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msilverstar replied to your post “Aran
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msilverstar replied to your post “Aran jumpers”
You never forget the songs you learned as a teenager!
IDK, it’s funny– i can’t remember which songs I learned when, and a lot of them I’ve forgotten some of the verses, but a few of the songs I know the whole fuckin thing from start to finish.
I was listening at work to the first Chieftains album, which I didn’t think I’d heard before, and I had not heard it start to finish in its entirety ever, but I knew every single song, but I did not know any of the titles. It brought up a very dim recollection of, perhaps, a cassette tape, from which the label had come unstuck, and my father’s spidery handwriting on the case insert, and during one of the songs in particular I had like a visceral moment of astonishment when it did not suddenly stop in the middle with a pop of a tape reaching its end. Dad definitely had dubbed the album onto a cassette and then his brother had stolen the LP, that’s absolutely the situation. I never heard the LP.
Weird what stuff kind of hooks its way into your brain before you have context, and is there as an establishing base layer but isn’t connected to any of the later stuff so it never comes up in your daily life, but something reminds you and you’re ten and sitting by the hi-fi in the living room trying to read the misspelled Gaelic in your dad’s terrible handwriting and not having any clue where any of this fits into the wider world.
And I know the Clancy Brothers mostly now as hokey pub standards nobody pays much attention to but it’s worth noting their first album was raw as fuck.
[alas, dad’s brother stole the original version which was never rereleased; all you can get now is the 1959 re-record. if i could find an original dad would be delighted but i am not a record collector type. and no dad didn’t have the tape; he’d bought the re-recorded version eventually.]
msilverstar replied to your post “Aran jumpers”
You never forget the songs you learned as a teenager!
IDK, it’s funny– i can’t remember which songs I learned when, and a lot of them I’ve forgotten some of the verses, but a few of the songs I know the whole fuckin thing from start to finish.
I was listening at work to the first Chieftains album, which I didn’t think I’d heard before, and I had not heard it start to finish in its entirety ever, but I knew every single song, but I did not know any of the titles. It brought up a very dim recollection of, perhaps, a cassette tape, from which the label had come unstuck, and my father’s spidery handwriting on the case insert, and during one of the songs in particular I had like a visceral moment of astonishment when it did not suddenly stop in the middle with a pop of a tape reaching its end. Dad definitely had dubbed the album onto a cassette and then his brother had stolen the LP, that’s absolutely the situation. I never heard the LP.
Weird what stuff kind of hooks its way into your brain before you have context, and is there as an establishing base layer but isn’t connected to any of the later stuff so it never comes up in your daily life, but something reminds you and you’re ten and sitting by the hi-fi in the living room trying to read the misspelled Gaelic in your dad’s terrible handwriting and not having any clue where any of this fits into the wider world.
And I know the Clancy Brothers mostly now as hokey pub standards nobody pays much attention to but it’s worth noting their first album was raw as fuck.
[alas, dad’s brother stole the original version which was never rereleased; all you can get now is the 1959 re-record. if i could find an original dad would be delighted but i am not a record collector type. and no dad didn’t have the tape; he’d bought the re-recorded version eventually.]
