The SFB

Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.

Gen X

  • Musical Entrances

    Music and music people and musicians and musical savants from whom I learn something every day. I wrote about exits a while ago. There have been a lot of exits the last eight years in the past eight years of my life. Because I have a tendency to look at the glass half-empty, I’ve focused… Read more

  • The Boys Are Back in Town

    BICENTENNIAL SUMMER PERFECTION Here’s another perfect song from that Bicentennial Summer.  Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back in Town.  It’s probably their most well-known song, and for a reason.  It’s a great fucking song. As I said before, I was ten that summer and just becoming aware of rock music, music other than the weird… Read more

  • BICENTENNIAL SUMMER MEMORIES-LOVE IS ALIVE by GARY WRIGHT

    Another perfect song from the summer of ’76. July 1976 and the hits just keep on coming! Gary Wright’s perfect song Live is Alive is another perfect song from the summer of 76!  It still thrills me to hear it.  How can you not move when you hear it?  I have to get funky with… Read more

  • REO Speedwagon

    And the end of freshman year, 1981. REO Speedwagon The Gen X soundtrack was dominated by REO Speedwagon in the late 70s and early 80s. They. Were. Everywhere. Older brothers and sisters listened to You Can Tune a Piano But You Can’t Tune a Fish, and we listened to High Infidelity. I personally can’t say I loved REO Speedwagon but… Read more

  • Jessie’s girl by Rick Springfield

    Always reminds me of the anticipation of summer vacation 45 years ago. June.  The promise of summer.  The anticipation.  The sun.  The warmth.  Surging teenage hormones. Would you go back?  I might.   If you attended school in New York State then you know how ridiculously late the school year ends.  Having spent most of my… Read more

  • STYX

    A staple of 70s and 80s airwaves and a huge part of the Gen X soundtrack! If you grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s then Styx was most definitely part of the soundtrack for your life. My love of Styx will always and forever be tied to a group of older kids who were… Read more

  • Another long lost mid-80s delight!

    Sly Fox’s Let’s Go All the Way is THE perfect song! Ending my SPRING OF ‘86 perfect songs with this long lost gem and one hit wonder, Sly Fox’s Let’s Go All The Way.  There were so many outstanding songs, I mean a real bounty of talent and aural greatness, along with a treasure trove… Read more

  • HAIR and turning 60 and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!!!!!

    Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hairShining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxenGive me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longerHere baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy Hair, flow it, show itLong as God can grow, my hair I want to wish a very happy birthday to one of the most special humans I… Read more

  • Morning Cry

    “…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning When I meditate or listen to the universe every morning, when I’m sitting in my yard in the sun, snow or rain I almost always have… Read more

  • More musical perfection from 1986

    Robert Palmer and Addicted to Love May, 1986. Robert Palmer and five red lipped beauties. That beat. Those lyrics. Yeah, I’m talking about a hot, hot, hot PERFECT song that peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 3, 1986 and spent a week there. Addicted to Love. What. A. Fucking. Great. Song.… Read more