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Today is devoted to music of the past. MY music of the past, in particular. Back in the day, I used to call myself musically deprived, but now I would consider myself far from that. Now here is your window into my past musical life...

I used to just be satisfied with simply whatever my mom had on the radio and the two Disney Christmas tapes that I had. Then one day my mom got a CD player and that was like an excuse for her to start listening to more music. At this time, I was apparently I was listening to the likes of the Beatles and 10,000 Maniacs, even some Hair and Bread. I didn't know any better; it was background music during breakfast.

One day, my brother Brian opened my eyes. He said, "Here, listen to this." It was Vanilla Ice. I instantly fell in love. My mom heard me listening to this "rap" music and quickly rewound the tape and handed it back to my brother. I was devastated.

In the spirit of rap music, I retaliated and purchased my first CD ever, the "Beauty and the Beast" soundtrack. Oh, did I love that so much. I thought soundtracks were the only way to go. Eventually, I had amassed enough soundtracks from Disney movies; I bought my first "real song" soundtrack....

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..."Space Jam." Everyone who was anyone had the "Space Jam" soundtrack, and why? Because it was classic. Hell, Bugs Bunny even rapped a song on it. It was a dream come true. This "real song" soundtrack thing really opened my eyes, and I eventually started collecting them from everywhere: "Batman Forever," "EdTV" (still haven't seen the movie), "Armaggeddon," and "End of Days." I didn't really even care that individual artists had their own albums with lots of good songs on them... just as long as I had my soundtracks.

This all changed on one wonderful Christmas. My mom and dad picked me up an album by a band that was growing in popularity at the time: Green Day. The album was Insomniac (the one with "Brain Stew" on it). I instantly fell in love and bought their first album called Dookie. That is what began my descent down my trail of my current music loves, which span from Rachel Yamagata to Rob Zombie to Death Cab for Cutie, Dave Matthews Band, and Alkaline Trio.

A few people and organizations I would like to thank for developing my current music tastes are:
-My mom
-My sister
-Jon Skrip
-Napster
-Kazaa
-OurTunes
-Warped Tour
-and of course, anniemosity.com.

tony jay is today's guest blogger and the nicest art major i know. to hear more about his severe love for billie joe armstrong, his severe hatred of large sunglasses (which anniemosity.com does not see eye to eye with), and all-around commentary on the world, visit his blog or his xanga.