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user-inactivated  ·  3611 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the first song you were "in to" as a kid that wasn't a "kids song?"

Early Beatles because my parents were squares and thought Lennon became a Satanist after Yellow Submarine. The Temptations because my parents hated black people and it was my first attempt to derail my white supremacist upbringing. The Charlie Daniels Band because I was raised in The South and that Satan was OK to sing about losing.

And for some reason I don't know why Asia.





tacocat  ·  3610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because Asia is awesome?

user-inactivated  ·  3611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I too come from The South and loved The Devil Went Down to Georgia. A bit later Christian Death or The Electric Hellfire Club might have been my introduction to underground music. They were for a lot of us. Nothing cooler than Old Scratch if you're a kid in the south just starting to realize there's a lot to hate about it.

kleinbl00  ·  3611 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I bought Skinny Puppy's vivisect vi purely because the album cover was badass. After all, it worked with pink floyd's "dark side of the moon."

That's right, kids: if you grew up in the sticks, without a record store, music was purchased unheard, mail order, because the odds of your parents driving you an hour to the nearest Hastings were slim indeed.

Then I moved to Washington and bought the new Front Line Assembly at the grocery store. I teared up on the spot.