Geils Band Freeze Frame (1981), and Olivia Newton-John’s Olivia’s Greatest Hits Vol. Before year’s end, I would also have John Cougar’s American Fool (1982), J. I’d already bought Styx Cornerstone (1979) and the Xanadu soundtrack (1980) on tape and now, with six new titles in my collection, I was well on my way toward this newer medium surpassing the old. Now I was beginning my transition from eight track to cassette. I’d started my music collection three years earlier with the K-Tel compilation High Energy (1979) on eight track. I believe Nic took on the responsibility of mailing in the cards and I think he only got stuck once with the automatically mailed album. My friend Nic and I decided to jump into the venture together, each getting half the albums and therefore only spending half as much money. The catch was they would automatically send an album each month if you didn’t specifically refuse it, sticking some people with albums they didn’t want.
Anyone from my generation should remember the omnipresent ads in magazines to buy 13 albums for a dollar, sometimes a penny, under the agreement that you bought X number more albums over the next few years. To what did I owe this new treasure trove? Columbia House’s Record and Tape Club. Queen Greatest Hits (compilation: 1973-81, released 1981).Air Supply The One That You Love (1981).Actually, it would be more appropriate to call it “newly acquired music” as the six new albums in my collection were all at least nine months old:
However, within the week I revamped it and I was on my way to more than a decade’s worth of creating weekly personal song charts.īy that second week, I was hit by an influx of “new” music. I’d listened to a local radio station’s countdown of the hits of the summer and decided to create my own list of all-time favorites. I was very much a slave to whatever was popular at the time, but my tastes were starting to shift from more middle-of-the-road artists like John Denver, Neil Diamond, and Barry Manilow to more rock-oriented fare like Journey, Queen, and Styx.Ī week before, I’d put together my very first personal song chart. Arguably, there is no more significant time for musical discovery. I was 15 years old and had just started my sophomore year in high school.
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