MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
1: The first time I heard U2: My Uncle's house in NJ. 1983.
MTV played lots of videos at that time. I remember seeing SBS.
I think I was 10 or 11 at the time. Really dug it. At least I think
I did, cause I remember it.
2: Pride(In The Name Of Love): On the school bus. 1984.
Bus 5 had a driver who played I95 on her radio. Pride was played
alot. I remember it very clearly. Pride wasn't the first record I ever
bought, but it was the first 45 I bought. IWF (live) was the B-side.
3: The Joshua Tree: Broadview Jr High School. 1987.
I won "Spanish Student Of The Month", and got a $10 certificate
to "Record Town." Bought JT. And listened to religiously on my
first cassette walkman. To school. In school. Home from school.
Blew my frick'in mind!
4: Achtung Baby: Marist College. 1991.
101.5 WPDH played the whole record 2 weeks before release. We
had the dual cassette deck on the job. There were no mass internet
leaks of records in 1991. This was how stations broke records. Me
and Mac, in his dorm room. Smoking a GIANT spliff. The second
it ended, we hit rewind and listened to the whole thing again.
Blew my frick'in mind!
5: Zooropa: My parents pool deck. 1993.
Scanned through the whole thing. Hated it. Later that day I was
cleaning the pool. Listened to the whole thing all the way through.
Turns out I didn't scan far enough into Zooropa. "And I Have No
Compass" blasted from the boom-box. I remember thinking "yes!"
6: Pop: Virgin Mega Store, Times Square. 1997.
Midnight sale. Long line. They played the record while we waited
for the sale to start. Gone gave me a boner. The store had giant
video screens playing a promo film along with the record. WUDM
was playing and I remember those giant wah guitar bend's Edge
plays at the end of the song.
7: Beautiful Day: Hampton Bays, NY. 2000.
I was helping clean out our communal 20 person summer rental,
when 92.7 WDRE announced they’ed be playing the new U2 song
in 1 hour. I stopped cleaning and got my minidisc boombox ready
to record it.
Got it.
Drove all the way back to the Bronx listening to it 20 or 30 times.
Volume maxed.
Che is a patient girl.
8: ATYCLB: Tarrytown, NY. Bro's Apt. 2000.
My brother and I have been fans forever. One day he got the ATYCLB
leak and gave me an excited ring, and I drove up to his place (fast). I
remember cracking beers and hearing Kite, Walk On, Wild Honey, and
NY for the first time and just grinning. Then doing the whole thing over,
and over.
MTV played lots of videos at that time. I remember seeing SBS.
I think I was 10 or 11 at the time. Really dug it. At least I think
I did, cause I remember it.
2: Pride(In The Name Of Love): On the school bus. 1984.
Bus 5 had a driver who played I95 on her radio. Pride was played
alot. I remember it very clearly. Pride wasn't the first record I ever
bought, but it was the first 45 I bought. IWF (live) was the B-side.
3: The Joshua Tree: Broadview Jr High School. 1987.
I won "Spanish Student Of The Month", and got a $10 certificate
to "Record Town." Bought JT. And listened to religiously on my
first cassette walkman. To school. In school. Home from school.
Blew my frick'in mind!
4: Achtung Baby: Marist College. 1991.
101.5 WPDH played the whole record 2 weeks before release. We
had the dual cassette deck on the job. There were no mass internet
leaks of records in 1991. This was how stations broke records. Me
and Mac, in his dorm room. Smoking a GIANT spliff. The second
it ended, we hit rewind and listened to the whole thing again.
Blew my frick'in mind!
5: Zooropa: My parents pool deck. 1993.
Scanned through the whole thing. Hated it. Later that day I was
cleaning the pool. Listened to the whole thing all the way through.
Turns out I didn't scan far enough into Zooropa. "And I Have No
Compass" blasted from the boom-box. I remember thinking "yes!"
6: Pop: Virgin Mega Store, Times Square. 1997.
Midnight sale. Long line. They played the record while we waited
for the sale to start. Gone gave me a boner. The store had giant
video screens playing a promo film along with the record. WUDM
was playing and I remember those giant wah guitar bend's Edge
plays at the end of the song.
7: Beautiful Day: Hampton Bays, NY. 2000.
I was helping clean out our communal 20 person summer rental,
when 92.7 WDRE announced they’ed be playing the new U2 song
in 1 hour. I stopped cleaning and got my minidisc boombox ready
to record it.
Got it.
Drove all the way back to the Bronx listening to it 20 or 30 times.
Volume maxed.
Che is a patient girl.
8: ATYCLB: Tarrytown, NY. Bro's Apt. 2000.
My brother and I have been fans forever. One day he got the ATYCLB
leak and gave me an excited ring, and I drove up to his place (fast). I
remember cracking beers and hearing Kite, Walk On, Wild Honey, and
NY for the first time and just grinning. Then doing the whole thing over,
and over.