{"id":752,"date":"2012-06-16T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2012-06-16T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:50:40","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-89-academy-days-diehard-album-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/16\/my-musical-evolution-part-89-academy-days-diehard-album-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 89 Academy Days Antmusic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 revolve around a predetermined playlist or randomized shuffle. Back in the Academy Days, <\/em>it was completely different. I’d pop an album on the turntable and listen to the\u00a0 entire thing or at least one side start to finish. It was not practicle to listen to single songs from several different albums.\u00a0 The notion of a mix tape was still a few years away. Even when I did make tapes, it was typically just a copy of the album. As a result, I became intimate with all the songs from all of my albums from this era.<\/p>\n

One of the early albums of the Academy Days <\/em> was Adam And The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier.\u00a0 <\/em>A guy from my German class named Dave Wilder turned me on to Adam And The Ants.\u00a0 I can also point to Dave as the first time I ever heard of <\/em>AC\/DC. I emphasized of<\/em> because I didn’t hear actual AC\/DC just Dave singing Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Actually it would be years before I realized that was what he was singing.<\/p>\n

I bought my copy of Kings Of The Wild Frontier <\/em>at the Coop on a school trip to Harvard.<\/p>\n

 
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