Not a Joaquin Sabina fan? I love that old bastard :,)

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When I had money to buy music, I bought Spanish music. And then I started to really get into music. It's not because I was cool. Bowie got me into other things, the Beatles stuff, Queen, Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel. In college I got into Tom Waits and stuff like Pixies and the Breeders. Then I went into BB King, Ella FItzgerald, Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, and the rest of blues and jazz classics.

Another example of late discoveries: I didn't truly discover Bruce Springsteen until last year--when I saw him life. And Johnny Cash a bit before that, with the American Recordings.

So no, I'm not cool at all. Still a lot of things to discover.

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They raised me on Beatles and The Rolling Stones (London Records years) and Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull and Cream. I both rebelled and embraced their music.

I rebelled through MTV, listening to all manner of Eighties pop-pap. If Adam Curry played it, I listened to it. And I taped songs off of Q107 (in DC). At the same time, I unabashedly stole their LPs and still have my dad's original pressing of "Revolver" and "Between The Buttons", the Stones' best (and yet unappreciated) album.

Through my dad, who's played blues/jazz guitar as a hobby for the past 40 years, I started listening to Willie Dixon and John Lee Hooker. At the same time, I was heavy into hard rock and Southern rock.

Then, grunge happened. And that's when I realized that Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder were the John Lennon and Bob Dylan of my generation.

Recently, I gone down a folk-rock path, starting with Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, with Bob Dylan, Neil Young (largely overrated), doubling back on Tom Petty (largely passed over), and Bruce Springsteen, whose music has evolved and gotten better with age.

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My first tape though.. I think I bought Bob Marley and the Wailers Burnin' and Ramones Ramones at the same time. I think I was 12.

My first CD was.. I can't remember. Right on the tip of my tongue....

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That preview button would have come in handy when you first tried to post that, wouldn't it?

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The other replies "Nah, let them suffer."

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Plus, it is so far and away the best one they've put up there. He could have purchased it at 28 and still won as far as I'm concerned.

(Then again, my first album was Men at Work on LP.)

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As a general rule, I liked (and like) my Genesis Firth of Fifth-style.

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I still remember all of us 9 year-old's gathering at a friend's house to watch the Thriller video, and thinking it was the single coolest thing that had ever happened in our lifetimes or ever would happen.

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