So where was I?.......

Sorry for the silence. Life got in the way.

As promised, some notes on music. I am a music lover for a couple of reasons. Since I can remember there has always been music playing. My dad always had music playing so I grew up with salsa (Celia Cruz, different salsa big bands from the Carribean and Latin America, etc.), jazz and 60's rock (Beatles, Stones the Animals, etc.). My musical tastes started with the Beatles and top 40 of the late 70's and early 80's. A compilation of songs from Beatles' movies was the 1st LP I purchased. I believe the 1st 45 I bought was Steve Miller's Abracadabra. (Please watch the video if you never have and you will understand why any rational persons that actually had to live through the 1980's [cause from what I read the 1880's were rad] want no part of any 1980's revivial or nostalgia).

Part of my distaste for 80's nostalgia goes back to my continued dissapointment with the times I have lived through. It seems I was born too late. Too young for punk or no/new wave I also had to endure the Reagan years, the war on drugs, AIDS, MTV, and what I consider the most damaging and critical to the success of the aforementioned, the golden age of marketing as a social and psychological science. I contend that none of the previously mentioned would have played such a large part in society if not for strides made in selling people shitty products and ideas.

I digress. My musical awakening happened right before middle school. Like everyone esle in my age group I was digging the days hits as shown in this list of rekkids released in 82. In addition the Deleon brothers had already indoctrinated me into all things classic and heavy rock.

I would like to say that I listened to these records when they came out in 1982:
# Big Science - Laurie Anderson
# Damaged - Black Flag
# The Sky's Gone Out – Bauhaus
# Groovy Decay - Robyn Hitchcock
# Everything Falls Apart - Hüsker Dü
# The Gift - The Jam
# Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets
# In My Eyes - Minor Threat
# Minor Threat - Minor Threat
# Bean Spill - The Minutemen
# The Blue Mask – Lou Reed
# Chronic Town EP - R.E.M.
# The Tunes of Two Cities - The Residents
# Stink - The Replacements
# A Kiss In The Dreamhouse - Siouxsie And The Banshees
# Under the Big Black Sun - X
# English Settlement - XTC

But my actual interests at the time read more like this:
# Lexicon of Love - ABC
# Asia - Asia
# Combat Rock - The Clash
# American Fool - John Cougar Mellencamp
# Too-Rye-Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners
# Oh No!, It's Devo - Devo
# H2O - Daryl Hall & John Oates
# Rio - Duran Duran
# Mirage - Fleetwood Mac
# The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
# Shabooh Shoobah- Inxs
# Night and Day - Joe Jackson
# Thriller - Michael Jackson
# Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
# Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
# Coda - Led Zeppelin
# Business as Usual - Men at Work
# Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe (debut re-release)
# Ghost in the Machine - The Police
# 1999 - Prince
# Diver Down - Van Halen

Well got to get back to work. More later on Ignatius and music