THE WORDS & MEMORIES ORBIT

A life, on the record.

Songs that bring you back. People who stay with you. Wander through Nick’s writing, one memory at a time.

11 storiesNEWEST MEMORIES FIRST

55 to 55Oct 27, 2020DAY 54

Prisoner / The Way He Makes Me Feel

In Today is Barbra day. In my life, she’s the first diva. Hers is the voice of a generation spanning the sixties and seventies, with a catalog stretching so far that on a clear day you’d see it forever.…

54 to 54Nov 29, 2019DAY 22

If You Asked Me To / Water From The Moon / I Love You, Goodbye

The songs and voice of Celine Dion have yet to be on my countdowns, and I think that’s because almost every song she sung in the nineties, when she held reign as the Voice, reminds me of that one person,…

52 to 52Dec 1, 2017DAY 20

All The Man That I Need

The first time I fell in love, real love, with someone who was my equal, my friend, my lover, was at the end of 1990. Many of you know who this boy was, and some of you went through all my self-induced…

52 to 52Nov 21, 2017DAY 30

You Could Have Been With Me / Almost Over You

Sheena Easton blasted onto the pop scene in my favorite year with Morning Train, that kitschy classic which evokes an earworm as big as Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. But when the glamorous Scot…

52 to 52Nov 12, 2017DAY 39

Love Will Lead You Back / Heart Of Stone

The first of these songs is a tough one. It’s a song I love but it’s a song I allowed myself to sabotage the best thing in my world for something that was bad and wrong and already long dead. Her message…

52 to 52Nov 11, 2017DAY 40

Lost In Your Eyes / Foolish Beat

Lost In Your Eyes. From those first opening piano notes, my heart begins to flutter again. I am 23, completely vulnerable, wishing and praying to finally know what romance is. And then, at a house party, I…

51 to 51Dec 6, 2016DAY 15

The Ghost In You

The Psychedelic Furs, gods among men in the new wave record books, belted out some of the most memorable songs of the eighties, but for me their stand out song is The Ghost In You. A sweetly haunting melody…

51 to 51Dec 2, 2016DAY 19

Wishing On A Star

When you hear the band name Rose Royce, most likely you’d only think of their mega-hit Car Wash. And you’d be correct. Except, they have another song that is so amazing it has been covered several times and…

50 to 50Dec 10, 2015DAY 11

I Will Always Love You

This one’s gonna be tough. I talk a lot about my loves; it’s hard to think about that one, though. The one that got away, because I pushed him and let him. It was 1990. I was a baby. I didn’t know any…

50 to 50Dec 9, 2015DAY 12

It Don’t Matter To Me / Everything I Own

Bread, with lead singer David Gates whose voice is pure perfection, might be one of the lamest A.M. Radio bands of the seventies, but as you already know, that shit’s right in my bucket. And anyone who’s…

50 to 50Nov 23, 2015DAY 28

How Much I Feel

Back to the late 1970’s again with a band that had a few moderately successful hits in a time when music was changing drastically. AM Radio was fading away as punk and pop were moving to the forefront, but…