tmituesday, music, story
Rollins Band, Tori Amos, The Kinks, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, The Beatles, The Shirelles...
I still remember the first time I heard RAtM; I couldn’t believe you could sing/yell about this stuff.
And *then* I discovered punk and old school Goth stuff.
Fellow students making awkward small talk would ask where I came from, and usually followed up with “you don’t have an accent” or “do you like REM?” I’d want to be obliging and would say yes...
tmituesday, music, story
I’d actually never heard REM or the B-52s in Georgia; they were far too Queer or liberal to get airplay there. So of course one of the first things I checked out was Automatic for the People, which made me an instant fan.