❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album
(It's 2AM here!)

We were just kids, me and my brother, when we arrived in Sweden.

Our lives had been turned upside down, we didn't speak Swedish, we barely understood English, and SFI (Svenska för invandrare, Swedish for immigrants) classes didn't have a Lao translator. We retreated into ourselves, formed a co-dependence that weren't exactly healthy. We still had to attend school, even though we couldn't understand a word being said, and the curriculum being far more advanced than we were used to.

But eventually we made friends. Kids don't need words to communicate... It's a wonder, really. We were invited over to their houses, and with that we were introduced to levels of luxury and culture we couldn't fathom. One of our friends had an older brother; he liked rap and hip hop, and played some for us.

It's like something exploded inside of us. The beats, the emotions, the absolute alien tunes blasting from the speakers. We were transfixed. It was incredible. It made you want to scream, to move, to dance. One of the albums he played was a double-feature, Book One and Book Two.

The album was 2Pac's All Eyez On Me. He was gracious enough to let us borrow one of the tapes, Book Two, and a Walkman. We played that tape until it wore out, learning English, learning to love music...
(Pencil's at the ready. If you know, you know.)

2Pac - Can't C Me
(Opening track of Book Two)

Oh, I have missed your stories...
 
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album


Harborcoat - R.E.M.
this doesn't just open their 2nd album, Reckoning, it opens up dreams for me. I had heard a song on the radio a couple of weeks earlier, the first time i had actually heard this band... I bought the single (So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)) and then found another single a few days later... i knew they had an album, so went to buy that. So far I had only heard slowish songs... the store had a note saying that this was their 2nd album, it had been released that day, so i left Murmur and went home with Reckoning... I lowered the stylus and turned up the am and THIS came out. Life was never the same again.
I was lucky to see them do this live in '85 and later they said they'd never do it again, the lyrics were too weird (Mills is singing a completely different song to Stipe, essentially). In the early 2000s they did some "live rehearsal" gigs in Dublin and i went to one... they played this. My friend and I screamed with joy and hugged each other and then danced about.
It's about Anne Frank (apparently)
 
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album

I have so many stories about this album. I got it the year it came out. My mom bought it for me because I believe it had a parental advisory sticker if I'm not mistaken. I put it in the little CD player we had at the time in the living room and this song was looooooud! I loved it! My mom was like, "I'm so sorry. I didn't know this album was going to be so loud." I was not mad at all. 😆

Back when you could put CDs in cars... I would forget to turn down the volume and the CD player off before turning the car off. This song at high volume when you turn your car on could wake you up and scare the crap out of you. 😅

Side story... does anybody remember NBC doing a television movie with Shannen Doherty (Friends 'till The End) and they used at least one Cranberries song? Shannen lipsynced it. So bizarre! 😜

Hollywood - Cranberries

 
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album

I swiped this album from my older sister when it came out, and it has been a favorite ever since. Right from the first song, Magic Man... they melted my little brain. Soooo cool! Ann and Nancy Wilson have been an inspiration for me ever since. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Heart - Magic Man
 
Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album

This went a little long, and I didn't want another wall of text, so I recorded it.

https://voca.ro/19VYAtp1ly1O

"Secondhand News," Fleetwood Mac


I am self-reporting. I mention another song that which doesn't fit the prompt, but still violates The One Rule. (I will accept a spanking rather than rerecording that all).


Unless someone else wants to spank me...
 
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Day 23: A song you love that's an opening track of an album

I swiped this album from my older sister when it came out, and it has been a favorite ever since. Right from the first song, Magic Man... they melted my little brain. Soooo cool! Ann and Nancy Wilson have been an inspiration for me ever since. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Heart - Magic Man
Just like you to swipe something from your sister!
 
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