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Yes I do remember my first time, Though it came a little later than the age of six, I was probably about.....ohh eleven or so and my sister had just come in extremely drunk. She had just had a fight with my mother as she smelled of smoke and drink, her room was opposite mine and I remember waking up the next morning to find her sitting on her bed listening to Fleetwood Mac's "Man of the world" and feeling pretty sorry for herself. I remember just listening to the lyrics "I could tell you about my life, and keep you amused i'm sure, about all the times i've cried, and how I don't want to be sad anymore....and how I wish I was in love." and feeling completely consumed with sadness and guilt.

I later found out that she had been drinking all through that night after her estranged father told her he didn't love her and that as far as he was concerned, she wasn't a part fo his life.

So that song has remained a real favourite....despite the car adverts RUINING it for me for a few years.

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In the arsehole of nowhere town where I was raised, we'd meet outside the local pub for the fleet of cars that would bring us to our hurling matches. One evening, I ventured inside. Echo and the Bunnymen were playing "The Cutter" on Top of the Pops. Life would never be the same.

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Smokey Robinson "Tracks of my Tears" - up late in my jammies watching the film Platoon with my family when I should have been in bed, back in the day when you have the fire lit with smokey coal that use to spit "hot rocks" on the good mat.... ahhhhhh nostalgia...

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Elton John. When we went on holiday with my dad and drove down to Cornwall, he had an Elton John Greatest Hits album, and played it in the car constantly. My brothers and I learnt the words and we'd all sit in the back of the car singing along and pretending we were a band. The year after it was a Cliff Richard Anthology, after that it was Paul Simon, Gloria Estefan, Barclay James Harvest (My dad can be forgiven, it was the 80's), the list goes on.

Song I remember most? Bennie and the Jets. Genius.

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I was taking piano lessons with the frist Protestat guy I ever knew, Victor. (You can guess I grew up in Northern Ireland). He was the keyboardist in a band and he would always play some music to me after the lesson. Ranging from Pet Shop Boys to Led Zeppelin, he awakened this love that I now have. I was devastated when he told me one night that he had decided to stop giving lessons. I can still remember how miserable I felt.

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I'd have to say i was at a lazer light show when i was 5 (that's 1978 for the sake of dating myself.) and they opened the show with Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven. I can remember being moved by the music and the images of the lazers at the planetarium. (That's a place to look at the stars and they had this huge room with simulated stars in it. Real good for when I was older.) My father was always into music and the old stuff like Mat mentioned and even older like from the 1950's.
But then i can't remember being really into music until about 13 when i discovered Pink Floyd.
In my adult life it was most definitely Elliott Smith.
I have always thought of music as almost a map of time. It reminds you of places and people and times in your life.

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I never really had that 'first time' feeling because music has always seemed so fantastic and essential to me. The earliest music I can remember is Dexy's playing 'Come On Eileen' on Top Of The Pops, and as a child during the 80s I was glued to TOTP. I remember 'Puss In Boots' by Adam Ant, 'E=MC2' by B.A.D. - I guess that show was my main musical influence (I'm a pop kid) until I got a teen part-time evening job in an empty takeaway, just me and a jukebox playing Bowie, Jam, Abba and Motown hits over and over. The first Suede album was the first time I used music to define myself.

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I'd have to say that I have loved music as a little kid. I probably got into music at age 2, or a little older, but my Mum and Grandma always tell me now that when I was a baby (or 1 year old, I can't remember), I could tell the difference between a sad song and a happy song. I'd cry when a sad song was played on the radio or record player or tape recorder, and I would be very happy when I'd hear a happy song. I don't know how that is, but that's it! The first song I ever remember is Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse Of The Heart"! Obviously, I wouldn't be able to remember songs from anywhere before 5, but that song is the one that got me into music! I really got into music when I watched a TV commercial in 1995 (I live in Australia) for Elton John's "Love Songs" CD. I loved all the bits of the songs I heard on that ad that I wanted it that Christmas. I heard Elton's "Blue Eyes" being played on the radio and that confirmed to me that I wanted the CD! To this day, I love all music except RAP, Hip Hop, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal