Where were you the first time you heard

[Giuseppe Zangara]

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Oh, I was 13, watching MTV, when I first saw the video linked above. The breakdown near the end of the song, of just the drums and anthemic chorus, was as thrilling then as it is now.

[vivalaultra]

I was...8 or 9. One of those. I heard it first on the radio and then saw the video on TV. I didn't know what 'Coors Light' was. I remember that. I had the cassette single, but not the full CD. Not even Rascal Flatts' cover version can diminish the greatness of "Life is a Highway". I remember it was my second favorite song of the year, behind "I Love You Period" by Dan Baird who was the lead singer of the Georgia Satellites.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

"I Love You Period" by Dan Baird

Yes. 1992 was the last year I viewed MTV with nothing but fondness.

[Ravenbomb]

I was just getting done clicking the link in the first post of this thread

[Red Baron]

Oh man, I remember listening to this song when I was 6. I danced to this song, like I've never danced before.

 

 

I just can't believe the people posting on youtube saying that the Rascal Flatts version is better than this.

[vivalaultra]

Apparently Tom Cochrane is still pretty successful in Canada. Can any Canucks confirm or deny this?

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I was on the school bus, and had a wiry rough bitch for a driver that would loudly sing along with the song mentioned, as well as Sheryl Crow's debut, and any/all Mellencamp.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!]

"I Love You Period" by Dan Baird

Yes. 1992 was the last year I viewed MTV with nothing but fondness.

 

I want to hold you in parentheses.

[cbacon]

Apparently Tom Cochrane is still pretty successful in Canada. Can any Canucks confirm or deny this?

 

 

He still releases records, not as big as he was in the 90's though obvz

 

First time I heard Life is a Highway was in a beer ad when i was about 11 or 12. Was a huge Tom Cochrane fan after that

[cbacon]

@ Tom dancing

[cbacon]

this video is still awesome

[Edwin MacPhisto]

I remembering seeing this on some ad for a mid-90s compilation ad, and then thinking, "Wow, I've heard this song before, but don't remember when." A few years later, I made up for my early 90s oversight by working at Target during a 3-month period that they played the video endlessly on the Target Video Network in the electronics department.

[King Kamala]

It used to be used as the music for the local Fox affliate's commercials (This is Fox 51 with KC and The Fox)

 

 

I miss KC and The Fox...they used to host the block of cartoons that were on after school way back when I was in Kindergarten (sp?) and 1st Grade. Judging by the low budget production I assume they were just local guys.

 

Those were the days.

[godthedog]

i was 11, watching the vh1 top 20 countdown with rapt attention. who would be number one this week?

 

the stunning new ingenue celine dion's gently reassuring "if you asked me to"?

 

the always-provocative george michael's "too funky," with its sampling from 'the graduate' that would take me another five years to recognize, and would make me always associate 'the graduate' with this song?

 

the deeply-soulful-yet-white michael bolton's elliptical and suspenseful new hit, "said i loved you...but i lied"? (a level of suspense that would go unchallenged in popular music until meat loaf's "i'd do anything for love (but i won't do that).")

 

i don't remember who won that week, but i do remember in the mid-teens a certain road-as-metaphor-for-existence hit that was light on the pretense and heavy on the denim & harmonica. and i remember it being sung by a certain blonde-haired musical descendant of bob seger and bruce springsteen, a man who, when i close my eyes to try to remember his face, looks exactly like greg "the hammer" valentine.

 

i will never forget that first time. except that time from 1994 to 2006 when i didn't think about it at all until i heard it in pixar's 'cars'.

[Carnival]

this dude can't sing...never noticed before.

[vivalaultra]

But he can play the harmonica and he looks good in Levis.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I WANNA RIDE IT ALL NIGHT LONG

[King Kamala]

He kind of looks like a hybrid of Dave Thomas (of SCTV fame) and Greg Valentine with a bit of Jeff Daniels thrown in.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

To his credit, that's the most unflattering result via an image search.

[Annabelle]

my boy's gonna play in the big leagues is a waaaay better cochrane song. i think its with red rider? he's a total prairie artist so i was raised on him.

[Henry Spencer]

I seriously don't think I've ever heard that song before clicking that link.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

Harmonicas suck. Rascal Flatts has a kick ass guitar solo. So screw Tom COCKrane cause he is out of tune. That is embarrising. Succking at your own song. LOL!

[vivalaultra]

I didn't know that Rascal Flatts fans were so vulgar and negative. I thought they all wore frayed jeans, had frosted hair, and smiled alot. Apparently I was wrong...dead wrong.

[Red Baron]

Its sad to say that most country fans are borderline metrosexuals.

[vivalaultra]

Waylon Jennings wouldn't stand for it, by God! Neither should Bocephus. Bocephus should come out of hiding and whip all these new country guys asses, yo.

[Red Baron]

I've been to Country concerts, and its sad seeing people dressed up in straw corona hats, American Eagle or Abercrombie and Fitch shirts, and say they are country fans.

 

Then you get the real hicks in with denim (dark and dirtier) boots, and the big hats looking at these people weird.

[Annabelle]

country music fans are becoming more unassuming by the day. i still can't stand them, though. in regards to the music and the people who listen to it.

[BUTT]

That is a pretty awesome harmonica solo.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Looking at this thread is enough to get this song stuck in my head for approximately the next hour. I don't mind.