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By *tephTV67 OP TV/TS
over a year ago
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When I was a teenager, I thought of myself as a freak for my desire to cross dress. There wasn't anything cool about being a Transvestite, even Sinnita sung 'don't want a boy who thinks he's a girl'.
Then one day it happened, a cool song had a cool lyric...
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
No longer was I a freak but someone who walks on the wild side. Thanks Lou Reed
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'Waterfall' and 'This Is The One' by the Stone Roses would be the two songs that flipped the switch in me. In fact, that whole album changed my life. Growing up I was always a bit of an outsider and had trouble mixing and connecting with others (I'm still very much the same now). Consequently I spent a lot of my early childhood in my own little world, with way too much time spent alone with only my own thoughts for company. Not that I was really pondering all that too much at the time of course. It was just the way things were. You don't always realise just how dark things have become until someone comes along and flicks the light on.
Then one day when I was about 12 my sister gave me a tape of the Stone Roses first album and it hit me like a comet from a dark sky. I felt an immediate kinship. It felt not only like I'd discovered something real for the first time in my life, something that I felt a deep personal connection with but it also felt like someone had finally found me. It spoke to me in a voice and a language I had never heard before but I found I understood it completely. Here were songs that articulated what I was feeling and what I wanted to say but couldn't. I guess it made me realise I wasn't quite as alone or as cast off as I thought I was, that there were others out there with similar voices to mine. |
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Say something by Christina Aguilera. Was going through a very messy break up, had been to a funeral of a colleague one day and that song came on spotify, not sure what happened but was like the fog had cleared and I could think properly. We were over days later |
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The whole northern soul genre hit me like a brick aged about 12 when everyone my age was into pop shite.
Stayed with me and I still attend allnighters collect records and have 1001 tales to tell.
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One by Metallica, a schoolfriend played it for me on cassette back in 87, it turned me into heavy metal, changed my direction in life and because of metal music I met my wife, did make me an outcast in school though. |
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