What was your first musical memory?
Strictly speaking, the first “music memory” I have is going to see the Boar’s Head when I was but a wee 6’5” redhead. It’s a yearly Christmas musical they do at my Grandmother’s church. It was kinda tradition. I don’t really remember much more about it than that which makes for a fairly boring journal if I leave it there.
You know what? Rather than just draw out some lengthy, forced expose on any one of my first couple musical memories, I’ll just briefly talk about a couple of them.
Alright, music memory number dos: seal - kissed by a rose. on the bus. in elementary school. Every. Single. Day….man, I (hate word’s auto-capitalization) hated that song. It’s pretty much the defining song of the early nineties for me and that’s just wholly depressing. I don’t want to talk about it anymore……..
The first time I can remember really liking music was when my elementary school colleague learned me on some Dookie by Green Day. It was awesome, but then again, I’ve already talked about that whole experience in an earlier bit….actually, it was the dusty album review if I recall correctly, so I’ll leave it at that.
This has nothing to do with music memories, but I just found out about a British singer last night named Ellie Goulding. She is absolutely amazing. I’m listening to her right now and she rocks!
Next up would be “Whoop There It Is” by the Tag Team. As a youngster, I was subjected to a lot of music that I had basically no control over. Not to mention, I had a sister that was three years older who enjoyed bossing me around and forcing me to do things. She always kinda ran the mainstream, so I’m sure this was one influenced by her. “Whoop” was the first non-rock song that I liked. I use to sing it all the time while I was out on the drive way shooting hoops, prob cause “Whoop” almost sounds like “whoosh.”
“Whoop” steam rolled right into “Men in Black.” At this point, with my sister listening to hip hop and me reciting Will Smith lyrics, it seemed like I was destined to fall into the masses of music mediocrity. Luckily, around the same time, we moved to NJ. In fact, I even remember listening to a tape of “Men in Black” on my walkman as we were pulling out of my grandparents’ driveway to make that fateful drive. Huh, moving is a crazy thing. Anywho, we made it to jersey, I discovered ska, and the rest is history……….
……delicious, upbeat history.
Holy crap, ellie goulding is soooo good. Definitely go listen to her.
