Journal glacial23's Journal: music(part 5) 3
More musical history...
1986. Sixth grade. New school- same school district, but middle school instead of elementary. New position in the social strata- the bottom. Apparently being somewhat intelligent is cool in 5th grade, but bad in 6th grade. I didn't get the memo. Regardless of what I listened to at the time(still the cols. pop stations - WNCI and 92X), it was seemingly decided at this time that as a "nerd" I must listen to classical.
Anyhow, as far as making music is concerned- Around this time I got braces. When tightened, this would make playing trumpet, and its rather small mouthpiece difficult. After discussing this with the teacher, it was decided I would move to baritone(aka euphonium - it looks like a mini-tuba, for those who don't know). This is because (a) the mouthpiece is bigger and (b) when playing treble clef baritone, the fingering of the notes on the scale is identical to that of the trumpet.
As far as music listening, I remember George Michael's "I want your sex"- I wasn't originally going to mention it, but Amy mentioned it in her journal, so I guess it's safe for me to mention it too...
1987
Sometime around 1986, my aunt graduated from high school in Kentucky, and came to live with us while attending Ohio University. She could perhaps be credited as a catalyst for all the music I would listen to at this point. When we would visit while growing up, she listened to mostly pop stuff, David Bowie's "Let's Dance", Culture Club, etc. When she lived with us, her tastes changed a bit. Led Zeppelin was the order of the day, along with U2, INXS and others. She subscribed to Rolling Stone, and would let me read it when she had finished it. I do remember M/A/R/R/S' "Pump up the volume" on WNCI/92X, and thinking that was darn cool, but this other stuff(the stuff that Q-FM 96 played) seemed darn cool too....
Somewhere in this time frame I got my first 45- Arcadia(The Duran Duran side project)- Re-election day.
That's enough for now. Things get a little more interesting in the next installment.
1980s music (Score:1)
Let's Dance was from 1983.
Arcadia and their one hit "Election Day" was from late 1985.
"Pump up the Volume" was from 1987; there were two versions. The original, with some James Brown, and the versions which came out after James Brown's lawyers heard the song.
Some other good stuff from the era:
- Kissing the Pink: Certain things are Likely (1986, but wasn't on the radio until 1987)
- Sparks: Music You can Dance to (1986)
- Alphavilla: Dance With me (1986)
- Lazerdance: Fear (1987)
- Stephen Tin Tin Duffy: Kiss Me (1986)
- U2: With or without you (1987) (This is probably the only one you have heard of)
- SamRe:1980s music (Score:1)
Talking to myself here. Thinking in Spanish messes me up sometimes; the name of the band is Alphaville and they even have a web site [alphaville.de].
- Sam
Re:1980s music (Score:1)
>Let's Dance was from 1983.
I was actually referring to that time in reference to when my aunt was still in high school.
>Arcadia and their one hit "Election Day" was >from late 1985.
Ahhh, close enough
>"Pump up the Volume" was from 1987; there were >two versions. The original, with some James >Brown, and the versions which came out after >James Brown's lawyers heard the song.
The seven inch was released on 4th and Broadway due to the sampling of Eric B. and Rakim, while the 12" was on 4AD(A.R. Kane and Colourbox, the components of M/A/R/R/S, were both on 4AD)
>Some other good stuff from the era:
>Kissing the Pink: Certain things are Likely (1986, but wasn't on the radio until 1987)
>Sparks: Music You can Dance to (1986)
>Alphavilla: Dance With me (1986)
>Lazerdance: Fear (1987)
>Stephen Tin Tin Duffy: Kiss Me (1986)
>U2: With or without you (1987) (This is probably the only one you have heard of)
I've listened to Sparks and Alphaville before. I wasn't impressed. I'll check out the others next time I remember to while I'm at WRUW...