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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Cruel mother

[tenenitankh.livejournal.com]

Mea culpa.

Indoctrination? Possibly. I like to think I was exposing you [in a non-imperative sort of manner] to the alternatives to Radio 1, the station du jour.

Re Edgar Winter's Frankenstein - you loved having the headphones on at *that* moment. I love it too - the brain scramble effect.

You may have also forgotten being subjected to Led Zep 4, ELP Pictures at an Exhibition/Trilogy and Deep Purple Machine Head.

We also played that great game [I should really patent it shouldn't I?] with the roads and the cars and the mirror. I mean. How educational was that?

[I still have the Mr Men tape btw]

Re: Cruel mother

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Ooh late reply!

I certainly don't remember Led Zep or ELP, Deep Purple I remember being unimpressed with! The first time I properly picked up on Led Zep was at Uni when one of my mates was playing Kashmir in his room - it impressed me greatly.

I don't remember this road game! Was it on that mat? And the Mr Men tape has passed me by too!

[tenenitankh.livejournal.com]

Road game. Take big piece of paper, usually back of roll of left over wallpaper. Draw miniature city centre road system on it complete with traffic lights, road signs, zebra crossings etc. etc.. But here's the thing. The challenge, for one's tot [disproving the theory that only newspaper reporters use the words 'tot' 'bid' and 'fillip'] is to negotiate said road system with their Dinky car of choice - but doing it by looking in a large mirror propped against the wall behind. It has to be said that you never cheated.

Mr Men tape. A recording of young Ian reciting the names of all the Mr Men without looking. Except that it was in the phase where you said 'huh' before every sentence.

Example: 'huhMister Busy. huhMr Bump...' etc..

There are other amusing quotes on said tape. Must get it out!

[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...