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What were you listening to in the fall of 1988? I was 16 in the fall of '88 and was really into the following albums. Ah, memories......
Green - R.E.M. The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips Union - Toni Childs Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge Julia Fordham - Julia Fordham Peek-a-Boo - Siouxsie and the Banshees Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman I Wanna Have Some Fun - Samantha Fox The Lover In Me - Sheena Easton Karyn White - Karyn White Heart Break - New Edition Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown Shaday - Ofra Haza Information Society - Information Society Viva Hate - Morrissey Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Giving You The Best That I Got - Anita Baker The Right STuff - Vanessa Williams Naked to The World - Teena Marie Everything - The Bangles
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I was still listening to 1999, Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day and Sign of the Times. Parade and Lovesexy weren´t exactly my cup of tea back then and too "pop" for me since I was more into Hip Hop and Soul and Funk. NWA Ice-T Boogie Down Productions Big Daddy Kane Roxanne Shante Alexander O´Neal SOS Band Midnight Star Cameo Full Force Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam UTFO Just-Ice LL Cool J Melle Mel MC Shan and Marley Marl Biz Markie Mantronix T La Rock Sparky D Pebbles Curtis Mayfield Isaac Hayes Ohio Players Schooly D The Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff Steady B Doug E.Fresh Kool Moe Dee The Zulu Kings
......and tons of other musicians. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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I was 9, Michael Jackson and more Michael Jackson. | |
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I was 6 and had a lot of vinyl and cassettes.....
Life Is...Too $hort Every Shade Of Love-Jesse Johnson Follow The Leader-Eric B & Rakim Yo! Bum Rush The Show/It Takes A Nation Of Millions....-Public Enemy Munchies For Your Bass-Nemesis Rhyme Pays-Ice T Just Coolin-Levert In Effect Mode-Al B. Sure! Wonderful-Rick James Unlimited!-Roger Liscense To Ill-Beastie Boys Hearsay-Alexander O'Neal Eazy Duz It-Eazy E 2 Hype-Kid N Play Swass-Sir Mix-A-Lot N.W.A. & The Posse Introducing The Hardline-Terrence Trent D'Arby Don't Distrub This Groove-The System Guy (1988) By All Means Neccesary-Boogie Down Productions | |
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Damn talk about a small world lol I remember havin both Parade and Sign O' The Times around the house and even at 5-6 years old the one I always went 2 was Sign lol Which S.O.S. album was you on? Sands Of Time is still my heart 2 this day | |
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Hey, I should just add your list to my list....and I´m sure I´d still forget some people. Like...Keith Sweat and Chuck Stanley and Loose Ends. I liked almost all SOS Band albums. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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The highlight of that memorable year was seeing Prince in concert for the first time and exploring his back catalogue soon thereafter.
Albums
Lovesexy -- Prince Born To Mack -- Too $hort It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back -- Public Enemy In Effect Mode -- Al B. Sure! The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick -- Slick Rick Power -- Ice-T Bobby Brown -- Bobby Brown Straight Out The Jungle -- The Jungle Brothers The Black Album -- Prince Dirty Mind -- Prince Controversy -- Prince Prince -- Prince For You -- Prince Long Live The Kane -- Big Daddy Kane
Songs
It Takes Two -- Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock You Used To Hold Me -- Ralphi Rosario Break 4 Love -- Raze
Scarlet P---y -- Prince
Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder | |
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Wish U Heaven (pts. 1, 2 and 3) -- PrinceI was only 12, but I remember one song I couldn't get over was Cecelia by Times Two. Others from about that period (October 1988, spring in New Zealand)
Every Rose has its thorn - Poison I got u, I feel good - James Brown (A hit here as a new department store called DEKA had opened and that song was its jingle) Melting Pot - When the cats away Sweet Lovers - The Holidaymakers (Ok those two were remakes by Kiwi bands) Sensation - Fan Club (Another Kiwi Hit) Glam Slam - Prince Got to be certain - Kylie Minogue Perfect - Fairground Atrraction I saw him standing there - Tiffany I need you tonight - INXS Patience - GNR Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson My Girl - Shade (Does anyone remember him) Change my ways - Robert Palmer Wild Thing - Tone Loc And I think released in November here was Don't be Cruel by Bobby Brown, which bought me big into Rap (Even though its more R and B) So what are u going 2 do? R u just gonna sit there and watch? I'm not gonna stop until the war is over. Its gonna take a long time | |
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I'm assuming you mean Peepshow and not just the single, right? | |
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I'm going to limit my list to actual 1988 releases. I'm sure I listened to all of these steadily thoughout the end of the year:
1. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
I also owned, but later sold:
Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary Toni Childs - Union Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader Ice-T - Power Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather Al B. Sure! - In Effect Mode Karyn White - Karyn White | |
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add and cut 2 or 3 artists and that list pretty much fits for me as well Has anyone tried unplugging the United States and plugging it back in? | |
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How could I leave out Keith Sweat's 1st album? lol I cant believe I 4got a couple my mother who hated rap kept blastin 'round the house every saturday when she'd clean the house....
Alyson Williams Miles-Miles Jaye Affair-Cherelle Eyes Of A Stranger-The Deele Word Up-Cameo Animal-Bar Kays 4U-Vesta Control-Janet Jackson Keep Your Eye On Me-Herb Alpert Close Up-David Sanborn Life Love & Pain-Club Nouveau | |
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Yes! I meant to say "Peepshow". I was also into Sa-fire "Sa-Fire" and Vesta's "4 U" in the fall of '88. [Edited 9/28/10 13:20pm] [Edited 9/28/10 13:21pm] |
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The way I remember what year a song was released is according to what grade of school I was in. Everything past 1985 becomes blurry. I could make a list but half of them would probably end up being songs from 1987 or something. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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I think I had pretty generic 80s-era alterna-rock tastes back then. For bands from that era, I remember listening to a lot of:
The Replacements Jesus & Mary Chain The Waterboys - I used to really love Fisherman's Blues. Haven't listened to it in years. That's one album I'd like to revisit just to see how it holds up. Prefab Sprout The Fall Front 242 Skinny Puppy
I was very much into Roxy Music & Bowie back then as well. [Edited 9/28/10 16:18pm] | |
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1988 was the year before my tastes turned upside down so I was still mostly in sync with the other black students on campus at the time. In 1989 however, I left all that mainstream R&B stuff behind. Never looked back really. | |
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I guess I had my 'awakening' (if I wanna be snobby about it, and you know I do...) in '86 or so. I was lucky enough to have a fairly hip older cousin who used to mail me compilation tapes with Television, the VU, New Romantic bands, that sort of thing. Not generally the style a geek in an isolated northern Manitoban town finds himself exposed to. '86 is when I started listening to Prince as well, Parade being my first album. | |
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I was a 5 year old kid, and I was listening to Locomotion, Belinda Carsile and Madonna. | |
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I'm not sure if I would have responded positively to that kind of exposure at the time. I was very stubborn. My big turnaround was because of a girl at college I had a massive crush on. She was into bands like Love And Rockets and Ministry and I ate it all up. If I ever see her again, I should thank her. | |
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ugh
I was in my final year of high school, and thanks to the guy I was crushing on, was into Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (who toured here that year)
I still have my Frank Zappa pangs of nostalgia though. After a couple
I was probably also listening to Clannad.
Mostly Prince though | |
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So if I met you back then, I would have become a big Clannad fan? | |
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and I wouldn't have had to go to the concert by myself | |
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You went by yourself? | |
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I was 16 and became a prince fan that year in the summer. I was listening to lovesexy over and over again. I also listened to a lot of tapes with music from "The Smiths" that a friend gave me. |
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yes, but I got a really good seat near the front because I did, even though I called up to buy it an hour before the show started | |
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That's a great record
You should check out the version of "Fisherman's Blues" from the "Radio Woodstock 25th Anniversary" album “If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” | |
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What's Bootsy Doin'? was Bootsy Collins' comeback album after a 6 year hiatus from music. (Dunno, maybe he was recovering from too many acid trips).
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I had just picked it up (on cassette of course- this was '88) and was on my way home one night when I ran out of gas on a freeway in a sketchy neighborhood in San Francisco.
Damn. I was going to have to walk some distance and figure out how to get back to the ride with a gas can. There was a good chance I would return to a car with no wheels and broken windows.
Well, I certainly wasn't going to leave my new cassette in the car so I put it in my pocket and stepped out into the night and started walking towards the next exit. (remember, there were no cell phones back then, or at least not affordable ones for regular folk).
I was a white boy with straight hair but I had just recently gotten an afro style perm.
So there I was walking on the shoulder with the traffic direction on a dark night as cars were whizzing by from behind me at 60 mph.
All they could see of me was my silhouette as their lights illuminated me from behind.
As I was walking along a car pulled onto the shoulder about 40 yards ahead of me. Was somebody stopping to help?
I quickened my pace towards the car and as I got close a man stepped out on the passenger side and a most wonderful and peculiar thing happened.
He looked at me and I looked at him and there was this funny awkwardness for a couple of seconds.
He and the driver were black and it was obvious that because of my big round afro seen from behind they assumed I was a brotha' and stopped to give me a ride.
And now wtf, here's this white guy standing there!
I forget exactly who spoke first but they ended up taking me to a gas station and bringing me back to my car.
I got in the back seat and for maybe a half a minute or so there was a bit of a clumsy silence until I said, "Hey, I've got the new Bootsy. Do you have a tape deck?"
Before you know it we are all jammin' and they broke out some beers.
It was a treasured experience in my life and when we returned my car was fine and we all bumped some dap before they drove off into the night. | |
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I was buying CD's in 1988 but not everything on CD. I still buying some things on cassette. |
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