What album popped your cherry?

[binnie]

Mine was AC/DC - Let There Be Rock.

I was like nothing I'd ever experienced, and I can remember exactly where I was, down to the most minute detail of the room, when I experienced it. BOOM!!

I was 9 years old and I've never looked back.

[VetteLS5]

What? Not the Osmonds??

Crazy Horses baby.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Well it's official than. The majority of you have some real shitty taste in music.

[Kristy]

Oh, okay, Police fan.

[Nitro Express]

VH's YRGM was the song that got me into rock 'n' roll somewhere in the beginning of 1979 on my parents' black and white TV. I was 8 years old and man I was hooked.

The first album that hooked me was this one. I've listened to it so many times I still know every second of it by heart.



Then a little later it was this one:

When I hear Regatta de Blanc it brings back memories of puking Foster's Lager out in a ski resort parking lot. That is what was playing when drinking too many hand grenades and oil drums hit me. We used to buy Foster's in those big 24oz tin cans (oil drums) and Mickey's Big Mouth (hand grenades). We were getting loaded before hitting the slopes and well, I hurled. That song brings back those fond memories every time.

Ah high school.

[Nitro Express]

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

* correction* was probably Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite television special and the accompanying record.

I remember watching that Elvis special with my mom. My mom was all excited and it was like some real big deal. It bored me to tears. I watched it the other day and I still couldn't get into it. I mean I like Elvis but I don't know. That concert just is boring to me.

[Nitro Express]

The J5 did have a few good songs, but they never had anything like Crazy Horses........

Ironically enough, they were dressing more like black stereotypes than the Jacksons were....

Considering this was in the times when the church still pushed the doctrine that blacks were descended from the third of the angels who were too lazy to get involved in the war between Elohim & Satan, you gotta wonder how many heart attacks that caused back in Utah.

Looking back, I think the Osmonds had more talent than the Jacksons did. In the end who really decides what church doctrine is going to be is the members of the church and what society overall accepts. The church will never change anything unless too much negative light is shed on it or members complain to the point of where the church might lose membership. So when the pressure is on, have a revelation.

The Osmonds were clearly not prejudice. They were good friends of the Jacksons. I doubt they sat around and talked about old Brigham Young's prejudice. The old men running the church finally got the message when they became a big target of the NAACP and BYU sports teams were being protested against. They didn't like the negative exposure and went into panic mode and damn. Old Spencer W. Kimball had a revelation. Interesting these old fart prophets never have revelations now unless there is enough negative publicity or enough members are unhappy to the levels of leaving the church.

At the end of the day it's about retaining your tithing paying core base and not bringing undue negative publicity onto the church. Oh they want to boss the membership around to the highest level they can get away with but not to where it hurts the donation income.

It's all about $$$$$ and power. Nothing more.

[Nitro Express]

I really don't get why people are so confused about religion. It's easy to understand. It's a business. Mormonism was a byproduct of the Erie Canal being completed in upstate New York. Buffalo New York suddenly became the second largest port in the US due to all the canal traffic. Joseph Smith lived in the canal boom town of Palmyra. A bunch of religions popped up taking advantage of the excitement over virgin land and manifest destiny. The Book of Mormon is an american bible and Mormonism was a religion exploiting all the excitement generated at the time. Zion was in America. The New Jersusalem was in America. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young exploited the gullible in the US and in Europe selling them on a brighter future awaits you in Zion wherever it was at the time. Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, or Mexico (later to become The Utah Territory).

It's the last days. Jesus is coming. America is the promised land and zion is here. Come help us build it! That was the sales pitch. It's really not that much different than the saloon and whore house owners moving into a boom mining town. Upstate New York was booming. The US was opening up. Joseph Smith struck when the iron was hot and Brigham Young was smart enough to move the church where it could grow and get a foothold in isolation. If it stayed back east it eventually would have failed. The public and government would have snuffed it out. Missouri already made it legal to kill Mormons. Illinois was close to doing the same.