This may have been done before. That dude Kerbuls will probably remember. If not, the subject refers to your earliest memory of "getting into" music.

Mine is my sister playing Prince and Duran Duran non-stop in her room. I remember being obsessed with Prince and listening to "If I Was Your Girlfriend" over and over. I also liked Thriller and recall asking my mom "How often do you think Michael Jackson takes a bath" (I hated taking baths), and she responded "Oh...probably everyday I think." I then started bathing everyday. I also tried to moonwalk on carpet.

Oh, also my dad playing fucking "Johnny Yuma" on a daily basis. Christ.

Beatles.

Beatles.

Beatles.

A friend of mine bought KISS Destroyer when we were in 2nd or 3rd grade. That's probably my first step into non-muppet-sesame street related music.

My Dad used to crank the Simon & Garfunkle all the time with a little bit of Roger Miller in the mix. We also had an Abba 8-track that got the crap played out of it at my house back in like 1980.

Kerbuls will deffinatley interject a thread with his Use The F'n Search Engine-ness. That's his job.

I on the underhand will respond. Karl Popma got a long playing copy of The Wall for Christmas one year and I think I listened to that maybe once. But Eric Stewart's mom used to play Simon and Garfunkels Greatest Hits in his house. I liked "...(if i could)" & "Cicelia". Later I learned that singing of the Cicelia at a drum circle was not appreciated. All I knew is that it fit.

My older sister had Cyndi Lauper's first album on tape that her friend gave her while I was in her presence. Jen also owned a copy of a UB40 tape that I used to get into trouble when I went into her room to play it.

Good topic.
Good Kerbuls!

If you don't count the John Denver LP my mom got me in 4th grade, it would be my brother getting a couple of Alice Cooper albums and letting me listen to them.

dad and his reel to reels. crusaders and the sonics non-stop all day 'round. seems cool now but then i wanted to punch myself until i was unconcious.

I listened to nothing but Weird Al until I was about 12 years old, when I found a tape of Ride the Lightning in the street. The rest is history.

I use to bring my John denver record in to first or second grade and Kiss was the cause d'celebrat. I'm thinking Love Gun for some reason. Nobody wanted to listen to Country Roads (Take Me Home) when Love Gun was in the room.

Fuckers used to cream me in dodgeball too.

Saw Glen Campbell concert with my parents at age 4.

I had a plastic AM radio shaped like an ice cream cone. Listened to WLS music radio.

Listened to dad's Beatles records.

Friend (John Donlevy) in first grade turned me on to Kiss.

Listening to my Uncle Kyle's Creedence Clearwater Revival 45s, which my Mom acquired along with his stereo. He threw in his entire musical collection, including a Bay City Rollers 8-track that was my favorite album for at least a year.