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When I look back on my life, I often see memories intertwined with music. These are not favorites or most hated, but memories. What lies ahead is a timeline from the very beginning.

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What is the worst thing a young girl could ever ask for? A little brother. My sister has never forgiven my parents for this and it's the only caveat to her having a wonderful childhood.

Some of the earliest things I can think of, consist of me rummaging through her stuff, sniffing Strawberry Shortcake, and playing records on a small blue and white pinstriped record player. Thriller was one of the few I remember her owning, due in part to it being a law back then.

Oh the days before Michael Jackson was Michael Jackson. Vincent Price's voice, the seeds of Eddie being sown into my subconscious, and being confounded by why this Billie Jean would do such a thing. The image of that white suit, jheri curls, and a lion cub, will never leave me.

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Bring it on, DD.

I remember buying that album, too. Got it from the market for £5 in 1985, I think it was. I've listened to that albums dozens of times. Probably over a hundred, though I couldn't say it was in the hundreds.

It was either that or these little Disney read-a-long books with a 45 record.

It was the first LP that I owned. I had a couple of 45's and tapes, but this was the first LP. A couple of my brothers had their own copies. Theirs were the only ones that I could listen to when they were listening to them. And then my mom saw it at a rummage sale (I am assuming those people bought it just because everyone else seemed to buy it and then they didn't like it). She bought it for me and I listened to it all the time.

This might shock some people, but even I bought Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album. (If that doesn't prove that everyone had a copy of it, then I don't know what would. :shrug: )

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Thriller meant a lot to my early childhood. I was obsessed with the song, the music video, etc. I had my own cassette tape of Thriller and my parents had a tape and the LP. It might be one reason why I got into horror films at such an early age.

I was 14 when Thriller came out; it was bigger than anything I knew up to that point.

Whoops I didn't have a copy of it....true story...one of the first albums I bought as a kid was The Jackson 5 Greatest Hits.

You're the exception that proves the rule. ;)

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I'm very touched that you all purchased my album in the '80s. Thank you. :homealone:

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I'd say you're Sexy, but that avatar is too blurry. Sexy would not have that.

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Is this better? I am dead now, unfortunately. I was an early victim of the so-called "Sexy Curse."

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Much better.

Still too black. Also, welcome to MoFo ya noob.

Now that you're dead I can insult you all I want. ;)

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What a great idea for a thread DD :)

Always feel so much older than you guys when you talk about music more than films, but I remember being up with a crying baby watching the premiere of Thriller on tv. Fantastic it was. Still is.

I snuck downstairs to record it. :D It was midnight, people! I think it was a school night, too. Not sure about that.

Preschool was an interesting time in my life. Peer pressure was introduced in the form of the crayon eaters. I met a young lad who played with baby dolls, instead of the homoerotic He-Man figures that I adored. Always being confused why music time featured such tortuous beats as Camptown Races and the Hokie-Pokie. So many different things bombarding my tiny little mind.

In this sea of discovery and confusion, there was one constant. Everyday on the way to school, I would behoove my driver to play Elvira. I know what you're thinking...come on denim, cosplay wasn't really a thing back then. I know. I meant Elvira by the Oak Ridge Boys.

What about the other songs? Who cares. My heart was on fire for Elvira. I was mesmerized by what amounts to gibberish (which I was fluent in),

I didn't bother posting any audio, it's not as good as nostalgia.

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Here's a little trivia for our viewers at home...

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I love stories like this DD, great fun :D

BIG + rep for The Oak Ridge Boys :up:



You might want to add a smiley to that last line. (I assume you're joking about Phil Robertson and John Oates. :) )

When I was younger, cable was not a particular luxury my parents subscribed to. It was a mystical creature that inhabited my grandparents home and the houses of "cool kids".

What was the best thing about cable? MTV of course. The epicenter of youth culture, short of what was in Tiger Beat or shared over a phone with a 50 foot cord that was infested with knots. In case you were wondering what phones looked like back then...

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I had to plead with the guy behind the counter in the record shop to sell me a copy of Fight For Your Right. Same with Zodiac Mindwarp's Prime Mover. ;)

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Good thread DD. Beastie Boys and MJ were a big part of my elementary school days as well. I had to sneak listens in at friends houses thoigh. There would be none of that stuff infiltrsting the impressionable ears of my parents home. Fight For Your Right and Thriller seem to be something anyone that was between the age of five and twenty-five at the time remember fondly. Really influential songs.

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The tabloids went ******* crazy over The Beastie Boys. Seriously. Even the Beasties were like, WTF?

I can't stand The Beastie Boys now. I really wonder how they were so popular.

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Thanks christine. My writing abilities :tsk: are best suited for this, as opposed to coherent commentary.

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How good was your moonwalk?

Somebody else out there remembers Friday Night Videos!! I started to think I was the only one that even knew it existed. That definitely brought a smile to my face. :D

I remember that HK. Ridiculous!

It's great. You're making me smile, and that's a good thing!

Back before they were on the verge of owning everything in the world, Disney use to pump out made for t.v. movies. Sunday night would feature a wholesome experience for the whole family. :rolleyes: Each feature was awkwardly introduced by Michael Eisner and included such classics as I-Man, The Blue Yonder/ the Time Flyer, Mr. Boogedy, and the Last Electric Knight, featuring a young Ernie Reyes Jr as a fearless denim master.

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These were not to be missed events. If my busy schedule precluded me, a trusty sidekick, code name VCR, would save the day. Glorious grey plastic with a 30 foot corded remote. How much electrical tape was on the remote? At least a roll and a half.

I can remember bits and pieces here and there. I-Man had a cliche Benedict Arnold line, Mr. Boogedy had a green aura around him, and the only thing better than Ernie's double d, was his glowing electric blue headband.

For some reason, I remember one movie clearer than the rest . Help Wanted: Kids. This was a story of a husband and wife who hired two random kids they found walking the street, in order to appease the husband's boss.


There were moments such as, brownies for breakfast, dinosaur eggs hustlin', tension wrought potato sack races and the inevitable heartbreaking scene where the kids run away after having their hearts broken.

Featuring a resplendent montage of the kids on a bus, while the despondent parents searched for them. What song would be capable of conveying such emotion and heartbreak, soul-searching, and resolve at a time like this? None other than Mr. Mister's Broken Wings.

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awww that sounds like such a tearjerker! I've never heard of any of those. Maybe they never reached the UK shores.

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I doubt you missed anything. Some of them shouldn't have reached US shores.

I don't remember them either. My guess is that unless your local video store had them in a kids section (which was usually about 8 tapes if my local store was anything to go by) then we wouldn't have seen them. It's possibly they'd have shown up on kids tv during the longer holidays, but I don't remember them.

It's a great song, though. Thankfully I didn't need to know about the films to remember that song.

I vaguely remember the movie I-Man. I think it starred Scott Bakula.

Is that a young Chad Allen in that picture from Help Wanted: Kids?

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You're on top of it goodies.

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I think the Last Electric Knight got spun-off into Sidekicks, but I don't remember that show. My guess is that one would have been the most viable for other markets.

We did have our own cheaper version made by the old Childrens Film Foundation. Do you remember those HK? I don't know if Saturday morning pictures was still going when you were a kid, but they used to show them there, and sometimes in school and on tv too. A mixture of adventures, sci-fi, goodies and baddies. Funny descriptions here:

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A long hiatus on, this thread has been. I have not forgotten about it, but I had been trying to figure out my next selection...or anything else but this.

We all do things that we regert :o in life. Maybe a hairstyle, the clothes we swore would never go out of style, or joining that organic collective that really turned out to be a pagan cult :shrug:. This one takes the cake. Nothing ever can I remember reaching such a state of supernova in the colonial states. Have any ideas?

Of course it was that 1989 smash from the guy with a name from a short story. Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice's pop-culture blanket smothering, star of many a flea market and street vendor t-shirt hit song, Ice Ice Baby.

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Hip-hop had not yet conceived that it was going to be as widespread as it one day would. That makes this little gem even more special. This song and its album, holds or held every major sells record. Its influence on America was Eminem, before Eminem.

Like many things that reach such Olympian heights, the destruction was just as monumental. All of a sudden everybody hated Ice, he was a punk, glad Suge Knight did/didn't :suspicious: hold him over a balcony by his ankles. Funny how such a short while ago, every wanted a drop-top 5.ooooooh so their hair could blow.

All grammatical errors were intentional and meant as weak attempts at humor.

I think they'd stopped by my time, Christine. I certainly don't think there were any near me, anyway. It wasn't anything that anyone I knew went to or even knew existed as far as I know.

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If people think I don't take this place seriously, I do. I would have posted this in the personal pictures thread, but some might not appreciate it.



However, my awesome chest art needed to be documented.

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Awwwwww, requiescat in pace Tiny <3
Sorry about your granma too dd, hopefully they'll be resting in peace together - my thoughts are with you and yours.

Inspiringly heartbreaking.

Man, I'm sorry to hear about Granny. =\ I hope she was at peace in the end. To know the pup searched for her and then let go himself when he realized, man.... that's the stuff of poetry and tear-inducing novels. Terribly sweet, that. I'm glad that you were able to find a bit of glimmer there through the dark and a unique story to mark this time with an odd uplift when you need it down the road.

Thanks for sharing.

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Wow! Congratulations!

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Proud of you, DD. Slow and steady wins the race and such. Keep at it bubs.
Halfway or not, it's a major milestone marker, and a sandbar to rest on if ever the remaining swim seems far.

:)