What recording did you just devour at age 13?
Wore it out.
Drove the family nuts with?
Burned into your brain forever?
Wore it out.
Drove the family nuts with?
Burned into your brain forever?
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#1 on your charts @ 13?
- Thread starter emblymouse
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At age 13? Who can remember that far back? 
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. I wore out two copies of it.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. I wore out two copies of it.
I think (it was a long time ago!) it was mostly Led Zep-Physical Grafitti,Beatles-Let It Be,and Yes-Yessongs.
And,thanks to my brother,by the time I was 14 I couldn't stand to listen to Boston anymore.
And,thanks to my brother,by the time I was 14 I couldn't stand to listen to Boston anymore.
Alvaro Martín Gómez A.
TalkBass' resident Bongo + cowbell player
I bought lots of LPs and enjoyed lots of music from the radio when I was 13. The first example that comes to my mind: The "Back In Black" album from AC/DC. I bought it on Nov. 28, 1980 (I used to put my name and buying date on all my LPs at the time) and I know for sure (from the owner of the biggest record store at the time) that my copy was the first one ever sold in my town. Other examples:
- Kiss' "Dynasty" and Eagles' "The Long Run" (bought on Feb. 16, 1980 for my 13th birthday)
- Ted Nugent's "Scream Dream", Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster" and Cheap Trick's "Dream Police", bought on Sept. 17.
- Judas Priest's "British Steel", bought on August 14. That was the day when someone made me realize what a bass is.
- Aerosmith's "Live Bootleg", The Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" and Queen's "The Game", all three bought on Nov. 25 as a gift from my parents because of my excellent results at the end of the school year.
- Led Zeppelin's "In Through The Out Door" and The B-52's debut album, bought on Nov. 29.
So many great memories from that time, when the only worry was school.
- Kiss' "Dynasty" and Eagles' "The Long Run" (bought on Feb. 16, 1980 for my 13th birthday)
- Ted Nugent's "Scream Dream", Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster" and Cheap Trick's "Dream Police", bought on Sept. 17.
- Judas Priest's "British Steel", bought on August 14. That was the day when someone made me realize what a bass is.
- Aerosmith's "Live Bootleg", The Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" and Queen's "The Game", all three bought on Nov. 25 as a gift from my parents because of my excellent results at the end of the school year.
- Led Zeppelin's "In Through The Out Door" and The B-52's debut album, bought on Nov. 29.
So many great memories from that time, when the only worry was school.
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
Sly &The Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
Sly &The Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Turned 13 on March 17th 1981... I'd been playing bass for just shy of a year.
Blizzard of Ozz, Paranoid and Led Zep II for sure... I'm pretty sure I got Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, Volume 4 and the self titled for my b'day that year. Christmas 1981 I got Diary of a Madman (had just been released), Led Zep I & III as well as Jethro Tull's Aqualung (all on vinyl that I transferred to cassette for daily listening).
I just hooked up with the girl I was chasing at that point in life on Facebook... she's been calling me Ozz
Blizzard of Ozz, Paranoid and Led Zep II for sure... I'm pretty sure I got Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, Volume 4 and the self titled for my b'day that year. Christmas 1981 I got Diary of a Madman (had just been released), Led Zep I & III as well as Jethro Tull's Aqualung (all on vinyl that I transferred to cassette for daily listening).
I just hooked up with the girl I was chasing at that point in life on Facebook... she's been calling me Ozz
bongomania
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At age 13 I was still listening to the Irish folk and acoustic guitar music that my parents liked; wasn't until 14 that I realized how much more awesome Frank Zappa was than anything I had previously heard.
Without question, and at precisely 13, it was Born To Run. Before that, I was convinced that you buy an album, you're lucky to get three songs you want to hear more than once. I wore that sucker out. I don't know how many times I played it start to finish, but it would have to be in the hundreds. Life-changing.
In a little twist of irony, I was living about two miles away from where Springsteen lives now.
-jb
In a little twist of irony, I was living about two miles away from where Springsteen lives now.
-jb
Mine would be the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with Cream's Disraeli Gears a close second.
It was 1968! DAMN! There was a boatload of good music around then!
It was 1968! DAMN! There was a boatload of good music around then!
probably Faith No More's The Real Thing, I loved that album. Lots of Primus (Frizzle Fry) too...I also recall being quite fond of Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil.
