Defining songs of your childhood
gabers
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So I'm speaking of your pre-puberty years. When you were still young and innocent and E Street Shuffle. I heard Sister Christian the other day and it instantly took me to a special place and special time. It almost brought a tear to my eye. Things were so much easier when you're 10! Anyway, here's a list of a few that always make me feel warm and fuzzy.
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Come Dancing - The Kinks
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Take it Easy - The Eagles
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Cuts Like a Knife - Bryan Adams
Hard Days Night - The Beatles
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Just a few off the top of my head...
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Come Dancing - The Kinks
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Take it Easy - The Eagles
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Cuts Like a Knife - Bryan Adams
Hard Days Night - The Beatles
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Just a few off the top of my head...
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I Mother Earth - Used To Be Alright
Tragically Hip - Highway Girl (Double Suicide version)
Bush X - Everything Zen
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Pearl Jam - Release
And pretty much everything by Weird Al Yankovic.
Jeremy - PJ first PJ song I heard
I was about 8 or so
not it's original release, but when it regained fame with Wayne's World. I was about 10 or so and never really had an interest in music until that movie. Queen - Classic was the first tape I ever had.
'Let's Get Rocked' by Def Leppard
'Everything About You' by Ugly Kid Joe
'The Walk of Life' by Dire Straits
'Carry Me' by The Levellers
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
age 4-6
Anything by Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Carol King, Jim Croce.....my Mom was kind of a hippie
age 6-8
Van Halen-Jump, Panama
Mikey Jackson-Thriller album
Prince-Purple Rain album
age 8-10
Bon Jovi- Slippery When wet album
Def Lepard-Hysteria
Poison
Motley Crue
age 10-12
GNR-AFD album
Metallica-Master of Puppets/Ride the lightning/And justice for all albums
Megadeath-Peace sells, but whose buying?
Age 12-14
NIRVANA-Nevermind
PJ-Ten
Pumpkins-Siamese Dreams
AIC, Soundgarden, Weezer, etc.......
In terms of what was popular and new from birth to age 10, take the music from 1983 to 1993 and you have your answer. The ones that stand out in my mind are MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby", Guns N Roses' "November Rain", Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do", and a lot of the bubblegum pop that was popular from about 1987-1990. Needless to say, I didn't get into grunge until I was about 12 or 13 so I don't remember a lot of PJ, Nirvana, etc starting the "grunge revolution".
I also have a fond remembrance of Blondie's song "Rapture", Cheap Trick's "I Want you to Want Me", The Ramones "R&R High School", J Geils Band "Centerfold", Joan Jett's "I want Rock & Roll", Billy Squires "Stroke", and anything by REO Speedwagon, Journey, and Van Halen... (1984 was the first vinyl I bought when I was 12, prior to that I always listened to my older brother's records).
And pretty much every video that played on MTV during it's first two years. I watched it constantly.
Yep, that covers my 12 and under years.
how old are you29? That is how old i am and my history reads about like yours
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
LOL by the time Sister Christian came out I was no longer "innocent". I was just telling someone the other day that Night Ranger was the 2nd band I ever saw in concert. I would have gone to them sooner, but my father had a strangle hold (or so he thought) on his daughters. Oh how wrong he was.. maybe if we would have been able to go to concerts we would have not had time to do some the "other" things we did!
Fire and Rain, certainly.. one of my all time faves, especially since it says my name in it.. You figure that out LOL
For me, the innocent years included Olivia Newton John, The Carpenters, Andy Gibb (although I dreamed of being not-so-innocent with him and his brothers and wished I could hit the notes they did!), The Commodores (my first concert was Lionel Richie, btw).. also innocent, but with fantasies was Peter Frampton... I used to kiss the I'm In You album cover.. shhhhh don't tell anyone.
Fun thread.. Peace!
Downtown Train - Rod Stewart
alive -pearl jam
anarchy in the uk -sex pistols
london calling-the clash
youth gone wild -skid row
we want the airwaves-Ramones(R.I.P Joey ... is the 7th anniversary of joey's passing)
enter sadman-metallica
love of my life-queen
smell like a teen spirit-nirvana
runaway train-soul asylum
pretty close, 30. I like the progression, it just kept getting better and harder.
also listened to a lot of beach boys and monkees in my 6-8 years.
this is a fun thread.
When I was nine, before little league games I either listened to Green Day Dookie or Soul Asylum Let Your Dim Light Shine.
Before that, R.E.M. Automatic for the People (on casette), Out of Time, and later Monster.
Loved the Cars Greates Hits. Motley Crue Greates Hits. Metallica Black Album. Meat Loaf Bat out of Hell II.
I remember getting Vitalogy for Christmas 1994.
Growing up, I did gymnastics 2 hours every night of the week, and the coaches always had on the Alternative/new rock station at the time.
Any yall ever here a song for the first time and reallize you heard it when you were like 4. I mean really really young. You dont remember actually hearing it before but you reallize you did. For me thats a lot of 80s pop stuff. "I'm on Fire" is almost erie to me how it makes me feel like i'm in the nursery while my mom teaches aerobics.
early 80's-Journey,Night Ranger,Styx,April Wine (I have a aunt that's 11 yrs older than me)
Mid 80's-Tears For Fears,Til' Tuesday,Jone Jett and the Black Hearts,Madonna,
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
You sound like you were just about the coolest kid ever!
that makes me young, at heart