One of the gadget blogs I follow, Gizmodo, has been doing what they call a “listening test” all week demonstrating their knowledge of the audiophile demographic.  One article all of the posters and editor are doing is showing everyone their first musical tastes and first album they bought.  So what better place to demonstrate my first musical woes a mere pup.  

My first cassette tape was the Footloose Soundtrack.  I got it when I was 8 years old with a boombox stereo that I would take into the bathroom with me every night when I took a shower.  I would get “Kaloose, Footloose!” in the bathtub over and over again, then it was “Dancin’ in the Sheets” (didn’t get that one until much later), and all the favorites from the movie.  I must have worn out that tape and it is still somewhere locked up in a box in the basement somewhere.  I downloaded and listened to it again just for the cheese factor, and although it is most decidedly 80’s it holds the test of time for me.  My tastes are definitely skewed on the matter, but I still like most of the album.  It taps right into my youth and it was just fun and vibrant.

By time I got into my teenage years I received my first portable cd player.  It took 2 AA batteries and I would be lucky to have it go through an entire album before it disposed of those meager batteries.  With that cd player I got for Christmas when I was 12 was a few albums, one of them being Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” jamming some “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, another was Bon Jovi (I was in love with the 80’s music…   still am).  But the first album I actually bought was soon after as said in an earlier post, Pearl Jam.  That is what truly introduced me into the 90’s alternative scene and never looked back after that.  Always moving forward and looking back to the past for things new and those things I missed the first time.

So there you go.  Rip on me at will, but look back to your middled past – especially you girls (don’t tell me you didn’t all have a thing for New Kids!) and tell me what started music for you.

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