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Old 02-24-2013, 09:04 AM   #1
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What music did you listen to when you were younger?

OK...I was going to make this a What was the first record you bought as a kid, but decided instead to broaden it out.

Thinking about when you were just starting to get into stuffs, what were you into?

Here's one of my first muscal obsessions. I think I was about 9, and though wasn't my first record ever, was my first album:




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Old 02-24-2013, 09:16 AM   #2
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Hmm ... the Stones; Led Zeppelin; CCW; Steppenwolf; ELP; Deep Purple; Van Morrison; Alice Cooper (!); Gordon Lightfoot (I am Canadian, after all); Leonard Cohen (ditto); Chicago; Fleetwood Mac; those are off the top of my head, there are more. The Beatles - never, I detested most of their music.
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Old 02-24-2013, 09:20 AM   #3
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Oh I listened to all sorts of stuff. I used to listen to Mum's and Dad's records: everything from Cat Stevens to Wait a Minute Mister Postman...and of course everything my big brother got into I also got into *grins* he introduced me to all sorts of cool music. The Smiths, The Cure, Bob Dylan. He still does atcually. Most of my new music discoveries come via Martin:p

But Adam and the Ants was my first proper musical thing...that was mine, that I brought into the house (oh i am sure they were thrilled lol) and made everyone listen to. Bought the album with my own money (it was lovely, had gorgeous artwork).
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Old 02-24-2013, 11:47 AM   #4
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Pop bought me a Webcor portable(still had to plug it in) radio/phonograph, and two 45rpm records, for my birthday. Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley, and Sixteen Tons, by Ernie Ford.
He also bought a bunch of albums(Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, etc), for he and Mom to play on "my" phonograph.

At school I joined a record club, and bought mostly country-western, heavy on Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, etc.
After graduation I bought a stereo and a whole library of music from Readers Digest... quite a broad spectrum from classical to Broadway... Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite gave me a woodie.

But mostly music was a radio thing and FM was a revelation. I'd work in the garage until the wee hours, mostly to listen to late night FM radio. Got a lot done that watching TV wouldn't allow, but that was a secondary benefit.

Then I discovered sex-drugs-rock-n-roll, and it was all a 1700 album downhill from there.
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Old 02-24-2013, 08:11 PM   #5
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The first two tapes I ever bought with my own money were Queen's Greatest Hits and Aerosmith's Nine Lives. That would've been '97/98 -- I was about thirteen.

ETA: I wrote CDs, originally, then remembered they were tapes!
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Old 02-24-2013, 08:15 PM   #6
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The first album I bought was AC/DC 'For Those About To Rock'.
But I still listen to the same stuff I listened to when I was young.
I grew up on country (Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline...)
But as a teenage knucklehead, I got into the punk scene.
(Nothing like getting chased by NYPD after a show at CBGBs...)
Now, it's southern rock, old school punk, metal, some alternative...
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Old 02-24-2013, 08:29 PM   #7
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I think I was 6 or 7, and was in love with Olivia Newton John. Particularly the song, 'Have you ever been mellow?' I remember the album cover had a picture of her on the back....she had a halter top that you could just see, and the best collar bones and shoulders ... I still really like that part of a woman.

I also really liked Billy Joel's ' Shes always a woman'

Younger still, I recall singing American Pie.... And Credence's Midnight Special.

The first band I was a 'fan' of was KISS, though. Shudder.
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Old 02-24-2013, 08:38 PM   #8
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My very first record was this one. I was in first or second grade at the time. I loved it. I was also loved Peter Paul and Mary's Puff the Magic Dragon.
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Old 02-25-2013, 12:12 AM   #9
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The first song I ever remember hearing was "Like a Rolling Stone." But my first *favorite* songs were "Summer Song" by Chad and Jeremy, and "Downtown" by Petula Clark. I still love them.

My parents had a great record collection, that I had free access to starting when I was about 5 or 6. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (I thought that's what they really looked like)...Donovan's Sunshine Superman..Peter, Paul and Mary in Concert (Puff the Magic Dragon was on that, of course)...The Association's Insight Out...The Mama's and the Papa's If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears...Kai Winding !!!More!!!...the random 45 of the Peter Gunn theme song...

Then suddenly, I turned 12 and bought a record of my own: The Knack.

Makes sense, I guess.
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Old 02-25-2013, 02:56 AM   #10
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OOPS. THIS was my first record...
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Old 02-25-2013, 05:44 AM   #11
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I was raised in a country house, so I think my first concert was Merle Haggard and one of the country women maybe Ann Murray. So it was a lot of outlaw country at home Willie, Waylon, Charlie Daniels, Kris Kristofferson. My only access to punk was a college radio show with a really bad signal but it made an impression. I phased through classic rock, blues, and metal during the musical desert eighties. Got into alternative and ska in the early nineties, then edged toward Celtic stuff for a few years. Right now I'm reviewing punk, finding new ska, and listening to everything Dave Grohl.
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Old 02-25-2013, 09:57 AM   #12
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Old 02-25-2013, 10:55 AM   #13
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I was raised in a country house
I did think Downton Abbey for a second.
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Old 02-25-2013, 11:59 AM   #14
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My first album was probably Ronco's I Love Music, a cheesy disco compilation by various artists. Featuring things like the disco Fifth of Beethoven, Neil Diamond's I Write The Songs, and Rubber Band Man. There was even some early Hall and Oates on there too.

Second album was the Star Wars soundtrack, and third album was a Beach Boys Greatest.

Then I was off to a huge Beatles run that lasted a few years.
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Old 02-25-2013, 03:16 PM   #15
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I did think Downton Abbey for a second.
Hahahaahahhah me too!
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