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Post by AeroCooper on May 28, 2014 14:17:05 GMT -5
Let's try this again and see if I don't delete it by accident this time.
I saw this online while searching something else and thought it might make an interesting thread. So... When you think of your childhood/teen years, what are the first songs you think of? This will probably have some crossover with the guilty pleasures thead, but here goes. The Wall (entire album) Looks Like We Made It ~ Barry Manilow Going Blind ~ KISS Strange Ways ~ KISS School's Out ~ Alice Cooper Sick Things ~ Alice Cooper YSMC ~ Aerosmith Life Is a Rock ~ Reunion Candy-O ~ The Cars (entire album, actually) The Cars first album Back in Black ~ AC/DC Shake a Leg ~ AC/DC You've Got Another Thing Coming ~ Judas Priest Ah Leah ~ Donny Iris I guess I could go on for quite some time, but those were the big ones that come to mind quickly.
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Post by jj on May 28, 2014 16:55:04 GMT -5
I, too, have many. Not even my favorite songs, but songs that hurl me back to a simpler time in life. Here are a few.
Get Back - The Beatles. I used to sit on my bedroom floor with a small phonograph spinning this single over and over. In particular, i would key in on the two solos trying to distinguish the subtle nuances that made each what slightly unique. This long before i had an inkling of playing guitar. Get Back brings back immediately to that time.
Pandora's Box - Aerosmith. This song, especially the beginning with the recorder (?) and opening riff transport me right back to one summer, sitting at my desk in my room, building a 30's Ford Pick Up Hot Rod Model. I can see what was on my desk, the walls and recall wearing cutoffs. The model Truck? Firecracker fodder.
Squeeze Box - The Who. A particular bur ride to elementary school one early morning.
Little Willy - The Sweet. My friend and I pushing a Ford Model A, stripped to the frame, up a slight incline and riding it down the hill using the emergency brake to stop. Over and Over we did this. Little Willy was on the radio for part of this time. His father was doing body work on the car.
The Cars first album. A canoe trip with my cousin. We tipped in the first ten minutes and made our way to a small isle in the river. I had rented a cassette player from the library so we could listen to music on the trip. It survived the dunking. We listened to the Cars album while playing frisbee in our underwear as our gear dried out.
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Post by lin on May 28, 2014 17:39:44 GMT -5
I, too, have many. Not even my favorite songs, but songs that hurl me back to a simpler time in life. Here are a few. Get Back - The Beatles. I used to sit on my bedroom floor with a small phonograph spinning this single over and over. In particular, i would key in on the two solos trying to distinguish the subtle nuances that made each what slightly unique. This long before i had an inkling of playing guitar. Get Back brings back immediately to that time. Pandora's Box - Aerosmith. This song, especially the beginning with the recorder (?) and opening riff transport me right back to one summer, sitting at my desk in my room, building a 30's Ford Pick Up Hot Rod Model. I can see what was on my desk, the walls and recall wearing cutoffs. The model Truck? Firecracker fodder. Squeeze Box - The Who. A particular bur ride to elementary school one early morning. Little Willy - The Sweet. My friend and I pushing a Ford Model A, stripped to the frame, up a slight incline and riding it down the hill using the emergency brake to stop. Over and Over we did this. Little Willy was on the radio for part of this time. His father was doing body work on the car. The Cars first album. A canoe trip with my cousin. We tipped in the first ten minutes and made our way to a small isle in the river. I had rented a cassette player from the library so we could listen to music on the trip. It survived the dunking. We listened to the Cars album while playing frisbee in our underwear as our gear dried out. Oh yeah... Little Willy.. that one definitely brings me back. Another one from around then was The Joker and I heard another one on the radio this afternoon that brings me back to that era and that would be "I Shot the Sheriff" by Eric Clapton. We also had a lot of sappy songs that I didn't necessarily like such as "Seasons in the Sun" and the Billy Jack movies were popular then so another one I remember hearing all the time was "One Tin Soldier." Both were pretty gag worthy to me even as a young pre-teen girl. A few years later when I was a teenager, I started listening a lot to stuff by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young -- Deja Vu was a favorite, as was Fleetwood Mac (the Fleetwood Mac Album and then Rumours)
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2014 17:54:14 GMT -5
Sonny and Cher Partridge Family I asked to borrow albums from older kids in the area and was given Black Sabbath Paranoid and a couple others. I guess trying to move away from "moms" music (even though I still love it all today). Hated all them. Then heard "Sick as a Dog" on the radio and parents bought me Rocks. Life changing!! Sweet ~ Fox on the Run Manhattans ~ Kiss and say Goodbye (Huge for me and everything to do with Margaret Hmmm, miss her!!) The Beatles "Hey Jude" album and especially "Rain". Brinin' on the Heartbreak ~ Def Leppard and of course all of Hysteria when that came out......."Love and Affection"!! The River got played to death. Wings over America especially venus and mars, rock show.
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Post by AeroCooper on May 28, 2014 19:01:22 GMT -5
Damn, that was one of the songs that made me want to start this thread and then I forgot to put it in! I don't care how sappy it is, I still love it.
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Post by AeroCooper on May 28, 2014 19:03:32 GMT -5
x2
Love Ace Frehley's cover of it as well.
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Post by lin on May 28, 2014 19:42:05 GMT -5
Damn, that was one of the songs that made me want to start this thread and then I forgot to put it in! I don't care how sappy it is, I still love it. LOL... glad someone loves it. Even back then I thought it was sappy.
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Post by jj on May 28, 2014 20:36:23 GMT -5
^ Seasons in the Sun. Loved that one too. I think i have it on my iPod. Also loved Fox on the Run. Never missed the Sunny and Cher hour or the Partridge Family (Friday night 8:30 right after the Brady Bunch). Wow, were we ever cheesy!
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Post by AeroCooper on May 28, 2014 20:39:22 GMT -5
Oh, and can't forget 'Magic' by Pilot, possibly the #1 song that takes me back.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 12:24:44 GMT -5
A lot of different ones. My taste in music was a bit different when I was younger. I still like some of it, but I've moved on to rock. When I was a kid (before age 10) it was Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Paula Abdul and believe it or not, Aerosmith, lol. I've told that story numerous times. They've been my favorite band since I was six or seven. But that was as far as I really dipped my toe in the rock water until middle school when I discovered grunge and metal.
I remember singing along to Opposites Attract with my little sister in the back of my mom's crappy Beetle. I remember the first time I heard Maggie May I was with my dad on the way to Union, NJ for something. I remember my first 45 record was Janet Jackson's Control. I remember how FOX and other stations would shut down when Michael Jackson had a new music video coming out, and they would play a block of Michael Jackson music videos before premiering the new one. I remember being very confused by Michael's dance sequence on top of the car he destroys at the end of Black or White.
I remember my step-dad taking me to my first concert, a free performance by Yes (or was it Foghat, can never remember) and wanting to leave because it was too loud (I was five).
That's about it for now as I can do this for a while.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 19:05:22 GMT -5
The Beatles then Paul McCartney and Wings...one of my faves was Uncle Albert/Admiral Falsey Cher Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves Stevie Wonder....so many of them Grand Funk Railroad American Band and Locomotion Anything Elton John most of all Bennie and the Jets Doobie Bros Black Water Eagles Hotel California (loved the whole album) Rolling Stones Anything late 60's 70's Boston More than a Feeling Yes Roundabout Frampton Any of the Frampton Comes Alive album The Who Tommy Janis Joplin Anything
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Post by nick on May 29, 2014 20:09:54 GMT -5
Basically anything off of Aerosmith's first 7 albums.
- I would also add Big Ones. When I was 10, almost 11 I got pretty serious about playing guitar, my dad was always playing aerosmith songs around me on guitar that of course sounded awesome to me, so one day when he was at work I grabbed one of his cds which was big ones and I was changed forever. That was the first time I seriously listened to aerosmith, they were played around me but I never really listened as intently as I did that day. After that I had to have and listen to all of their albums. There were songs I didn't really like on that cd even back then but what I heard on there was enough to get me started and make me need to listen to more Aerosmith. I think I had their first 6 albums within that year with the exception of night in the ruts which is one of my favorites.
Funny thing Is, my earliest memory of Aerosmith was when I was 6. I remember my mom had MTV on and the Video for I don't wanna miss a thing came on, and she told me "these guys are good Nick, better than your brothers band" I remember not being toooo impressed lol but I'm pretty sure I thought they sounded good, obviously it stuck with me. Being that I was 6 that was when that song first came out(1998). At that age all I really listened to was my brothers band, they had a sound that was a mix of Alice in Chains, with some early aerosmith, GN'R, Weezer and Nirvana, topped off with some Beatles influence but they definitely had their own feel.
Any Led Zeppelin (most of the time when I listen to them it can bring me right back to being 13 when I REALLY got in to Zeppelin, started buying all of their albums, learning as many of their songs on guitar as I could figure out, being a guitar player they and Aerosmith really changed my life when I was young)
Guns N' Roses everything from AFD through The spaghetti Incident also transport me back to my childhood.
Nirvana brings me back to being very young, literally 3 years old. My brother always used to listen to them, that was back in 95 right after Cobain's death. I think the first full song I learned on guitar was teen spirit when I was 10 or 11.
My older brothers band.
Music and even movies and tv shows always bring me back to a time in the past, whether it is my childhood or even last year (when I was 20). For example Like when I listen to both Zeppelin and Aerosmith not only can it bring me back to my childhood but also to even just last year when I was getting my gf in to both of those bands and we had a lot of good memories while listening to their albums and memories that coincided with that time period where we were always listening to them.
Some others I could mention would be..
Kiss Ozzy Black Sabbath AC/DC The Who The Rolling Stones (spefically under my thumb, Jumpin Jack Flash, Sympathy for the devil, Gimme Shelter, Paint it black, can't always get what you want) I'm actually a bigger fan of the stones now rather than when I was younger though. The Beatles, though I'm a waaaay bigger fan compared to when I first started listening to them when I was 13.
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Post by tomass on May 29, 2014 22:27:53 GMT -5
Cocaine Slip Slide and Away
Anything Kenny Rogers, Peter Paul and Mary or Bee Gees
I actually named my dog Cocaine when I was like 2 or 3 after the song.. They made me call it Cocoa..
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 6:59:29 GMT -5
Loved that album, Tomass. I need to add Wonderful Tonight (which is from that album) as a song..it was my Senior Prom song LOL
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