Childhood memories: music

[Gerrit]

Which songs do you remember from your childhood and teenage years that can bring you into a melancholic mood? You know, the sort of songs an adult is not supposed to like, but that still touch you somehow because of the attached memories...

I was a teenager during the nineties, and even though I am heavily into eighties music ever since reaching adultery (oops, I mean adulthood ) I still have to secretly admit liking these ones:


ACE OF BASE - The whole "Flowers" album always takes me back to my holiday in Spain. I broke my knee cap there and couldn't walk for a week, so it was a crap holiday, but somehow I still have nice memories of the car drives along the costa's with Ace of Base playing all the time (it was the only record I took with me )

ARMY OF LOVERS - Okay, I know this is deeply embarrassing, but I used to like them very much when I was like 12 years old... "Israelism", "Crucified", "Obsession" (my favourite of theirs) still bring back memories of the worryless old days... You can still watch the videos on this fansite: www.armyoflovers.info

GALA : I still think "Let a boy cry" is one of the best dance songs of the last decennium. One of the only dance songs with mature lyrical content. I grew out of dance music as soon as puberty reached its final stage, but I still like this one song.

[Neish]

My fav song whem i was a kid(3 or 4 years old) was I Just Called To Say I Love You-Stevie Wonder.

1st song I really remember hearing was Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana was 11 or 12 when it came out I heard it on the radio. Bought Nevermind shortly after that

[hamish]

The earliest song I can remember is "How much is that doggy in the window?"

Y'know, the one with the waggily tail.

[superfrank]

I'm still in school but a song that, as Gerrit said, put's me in a melancholy mood is "The Man Who Sold The World" by Nirvana. My older brother was mad into them and I was like six when Cobain died but that was my favourite song by them.

Gives my a few goosebumps thinking that it was twelve years since the Nirvana Unplugged concert and it's even harder to believ it's eleven years since he died....ah Gerrit look what you've started!

[hamish]

I was like six when Cobain died

Jesus, I'm getting out of Footie - at my age, feels like being in a kindergarden.
No offence superfrank.

[superfrank]

Then who would we have to enlighten us with their tales of wisdom and hilarious experiences. Stay sir hamish!

In the words of Marvin Gaye: Baby please stay. Don't go away.

Ehh, don't read too much into that though.

[hamish]

Then who would we have to enlighten us with their tales of wisdom and hilarious experiences. Stay sir hamish!

In the words of Marvin Gaye: Baby please stay. Don't go away.

Ehh, don't read too much into that though.

Of that you can be sure, superfrances

BTW wisdom, enlighten and hilarious do not belong in the same line as Hamish - even with a attached.

The second song I remember as a young kid is "Rock around the clock by Bill Haley and The Comets. My sister tells me that I used to rock the pram in delight when it came on the radio. LOL

EDIT - couldn't understand why a pile of ***** came up for clock. Take me to leave the L out.

[superfrank]

Rock around the what? Did you say clock or ****?

[hamish]

Rock around the what? Did you say clock or ****?

Just edited that post.

What was that you mentioned about wisdom and enlightenment, superfrances?

[superfrank]

You must've had other things on your mind, lady hamish.

Anything you can do, I can....

[gustavo]

i remember there was a cd out maybe about a year or two ago that had all these songs that i liked when i was 11 , 12 and i was seriously thinking of getting it but didnt in the end , had all 2 unlimited and snap culture beat etc etc anyway i didnt get it cos i realised i would probably listen to them all once and never again , this is the link by the way!
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?sour...7&title=109214

[ken foree]

driving to kerry as a kid, listening to the eagles and beach boys the old man was playing. they were among the earliest memories. the chlorine sound of the b. boys, i was the perfect age for that sun music. eagles made an impression but not as much as the former. then what else was he playing, planxty and stockton's wing, boil the breakfast early by the chieftans. abba too, from the mother maybe. beatles records were there at home but not played a lot

[hamish]

You must've had other things on your mind, lady hamish.

Anything you can do, I can....

Yeah breakfast

Please no oral jokes about that, superfrank

Another memory - Fats Domino's big hit, "Josephine" with the brilliant "Natural Born Lover" on the B-side. Just ordered them again from a rarities records seller.
Domino? That was 1960 and I was 6 years old.

[Ruairi]

the first album i can remember owning is Paul Simon's "Graceland", when i was 6.. an odd choice for a 6 year old i know.. but every time i listen to it now it brings me back to listening to it onmy headphones before i went to sleep...

another song which has just sprung into my head now is that song that was out for the world cup back in 1990.. i think it was sold in pennys, and went along the lines of

"we're gonna shout out loud we're gonna show we're proud HEY!!! we're the team that jack built.. and when we start to play you're going to hear us say HEY! we're the team that jack built.

The team that jack built, we'll all agree, we're going down in history
The team that jack built, we'll all agree, we're on our way to italy"

and then there was a rap kinda bit where they were shouting

"we dont care, who'll be there, rudi gullit maradonna!!!"

anyone else remember that?

[gustavo]

i know it was from an ad but i remember the song from an esb ad, would have been mid to late eighties i think it was about this young guy coming home from college and his mother going to pick him up and the journey they had , anyway the song was going back by dusty springfield really haunting song imo and shows how good the ad was that i still remember it nearly 20 years on.

[Gerrit]

Going back some further into my childhood. When I was 4 years old I was a heavy Boy George fan I couldn't get enough of "Karma chameleon" Looking at the make-up in my bag though, I'm not sure if Boy George was such a good influence




The the first single I bought myself as at age 9... Erasure *shame shame* doing an EP with 4 Abba covers... I also remember Enigma from that era, and some English dj called Guru Josh. Enigma was not that bad even, my first signs of good taste

[Gerrit]

The earliest song I can remember is "How much is that doggy in the window?"

Y'know, the one with the waggily tail.

Ah yeah, that was a cute one

[strangeirish]

Showing age here, but, Showaddywaddy? 'Under the moon of love' and Mungo Jerry 'In the summertime'

[Metrostars]

There two records that stick out in my mind. First off, I used to spend a couple of weeks every summer at my uncles farm and sure enough he had a record player. The only record of his I liked was the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Played it over and over. Must have been only about 5 at the time (mid 70s).

The other was called "Cross your heart" or something like that by "Tina", it was Ireland's Eurovision entry around 1973-4, watched the National Song contest and I guess she was my first infatuation at the ripe old age of 5. Made my mother buy the record and I was gutted and crying when she didnt win the Eurovision and Abba won that year.
I tell ya,she was robbed.

[Gareth]

Been a while since I posted, but music that makes the awl brian cogs reverse back to days of yore......

In the Army now - Status Quo
China in your hand - T'pau (I know, I know)
and when I was very small,
The oldest swinger in town and Help by the Beatles.