GuyK has been putting up YouTube clips of the music of his youth, so I thought I'd steal that idea and put up some of MY favorite tunes from my youth....

Jim Morrison..some hail him as a divine poet, some denounce him as the devil incarnate..I just thought he made some really cool music that spoke to a whole generation, for good or ill, it's up to the individual listener. Think what you will, but even the (C)Rap "artist" Snoop Dog thought it was worth a remix:

I hate to admit I like it, but that beat just gets to you....

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I was a soldier a few years after this song was at it's height, but even though it was supposed to be an anti-war protest song, I still felt it was a tribute to the sacrifices of the soldier in a roundabout way..or maybe I just had had too large a toke on the pipe? It still moves me that way.

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I can remember playing this song over and over again in my barracks room; it fit my homesick mood at the time.

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And last but not least, the ONLY song my dad and I ever agreed on as being worthy of airplay:

And just for fun:

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