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steve  ·  3547 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the first song you were "in to" as a kid that wasn't a "kids song?"

I was the 4th of 5 kids... so pop music was all around me from a young age... but this was the first 45 I ever bought and remains a favorite to this day:





steve  ·  3547 days ago  ·  link  ·  

a few years later, I remember hearing this on the radio:

and feverishly saving the $7.99 from my paper route to buy the album on cassette tape:

In my haste and excitement at the record store in the mall (the what in the what?) I bought the wrong CD:

which ended up being amazing because I loved this album as much more than the first one I intended to buy. Favorite track from this album:

It was a few more years before I realized Squeeze had several big hits which I had NEVER HEARD. ahhh youth.