Music has always been very important to me. I can associate music, literally, with every phase, event, memory, adventure and milestone of my life.
And listening to music tonight for the first time in about a week (which is a long time, but I've been sick) a song popped up in my playlist that reminded me of the time in my life when I really started to consider my sexuality and what 'turned me on.' And there is one album in particular that was very formative to this, uhhh, development.
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Couldn't find an audio clip for this song, but it was one of my favorites from the album...this is a great live version:
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And it got me to wondering about the other folks here at TFP, and I thought, boy, there'd probably be a lot of interesting submissions to a thread like this. I think many of as adolescents used music to initiate us to the sexual experience. I know I did. I know that my fascination as a pre-teen and adolescent with Mick Jagger, David Bowie and others were formative influences in making me of the sexual personae that I am now.
Then The Pretenders debut album came along and all hell broke loose, lol. The year was 1980. I was 15 years old. And even though I wasn't a virgin, that's almost irrelevant. It was hearing Chrissie Hynde take charge of her femininity and her sexuality that inspired my initiation with my own sexual self.
But, blah, blah, blah...what albums really turned you on as an adolescent?
I think this could be a really interesting thread...if for nothing else than another resource for gathering new ideas for music to add to my library, lol.
Come on, tell me.
This one, too, again...1980. It was a very good year.
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1981...the follow-up album, I was rockin' and rollin'...oh, the memories, oh, the sweet, scandalous memories...
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