OT: Your FAVORITE STUFF Growing Up....

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Not the Farrah poster I had (heh..heh)  but I also had this one...

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After the SF playoff win -'87...

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@Vanguard83 said:

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When I was 12 I decided I was going to save my allowance and buy every single Elton John album. Started with Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was 2nd. By the time I was 14 I had them all. Man I miss the days of album art and liner notes. Not long after, I discovered punk and new wave and let Elton go. It wasn't until recently that I began to appreciate again just what a genius he was in those days. 

Money well spent my brother....

"Blue Moves" one of my all time favorites -  Not well received by the critics, but this is the album where he went from pop star...to a composer... The song "Tonight", for my money it doesn't get much better from his entire catalogue. watch on Youtube with full orchestration.  WOW .

Loved Blue Moves. Bought it in Marshall Fields in Chicago. I think how it was received by critics is why Elton went into seclusion for a couple years. But I agree it's underrated. There is a lot of filler on that album, but Tonight, Idol and Chameleon are three of the best songs he's ever written IMO.

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@savannahskol said:

My goodness, I forgot how drop dead gorgeous she was...

That poor dear died way too young and in a really terrible way too. 

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@Vanguard83 said:

My older sisters had that album.   :p

J/K.  That album had Funeral/Love lies bleeding.  Rock masterpiece , imo.



EJ collaborated with Eminem who was under fire as being homophobic, at the time. 
That took courage.  
EJ:  “I know I’m going to get a lot of flak from various people who are going to picket the show [but] I’d rather tear down walls between people than build them up.” Asked if he believed the then-28-year-old rapper really was “hateful,” he replied: “If I thought for one minute that he was, I wouldn’t do it.”






Word on the street is, EJ collaborated with Metallica (GOAT) during the lockdown.





Today's Pop culture needs more folks like EJ

Bravissimo!  The last minute of this is phenomenal. 

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Other than Farrah...lol....

Persimmon Chattanooga Peerless Driver by Arnold Palmer.  



Got it my sophomore year of HS (1979)

Po boys from all over wanted to see...."Excalibur".  *genuflexion*
Still have it, one of my proudest possessions.   (we couldn't afford it, somehow I got it). 
Thanks & RIP Dad.  

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@"BarrNone55" said:
AFX slot cars

Hell yeah!  Been a Vike Fan for over 50 years and a longtime lurker here, yet this post is the one that brought me out of my shell. 
I was into HO and then Auroa AFX cars big time as a kid. I was in heaven the year I got the Daytona high banked turns for Christmas! Thanks for jogging my memories of those good times!

https://images.app.goo.gl/tg8xmhy7GTWMe7F87

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That and cutting across Mr. Newton's lawn

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@BigAl99 said:

That and cutting across Mr. Newton's lawn

https://youtu.be/N99ee1umzQE