iPlay: Extreme
August 27, 2009 by NaysWay · 4 Comments
The White girl in me. She likes to come out and overtake me sometimes. I don’t have a problem with her. She gets me. I get her. We rock out. It’s just that simple.
When I was in grade school, my mother had a tall, good-looking, White friend (his name was Tim… at least I’m almost positive it was) from her office who moonlighted in a band. He had a mullet before I knew what mullets were. He wore stonewashed jeans. He had a pierced ear. He appealed to the White girl in me and she had the hugest crush on him. Not me. The White girl. I can’t control that chic sometimes. She sees brown hair and green eyes, and it’s all over. Tim was HAWT… said the White girl. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Tim would frequently make mix tapes for me and my mother since we were (and still are) avid music listeners. Remember mix tapes?! Those things were huge in the 80′s and 90′s. These young kids nowadays have no idea what they’re missing with their iPods and mp3s and streaming audio. All I needed were super large headphones – you know the kind that wrapped around your whole head, they were so big – my boom box (yeah, I said it), and a mix tape. Ah, memories.
One day, Tim gave my mother a mix tape of some group we’d never heard of before. This was a common occurrence with Tim as most things he listened to we’d never heard before. Maybe all things, now that I think about it. Anyway, Tim had good taste in music so we trusted his judgement. This was the tape:
And this was the song that kept me up nights singing over and over again with my ginormous headphones:
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Good times. Good. Times.
Tim was awesome.
And HAWT. Nice, HAWT Tim with the mullet. *sigh*
My husband is a total geek over Extreme. Which kind of cracks me up because of girly songs like this one. I like Extreme, but prefer some of their heavier, more lyrically complex work.
They do have amazing vocals and Nuno Bettencourt’s guitar gives the songs depth that is unusual to the typical hair band of the 80s and 90s.
Good choice!
I don’t know why I had such an affinity to hair bands. But their hair was oh so pretty. I agree, this was the girliest song they’d ever created. I loved it so.
Ahh, mix tapes…my now husband used to make these for me while we were dating. He has an encyclopedia of music in his head. He can listen to the first three notes of a song and know the artist and album. I on the other hand am music challenged. I don’t know (care?) who sings it, I just know what I like. Guess I should probably have my husband make CDs of the few mixed tapes I saved. It’s sad that my girls may never know what it is like to receive a mixed tape as a gift. I’m such a geek.
I’m willing to give my girls mix tapes just so they’ll know what they are. I don’t care how weird they think I am. That’s history!