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    Posted: July 01 2004 at 11:16

in opposition to all these "hate this","worse that" threads what about music that gave you great joy as a child.

i remember around the late 70's getting my first transister radio WITH AN EARPLUG!!!..so i would not disturb my two brothers whom i shared a room with(i come from a BIG family ..7 brothers and my Dear departed sister(dead at 29))

i remember drifting of to sleep while listening to the likes of CHICAGO(WISHING YOU WERE HERE..great song!!!) or "thick as a brick " or "LONG WAY THERE" by LITTLE RIVER BAND"

HOW ABOUT "DO IT AGAIN" BY STEELY DAN

I remember the Djays talking about the latest products at 2 am while i...half asleep..waited for my favourite songs,

"set me free":chariot(AUSSIE BAND)

"far far away": slade

"Cassandra";Sherbert(Aussie band)

Set Me Free: Sweet(different song)

Take Me To The River:(Talking Heads)

THE LIST COULD GO ON AND ON AND ON

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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2004 at 11:46

My first album.... Traffic "Live" On the Road and Stevie Wonder "Innervisions." Wonderful music. That was also the time I got my first stereo for Christmas. Wow, DUDE, you shook up some memories.

My first 8-Track - Queen II (wore it out, or was it RobJ's?)

I remember having the am radio with the earphones. Chi-lites: Ooh Girl.... yeah  I remember.

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Points: 12800 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2004 at 12:17

My first album was the Shadows first  (in glorious monoaural) - how I longed to have the strippy cardigan  like Tony Meehan wore on the front cover (at 14 nobody had told me that vertical stripes were for skinny folks).

Hey this was adventurous stuff for a British rock and roll backing band - the first British band to have a bass guitar, and hey these rockers were trying to play jazzy music in the form of Nirvam (perhaps explains why I like jazz rock). It took me almost 40 years before I got the stereophonic version on CD (as a two for one of the first two Shad's albums) - when I was reminded what succinct drum solos Tony Meehan and then Brian Bennett offered there (respectively I'll See You in My Drums and Little B) which modern rock drummers may care to emulate.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2004 at 14:44
Takes me back to the early 70's, with a tranny under my pillow, listening to American Forces Radio. Due to atmospheric conditions, or something like that, I couldn't usually pick it up until about midnight, and even then it would come and go all the time. I had to become very adept with the volume control to try to stop it suddenly booming out when the signal suddenly picked up. They used to play great music, but the next day I could never remember what I'd heard!Cry
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2004 at 15:53
Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

My first album.... Traffic "Live" On the Road and Stevie Wonder "Innervisions." Wonderful music. That was also the time I got my first stereo for Christmas. Wow, DUDE, you shook up some memories.

My first 8-Track - Queen II (wore it out, or was it RobJ's?)

I remember having the am radio with the earphones. Chi-lites: Ooh Girl.... yeah  I remember.

Stevie Wonder - Inner Visions    Fantastic album! 'Golden Lady' what a tune.

The fist albumI ever brought with my pocket money  was Architechture & Morality by OMD. Very wierd. I was only 11, but soon found myself bying The Wall -Pink Floyd and then promptly got into rock of all kinds, but mostly Heavy Metal. I've explored all manner of styles over the years, but it was rock and prog rock bands that really stood the test of time, with the exception of Stevie Wonder, John Martyns Solid Air. I have great memories of loving music from a very early age, even if my earliest memorieswere of Abba, and Elton John & Kiki Dee (Dont go breaking my heart)

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Points: 3525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2004 at 20:47

I was pretty lucky having older siblings who were already exploring music; there were a LOT of classic and obscure records played around my house. However, my personal collection got off to a rocky start...

My first vinyl albums (received as Christmas presents): Sean Cassidy's Greatest Hits (hmm, well, "Da Do Ron Ron" had its moments), The Marshall Tucker Band's Greatest Hits (I still have a fair respect for them, if no real love) and Phil Collins' "About Face"...which my brothers regarded as a joke gift, but I remember liking it very much at the time.

My first vinyl purchase: "Sgt. Pepper". No regrets there :)

My first cassette purchases: Bob Marley's Greatest Hits and Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" (that fixes the date somewhat- DP had just released this 'comeback' album).

It was about this time I also ran afoul of Columbia House while building my pre-teen music collection...if they ask, you haven't seen me.

Luckily, I was better prepared for my first CD purchases: the utterly magnificent "Love's Easy Tears" ep by The Cocteau Twins and Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians".

And I even remember my very first mp3 download! In 1997, "Come to Daddy" by Aphex Twin launched my appreciation for experimental dance-influenced electronic music. I can remember how long it took on a 28.8 dial-up...and just to drive a point home, I rushed out and purchased the album (take that, RIAA!).



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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2004 at 22:03

I was the baby in a family where the youngest brother above me was still 14 years older.. (I have a sister 26 yrs older than me).  So I was practically an only child.. even tho there was 4 of us....LOL

Anyway, my brother bought me a record player and some albums for Christmas when I was 8.  I loved that record player... one of those that you could pull the arm back on and it would play the same album over and over again all night.  He gave me an ecletic group of albums...everything from the Supremes to The Turtles... even the Grass Roots and my favorite.. The Monkees... (Hey, I was 8, ok)

The first album I bought for myself when I was around 11 was ITCOTKC... yes, I was a born progaholic... it won out over Ummagumma.. but I had my brother go and buy me Ummagumma anyway...

The best album to play all night when you needed restful sleep ... Close to the Edge



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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2004 at 06:24

Although my mother was musical, my father hated music, so as a compromise, we had a tinny tranny that was superglued to radio 2 (metaphorically!).

So I was brought up on a diet of Terry Wogan's tastes , but came to like Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. No regrets there - both classy performers, especially Streisand, whose voice still gives me goosebumps!

First cassettes (bought on the same day in 1979); ABBA : "Voulez-Vous" (Mai oui!), Blondie : "Parallel Lines".

First Vinyl LP : Electric Light Orchestra : "Discovery".

First CD : Pink Floyd : "Dark Side of the Moon"

First First Pressing : Pink Floyd : "Dark Side of the Moon" (it's a different album altogether - much harsher production and more like a rock band!).

For pure joy, I find Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" has really got it going on, but if I'm in a quieter mood, then either "Mirage" (Camel) or "Wet" (Barbra Streisand). Mediaeval music is superbly uplifting too, especially songs recited by Emma Kirkby and, talking of uplifting, just about any trance compilation from 1997-8 is bliss.
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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2004 at 08:02
My first was Beatles "Twist and shout " played it on my fathers old 78 system and..............yes it turned my cute single into a corkscrewed ?? mess.
Vinyl flying all over the room, yikes those old  LO FI systems sure kicked some serious ass
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