15 Albums That Changed My Life, Not That You Asked
- Soundtrack to Disney’s feature length animation, “101 Dalmations,” played on my red portable record player/briefcase — Cruella De Vil rocked. The chorus sings how she made her husband take her last name. What a woman! Too bad about her puppy-skin coat fetish. (And that fat ugly husband.)
- Debbie Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” — For a third grader who enjoyed singing herself to sleep with sad tunes like “Leaving On a Jet Plane” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” this was I-T, in feathered hair.
- My younger brother’s musical selections — These included classics by Donald Duck, Alvin & the Chipmunks, and Wonder Woman’s theme song. I admired his musical maturity and confidence, especially with the 8-track tapes.
- Cory Hart, “Boy In the Box” — He wore sunglasses at night.
- ABC, “How To Be a Zillionaire” — How do I?
- That K-Tel one with “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Leader of the Pack,” and “It’s My Party (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)” on it — I find my niche! Alas, I was born 20 years too late for my niche.
- The B-52’s, “The B-52’s” — Bouffant rock lobster dancing joy.
- Vintage 1980s The Cure — Long live teenage depression.
- Roxy Music something or other
- That first Enya CD
- Smithsonian recordings of early American jazz — Now that’s music. (Modern jazz: you suck.)
- Various trance and electronica
- Coldplay, “Parachutes”
- Ruben González, “Introducing... Ruben González” — The Buena Vista Social Club pianist puts music between the notes, right in the silences, and has the wherewithal for red slacks.
- Jonathan Richman everything — “She don’t act like no bad breakfast cereal, waitin’ to wilt in the milk,” woe, woe, woe.
There was also the decades-long forced Classical music listening administered by the Parental Unit, of which we must never, ever speak.
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Comments
First album ever bought? Genesis - Invisible Touch.Good list.
Yes, I am a grown man.
Wolf — Invisible Touch, that was a good one. The irony for me is that, although I despised classical as a kid, today I'm always listening to it. Like now. That is a secret I might withhold from Mom until her 100th birthday. Hee hee!
Bill — Once an Alvin fan, always an Alvin fan. Ever listen to Alvin & the Chipmunks at high speed? While not as funny it somehow proved that Alvin and his brothers were real live giant-chipmunk singers and that the regular speed voices were their real voices.
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