First album
For the record, the first album C ever heard was Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky.
I’m not so great at baby’s firsts. I never had a baby book, so I’m less than driven to help complete one for C. But it is funny to know what album was her first. Wilco was the first music she heard outside of commercials on television at the hospital where she was born.
I’m sure no one knows what my first album was. My parents are a few generations behind in their music preferences. Although they rarely if ever “put music on,” they tend towards the classical. And the only radio my mother listens to is NPR, which does suggest that she has good taste; my dad only listens to talk radio.
My mother once remarked that the only pop song she really liked was “Bridge over Troubled Water.” She made this statement when my brother was going through a “classics” phase and had just bought his first Simon and Garfunkel. One could only assume it was also his last.
I will be around for countless firsts for Charlotte; it kind of blows your mind to think of being with her the first time she saw the sun or felt rain. Heck, I was there the first time she breathed!
I do wonder what my first album was. Will C care about hers? What firsts will she want to know about?
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Hell, the girl probably heard some of those Sky Blue Sky songs on the commercials first. Frigging capitalism…
Seems like every time I put on a new cd, I recognize at least one song from commercials.
Oh well, at least somebody’s making the $.
Go ahead and record everything in her baby book. I know it seems silly and pointless, but it won’t be later. My mom clearly spent a ton of time on mine, whereas my brother’s and sister’s respective books were far less involved. But I think C will treasure it. I know I do–even more now that Mom’s gone.
Pre-teens and teens love to hear what they were like as little ones.You will be very happy with yourself if you record all these milestones because,believe me,you might think that you will be able to remember them- but you won’t! I am very glad that I took the time to do it.