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preahko

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  1. Okay, so one of my regular pleasure-reading websites is The Onion's AV Club, lots of interesting pop culture commentary on music, film, etc. (and, unlike the regular "Onion," actually based in reality, haha)... They have these regular "Staff Q&A" features, which are sometimes quite interesting, and the latest was something to the effect of "what was your earliest memory of a favorite pop song?" Now, I was born in 1959 (I know, a mere babe compared to lots of you guys, hahaha), and the majority of AV Club staffers were born in the early 80s (at best); the comments on the original article (always at least half the fun) are mostly from kiddies born late 80s to early 90s, yaaaawn... Also, note in advance that the vast majority of the regular AV Club readers/commenters fall strongly into the "hipster douchebag" category... So, I put the question to you august gentlemen: what is your first memory of a pop song that you got really excited about? First of all, here's the Onion AV/Club Article to which I refer: Link ...and to get things started, here's mine: My first clear memories of pop songs were early 60s things I heard on the radio in my dad's car, stuff like Petula Clark's "Downtown," Roger Miller's "King of the Road" and "Watching All the Girls Go By" by whomever did that (too lazy to Google it)... Then at about age 9 or 10 I got into dancing to my dad's Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass records, feeling I was somehow "hip" (no, I'm NOT proud of this, haha)... But the first song I remember really "liking" (in terms of waiting anxiously for it to come on the radio, and learning all the lyrics and singing along) was the Dionne Warwick rendition of Bacharach's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"... In my defense, in the 70s I was into Alice Cooper and T. Rex, in the 80s, Sonic Youth and Scratch Acid, and by the 90s I was producing my own "dark ambient/noise," hahaha...
  2. Indeed. Demolished in early 2003, if memory serves...
  3. Hell, back then (and up until 2003 by my memory) even the Grace Hotel Coffee Shop was a great place to hang (and pick up girls) until 5 am...
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