>Five bands from folks' earliest of music listening 'careers' that forever
changed, shaped, molded, influenced and >enhanced your life, putting you on
the road to ridiculous expenditures on music.

1)  The Beatles - my earliest memory of playing a record on my parents'
stereo was "Revolver" - still my favorite Beatles record - I used to listen
to "Taxman" before leaving for nursery school
2)  CSN(Y) - memories of summer camp - first band that I got hooked on
beyond my parents' influence
3)  The Cars - great drumming musicfor a kid learning the instrument - my
teacher had great taste
4)  Joni Mitchell - got hooked on her more progressive stuff first in
collegeand started bleeding money at the record store buying up her catalog
5)  Suzanne Vega - fell in love with her music before her major label
release - she was the first artist that I tried to become "completist" about

Ira