Skeletonframes
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August 20 - Radio Day - Play an album that you discovered because of radio.
RUN DMC - Raising Hell
It's a tale as old as television, the misguided youth has trouble in school and is sent to live with relatives in a "safer" neighborhood where they will be able to focus more on school and the future without the distractions of the inner city. In our family's case it was my aunt who was about 7 years older than my sister and I that came to live with us because she was getting in trouble in her Detroit school. She brought with her a group of friends that were "old enough" to buy beer even though they were teenagers (still not entirely sure how that worked), lots of leather jackets, cigarettes, swearing...and knowledge of more than just the local country station or old rock records under the cabinet in the living room. They played the radio during every waking hour. It switched mostly between a station that played the newest rap hits and a station that played the music that made teenagers commit satanic sacrifice most heinous (according to the news of the day).
I remember sneaking downstairs when her friends were over and hearing songs from RUN DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, The Fat Boys and the like playing on the radio from behind the closed door of her room. I had no idea what happened behind that door. It was a world of foreign words, sounds, and cues for laughter. "Why was the number 69 so funny?" It seemed like they were a completely different species of human to my 7 yr old brain. I needed to study the creatures ceaselessly in order to figure out the inner workings of them and this "heavy metal" and "rap" music they listened to. I never figured em out. Even after growing to be their age and older, I still think of those long-haired, leather clad teenagers of the 80's to be of some alien origin.
the turntables might wobble but they don't fall down
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RUN DMC - Raising Hell
It's a tale as old as television, the misguided youth has trouble in school and is sent to live with relatives in a "safer" neighborhood where they will be able to focus more on school and the future without the distractions of the inner city. In our family's case it was my aunt who was about 7 years older than my sister and I that came to live with us because she was getting in trouble in her Detroit school. She brought with her a group of friends that were "old enough" to buy beer even though they were teenagers (still not entirely sure how that worked), lots of leather jackets, cigarettes, swearing...and knowledge of more than just the local country station or old rock records under the cabinet in the living room. They played the radio during every waking hour. It switched mostly between a station that played the newest rap hits and a station that played the music that made teenagers commit satanic sacrifice most heinous (according to the news of the day).
I remember sneaking downstairs when her friends were over and hearing songs from RUN DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, The Fat Boys and the like playing on the radio from behind the closed door of her room. I had no idea what happened behind that door. It was a world of foreign words, sounds, and cues for laughter. "Why was the number 69 so funny?" It seemed like they were a completely different species of human to my 7 yr old brain. I needed to study the creatures ceaselessly in order to figure out the inner workings of them and this "heavy metal" and "rap" music they listened to. I never figured em out. Even after growing to be their age and older, I still think of those long-haired, leather clad teenagers of the 80's to be of some alien origin.
the turntables might wobble but they don't fall down
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