Cds you owned that most likely no teenagers have today?

I was just listening to "I like the black girls" by Violent Femmes, I couldn't help but think I doubt it's sitting on any shelves next to eminem anywhere in the world.
Or at least on any shelves owned by anyone under18.

I've gotten a few of my students into Devo over the last few years. Their work in commercials and television is exposing kids to Devo without them even knowing it.

There's a method to your movements -- it really gets my goat
I look for sniffy linings but you're -- rotten to the core
I've had just about all I can take, you know I can't take it no more
I've got a gut feeling...."

MLWTTKC is still pretty popular with the goth scene and they're still pounding out the occasional new cd.

A friend taped it for me back in '95 or '96. I played the damned thing so many times, eventually the cassette broke.

I love the very 60's exchange between the "would-be "john" and the "sex workers".


"What's your name?"
"Secret, what's yours?"
"You dig masochism at all?"
"Huh?"
"Do you dig getting beaten?"
"I never tried that!"
"What goes for ten dollars?"
"Well, whaddya want for ten dollars?"
"I want something different, I want something special."
"Ah no honey, not for ten bucks."
"How 'bout your friend?"
"Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea, yeah."
"Hello!"
"Hi big boy."
"What's your name?"
(in a low voice) "Secret. What's yours?"

We've got instant action, deep satisfaction
An experience you'll always remember.
We've got instant action, with all the passion
from January to December.

"Well, I'm looking for something unusual, something..."
"Oh? Like maybe like these?"
"Let me see that again honey."
"I'm sorry, you've already got your free sample, how much do you want it,
huh?"
"That's very nice."
"Next time you've gotta pay for it buddy."
"How much would that cost?"
"Look, I'll make it cheap. I'll make it... twenty?"
"Well, what do you want for ten dollars?"
"What's your name?"
"'Secret', what's yours?"

Instant action
We got instant action

Although I'd be willing to bet no other adults own it either. :)

you're the only one :P

Orange.
This was circa 1969-70.
Maybe it's a generational thing.:shrug:

Anthony Burgess's book had far wider impact with the making of Kubrick's film, lots of what he wrote about has come to pass.

Nothing like a bit of the old in-out-in-out to Ludwig Von, ay Droogie?

was the soundtrack to "Hair"!

Unfortunately.

From "Don't put it Down."

Folding the flag means taking care of the nation.
Folding the flag is putting it to bed for the night.
I fell through a hole in the flag
I'm falling through a hole in the flag. Help!

Don't put it down
Best one around
(Crazy for the red blue and white (x2))
You look at me
What do you see
(Crazy for the white red and blue (x2))
Cause I look different
You think I'm subversive
(Crazy for the blue white and red(x2))
My heart beats true
For the red white and blue
(Crazy for the blue white and red (x2))
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
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From "Walking in Space."

How dare they try to end this beauty?
To keep us under foot
They bury us in soot
Pretending it's a chore
To ship us off to war
In this dive
We rediscover sensation...

More lyrics here

like, you mean, ones I no longer own? I still have ALL of my CDs.

Now, if you want to talk about cassette tapes, there I can help you.

... but get this. Thanks to the internet, my 14 year old son thinks I have great taste in music! That's right, by hanging out at sites like Pitchfork Reviews and such, he has found that most of my CD collection is held in high esteem by critics. He asks to listen to this, then that, and he likes most of it. He's now a huge Eno fan, Stereolab fan, and on and on. He pops in and asks "you got any Cocteau Twins?" ... do I ever :)

Now, had I approached HIM and said "hey, listen to some of this cool old stuff", there would have been chance zero that he would have liked it. :)

vinyl, not cd

Bat out of Hell!

thanks for that!

The Monkees. Glen Campbell. Santana Abraxes. The Guess Who.
The Fifth Dimension.

:shrug:

thanks. I just bought "Edmund Fitzgerald" in iTune!

IT's a great disc

Your father is probably near my age and are you just introducing him?

Great choice for your Dad, though.

"Nunsexmonkrock" - Nina Hagen
"Flaunt It" - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
"Entertainment!" - Gang Of Four

She DOES like "Hatful Of Hollow", though.

Berlin too.
Is she into techno???:puke:

She's into gothy-type bands and those corporate faux-punk bands on Fuse.

*sigh* At least she grew out of Britney Spears ...

In fact, I don't share much on my shelves with ANYONE I know (Except maybe whoisalhedges).

One of my all time favorites!

FSC

But probably I'd be safe to say no teenagers likely have a copy of Air Supply's Greatest Hits in their collection.

I was when I was a teenager. Then again, I'm far from normal.:silly:

actually I there are always teens who will go out and look for the older stuff and be amazed by it.


Eno, Yo La Tengo, Ramones ( I have never seen so many teens obsessed with the Ramones, there are certainly worse bands to be obsessed with)
X, The GoGos, Talking Heads, The Cars, The Stray Cats, The Minutemen, Husker Du. I think that some of the current pop-punk bands grew up with this stuff and drag their young fans along with them, kicking and screaming. The Violent Femmes were WAY ahead of their time.

Phish covered Remain in the Light in its entirety on 10/31/96 as a "musical costume", then Loaded on 10/31/98. Also The Beatle's White Album on 10/31/94 and The Who's Quadrophenia on 10/31/95. Today's teenagers may not have actually seen those shows but they've surely heard the recordings.

The Undisputed Truth/The Undisputed Truth, Jeepster by T-Rex.
Touch.
Fresh Garbage by Spirit, Bitches Brew and Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis, Freak-out by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
East-West by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
The first three Country Joe and The Fish albums...
In A World Without You by Genesis when they had the female singer...
Babe Ruth, Moby Grape, Zephyr...
Watts 103rd Street Ryhthm Band, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Booker T. and The MG's...

:D

Canned Heat
Steppenwolf
Ten Years After
Alice Cooper (I like his music the freeper bastard)
Jethro Tull
Blue Cheer
BTO
Savoy Brown
Animals
Emerson Lake and Palmer

In fact, that's Neal Smith, the drummer, in my avatar.:hi:

notice that was Neal Smith in your avatar. I have seen him live a few times. I did not look close just thought it was a homely chick that got pretty when I'm drunk. :beer:

From Blue Oyster Cult now.

Of course, most adults wouldn't have that one, either! And it's their loss.

It was the same CD, actually. And I STILL have the original one.

Actually, 90 % of my CDs fit that bill. I hate most of the newer stuff.

Every Prince CD, tons of Erasure, Tears for Fears, Roxy Music, Tracy Chapman, every INXS CD, Chaka Khan, every Simply Red CD...

Carla Bonoff
Dave Edmunds
The Kinks
Badfinger

the list goes on...

But, out of 300+ CD's, I should have at least one thing they'd like. hehe

Tin Huey, 1979. One of the best albums ever made. Somewhere between the John Coltrane Quartet and the Yardbirds.

They did a few singles, got signed to Warner Brothers, recorded Contents Dislodged with a rookie producer, and got thrown off Warner Brothers. They broke up because it was time to go out and get a job, and finally did a followup about 20 years later (!).

Allman Brothers, Association, Bachman Turner OVD, Bad Company, Badfinger, the Band, Black Oak Arkansas, Blood Sweat and Tears, Bread. Eric Burden and the Animals, Buffalo Springfeld, the Byrds, Cactus, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Alice Cooper,Cream,Jim Croce, Joe Cocker,

I give up...too many to mention

edited..mentioned Joe Cocker twice....will have to go to the V's and mention Van Morrison three times...Van Morrison Van Morrison Van Morrison

I'm serious..

you can't be serious...there's not enought room here. If you want me to pm you I will

None of the CD's I have have ever been bought by teenagers here, most likely...

i've got almost every single one of these cd's. and i'm 19. and i own all of eminem's cd's too.

so THERE

?

EDIT: I forgot Thin Lizzy...No way many 16 year olds have them...

I don't think I've ever heard a teenager mention them. They were "in" back when I was in elementary school (prior to the widespread availability of microwave ovens and ATM cards, let alone CD players).

But if we're talking CDs, Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow. Got it in vinyl, cassette and CD. Hated the cassette, because the songs are in the wrong order. Had it in my head which song came next from wearing out the vinyl. Got the cassette and it drove me CRAZY when the wrong song came next. I listened to it twice and threw it out. Finally got the CD and am listening to it as we "speak."

Peter, Paul and Mary
Godspell

Odd how this music is so relevant now.

And if a teenager does have it - bet they got it from their parents. Then again, I could be wrong. :shrug:

Great record though.

Kids were still listening to it when I was in high school in the early nineties. I'm sure they still are.

I was in a ninth grade class the other day, and I heard some ninth grade band geek (see thread on "kinds of high school cliques") singing "I'm high as I kite, I just might, stop to check you out..."

It was on tape though, not CD.

oh man... this list could be endless. I'll leave it at that.