137. Because It's Illegal and Dangerous

137. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" by The Beatles

The soundtrack to my earliest years of life--even before the family moved to Arimo--was The Beatles, a.k.a. the White Album. Mom bought it after she had taken care of me late one night and heard the song Rocky Racoon on the radio. Mom and Dad promptly gave me that nickname, but they're the only two on the planet that ever called me Rocky Racoon.

There were two songs on that album that we loved to sing together as kids whenever we played the album--Piggies and Why Don't We Do It in the Road. Piggies doesn't make it onto this countdown because Mom said it was okay to listen to Piggies, but she didn't like it when we listened to Why Don't We Do It in the Road, which meant it was a forbidden musical pleasure. And that's also why we sang it with such gusto, especially the part where Paul's voice goes up high, because when singing a song about engaging in a forbidden act becomes a forbidden act itself, that's when rock and roll hits its sweet spot and kids have the most fun singing along.