Topic: Favorite childhood songs (Read 20466 times)

MysticalChicken · « **on:** 15 Sep 2008, 18:36 »

For purposes of this post, "childhood" means age 13 or younger. I'm not talking about "kiddie" songs either.

I grew up in the 80s, so...

Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (1984). I was five years old. This is the first "favorite" song I can remember having. Of course, at the age of five, I didn't know what it was actually about...

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (1984). Or, as I called it, "the MTV song." Every time the video came on TV I would not move until it was over. The video got me interested in computer animation, as well.

A-Ha - Take On Me (1985). Another song I like because of the video, which is my favorite of all time.

Tears for Fears - Shout (1985). Tears for Fears was, mysteriously, my favorite band when I was six.

The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket (1979). Although I didn't hear (or pay attention to) this song until I was seven. I've been a Pretenders fan since then. I remember my mom playing her Get Close tape in the car when I was eight, and then when I was thirteen and finally had my own radio/tape player, stealing that tape to listen to.

The B-52s - Love Shack (1989). Yes, I know it was fucking everywhere, but I loved it when I was ten and I think I still love it.

REM - Losing My Religion (1991). Saw the video when I was eleven or twelve years old and the song blew me away. I will never get sick of it.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 Sep 2008, 18:46 »

I was a huge fan of:

Jefferson Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us

The Cars - We Built This City (on Rock and Roll)

Don Henley - All of his music, but I had a special place for "A Month of Sundays"

MC Hammer - What kid didn't have the "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" album ?

Wham! - Yeah, nowadays you may look at the cover of "Make it Big" and think "Hmm... GAY !" but back then it was RAD !

Kenny Loggins - Highway to the Dangerzone

and Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #2 on:** 15 Sep 2008, 18:53 »

Well David Bowie was the first music I ever listened to, and I remember dancing to songs like Let's Dance and Modern Love in the living room with my mom when I was maybe seven or so. Because of the major speech impediment I had back then, we even had a parody of Rebel, Rebel (Mumble, Mumble).

So definitely Bowie.

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #3 on:** 15 Sep 2008, 19:32 »

Smashing Pumpkins - XYU

Age 9, I think. I liked a lot of other songs on that album too (and still do) but XYU was the loudest and therefore my favorite.

Also "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora, but I didn't know that at the time. At age 7 it was just that awesome song about the jungle on the Ninja Turtles III soundtrack. I rediscovered it last year and love it just as much as I used to.

De_El · « **Reply #4 on:** 15 Sep 2008, 20:25 »

The first tape I ever bought myself was the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation soundtrack. My favorite song off it was probably "Fire" by Scooter.

I have a sister who's 7 years older than me, and she was a teenager in the 1990s, so I liked a lot of stuff by Nirvana, and Nine Inch Nails. So "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Head Like a Hole" I liked a lot. Also..."Blister in the Sun" by Violent Femmes and "Wonderwall" by Oasis. Oh, also "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins and "Why Can't I Be You" by The Cure.

celticgeek · « **Reply #5 on:** 15 Sep 2008, 21:48 »

The first music I remember hearing and loving, other than the "children's songs" was La Mer by Debussy. I remember loving it and wanting my mother to play it over and over. I must have been about eight or nine years old.

LittleKey · « **Reply #6 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 08:35 »

When I was five, my favorite song was Another One Bites the Dust. Everyone loves Queen, woohoo!

pwhodges · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 08:42 »

I had a 78 of Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten performing The Foggy, Foggy Dew.

Andrew Fleming · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 09:29 »

I used to love listening to Queen, Creed, Early Beatles, and a bunch of gay christian rock.

rynne · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 10:01 »

Toto - "Africa"
The Beatles - "Lovely Rita"

I remember when my brother was about 4 or 5, he made my mom play Genesis' "Invisible Touch" 10+ times in a row.

benji · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 10:08 »

"If you'll be my bodyguard" by Paul Simon came out when I was 4, and was my favorite song from 5 until about 10 I think. I think I liked that it sort of hinted at a very exciting world with words that I understood, but in combination that confused me a little.

imagist42 · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 10:53 »

The only two songs I really remember listening to were Weezer's "Undone" and The Cranberries' "Zombie." Throw in a lot of The Smashing Pumpkins and you've got the gist of what I was exposed to as a child, via my brothers.

michaelicious · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 Sep 2008, 11:00 »

Go ninja, go ninja, go!

Other than that, I just listened to whatever my older brother listened to which seemed to just be Weezer and Beck.

bob, just bob · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 01:02 »

growing up in jr high and freshman year I listened to this weird hodgepodge of stuff like Pearl Jam, John Denver, alanis morrisette, the smiths, queen and The Grateful Dead.
it was all my mothers music and I grew up with it so that's mainly what I listened to, oh and Gorillaz, they were the first band I liked that my mom didn't so I listened to that to.

octodexy · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 03:21 »

Genuine - "Pony"

I was in like fourth grade when this song was super popular. It played everyday on the bus ride home. No joke though, I am often horrified by songs that I hear kids that I work with singing. Which makes me feel better a little, because I had no idea what this song was about.

Ptommydski · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 05:59 »

Everything by the Beatles and the Stones basically.

Thrillho · « **Reply #16 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 11:49 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 27 Sep 2008, 05:59

Everything by the Beatles.

Plus, our selection of road trip cassettes:

Eurythmics Greatest Hits
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Blur - Parklife
Seal - Seal (I)

Harun · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 15:36 »

I listened to whatever my parents listened to. So it was basically Joe Cocker and Paul McCartney. I vaguely remember being able to sing along to both of their live albums whenever they were being played in the car.

On a side note, why is it that live albums always sound way better when you're driving?

ptownblazer · « **Reply #18 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 15:57 »

Embarassing, but I'll be honest.

songs:
Snow - Informer (12 Inches of Snow was my very first album!)
P.M. Dawn - The Ways of the Wind
Toni, Tony, Tone - (I can't for the life of me remember the song name)
Amy Grant - anything and everything
If you've ever been to Eugene, OR, basically anything that was on Magic 94 in the late 80's and early 90's.

albums:
U2 - Achtung Baby
The Seventy Seven's - Sticks and Stones

RedLion · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 Sep 2008, 23:52 »

Quote

The Cars - We Built This City (on Rock and Roll)

That was Starship, not The Cars.

Quote from: rynne on 25 Sep 2008, 10:01

Toto - "Africa"

I still love that song.

johnny5 · « **Reply #20 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 00:00 »

when i was a youngin, youngin, i listened to what my dad did, so a lot of carpenters and celine dion and that shit

once i got wise though, it's all rap from there for most of my childhood ages eh...7-14. specially dr dre and 2pac. "the roach"? i got high to that song so many times. that other song about coke (hey-yo for ya-yo, all in my nasal) was pretty popular too.

voidSkipper · « **Reply #21 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 01:59 »

I loved "I'll Be Going" by Ariel/Spectrum. Specifically the ridiculous bit at the start, which my dad used to imitate, complete with harmonica.

BootsyMarie · « **Reply #22 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 11:27 »

I was a pop whore...I loved the backstreet boys sooo much. And Pink...I still kind of like pink... I adored the beatles, though. I had their greatest hits cd and i pretty much played it out...

Thrillho · « **Reply #23 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 16:05 »

...Greatest Hits?

Presumably that was either the blue or red album?

De_El · « **Reply #24 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 16:43 »

Edit: Probably this one, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Greatest_Hits

Christophe · « **Reply #25 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 16:53 »

I was a big Rockapella fan in middle school. Backstreet Boys were my fave in elementary school, and I got to see them in concert in the 6th grade in the executive suite of the San Jose Arena.

Man, those days.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #26 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 17:12 »

Ringo's Beatles songs.
Man, between Yellow Submarine and THomas the tank Engine, that guy had a monopoly on my childhood.
Oh, and a shitload of mainstream radio, but let's not go into that.

allison · « **Reply #27 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 17:57 »

Everything by the Beatles, my dad loves them and I grew up on their music.
The soundtrack to my childhood was Big Shiny Tunes 1-3 and Green Day's Dookie and Nimrod.

BootsyMarie · « **Reply #28 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 19:19 »

Quote from: De_El on 28 Sep 2008, 16:43

Edit: Probably this one, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Greatest_Hits

definitely that one

Touch Me Im Sick · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 Sep 2008, 21:24 »

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"" - Eiffel 65

I'm glad I'm not eight anymore...

teamstein · « **Reply #30 on:** 01 Oct 2008, 20:15 »

Quote from: look out! Ninjas! on 28 Sep 2008, 17:12

Ringo's Beatles songs.
Man, between Yellow Submarine and THomas the tank Engine, that guy had a monopoly on my childhood.
Oh, and a shitload of mainstream radio, but let's not go into that.

I'm too old for Thomas but also found The Beatles and particularly Ringo's Beatles' songs (esp Yellow Submarine) to be awesome.
I also really liked that weird one hit wonder song - Friends and Lovers - "I think it's so groovy now that people are finally getting together!" "Reach out in the darkness" and all that.

Also - Cat Stevens, The Wiz, and CSNY.

PacoSees · « **Reply #31 on:** 03 Oct 2008, 05:53 »

Beatles - Twist & Shout
and someone doing a cover of "Bear Necessities" from The Jungle Book.

Best song ever.

dancarter · « **Reply #32 on:** 04 Oct 2008, 18:17 »

Early on, it was definitely something my parents played. A lot of records, and some truly bizarre ones, at that. ABBA, The Bee Gees(pre-disco, as was my dad's like for them), Simon and Garfunkel.
There was some Nana Mouskouri also, The Irish Rovers and a very bizarre duet record a called Perhaps Love that featured Placido Domingo and....John Denver. It's astounding.

Later, I was into things like Bon Jovi and Motely Crue (it was the 80's and they were still considered somewhat dangerous).
I freely admit to getting into Industrial as a teenager because no one else was listening to it, but it's become a life long love now.

Caspian · « **Reply #33 on:** 04 Oct 2008, 20:02 »

Elton John was the shit when I was 6 or so. That and Creedence Clearwater Revival. I then got into Metallica, AC/DC and Megadeth when I was 11, so I guess they'd count too.

Jposh · « **Reply #34 on:** 04 Oct 2008, 20:34 »

Whatever my mom and dad played in the car...

Metallica
Linkin Park
The Beatles
Rammstein
The B-52s
That "What if God Smoked Cannabis" song
Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall, and probably a few others
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Bob Marley

And tons more that I can't remember, but will add as I remember.

Moist Cowboy · « **Reply #35 on:** 05 Oct 2008, 22:17 »

Less than jake, choking victim, goldfinger, and a bunch of lame stuff

billiumbean · « **Reply #36 on:** 06 Oct 2008, 00:10 »

Quote from: LittleKey on 25 Sep 2008, 08:35

When I was five, my favorite song was Another One Bites the Dust. Everyone loves Queen, woohoo!

I don't.

"Nietzsche would be proud." Snicker snicker.

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