Thirty Days of Song - Day Two
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Day Two - A song you like with a number in the title
Janis Ian - At Seventeen (Between the Lines)
This song could have gone on a number of different places in the list, especially because I have two entries for Day Two, but I love it so much and it has so much meaning for me that I wanted it early in the list.
I wasn't seventeen when I first heard this - I was probably closer to twelve (but maybe as young as eleven). My eldest sister had a car with an eight-track player in it (!) and we used to hang out a lot together - the mall, the pizza parlor, the beach. It wasn't unusual for her to take me to Record World and spend hours browsing the racks - and on this particular day, she bought a copy of Between the Lines to listen to in the car (she had the LP for home listening). Of course, after we left the store, she popped it into the deck and we listened and drove and I remember talking about the lyrics (we did that a lot). At Seventeen was the song we talked about the most.
In later years, when I did turn seventeen and was the ugliest of ducklings, I had my sister's copy of the LP on permanent borrow, and listened to At Seventeen so often, I heard it in my sleep.
Bonus Track: Eurythmics - Seventeen Again (Peace)
I definitely did not love the Eurythmics when they hit the charts with Sweet Dreams (are made of this), during my senior year in high school. It was overplayed and ridiculous and nothing like the music I preferred (I'd been heavy into folk, singer/songwriter, British Invasion, and classical - my tastes were about 20 years out of sync). But years later, driving with a friend, I was re-introduced to the group and fell deeply in love.
Fast forward to the early Oughts and the iTunes Music Store. I thought I had all of the Eurythmics on CD, but discovered that I'd completely missed their 1999 reunion album. I bought it and typical me, didn't listen to it for years. And by years, I mean almost a decade. I even remember the first time I listened to it - January, 2010, just as I was falling deep into the White Collar fandom - which is why several songs will always be associated with Peter/Neal and Neal/Kate.
However, this one isn't one of those. This one bookends with the Janis Ian song, and tells the opposite story of the ugly duckling who is shunned and degraded by her more physically attractive peers.
Day Two - A song you like with a number in the title
Janis Ian - At Seventeen (Between the Lines)
This song could have gone on a number of different places in the list, especially because I have two entries for Day Two, but I love it so much and it has so much meaning for me that I wanted it early in the list.
I wasn't seventeen when I first heard this - I was probably closer to twelve (but maybe as young as eleven). My eldest sister had a car with an eight-track player in it (!) and we used to hang out a lot together - the mall, the pizza parlor, the beach. It wasn't unusual for her to take me to Record World and spend hours browsing the racks - and on this particular day, she bought a copy of Between the Lines to listen to in the car (she had the LP for home listening). Of course, after we left the store, she popped it into the deck and we listened and drove and I remember talking about the lyrics (we did that a lot). At Seventeen was the song we talked about the most.
In later years, when I did turn seventeen and was the ugliest of ducklings, I had my sister's copy of the LP on permanent borrow, and listened to At Seventeen so often, I heard it in my sleep.
Bonus Track: Eurythmics - Seventeen Again (Peace)
I definitely did not love the Eurythmics when they hit the charts with Sweet Dreams (are made of this), during my senior year in high school. It was overplayed and ridiculous and nothing like the music I preferred (I'd been heavy into folk, singer/songwriter, British Invasion, and classical - my tastes were about 20 years out of sync). But years later, driving with a friend, I was re-introduced to the group and fell deeply in love.
Fast forward to the early Oughts and the iTunes Music Store. I thought I had all of the Eurythmics on CD, but discovered that I'd completely missed their 1999 reunion album. I bought it and typical me, didn't listen to it for years. And by years, I mean almost a decade. I even remember the first time I listened to it - January, 2010, just as I was falling deep into the White Collar fandom - which is why several songs will always be associated with Peter/Neal and Neal/Kate.
However, this one isn't one of those. This one bookends with the Janis Ian song, and tells the opposite story of the ugly duckling who is shunned and degraded by her more physically attractive peers.
