Rock 'N' Roll Rorschach Test

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on August 6, 2011 at 1:29am

Here are a couple of mine

 

 

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of days hanging in my room listening to the radio (WABC 77 in NY - the last of the great top 40 stations).  There was something about hearing this song on the radio that stayed with me.   It's the one song that, when I hear it, brings me right back to that room.

 

 

 

Then there's this song, which I heard for the first time in my high school library. The librarian must have thought the LP was about science or something when she ordered it.  When we saw it, my friends and I jammed into a little booth in the library with a record player and put on this strange looking record that we read about but never heard.   Then it just blew our minds:

 

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Julie Jurrjens on August 8, 2011 at 11:04am

"Pump It Up" was the first video I ever saw...on MTV at a friend's house. She lived 'in town' and had cable... we were out in the sticks and didn't. Must have been 12 or 13. I thought it was cool as hell, and bought the album shortly thereafter. I was already listening to all the Brit Invasion stuff, but this was a step in a different direction.

 

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on August 6, 2011 at 7:08am

1975--a sophomore in high school--listening to KOMA-AM out of Oklahoma City at night....because local radio stations were not all that...and Mr. Twilley dropped this one...

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Permalink Reply by Julie Jurrjens on August 8, 2011 at 12:31pm

Killer. I don't know how anyone could have resisted that one.

 

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Ratcliffe on August 20, 2011 at 5:29pm

Sweet tune! Did the radio station always call itself K-O-M-A A-M or did they ever read it out as coma-ayem?

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on August 20, 2011 at 5:39pm

Both were used...but COMA more than the spelled out version.  The station still exists in OKC but is now country.  :{

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Ratcliffe on August 20, 2011 at 8:34pm

If it's called COMA, then bad country music may be more appropriate.

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Permalink Reply by Kurt Friend on September 1, 2011 at 11:30am

KOMA is not country. They play 60's and 70's rock and pop, i.e., The Beatles, Elton John, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on August 6, 2011 at 7:20am

My older brother had a MASSIVE stereo set--Bose 901's, a HUGE Pioneer amp (both in size and wattage), literally, you could hear it for blocks. This song probably blasted daily for months. For me, Kiss was my first true rock obsession. I loved, and still love this album. Never has a band done so much with so little.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Jurrjens on August 8, 2011 at 11:23am

For me, it was definitely the riffy Revolver-era Beatles stuff:  "Day Tripper," "Paperback Writer", "Rain".

I heard it peripherally and liked it on the radio as a little kid (age 5-6 or so) but inherited a couple singles from a relative at age 10 and it was all downhill from there. The first record I bought with my own money was the Beatles' 'Blue' compilation.

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Permalink Reply by Heikki on August 8, 2011 at 12:25pm

I guess either Black Night by Deep Purple or Black Dog by Led Zeppelin. Both heard first time on my parents' radio. Loud.

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Permalink Reply by Stan Schwieger on August 8, 2011 at 5:06pm

Were your parents playing them, or did you "kidnap" the radio?  [My Dad NEVER liked any rock at all...typically referred to as "hippie sh*t."  He was a polka fiend, however.]

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