First song you can remember hearing

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I had a music box that was a wooden cylinder with a painting of a rooster on it. It played "O Tannenbaum" the Deutsche Xmas carol. It had an atypical arrangement that has stayed embedded in my brain ever since.

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"Caribbean Queen" by Billy Ocean
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"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
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When I was in kindergarten I loved Paradise City by GnR. To prove the veracity of that statement, I also remembered liking Straight Up by Paula Abdul and I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That by Elton John. Soon to arrive was my Billy Joel phase. Oh and I loved Cadillac Ranch by Bruce, but I think that was a year or two later - my parents played Live 75-85 on road trips and that's the tune that stuck.
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Kory Pox wrote:"Caribbean Queen" by Billy Ocean
or:
"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
What a terrible start to your musical journey.
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Marky Dread wrote:
Kory Pox wrote:"Caribbean Queen" by Billy Ocean
or:
"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
What a terrible start to your musical journey.
Yeah...I thought Segar was bad...
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matedog wrote:When I was in kindergarten I loved Paradise City by GnR. To prove the veracity of that statement, I also remembered liking Straight Up by Paula Abdul and I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That by Elton John. Soon to arrive was my Billy Joel phase. Oh and I loved Cadillac Ranch by Bruce, but I think that was a year or two later - my parents played Live 75-85 on road trips and that's the tune that stuck.
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Either "tequilla" or "Twist and Shout". The latter made the greatest impression on me.
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Marky Dread wrote:
Kory Pox wrote:"Caribbean Queen" by Billy Ocean
or:
"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley
What a terrible start to your musical journey.
Yeah, those songs never fail to send me back to my living room in pyjamas watching The Smurfs.
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I'm pretty sure it was something off CMT...Garth Brooks or Steve Earl, or maybe George Strait.

Me mum had an obsession with recording the Country Music Channel on to VHS.
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Suzanne H. wrote:...Garth Brooks
Nothing brings back nauseating grade school memories to me like the name GARTH BROOKS.

It puts me back in Mrs. Russell's second grade class and riding the bus. Everyone thought that "rodeo" song was so badass (especially the "It's that damned old rodeo" lyric). Garth Brooks.....I also remember concert footage where he would fly around stadiums on a wire at the climax of a show. God....I'm glad that's over
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Bankrobber wrote:I also remember concert footage where he would fly around stadiums on a wire at the climax of a show. God....I'm glad that's over
AHAHAHAH are you serious? a flying garth brooks?
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eumaas wrote:
Bankrobber wrote:I also remember concert footage where he would fly around stadiums on a wire at the climax of a show. God....I'm glad that's over
AHAHAHAH are you serious? a flying garth brooks?
I've seen that before on TV. Lame.
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Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Bankrobber wrote:I also remember concert footage where he would fly around stadiums on a wire at the climax of a show. God....I'm glad that's over
AHAHAHAH are you serious? a flying garth brooks?
I've seen that before on TV. Lame.
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Bankrobber wrote:
Suzanne H. wrote:...Garth Brooks
Nothing brings back nauseating grade school memories to me like the name GARTH BROOKS.

It puts me back in Mrs. Russell's second grade class and riding the bus. Everyone thought that "rodeo" song was so badass (especially the "It's that damned old rodeo" lyric). Garth Brooks.....I also remember concert footage where he would fly around stadiums on a wire at the climax of a show. God....I'm glad that's over
Going to used clothing shops, you can now find plenty of those checkers-for-idiots shirts that he popularized (you know, four squares).
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eumaas wrote:
Bankrobber wrote:I also remember concert footage where he would fly around stadiums on a wire at the climax of a show. God....I'm glad that's over
AHAHAHAH are you serious? a flying garth brooks?
100% Serious.

Cowboy hat, boots, tight jeans and those awful shirts...zooming around 40 feet in the air. He would take off like he was running and -whoose right into the air.

He's a local boy so we were subject to every scrap of Garth Brooks news.
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