TCK
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So, my assumption is that we are intended to riff off each other right? I am going to wade into that for my next song, as it has a special place in my heart.
Might as well trot out this again as well... it is going to be that kind of week.
<TCK RULE>I was really young when I started to get deeply involved in finding ANYTHING that was not Chicago or The Eagles. Probably eleven. I was a chubby kid who didn’t have many friends and being brought up with constant music, that is what I turned to. Fortunately we had a Tower Records in my hometown (RIP), and let me connect to Juice Newton for a second and shout out the best college radio station ever, KFJC. Miserable kid under the covers listening to those sounds every night in my headphones when I was supposed to be asleep...music was my savior.
And my addiction.
Tower used to trot out the “imports” every Thursday, and I was a 12 year old kid there to spend what I had made tilling peoples yards (my dad gave me a rototiller for my 10th birthday-jerk) on whatever I could find in that pile. Punk was not really accessible to me yet (later I would be buying Exploited an Crass along with Desmond Dekker), but the electronic music coming from abroad was something I really liked. Vince Clark? Legend. Loved everything he put out....but I remember being after a particular record one day, as I had heard a song on the radio that I liked a lot.
Blue Monday.
Power, Corruption and Lies was such a huge record for me. I listened to it every minute of every day. The one friend I had....his mom asked me to not expose him to the “odd” music that I loved (I did anyway).
Connection would be to Ryan’s video. He played Joy Division, so the connection is both sad, and happy for me. We all know that these are the same band, minus Ian Curtis who hung himself and adding Gillian Gilbert who is keyboard amazing...and I liked Joy Division as well (my dad used to show off his subwoofer with “She’s Lost Control Again”), but man, New Order was such a part of making me feel...well, like a person, through a hard time. I love them so much even 30+ years later.
Anyway. Huge validation when Shellshock was in Pretty In Pink (duh...this is the band I was telling you about guys, and Mike’s mom...what now?) and in spite of being deeply entrenched in punk rock and the attitude that goes with it by the time I was 14, I smiled when everyone was listening to this song. </TCK RULE>
Might as well trot out this again as well... it is going to be that kind of week.
<TCK RULE>I was really young when I started to get deeply involved in finding ANYTHING that was not Chicago or The Eagles. Probably eleven. I was a chubby kid who didn’t have many friends and being brought up with constant music, that is what I turned to. Fortunately we had a Tower Records in my hometown (RIP), and let me connect to Juice Newton for a second and shout out the best college radio station ever, KFJC. Miserable kid under the covers listening to those sounds every night in my headphones when I was supposed to be asleep...music was my savior.
And my addiction.
Tower used to trot out the “imports” every Thursday, and I was a 12 year old kid there to spend what I had made tilling peoples yards (my dad gave me a rototiller for my 10th birthday-jerk) on whatever I could find in that pile. Punk was not really accessible to me yet (later I would be buying Exploited an Crass along with Desmond Dekker), but the electronic music coming from abroad was something I really liked. Vince Clark? Legend. Loved everything he put out....but I remember being after a particular record one day, as I had heard a song on the radio that I liked a lot.
Blue Monday.
Power, Corruption and Lies was such a huge record for me. I listened to it every minute of every day. The one friend I had....his mom asked me to not expose him to the “odd” music that I loved (I did anyway).
Connection would be to Ryan’s video. He played Joy Division, so the connection is both sad, and happy for me. We all know that these are the same band, minus Ian Curtis who hung himself and adding Gillian Gilbert who is keyboard amazing...and I liked Joy Division as well (my dad used to show off his subwoofer with “She’s Lost Control Again”), but man, New Order was such a part of making me feel...well, like a person, through a hard time. I love them so much even 30+ years later.
Anyway. Huge validation when Shellshock was in Pretty In Pink (duh...this is the band I was telling you about guys, and Mike’s mom...what now?) and in spite of being deeply entrenched in punk rock and the attitude that goes with it by the time I was 14, I smiled when everyone was listening to this song. </TCK RULE>