tmituesday, music, story
My Dad couldn’t see why I might want or need my own way to play music or listen to anything he wasn’t interested in, and my Mom didn’t care. So I missed anything in the 80s that didn’t make it to top 40s locally.
I got to explore music more after I got to college, and I’ve tried to explore since. The Oldies station was the only station which came in anywhere in town so a mix of 50s, 60s and 90s pop is what I grew up on. STP, RHCP, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, RAtM...
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...