My First Album
I was thinking today about the first record I ever owned. My Uncle Bill gave it to me when I was about 7. It was a little single and somewhere my mom has a photo of me clutching it in my hands outside my aunt and uncle's house in San Diego.
The album, was "We Are The World". I remember being very moved by it. I remember thinking that giving children the job of making the world brighter was kind of a cop-out, seeings as most of us didn't even know our times tables yet, let alone how to solve world hunger.
Watching the video now is AWESOME. I still think Stevie Wonder has the best voice. I am totally cracking up at all these musicians and their fashion. Kenny Rogers is so MOVED by his own voice, it's hysterical. I love the showcase of Bob Dylan later in the song. He's totally singing a different song, just making up the tune. AWESOME.
You have to watch the whole thing... and then tell me what your first album was!
The album, was "We Are The World". I remember being very moved by it. I remember thinking that giving children the job of making the world brighter was kind of a cop-out, seeings as most of us didn't even know our times tables yet, let alone how to solve world hunger.
Watching the video now is AWESOME. I still think Stevie Wonder has the best voice. I am totally cracking up at all these musicians and their fashion. Kenny Rogers is so MOVED by his own voice, it's hysterical. I love the showcase of Bob Dylan later in the song. He's totally singing a different song, just making up the tune. AWESOME.
You have to watch the whole thing... and then tell me what your first album was!
posted by saucybritches at
5/03/2008 06:12:00 PM
8 Comments:
We are the world was my first album too! I used to listen to it over and over and over...
Wow, blast from the past. How did Kenny Rogers even end up in that group? Trip. My first album...hmmm...the soundtrack to Grease is the one I really remember loving with all my heart.
I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! i love that video. It's awesome. Michael and his damn silver glove. OY VAY frickin hysterical. My first tape was Madonna -True Blue. My first actual album was Tom Petty and the heartbreakers. :D tee hee
Lena
Wow! Thanks for the blast from the past. That song used to make me tear up every time! And what about Bruce Springsteen? Constipation. My first cassette was the New Kids on The Block single "Please Don't Go Girl." But don't tell anyone... :)
Mine was Debbie Gibson's Out of the Blue.
And Paul Simon (a musical genius god) is like 1/3 the size of Kenny Rogers...
Dude, Dan Aykroyd!
Now, why was Dan Ackroyd in there? Why no solo from Lindsay Buckingham or Bette Midler? Why only the chorus for the rest of the Jacksons? Michael is playing favorites, me thinks.
My first tape was Bryan Adams, "Cuts Like a Knife". Yeah. Woo.
This came out when I was in fourth grade; it was a seminal moment in my pop culture awareness. I remember more than one day if we were good as a class we could listen to this before the school buses came to collect us. I also remember spending hours making a drawing from the Life or People magazine cover that featured USA for Africa.
My first album? Ah, that artist was conspicuously absent, or perhaps she peaked just a couple years too soon to be included here. My mom and dad gave me the Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 45. Then a little neighbor girl broke it months later. It was probably for the best.
My next musical possession, other than songs I taped off the radio and HBO's Video Jukebox, was Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry."
Some thoughts in rapid succession:
It's amazing how young everyone looks here; I'll be 33 tomorrow, and some of these people are dead.
Cyndi Lauper was lovely, even when I was 10.
Finally, this seemed so important at the time, so monumental, like it couldn't help but effect change in that part of the world. Just think what perils would still be being visited on sub-Saharan Africa had this record not been made. Oh, wait...
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