[FoRK] Open Arms

[Andy Armstrong]

On 17 Jan 2008, at 11:02, Dave Long wrote:
>> Did you not have proper music in America then? :P
>
> Set and setting, man.  There is music that one appreciates because  
> it's good, and then there's music that one appreciates because of  
> the good times one had when it happened to be playing.  The french  
> have a word for songs like "Open Arms" -- un slow -- and, as such,  
> it falls squarely into the latter category.  Now, unlike Jeff and  
> Russell, I myself didn't have a license in the early 80's, and was  
> in fact many years[0] away from even a permit, but at least I was at  
> an age[1] where slow dances generally meant that I wound up with  
> breasts[2] in my face, so not only won't I apologize for having a  
> certain sentimentality for Journey, but Mr. Perry even gets my  
> thanks, for the mammaries.


That explains my love of Toto's Hold the Line then.

(For the record I totally get the nostalgia thing. I'm guessing from  
the implied chronology that I'm older than you. I was certainly  
driving in the early eighties. I'm 43)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten