I used to tape songs off the radio too! Didnt we all?!

I dont remember when i started to love music, I just remember always loving it. My Dad used to play record after record after record, all soul and disco stuff, and I just soaked it up. He showed me how hearing a great riff or a bass line made the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, and they still do, for all the same records and more. I guess its all his fault really! He showed me John McVie playing The Chain live and I got a bass guitar. He even taught me to play air guitar to Money For Nothing, when I was about 10!

Thanks old man

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susannah said:

yeah yeah!

Natisse said:

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I remember the first song i really liked, and that was

I was crazy about this song, at the time i was only 8, so i didn`t know the words, just the music itself. A friends of mine had a poster of Linda Perry, and i was so jealous

Icicle said:

oh Linda Perry and that song ROCKS! I head it on the radio for the first time in a looooong time the other day and sang at the top of my lungs

susannah said:

That's so cute - sounds like your dad was a good guy.

I was pretty much the same - I just remember being around music from a very early age. My mother and father like their music (not so much now, though, for some reason ), I was in a choir when I was younger and - especially when I was a teenager - music was like an aural 'drug'. It spoke to me and said the things that I couldn't say. It gave me other distractions. It was soul food. The same as a lot of us.

So there was no defining moment - it was just there, I guess.

Natisse said:

I know what you mean, it`s a uplifting song. I haven`t heard it in ages, but i remember it so well, i even loved the video

onenitealone said:

Aw thannks honey He was

I agree, it was just there, and its importance and effect on us increased with time i guess.
Definitely soul food! It still gives me everything nothing or noone else can.

Heres to MUSIC!!!

I don't remember not loving it. lol. This is totally cheesy, but some of my earliest memories are my dad playing guitar and my family singing together. He played a lot of Buddy Holly and the Beatles, and plenty of other stuff too. I remember my dad being amazed that I'd somehow learned the harmony to some Simon and Garfunkel song (don't remember which one for sure, but I think it was The Boxer) and just started singing it along while he was playing and singing. He was so surprised and I was so proud. I didn't realize I'd done anything all that special, I was just singin' along. I also taped songs off the radio, constantly called and requested the songs I wanted to hear. Music has always been a very large part of my life.

As soon as i was conceived.

I have always believed that music is the closest we will ever get to hearing the actual voice of god, until that day we actually stand face to face

Nat!
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GoldenGlove said:

That wasnt proper music that was your dad in the shower washing his under carridge after impregnating your mum

mdiver said:

GoldenGlove said:

mdiver said:

I've always loved music. I remember the first song I ever heard. It was PUT THE LIME IN THE COCONUT.


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I have a special song, that i sometimes listen to before i go to sleep, and it`s called "All the way", sung by Frank Sinatra.



To me, he was the ultimate singer, because his voice can move you like nothing else, or no one else. I prefer his reprise period, when he was older, you can hear a certain wisdom in his voice, his songs from that time sounds very personal, like he wasn`t just singing a song, but he was sharing his life experiences with us.
There`s not many singers who can do that, at least not in the same way.

When I was a kid, I used to turn off the radio in our green old school toyota and starting singing.

My parents loved music, both my brother and sister are composing. I fix tunes but forget them quite in the minute.

I remember crying on tunes when I was young, on supertramp, classic music. I have lots of picture of me rocking and singing as a child. I remember wearing the suitable disco tune pants, I remember I loved Steevie wonder, jackson 5, Earth Wind and fire, Queen and KISS.

Whith time, when I was older and bought albums of Prince, I knew them from before and what stonished to see I remembered all of them, even Soft and Wet (I was only 4)...

My parents house is always full of sounds. Radio all the time, TV, birds, my sister playing piano, my mother screaming... So I received a selective ear. I hope I'll do something with it some day. Before I'll be an angel again.

LOL just like alot of people are sayin- i can't remember a time when i didn't LOVE music. I remember thinkin at about 2 or 3 yearz old- people think im so quiet (yes i was actually quiet as a kid! Er but i laughed alot.)...i thought 'im gonna show these guys one day!!' For real. Anywayz I used to watch and listen and dance and sing along to records and MTV...LOL my parents were usually taken aback and the 'sudden antics' i used to pull on the dance floor as a child I also have memories of *when my uncles weren't around* my grandfather would encourage me to pick up and drag their acoustic guitar onto my lap- i rememeber this- i was about 4 and i'd strum at it and make up songs on the spot and my grandfather used to be all like 'GO MISSY!! YEAHHH!!!!' and that would only encourage me more
I also remember in the kitchen, jamming a chopstick into the first kitchen drawer as a 'mic' and pulling the second or third one out as a 'piano' and pretend to be like Stevie Wonder

So yes, music has always been a part of my life. And I remember all the uncles and aunties etc who i looked up to and adored loved music too- so it played a big part of my life. And when i started going to school- there were kids who weren't nearly as passionate- and i just did not understand em!!

Icicle said:

oh god I love me some Frank never will be another one like him

My parents listened to Beethoven and the Beatles. I can't complain. They sure did though when Prince was NOT just another phase

charlottegelin said:

My parents were ok..bu my brothers gave me hell..still do @#$@#&$@#^$

Ocean said:

my mother-in-law rings me to tell me that poofter I like is on TV

charlottegelin said:

Grr that sounds familiar...I get that from my brother in Perth..... lol

charlottegelin said:

Between your Aunty and your straw-sandwich sister, I bet your family gatherings are a riot!

onenitealone said:

string sandwich!

charlottegelin said:

I was trying to create a franchise there.

onenitealone said:

straw sandwich would be even worse - imagine biting into that

charlottegelin said:

I'm surprised you didn't think of that one first.