I am Thankful and Grateful : Day 26
I am very thankful for MUSIC.
Its the thing that makes the world go around. Everyone in every country listens to it or makes it. I have always loved my music. Back when I was a kid I would just listen to the radio all the time. Remember when we all listened to a big old radio? And had 8 tracks and tapes? I would always tape the radio and wait up half the night for a song I heard once to come on so I could tape it. And if your friend had a tape you wanted a copy of you better hope for a dual tape deck. And that is how I got my first copy of Pretty Hate Machine. My friend Joe made me a copy. I cherished the hell out of that thing. Oh and those big round things? What were they called OH yeah records...like real ones. My mom had several one of which I wish to god I still had because it was Heart Doggy and the Butterfly. I am sure that is worth something now. Then they started to make CD's. I was in JR High I think when I bought my first CD. It was either Toad the Wet Sprocket or Faith No More. I don't remember which.
I grew up on Linda Ronstadt, Heart, The Beach Boys, The Doors all that great stuff. As I grew older my taste pretty much went with the times. I remember the birth of music video's. Then the birth of MTV happened. Opened with Video Killed a Radio Star. Around here before I had MTV it was V32. (shut up all of you). I remember the Samantha Fox video for Naughty Girls Need Love Too. Love that song. The shortly after that it was VH1. Which to this day is the only one that still shows vid's or anything having to do with music. We had MTV, they started to play shows. The only ones I didn't mind was Beavis and Butthead and 120 Minutes on Sunday nights after Headbangers Ball. So they made MTV2...now they don't play music anymore. Neither does MTV3. Its call MUSIC Television right? So how about you play some.
Over the years my taste in music has changed. I have gone from The Go-Go's to NKOTB to Nine Inch Nails and so on. I do LOVE my 80's music still. And the 90's stuff. Its great. Takes me back to another time. I did go through a VERY brief country phase in high school, but I think that had something to do with the people I hung out with. I have always liked my chicks: Poe, Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, PJ Harvey, Tracy Bonham, The Breeders, Heather Nova(back in the day). Now I have Trespassers William, Adele, Fiest, Amy Mann, Minnie Driver Michelle Featherstone, Melody Gardot. Although I still listen to it all. I am also a rock chick. Love it all. Just not the stuff that sounds like the people are barfing violently into the mic. Makes the people all crazy like.
Through it all there are songs that take me back to a time when I was younger or a feeling that I was feeling when I heard the song the first time. I associate music with my feelings. Some songs I can't listen to without crying and some I can't listen to without it putting a smile on my face and remembering that one time :) Its amazing how music can transport you to another time and place and feeling completely. It can make us happy or sad or wild & crazy or relaxed.
I may not listen to the radio laying on my bed anymore waiting for that certain song, now I sit here and type a blog and listen on my laptop thru my marshmallows off a file. :) Times have a changed. And we change with them. But its good to take trips back in time once in a while :)
Its the thing that makes the world go around. Everyone in every country listens to it or makes it. I have always loved my music. Back when I was a kid I would just listen to the radio all the time. Remember when we all listened to a big old radio? And had 8 tracks and tapes? I would always tape the radio and wait up half the night for a song I heard once to come on so I could tape it. And if your friend had a tape you wanted a copy of you better hope for a dual tape deck. And that is how I got my first copy of Pretty Hate Machine. My friend Joe made me a copy. I cherished the hell out of that thing. Oh and those big round things? What were they called OH yeah records...like real ones. My mom had several one of which I wish to god I still had because it was Heart Doggy and the Butterfly. I am sure that is worth something now. Then they started to make CD's. I was in JR High I think when I bought my first CD. It was either Toad the Wet Sprocket or Faith No More. I don't remember which.
I grew up on Linda Ronstadt, Heart, The Beach Boys, The Doors all that great stuff. As I grew older my taste pretty much went with the times. I remember the birth of music video's. Then the birth of MTV happened. Opened with Video Killed a Radio Star. Around here before I had MTV it was V32. (shut up all of you). I remember the Samantha Fox video for Naughty Girls Need Love Too. Love that song. The shortly after that it was VH1. Which to this day is the only one that still shows vid's or anything having to do with music. We had MTV, they started to play shows. The only ones I didn't mind was Beavis and Butthead and 120 Minutes on Sunday nights after Headbangers Ball. So they made MTV2...now they don't play music anymore. Neither does MTV3. Its call MUSIC Television right? So how about you play some.
Over the years my taste in music has changed. I have gone from The Go-Go's to NKOTB to Nine Inch Nails and so on. I do LOVE my 80's music still. And the 90's stuff. Its great. Takes me back to another time. I did go through a VERY brief country phase in high school, but I think that had something to do with the people I hung out with. I have always liked my chicks: Poe, Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, PJ Harvey, Tracy Bonham, The Breeders, Heather Nova(back in the day). Now I have Trespassers William, Adele, Fiest, Amy Mann, Minnie Driver Michelle Featherstone, Melody Gardot. Although I still listen to it all. I am also a rock chick. Love it all. Just not the stuff that sounds like the people are barfing violently into the mic. Makes the people all crazy like.
Through it all there are songs that take me back to a time when I was younger or a feeling that I was feeling when I heard the song the first time. I associate music with my feelings. Some songs I can't listen to without crying and some I can't listen to without it putting a smile on my face and remembering that one time :) Its amazing how music can transport you to another time and place and feeling completely. It can make us happy or sad or wild & crazy or relaxed.
I may not listen to the radio laying on my bed anymore waiting for that certain song, now I sit here and type a blog and listen on my laptop thru my marshmallows off a file. :) Times have a changed. And we change with them. But its good to take trips back in time once in a while :)
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