Babytano: "Fuck all this googoo gaga shit. I want you to rip my heart out of my fucking chest, mom! I don't wanna sleep! I want you to hit me with the jams so hard that my balls drop and make me wanna fuck my preschool teacher like it's the last day of school. I don't want pretty!! Love you."
My earliest musical memory was fucking around with track titles on iTunes while using the family computer. My dad was a little confused when he saw his favourite tracks’ titles had been changed to “vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv”.
And, you could find more tangible evidence that Slimer actually exists, than the holy ghost. And both are fictional characters, created by someone to make money.
The earliest song I remember liking was Pink's "Get the Party Started" when I was in elementary school lol. I didn't really get into music until I heard Hybrid Theory in 6th grade. All my parents ever played was country, which I never liked even as a kid, so they didn't get me started very early.
It’s funny how us older musically inclined millennials have very similar stories of how music was involved in our lives. I remember being as young as 5 in the 90s begging for a Walkman and Boombox so I could have control over my own music. My first personal player was a yellow Walkman that I painted Pikachu details on and would jam out to my radio mix tapes of Foo Fighters and the Eagles. Later moving on to Napster and Limewire to put MP3s on my Sansa.
Honestly I never began to appreciate music until kind of late into my childhood, especially considering how much it means to me now. I think I was ten when I realized that having a radio on in the background as I did math or school work made the experience a whole lot more bearable. Matchbox Twenty was my first favorite artist though my tastes have grown since then. My first CDs were Gorillaz Demon Days, Green Day American Idiot, and Fallout Boy Infinity on High. Ace of Base the Sign was the first album I got myself. I loved them all. But I've never really found it easy to be like "Oh I want to listen to this album today." Because often times it's easy to just get overwhelmed with too many options. So I think the invention of the shuffle feature really helped me grow my music taste. All of a sudden it felt like I had my own radio station. I still love to listen to albums start to finish and I think you should try to do this to better understand the album's appeal and the production involved. But I have so much fun just shuffling everything whenever I just want music to fill the room or whenever my taste grows.
My first memory of music's from The time at JCPenney's with my mom The watermelon candy I was choking on Barbara screaming, "Someone help my son!" I relive it most times the radio's on That "tell me lies, sweet little white lies" song That's when I first saw the comedy won't stop for Even little boys dying in department stores
I also remember seeing the bulls on parade video and thinking to myself " this is big boy music" And yes dude i loved and still love Weird AL. I had the video collection on VHS and to be honest i heard the smells like teen spirit parody before the real thing Also Thanks Mom for letting me buy a NOFX tape with your money ❤💚💙. I used to have to sample cds for explicit content at The Wall with my Mom. Weird that i was allowed to watch R rated movies and read Spawn comics ...she even bought me a Puff DADDY and the Family cd.
One of my first musical memories was listening to John Lennon's Cold Turkey. It was track 2 on my mother's copy of the compliation album Shaved Fish. I remember listening to it on a CD walkman and taking the headphones off when he started screaming towards the end but still keeping the headphones near so I could hear it. It was terrifying and hypnotizing at the same time. Another memory is associated with Christmas. I'm Venezuelan and grew up in Chicago. So the Venezuelan Christmas traditions which include gaitas, traditional folklore music, and el plato navideño, special Christmas food, were all mixed with Midwest sub zero temps and Christmas trees and lights. I have clear memories of helping make hallacas watching the snow fall and listening to Maracaibo 15.
My cousin let me borrow Montel Jordan's "This is How We Do It" and Kriss Kross's "Totally Krossed Out" in 1995 or 1996, I was 5 or 6 years old. I would sit down with my Mom's boombox plugged into a wall outlet with headphones on and geek out for hours. Edit: Typos
My VERY first musical memory is the reason for my attraction to soul music. The first artist I remember loving as a child was Anita Baker because I would wake up every Saturday morning to the smell of Lysol and breakfast with “Sweet Love” blasting through the house. It was the meaning of beauty to me as an 8 year old
That's crazy. I have an Earliest Memories of Music playlist that I've been building up over the years. The first video I think I remember seeing was Take On Me by a-ha and I was told that I was a huge fan of Huey Lewis & the News. Run-DMC was the first hip hop group I remember followed by the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. We had a record player in our garage and watched a lot of MTV in the late 80's. The first tape I ever owned was from Faith No More.
Anthony, you became a critic because that drum was taken from you as a kid. Basically you're giving your opinions on kids who were allowed to play their drums.
I was born in 97 so the first time i was exposed to something that made me turn my head and think "this is fucking awesome" was around 2002. There was this music video show on a channel (at the time i didn't even knew what MTV was), and they used to play the popular stuff, but it was a really good selection, the tracks i remember the most are "Without Me" by Eminem (he was at his peak by the time and i thought the music video with Dre and him dressed as Robin was hilarious), Gorillaz starting to become a phenomenon with "Clint Eastwood" (and for a kid at my age Gorillaz was the coolest shit ever), and Chili Peppers with "By the Way" which was being released at the time. Then a year after i played Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 for the first time and the rest is history.
Oooh this is so cute and it also makes me realize how much of a baby I am. My earliest memories of "contemporary" music (other than the classical music my father exposed us to, particularly Don Giovanni, and music in movies like the Walking With Dinosaurs series or Disney stuff) are of stuff like Avril Lavigne, Pink, earlyish Coldplay and other things that would play on radios here at the time, and while they sound hella nostalgic to me, it was pretty much yesterday. These people are still young, CDs were very much the norm and MP3 players were starting to become a thing too. Then I remember I started my personal exploration of music with a Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits double CD which I used to play over and over while drawing, and I distinctly remember that for a long time some tracks on there sounded too heavy and harsh to me ("We've Got a Groovy Thing Going, Baby" most of all) so I called them ugly and always skipped them. That must have been around 2007-2008 when I was starting middle school; then came Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, classic prog and glam stuff, Kate Bush, Goldfrapp, Florence, Opeth, Agalloch, and now thanks in no small part to Anthony I've finally been discovering hip hop and I couldn't be happier about it.
My earliest music memories from what I remember consisted of me sitting in the back seat and watching my dad play different tapes and cds and the two I remember the most were Jay-Z's The Black Album and Styles P's Super Gangster Extraordinary Gentleman, those two albums really sparked my interest in not only Hip Hop but music in general
Thank you for wearing that jacket Anthony, the colors and the letter C helped really remind me of the holiday and the reason for the season, I'll be sure to attend the Christmas Eve sermon this year.
I remember the first two CDs I personally owned were Kidz Bop volume 1 and Baha Men's Who Let the Dogs out. I sold those years ago but I legit miss them.
I remember being a kid and my mom wasn't cool with me listening to some of the more vulgar hip hop out there...so at one point I copied DMX's "it's dark and hell is hot" album onto a tape and labeled it "Rock mix".
earliest music memory I have was when my dad drove me to preschool and played pantera and tool in the car. However I didn't get into music as it were until middle school.
My 'Bad Hair Day' tape would play "The Night Santa Went Crazy" backwards during a small portion of "Amish Paradise" and vice versa. What a coincidence!
My first musical memory (and my first memory) was when I was 2 and Foo Fighters dropped the All My Life video on MTV/vh1. I didn’t even know what I was looking at, but I knew I liked it.
Music's always seemed to be really important in my life. My earliest memories with music was from when I was like 3-5, when either I'd go or my sister would take me to the "music room" of the house, put a CD in the boombox and I'd/we'd just kinda walk in circles along the carpet, doing nothing else until the CD ended. Besides that, my sister was fascinated with the idea of radio and wanted to do her own fake radio show with me, but I was more hesitant to it so it would die off in time. I'd start taking music more seriously when I began playing the trumpet around the time I was 8 years old, first being taught classically and then later on leaned more towards jazz/blues. This was also the time friends of the family and relatives would burn me music they found online or copied from disks they had, the most notable bands that I got introduced to through that was Metallica and AC/DC. While I always would insist I was more into the rock and metal to not seem as uncool when I was a kid, Rhapsody of Fire ended up being a way I could meet that halfway and became an important band to help me still nurture that classical side of me, taught me to still appreciate symphonic orchestras. Around that time between the ages of 8 and 14 (So about 2004-2011) was what I'd say is the most important chunk of my life with music. While I can argue during 2015 and onwards, I'd become way more invested in exploring music more seriously and actually thinking about the artistry around it, the parameters of my tastes and preferences were set by those formative years. It's taken an active effort to include electronic music into my catalog and the rap/hip-hop scene is very largely outside of my ballpark, because I just wasn't exposed to it enough during the time my ways were being set.
my dad was completely what sparked my love for music. he showed me RUN DMC, NWA, Beastie Boys, Kanye West LCD Soundsystem, dr dre. super thankful for that man
Unfortunately my earliest music memory is getting down to late 90s country radio playing out of my Barbie camper that had a working radio and the local country station was the only station it could tune into.
I remember sitting in front of the boom box waiting for hours for “Ms. Jackson” to come on so we could catch it on a tape. I think he had heard it earlier that day and he got me hyped on it. Just waiting and waiting for the dj to announce it, then the excitement when he finally did. Pretty exciting.
It’s honestly crazy to think of how it used to be when you were younger. I really can’t imagine not being able to listen to whatever I want at any moment
My earliest music memories of really giving a shit about music was actually when there was a lockdown at school and everyone was in the gym and started singing “Fireflies”...I’m serious. What further brought it on was my best friend playing it again and then I was super into Owl City tbh for a good while😄. Then obviously my taste evolved a lot over time.
Yeah I suppose my first musical memory is also from a toy, a Fisher Price baby tablet from the early 1970's. Other than that, 1970's Disney story 45s, and my parents listening to Janis Joplin and The Beatles, James Brown, Sly + Family Stone, and a Polydor 8-track promo tape with a lot of great tracks of the time (including european hits like La Musica by Patrick Juvet which is an alltime classic for me, Hocus Pocus by Focus, etc.), then The Nutcracker during Christmas time was also a highlight. Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd was the next huge memory, and children show tunes like Spider-Man, and John Barry themes from James Bond movies. The first album I bought, well, there was a Disney 33rpm album of The Sleeping Beauty, but I think it was Goofy Greats during Christmas 1975, which is still a fantastic compilation to this day, ensuring that I would stay cool forever I guess.
My first musical memory is either my mom playing Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder in the car and my dad playing the Beatles' cover of Twist n Shout in my living room. Both of those I think are pretty dope
I'm roughly the same age born mid 80s I can remember having a discman made by Sony that did not skip when you shook it. That was a treasured piece of tech. Even though it used batteries at twice the normal rate due to its anti skip function.
I think playing cello got me really into music. By playing cello I wanted to get into classical music, and from then on I wanted to enjoy more types of music.
My earliest musical memories were listening to the cassette tapes my father owned. Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon, Queensryche's self titled ep, and Iron Maiden Powerslave. Also a video tape of Judas Priest music videos. Those were my introduction to metal.
I remember turning 8, I seem younger in my memory but I know I was 8, my brother and I had birthdays right next to each other. For this birthday my brother got a Sony ghetto and I got a Sony Walkman. It was like the first small Walkman and it had these earphones attached to this flat wire bar and it was really exciting. Except there was a problem, my bro got the Van Halen 1984 cassette for his ghetto (totally awesome) but I got Raffy. Baby Baluga. I mean, come on! I want turning 3! I was 8. GD 8! I eventually did end up getting some decent times for this fragile portable music device, but I’ll never forget the excitement of getting the advanced technology along with this baby cassette to completely bust the experience. Way to go mom and dad. Geeze, I really wanted to have cool dude music like my bro got. But nope, Baby friggin Balluga.
I remember hearing a duo cover of Love Story by Taylor Swift on the radio on the other room of my aunt's house. I just immediately had the urge to look whose song it is. That was the start of my own musical search removed from whatever my parents had been playing (they only occasionally played music in the house since they rarely _buy_ music)
Anthony, you should give one of Iron Maiden's non-Bruce Dickinson albums a review. The debut record, Killers, The X Factor, and Virtual XI are not as bad as critics say they are. There are some legitimate great songs on each record. The debut has Phantom of The Opera and Killers has Wrathchild. Two of Maiden's biggest hits. In my opinion, they sound even better when Paul sings them. He offered a very "punk" sort of sound to the group that hasn't been matched since. As for Blaze Bayley, I find myself listening to some songs from The X Factor quite frequently. Although the songwriting is choppy at times, Blaze has an excellent, underrated delivery which is greatly pronounced on several tracks including Sign of The Cross AND Man On The Edge. Anyways, I'm a big fan keep up the great work.
