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coffeesp00ns  ·  3339 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the first song you were "in to" as a kid that wasn't a "kids song?"

my mom had it on tape.

edit:

Actually, fun story - When I first started driving, I used my dad's truck. It was a hardcore base model - standard transmission, and a tape deck. I think he paid extra for the air conditioning, but that was it.

Because there was no cd player, I ended up raiding my parent's old tape collection. I got into Vivaldi, Billy Joel, and Dire Straits during this period - it was essentially when music stopped being background noise and started being something i cared intensely about.

I played my dad's Dire Straits tape until it was easily a half-step flat and didn't run properly anymore. I still think Sultans of Swing has the best, most tasteful drumming i've ever heard in my life.





thenewgreen  ·  3339 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was just at a work function and found out that a guy I work with's brother-in-law is the drummer (or one of the drummers) for Dire Straits. Pretty cool.