apologizes for my posts on the “friend” part of the story. Being dense, and somewhat slow on the uptake, I had not realized this was supposed to be a continuing story.
I am torn between “This Is Fats Domino”, and “Buddy Holly and the Crickets”, aka “The Chirping Crickets”, both from 1957.
Holly was my favorite but I think I might prefer to listen to Fat’s if it’s for 48 straight hours.
Choice – “This Is Fats Domino”
DC Talk – Jesus Freak
U2 for sure. Joshua Tree. (I’m not that old though)
Gosh…this is a sad life with hard questions. i can hardly answer them WITH my memory.
so…
Teen Mania / Acquire the Fire’s worship (I forget the name of it) with Sold Out and Radical / Be Bold or TM’s “Real Worship” – that was gooooood. I loved it.
Alece or Natalie…remember it?
“Come into this House, Magnify the Lord… Say oh, oh (echo), oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh say ohhhhhhhh singing…”
good times.
Toad the Wet Sprocket – Dulcinea
-or-
Anything by Collin Raye (we’re talking man-crush here)
Being one of the 45 year old Chimpanzees – there can be only one choice – compilation album:
The Monkees, by The Monkees
I’m a Believer! (who’s temporarily suspending belief – work it baby, work it!
)
love <B
yeller — i totally remember that tape! and i loved natalie’s “DC Talk” choice. aaah. fond memories.
DANG! y’all went NUTS with this…. and now that “some of you” (read: InWorship and Ed) are catching on to the series, i’m gonna have to think of a next installment…. to be continued. ha ha ha!!!
Joe- In high school, all …I mean ALL I listened to was rap and R&B. Swv, Aaron hall, Tevin Cambell, Brownstone, boyz 2 men, Coolio, Mary J blige… Oh, boy, I could go on and ON…!
For the record, I think a mix-tape is a cop out. But hey, its not my story.
I would go with…
a mix tape, 4 songs from each of these CDs.
Bone – E1999 Eternal
Live – Throwing Copper
Dave Matthews Band – Remember Two Things
OK, if I have to pick ONE…
Remember Two Things.
Ahhhhhhhh hike skool.
Trav: mix-tape IS a cop out. that’s why i intentionally DIDN’T offer that option…. so, way to be a man about all this….
geez louise.
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