Tom Lehrer’s That Was The Year That Was is a good example of why I wish I would have spent more time in researching and organizing before I started this project in January. I almost completely forgot about this record. I was just kind of reflecting on Space Mountain and suddenly it popped into my …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 152 Space Mountain MTV
I got my first glimpse of MTV in the summer of 1983. It had been on the air and running since August 1st of 1981 so it was almost 2 years old already. As you know during my entire time in Vermont TV basically did not exist. Nobody I knew had access to MTV. I …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 151 Space Mountain There Be Whales Here
You know guys know how to party when they break out the Songs Of The Humpack Whale album. It has been discussed in earlier posts that I have a certain fascination with Sound Effects. I had collected a couple albums that I may or may not have mentioned. If I didn’t, it was merely due …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 150 Space Mountain Time For Me To Fly
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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My Musical Evolution – Part 149 Space Mountain Settle Down My Boy
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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My Musical Evolution – Part 148 Space Mountain Pieces Of Machinery, Mineshafts, Things Like That
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 …
My Musical Evolution – Part 147 Space Mountain The Same Flock Of Seagulls
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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My Musical Evolution – Part 146 Academy Days Goodbye, Farewell And Amen
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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My Musical Evolution – Part 145 Academy Days A Flock Of Seagulls
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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My Musical Evolution – Part 144 Academy Days Vegemite Sandwich?
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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