Hello dear Music Community.
It is time for another #ThreeTuneTuesday. For those not familiar with it, here's an explanation.
About 73 Weeks ago @ablaze started this incredible movement:
Every Tuesday I'm going to share 3 songs which I like to listen to and I invite your feedback in the comments below. Or why not have a blast of your own Three Tune Tuesday and mention me in the post and I'll come and find the post and hopefully upvote it. It'll be a sweet way for us all to discover new music.
Today's tunes come with a bit of my life story to put them into context.
I was never good in English at school. In fact, I almost flunked out because I was so bad. I hated it. I just barely got my final diploma in 1999.
But then, it was autumn 2002, things changed. I was ill, not allowed and mostly not able to leave my room for about two weeks. A friend thought he did me a favor by bringing me a DVD box to watch. It was Friends Season 2. There was nothing else to do and even though I had not watched the first season I was so bored, I started watching it.
In the middle of the last DVD my DVD player broke down. I was already hooked. I wanted to know how it continues. Buying a new DVD player was no option, those things were pretty expensive then. There was another option: The Internet. I managed to gain access to the missing episodes. Even managed to catch up on season 1 and continue with the following seasons. But there was a catch: No German audio track.
Whatever my brain did manage to hold on from my time at school, it was enough to build on and to learn while I was watching. When I reached the last available episode I started with the pilot again.
Eventually I bought a new DVD player and from that point on, whenever I watched a DVD, I switched to original English audio track.
Friends changed me and my relation to the English language. It was with me for many years.
That is why the title song from Friends, I'll be there for you performed by The Rembrandt's, has high sentimental value for me.
In 2006 I decided to go back to school. Even though I had something like a Middle-High-School diploma, I wanted the full deal and go to college so three more years of school lay ahead of me. I had to take English class again. I took the challenge and chose the advanced class during my second and third year.
This also meant we would not only learn the language but had to talk about the culture in English. During the first year of advanced class we had a teacher who was a huge fan of the USA. We had to watch Easy Rider and for the next four months we would talk about the USA as portraied in that movie.
Needless to say, as a rock music fan, I knew the song Born to be Wild but I had never seen Easy Rider before. From that point on, those two were now inseparable in my head.
The final year was different, we got a new teacher. She was only 1.55 meters tall, about 60 years old and a huge fan of the British culture. Her aura commanded respect from us as if the Queen (God rest her soul) herself were in the room, which might have been because she was a fan of the Queen herself.
We had to change color to colour and all those other things. I was exposed to Gilbert&Sullivan (no worries, something else is coming, even though I loved G&S) and of course the Night of the Proms.
Black Adder was the final kick I needed to dive deep into British humor. We were allowed to suggest topics ourselves and when I found Tim Minchin our class had a great time exploring his songs.
So here is his own unique introduction: Rock and Roll Nerd by Tim Minchin
I thank you very much for taking this walk down memory lane with me. Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as I have.
Keep on rocking 🤘
*The embedded videos and songs are not mine, nor do I own any rights to them. They are embedded from youtube and serve an illustrative purpose for this article*
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