Seems as though the years of innocence died once October of 1999 came along. My dad had become more abusive with me, and my mom - According to him - she had gotten too old, fat and ugly for him...something I learnt a year later of why he left her. - all the more reason to go out and find a wench whom was a mother of 4, right dad, you son of a bitch?! Meanwhile, my brother had become a father at the beginning of '99, my 5th grade year had begun like every other grade, but ended miserably...I no longer had a dad who'd come and get me, but my mom was left with most if not all the responsibility for me...until 2007 *sighs*
Well, in the music sense, my memories are all I have of what I was doing, where I was, who I was with and how old I was back then and the child I was...through music...
AC/DC: "Money Talks" was the first song I heard of this band while still a child. Between 6-7 years old is the most I remember it playing...despite the fact that more than 10 years later, I'd find out through research, that the album the song came off of, was released in 1990. AEROSMITH: "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is the first song I heard. I often recall hearing it while I was in the bathroom, doing my business...sometimes, I'd hear the vaccuum cleaner, nearby...which was something I was always scared of until I hit adolescence (the sound of a vaccuum cleaner) ALICE IN CHAINS: Although I'd hear them for the first time at 4-5 years old with the song called "Would?" playing on the radio while my dad would be driving to my beloved grandma's house, I didn't know - until 2001-2002 - (near his death) that it was Alice in Chains...same group I would hear 7 years later with "Get Born Again", as my grandparents had put on the rock station on my request - or my demand...while we were all driving back home from their vacation spot, same location as my parents'. My little cousin was with us at the time...and it was at night-time, as well. AXEL FOLEY: the theme song for a TV show I used to watch - "Beverly Hills Cop" - with my mom and her sister and their mother...only bits and pieces of it, as it had certain parts I was told not to watch. BILLY IDOL: Primarily, "Rebel Yell" - the song I would learn later on in life - was the first song I heard him sing in all my life - as a 5-6 year old. Then, during 3rd grade, "White Wedding" took its debut in my own ears...as my brother would be riding around the town or back home, with me in the car. BLUE OYSTER CULT: "Don't Fear the Reaper" was first known to me as a child...I am often taken back to the days of early day-care moments. When we were all lined up to go outside, go to lunch or to the restroom, I'd see a little blonde girl with a wedge cut, on the sideline at the jacket rack, starting to cry...either the teacher got after her or one of the kids were picking on her. BUSH: "Glycerine" was a hit song for my ears in 1997-1998. I'd hear it on my both my parents' radios. COLLECTIVE SOUL: "World I Know" would be playing on the radio - by my dad or older brother while one or the other would be driving around. I was 9-10 years old when I first heard it. DEPECHE MODE: I listened to this while I was in 2nd grade, although my mom and I were in her vehicle, driving around. My older brother was with her, too. I remember listening to an album called 'Violator'. I thought it was so beautiful. DIRE STRAITS: "Money for Nothing" was most remembered played while my parents and older brother and I were riding around our vacation spot - mostly, over a bridge, crossing water...the ocean, if you may...my brother would taunt me that if I didn't behave, he'd throw me overboard where all the "Grandma Toby's" were waiting to eat me...(I was often scared of my mother's mom, whom was called Grandma. Toby...she had a dog named Toby). Later on, if not a year or a few more later, "Walk of Life" would be heard by me...mostly as I laid in bed at night...and believe it or not, I was scared of this song. To this day, I still am, although I'm less likely to start crying out. DON HENLEY: if not one song, which I learnt later would be "End of the Innocence", then the whole cassette would be playing on my mom's radio...End of the Innocence would be playing while my dad would be driving my mom to work, then my dad would head back home and feed me and take me to school...Pre-K. THE DOOBIE BROTHERS: I was very small when I first heard "Listen to the Music" on my mom's stereo...If I'm not mistaking, this was before 1991, when my mom, dad and older brother - and I, of course, lived in an apartment in Killeen, Texas when I was still a toddler...2-3 years old. ERIC and THE DOMINOES: "Layla" was the song I heard most of the time. The guitar solo had a resemblence to one of my older cousins on my mom's family...my godmother's daughter...she was a bit cold and stern with me, however...as an older cousin. ERIC JOHNSON: The only song from this solo artist was "Cliffs of Dover" I ever heard of, in all my life. The first time hearing it, with a good memory, was in my bedroom, when I had just woken up. It was bright outside...and for some odd reason, I thought of Christmas. EVERLAST: Spring and summer of 1999 was when I'd hear "What It's Like" come on in my room, while I was doing what I was around the same time I heard TLC's "Scrubs" - for the first time. I fell for it since it had an amazing guitar solo. FOREIGNER: I was at my dad's sister's house - my dad's first little sister - and "I've Been Waiting for A Girl Like You" came on, on her radio. I was 3-4 years old. GENESIS: while we'd be riding home on our way back from our vacation spot 3 hours south, during every summer, I recall hearing a song called "One More Night" play on my mom's radio...if not a song with a more upbeat sound - most memoriable during my 3rd-4th grade years. GODSMACK: "Whatever", a song by the unknown band to me, at the time, would be blaring through the living room stereo as I'd be brushing my hair in the mirror in the hallway, after getting out of a shower, washing off the sand and ocean-water, from returning from the beach with my family...most during my 10th-11th years. GREEN DAY: When my dad would pick me up from school, we'd drive around the town - sometimes, he'd pick my brother up from school and we'd all drive around together...between "Basket Case", "When I Come Around" and "Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)", which would come on and I'd sing it out the best of my ability, they were the first songs I was listening to....by whom was found out years later. HARRY SIMEONE CHOIR: 2nd grade, Fall/Winter of 1996. During some of the days at school, while doing my class-work, along with the other students, I'd hear "Little Drummer Boy" come on the teacher's radio. The female voices reminded me of my grandma so much, I thought of her as much if not more so than I had done, naturally. NIGHT DIVINE(HOME ALONE VERSION): Ever since I was 5, this movie had been known to me. The song playing during the scene when Macaulay Culkin is walking home, coming across a church, the song 'Night Divine', sung by a children's pagant choir is being sung. I never knew of this song until I became an adolescent, as I took a very deep liking to it; it sometimes had me seemingly lovestruck or in tears. JIMI HENDRIX: I was 5-6-7 years old when I heard this group's song "Foxy Lady" on my dad's truck's radio, as my introduction to them, although I would find out later whom it was. This song was playing around the moment my dad was dropping me off at my godmother's house...something he always or frequently did when he and my mom had to go to work... KANSAS: A friend of my mom's had requested permission to have me come over to her house with her and her husband, with whom they had a child of their own - a girl, not even a year old, named Brianna Miller...she was strapped in her car-seat at that time. I had been strapped in my own car seat, sitting behind my mom's friend's husband. On the way over, "Point of No Return" was playing on the radio. I was 4-5 years old. LED ZEPPELIN: Living with my godmother - my aunt's sister at the time, at 2-3 years, I remember it being a family gathering since I saw my grandma there, although I don't recall my mom, dad or brother being there. The guitar solo to "Dancing Days", which had been playing, at that moment, fitted my maternal grandma for some odd reason. LIMP BIZKIT: I was in my brother's car when I heard 'Re-Arranged' play on his radio. I thought it was Everlast. MATCHBOX 20: Songs like "3AM", "Real World" and "Back 2 Good" were not only an introduction to Matchbox, but were also my favorites. I'd hear them on my radio at night as I'd fall asleep or on the car stereos during my 3rd and 4th grade years. METALLICA: Whenever I'd hear this most memoriable band, even as a young child, "Wherever I May Roam" would often play on the radio - mostly in front of my dad. NAZARETH: In my parents' vehicle when I was still a toddler. I think of my uncle - 19 years older than me, when I'd hear "Hair of the Dog". The middle section of the song, male voice making a funny sound had made me laugh. Nowadays, listening to that part, I just smile. NIRVANA: In between hearing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come as You Are", they were both introductions to a band that would disband 3 years after these songs made their hit...and "Teen Spirit" was most memoriable to me as I'd think weirdly of some guy, dressed from head to toe all in black, even his head had been covered in a ski-mask hood...without his face covered...he'd kill himself with a knife..."Come as You Are" often had me think of my days at the day care I went to after school...in a more sad way as I was picked on as much over there as I had been at my elementary school. P. DIDDY: I recall during my 9th-10th year of life, after recently fracturing my left arm, my brother took care of me...but during one of our rides around town, "I'll be Missing You" was playing on the radio. I sometimes would sing or hum along as my brother would also PEARL JAM: Although I'd hear the songs off of their debut album released in 1991 as a young child, I'd hear them again on my godmother's radio at my grandma's house in 1999...my mom's family. The song that had been playing, during that early morning, was "Black"...one of the songs off of their debut album. PINK FLOYD: Riding around at night with my parents and older brother, I'd hear this song called "What Do You Want From Me?" playing...it was sometimes followed by another song I would find out 11 years later - "Take it Back"...both of several others came off Division Bell. I'd sometimes hear the primary track(What You Want From Me?) playing on my parents' stereo in the next room, in the morning...when it was time to get ready for school. I was 5-6 years old when I first heard of them. THE POLICE: "Message in A Bottle" would be playing on the radio in my parents' bedroom while I'd be laying in bed, trying to get some sleep. I was 4-5-6 years old when I first heard it. ROB ZOMBIE: "Dragula" was the introduction to this group I knew since then. Especially whenever my mom, dad, brother and I would vacate during the summer at our spot during the years of 1997-1999. SADE: 4-5 years old. "No Ordinary Love" would come on and play on my parents' stereo while I'd be sleeping. SARAH MCLACHLAN: Around 9-10 years old. The first song I head was "I Will Remember You" while I was in my room...during the summer days. THE SCORPIONS: "Still Loving You" would come on the radio when I was around 9-10 years old, when I first memorized it in my head...though I hated it when my mom would sing it. It was ironic that the first song I ever heard them play on my mom's stereo as young as almost 2 or 3, was "Wind of Change" while I was playing with my toys on the sofa. I looked up at my mom for some odd reason when it would play, although I would find out it was this same band years later when I'd be a teenager. SHERYL CROW: I was around 10-11 years old when I heard "My Favorite Mistake" on my radio...in my room, obviously. SMASHING PUMPKINS: In between hearing "Zero", "Disarm" and "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", all three of them were my introduction to this band...mostly at 10. SNOOP DOGG: Like I had reminisced in my previous blog, I had heard "Gin and Juice" mostly during the summer of 1994 - as my mom and dad were searching for a parking spot on the beach. My older brother was obviously with us...neither of my parents liked rap or hip-hop. SOUNDGARDEN: Age 4, 1992...Around the same time when I first heard an unknown song by an unknown band("Would?" by Alice in Chains) on my dad's radio. It happened again, this time with a song I would learn, years later, would be "Outshined". Ironically, this song was also playing while my dad and I, once again, were en route to my beloved grandma's house. STEELY DAN: I'd hear "Do It Again" at 5-6-7 years old while I was in the shower. STING: Alongside hearing Pink Floyd's What Do You Want From Me? while my parents were driving around at night - in my pajamas, along with my brother, I'd hear "Fields of Gold" playing. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS: The most memoriable song was "Creep", having frequently listened to it with my dad, while riding around in his car, him singing along to it when I was 10-11 years old...and little did I know that it was an actual reference to him and what he had become and what he used to be, as a family man...but I never knew who would play this song until years later (2009). T.L.C.: "No Scrubs" is most remembered playing in my room while I was either coloring in my coloring books or playing with my Barbie dolls, even at 11...during the spring and summer of 1999. TEARS FOR FEARS: Thinking it was Depeche Mode because of the lead singer's voice, the song 'Shout' was much like Depeche Mode's. I was still in 2nd grade when I first heard of this song. TEMPLE OF THE DOG: The lyrics "I'm going hungry" would often have me singing along to it...little did I know it was called "Hunger Strike". It'd be playing on my mom's radio in the year of 1998-1999...the most memoriable time of my life, as I often thought of my dad's younger sister at that time. TOM PETTY: I would hear "Breakdown" on the radio in my parents' vehicle...I was 4-5 years old when I first heard of it. I was always thinking about my paternal grandma picking me up from the day care I went to after school. TONIC: I'd be trying to get some sleep while I heard 'The Way' play on my radio during my 3rd grade year. U2: "New Year's Day" was the first song I'd hear of this band...at the tender age of 5-6. I'd be at my grandma's house(the one I was more afraid of) when I'd hear this song play on the radio nearby...my parents and older brother were visiting with her at that time. VAN HALEM: The first song I heard this band play was surprisingly "Why Can't This Be Love?" play in my parents' bedroom...I was around 5 when I first heard that song...Ever since, however, it's one song I WILL NOT listen to as it scares the living hell out of me...gives me goosebumps, but as a younger child, it scared me enough that I would howl in tears... VANESSA WILLIAMS: Within 5, 6, 7 years of age, while trying to get some sleep in my room, I'd hear this song - I would learn later, called 'Save the Best for Last' on the stereo in my parents' bedroom. This sometimes put me to sleep. THE WALLFLOWERS: Around the same time I'd hear 'Basket Case', 'Good Riddnace' or 'When I Come Around', was also the same time I'd hear "One Headlight"...although I never knew the song or the band playing the song. WHEN IN ROME: After taking my shower, during the summer between my 3rd grade and 4th grade years I would hear "The Promise" come on as I'd be getting dressed...more so when I was left alone during the summer while both my parents and older brother were at work. WU-TANG CLAN: Although I was initially introduced to this band at age 4-5 with "Da Mystery of Chessboxin' ", I stayed away from that song as it had a gunshot firing in the middle of the song...but by my 3rd grade year. My brother would pick me up from school on some occasions and as we'd be riding back home or around town, the band would be playing on his radio...I was somewhat brave enough to not get scared of "Mystery of Chessboxin' " by that time
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