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Well then, I guess that explains why one of the local rock stations had something from that album going every time I got in the car today. Now I know why I felt old every time it happened!
I love this record. I think i was in 5th grade when it came out. It was the first thing I had that I used to play really loud to piss off my parents (It didn't really work. When I was 13 I got Never Mind the Bullocks... and my mom was singing along).
Every time I hear Rocket Queen, I think of that one crazy night/next day involving a 23 yo me and a 30 yo woman. It was one of the most educational experiences of my life. My god, was she obscene.
This album was the second CD I ever bought, after The Times They Are A-Changin' and before It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. Unfortunately, I don't remember a single thing I bought between then and, like, last week.
The longest-lasting effect that this album had on me was that it made me a fan of the artist Robert Williams. (Most of the thumbnail on this page go to NSFW art.)
God knows I appreciate Appetite a lot more now than I did back then... Somehow, it seemed really scary when I was 13.
In other old-feeling news, I was driving to band practice last week and a song from Achtung Baby bubbled up on my iPod, and I realized that I've now been listening to that fucker for over half of my life.
I was driving to band practice last week and a song from Achtung Baby bubbled up on my iPod, and I realized that I've now been listening to that fucker for over half of my life.
Argh. I remember waiting for it to come out... *shuffles off to rocking chair*
Yeah, 20 years. I just saw on Joe Satriani's website that he's doing a 20th anniversary tour for Surfing with the Alien. That album was a big deal for me when it came out. So was Appetite; a copy of it got stuck in my car tape player for 3 years. On the other side of the tape was the Cult's Electric.
A colleague of my from years back was gunning it down the road listening to Paradise City and changed gear just when the fast bit kicked in. Unfortunately he wasn't concentrating and, at about 70 miles an hours, threw it into second gear. Cue major damage.
I'm going to have to dig Appetite out now. Can't wait to hear it again for the first time in years.
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