The First Band You Really Liked, Honestly
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:45 am
NerblyBear wrote:Wouldn't it be funny if some guy were like, "Yeah, the first band I really got into was Throbbing Gristle. I heard 'Hamburger Lady' and 'We Hate You Little Girls' when my folks played them on the Hi-Fi. I was only about ten years old. Their aesthetic terrorism really struck me as one of the most profound developments of the '70's English counterculture. Even at that young age, I could appreciate many different aspects of their music and of the image that the group presented in the media. I immediately connected them with some facets of Dada and of Warhol's media manipulations. They also reminded me of the sodomy and drug abuse featured in the Burroughs novels my mum used to read to me at night. Since then, I've gotten much more sophisticated in my listening tastes, of course! But it's fun to look back at our childhood and reminisce about how innocent and naive our interests once were."
Oh, you think it's funny, neophyte. I was taking field trips to see Television at CBGB's in my kindergarten Montessori class. My three mothers played Autobahn for me in the womb. I kept my most prized 78's in a Klaus Nomi lunchbox, as well as a reel-to-reel bootleg tape of a live Monks performance, an item so rare only I know it exists. By age 12 I grew tired of mainstream pabulum like Merzbow, and began listening only to numbers stations over short-wave radio.
Ok, you got me, my dad was a biker and 75% of what I heard in the house was Bob Seger and America.