A Couple of Memories

Hi, it's me again, Ryan from Ryan Reviews. I was just thinking about a couple of "music memories" I have and thought I'd write about them here.

* Early 1990s, walking into the music section at K-Mart and seeing row upon row of tape cassettes, everywhere, and not the single sign of a CD (but there would have been plenty of Cassingles!).

* Songs I can remember making an impression on me back then, before I ever heard my first single, was Tina Turner "The Best" (which I later found out was originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler), "It Takes Two", another song from Tina interestingly enough and this time a duet with Rod Stewart, and Bryan Adams "Everything I do (I do it for you)" from the movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". "Everything I do" was probably the best song I'd ever heard up to that point, and I still think it's one of the best now, composed by the late great Michael Kamen whose work I absolutely love.

* My first single was Meat Loaf "I'd do anything for love (But I won't do that)" written and produced by Jim Steinman from the forthcoming "Bat out of Hell II", only the first time I ever heard that song it was five minutes long, and I was playing it to death. Imagine, listening to your favourite song, and all of a sudden the album version's seven minutes longer. Of all songs, my first single and my favourite song, is suddenly twelve minutes. It was just mind-bending. How many times does that happen, do you think?

* 1994, the soundtrack to Disney's "The Lion King" is all over the place, and every time I hear the Elton John version of "Can you feel the love tonight?" I sort of get the shivers. It also makes me think of Princess Diana, but I'm not really sure why.

* Late 1990s, we had gone from rows and rows of tapes in K-Mart and Brashs (remember that place, Aussies??), to a little box at Sanity with about, say, 20 albums, like Celine Dion's "Let's talk about love". The last tape I ever owned, new, was Pink Floyd's "Echoes", as late as 2002. The first CD I ever owned was probably Billy Joel "River of Dreams". My next door neighbour at the time gave me her copy of Carole King "Tapestry" on vinyl which I still have.

Thank you, and more soon,

Ryan.

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