DID NOT WANT

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What's the first record you can remember disliking?

(i'm sure i've asked this before, but maybe not here)

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[koganbot]

I loved "Modern Major-General" and "When I Was A Lad"* on my parents' record Martyn Green's Gilbert And Sullivan (though most surely I did not know that the song's name was "When I Was A Lad" because I just now had to look at my copy of the record to recall the song's correct name, since as far as I and anyone is concerned the real title is "The Ruler Of The Queen's Navy"; it's the "Caught Out There" of Gilbert & Sullivan song titles). So the answer would be "some song on that album that was not one of those or one of the other ones I liked on that album, so wasn't 'I've Got A Little List' or 'Willow, Tit-Willow' or 'The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring,' either." I never listened to side two, since it sounded too much like opera, so "Something on side two" might be the answer, except, since I never listened to side two, I doubt that I ever developed a specific dislike. "I've Jibe And Joke" on side one might be my answer, then, since it was dull (for me, at the time) and had to be endured in the passage from "The Queen's Navy" to "The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring."