nominated me for this challenge, and I do accept as I’m a madly fond of excuses to get me some Steem by selfvoting.
I'll start by starting the music!
1987! I was not really into any music that my contemporary teenagers listened to. I was mainly into classical music (not entirely true; close though), but I had started listening to rhythmic things I found myself. This record! (because records were my contact to the world back in those days) - I read about it in a music magazine on the library and liked it even before I had heard it. Noise, art, bleakness, Copenhagen (I lived in a small provincial town and longed away) THE COVER! I decided I needed to own it and ordered it in the local record shop. A week later it was there, and I went home to listen to it.
... I was blown away. It was even better than I had hoped - bleak, noisy, beautiful. I didn't know the song by Bobby Gentry, so the whole southern story with beans and preachers and things dropped from bridges made no sense at all to me, but it was fascinating and created an enormous longing in me. I knew I had to leave the town I lived in as soon as possible!
Later I meet both the guy who made the cover, and some of the musicians, who are like eternal Gods in the pantheon of punk rock in Denmark, but that was nothing compared to ...
OK, that was the music running out.
I nominate or
for this challenge.
The rules:
- Choose one song from your high-school/college years.
- Write a few words about who made you listen to this song for the first time, what this song means to you (was it a breakup song? you blasted it at 100% on your audio system when you were partying with your friends?) whatever you want.
- Write your text while listening to the song. As soon as the song ends, wrap up what you where writing and submit it.
- Do this for 7 days in a row if you get nominated
- Mention one person who should do this on each day.
- Tag it with #musicwaybackchallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post