Housecleaning to the 80's

In order to be really effective at cleaning (not just arranging, I mean really cleaning) the kitchen, I need loud music, and lots of it. I turned on the TV, which with our digital cable comes with an assortment of themed music channels. I switched on "The 80's" and, about 4 minutes later, they played "Sweet Child O' Mine" by GnR. Awesome.

I ran downstairs to grab DH's Appetite for Destruction CD (I only had the cassette as a kid) and ran back up to the kitchen. Seconds later, the wildly overplayed but still awesome "Welcome to the Jungle" was blasting and I was a cleaning fiend!

The thing that surprised me the most was, considering that I hadn't listened to the entire album for at least 10 years (maybe I listed to it in college, but I don't think so), I still totally knew the words to most of the lyrics. Especially songs that don't get any radioplay, like "It's so Easy" and "Think about You"; the only way I would have known those lyrics was from the 100s of times I must have listened to the album when it came out. When my friends were listening to New Kids on the Block and New Edition and whatever fluffy pop music was the thing in the late 80s, I was listening to GnR and stuff like that. I was a weird kid.

Funny enough, I remember listening to "It's so Easy" with my childhood best friend and roaring with guilty laughter at the blatent profanity. Hey, I was like 11-12 years old. Profanity was brand new to us then; I don't think that it was as commonplace as it is to kids that age nowadays. Certainly not the F-word. Anyway, it's a funny memory.