Here's something I was thinking about today. I was thinking about 8th grade, we had just moved to Fairbanks, AK and I’m on the school bus (my father was in the military and since birth we had moved every 2-3 years of my life until I went to college). I was new to a school (again) so didn’t know anyone yet, and what gave me comfort was my first walkman and my first tape…Cindy Lauper –Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
It got me thinking that everyone has a soundtrack to their own life. For me it starts with Cindy Lauper, but went to Janet, Miss Jackson if your Nasty, then came the Depeche Mode and Tears For Fears years. Let’s not forget who followed, Bel Biv Devoe and some of those one hit wonders like that kid Tevin Campbell – “Round and Round”!… come on that was the jam first year of college! Lots of party music of course ensued for the following 4 years and for all those boyfriend love’s and breakup saga’s…nothing beat my girl SADE (she will always be in the running for my all time favorite) and anyone who knows me knows I ADORE (and stalk) John Mayer and I marvel at how he can go from this pop music geek to down right dirty blues man that makes love to that guitar like no other…nevermind his wacky personal life- we all have issues!
My point is, isn’t it fun to think of that ultimate “Mixed Tape” of your life. If you had the time it would be a fun little project to actually create that disc for you to reminisce to or to school your kids on what cool (or dumb) music you were into.
To this day I’m creating that soundtrack to my life…albeit I use Pandora and the like to find the music, but there are certain songs/lyrics that stand out to me and will go in my mental library of songs that fit that time in my life.
Right now it's more of the moody type songs, Sara Bareilles comes to mind or even old school favorites like Peter Gabriel.
If you have the time, I’m just curious…what was your first tape you can ever remember owning and loving, and what is the current song of your life?
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madonna. like a prayer. must have been 1990? i think my first cd was nivana's nervermind. makes me want to listen to them both now!
ReplyDeletei think my first tape was the go-go's. classic!
ReplyDeleteThe VERY first tape I owned and listened to repeatedly on my Fisher Price tape player was the Velveteen Rabbit set to George Winston's December album. I was 4. My first "kid" tape was Debbi Gibson and for the record, it came with a sample of her "Electric Youth" perfume.
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