Best year for albums? - Bilge

D donhonyc Tiki Socialite The Quiet EAST Village Joined: Jan 13, 2003 Posts: 1197	D donhonyc Posted posted on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 11:23 PM Jab- I'd have to agree with you that 1979 was a great year. I want to say that 1969 was great, but I was a mere toddler then. '79 was probably the first year that I became fully conscious to the mighty Rock temple. That year a new record store sprang up in my neighborhood and I went in there just about every day. I was 13 and hardly ever had any money to buy stuff. The owner looked like Sting and after a while he got real aggravated with me because I never bought anything. I was just hanging around bothering him. I was so naive, I couldn't understand why he was pissed. He did however have a real Wurlitzer jukebox in the place that played songs for free. It was stacked high with a lot of the newest songs from that year, and as I mentioned in another thread, they sounded so weird and foreign to my young ears. It really did blow my mind. Some of the tunes were: Video Killed the Radio Star-The Buggles Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll-Ian Dury Hit Me With Your Rythym Stick-Ian Dury Message In A Bottle-The Police Money-The Flying Lizards Rock Lobster-B52s These were all brand spankin' new songs at the time. On the walls of the record store I remember that there were huge poster sized pictures of the album covers for Tom Petty-'Damn the Torpedos', the first (yellow) B52s record, and Neil Young's 'Rust Never Sleeps'. Pretty cool. There were also smaller posters for other bands that came out that year but never went anywhere like Flash and the Pan, and Bram Tchaikovsky. Cheap Trick 'Dream Police' came out that year too. I won an autographed copy of that record in a raffle at the same record store. AC/DC "Highway to Hell" came out as well. I'll never forget how cool it was at that time to hear Neil Young's 'Hey Hey, My My' crackling from my clock radio in my room real late at night with the lights off. Cool. And as far as Talking Heads' song from that year, "Life During War Time", I just thought it was cool and weird that they said 'peanut butter' in that song. Some other tunes that I was hearing on the radio that were kinda off the beatin' path were: Sniff & the Tears "Driver's Seat" The Fabulous Poodles "Bionic Man" Tim Curry "I Do the Rock" The station I used to listen to back then, K-102 in Ft. Lauderdale did these crazy advertisements for a place called 'Vibrations' a huge head shop in Miami. The copy read something like 'we have all the best toys for your head'. Jeez can you even imagine hearing an ad for a head shop on the radio anymore? Definitely a cool year. Glad I was old enough, or should I say, young enough to experience it. [ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-06-30 23:44 ] [ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-07-01 08:58 ]

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I'd have to agree with you that 1979 was a great year. I want to say that 1969 was great, but I was a mere toddler then. '79 was probably the first year that I became fully conscious to the mighty Rock temple. That year a new record store sprang up in my neighborhood and I went in there just about every day. I was 13 and hardly ever had any money to buy stuff. The owner looked like Sting and after a while he got real aggravated with me because I never bought anything. I was just hanging around bothering him. I was so naive, I couldn't understand why he was pissed.

He did however have a real Wurlitzer jukebox in the place that played songs for free. It was stacked high with a lot of the newest songs from that year, and as I mentioned in another thread, they sounded so weird and foreign to my young ears. It really did blow my mind. Some of the tunes were:

Video Killed the Radio Star-The Buggles
Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll-Ian Dury
Hit Me With Your Rythym Stick-Ian Dury
Message In A Bottle-The Police
Money-The Flying Lizards
Rock Lobster-B52s

These were all brand spankin' new songs at the time.

On the walls of the record store I remember that there were huge poster sized pictures of the album covers for Tom Petty-'Damn the Torpedos', the first (yellow) B52s record, and Neil Young's 'Rust Never Sleeps'. Pretty cool. There were also smaller posters for other bands that came out that year but never went anywhere like Flash and the Pan, and Bram Tchaikovsky.

Cheap Trick 'Dream Police' came out that year too. I won an autographed copy of that record in a raffle at the same record store. AC/DC "Highway to Hell" came out as well.

I'll never forget how cool it was at that time to hear Neil Young's 'Hey Hey, My My' crackling from my clock radio in my room real late at night with the lights off. Cool. And as far as Talking Heads' song from that year, "Life During War Time", I just thought it was cool and weird that they said 'peanut butter' in that song.

Some other tunes that I was hearing on the radio that were kinda off the beatin' path were:

Sniff & the Tears "Driver's Seat"
The Fabulous Poodles "Bionic Man"
Tim Curry "I Do the Rock"

The station I used to listen to back then, K-102 in Ft. Lauderdale did these crazy advertisements for a place called 'Vibrations' a huge head shop in Miami. The copy read something like 'we have all the best toys for your head'. Jeez can you even imagine hearing an ad for a head shop on the radio anymore?

Definitely a cool year. Glad I was old enough, or should I say, young enough to experience it.

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-06-30 23:44 ]

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-07-01 08:58 ]

Post #169091 by donhonyc on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 11:23 PM