My place song would be the Macarena; I know, super cheesy, but they played it everytime we were at skating parties.

Anyway this topic made me think of my story.

1.) The summer I graduated high school 3 buddies and I drove to Hershey Park Stadium to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert. It was July 5th and it was a road trip similar to anything out of those 70′s coming of age films as we drove out in a baby blue 1980 Chevy with no air conditioning. My one buddy was an offensive lineman on the football team and primarily only listened to hard rock music. As we were driving out we were flipping through the music stations and on came “Wild Wild West” by Will Smith. Being that I’m a musical sponge, and a troublemaker, I decided to start singing the song as the second verse picked up. Halfway through, my buddy in the backseat with me starts joining in. The song ends and the football player riding shotgun says, “Why would you know the words to that dumbass song?” So we hit the scan button on the radio and the very next station that comes in goes right into “Wild Wild West.” This time I pick up singing from the beginning with my buddy joining in again, and then my buddy driving joined in. My football playing buddy takes this for about a minute and then changes the station.

We are then about 10 minutes from the venue and have to go through the stations again. You can probably guess which song comes on. I just go right into singing again and before anyone can join in the football player hits the radio buttons and screams, “We’re not listening to this f%$#ing song again.”

This then led to us in the concert and anytime a song started we’d take turns asking the football player if this was “Wild Wild West.” About halfway through the concert he just gave in and found the humor in it all.

So anytime I hear that song, I’m 17 in the car with my buddies living out our last summer before college.

Paul- ‘Lily the Pink’ is craick!