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A thread to share random thoughts and chat about all things related to music.

I wasn’t allowed to have CDs with explicit lyrics when I was growing up.

we would go over and hang out at each others place to listen to albums, so we bought different albums,
also i had a radio-cassette, with that you could record music from the radio

back then we studied the lyrics- from those cheap lyrics books you could buy in London

I made myself mixed tapes when I was a kid. I often preferred listening to them over the radio because I didn’t have a lot of options when it came to radio stations in different places where I lived.

When I moved or my friends moved, it greatly limited the music I had access to. Fundie kid stuff.

I paid very little attention to music until I was 17 or 18. I was more interested in comedy but then there was a radio show I used to listen to between 10pm and 12pm on weekday nights.

I started listening to it because the presenters were funny but they also gave me an education in music and I started hearing things that I liked and developed my own taste.

The trouble with radio for me is that it's ephemeral. I used to like to watch/listen to things over and over but a radio show you'll never hear it again, unless you tape it.

I had a tape of that show a long time ago but it's long lost now. I'd love to hear it again.

Love that I can find any song or album I want to hear on Youtube today (especially Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin). No longer need to buy anything music related. Saves a lot of space in the house also

I bought my first Lee Oskar brand harmonica last week. I was looking at the oddly-shaped case just now and saw it has like these rails and grooves built into the front and back -

- you can slot the cases together. Oh. Oh no. They just found my weakness.

The harmonica itself is in D flat. I have a habit of learning songs in C, capoing up a fret on guitar to fit my voice better, and then complaining that I can't do a harmonica solo any more. Hopefully this should fix that.

I've become obsessive about German music and things over the past 10 years. It's almost like the way that The Kinks became more English as the 60s went on.