• LemmyLefty@lemmy.world
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    I can’t be the only one who can’t parse this sentence.

    I’m sorry, can you rephrase this? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.

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      The title does indeed not make much sense, but I imagine OP is trying to ask: “What grown up music did you listen to that you, and not a grown up, put on.”

      Answering that question, the first artists I remember looking up and having on my phone/mp3 Player were 30 seconds to Mars, Foo Fighters, and Linking Park. The latter because it was all the rage when I first got into music, not because the songs were especially good.

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        Thank you, that makes sense. I wasn’t sure if the sleep deprivation was just making me (more of) an idiot.

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          NP, OP might as well have been asking what songs turned you on as a kid. I just think the other explanation makes more sense. :p

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    Can you please edit the post and clarify what you mean by “turn on”? I’m not smart enough. Thank you.

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      Turn on meaning cause the music to play. OP means what non-kids music did you listen to when you were first in control of what music to play.

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    My first album was They Might Be Giants - Flood.

    What can I say, I still have great taste.

    Also nice to know my first band has had good politics since their first show was at a Sandanista rally.

    I gotta admit though, I first heard them on Tiny Toon Adventures.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    Queen. One of their best of albums. And Michael Jackson. Dangerous and History album (which had a best of disc too).

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      Also Queen here. Staying up late sitting on the floor next to the cassette player with the headphones on listening to News of the World.

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    I assume you’re asking what was the first non kids music I listened to and picked out myself? Instead of listening to the Lion King sound track, my first CD was Boston’s greatest hits.

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    In the mid 1970s, we could borrow cassettes from the library. I started with Neil Diamond “His 12 Greatest Hits”, then moved on to Electric Light Orchestra, Roxy Music, and Mike Oldfield.

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    I’m not sure of the first song, but the first music I ever bought myself was II by Boyz II Men.

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    The first CD I ever owned was O zone - Dragon Sta Din Tei aka the Numa Numa song. No idea why or where I got it from but I would listen to that on my little cd player

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    It might have been Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

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    One of the first albums I purchased was Back in Black by AC/DC. I also purchased a compilation album called Certified Gold. About half the songs on that were good, I remember liking a Pat Benatar song.

    Before that I remember having a little portable boombox with cassette recorder and I recorded Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap also by AC/DC and Destroyer by The Kinks. I listened to them over and over.

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    My first album was the self titled Gorillaz. If you put it in a computer there was a game!

    I’d been listening to my older brother’s music for a while before that though - Green Day Dookie, Blink-182 Enema of the State, Weezer Blue Album, Korn Issues were all in the mix.

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    Found my parents “Business as usual” - Men at work vinyl.

    Memorized “Down Under” listening with Sony DR-S5s. I always thought that’s how you were supposed to listen since the cord matched the one on the album cover.