Songs You Loved As A Kid

We all remember (just about!) our first introductions to the vast array of music out there. For me, music was a big deal from an early age. I spent most of my formative years without a television in our house (Mum was a very strict infant teacher who believed TV was bad for a child's education) but I was allowed my own radio from being 6 or 7 years old. A proper transistor radio it was too!

I had the radio on in the car the other night and heard a song that I haven't heard in donkeys years but it took me straight back to being that little kid with the transistor.

This is mine, what song takes you back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVweiOfGJ5A

I'd completely forgotten about that song. So 1978!

I remember hearing this one as a very young kid on the radio as we drove over the Gladesville Bridge c. 1971. Happy hippy child music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4

Awh! Class thread! Music was really important to me too. Not coming from a well off background, music was cheap, accessible and a great escape. We always had records and a radio in the house and it was through my mum and older siblings, I discovered some great music, but I'm definitely an '80s child! I listened to a lot of stuff from earlier decades, but these songs just instantly remind me of my childhood.

The first record I bought was this, although I was partly persuaded by the amazing cover of the record sleeve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scusk3nLh48

This was my fave track on the first album I bought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nn6pp_0MB0

Christmas 1984...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls

My sister had this on 7" single and played it to death!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aWXGS4yFM

My first major crush (Simon Le Bon ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo&ob=av2e

I also had the pleasure of discovering this band in 1984 thanks to my sister's record collection. I remember being mesmerised by this though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIW8qDPhos

I was born in 1990 so most of the stuff I listened to was the Space Jam soundtrack, Backstreet Boys and Nsync.

I was an angry child, so I listened to Linkin Park

Awww...poor Steve.

As a kid I was a lot more into pop and mainstream rock. Here's a few I remember:


Adam and the Ants - Antmusic

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

Paul Hardcastle - 19

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right to Party

Savage Garden - To The Moon and Back

When I was in my early teens/tweens

Ugly Kid Joe - Hate everything about you

As a teenager

Everclear - So much for the Afterglow

Gun - Crazy You

Bush - Glycerine

My favourite song in my teens was

Animal - Def Leppard

I cant tell you what the 1st record i got my parents to buy me was you will laugh .

My taste went odd in my teens - I started listening to the legendary John Peel, and discovered loads of interesting indie bands through him. I was really into the "shoegazing" stuff (Dinosaur Jnr, Ride, My Bloody Valentine...).

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:My favourite song in my teens was

Animal - Def Leppard

cant tell you what the 1st record i got my parents to buy was .

The first album I ever bought myself was Hysteria.

Lighthouse Family - High

If your a bloke and about 30 you will remember this, if you don;t I want to know what the hell you were doing!

Transformers The Movie - Stan Bush, You Got The Touch

Optiums Prime halts the attack of Autobot city, by single handley beating the Decepticon army, before fighting to the death with Megatron, he wins the fight, but dies soon after.

One shall stand, one shall fall!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYuK3AKrxc

Does anyone remember Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus? I bet he wishes we didn't, but I really liked it as a child!

Bom bom bom...byeeeeeaaaah!

Cari wrote:Does anyone remember Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus? I bet he wishes we didn't, but I really liked it as a child!

Bom bom bom...byeeeeeaaaah!

Thats on my list of "most hated" songs.

*begins sticking pins in a Paul McCartney voodoo doll*



Then again, I'm no better. I quite liked Spitting Image's The Chicken Song

Bob Marley - Red Red Wine !

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Bob Marley - Red Red Wine !

Bob Marley never did that song. It was originally Neil Diamond, then covered by Tony Tribe, Jimmy & The Vagabonds and most famously in the '80s by UB40. Was that the one you were thinking of?

Dyre - note: I liked it as a child. I think I'd shrivel up and die if I had to listen to it now. I haven't listened to it since I was little.

Cari wrote:

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Bob Marley - Red Red Wine !

Bob Marley never did that song. It was originally Neil Diamond, then covered by Tony Tribe, Jimmy & The Vagabonds and most famously in the '80s by UB40. Was that the one you were thinking of?

Dyre - note: I liked it as a child. I think I'd shrivel up and die if I had to listen to it now. I haven't listened to it since I was little.

I heard ya Cari - but Frog Chorus annoyed me as a kid too. Plus I admitted to liking the Chicken Song...still do as a matter of fact...

The Chicken Song was genius to be fair. It totally took the pish out of novelty records and was a huge hit anyway. I didn't buy it, but I remember reading the lyrics in Smash Hits. Bizarrely I can still sing them now!

Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a thousand men

all together now ..............

Hoorah, Hoorah , Hoorah Yea ............. Over the hills with the swords of a thousand men

Funny enough I remember when I was ten I heard set you free by N - trance and loved it then. Still one of my favourites to this day.

First track I ever bought was China Black-Searching and I still have it on cassette.