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What is your first memory of music?

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My parents played music in the house literally since the day I was born. I suppose my first memory would be hearing the soundtrack from the Russian version of Pinocchio, called Buratino. That movie has excellent music, and apparently it was one of the few things that could calm me down as an infant... or so I'm told. Haha.
 
One of my earlier memories was my parents taking me to an outdoor Petra (some christian rock band, can't even remember what they sound like, but I know it was classic rock-ish) concert in a field in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere in 1989 probably. I was pretty young. After that... I dunno really. I don't have any single memorable moments. My dad worked at a radio station from the time I was born until I was nine or ten, and the station mostly played 90's rock a la Beck, Garbage, Bush, Ween, PJ Harvey, etc. I have one memory of hearing Loser come on the radio around '93 followed by an advertisement for some company that my dad had wrote/voiced. That happened a lot, and it was always kind of weird hearing him on the radio between songs. He was in sales/advertising for this station.

My parents never really learned any instruments, so I didn't begin to learn instruments until a little later life on my own accord
 
Tear for Fears, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones. Parents would listen to those a lot in long road trips when i was young. Can't complain!
 
I remember hearing the Beatles quite a bit when I was young (3-5 or so). My dad would play their music all the time at home using records and in the car on cassettes, radio, etc. yet I still have never cared for the group much.
 
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I think. I was 3 years old at the time.
 
Boy, umm.

I remember listening to The Beatles, like "Meet the Beatles" and "With the Beatles," Billy Joel, and especially Bruce Springsteen. That was from my dad. My mom was into Whitney Houston and Gloria Estefan.
 
Free Falling music video.

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Actually, it was probably the music to Metroid or Muppet babies but let's not count those.
 
Hmm. Well I've seen video of me listening and singing along to Disney sing-a-longs and cartoons when I was 2 or 3, and I know my parents always listened too Springsteen, but my own personal first memory is getting this at the age of 6 or 7:
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I didn't understand over half the lyrics, but I loved it back then.
 
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What can I say, I was blessed with a father who has great musical taste. He had this huge collection of vinyls. Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Zeppelin... you name it.
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Ditto :)
 
cool question!


my mother singing "you are my sunshine" after i woke up in the middle of the night from a really bad dream. it's weird, but I have a very vivid memory about this one night...and i remember i was young enough to still be held in the rocking chair.
so, like 15 :lol
 
Appetite for Destruction is my first really, my Dad played that all the time when I was really young and I love it to this day. Although in retrospect it's an odd album to play to your son, but I can't complain.
 
I played arpeggios on a piano in my aunts house (I was living with them at the time) when I was about 4 or 5.

I must've played other stuff but practicing basics with my aunt is what I remember most vividly.
 
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Michael Jackson, Beatles, 3 Dog Night. My mom smoked weed, so yeah. Music.
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At least somebody is approaching my age. But it was probably John Denver - Rocky Mountain High or James Taylor. Might have been the Beach Boys or the Mama's and Papas.
 
My dad playing 8-tracks of Jethro Tull when he and my uncle would hang out and the house would smell weird from their pipe smoke. And by weird I mean weed. Recently I was hanging out at a friends house listening to Tull and smoking a pipe and it all came flooding back. I must have been 4 at the time.

Life man, circles.
 
First? Not sure. One of the first had to be a Deutsche Grammophon Chopin compilation. Started a lifelong love affair with Tamas Vasary, I mean Chopin.
 
MetalAlien said:
I can clearly remember sleeping in a crib and exploring the house before I was able to walk.
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...I guess the earliest thing I remember is kindergarten. Mainly the classroom/school building. I mean, before that nothing. Maybe the car that we had for a while before I was in kindergarten, but we had that for a few years after which would make sense as to why I remember it. I can't really recall any events that took place that far back, just places really.
 
Alucrid said:
...I guess the earliest thing I remember is kindergarten. Mainly the classroom/school building. I mean, before that nothing. Maybe the car that we had for a while before I was in kindergarten, but we had that for a few years after which would make sense as to why I remember it. I can't really recall any events that took place that far back, just places really.
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Well I had to have a vapor machine under my crib, so the strong smell of that probably helped me retain it. Plus I was crawling around the house and saw an iron sitting on a towel. I remember wondering if it was hot. It was. So that probably helped me remember that. It surprises me that a baby who can't walk is still able to connect that something may be hot to a visual image like an iron.
 
Some new wave stuff. My dad always listened to a radio station that played leading-edge stuff back then.

Apparently, when I was a baby, I really dug Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London".
 
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time and the Axel Foley theme are 2 I distinctly remember from early childhood. First music video (and still probably the best) was Thriller.
 
If you mean earliest memory tied to a certain song that would be Led Zeppelin's 'In the Evening". My father and generally closest male relatives were all into '70s rock/early metal (Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc) so my earliest memories of music are all tied to good stuff.
 
For whatever reasons, Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street and Stevie Wonder's Superstition were part of a mixtape or on some reel that kept playing in my parent's house and I remember it as it blared out with a lot of distortion all over the house. I would like to think that I was about five given my understanding of our housing history and some smaller details about that memory. That would've placed the year to be 1978.
 
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Holy crap! We had that record!

I heard music constantly from day one. My mom was a big Motown fan and my dad listened to everything from Beatles and Beach Boys to Vanilla Fudge to Doc Sevrensen.

When I was still pretty young (5, maybe?), he walked into my room and handed me my first two non-kid records:

Chuck Berry and Fats Domino.
 
When I was 4 I had a dream that I was Elvis so his music is the earliest I remember. Later I found out that I was conceived the day that Elvis died.
 
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