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The Sex Pistols are a boy band? I didn't thik they had them in the seventies. Oh, except for, like, the Jacksons.
I'm afraid i used to pretend I knew who bands were ll the time, under the age of twenty. I am about to tell possibly my most embarrassing music story ever, worse even than swearing I knew who Nirvana were in 1991 when this cute boy I was staying with played me a cover of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (was it 1991? Sometime around then.) When I was twelve, I went on a kind of summer camp. This chick lent me her Walkman and inside it was Icehouse, Man of Colours. (This may mean nothing for non-Australians out there.) I had no idea who they were, but totally pretended to be a big fan. In fact, I had such a budding crush on this girl that I convinced myself I liked them. She sent me a tape of the album after the camp. By then, I think I'd realised that Icehouse wa trash.
That's right, I have one other embarrassing lying story. I was a little bit older and had a German penpal who I'd picked up through some weird penpal agency so I could 'practice my Geman'. Living in the country, I really didn't get exposed to much cool music, but I'd flip through the pages of, like, Rolling Stone and figure out which bands I'd like if I could listen to them. So I wrote her a letter listing my musical preferences: Public Enemy, De La Soul, the Smiths, the Cure, New Order, REM. Then I'd sneak a few bands I just liked the names of: Aztec Camera, Pet Shop Boys etc. I can't even write here what I was actually listening to at the time. Can't remember, for a start. |
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