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Music Memory Meme
[01] - Starting with your very first musical love as a kid to your most recent -- list every album that you listened to religiously in chronological order.
[02] - BE DISCERNING! Only list albums that you listened to obsessively! That means: fanatically, repeatedly, 100 times or more. They are the albums that helped to shape your musical tastes throughout your life.
[03] - Tell us how old you were when you became a maniac.
[04] - Tell us a little bit of trivia circa the time you went crazy.
[05] - Tell us the track you listened to the very most.
[06] - Tell us what format it was on!! VERY IMPORTANT!
1.
SOME GAVE ALL
Billy Ray Cyrus
AGE: Five. This is seriously the first album I remember liking.
TRIVIA: I hate country music now, but this album instantly takes me back to sitting on the vinyl seats of my mom's station wagon.
#1 TRACK: The hit single of Cyrus' career, "Achy, Breaky Heart."
FORMAT: Cassette.
2.
PERMANENT RECORD: AL IN THE BOX
WEIRD AL YANKOVIC
AGE: I was seven when it was released, and I got it for Christmas that year, so almost eight.
TRIVIA: A friend had given me a mixed cassette of some of his favorite Weird Al, but I wanted more. When I wound up with a huge boxset of him for Christmas, I ran around the house screaming.
#1 TRACK: It's so hard to pick because there were four albums in this box, but I still can't listen to Nirvana without thinking of "Smells Like Nirvana."
FORMAT: Cassette.
3.
EVE 6
Eve 6
AGE: I was eleven when this came out and was just finishing my first year of junior high.
TRIVIA: I learned all the lyrics wrong before I realized the words were printed on the foldout card in the cassette case.
#1 TRACK: "Open Road Song." I love to battle the singer in this song to see if I can outsing him when he says his volume drowns out the radio.
FORMAT: Cassette. When I got my first CD player, this was the first album I bought on CD.
4.
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
The Beatles
AGE: I was just about done with junior high when I found the old vinyls stashed in the house. I got curious and introduced myself to a bunch of music from my parents' day, but this was the album that introduced me to The Beatles.
TRIVIA: I paired this with Yellow Submarine constantly in my CD changer once I bought them on CD, and Ringo is my favorite Beatle. The drummers never get enough love.
#1 TRACK: "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." Come on. You love it too.
5.
MARS
Gackt
AGE: The album, Gackt's first solo attempt, came out in 2000, shortly after my 13th birthday.
TRIVIA: I listened to this compulsively, at least once a night, for months. It was my first Japanese language album and probably the catalyst for me to get serious about studying Japanese. I don't care for Gackt very much now (I later found and loved him in Malice Mizer), but I can still listen to MARS the whole way through and love it.
#1 TRACK: "絵夢〜for my dear〜"
FORMAT: CD.
6.
雅楽〜GAGAKU〜
Miyavi
AGE: Two years after my Visual Kei obsession began with Gackt, it was the summer before my junior year of high school when I was introduced to Miyavi's GAGAKU. (The album came out in October 2002, and I got to it in June of 2003).
TRIVIA: I'd heard "Night in Girl" on a mix CD given to me by a friend and loved it, but never asked who the artist was. Then when I heard the single "Jibun Kakumei-2003-" I needed more. I got my hands on GAGAKU and you still can't pry it out of my palms. I love pretty much every Miyavi album, this was just the first of many.
#1 TRACK: It's a hard toss up between "Girls, Be Ambitious" and "Coin Lockers Baby."
FORMAT: CD.
7.
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS
Modest Mouse
AGE: It came out in 2004, and I was 17.
TRIVIA: There's really no trivia for my enjoyment of this album. I can say though that "Float On" is my least favorite track.
#1 TRACK: "Bury Me With It."
FORMAT: m4a.
8.
YOU'LL REBEL TO ANYTHING
Mindless Self Indulgence
AGE: This was the album I listened to all summer after I graduated high school.
TRIVIA: This was given to me by a friend, and we used to listen to it so loud in his car that his speakers developed some buzzing noise indicative of their impending explosion some time later.
#1 TRACK: "What Do They Know?"
FORMAT: mp3.
9.
雅-みやびうた-歌～独奏～ MIYAVI-MIYABIUTA-DOKUSOU
Miyavi
AGE: This MYV album came out in 2006 and marked the start of my sophomore year in college.
TRIVIA: I loved Miyavi's first majors album, "MIYAVIZM," but this acoustic album really showed me how far he was progressing as an artist. I feel like I've grown up with him because his musical evolution has coincided with some of the most trying and formative years of my life, and this album sort of makes me remember "the world will change, you'll change, and that's really not a bad thing." I love his electronic hard shit, but his acoustic work is what assures me that he's still my favorite artist.
#1 TRACK: "Selfish Love." Watching the video for this song makes my eyes pop out still. I couldn't believe that I got to see the KABVKI Boiz remix of "Selfish Love" played live for the first time.
FORMAT: CD.
10.
THE BENDS
Radiohead
AGE: Even though the album came out when I was eight, I didn't really find it until I got to college. For some reason I can't remember, I'd been put off of Radiohead without ever listening to them. I think it was that fucking bearhead from Kid A.
TRIVIA: Ironically, I started listening to Radiohead because two of the Jrock/pop bands I like are named after Radiohead trivia. Plastic Tree (named for "Fake Plastic Trees") and Abingdon Boys School (named for the school where Radiohead formed) are great, so I thought "all right, if Radiohead means so much to them, I'll stop being a prejudiced dick and give a listen."
#1 TRACK: "Just." Now, there's a Sokka AMV to this on Youtube that means I will never listen to The Bends without thinking of Sokka.
FORMAT: mp3.
Music Memory Meme
[01] - Starting with your very first musical love as a kid to your most recent -- list every album that you listened to religiously in chronological order.
[02] - BE DISCERNING! Only list albums that you listened to obsessively! That means: fanatically, repeatedly, 100 times or more. They are the albums that helped to shape your musical tastes throughout your life.
[03] - Tell us how old you were when you became a maniac.
[04] - Tell us a little bit of trivia circa the time you went crazy.
[05] - Tell us the track you listened to the very most.
[06] - Tell us what format it was on!! VERY IMPORTANT!
1.
SOME GAVE ALL
Billy Ray Cyrus
AGE: Five. This is seriously the first album I remember liking.
TRIVIA: I hate country music now, but this album instantly takes me back to sitting on the vinyl seats of my mom's station wagon.
#1 TRACK: The hit single of Cyrus' career, "Achy, Breaky Heart."
FORMAT: Cassette.
2.
PERMANENT RECORD: AL IN THE BOX
WEIRD AL YANKOVIC
AGE: I was seven when it was released, and I got it for Christmas that year, so almost eight.
TRIVIA: A friend had given me a mixed cassette of some of his favorite Weird Al, but I wanted more. When I wound up with a huge boxset of him for Christmas, I ran around the house screaming.
#1 TRACK: It's so hard to pick because there were four albums in this box, but I still can't listen to Nirvana without thinking of "Smells Like Nirvana."
FORMAT: Cassette.
3.
EVE 6
Eve 6
AGE: I was eleven when this came out and was just finishing my first year of junior high.
TRIVIA: I learned all the lyrics wrong before I realized the words were printed on the foldout card in the cassette case.
#1 TRACK: "Open Road Song." I love to battle the singer in this song to see if I can outsing him when he says his volume drowns out the radio.
FORMAT: Cassette. When I got my first CD player, this was the first album I bought on CD.
4.
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
The Beatles
AGE: I was just about done with junior high when I found the old vinyls stashed in the house. I got curious and introduced myself to a bunch of music from my parents' day, but this was the album that introduced me to The Beatles.
TRIVIA: I paired this with Yellow Submarine constantly in my CD changer once I bought them on CD, and Ringo is my favorite Beatle. The drummers never get enough love.
#1 TRACK: "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." Come on. You love it too.
5.
MARS
Gackt
AGE: The album, Gackt's first solo attempt, came out in 2000, shortly after my 13th birthday.
TRIVIA: I listened to this compulsively, at least once a night, for months. It was my first Japanese language album and probably the catalyst for me to get serious about studying Japanese. I don't care for Gackt very much now (I later found and loved him in Malice Mizer), but I can still listen to MARS the whole way through and love it.
#1 TRACK: "絵夢〜for my dear〜"
FORMAT: CD.
6.
雅楽〜GAGAKU〜
Miyavi
AGE: Two years after my Visual Kei obsession began with Gackt, it was the summer before my junior year of high school when I was introduced to Miyavi's GAGAKU. (The album came out in October 2002, and I got to it in June of 2003).
TRIVIA: I'd heard "Night in Girl" on a mix CD given to me by a friend and loved it, but never asked who the artist was. Then when I heard the single "Jibun Kakumei-2003-" I needed more. I got my hands on GAGAKU and you still can't pry it out of my palms. I love pretty much every Miyavi album, this was just the first of many.
#1 TRACK: It's a hard toss up between "Girls, Be Ambitious" and "Coin Lockers Baby."
FORMAT: CD.
7.
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS
Modest Mouse
AGE: It came out in 2004, and I was 17.
TRIVIA: There's really no trivia for my enjoyment of this album. I can say though that "Float On" is my least favorite track.
#1 TRACK: "Bury Me With It."
FORMAT: m4a.
8.
YOU'LL REBEL TO ANYTHING
Mindless Self Indulgence
AGE: This was the album I listened to all summer after I graduated high school.
TRIVIA: This was given to me by a friend, and we used to listen to it so loud in his car that his speakers developed some buzzing noise indicative of their impending explosion some time later.
#1 TRACK: "What Do They Know?"
FORMAT: mp3.
9.
雅-みやびうた-歌～独奏～ MIYAVI-MIYABIUTA-DOKUSOU
Miyavi
AGE: This MYV album came out in 2006 and marked the start of my sophomore year in college.
TRIVIA: I loved Miyavi's first majors album, "MIYAVIZM," but this acoustic album really showed me how far he was progressing as an artist. I feel like I've grown up with him because his musical evolution has coincided with some of the most trying and formative years of my life, and this album sort of makes me remember "the world will change, you'll change, and that's really not a bad thing." I love his electronic hard shit, but his acoustic work is what assures me that he's still my favorite artist.
#1 TRACK: "Selfish Love." Watching the video for this song makes my eyes pop out still. I couldn't believe that I got to see the KABVKI Boiz remix of "Selfish Love" played live for the first time.
FORMAT: CD.
10.
THE BENDS
Radiohead
AGE: Even though the album came out when I was eight, I didn't really find it until I got to college. For some reason I can't remember, I'd been put off of Radiohead without ever listening to them. I think it was that fucking bearhead from Kid A.
TRIVIA: Ironically, I started listening to Radiohead because two of the Jrock/pop bands I like are named after Radiohead trivia. Plastic Tree (named for "Fake Plastic Trees") and Abingdon Boys School (named for the school where Radiohead formed) are great, so I thought "all right, if Radiohead means so much to them, I'll stop being a prejudiced dick and give a listen."
#1 TRACK: "Just." Now, there's a Sokka AMV to this on Youtube that means I will never listen to The Bends without thinking of Sokka.
FORMAT: mp3.