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posted by: chicalookate (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (6:07 am) I can't remember buying my first cassette. I do however remember having a 45 of Elton John singing "Crocodille Rock" I would play it over and over again. The first song I remember listening to on the radio was Van Halen's Jump.... I was dusting the furniture in the living room. posted by: altricial (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (9:25 am) First "vinyl" - It wasn't an album, it was a 45... An instrumental version of "Je 'taime...moi non plus" when I was about 12. The famous french pop singer Serge Gainsbourg, sang that back in to 60's. But I didn't know this until he died last summer. His death and his famous (controversial) erotic song were covered by NPR, clueing me into a childhood mystery that had eluded me for years: "What is this song I love and where did it come from??" I remembered the title clearly. But I knew nothing of the source until that day. With the advent of the internet, I guess I had never thought of searching. Once I popped it into a search engine, I found a ton of hits. Of course, I knew nothing of the eroticism, since I did not speak French and my version was instrumental, anyway! posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (12:46 pm) arrrrrggg... 'technically' the first album I ever bought was some seventies compilation of country artists, called 'Blue Bayou' - complete with cartoon-esque southern belle wearing blue ruffled dress on front cover. The first time I marched into a store with my own money... (*rolls eyes) was... ummm... I walked out with Culture Club's 'From Luxury to Heartache' Mum didn't care for Boy George and I insisted on bringing 'shim' into the house... heh. I usually made really bad copies (casette tapes, which I still have) of all my friends' music... posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (2:58 pm) Reply to: chicalookate the first time I really remember turning on the radio in my room and listening to something other than what my mom was playing, I recall listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40. Joan Jett's "I love Rock and Roll" was #1. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (3:00 pm) Reply to: altricial Wow your "first" is so much cooler than mine! I am ashamed to admit that I do not know the song, at least by name. But you'e given me something to check out. Very cool! Thanks. j posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (3:03 pm) Reply to: lindy Wow! Did it have Linda Rodstadt on it? I know she is not really country, but the title of the album reminded me of her and that (terrible) song. I love that you bought CC to torture your parents with. It wasn't until I discovered REM that I finally had some music that could really get under my Mom's skin. I can still recall her marching into my room and telling me to "turn that sh*t off." That was the first and only time she ever did that. Naturally, REM became my favorite band. :) j posted by: altricial (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (3:42 pm) It's supposed to be very very naughty - for the 60's. With lots of moaning and sighing. I can't believe it took me 27 years to find the originator of that song. After that, I found out that Donna Summer had a song of the same name - presumably a remake. I think there's even a reggae version. But it's only the French one that interests me. After I looked it up, I almost ordered a CD once.... But never went through with it so far. Who knows - perhaps I should acquire them all and compare?? posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (3:43 pm) Reply to: altricial You could become an expert on the song and all of its various lives. :) Again, I must say, your first is much sexier and more interesting than mine. Thanks for sharing it! j posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (5:07 pm) Reply to: juniperflux Yes! Yes! Linda Ronstadt was on it, but I didn't dare mention it because she isn't a country singer! yes yes!!!!! oh gosh... what songs... 'You light up my life' ummm... 'it's so easy to fall in love' ... ahhh, 'send in the clowns' gosh, listent o me... as if it was yesterday. I wanted to *be* the girl inthe dress, I wanted to wail all those songs... -sigh- You don't SERIOUSLY know that album do you?????????? And as for CC, ummm... yes, that sounds plausible... I invested in Boy George STRICYLY because my mother didn't like it... yes, ummm... indeed. I am sure I never liked that album. heh heh... posted by: shadowmusic (reply) post date: 03.21.05 (7:27 pm) OK, musical confession time: Early tapes I was given as gifts include a Bee Gees Greatest Hits & a Beach Boys Greatest Hits. (Hmm... guess *my* age.) Actually, here's a story for you: I remember one time when I was pretty young & going to the store with some money my grandmother gave me, and buying a Muppets 8-Track tape. I came home, discovered that we had a cassette player and not an 8-track player, and so I went back to the store and exchanged the Muppets 8-track for a Village People Greatest Hits cassette. :-) One of the earliest tapes that I bought after becoming "musically aware" was the Cars' "Heartbeat City." I played the heck outta that thing, then went onto shortly thereafter buying cassettes of all the Cars' albums, thereby starting my habit of consuming mass quantitties of music. Then there was the pretty girl who I met briefly ("just for a day") in the early '80s who told me that she liked this band I'd never heard of called Depeche Mode, and I ended up calling the local college radio station (NCSU in Raleigh) and requested one of their songs & really liked it... leading me away from only listening to what the major FM stations offered and instead pointing me down a road towards increasingly obscure outlets searching for new music. posted by: aqualung (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (5:00 am) when i was about 6 i won the sat. night fever soundtrack at a school fair and i played that thing on the little record player in my room and thought i was john travolta. a few years later, when i had my own money, i bought 2 - 45's: "eye of the tiger" survivor and "i ran" by flock of seagulls. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (5:11 am) Silly girl... NONE of those songs are country! What a funny album. I don't know it, but it sounds like one of those Ronco collections. :) j posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (5:15 am) Reply to: shadowmusic I could probably guess your age, but that might be cheating. ;-) I absolutely love that your first 8-track/cassette was nearly the muppets but turned out to be The Village People. I swear, that's just beautiful! As for some pretty girl turning you onto DM ~ if I had a dollar for every boy who told me that story... :) I'm convinced a lot of boys found Depeche Mode at the hands of some pretty girl they were hoping to spend more time with. It seems to me, given the places that first step took you, that you owe that particular cutie a thank you. :) j posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (5:16 am) Reply to: aqualung WHOA! Survivor AND Flock of Seagulls? Now THAT is diverse! I remember all my friends having that survivor song when I was in junior high. The truth is, I hated it, but I bought it just to fit in. I'm not sure I ever played it unless someone was at my house. *shudder* thanks for the comment. posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (5:25 am) Reply to: juniperflux hahaha. Yes, but there is something very twangy about these songs. 'Don'tcha make my brown eyes, don'tcha make my brown eyes, don'tcha make my brown eyes bluuuuuue... ooooooh hooooo....' If that ain't country... you may be right about the 'Ronco' reference. I shall pull it out and confirm. :) posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (6:05 am) Reply to: lindy Yes. I suppose Crystal Gayle is about as country as one can get. That hair! Yikes! j posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (9:48 am) Reply to: shadowmusic I listened to the Muppets in my first Sony walkman! I thought I was sooo cool. Of course, any time someone asked me what I was listening to... I always said, 'Oh, nothing you've ever heard of...' heh. Depeche Mode... now you are speaking my language. :) posted by: lindy (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (9:49 am) Reply to: juniperflux I wanted Crystal Gayle hair. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (10:30 am) Reply to: lindy Not me. I had long, straight hair... I wanted Farrah hair. :) j posted by: rinna (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:07 pm) the very first cassette i ever nagged for was Lionel Richie's 'Back to Front.' i loved it so much, i even recorded a tape of me singing every song - 'Endless Love' was highlighted by a 'SHUT UP, ALLURA!' - i guess it was unfair on my sister, seeing as she was only a newborn - wow, that would've been 89/90. whew. that was when i was 5ish! (i know, young, but it's a long time for me!) the next was Queen's Greatest Hits Vol 2 - my real father gave it to me when i was in the philippines, it also had 'Hotel California' by The Eagles on it, and i played that out until my mother banned it from the house... urgh. Music was something I escaped to whenever I was upset or felt alone growing up -- I can't remember the first CD/cassette I bought as a teenager, as music was, by then, an old friend of mine. :) posted by: Fairmoon (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:12 pm) joshua tree posted by: zuki50 (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:19 pm) Reply to: juniperflux I think my first was Stone Temple Pilots, Core, but that doesn't date me so well. I liked a lot of music before that....I just refused to buy any of it....I would record it off of the radio. hehe posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:27 pm) Reply to: rinna Ha! I can just hear you singing along to old Lionel. That would be just lovely! :) As for Queen and Hotel Californial ~ not bad stuff to cut your musical teeth on in my opinion. j posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:28 pm) Reply to: Fairmoon An excellent choice. I remember buying that on cassette and the tape had been mislabeled: side A was really side B and vice versa. Still a great album. Thanks for the comment. j posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:29 pm) Reply to: zuki50 My goodness you are young. :) I used to record stuff off the radio all the time as a kid. I had hundreds of those mix tapes. Oddly enough, it didn't keep me from spending all my loot on music though. :) Thanks for the comment. j posted by: surrogate (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:30 pm) Date you? it proves your a baby!... but what a great album! My first was Abbey Road. posted by: zuki50 (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (1:31 pm) Reply to: juniperflux Well, I am just a little older than that....I just never really had the urge to buy any music before that....I think the first CD I ever bought was Nine Inch Nails....whatever it was called....Closer? posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (2:02 pm) Reply to: surrogate Oh! What a fantastic first album though!! That just makes you WAY cool. I love that album. :) posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (2:04 pm) Reply to: zuki50 I don't care how old you are, I'm glad you stopped by and commented. Come by this way again soon, won't you? j posted by: zuki50 (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (2:06 pm) Reply to: juniperflux As long as you promise to do the same. (:-) posted by: surrogate (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (2:50 pm) I was twelve when it came out... it started an expensive habit...of course back then, single albums were $3.50 - $4.00. A few years later I remember "blowing" $30.00 of newspaper route money one week for a bunch of albums that included "Madman Across the Water", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Ummagumma" and "Meddle and got quite the scolding from my folks...but, oh what a wonderful haul. posted by: Fairmoon (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:04 pm) Reply to: juniperflux lol that makes it unique. i think my first was actaully a single of 'where the streets have no name' which also had 'silver and gold' and 'the sweetest thing' on it , but the whole album was the next on the list. FM posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:23 pm) Reply to: zuki50 I think I can manage that. :) posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:23 pm) Reply to: surrogate Gosh! Do you still have them all? posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:25 pm) Reply to: Fairmoon Hmmmm. What a strange combination considering that those songs are so many years apart. U2 has certainly made its mark on music. I still love the early stuff best. Once again, thanks for the comments. j posted by: surrogate (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:29 pm) Reply to: juniperflux I don't know. Ryan has a lot of my vynyl and some is at my Mom's. I don't even own a turntable any more. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:31 pm) Reply to: surrogate I don't own a turntable anymore either... but I am thinking I should invest in one. What treasures you'd have if you ever went digging. :) posted by: Fairmoon (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (3:59 pm) Reply to: juniperflux it is weird, but the actually came out close to together, they remade sweetest thing afew years ago. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:17 pm) Reply to: Fairmoon Gosh. Who knew? I never realized that. Thanks for educating me. :) posted by: Fairmoon (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:18 pm) Reply to: juniperflux i'm a bit of a U2 junkie posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:19 pm) Reply to: Fairmoon I had a crush on a boy in high school who first introduced me to U2 ~ so naturally I have a fondness for them. :) posted by: Fairmoon (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:30 pm) Reply to: juniperflux aawww :) my sister introduced them to me. It was the first time i heard "real rock and roll" lol. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:33 pm) Reply to: Fairmoon It's wonderful when a band from your childhood/adolescence sticks with you like that. Forever, whenever you hear a song by them, you are instantly transported back in time. It's magic. Great stuff. Thanks1 j posted by: brogonzo (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:42 pm) The first album I ever owned was the Bobby McFerrin album with "Don't Worry, Be Happy" on it. Uhhhhgghh. But the first tape I ever bought was "Piano Man," by Billy Joel. Not bad. posted by: juniperflux (reply) post date: 03.22.05 (4:44 pm) Reply to: brogonzo I think that balances out. :) posted by: ma543zda (reply) post date: 04.30.08 (10:13 pm) c875t posted by: ehcrxni vdeqolht (reply) post date: 11.09.08 (12:29 am) mcdyt lgith wgidm rmvbadfui jcqsriv ehqbuyxod sqtwj |
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