Comments on: my musical heritage: a posh d. exploration

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:53:45 +0000

I think it is also important to note that this musical heritage is what made all those amazing mix tapes possible-you know the ones you would play in the car as you drove us to high school?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:06:20 +0000

Honest to God, I owned two 7″ singles when I was really little - like 5 or 6 years old, and I would play them on endless repeat on my parents’ record player.

Those records were “Coming to America” by Neil Diamond and “Cum On Feel The Noiz” by Quiet Riot. I was a very musically advanced, and confused, child.

By: Celina

Celina — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:59:03 +0000

I had the Thriller album too, even though the actual song kind of scared me a little. “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham, “I Just Called to Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder, The Judds, The Beach Boys, Amy Grant and most definitely, Madonna. And my favorite movie from the ages of 4-6 was Annie. I made my mom take me to see the musical like 3 times and then the movie like 8 times. I was obsessed! I get teary just thinking about it. The first tapes I bought was New Kids on the Block and yes, Paula Abdul’s Forever Your Girl. I couldn’t get enough of “Straight Up” and “Cold Hearted Snake.” I can’t believe I just admitted that.

By: Selina

Selina — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:40:19 +0000

Oh man…too many favorite songs to mention. I have Hooked on Swing somewhere at home :). So, I grew up with a sister that was 9 years older than me but liked to hang out with her little sis so I know all the 80s songs. We would choreograph dances together to Madonna songs like True Blue, etc. I also loved Culture Club, Wham, Madonna, etc. I used to have super long hair and my sister would spend all night braiding it in little braids, put a hat on me and I would be Boy George! Ok, so obvs. my sister thought I was her little doll but it was fun! I went to concerts when I was a kid cuz my parents liked to go to cheezy shows like Boney M (we lived in Kuwait and Americans don’t know them as well) Check out this awesomeness! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-M8mHsFEY.
Then when I was in 10 and in Spain I whined until my sister took me to see Prince in concert….I was traumatized for life

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Favorite song as a kid? EASY! Uptown Girl by the master himself. Although a very close second was Stand By Me by Ben E. King, which I used to sing into a hairbrush for my parents’ entertainment. Lucky them, right?

But the first CDs I bought were the Lion King soundtrack (holla!) and the Immaculate Collection by Madonna.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:48:14 +0000

mom, i cannot BELIEVE i forgot about annie!!!!! esp. all of my choreographed (in the car, no less) moves to “it’s a hard knock life,” which amber and i later created… in our dorm room… in college. cos i had the cd by then. obviously.

By: Mom

Mom — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:33:25 +0000

Sarah, I think you forgot the “most played tape” in the car—ANNIE!!

By: olivia

olivia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:21:44 +0000

1. Motown is awesome. I have always been obsessed with it.

2. It’s good to know someone else thought Amy Grant was cool. Don’t ask about the rest of the Christian music tapes (yes, tapes) I loved as a child, tho, because they’re decidedly uncool. But, hey, it was all I had!

3. I hated Olivia Newton John–not because of her music (I wasn’t allowed to listen to it, altho I did love her in Grease, natch) but because when I was a kid, every time I was introduced to someone, they said, “Olivia? Like Olivia Newton-John!” and then would laugh for a really long time, as if (a) it was funny, and (b) I had never heard it before. I was really bitter about this by age 8, but it seems to happen far less now. Now I wish people would say, “Olivia? Oh, like Olivia the Pig–the children’s books that start with ‘This is Olivia. She is good at lots of things.’”

My first favorite song when I was allowed to start listening to “secular” music in, like, 6th grade or something, unfortunately, was “Rumpshaker,” which (I still claim) is an awesome song. I have it on my little mp3 player. All I wanted to listen to was the hip-hop/rap station. This freaked my parents out very quickly.

By: erin

erin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:08:49 +0000

That’s okay, Michelle. I think at one point I’d told my mom the New Kids were going to be bigger than the Beatles. Without a trace of irony. To be fair, did you see a bunch of Beatles’ sleeping bags going around?

My first tape was Thriller as well. I had a shirt of Michael Jackson that went with it (I got it for free? I don’t remember) which I wore the shit out of. It was one of those articles of clothing that your mom eventually just throws away while you’re at school one day, and then tries to convince you that you never had in the first place. And after school at daycare, I’d make up little routines to the songs on the tape. They were never going to be as good as the actual, official Thriller choreography (which I of course immediately learned after the video aired on MTV), but I like to think they captured the gothic horror and commercial success of the mid-80s.

Oh, Sarah, I meant to say: I wore out my Big Chill soundtrack when I was a kid. I stole it from my parents and put it in my walkman and listened to it every night.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:50:53 +0000

My parents didn’t really listen to music unless it was on the radio in the car. That being said, I do remember a couple of tapes I had that I liked to listen to, A LOT. The Judds, definitely, George Strait and Randy Travis. And the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, I listened to that a lot as well.
The first tape I bought by myself? New Kids on the Block. Yes, I’ll admit it!
The first CD I bought? I think it was Garth Brooks or something. I went through a country phase when I was in middle school.
Sigh.