My first CD ever was Red Hot Chili Pepper's Californication. I listened to that thing all the time on a Walkman CD Player that I thought was so cool because it had G-Force something on it which meant it wouldn't stop if it fell or was shaken. But apparently the only thing G-Force can't stop is falling down stairs.
I bought The Beatles Number One US Hits CD and after that I decided to give music a shot. Never really cared much for it after my favorite radio station, 93.1, fired all its DJs. I don't know why I cared about that so much but it meant that 95.5 was the only pop station anywhere.

Which is fine I guess. Look at me, caring about radio politics. But yeah, The Beatles brought me into the music scene. Cliche but whatever, it's special to me and that's all that matters.
Then a bunch of my Michigan State University boys introduced me to the world of music-snobbery which led me to The Strokes, The Libertines, and others I can't recall. Fun times but music-snobbery does not lead to many friends. And I'm extremely needy so you can see where there would be a problem. Anyway, I'm MUCH more mature than that now and I'll only raise my nose at you, and shift my scarf and fedora hat at you, if you enjoy the works of Nickelback and Pink. Which is understandable ain't it?
2 minutes of the only thing I care about. Me and my muzak. Fun fact: After family and girlfriend and blah blah, the thing I care about most is my external hard-drive which has all my music. All 9,869 of my songs.
damn, i have 7862. wanna give me some of yours?
ReplyDeletealso you are right, music snobbery does not lead to many friends. i will never forget the time i heard two guys COMPLAIN about the fact that they had dave matthews concert tickets.
Man I'm glad that we were friends after your snobbery because you would have never accepted Coldplay back in the day...
ReplyDeleteI feel ya Kate,
ReplyDeleteWho cares if you like Dave Matthews Band? Don't be ashamed of it. Crash, into me