you can hear that my little brain was mostly interested in 60s retro, and not contemporary 80s music, even if it didn't understand it. but, i was also looking forwards to the styles that would dominate the early to mid 90s. i had no interest in the music marketed to kids in those days, and while the gender imbalance isn't that bad given the sources i had, it is indeed overwhelmingly white. but, i mean, i'm pretty white, too. that changes a little as i age, but not a lot....
as mentioned, i didn't even have a cassette deck at the time. no walkman. nothing. i had an alarm clock, and the alarm clock had a radio. i had a tv, with access to muchmusic. that was it. and, i had parents with music collections, which i mostly hadn't raided, yet. i've mentioned before that i got my first rem dubs by taking the tapes out of the library. i knew some of the names, but i was exposed to much of what my mom listened to and didn't like really any of it, while my dad's collection was esoteric and difficult, and would be for most eight year-olds. that will be a running narrative, but not yet.
my dad liked a little u2 (mostly due to the eno thing) and my mom had some older 70s glam that was less terrible than the 80s stuff, but neither of them listened to the student rock i listened to from about the ages of 8-12 and neither would have had much interest in 90% of what's compiled, here. you can get a good taste of what's coming from 1990-1993 or so, when i started to switch over to punk and industrial.
i will review some of the records these tracks are on when i get the ghetto blaster after christmas, but i will be selective. i'm going to need to do a comprehensive survey of tears for fears, for sure.
