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What's the first song you remember liking?
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If I'm being honest, I have to go for the lame/sappy answer that my mother made up a tune for a song from a Winnie the Pooh book and sang it to me when I was a baby.
This one in Junior High. It started my long slide into the counter culture.
Rainy Day Women #12 And #35 by Bob Dylan
aka: Everybody Must Get Stoned
Dale
Rainy Day Women #12 And #35 by Bob Dylan
aka: Everybody Must Get Stoned
Dale
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_qhnWByA4
I still remember the 8 track with the big "4" on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_qhnWByA4
I still remember the 8 track with the big "4" on it.
I'm pretty sure it would have been something by ABBA or Air Supply.
Wow... Air Supply. There's a name you don't hear much nowadays, even though they had a near-total stranglehold on the soft-rock ballad scene in the early 80s here in the US.
I had the first ABBA Greatest Hits album just after the height of the disco craze (or was it my sister's?). That and Bee Gees' Spirits Having Flown comprised our disco album "collection" back then, as most of our music was on 45 RPM singles.
That song, "Hey Mickey" in the eighties. I would play it over and over. I thought it was about Mickey Mouse. ...I know, I know...
...I know, I know...
That song, "Hey Mickey" in the eighties. I would play it over and over. I thought it was about Mickey Mouse.
I thought the same thing! I was a little disappointed when I found out I was wrong.
Scarborough Fair was one. And later I remember liking Take on me.
I also remember being a little freaked out by this psychedelic Hair poster my parents had hung up somewhere.
and the cheerleaders weren't even hot.
I also remember being a little freaked out by this psychedelic Hair poster my parents had hung up somewhere.
I thought the same thing! I was a little disappointed when I found out I was wrong.
and the cheerleaders weren't even hot.
I used to really like their songs. It was never about any of the lyrics (to this day, I simply don't process music lyrics -- I listen for the melody, hooks, music, etc).
I think my musical taste is stuck firmly in the mid-80's. My dad had a nice collection of LPs and as a kid I spent a lot of time listening to songs from Air Supply, Abba, Bee Gees, Beatles, Michael Jackson, UB40, etc. There were even some soundtracks, like Flashdance. I remember calling a mail-order place and ordering my first record - I couldn't have been more than 9 years old. (I dialed the operator and asked for Zenith something-or-other!)
I was devastated when I learned that he gave all those LPs away about 10 years ago.
So young I didn't even know to be embarrassed or amused about it but:
Tina Turner - "Private Dancer"
This is funny, because I was about to post "We Don't Need Another Hero", also by Tina Turner. I was a big fan of that Thunderdome movie as a little kid.
Being black, my parents made sure I knew about nearly black artist in the 70s and 80s. So I had Turner, Jackson (all of them), Brown, Gaye, etc. Drilled into me before I was 6 (in 1980). Then came MTV. And the the video of the first song I really liked on my own came on: Allentown, by Billy Joel.
That set the pace for me with liking more than just soul/R&B. Next song I liked, because they looked like they were having fun in the video, was Bang Your Head, by Quiet Riot.
Fun times. Wish I could go back to then in my youth and live it over.
BL.
That set the pace for me with liking more than just soul/R&B. Next song I liked, because they looked like they were having fun in the video, was Bang Your Head, by Quiet Riot.
Fun times. Wish I could go back to then in my youth and live it over.
BL.
Beach Boys - Get Around.
Or whatever that song is. I was young, extremely young, but I was pretty badly sunburnt and saw them on the beach in Virginia Beach, along with KC and the Sunshine Band. I just remember the Beach Boys being on Tool Time (Home Improvement) within weeks of me being in pain and seeing them.
Or whatever that song is. I was young, extremely young, but I was pretty badly sunburnt and saw them on the beach in Virginia Beach, along with KC and the Sunshine Band. I just remember the Beach Boys being on Tool Time (Home Improvement) within weeks of me being in pain and seeing them.
Hehe! I loved that movie too. "Two men enter, one man leaves!" (that was a badass dress she had too!)
I think part of my interest in Tina Turner was because she overcame such an awful relationship. I read her autobiography at around 8 or 9 years old. I was a slightly weird kid though.
Another album I remember always pinching from my uncle as a kid was Gun N Roses Appetite for Destruction. So not long after the Tina Turner phase it seems my musical tastes changed. Only when I got a little older did I know what Mister Brownstone really meant.
Ray Charles - Unchain my Heart. I was probably 5 or 6 then.
But then again, I think there was another song I REALLY loved before Unchain my Heart. I can't remember the name of the band, or the melody of the song, does anyone know the name of that song? Thanks.
But then again, I think there was another song I REALLY loved before Unchain my Heart. I can't remember the name of the band, or the melody of the song, does anyone know the name of that song? Thanks.