I wasn't thinking in those terms, but that was the effect
― Dan S, Monday, 13 May 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
it was one of the handful of songs that really sparked my interest in popular music as a kid
― Dan S, Monday, 13 May 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
I'm going to vote for "Strawberry Fields Forever" in any poll where it is a contender, and as a write-in in at least some polls where it is not, but also <3 for "Kayleigh" and "School".
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
Can I ask how you had access to all of these songs in the late 80s at age 8/9? I was a little older than you and all I had was the library & radio & magazines. I had no money or access to cool things. How did you get your 8 year old hands on these songs?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
cool things i had access to when i was 8
the uncle floyd showcooky puss
errr, i think that about covers it
― Burt Bacharach's Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
by the way that's cooky puss the ice cream cake and most definitely NOT cooky puss the beastie boys song
― Burt Bacharach's Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
lol I didn't know about that product but I remember the song
― Dan S, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Can I ask how you had access to all of these songs in the late 80s at age 8/9? I was a little older than you and all I had was the library & radio & magazines. I had no money or access to cool things. How did you get your 8 year old hands on these songs?― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 01:12 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 01:12 (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
We always had a record player in the house and it was the first thing I was really interested in, there was no library nearby and we never got any magazines.
Strawberry Fields Forever - This must have been taped at my grandma's house in Liverpool as we didn't have itSmooth Criminal - This was the first single I bought by myselfCliff Richard And The Young Ones - Think this was a present?Morris Minor and The Majors / Bootsy Collins / Chaka Khan / David Grant / Art of Noise / Dead Or Alive - Singles I had, most (all?) of these from brown paper parcels of 'lucky dip' remainders from the record shop my dad went to sometimesPink Floyd - From the only Pink Floyd LP my dad had, A Collection of Great Dance SongsMarillion - My dad apparently mentioned marillion once and someone (my grandparents?) bought their discography for him, but he didn't really like Marillion, so they were then mineSupertramp / Bonzo Dog Band / The Police - from my dad's LPs
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
aha so the answer is "cool dad"i knew there had to be someone!
i wasn't trying to give you a hard time -- was genuinely curious how you got so fortunate!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, May 14, 2019 2:12 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
About the same age, me and a buddy taped everything from radio. I had a double cassette player where one could record what the other was playing, and after a couple of weeks of taping top 40 and stuff, you had songs enough to make five C90's.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
Yeah, my mix tapes at 9 were based entirely on the playlists of local rock stations: one began "Bad Medicine"/"Desire"/"Welcome to the Jungle" iirc. Something interesting like "Cult of Personality" did make it in sometimes.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
I will tell my dad someone on the internet thinks he's cool, he will be very surprised! What is missing here is all his folk music as I did not yet have a twin cassette deck despite years of pestering and these were all on tape for some reason. If they had been on LP I would maybe have the first three tracks from The Albion Band's Rise Up Like The Sun on here.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
i used to wonder how different my life would have been if i had had a cool relativesome people had the older sibling/uncle/whomever. how much cooler could i have been!? off the charts cool!
lol
you are fortunate to have had a dad cool enough to like the albion band!! geez louise
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
i think the closest i got was my childhood BFF's mom who was into Eno & VUotherwise it wasn't until i got to middle school and met my friend's older brother who had every bowle, stooges, alice cooper record etc and he was very tall and intimidating (nice, but i was scared of him)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
anyway what good fortune you had!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
I sometimes wonder if I might have gone into medicine or accounting or something if I'd had a record-collecting, guitar-playing Dad.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
I don't think he went out of his way to introduce me to music, it was just always on. He didn't (still doesn't) like any of the stuff from the lucky dip singles. But won't deny my dad is great if you insist 😂
I do wonder about getting my kids into music as my older son has no inclination that way at all, but the younger one has clear tastes already. Just don't want to be this guy (who is 100% some dads I know) - https://www.theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
oh yeah some people are definitely actively trying to groom their children to like what they like/d -- i think this usually backfires but not my problem, don't really care whether other people's kids like music or not
my parents never forced it on me either, i just needed a buddy and music was 100% there for me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
taped everything from radio
there are still songs that i expect to segue into certain other songs just because i taped them off the radio that way 35 years ago
off the charts cool!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Hardly my favourite PF but it's still 'Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 2)' for me.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
The into to the Art of Noise's Close to the Edit with the engine starting is maybe my favourite 'found sound' in all of pop music.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Another Brick In The Wall pt II is (I now know) a weird version with the single intro (i.e. no scream) and the LP outro ("If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding")
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof, Tuesday, May 14, 2019 3:11 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha, same here mookie! :)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
i wanted to throw a lol vote to Morris Minor but then i remembered Tony Hawks had never done anything worthwhile in his life
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
Amazing enough that there's a Bonzo Dog track on your mixtape, but it's a song I don't even know! A+ for crate digging!
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
xxp or segue into steve wright segments :/
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 19 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
chaka >>>>>>>>>
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 May 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 20 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
chaka >>>>>>>>> the beatles
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Monday, 20 May 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
Come on, this was obviously The Strain, what is wrong with you
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 20 May 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
Yes CP, still think it's a great tune at the age of nearly 40 - even if it is admittedly a comedy song about having a shit, it is one of the best examples of that dirty early 70s funky blues I can think of.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 May 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link