Senior class dance my frosh year of high school, and the senior I've had a year-long secret crush on (he's the boyfriend of my best friend's older sister) asks me to slow dance to this song.

Some moments are forever...

Ahhhhhh...

The soundtrack to my life is playing once again.

Zep wrote:

Old_Pat wrote:
No, it just means you need to recalibrate your scale, and only give 10s to songs you feel are equal to this.

Class

Very nice.

My favorite song from the later Temptations. I can just see his imagination at work in this song, as so many of us have imagined the possibilities and impossibilities that other people offer us. And the final fadeout, "I never met her, but I can't forget her" is one of the best lines of lyrics anywhere.

Can't go higher than 10. Pity - this deserves more.

Aah, the Temptin' Temptations!

tammaye wrote: What aflanigan said. The same thing that happened to country music... MONEY .

One of the few Temptations songs I really enjoy. In fact, it's one of my many all time favorite songs.

This song has me at the hook...mmm... late night radio....the peaceful hour...what a great sound...so poignant and mellow....like the lost romance it evokes...

Papa was a rollin' stone...

stuartgibson wrote:

So, I guess you're annoyed if you have to stop to let a little old lady cross the street, too? Too much time out of your pre-determined schedule?

Reminds me of being an insecure young freshman at a high-school dance, just before the boy of my dreams came over to ask me to dance (yes, it really happened that way).

tammaye wrote:

I wonder if the mediocritization of "R&B" happened in a similar way to the way Country & Western was mainstreamed and made into a hollow imitation of what it used to be. That story, of course, has been told fairly definitively in shows like the BBC's "Lost Highway" retrospective on the history of Country music (see "The Nashville sound", Owen Bradley, Chet Atkins), but I don't know of a book, article, etc. that similarly explores how R&B lost what it once had. It can't be strictly an attempt to mainstream the music, to popularize it for imrpoved sales, because my impression is that during the "golden years" of Motown R&B, Motown was all about popularity and boosting record sales. Maybe it's the advent of focus group-driven decisions by recording execs.

4999thnewuser wrote:

You put ice cubes in your martinis?

But yeah. Nice.

Uh-oh. The last couple days made me realize that this amazing station will eventually get pulled down by the lowest commmon denominator..............you know, people who still think this is a song worth hearing more than once a decade.

Oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

tammaye wrote:

Do ya think this music could ever make it in today's world? I mean forget the nostalgic connotations...would it break out or get relegated to soft rock channels?

tammaye wrote: