Re: Re Beacon Cheeks

datboy@i84.net
Fri, 23 May 1997 10:16:32 -0400

First 8-track: Cher (the one with "Gypsys Tramps & Theives")
First album: Seals & Crofts "Diamond Girl"
First cassette: Jefferson Starship "Earth"
First single: "My Love/The Mess" Paul McCartney & Wings
First rock song ever learned on piano: "Sugar Sugar"
Song with which I learned to improvise: "Superman" Herbie Mann
First CD's: Frank Zappa "Baby Snakes", Todd Rundgren "A Wizard A True
Star" and
two old 60's hit compilations
First single purchased that cost over $10: "Lonely Little Girl/Mother
People" Mothers
of Invention
First album purchased that cost at least 3 times as much as it
originally did when it
was new: Yoko Ono "Fly"
First 12" -- Art Of Noise "Into Battle"
First crush: David Diamond from Berlin
First single that cost over $50: "Grounded" The Syn (with Peter Banks
and Chris Squire
of Yes)
First single over $100: "Borderline/Looking At You" MC5
Most expensive single in my collection: "Living/Reflected" Alice
Cooper, stock
rumoured for years not to exist, $500
Most expensive EP: Residents "Santa Dog '72" $1500
The album for which I've been offered the most money: The New Tweedy
Bros (it's shaped
like a sugar-cube and most were damaged during shipping -- mine's
pristine)
$6000 -- I turned him down.
First noise album that I learned how it went: Merzbow "Pulse Demon"
First mixtape: Scott Henry/Dieselboy "East Coast Science"
First mixdisc: Simply Jeff Live At Countdown
First commercial mixdisc: Keoki Disco Death Race 2000
First metal album: Napalm Death "Scum"
First collected genre: progressive rock
First compilation purchased at full price: "Tyranny Of The Beat", Grey
Area of Mute
Four albums that have kept me from killing myself: Deee-lite "Dewdrops
In The Garden",
The B-52's eponymous, Orb Live 93, and Husker Du "Zen Arcade"
Most embarrassing thing in my collection: the Barry Manilow box (hey
I'm a pianist)
Fave house tune: XI XI "Feels So Good"
Most hated group: Eagles
Most hated solo performer: Bob Seger