Category: Getting Older

bookmark_bordersome of us may have loved Van Halen more

Posted on by Christine Elias

I am from Scarborough. To be very specific, I moved there as a teenager but no matter, I lived there when Big Hair Metal ruled.

I am a wee bit younger than Mike Meyers but we are from the same neck of the woods. Wayne’s World may have taken place Aurora, Illinois but we all know that Mr. Meyers grew up in Scarborough. And he did not spend his spare time at Stan Makita’s.

And we all loved KISS. Well, some of us may have loved Van Halen more but everyone on my block was a member of the KISS Army nonetheless.

In retrospect — after listening to a few KISS tunes while drafting this — I think my love for the music has not endured as much as my love for big sexy boots.

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Posted on by Christine Elias

Queen. Is that too much to ask?

Queen-band

They have sold an estimated 180 million records around the world and, in their home country of Britain, remain second only to The Beatles in terms of sales and collectability (though in 2005, they actually exceeded the number of weeks spent on the British chart by The Beatles).

All my Queen albums are on cassette (I know!). And since I have this gadget now, it only makes sense to have all my songs on it.

So off I go to to iTunes.

They have:

  • Queen Ida & Bon Temps Zydeco Band
  • Queen Ekanem
  • Queen Boyz
  • Queen Yemisi
  • Queen Esther
  • Queen Makedah
  • Queen Latifah
  • Turkish Queen
  • and Queens of the Stone Age

But no Queen! You know, the band?

God, I’m still young. Where the hell is Queen?

At least I found The Motels.

It’s like I told you
Only the lonely can play
So hold on here we go
Hold on to nothin’ we know
I feel so lonely way up here

I am so lonely on iTunes. Where are my people (peeps?) going to get music?