Blogger 365 Day 56 - Karaoke Friday "But, but........."

     Yes, I know, it isn't Friday yet, but then again last Friday I did not do a Karaoke edition of the blog, s in my mind I am covered here.  I could have done this last week, but what, pray tell, would I be doing here right now.  Everything happens for a reason, and if I am going to be grinding out a blog a day (hockey videos do not count, and say hello to post Olympic hockey season again) then there will be times when I bend the rules just a bit.  In this particular instance, the reason I felt a need to look up this particular song was work.  I was sitting at my desk and usually I will flip on my Pandora station while banging out paperwork, but on this particular day I wanted to try something a little less usual.  First I went over to Audiorealm, a site that I became slightly acquainted with this weekend while trying to listen to Rick Hays' broadcast Saturday afternoon at work.  I couldn't find his feed, but I did find the Audiorealm \site, which was packed with online streaming stations, so as I was sitting at my desk I thought I would try a few of them out, see if anything was my cup of tea.  I will just say the site was problematic, songs listed as currently playing on some stations were not correct, other stations the feed kept dropping out and still others, while claiming to be on the air, weren't reachable at all. 

     Since that didn't work and I still didn't want to go back to my Pandora station, I decided to go to an old standby, Live365.  It is another website that carries audio, and one of the stations that is on there is WXXP.  For those not from here, or even those that were here but not paying attention back then, WXXP was an alternative station broadcasting on 100.7FM  for a couple of years in the ate 80s.  IT had a niche following, but no commercial success so it closed its doors rather quickly, but some people do remember its short lived run fondly.  How fondly you ask?  Well maybe you don't ask, but for the sake of the blog I will presume that you do, fondly enough that someone or some persons took the time to create the station again on Live365, programming much of the same music and often running the exact same shows that were on the air 20+ years ago, complete with the old ads that ran on the station, like the ones for shows at Graffiti, a local club/music venue that closed its doors in 2000.  You can read more about that club here. 

     Anyway, back to my long winded story, so I look up the WXXP Live365 feed and a song comes on, one that I haven't heard in ages, but just hearing it brought back quite a few teen memories, so I thought I would share.  As always feel free to sing along, this time I might sing too....

It was long ago
Seems like yesterday
Saw you standin' in the rain
Then I heard you say

"I want to love but it comes out wrong
I want to live but I don't belong
I close my eyes and I see
Blood and roses"

Love flowers in the springtime
October we were wed
In wintertime the roses died
The blood ran cold and then she said

"I want to love but it comes out wrong
I want to live but I don't belong
I close my eyes and I see
Blood and roses"

It was long ago
Seems like yesterday
Saw you standin' in the rain
Then I heard you say

"I need your love but it comes out wrong
I try to live but I don't belong
I close my eyes and I see
Blood and roses, blood and roses
Blood and roses, blood and roses"