Your Turn
After all the scary, horrifying murders this week, I think we all need a laugh, or a flashback to times of innocence. At some point this week, for some reason I was having a conversation with someone and in the course of the conversation they said three or four words straight from a Sheena Easton song. So, I finished the lyric so to speak. I thought they had said it because they knew the song, but it turns out it was just a random grouping of words. In fact, they didn't even know who the hell Sheena Easton was. Never heard of her. Finally they admitted that maybe they remembered the For Your Eyes Only song.
Sheena Easton was like the Scottish Madonna. I really don't know how else to categorize her. I loved her though and it sucks that people don't remember her, especially considering that she was always in the tabloids. I think she was paired up with Don Johnson, Prince, and some others that escape me now.
Then, in another conversation with a completely different person yesterday they admitted they had just discovered a band they were hearing about for the very first time. A band called Pink Floyd. I know, I know, but it is completely f**king true. That's why I had the song reference today, because that conversation got me in the mood last night.
So, anyway, what I want from everyone today is the first record/CD you bought. If all of you say something critically acclaimed I will know you are lying. And, I want to know the first concert you went to as well. And yes, The Wiggles counts. And no, no one sees a Smiths concert first time out. I want things like Sugarhill Gang or Men At Work with Red Rider opening. Black Sabbath with some band you don't remember. Spill it all.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 220 of 220First concert - john denver (with my mom but I made her go!)
first concert with friends - Huey Lewis & the News
First record - a 45 - More More More by Andrea True Connection. I was 13. How do you like it? How do you like it?
First concert - The Knack at Massey Hall. I was 15. They put on a great show and was floored when the crowd went nuts because the lead singer put his harmonica on.
(audieh_1 - Fly By Night is still a cool song)
Rod Stewart, "Atlantic Crossing". I know, but I was eleven.
By the way, the first record I ever possessed was Tina Turner's "Foreign Affair", which I still like listening to (and find not bad for a six year old at all!).
My first concert was Neil Diamond at some high school in Kankakee, IL about 37 yrs ago. My first album was Paul Revere and the Raiders. Gotta love Mark Lindsay.
Oh and I forgot, I also remember Norman Greenbaum and Spirit in the sky. I also had the 45. Gosh, I feel old today. I also saw the Cowsills at the Illinois state fair when I was about 12 with my parents and sister. I don't know why I forgot about that one. I was so in love with Barry.
hockeychic - thanks for reminding me of Aldo Nova. Moosefan, I had an autographed poster of Madness amongst all my hockey posters and autographs on my bedroom wall (one of which was Wayne Gretzky's - and it faded from the sunlight).
I'm with ms, Enty - these posts are a nice diversion from time to time.
This one is for littleoleme: http://www.defranco.com/
First concert;
REM in 1984 at Williams College.
Micheal Stipe had an Afro. The guitarist had a monkey swinging from the arm of his guitar.
I was front row and thirteen.
It was thisclose to a religious experience.
hmmm 1st album I think was Bobby Sherman, 1st Concert - Tony Orlando and Dawn at Yonkers Raceway....oooh that's embarassing:>)
Either GRease Soundtrack or Shaun Cassidy. I bought that album because there was a poster of him in a satin jacket. Aahh. I also had a life-size door poster. I may have kiss it once or twice. I can't really remember.
First concert was senior year....Billy Squire/Ratt. I threw up the whole time. Memories.
STROKE ME.. STROKE ME..
My parents must have been dying inside.
First Record: The Goodies, almost Live at Cricklewood
First Concert: Alice Cooper, Welcome to my nightmare
The first album I ever bought with my own money was KISS Double Platinum. It was over $10.00 30 years ago--a fortune to a 9 year-old.
My first concert was U2: The Unforgettable Fire tour when I was 16. (Honest!) Also in the late 80s, I saw Modern English (I'll Melt with You), Howard Jones, The Psychedelic Furs, and Elvis Costello. Man, I wish I still had my t-shirts and tour books...
First tape: The Monkees Greatest Hits
First concert: Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt
First concert I chose myself: Rusted Root
Colour by Numbers, Culture Club.
Bobby Brown. I think TLC opened up for him. He was gross- simulated sex on a giant bed.
First Cassette: Songs from the Big Cheer (?) Tears for Fears.
Ok, I am way old.....my first concert I went to on my own, not with parents.....Shaun Cassidy. Hey, I was 13!!! Give me a break!!!!
First album I picked out myself....something like Silly Songs from K-Tel with songs like "Transfusion" and "Monster Mash" and "Shaving Cream" and shit like that. Yes, I am a very weird person.
First record was Rick Springfield- workin class dog
First concert was Def Leppard with Uriah Heep opening at Peoria IL Civic Center
ooh kasnecka, I saw U2 on that tour as well! Bono had a shitfit on stage because the girls would NOT stop screaming and quite a few rushed the stage. They started to play A Sort of Homecoming when he suddenly waved his arms to get them to stop playing, then he yelled "WE ARE NOT THE BEATLES OR THE BAY CITY ROLLERS!" I was so happy he said that because I thought my ears would bleed from the screamers behind us. At one point one girl rushed at The Edge and pressed on his arm which caused him to stop playing. He gave her such a death stare.
my dad was real picky about what i could listen to.
i had classical, danny kaye (still one of my favorites), john phillips sousa, and all those old disney records. oh, and sound of music.
somebody bought me a little reel-to-reel tape recorder, and my brother would let me tape his glen campbell record and stuff from the radio. the first whole album i taped myself was the carpenters'. somebody gave me a bobby sherman LP.
the first vinyl i bought was carpenters, beach boys, beatles, i already had inherited a lot of my brother's stuff.
first concert? my grandmother took me to see liberace. and yeah, it was fun. i think i was maybe 8 ? first real concert? carpenters!
I have a lot of firsts.
Probably the very first concert I ever saw was a kids show by Sharon, Lois and Bram. I was probably 3 or 4. I saw a Monkees reunion concert when I was 10. But the first concert I actually bought my own ticket for was the Grapes of Wrath when I was... oh, 15 or 16. Somewhere there.
First album I bought myself? I don't remember. But I remember requesting and receiving both Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace (for the "Say Say Say" duet with Michael Jackson) and the Jacko's Thriller album. I was probably 7 or so.
First tape(!) I remember having, and it may have been bought for me as a gift, was Appetite for Destruction, Guns N Roses. I went straight from Strawberry Shortcake records to that, honest to god.
First concert was Great White with Tesla opening for them, 1989. I think I was probably 12. I don't know what my mother was thinking when she let me go with my friend and her older sister. And I still like Tesla. Five Man Accoustical Jam is a great album.
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