I love 1986!! This was the first year 'music' really came into my life. e.g. a few years prior to this I can remember watching Cheggers Plays Pop, but hating the bands and liking the games! So I pretty much liked everything, and I could honestly tick all of the tracks here which I had heard at the time. I can remember asking for either Madonna or Paul Simon or Five Star for Christmas, and got the Madonna album, which was probably the best bet (for me, at the time -- I liked the Paul Simon stuff but even I was aware of a certain amount of controversy surrounding it, and felt it was a bit too serious compared with my pop thrills [Is this right or am I projecting?]).
But the first record which I ever really really loved, which leapt out from all the rest and said 'hey -- something else is possible' was the Beastie Boys. I loved the single, got the tape of Licensed to Ill for my birthday in June, and played it to death. I still know all the words, and I still play it and enjoy it (unlike say The Pixies, who I still love, but whose CDs never come off the shelf). Possibly the only other band in this category for me are AC/DC, and although I liked the singles from Blow Up Your Video, it was their early albums which I got into at school which stuck with me. I've thought that everything the Beastie Boys have done since has been pretty rubbish to be honest, but nothing was ever going to compare to first love.
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Date: 2006-09-25 12:35 pm (UTC)But the first record which I ever really really loved, which leapt out from all the rest and said 'hey -- something else is possible' was the Beastie Boys. I loved the single, got the tape of Licensed to Ill for my birthday in June, and played it to death. I still know all the words, and I still play it and enjoy it (unlike say The Pixies, who I still love, but whose CDs never come off the shelf). Possibly the only other band in this category for me are AC/DC, and although I liked the singles from Blow Up Your Video, it was their early albums which I got into at school which stuck with me. I've thought that everything the Beastie Boys have done since has been pretty rubbish to be honest, but nothing was ever going to compare to first love.