Your Mission... Should You Decide To Accept It...

Remember that post back on 5/25 when I referred to songs that were on my "enhance the mood" cassettes in the way-back?  Well, we got this very nice comment on that post sorta late last night (thanks, AHFTD!):

AHowlFromTheDesert said...

Okay, long time lurker, first time poster. exileinportales is in my top 15 blogs much like Exile On Main Street is in my top 15 CDs. Although I am early GenX (in high school in the early 80s) and do love some of the early 80s music (The Cars, Devo, X, The Cult, etc.), lately, I have been getting into the late 60s/early-mid 70s music. Led Zep, The Stones, The Who, The Doors, even Foghat thanks to you. So, my question to you and the other commenters for this post, what was on your "mood enhancing" cassette back in the 60s/70s/early 80s. Please list your playlist (10-15 songs) that helped you make it through the night. Thanks.

Wow. That's gonna require some thought.  On my part, anyhoo.  The seduction-tape thing came to my mind in a sorta flash of consciousness when I posted that Joe Walsh tune.  It has been WELL over 30 years... more like 33 or 34 if I was actually counting... since I built one of those tapes and you know what they say about memory and old age.  It's mostly true, too.  

The only thing that comes immediately to mind is there was lotsa Joni on those tapes, but not everyone is into The Chirp.  Things like "Rainy Night House," "A Case of You," "Electricity," and you know there may be more (that's a Joni inside joke... I HAD to throw it in there).  Being as how I was a Sensitive Seventies Kinda Guy there was a liberal sprinkling of Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, and others of that ilk (the tunes at the link prolly made the cut).  And "Moonlight Mile" was ALWAYS on those tapes.  Always.  And since there's never a bad time for that tune... we'll play it now!




OK... any of you Gentle Readers want to offer up the play list of YOUR "mood enhancing" tapes? Coz Enquiring Minds™ wanna know.

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This is an EIP tradition, seeing as how we've recognized this day every year since we began blogging.  What we said on this date last year:

Today is The Second Mrs. Pennington’s birthday. She’s 53 today, and I have no compunctions about publishing her age. Real Women are proud of their age… the experience it brings and both the inner and outer beauty of maturity. I think TSMP falls into that camp. Or strides resolutely into it… whatevah.

So… in honor of the birthday girl… here’s a pic from the Way-Back; March of 1998, to be exact:

Happy birthday, Paula.

Add another year... 54 today.  By Odin's Beard!  That girl is gettin' OLD!