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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: bonnaventure on December 20, 2009, 09:45:53 PM
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I just finished Hippy Justice, and was blown away by how funny Kid eBay is, and how many bands it will hopefully open me up to.
Does anyone else find that they are always trying to relive the music of when they were 10ish? I didn't think about it until I realized that all the music I make, and really dig is something along the lines of "Hello Nasty" meets "Pinkerton".
For those who haven't heard Kid eBay (shame on you), Tom and a caller calling himself "Kid eBay" (can we talk about these things on the board?) were talking about how Buckcherry is really popular with people who were 10 around the time ACDC was fresh and killing it.
Has this already been discussed? Thoughts?
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When I was 10, this was the Top 10 on the radio -
01. Careless Whisper » Wham!
02. Like A Virgin » Madonna
03. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go » Wham!
04. I Want To Know What Love Is » Foreigner
05. I Feel For You » Chaka Khan
06. Out Of Touch » Daryl Hall & John Oates
07. Everybody Wants To Rule The World » Tears For Fears
08. Money For Nothing » Dire Straits
09. Crazy For You » Madonna
10. Take On Me » A-Ha
If I was ever compelled to relive that stuff musically, I'd expect a lot of kicks to the groin.
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I made myself a mixtape off of American Top 40, and loved most of those songs: J. Geils Band's "Angel is a Centerfold," Joan Jett's "I Love Rock & Roll," and "Pac Man Fever," by whoever sang "Pac Man Fever." I wasn't a big video game kid, though, except maybe for Donkey Kong, Galaga, and Zaxxon, none of which I was very good at. I liked baseball when I was 10, mostly because of baseball cards, but lost interest around age 14. I haven't been back to sports since, though I will occasionally check the MLB stats in the paper a few times a year.
I also liked Vonnegut, Bill Cosby, Madeleine L'Engle, Omni Magazine, and the Chris Claremont/John Byrne X-Men, all of which I still like. One thing I liked then that I hate now, though, is the book Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein. I found a copy in a used bookstore last summer and remembered it fondly, so I tried rereading it, but it's basically just 500 pages of topless women reciting Heinlein's weird libertarian rants in a time machine.
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I liked some good things, but spent far too many hours obsessing over these things:
(http://www.nathansmusclepage.com/baseimages/whataremuscles.jpg)
http://www.nathansmusclepage.com/ (http://www.nathansmusclepage.com/)
On my 9th birthday I got into a biking accident and need some stitches. My brothers were able to stop me from crying by reminding me how many MUSCLE toys I would be getting for my birthday.
DORK.
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i don't think i was ten yet because I was in first grade, but I was at a friend's house and heard "I Love Rock'N'Roll". I immediately marched down to Duckwall's (the five and dime of the tiny town I lived in at the time, Norton, KS) and bought the 45. It was the first 45 I ever bought. Soon after I joined Columbia house. Records I remember getting: I Love Rock'N'Roll the album, J. Geils Band "Freeze Frame" (holy god, I loved that song), ASIA, Survivor "Eye of the Tiger", Quarterflash, Queen's greatest hits, journey "escape", men at work "cargo" (a poor choice), rush "moving pictures".
I also used to sit next to the radio with a cassette recorder and record songs. also did that with the tv with hbo's Video Jukebox and American Bandstand. I remember once my dad thought he'd be funny and snap his fingers while i was recording a song off the tv. Oh, did that make me mad. HE RUINED IT! When the technology came along that allowed you to tape stuff off the radio without worrying about background noise i was blown away.
It should also be noted that around this time, my dad let me try my first beer. he said i could drink the whole thing if i wanted. it was a coors. i drank a sip or two.
ALSO around this time my parents allowed me to watch my first R-rated movie on HBO. It was a little film called Caddyshack.
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I wasn't really into music when I was 10, although I liked the imagery of heavy metal - "lite" heavy metal, at least: Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Twisted Sister etc. I was seriously into fantasy novels - especially the Dragonlance series.
(http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~camelshere/dragonlance.jpg)
Can you blame me?
When I was 11 or so, I started buying superhero comics, and that did spark a lifelong obsession (so far, at least) with comic books. Besides that, I don't know if there are too many other echoes of my childhood obsessions among my current interests.
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Oh, did that make me mad. HE RUINED IT! When the technology came along that allowed you to tape stuff off the radio without worrying about background noise i was blown away.
This reminds me of when I was young I used to record episode of Inspector Gadget from the TV with a portable tape recorder. More for the novelty than wanting to listen again. The weird thing was, I couldn't figure out with my 6 y/o brain why the recording would randomly get louder and quieter, until thinking back to it years later and remembering me running around the room with the tape recorder in my hand, getting closer and further away from the speakers as I go.
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three things - in order of importance - television, nintendo, my family
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Big Police Academy fan. Oh yeah.
Oh and My brother and I used to take our keyboards and tape recorders and make "radio shows" that included covers of Weird Al hits as well as some original songs. Or song-ish things. I also seem to remember recording ourselves reading completed Mad Libs with "dramatic music" being played in the background.
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I also used to sit next to the radio with a cassette recorder and record songs. also did that with the tv with hbo's Video Jukebox and American Bandstand. I remember once my dad thought he'd be funny and snap his fingers while i was recording a song off the tv. Oh, did that make me mad. HE RUINED IT!
I did this with my next door neighbor's copy of Thriller. Sure enough, his little brother decided to have a HUGE temper tantrum right during the dramatic intro to "Beat It" (before EVH's guitar kicked in). I was mad at the time, but it's pretty hilarious in retrospect, and somehow in my mind the intro to that song is forever tied to the sound of his brother crying and stomping his feet.
(There's probably a horrendous joke about the relationship between Michael Jackson's music and the sound of young boys crying somewhere in that paragraph, but I'm not going to make it, you creeps).
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A friend and I used to take a tape recorder out to our swing set and listen to thriller while "going through an imaginary haunted house ride" with our imaginary boyfriends.
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My 10 favorite things at age 10:
1-9 The NY Mets
10 Video games
I was about two years away from developing my own tastes in music, at 10 I was still digging my parents records.
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Guns 'n' Roses
The Fat Boys
Weird Al
Douglas Adams
Issac Asimov
The nice library in Toms River
Sub sandwiches
In just two short years I would discover rad BMX, Nine Inch Nails, and denim jackets with patches sewn on.
I actually just had Thanksgiving dinner with the wonderful gentleman who was my fifth grade teacher.
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Pee-Wee's Playhouse/Big Adventure. My mom wouldn't let me watch it because she thought it was too weird, plus there was the whole carryover from his "incident" so it was even more exciting when I'd get to sneak an episode at a friend's house.
Also, baseball - more specifically baseball cards and stats. My interest in those two facets has waned but I still love the game. Of course the Bulls first 3peat was also a HUGE deal.
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Minnesota Twins, baseball cards, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Super Mario Brothers and because I was starting to develop an interest in girls I thought New Kids on the Block would be my in. Everyone has many "Oh boy, I can't believe I did that" moments. One of mine: Bringing a New Kids on the Block poster to show and tell. I can't believe I actually thought that was a proud moment. Hey, I was 10. That year was also a year where my school decided to have one class where a teacher taught 3rd and 4th graders and I spent a good portion of my time drawing crappy pictures of Ninja Turtles and selling them to the 3rd graders for their milk money.
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One of the few good things about being old? When I was 10, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, the Stones, Otis Redding, Tommy James, the Kinks, Hendrix, Dylan and Johnny Cash all had top ten hits. And for an ever 10, Marty Robbins.
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I spent a good portion of my time drawing crappy pictures of Ninja Turtles and selling them to the 3rd graders for their milk money.
This is hilarious.
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I was waaaay into Hall & Oates when I was 10. In fact, my first concert was H&O at Nassau Coliseum w/opening act...
[wait for it]
...'Til Tuesday.
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A girl named Suzanne who lived next door. I imagined she was my girlfriend, which entailed nothing more above and beyond things as they actually were, except that we would maybe hug after we stopped riding our bikes all over town.
But I guess that is "who" I loved. Not "what" I loved.
What I loved:
The "Salem's Lot" TV miniseries (scared the pants off of me)
Playing with my dog
"The Empire Strikes Back"
Steve Martin's "A Wild And Crazy Guy"
Roller skates
"That's Incredible"
"Hello, Larry"
Going to the beach
Riding my bike
The White Album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, and pretty much anything else my brother put on his record player.
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Videogames (this being 1980, mainly Asteroids and Pac Man).
I think computers, although that may have started at 11.
Airplanes.
Drawing cartoons and making little books of them.
The library.
Swimming.
The Muppets/Muppet Show.
The Pink Panther movies (Peter Sellers).
M*A*S*H.
Oh, this was supposed to be about music. I seem to recall I liked the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Hall and Oates. Possibly John 'Cougar' Mellencamp because the local stations played his stuff relentlessly.
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I liked Billy Joel and Queen and Hall & Oates (1980). I used to listen to a nightly top 10 countdown on WNBC radio (AM). Billy Joel owned that thing for while. Around that time, we had a class trip to WNBC studios and they gave us each 45's of ... Kenny Roger's "Lady." A slow ballad by a country guy? I was crushed.
I liked football and baseball and collecting cards for each. Cripes, I loved TV - Different Strokes, Happy Days, Dukes of Hazzard, 3's Company, CHiPs, Facts of Life, Soap (one of the few that my mom and I both liked).
All in all, very average, except that I loved, obsessively, playing with these action figures by Fisher Price called "Adventure People." They were just regular action figures (not from a comic or Star Wars) but they came with things I guess I thought were cool like a kayak and a parachute. No other kid I knew liked playing with action figures as much as I did, and no other kid I knew played with these.
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Skateboards and Skateboarding.
I still think its really cool. If I had a zillion dollars I would buy up all the Mark Gonazales related paraphanalia available.
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All in all, very average, except that I loved, obsessively, playing with these action figures by Fisher Price called "Adventure People." They were just regular action figures (not from a comic or Star Wars) but they came with things I guess I thought were cool like a kayak and a parachute. No other kid I knew liked playing with action figures as much as I did, and no other kid I knew played with these.
I liked them because they were made of tough stuff. Bury a Star Wars figure a couple of times and the heads popped off.
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(http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kris-kross/album-totally-krossed-out.jpg)
...cos they be kickin' the flava that make you wanna jump.
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I liked Billy Joel and Queen and Hall & Oates (1980). I used to listen to a nightly top 10 countdown on WNBC radio (AM). Billy Joel owned that thing for while. Around that time, we had a class trip to WNBC studios and they gave us each 45's of ... Kenny Roger's "Lady." A slow ballad by a country guy? I was crushed.
I liked football and baseball and collecting cards for each. Cripes, I loved TV - Different Strokes, Happy Days, Dukes of Hazzard, 3's Company, CHiPs, Facts of Life, Soap (one of the few that my mom and I both liked).
All in all, very average, except that I loved, obsessively, playing with these action figures by Fisher Price called "Adventure People." They were just regular action figures (not from a comic or Star Wars) but they came with things I guess I thought were cool like a kayak and a parachute. No other kid I knew liked playing with action figures as much as I did, and no other kid I knew played with these.
I liked all those things too!
My little nephew and I play "Adventure People" at my parents house. Still fun.
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I think there is a reason I am agreeing with a lot of these things.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and the Muppet Show were two things that probably brought me to this point of posting on a message board for a radio show that happens in New Jersey?
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I think there is a reason I am agreeing with a lot of these things.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and the Muppet Show were two things that probably brought me to this point of posting on a message board for a radio show that happens in New Jersey?
Dr Demento and Casey Kasem
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When I was 10, I loved Batman, The Monkees, and Chef Boy-r-dee
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I was waaaay into Hall & Oates when I was 10. In fact, my first concert was H&O at Nassau Coliseum w/opening act...
[wait for it]
...'Til Tuesday.
my first concert was Bob Dylan
the opening act was Aimee Mann
8)
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Baseball Cards
John Elway
Metallica's Master of Puppets (the result of having a "cool" older sister)
Cats, of course
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Naked Ladies.
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When I was 10, I loved Batman
Can't believe I forgot Batman. I watched the Adam West show and The Animated Series and loved them both (The Animated Series still holds up).
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When I was 10, I loved Batman, The Monkees, and Chef Boy-r-dee
I was into all of these things when I was 10 as well! When Nick at Nite was good and showed more than ten shows in six episode blocks. Nick at Nite was my TV since my parents didn't allow me to watch most of the new stuff. Batman, Monkees, Dragnet, Dobie Gillis and Get Smart.
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Batman is in many ways much more subversive and dangerous to the smart youthful mind than any of the dreck for kids on TV today.
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Batman's still on TV! There's a very fine show called Batman: The Brave and the Bold. It's tame enough for kiddies, and witty enough for grown-ups.
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Baseball Cards
John Elway
Metallica's Master of Puppets (the result of having a "cool" older sister)
Cats, of course
I still love 2 of these 4 things (assuming you are talking about "cats" the animals, not the musical)
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Star Wars
Reading Science Fiction
Drawing
Covering every inch of my bedroom walls with posters & pictures
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Baseball cards
Ken Griffey, Jr. (I think "Homer at the Bat" was the first Simpsons episode my mom let me watch)
Shawn Kemp
Legos
Watching three straight episodes of "Cheers" every day
Michael Jackson's Dangerous
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Al Jaffee's Fold-In's in the back of Mad Magazine:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html
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Al Jaffee's Fold-In's in the back of Mad Magazine:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html
Those are awesome. It's amazing how self-serious so many of those were, especially the drug and Vietnam ones.
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The Charles Barkley/Kevin Johnson Phoenix Suns
Nintendo Power Magazine
Shooting Nerf Gun
Marvel Trading Cards
I think I spent entire summers immersed in those things.
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Al Jaffee's Fold-In's in the back of Mad Magazine:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html
Those are awesome. It's amazing how self-serious so many of those were, especially the drug and Vietnam ones.
MAD was a surprisingly self-serious publication. That's why I preferred Cracked!.
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TV
Pee Wee's Playhouse
RollerGames
SquareOne TV
Toys/Games
Battleship
Bargain Hunter
Neon Leon
Music
Guns 'n' Roses
Warrant
Debbie Gibson
Clothes
Benneton
Champion
Acid wash denim
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OK, this is from when I was 8 years old, not 10.. but it's a more interesting story than what followed 2 years later (well, hopefully interesting to you that is)
The most important record in my life (http://mackro.blogspot.com/2009/12/most-important-record-in-my-life.html)
WHY the most important record in my life is the creepiest (http://mackro.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-most-important-record-in-my-life-is.html)
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I liked Dark Shadows. And my fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Beard, who played Tom Lehrer's "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" for the class one day.
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Purple Rain - first tape I bought. Used my paper route money for the week to get this and wore that cassette out.
Mad Magazine / Cracked - I did try and launch a magazine of my own own, WACKO, a year earlier but funding fell through (okay, it was too much work)
dirt bikes - Got into mini-bikes, dirt bikes and saved my dough from doing 3 paper routes for over a year to pay for most of a '83 Honda XR-80 (my folks, bless their hearts set up a "payment plan" for the balance which I never really paid off)
Jonzun Crew - wikkiwikkiwikkiwikki
break dancing - my nom de plume was DR. FREEZE. i was pretty awful at it, but my brother was pretty good and could do windmills. I tried to concentrate on the less-physically-demanding Poppin'. I could do the worm, though!
Transformers - These were hot shit. My mom was actually in one of those small store riots when these were released near christmas. She got to the unopened case before anyone else and was tossing them to other screaming shoppers. She left me a note the next day saying that she got me two "Deceptions". I was kind of embarrassed at the spelling error but super psyched. my Mom rules.
Ninja - There was that show The Master on tv and a slew of ninja movies so I got on board quick with this. I ordered some of these "smoke bombs" from a ninja magazine, and instead of being the type wherein you could disappear in a cloud of smoke (like on The Master), they were instead those little paper "snappers" that you sometimes get at joke shops. I wasn't allowed to have Shuriken (throwing stars) or chucks (although I did fashion my own from an old broom handle) but I DID get this one stick weapon once at a local establishment called NINJA WORLD. It pretty much was like a police billy club, with the handle perpendicular to the main part. I think it may have just been a repainted portion of an old chair, now that I think about it.
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TV
RollerGames
If this was still on today, I think I would love it equally, if not more.
I ordered some of these "smoke bombs" from a ninja magazine, and instead of being the type wherein you could disappear in a cloud of smoke (like on The Master), they were instead those little paper "snappers" that you sometimes get at joke shops.
For half a year in college, we shared a bathroom with two other guys who had their dorm room on the other side of the bathroom. One of them would into the bathroom several times a week and throw those snappers on the floor. They were definitely the source of the noise, because I'd occassionally see snap-remanents on the ground in there. We never found out why he did this. I now suppose it is possible that he was a ninja who kept getting duds in his smoke bomb boxes.