Post on music inspired by aliiis

[cheekbones3]

This was just a comment reply, but it qualified to be posted here too.

Apparently when I was really really young, my mum used to play a lot of Black Sabbath and David Bowie at me, although I only really remember Bowie's Starman - that evokes memories of mum doing housework and me generally just being in the way. Another song that I loved apparently was Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group. You may have heard me play it in the pub when DJing, I loved the sort of spacecraft landing sound that happens. Boney M are on the edge of my memory (Brown Girl in the Ring, probably cos it's a nice melody and has quite childish sounds to it). After that, it was Radio 1 all the way - lots of brilliant stuff was coming out around that time, and I sort of remember a few hits from 1979 onwards (Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Wuthering Heights, Bette Davis Eyes, Another Brick in the Wall), all of them brick back earlier memories of the routines of life from back then. After that, in about 1981 I really kicked into loving particular bands (Duran Duran, Adam Ant), and lots of other songs, my favourite to this day being Open Your Heart by Human League.

From then on, it was selection of probably what ever decent was being hyped by Radio 1 (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), or more likely, a load of crap that I liked and was on Radio 1. I did miss out on more underground stuff until much later for this reason, but then, what are teenage years for!

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Ah memories are returning...I just remembered the roads on the back of the wooden board! Vaguely remember mirror against the wall too, but not the game.

Mr Men is drawing a blank, although I remember you telling me about my speaking like that...