how did it all begin?
my first favourite band was Savage Garden when i was 12, 'cos we were buying a stereo and it was the CD the store clerk put on to show us how it worked and i loved Darren Hayes' voice! then when i was 14 i started listening to bands like the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox Twenty. then i started listening to female singers, like Sarah McLachlan and Mariah Carey. then when i was 16 i discovered Radio Rhema and have loved almost every song that gets played on their since then ('cos of it's mostly pop-rock genre), my favourite musician is now Sara Groves
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1st ever record = Dr Seuss (green eggs ...
1st ever record = Dr Seuss (green eggs & hams, yurtle the turtle etc)
1st ever cassette = Wacko Jacko, Thriller, gift from my mum
1st ever cassette I bought myself = was either AC/DC or Def Leppard, can't remember wich came first?
not long after I was given dubbed copies of Straight Outta Compton & Master of Puppets (note these were not gifts from my mum)
then I got my hands on Appetite for Destruction . . . . . . . . . end of story !!
same here...
same here
and here but change master of puppets ...
and here but change master of puppets to lightning and compton to young mc's principle's office
Man, I tried to write it out but it ...
Man, I tried to write it out but it took forever (because I'm so interesting and amazing).
Roughly:
from 12, serious pop - Peter Gabriel obsession, plus Pet Shop Boys, George Michael (only after Faith, when he got all worthy and boring), Eurythmics, etc.
from 15 - started raiding library music collections and magazines, contemporary UK indie (Ride, Curve, My Bloody Valentine, Danielle Dax, Carter The UNstoppable Sex Machine, PWEI) + Goth / industrial nonsense (Sisters, Cure, Front 242, Coil, Chris & Cosey, NIN, Ministry)
from 17 - started going to dance parties and writing dance music. from here into all kinds of electronic listening music and started conceding that some hip-hop was OK. Mostly stuff by white people with angst - Consolidated, MC 900 Foot Jesus. I guess I was into Massive Attack's 'Blue Lines' too.
20-21 - completely over industrial and goth stuff, right into "electronica" and what I guess was "trip-hop". The record labels Warp, Mo'Wax and Ninja Tunes started to dictate my tastes for a while. Started opening up to the things that influenced all this stuff and fantastic dub reissues that had started coming out. Also got right into 80s synth pop - OMD and Human League in particular.
from 23 - really "got" simple, baldly expressive stuff like soul and reggae. seems bizarre to me that i went from a teenage goth fan to DJing Active's soul show.
and somewhere in the last 7 years I entered lena o's third phase of musical appreciation...
JC you are so fucking lame....
JC you are so fucking lame.
//my first favourite band was Savage ...
//my first favourite band was Savage Garden when i was 12,
Bahaha! I now understand everything about you completely.
The first tape I owned was The Immaculate Collection. The first CD I owned was the soundtrack to Twin Peaks. I am l33t.
// . . . . . . 'cos we were buying a ...
// . . . . . . 'cos we were buying a stereo and it was the CD the store clerk put on to show us how it worked
haha this reminds me of Boogie Nights where Buck puts on the old country & western . . . "can you feel the bass"
Haha. You reckon JC's store clerk got ...
Haha. You reckon JC's store clerk got fired for playing Savage Garden and wound up in the porn industry, too?
"we were buying a stereo and it was the ...
"we were buying a stereo and it was the CD the store clerk put on to show us how it worked and i loved Darren Hayes' voice!"
I was trying to figure out just how lame Savage Garden actually was, but when I ran it through my lame-o-meter, it went way off the scale, and then exploded.
man, that was pretty lame...
man, that was pretty lame
I woulod listen to herb alpert growing ...
I woulod listen to herb alpert growing up
12 - red head kingpin
13 guns and roses
14 metalica
15 sepultura
16 led zep + black sabbath
17 deep purple + some ethinc musics
18 shellac + slint
19 hip hop craze
20 david bowie craze
21 Dio
22 Beatles Craze
23 kyuss, fu manchu etc
24 hip hop craze #2
25 grieg
26 biggy smalls, Big L
27 ambient zero beat
28 Fake comercial screamo phaze: Saosin, the used (terrible i know)
parents' music: dr hook, fleetwood ...
parents' music: dr hook, fleetwood mac, steely dan, willie nelson
earliest purchases: frankie goes to hollywood, kate bush
high school years: stone roses, wonderstuff, sugarcubes, happy mondays
varsity: straitjacket fits, shihad, radiohead, ride
since then: anything goes...