I’m certain that I heard Tainted Love on the radio or the Rock-ola juke box in the student lounge. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody else that owned this album. I remember reading some scathing reviews on it that were so scathing that they were really funny. Still for all of its talent and …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 95 Academy Days Candy-O
I’ve been writing about the Academy Days for a while now and I’m having that nagging format question pop up again. It seems that I’m just going through my Academy Days music album by album. Is that boring? Here’s what is happening behind the scenes. I’m at my computer with my Windows Media Player running. …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 94 Academy Days Star Trek
How could I have not mentioned Star Trek? My mind has been so focused on records, radio and other musical influences that Star Trek seems to have slipped my mind. I guess Star Trek may not seem like an obvious musical influence. Oddly enough, it was some cable channel surfing last night that reminded me. …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 93 Academy Days The Doors Break Through
If I try to not overthink it and just go with my gut, I’d have to say that campus wide, there were a few musical groups that everybody seemed to be into. The Doors and The Grateful Dead would have to be the most universal. What I mean by that is those bands appeared in …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 92 Academy Days The Columbia House Cassette Conversion Catastrophe
That title makes it sound dramatic. In reality, I really only regretted it from late 1982 to late 1985. To understand the original motivation, I need to explain the technological change that happened around 1980-81. The desire to make music portable had created a couple of new devices. On the highly mobile but less sharable …
My Musical Evolution – Part 91 Academy Days More Styx
Sophomore year, I had a girlfriend for a few months. she was a sophomore too but was new to the school. That was how we met initially. As a returning student, I volunteered to help the new students as an orienation leader. Vermont Academy new student orientation was a pretty cool concept that gathered all the …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 90 Academy Days The Weather Is Here
One of my friends from the Academy was a guy from Long Island named Andy. He had every Jimmy Buffett album there was. Coconut Telegraph had just come out and he played it quite a bit. I think I might have been able to make the Margaritaville connection but apart from that, I had never heard of …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 89 Academy Days Antmusic
I find it quite interesting to consider how changes in technology and the medium on which my music resides has changed how I listen to it. Today I listen to my music collection almost exclusively on my computer or digital media players. Occasionally, I’ll burn a mix CD for a road trip. These methods usually …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 88 Academy Days The 45’s Experiment
So here we are in the aptly named Academy Days era. The era names still maintaining that epic stylized quality. As before with the BFMS era, I’m going apologize for any chronological inconsistencies. The Academy Days officially covered the Autumn of 1979 through Spring of 1983. As we saw in the last post, Heart Of …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 87 Academy Days
It happened so fast. Like a flip of a switch, it seemed that Disco was gone. One moment I was in 8th grade Boogie-oogie-oogie-ing the next, I was in high school. I just realized that I left out a peculiar detail about myself. I had not grown even half an inch since third grade. I …
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