What Are You Listening to Right Now?

For the past few weeks I've dug out some of my old CD's from the 1980s........rock and roll bands that I grew up listening to, when to me that was all there was when it came to music. As I've grown older and matured, I've discovered many different genres of music and my tastes have changed a bit. But it's been cool listening to the music of my youth........brings back memories when I hear them. It's funny how music does that to a person.........more than anything else I would say. When you hear a song, it either reminds you of a relationship or some life situation you've been in, or you just find yourself remembering where you were and what you were doing when you first heard the song.

I was just a little kid when most of this music first came out. Of course there was the MTV era I grew up with as well, starting in the early 1980s. But here is just a sampling of some of the music I recently dug out of my personal archives. I guess I was in a '70s and '80s arena rock mode, listening to bands like Boston, Styx, Foreigner, Survivor, 38 Special and so forth. They did make some great rock and roll. Here are a few flashbacks to that great era of hard rockin' bands.