# Songs you used to adore that fell out of your brain for over 20 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 23, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529 "2014-01-23T16:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/21 "2014-01-24T17:46:38Z")
**ZipperJJ** helped me remember one that popped up not too long ago: [Art Blakey- Ocalypso](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoqCGc12Rog) (some other group doing it) is now being used in some cruise line commercial. Although it hadn’t really dropped all the way out of my mind it took a while for me to identify the tune. It was on one the first LP’s I ever owned back in the late 50’s. I used to try to play my bongos along with it and the other tunes on the album. I think I already mentioned this in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/22 "2014-01-24T18:06:35Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’d say it’s been over 20 years since I thought of Rainbow’s “Stone Cold” “…_I thought I knew you so well_ …” You mentioned that song and the line instantly popped into my head. And it may be over 20 years since I’ve thought of it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/23 "2014-01-24T18:19:36Z")
[OUR DAY WILL COME - Ruby and the Romantics](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3WdW4HNoXU) [People - I Love You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5rKF2w_ro) [Carpenters - Superstar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmmaIGiGBg) [Les Dudek - Old Judge Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTgIM3s43w) [The Box Tops - Sweet Cream Ladies , Forward March](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_URK08Yee4) [James Vincent - Space Traveler](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWuVBRvjC2U) Batdorf and Rodney - “All I Need” - too obscure for YouTube! ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/24 "2014-01-24T18:25:48Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I was a big Chicago fan in my early teens-they used to be able to write some pretty compelling melodies, which combined with the horns often made things pretty powerful. Well, Terry Kath blew his brains out, Peter Cetera took over the band, and within like 2 albums (VII was their last decent one) they were utter dogmeat, and I moved on to other artists. > > In an idle moment last year I chanced to listen to “Beginnings” on Youtube, and remembered why I liked them so much back in the day. I haven’t gone overboard (their albums were always typically full of filler), but I have gotten like 8 songs of theirs now, and keep them on regular rotation. I think [“Feeling Stronger Every Day”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-wHixgp2RE) and [Jefferson Starship’s “Miracles”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj3W9rt3GTE) best epitomize’s 70’s AM radio. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/25 "2014-01-24T20:08:06Z")
Somewhere between the ages of 11 and 33, I completely forgot about Roxette’s “Joyride.” It was randomly playing one day when I picking up lunch at a deli. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/26 "2014-01-24T22:47:39Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I think [“Feeling Stronger Every Day”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-wHixgp2RE) Not sure if that is a subtle dig/whoosh, or what, but I’ll just mention that that song just shuffled on my computer player, out of 500 song list (I usually play stuff on random shuffle)… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/27 "2014-01-24T23:14:39Z")
The one they are using on the car commercial these days: “I guess you wonder where I been…” (Got a thing for you and I can’t let go) takes me right back to being a kid playing in our street. I must not have heard it very much in between since its memories haven’t been replaced. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/28 "2014-01-25T00:21:14Z")
I was in a Rescue Mission thrift store today and they were playing the BEST music from the 80s, the very best songs of the 80’s. I heard: “Tall Cool One” by Robert Plant “Family Man” by Hall & Oates “Something Always Breaking Us in Two” by Joe Jackson Three of my favorite performers, and three nearly forgotten songs. It was great! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/29 "2014-01-25T01:09:24Z")
[Heavy Disguise](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUG5qgAhwWo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpUG5qgAhwWo), by The Strawbs (and more like 40 years). ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/30 "2014-01-25T02:53:22Z")
Find the River by REM was just rediscovered by me about a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/31 "2014-01-25T03:53:37Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > [“With You, I’m Born Again”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnFBoRh8Ihw) I love that song. Maybe a bit too strong on that 70s-era sweetening, but it’s really a lovely work and Syreeta’s voice is unparalleled. Here is one I heard, once, in a restaurant in Ohio back in the 90’s. Even then I had forgotten this song, and have never heard it since: [Pilot of the Airwaves](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqonLHg4HX0), by Charlie Dore. ---
**Author:** ![Marlonius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Marlonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlonius)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/32 "2014-01-25T04:59:50Z")
How’s about one hit wonder Bourgeois Tag’s “I Don’t Mind at All”? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxx9mL1QVU) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/33 "2014-01-25T05:06:19Z")
[Valley of the Kings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV15CybyHUs&list=PL75815BB8C0065041) - Tangerine Dream [My Mother, the War](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WCpMThejA) - 10,000 Maniacs [Misguided Angel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9aLa7X_1is) - Cowboy Junkies [Teenage Nervous Breakdown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1OLVQEcvbc) - Little Feat Guess you could say I had exotic tastes. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/34 "2014-01-25T12:41:09Z")
> [@diggerwam](#): > > Find the River by REM was just rediscovered by me about a year ago. I hate you for reminding me that that _Automatic for the People_ was 20 years ago! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/35 "2014-01-25T14:54:35Z")
There was a late night radio show back in the mid-60s when I was a teen that played a lot of R&B; sort of like Venus Flytrap. It had an instrumental theme song that I was instantly wild about, but they never said the name or artist. I listened for weeks until finally the DJ announced: "As always, that was. . . [Soul Serenade](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCfqnQOLzCA), by King Curtis" I raced downtown the next day and ordered the 45 record, and I played it till the grooves wore out and I had every note memorized. Then I forgot about it as life took over and rediscovered it some 30 years later. I still love it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/36 "2014-01-25T17:11:15Z")
I hadn’t heard “[I Do the Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9uxaqpEGQ&list=RDcUsQj_ha0zU)” by Tim Curry in 30 years or so, then heard a reference to it a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/37 "2014-01-25T17:51:00Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I hadn’t heard “[I Do the Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9uxaqpEGQ&list=RDcUsQj_ha0zU)” by Tim Curry in 30 years or so, then heard a reference to it a few weeks ago. And Rockne’s very K-nute I know! Fun song. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/38 "2014-01-25T19:42:03Z")
I’m reminded of the episode of Friends where Ross shipped Marcel off to a zoo. As they were waving goodbye to Marcel, John Sebastian’s [“You’re A Big Boy Now”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwYBDkYFg80), his solo studio version came up. That took me back. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/39 "2014-01-25T20:27:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There was a late night radio show back in the mid-60s when I was a teen that played a lot of R&B; sort of like Venus Flytrap. It had an instrumental theme song that I was instantly wild about, but they never said the name or artist. I listened for weeks until finally the DJ announced: "As always, that was. . . > > [Soul Serenade](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCfqnQOLzCA), by King Curtis" > > I raced downtown the next day and ordered the 45 record, and I played it till the grooves wore out and I had every note memorized. Then I forgot about it as life took over and rediscovered it some 30 years later. I still love it. I had the same experience here in Chicago with the late night DJ known as “Mister A”. He would end every show with that tune but never mentioned what the name of it was. I finally found out it was Soul Serenade by [Oliver Sain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1VjRpBMjs). You got to check out this version. It will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529/40 "2014-01-25T21:10:37Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > I had the same experience here in Chicago with the late night DJ known as “Mister A”. He would end every show with that tune but never mentioned what the name of it was. I finally found out it was Soul Serenade by [Oliver Sain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1VjRpBMjs). You got to check out this version. It will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. A more “jazzy” version, for sure. The guy had incredible breath control, and nailed the piece. Curtis was appealing to the pop/soul audience, I think, so his version was more vamped. I was surprised to see that The Allman Brothers covered the song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-used-to-adore-that-fell-out-of-your-brain-for-over-20-years/679529.md?page=3)