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Artist:

Sheryl Crow

Song:

All I Wanna Do

Album: 

Tuesday Night Music Club

Year: 

1993
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With her hook-filled pop tunes, highly developed melodic sensibility, and pin-up girl looks, Sheryl Crow appealed to a wide audience in the 1990s....
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ianwilsonmusic | MEMORY FROM 1995

Big White Teeth

LOCATION: In front of a computer , New Hampshire

YEAR: 1995

TAGS: internet, sheryl crow, summer

PUBLISHED: February 16, 2008

When my freshman year of high school was ending, a classmate of mine convinced me to sign up for one of those ridiculous record clubs that offered your first 10 CDs for a dollar. Lacking a lot of viable options from the club catalog, I went with Sheryl Crow’s first album (new at the time).  It was one of the first CDs to arrive, just about the time that my summer vacation was starting, and coincidentally, when my family bought its first computer with internet access and a CD-ROM drive.  

Crow’s album was a good start to a summer: songs evoking the spirit of LA, of Las Vegas, of malaise and geographical stir-craziness painted with heat and sunshine and Crow’s big white teeth (pictured prominently on the cover).  The album also sat right next to my computer, and I was so thrilled to have a computer with an actual drive that played CDs that I listened to the album half as an excuse to use a new toy.

I listened to the CD so much that hearing any track from it –especially the single “All I Wanna Do” that earned Crow so much popularity – will make me think of the hours I spent surfing the early internet.  It wasn’t pretty: text-only screens, ugly ASCII art, bulletin boards, and paleolithic web pages with one pixelated image of a downhill skier and two sentences about snow.  It lacked the polish that Crow’s smooth vocals had, but it had some of the same feeling of being trapped in one place, figuring out how to go somewhere far away with limited means and a strong imagination.

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RHMF said: I'm with you...I spent so much time listening to this too when if first came out...it was so fresh. ..and so was the Internet. Remember Mosiac? (2/16/2008)

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