@92BuickLeSabre: How know how we know he's gay? Even then he was attached to a song about the death of his wife so that he could faux mourn and then go on to live with his male lover.
Of course, shortly after this GnR asploded and left bits and pieces of the spaghetti monster incident all over the place and...
Mine was Cinderella - Night Songs. I saved my lunch money until I was able to buy the cassette. I remember my mother was kinda proud that I had saved my money in order to buy what I wanted. I listened to the tape in my room very loud, sang along and I'm sure my next door neighbor was praying for me. But Cinderella rocked my world back then.
My first records were 45s. One in particular that I used to listen to constantly was the Porpoise Song by the Monkees. This is not your typical Saturday Morning Monkee fare but more of a psychodelic, Beatlesque tune which I believe was written by Carole King.
Later I moved to albums and the first were Thick as Brick, School's Out and Black Sabbath Paranoid. By then I had made a ton of reel-to-reel recordings of my neighbor's library which included The Who's Tommy, Alice Cooper Killer, and tons of other stuff I can't even remember.
Oh, Andi - you are so cute and adorable. I just want to pick you up and pinch you. Did you have a crush on Belle? I admit, I did -- and I was a freshman in college. Don't tell anyone, though, okay?
Speaking of having a crush on Disney characters, has anyone played the drinking game where one of the characters makes you horny you have to take a drink? I can't play that game with Beauty and the Beast because I think Lumière is hot, too.
@Francisco Olaso Lizano: My mom had a Mecano tape, the first album. I listened to it a lot when I was 12 or so, I think. Then they got really bad. The first one was true movida stuff.
@Jesus Diaz: Well you are right they got kind of cheese but I still love Ana Torroja's Voice, Hijo de la Luna is one of my favorite songs of all time (I can not believe I admitted that) anyways.
Not a Joaquin Sabina fan? I love that old bastard :,)
@lostarchitect: Heroes--the song--is probably one of my favoritest song ever along with Cygnet Committee. I just can't have enough of it. The album not so much though. Hunky Dory, Space Oddity, Young Americans, Aladdin Sane, and Diamond Dogs are my top 5, although I think the man is a genius. His live albums are to die for.
@speaknspell23: Hombres G are actually not bad. They have quite a few songs which are pure rock n roll which are wild and nice, even if the lyrics can be considered puerile. I hated them back then--since it was the pijo songs--but I kind of like some of their stuff when I hear the songs playing in bars nowadays.
@OMG! Ponies!: Because I never got into music. All the music I listened to was the one that my father had (which was the Beatles and a collection of old rock stuff in vynil). I got presents from aunts which were horrible.
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.
@Jesus Diaz: Well, I was raised by a couple of textbook hippies. They were born in 1946, meaning they were part of the whole "Summer of Love" bullshit.
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.
I just watched Boondock Saints again last night (for the 78th time, most likely) and I am just now struck with how much William Dafoe in drag looks almost identical to "Ziggy Stardust."
Great album by the way, Jesus. I am still ashamed of my "firsts" both presents and purchased. Oh well.
@weatherman: Well, I got late into music and I'm older than everyone else (although Hunky Dory comes one year before me--I got a re-release). My first spanish album I bought myself was Radio Futura's El Directo de Radio Futura (live album, which had this song):
@weatherman: what do you expect?! he's spanish!! (haha in all honesty, my musical taste was crap until i met jesus. actually, it's still crap, but at least i've got a few good songs in my collection now!)
@Jesus Diaz: Two Spaniards in the United States are headed to a party, and the first one says to the other "Do you think we should tell them we're Spanish?"
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What the hell was on the first album other than November Rain?
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I:
1. "Right Next Door to Hell"
2. "Dust N' Bones"
3. "Live and Let Die"
4. "Don't Cry"
5. "Perfect Crime"
6. "You Ain't the First"
7. "Bad Obsession"
8. "Back Off Bitch"
9. "Double Talkin' Jive"
10. "November Rain"
11. "The Garden"
12. "Garden of Eden"
13. "Don't Damn Me"
14. "Bad Apples"
15. "Dead Horse"
16. "Coma"
II:
1. "Civil War"
2. "14 Years"
3. "Yesterdays"
4. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
5. "Get in the Ring"
6. "Shotgun Blues"
7. "Breakdown"
8. "Pretty Tied Up"
9. "Locomotive"
10. "So Fine"
11. "Estranged"
12. "You Could Be Mine"
13. "Don't Cry (Alt. Lyrics)
14. "My World"
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Interesting choice matt. Very interesting.
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First Record: Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
First Cassette: Ghost Busters soundtrack
First CD: RHCP - Mother's Milk
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Later I moved to albums and the first were Thick as Brick, School's Out and Black Sabbath Paranoid. By then I had made a ton of reel-to-reel recordings of my neighbor's library which included The Who's Tommy, Alice Cooper Killer, and tons of other stuff I can't even remember.
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If Jesus won the week? Um...well...I'm afraid you lose.
But you lose it in a such a sweet and adorable way!
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Speaking of having a crush on Disney characters, has anyone played the drinking game where one of the characters makes you horny you have to take a drink? I can't play that game with Beauty and the Beast because I think Lumière is hot, too.
(Well, he is a candle, after all..)
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Not a Joaquin Sabina fan? I love that old bastard :,)
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o en espanol! Que, no Hombres G?
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Michael Jackson's Thriller on vinyl at age 8.
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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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Great album by the way, Jesus. I am still ashamed of my "firsts" both presents and purchased. Oh well.
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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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