Disco Disco Duck

As I lay in bed last night, totally unable to sleep, I was thinking about music and about how my tastes have changed over the years. The first album I remember my mum buying me was a Michael Jackson one, it had the song Ben on it. Might have even been called Ben, actually. Couldn't be arsed to look online and find out. I loved Michael Jackson, and of course owned Thriller as well. By the time Bad came out, I thought the man was a total nut. And he was and still is. I did of course own albums before that, I remember listening to Sesame Street albums and Disney albums on my little Mickey Mouse record player. My favourite was Disco Duck. I found a cassette of it when my daughter was about 3 and bought it for her. I still loved that album. You can't beat 'It's a Small World.'

I always remember music in my house, though I imagine not to the extent that alot of other people did. My mother was a big Elvis fan and my dad loved the Beatles. If I got to pick the next record to go on, I always chose from 3... a Barbra Streisand one (the word Superman comes to mind...but again, couldn't be arsed to find out what it was really called), the Beatles love songs (I loved the Long and Winding Road) and a 70s album that had the song Last Kiss on it, rerecorded by Pearl Jam a few years ago.

The first album I bought myself was David Bowie, the one with Modern Love and Let's Dance. The cassette is still floating around, the cover long gone. It was a choice between that and Corey Hart's First Offense. My mum eventually bought me that one and to this day I still love Corey Hart (not that I'd admit that to anyone, mind you.)
He was, I think, my first actual crush. For Christmas when I was 11, I received a stero...v fancy for the day, a record player and 2 tape decks, I was the only one of my friends with the ability to record both tape and record and seemed to do alot of it for them.) That Christmas and every Christmas after, my brother and I each received about 4 albums. For some reason I remember the ones he received more than my own...U2's Joshua Tree, Matt Bianco, Scritti Politti, Love and Rockets. I remember getting the Police, the Stand by Me soundtrack and when I was 13 Madonna's True Blue. When I was 13 I also bought the Sex Pistols 'Never Mind the Bollocks'. God, I loved that album. At 13, I also went to England on my own and spent most of my holiday money on albums. Right now all I can only remember buying Curiosity Killed the Cat and Crowded House. Curiosity Killed the Cat never did make it over here. Wonder why. Oh, and I bought Jesus and Mary Chain 'Darklands'. To date, still the best album ever.

At 18 I went back to England, this was right when the Manchester scene was big. I came home with albums by the Stone Roses, James, Wonderstuff and the Levellers, among others. It was the Levellers that got me thinking about music, as for some reason I was quite in the mood to listen to 'A Weapon Called Word', went to put it on and the CD wasn't there. Don't know where it might have got to. I listened to Sons of Maxwell instead. I was listening to 'Live at Tim's House', which is very Irish sounding, which I guess it would as they are from Nova Scotia.

Today, I will listen to most anyting, including a genre I vowed never to like- country. In fact the last CD I bought for myself was a country album. I bought Johnny Reid and I think I like him purely because he is Scottish. And he does have a good voice. Very sexy. Most of my CD buying these days is for Taylor and Liam. Taylor owns way more than Liam (Liam's I can count on one hand...Guns'n'Roses, Eminem, Queen, Elvis.) Taylor loves Simple Plan and Avril Lavigne and such teen like bands. For party gifts at her last 3 birthdays, her dad has made mixed CDs of songs her friends like, they have been a big hit. Well, not the 9th bday one, as I picked the music. A sign of the times apparently. He did one for Liam this year as well. They both went over very well, with kids and parents alike saying how much they liked the CDs.

I suppose I should end this by saying what I was listening to while writing this. That would have been Wolfe Tones 25th Anniversary, disc# 1. Love that album.