Mapping Influences Over Time
I had seen this album cover for years even before I knew who REO Speedwagon was. It always seemed to be there. I would look at it and it would make me wonder. It was such an odd thing to put on an album cover. OK maybe not as odd as a topless pre-teen girl holding a …
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Cargo by Men At Work came out in May of 1983 even as we were still enjoying Business As Usual. Like the album A Flock Of Seagulls, Cargo really belongs in 2 different eras. It starts in Space Mountain but continues into College Intermission. So what I’ll most likely do is treat it in a …
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This wasn’t the first time that I heard of David Bowie. Mom had Fame back in the Scratchy 45 Days but that was about all I knew of David Bowie. Those magazines I was checking out back in the KISS Age would often mention David Bowie who, like KISS, would wear stylized make-up in his …
It is tough to leave the Academy Days. It was such an important part of my life. I’m not talking about in the Glory Days sense, but rather that I recognize how important that step was to me. I’ll also truly appreciate what going to school in Vermont allowed me to do at that age. …
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In May of 1983, I graduated from Vermont Academy. It was also that spring when the long running television series M*A*S*H would air its final episode. I had watched M*A*S*H from a distance over the previous decade. I had seen enough to more or less know the characters and the situation. I wouldn’t consider myself a …
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A Flock Of Seagulls is an album that I struggle with in that I don’t know which era to assign it to. I acquired it in the Academy Days. I was one of the last factory cassettes that I bought as I closed down my Columbia House membership in preparation for graduation. So it can easily …
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I feel like Men At Work stormed onto the scene. It seemed like one day nobody had heard of them and the next we all loved Who Can It Be Now. Of course I could be mistaken and I am willing to be wrong. This was the last of my Christmas albums from my cousin. …
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The Stereo systems of the Academy Days were really something to behold. Most of the kids at prep school had excessive budgets for that kind of equipment. Today, technology has changed the game dramatically. It has been over a decade since I’ve owned a big stereo component system. Today, with the advent of 2.1, 5.1, …
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I just put The Golden Age Of Wireless on and just a few notes into She Blinded Me With Science, I feel like the MTV age of the early 1980’s is suddenly here. All those electronic drums and synthesizers simple scream 80’s to me. I love it. In the previous post, I wrote about being …
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I could have been listening to this album years earlier than I did because this album cover failed me. My older cousin had this album and I saw it in the stack for years. I never sampled it though because the cover looked like something I wouldn’t be interested in. I can’t tell you what I …
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