First memory of liking a song that just had a good beat and percussion sounds and kept repeating it over and over again that went on forever without that verse chorus verse bullshit

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Ralph MacDonald "Calypso Breakdown" from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Either that or Donna Summer's "I Feel Love".

My grandparents had this godawful brown wood finished stereo system thing in the living room that was heavy and had the speakers built in.. It acted like a large heavy table where you opened the top to get to the goods. Inside, tt had a turntable, a tuner, and an eight track. I would be playing the SNF 8-track all the time having to wait the 15 minutes to reloop every time so i could get to that "Calypso Breakdown" song. (See, I'm an old man, there was once a prominently promoted medium that lacked random access) We had an African Grey parrot in the living room (named "Trouble" because it was really mean and would bite all of us) that would be dancing to this soundtrack all the time because i would play nothing else, and my family loved it too. (I was around 7 years old)

Trouble has since passed away around 5 years. rest in peace, feisty bird. (This bird was once responsible for "accidentally" grabbing a phone receiver while I was on the phone with Mr. Raggett and starting punching buttons, cussing and squawing)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Talkative little bastard, that bird.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never ever liked that kind of "song" and never will. Good music should always have a melody in a traditional way, or it isn't even music.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus fucking christ on a goddamn crutch, it IS 1996.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

mine was probably "Join in the Chant" by Nitzer Ebb.
it was 5 or 6 years ago and napster was all the rage. I was going through my goth/industrial phase and the local record store didn't have anything by this Nitzer Ebb (i was curious purely because their name reminded me off Einsturzende Neubauten) so i log onto Napster with my highspeed 56k modem and the only search result that comes up is "join in the chant" (forgettable mix). it takes about an hour to download, but i finally get it and am sorely disappointed. the song somehow makes its way onto my winamp (complete with kickass KMFDM skins!!) playlist and i get used to hearing it while making fun of people's horrible grammar in the AOL Smashing Pumpkins chat room. it slowly grew on me and now i love the song and insist it's the best thing NE have done.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS is the guy you compared me to?! For godsakes, I was hardly this insufferable.

― ddrake, Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

re: geir's statement

it's funny, i was going to bring up the "das boot" soundtrack as my first memory, possibly also the john carpenter-esque soundtrack to disney's "the black hole". after that it was "axel f" and "popcorn" and an insane instrumental version of "electric avenue" that they used as the theme to an old live-action saturday morning kid's show.

songs where a melody beat out on a synth served as a good beat/percussion.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

~~~ Haha, Ned. The cat has finally missed his mouse, I see. Love you darling. Keep on rocking. And don't forget that the Goddess Of Rock will never die! ;)

Kat Marco

― Kat Marco (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i had the 45 of "I Feel Love" and i would sit on my bed with the portable record player and play it over and over and play air synth cuz i wanted to be giorgio moroder SO BAD even though i didn't know who he was. it blew my mind cuz all i listened to before that besides the radio were beatles and sly and the family stone albums.a year or so later i really liked glenn miller's "In The Mood" for some reason. in fact, for christmas when i was in the 4th grade i asked my dad to get me Glenn Miller's Greatest Hits and Black Sabbath Vol.4. And he did!

― scott seward, Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Meanwhile just posted on a GEORGE CLINTON thread no less:

I like a lot of his stuff, really (and I am generally more into music than lyrics). But the lyrics are quite meaningless nevertheless :-)

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), November 13th, 2003.

I heart Geir, because Geir is the most successful in fucking with ILM. :)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I would actually draw little dots and shapes on a piece of paper as some sort of childish tablature to "I Feel Love", so i could practice doing my air percussion movements with my hands with the special little noises would come fade in and fade out and start again.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS is the guy you compared me to?! For godsakes, I was hardly this insufferable.

At the least, I have a hope you won't be repeating yourself for seven years, ddrake.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine would probably be something off Saturday Night Fever as well, which was like the hippest record my parents owned at the time. Probably the full version of "Disco Inferno" or, yeah, "Calypso Breakdown".

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Kat Marco

I SLAY THEE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

At the least, I have a hope you won't be repeating yourself for seven years, ddrake

I still maintain that yr list sucked.

― ddrake, Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

You and Ott should collaborate on a critique of Ned's list in 2009, seven years from now. Oh, the laughs and backslappings we'll have.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

2010

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(why am i in the tech field again?)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Leftfield's Storm 3000. All 6 seconds of it on an ad for a cash-in-on-how-cool-snowboarding-was comp.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't pick up on the live/funk tip until much later on, though.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Neu! come to mind.

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

But to be fair that's not so much liking a song that had a good beat and percussion sounds as liking a band that had a good beat and percussion sounds.

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

At the risk of sounding yet again like a little fangirl, it was 1992 and one of the songs I was repeatedly listening to over and over was Duran Duran's "Tel Aviv", a semi-instrumental that kept fantastic time and was totally atmospheric and lovely and swooshy and filled with RT's great drumming and only had faint little hints of SLB's vocals here and there and oh my God, folks, there's no hope for me, is there?

― Pancakes For Breakfast! (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Howzabout the 900 number, mark the 45 king... or summat like that

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 November 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Silk Hurley 'Jack Your Body' perhaps

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

PiL 'Flowers of Romance' (entire album)

― dave q, Friday, 14 November 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"19" by Paul Hardcastle (I think). Remember seeing the video of it on TV and being entranced by it.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

In retrospect, probably summat like "Hear The Drummer Get Wicked" or the like, when I was about 11 and at the school disco.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 15 November 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"19" did have a lot of melody bits in it. Sure, it was an instrumental, and as such it was built in a different way than a vocal song would be built, but it still wasn't just a beat, percussion and repetition.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw. "Jack Your Body" was the first ever hit I wasn't willing to consider music at all. It just sounded like some backing track that had lost its vocals, and some stupid sampled speaking was put there instead.

There had been several songs I had hated more, but "Jack Your Body" just sounded like a real bad novelty hit to me.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I haven't heard it since then, which was over 15 years ago. Regardless, it was the first song I remember liking that wasn't verse-chorus-verse.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 15 November 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm downloading that right fuckign now then, innit.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 15 November 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I liked "Rockit", which was another instrumental, that still had a melody though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably "Dazz" by Brick.

― d.w., Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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