Heshire's Playlist........

As others have said, this blog can be quite addiciting. Obviously since this will be my 3rd post.

I took Mr. Lopatka's idea of a soundtrack to our 'Nade days a little too seriously. I have spent way too much time the past couple of days going through the Billboard Top 100 charts for our Chami' years. I am a big fan of Napster (same as I-tunes if your an Ipod person) and have a bunch of songs downloaded from Heavy Metal to Disco (no really, its for my wife.....).

Putting together a group of songs from those days reminded me of a few things........

#1 - Dave Skaggs - 8th Grade Little Campus - got me hooked on heavy metal. My first exposure to Iron Maiden was a tape he leant me. That led to the whole Heshire bit. Even my XBOX Live username is Heshire. (Than he started dating Sharon Broughton and went new wave on us a year later.) Also the same year Matt Dalsing introduced me to the evils of Copenhagen.....

#2 - Dances in the Little Campus Cafeteria - Adam Ant / Journey /Pat Benetar / et al. Everyone sitting around the room when the slow songs came on, and trying to get up the nerve to dance with THAT girl (or any girl).

#3 - First Concert - Van Halen 1984 - The Forum - I think it was Grondin, Bratkovich, & maybe Bochiccio or Dave Chemelka - but I might be wrong..... Driving the Blue '73 Pontiac Ventura back from the show setting land-speed records on the 101....

#4 - White Lines by Grandmaster Flash- just about everywhere...... but usually at the park behind the big campus discovering the wonders of fermented beverages.

#5 - Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill album - Who remembers the Red Van I had with the table in the back - cramming to get homework done in the morning before the bell rang. Better yet, who remembers the van Troy Kirk used to drive?

#6 - Dokken & Krokus & Rush - Me & Bruce Roberts on a 6 hour drive to San Diego one Friday afternoon to party, ...eerrrrr "visit" with his bro at SDSU. Saturday Morning - worst hangover of all time.......

#7 - Iron Maiden - My senior quote was from one of their songs...... Oh man what was I thinking.....

#8 - RATT & Van Halen - vague memories of a crazy vacant house party in West Hills followed by rash of tee-pee attacks through the valley.... Kathy Hayes made us do it.....

#9 - 105.5 KNAC - Pure Rock!! - more concerts: Rush, Triumph, Deep Purple, Dio, Oingo Boingo, Accept, and more Rush.....

#10 - Senior Year - Post-Kairos - Bon Jovi - driving in the red van with a bunch of people on the way to Santa Paula (or somewhere) singing Living on a Prayer.........

I could go on forever.....
Well here's a playlist in case you forgot some of the stuff we use to (and may still) listen to....... If you want the Napster Playlist let me know........ The first song is not from that decade, BUT it is related..... If you haven't heard it before, give it a shot...pretty darn relevant to this blog...

This is not my OFFICIAL music submission, as many of these songs are not on my regular rotation. Nor is it a complete list of our era at the nade. I just thought it would help get something started......

Enjoy.

-Heshire

Bowling for Soup - 1985

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Adam Ant - GOODY TWO SHOES
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - White Lines
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone
Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark
John Mellencamp - Small Town
Oingo Boingo - Just Another Day
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
Journey - Only The Young
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
The Fixx - Are We Ourselves
Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
Deep Purple - Knocking At Your Back Door
Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock
Ratt - Round And Round
Dokken - Alone Again

Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?
Tears for Fears - Shout
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way
The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff
Triumph - Follow Your Heart
David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
Peter Gabriel - Big Time
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
Cinderella - Somebody Save Me
Great White - Rock Me
U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
ZZ Top - Legs
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
The Police - Synchronicity II
Big Country - In A Big Country
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Kiss - Lick It Up
Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
The Fixx - Stand Or Fall [Live (Canada)]
David Bowie - China Girl
The Tubes - She's A Beauty
Berlin - The Metro
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
After the Fire - Der Kommissar
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang
Pat Benatar - Little Too Late
Thompson Twins - Lies
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
Modern English - I Melt With You
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You
Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Rush - New World Man
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat
Cheap Trick - She's Tight
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Missing Persons - Words
Van Halen - (Oh) Pretty Woman
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Olivia Newton-John - Physical
The Cars - Since You're Gone
The B-52's - Private Idaho
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny
The Tubes - She's A Beauty
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
Krokus - Screaming In The Night