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.

8 storiesNEWEST MEMORIES FIRST

54 to 54Nov 23, 2019DAY 28

I Beg Your Pardon

No substance, just kicks. I Beg Your Pardon was a song that created a flood of bodies on the dance floor in 1989 when Vincent and I would go and live our best lives at Grand Central. As we’d get ready at…

54 to 54Nov 15, 2019DAY 35

Sincerely Yours

Representing Freestyle is Sweet Sensation with Sincerely Yours. The late eighties presented us with this new form of dance music, and most of it sounded the same with a different voice here and a quirky…

54 to 54Nov 14, 2019DAY 36

Can't We Try

Once upon a time, I shared a house rental with three friends and every now and then there would be some unexpected, unknown company in the common living room when I’d come home. One time in particular there…

53 to 53Nov 19, 2018DAY 32

You Take My Breath Away

Yesterday’s song spoke of a forever youth, and today’s song makes me feel that way all over again. It’s a beautiful, cheesy ballad sung by a seventies heart throb the likes of Andy Gibb and William Katt,…

53 to 53Oct 30, 2018DAY 52

New Year’s Day / One

As one of my favorite bands of all time, U2 has had a song in my countdowns before. It’s inevitable that multiple songs from their endless catalog should end up on my lists, especially considering this band…

52 to 52Dec 13, 2017DAY 8

Waiting For A Star To Fall

There’s something beautiful and innocent about this song and many other pop ballads like it from 1988. I love so much of the music from ’87-’89 (aka the VH1 era) because it reminds me of a tumultuous time…

52 to 52Oct 30, 2017DAY 52

Coming Out Of Hiding

Among the later disco era of the early to mid-eighties, when dance songs were really only played at clubs anymore because the charts were dominated by a newer wave, songs like Coming Out Of Hiding helped…

51 to 51Dec 9, 2016DAY 12

Come To Me

This is the disco song to which I alluded in my blog for song 47, this giant from France Joli. It was my connection to back home, the song my childhood friend Jan loved and, whenever I heard it on KTU, it…