“My first vinyl memory involves Sgt. Peppers when I was 4. I remember being alone in the house wearing the kind of enormous white headphones that everyone’s dad owned and placing the needle on my favorite Beatles album.
I would listen and stare at the cover until I was absorbed into the photo. Each time, inevitably, my eyes would be drawn to the slouching doll wearing the Rolling Stones sweater. This terrified me in the same way a roller coaster or Vincent Price’s voice would some children.
Brian Olive | Left Side Rock
I tried to look at the rest of the scene but I was fixed on that thing! By the time I got to “Fixing A Hole” my hands were trembling so much that the picture became blurry. “She’s Leaving Home” calmed me down a bit but, that was a fleeting sense of security because I knew what was coming next, “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!” That was the one that always got me!
When the psychedelic nightmare carnival band struck up I was out the door before the headphones and cover hit the ground! I’d let my pulse slow, run around with the neighborhood kids, go to bed and do it all again the next day.”
—Brian Olive
Enter to win Brian Olive’s brand new LP Two of Everything (out just yesterday from our friends at Alive! Natural Sound) on limited edition red vinyl by letting us know in the comments which album held you transfixed as a child—or even as an adult. We’ll choose the most magical of the bunch next Wednesday, 6/15!
