Classic Rock

Pretty much any Boston song is one that invokes vivid memories and rockets me back to 9th grade. I was into classic rock and really liked hearing the guitar in the songs. I got the greatest hits CD and was one of the first CD’s I purchased in which I actually liked every song. “Smokin’” was a classic from the song that I remember, and hear on the radio occasionally. Playing of the song reminds me of when every few weekends or so a group of buddies and I would mess around with herbs and have a good time. I definitely tried to keep this from becoming a serious habit, atleast until latter years. However I still remember those times as a youth as more fun and experimental that was the starting of a curious life.

Memorable Song

My first semester at Florida State a song came out and was an instant hit. Chicken Fried, by the Zac Brown Band. My roommate and I first heard this song while driving in his truck. We thought it was a good song, however did not pay as much attention to it as we should have. We heard it probably 2 or so more times before discovering how amazing this song really was.

This song seemed to come on whenever we were doing anything that was the least bit memorable. And when it did come on we would always make a big deal out of it. We would say something like “good times in Salley” which is the phrase we adopted referring to the dorm we live in Salley Hall. However, the saying soon became not only for stuff we did inside our dorm, but anything we did while in Tallahassee our first semester.

We both learned to love the song, and forced others too as well. They learned to love it too. Now almost all of our friends here at FSU enjoy the song as much as we do. We soon got the song on CD and play it whenever we leave the dorm for anything. The song is kind of a reminder of my first semester, the different memories I have from it, the activities we did when my roommate and I were together, which was almost 90 percent of the time. I think its safe to say whenever I hear this song for the rest of my life I will think of my first semester at FSU and I know a lot of my friends will and my roommate will for sure.

Basketball

When I was in 7^th grade I attended Palmetto Middle School in Miami, Florida. I found out around my birthday that we would soon be moving to a new county. While enrolled at Palmetto I was part of the dance school program, and was required to choreograph a group dance to be performed at the year showcase at the end of the school year. This was going to be my last dance performance with my three best friends of a while. We decided to dance to the “Like Mike” movie song “Basketball” by Lil Bow Wow. We spent several months creating and perfecting the biggest and most significant dance of my dance career. I knew once I moved, I would never have the same passion for dance because I had grown up and always danced with these girls. The big night came and we danced our hearts out, for a bunch of seventh graders I would have to say we did a great job, and the audience loved it. I was completely torn once the performance was over, it felt like nothing would ever be the same. Every time the song comes on, I go back to that night and those last few months at Palmetto. It didn’t just hold the memory of that showcase, or that dance, it was a theme song for our friendship. Now almost 6 years later, those girls and I still do speak on occasion, but that song no matter how far apart holds our friendship together and gives us something to go back to and smile about when we miss each other. Despite how lame it may seem now “Basketball” will always make us laugh, cement our friendship and remind us how important a school requirement can become for us.

Dani California

The song Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers present a certain memory for me. I was in the 10th grade and my brother who is 4 years older than I am, came and picked me up from school at Florida High. It was May 9th the day Stadium Arcadium was released. We had been anticipating the release of the double disc album since July the year before. We had found a bootleg acoustic version of the song about a month before the album is released. We got the CDs and where headed to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch with our friends. Later that night we had a senior league baseball game.

Colt 45

During my eleventh grade year, my best friend and I would jam out to Colt 45 by the infamous Afroman. We knew nothing of what he was really singing about, but found the lyrics to be hysterical. They were provocative, but we always managed to laugh at them. As soon as I hear this song, memories fly back to this time period. We would listen to this song any time we entered the car to go somewhere. I remember driving down the highway to Ft. Lauderdale beach with the windows down blaring the song. People always knew what song it was when we passed, laughing with us. At times we would put the song on repeat and sing it over and over again. Many kids actually laughed at the fact that we knew the whole song. In a sense, it became our anthem. To this day we jam out and went to go see him in concert. That was a laugh in itself.