[gmku]

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

SY members can also have tastes that the "indie police" would condemn, for instance Thurston loves Meatloaf while Steve is a Sade fan.

Yep. I just played Let's Dance four times--and loved every minute of it. Tell me that ain't a condemnable act.

[gmku]

Rob, you're a spring chick compared to moi.

& yeah, what is it about the white album that changes lives? I was never the same, either.

[atsonicpark]

Yeeeeeah...

I love pop music. Specifically overproduced, mushy, gushy jpop. And you can rest assure there's nothing ironic about it.

[gmku]

Air Supply totally rules.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
SY members can also have tastes that the "indie police" would condemn, for instance Thurston loves Meatloaf while Steve is a Sade fan.


what is wrong with Sade? the load I understand but Sade is bet'am dehna! (very good)

[Rob Instigator]

there is a LOT wrong with sade

nasal ass voice
smooth jazz backing music
endless songs about the most trite subject around, love
fucking CHIMES in nearly every song


fuck I hate Sade and her bullshit music. My girlfriend is a huge Sade fanatic. That shit makes me wanna fucking barf in my mouth everytime I hear it.

[krastian]

Ha ha ha ha....you fucking crack me up, Rob.

[pokkeherrie]

When I was little I think used to listen to songs much more than albums. I can remember some of my favourite songs back from when I was 4 years old, but for albums not until I was maybe 9-10 or so.
Anyway, these 5 below must've been among the first full albums that I listened to and/or owned, although sometimes only as a copied cassette.

cassette:
Michael Jackson - Bad
Beatles - 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (I think, but maybe it were just some random Beatles cassettes)

CD:
Queen - The Miracle
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em


edit: I do remember having lots of cassettes with stories and fairytales etc, but they don't count as albums.

[Kina]

Originally Posted by Norma J

TUMBLEWEED! Fuck yeah. haha. Good call.

hehe someone remembers them!

For non-australians/too young to have heard them and want to hear some aussie stoner rock from the 90s, the weed are ofcourse on youtube!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7HOPsPabg (dunno if this works)

[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

1. queen - greatest hits

2. guns n' roses - bootleg compilation.

3. metallica - metallica (a.k.a. black album)

4. bon jovi - keep the faith.

5. iron maiden - a real live one

I know you have age as an excuse but thats one of the worst selections of records i've ever seen!!!!

[Kina]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Man, I am much older than many of you.

My first albums

 

Def leppard - On Through The Night
I was around 9 years old and my da took me and my brother to go buy some cassettes, our first music to choose for ourselves. I had heard def leppard on the MTV (photograph and rock of ages) and I wanted that but I got this instead. Being just 9 years old I did not get the right one. either way, I listened to this album endlessly, as only small children can enjoy an album. My brother got Twisted Sister STAY HUNGRY, which had a much cooler cover.

 

Def leppard - PYROMANIA
After a few weeks I went to the K marty (they used to sell vinyl records at K Mart, hell, they used to sell them EVERYWHERE) with my mom and got this album, which i would play endlessly on my dad's stereo. My favorite album for about three months until....

 

Quiet Riot - METAL HEALTH
Being a child of the MTV, I bought this around age 9 or 10, and it was fucking AWESOME. I loved this album so much. Quiet Riot were my favorite band for a few years. I liked the bombast!

 

Van Halen - 1984
In music class in 5th grade on fridays we could bring in records to listen to and a kid brought in his older bro's vinyl of this and we listened to a bit before the teacher decided it was too much for young kids, which of course made me want to go get it and absorb it and love it. I fucking wore this album out!!!!

Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Another one my 5th grade music teacher would not play. I bought this and loved the satan stuff. LOVED the satan stuff and their crazy ass look.

You're only 5 years older than me I think so not that much, but I guess it does make a pretty big difference music-wise. Great albums by the way!

[Kina]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

It isn't that surprising if you think that this is mainly a rock forum, but yeah, it is a bit shocking that not many people listened to much pop music or even dance music. Even when I started buying my own Bowie records it was in his poppiest phase (i.e. 'Never Let Me Down').

Well for me I remember being totally swamped by the pop culture of the 80s and I didn't like it, I remember simply hating Kylie Minogue etc even as a young kid, stuff like that just seemed really cheesy and superficial or something, so things more gritty or weird or something appealed to me.

[Kina]

Originally Posted by matt g

return of the jedi soundtrack (9) '83

awesome!

[Glice]

My house always had music on. The earliest albums I like I can't remember so well (apart from Jim Reeves' Bimbo - I still like it, doubt any of you schleps would). My old dear would play a whole world of country - no Johnny Cash, but plenty of Dolly, Tammy, Patsy, Hank, Nelson, Rogers and a millions compilations - and Irish... y'know, the old tapes that still live around the house and you never know who's singing but remember the song. My old man would listen to Meatloaf and 80s soft rock, which took me ages to get, but makes a bit more sense these days. My sister would play lots of gay pop (from which I get my current Erasure obsession, and also makes sense of the Industrial thing). And my brother was into the first wave of British punk (I think he still things new wave is a bit gay) and plenty of reggae. I was very, very lucky, methinks. Unlike a lot of people (and this is going to sound like a wankerish boast) I was pretty much bored of punk by the time I hit puberty.

The first records I remember buying with my own money were Menswear's Nuisance, Blur's Leisure, Echobelly's on, Gene's to see the lights and Elastica's elastica. So make of that what you will.

[gmku]

So do you think our first five albums were formative somehow, shaping what we'd like to listen to, collect the rest of our lives? Any theories? Environment? Genetics? A combination of both?

[Glice]

Originally Posted by gmku

So do you think our first five albums were formative somehow, shaping what we'd like to listen to, collect the rest of our lives? Any theories? Environment? Genetics? A combination of both?

Only if you're still harping on about them many, many years after you first bought them.

Ok, that's the cheap dig over. I find it astonishing that so few people here have mentioned anything particularly embarassing. Either you've all got hip parents, or a fair proportion of people here are lying.

[pokkeherrie]

I was given an MC Hammer CD on my birthday! I even asked for it!

Even more embarassing, I got a CD player and that was the first CD to go with it. I hadn't even asked for the CD player, just for that MC Hammer CD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rKM90L6YBE

[✌➬]

Originally Posted by Glice

Ok, that's the cheap dig over. I find it astonishing that so few people here have mentioned anything particularly embarassing. Either you've all got hip parents, or a fair proportion of people here are lying.

I said Britney Spears. Along those I also listened to blink 182. But can't remember which ones I bought/owned. But somewhere they all got involved. Also Green Day.

[gmku]

Originally Posted by Glice

Only if you're still harping on about them many, many years after you first bought them.

Ok, that's the cheap dig over. I find it astonishing that so few people here have mentioned anything particularly embarassing. Either you've all got hip parents, or a fair proportion of people here are lying.

My parents were very uncool, aside from the fact they didn't try to prohibit me from bringing whatever music I wanted into the house (trust me, I knew kids' parents who did that!).

My parents record collection, let see--Barbara Streissand, Henry Mancini, Doc Sevrensin, more Henry Mancini, the soundtrack to West Side Story, more Henry Mancini, and oh, yes, more Henry Mancini.

(by the way, I don't get what you mean by the cheap dig, but whatever.)

[Glice]

My parents are also deeply uncool, but I've come to appreciate what that means. When I was an angry teenager, the fact they didn't get my music was because they didn't understand me, and I didn't get theirs because they were idiots. My opinion now is more like it doesn't matter if they don't get what I like, at least I can share a bit of what they like. Don't get me wrong, there's still a great deal of stuff they like I can't stand, but at least I can spend time in their company listening to records, which certainly beats sitting in front of the idiot box.