Nostalgia

In high school, Mrs. F and I had boyfriends who were best friends, Tiny Tim and First Love respectively. One day at her house, she and I threw together a mix tape for making out purposes. Being the little metalheads we all were, naturally we made a tape of power ballads. So it would be all romantic and stuff.

Last year for my birthday, Miss Amanda gave me a VH1 Classics CD, Metal Mania Stripped) of power ballads (best gift ever). I busted it out to listen to it today and got all nostalgic. These are the tracks (ones that were on our tape are in bold):

Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Wind of Change - Scorpion (We opted for a different Scorpions tune, Still Loving You
Don't Know What You've Got (Till Its Gone) - Cinderella
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
More Than Words - Extreme
I Saw Red - Warrant (We went for Heaven)
The Way It Is - Tesla (Nope, Love Song)
Miles Away - Winger
Ballad of Jayne - LA Guns (This song has stood the test of time. I still fucking love it.)
When the Children Cry - White Lion
When I Look Into Your Eyes - Firehouse
Fly to the Angels - Slaughter
More Than Words Can Say - Alias (I actually don't think this one belongs on the CD. Alias were a bunch of pansies. This sounds like something Chicago would have recorded.)
Save Your Love - Great White

Our mix tape also had I Remember You by Skid Row, House of Pain by Faster Pussycat, Love Bites by Def Leppard, I Only Wanna Be With You by Pretty Boy Floyd and Angel by Aerosmith.

I'm totally having one of those moments where I miss Captain Jersey. He'd think it was just as funny to put it on and make out as I would.

UPDATE: I just found this picture and it cracked me up. If First Love yells at me for posting it, I'll take it down.



The blond couple in black is First Love and I, Mrs. F and Tiny Tim are wearing red and Julie and Mrs. F's brother are all decked out in denim. I swear we didn't purposely color-code ourselves by couple. That's my natural hair color, by the way. We were all about 16 at the time, playing pool in Mrs. F's basement and, if I remember correctly, listening to power ballads.