Tag: firsts
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Song 74: First Concert
[Robert Simpson, Limited Store Window Montreal 1936] “First… and then” by Handsome Boy Modeling School I didn’t go to concerts until I was in college. Across from my room was a triple room with three guys. One was a nice enough guy (now a doctor), a Frenchman (still one of my best friends), and a… Read more
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Song 73: First Album I Took From My Sister’s Music Collection That I Secretly Really Loved
“Eternal Flame” the Bangles Phong: The funny thing about being the younger sibling is that particular age where you don’t really have your own stuff besides like toys, but your older sister had many fancy things. (I never did get a pager.) And thus eventually you would rationalize that as long as she wasn’t in… Read more
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Song 72: First Song Downloaded Off Napster
“Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots Phong: I love thinking about Napster in retrospect because I was completely unaware that I was in an era of digital upheaval. In some ways, I was a model participant: finding Napster, getting a CD burner, making custom labels off a stolen version of Photoshop. (You could argue… Read more
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Song 71: First Purchased Compact Disc
“I Will Buy You a Brand New Life” by Everclear Phong: When walking down aisles of CDs and cassette tapes, there’s that distinct and wonderful pang of recognizing an artist from off the radio. If they were really popular, you could even recognize a few songs off the track list. But usually it was just… Read more
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Song 70: First Music Video
“Take on Me” by A-ha Phong: If I would have built a time machine when I was a kid for an older me to find, it would have contained Lego bricks, the book “The Stinky Cheese Man,” and the music video for A-ha’s “Take on Me.” The blending of pencil rendered animation and live-action shots… Read more
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Assignment 15: But first…
Name: Phong Tran Place: Los Angeles, CA (sort of) Your relationship to music: Listener Industry: UX Design http://phonghtran.com/ I caught Phong before he left Los Angeles and embarked on a world tour before picking a new city to live and work in. I have been following his adventures via instagram with these flipbook stories that are… Read more
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Song 59: First activist calling
“Suggestion” by Fugazi When I was 15, I fell in love for the first time. I met my boyfriend in a summer writing program, and we finally kissed right before he got sent off to a disciplinarian boarding school along with all of my best male friends. We wrote letters to each other every day,… Read more
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Song 58 : First understanding of performance art/art rock
[Still from music video for the song “This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)”] “This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)” – Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel (So [second album release and CD]) Luckily, just after Philip Glass showed me that the floor could come out from under me, a new wave radio station arose in my… Read more
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Song 57: The first time music overwhelmed me with emotion
“Koyaanisqatsi” – Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi motion picture soundtrack) I wasn’t even 10 years old yet when I saw this film in the theater with my family. I don’t think any of us knew what was coming. If you never saw it, Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out Of Balance was a scriptless film scored by Philip Glass. The… Read more
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Song 56: First comedy/satire in music
“Hello Mabel” – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Written by Holly Where do I begin with the Bonzos? If you had hippie/artist/subversive parents like mine, you would know this is a great band for kids. But they also gave us picture books by Eugene Ionesco, so I don’t know if all parents would agree. It… Read more
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