Which songs or albums did you fuckin LOVE in your childhood, and still do today
Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil
Vega 4- You and Me
Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
The Kills- No Wow
MCR- The Black Parade :P
Now, describe your childhood in four songs.
The first CD I ever bought was Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson when I was 13. Even though the guy has somewhat lost his touch that record is still an absolute classic.
Oh i have that :D
depends how you define "childhood" - the only one I clearly remember is Peter and the Wolf - Prokofiev. But I was young, and it was a long time ago.
I used to think Popcorn was the national anthem of Quebec.
The Underdog Theme song was a favourite cartoon classic.
Spider Man Theme is classic - I wish someone would release all the music from this series.
If you want anything from when I was older than 7, the list would be decidedly different.
The Monkees - Mary Mary
The Doors - Crystal Ship
Vivaldi - 4 Seasons
Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World
I think that was accurate up til about 13-14 when I discovered music with swear words in it.
I get to cheat, cause Im still in my childhood ^^
The Doors. Pretty much everything by The Doors which would explain my tattoo.
Oh, and Music For The Jilted Generation by The Prodigy. That one stayed in my CD player for long stretches at a time.
what I remember listening at 10-11ish that I still listen to. Late 90's was a good time to develop a musical perview I think, the brief period of good stuff on the radio and Tower Records were still alive.
Daisy Chainsaw - You Be My Friend
Though I think I was equally into Onyx and Al B Sure and whatever goth shit was going on at the time, Marylin Manson and Ministry probably. Weird times.
That Daisy Chainsaw song always gets stuck in my head. FOR DAYS.
@jacks - care to elaborate on the tattoo? You've intrigued me.
I umm... well... my favorite album as a kid (and I mean from 2-5 or somewhere around there) was the soundtrack to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Watch this video and see if you don't think it's the greatest movie ever.
I love you Dolly. And I love whores.
After that, the next cassette I remember getting was Wham!'s album "Make It Big".
EDIT
I got it like a year ago.
The first CD's I can remember buying with my money were Weezer (the blue album), Hole - Live Through This, and the Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the infinite Saddness.
I knwo there were others, but that is what I can think of off the top of my head.
Before that, as a little kid, I was really into musicals. Oklahoma!, The Music Man, stuff like that. I still really like musicals...
@avery You have to watch Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, if you haven't already. Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Oh yeah. Ohhhh yeah...
I have seen it - but it was later in life. I think I was in high school. And it was fantastic.
I wish musicals were still popular. South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret.
I wish musicals were still popular. South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret.
+1 on this. Also, Jesus Christ Superstar, which was awesome. Book of Mormon is a popular musical now. Tried to get tickets for my wife and I to see it on Broadway...sold out until 2013, wtf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVz5K63iYDs&feature=related
I always loved this song, but I had no idea what they were talking about until I got older...
Sadly, my musical choices were limited to C&W through my childhood. But with the coming of high school came my own CD player with a built-in radio! I was a free man!
Metallica - One
The Offspring - Come Out and Play
Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live
Bel Biv Devoe!
The soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans was the first CD I ever owned and I still have the same copy. It was part of a joke gift -- I didn't have a CD player, and I unwrap the CD. Polite thanks; inner monologue, 'WTF?' Mom chuckles, grabs the CD boombox from the other room. I proceed to listen to the album over a hundred times.
@J.Y. one of my ex's loved that album. Listened to it a lot - compared to the new country that she also enjoyed, it was the one I would always ask her to put on.
When I was a very small child the Disney Channel used to do these... animated music videos for Beach Boys and Beatles songs. They were the trippiest goddamn things I ever saw and I thought they were great.
When I was growing up though, I had 3 options in radio stations and my primary knowledge about music came from FM radio (I was a shut in... I think they call it "homeschooled"), it was Reggae, Country, or Oldies.
Reggae was alright, but still felt impossibly foreign to me, I've always loved lyrics and outside of Bob Marley you know, those Reggae lyrics aren't so clearly delivered. Reggae has grown on my since, I love reggae now, but I wasn't a huge fan when I was a kid. I quickly developed a visceral hatred for Country music.
Which left me listening exclusively to the smooth sounds of the 50's, 60's and 70's until I was like 12.
The first CD I bought was a copy of the last casette I ever bought. It was Rock Spectacle by the Barenaked Ladies.
The first CD I ever burned was a copy of Dr. Dre's Chronic 2001.
I do not care for South Pacific, or really any musical set West of the Mississippi for that matter. Have you ever seen Pirates of Penzance? I like Gilbert and Sullivan.
There is a particularly good version of the Pirates of Penzance from the 80's with Angela Landsbury, Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt. I was raised watching that musical and I still love it.
@jacks, Nice! Lizard King!
The first CD I ever owned, I won in a free throw contest. It was Joe Public's Live and Learn:
I have very fond memories of listening to it on my boombox while practice my Running Man dance.
@avery & wickedvoodoo--I knew there was a reason I got along with you guys lol Mechanical Animals, Hole's Live through This and Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie are some of my favorite albums ever. That and all the NIN stuff plus Garbage with Shirley Manson. As for childhood though, I grew up in the 80's as a kid so Madonna and Michael Jackson were huge then, the soundtrack to Ghostbusters, MJ's Thriller was my favorite video of all time. I remember having the original Viewmaster of the Thriller video lol Now that makes me feel old. I remember when MJ was black! Then when I was in high school, Nirvana and Pearl Jam were HUGE! Kurt Cobain was still alive when I was in high school so that shows you how old I am. ;p These days, I like Black Keys and Young the Giant and Cage the Elephant and crap. Music inspires me. I like mood music so a lot of Trent Reznor's music without lyrics is really great mood music.
@Dakota--I grew up with the Rolling Stones too, The Doors, Led Zeppelin because that is all my Dad listened to.
@alien - Garbage with Shirley Manson - YES!!! I love everything they ever did. So great.
Garbage
Weezer's blue album
Oasis
Radiohead
Alanis Morrisette
No Doubt
Stabbing Westward
Rem's Monster
I was not cool at all.
This thread makes me feel old.
spence, those are all cool grungy bands. it's better than half the shit out there now. I love avery's thing she posted before about Justin Bieber comparing himself to Kurt Cobain saying he feels like the Kurt of his generation. I'm like, "Please! Go blow your brains out then and save us from your bad music!"
@avery--Garbage is finally doing a new studio album this year. I'm excited to hear what they come up with. their album version 2.0 is my favorite. Those songs are great freeway driving music.
Grunge is king. Ten is one of the only perfect albums, ever. No songs unnecessary, no songs misplaced. Badmotorfinger is close. I listen to what passes for alternative now and...well, I just can't work up much enthusiasm.
The first time I heard Nirvana was in the year 2000.
My first thought was "this kid is weird," and not Cobain, but rather the dude who introduced me to Nirvana. He was a weird kid.
Favourite childhood albums:
The Doors - anything, I discovered my Dad's tapes and records at 12!
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Black
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Pearl Jam - Verses
Pink Floyd - The Darkside of the Moon
Cyprus Hill - Self-Titled
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusions
And on the more embarrassing side - New Kids on the Block and Salt N Pepa
Nowadays, I love the xx, Florence and the Machine, Girltalk and the Fight Club soundtrack is beautiful to write to!
@alien - I didn't know that! I'm excited. After talking about it last night I had to go listen to #1 Crush, I think that is my single favorite song from them. Followed closely by Bleed Like Me
Only 19 but I really started musically developing in middle school. The first Led Zeppelin song I ever heard was Over The Hills and Far Away. It's been love ever since. Led Zeppelin got me into things like folk and blues. Music like Bert Jansch, Muddy Waters, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and things like that. Some guilty pleasures are actually Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil and Rod Stewart. I'm absolutely in love with Laura Marling and The Tallest Man on Earth but I only recently discovered those two artists.
Fix Me Now is my favorite. Or Push It.
@JY " The soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans was the first CD I ever owned and I still have the same copy"
That's crazy, me too!
Which was followed by Rolling Stones, a LOT of Pink Floyd, EVERYTHING Nine Inch Nails, Stabbing Westward, HUGE Garbage fan here, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, M. Manson, I loved the 90's for music.
I'm very pleased to see I'm not the only one who appreciates The Toadies! I worked for an airline once upon a time and they flew in on a flight I worked. I unloaded all this band equipment, being really pissed of about all the oversize and heavy items, and checked the tag on it, "Todd Lewis." I checked their departure and brought my Rubberneck CD to work that day. The counter agent called me when they checked in and I ran out there and talked to them all for about ten minutes. They were super cool and friendly, signed my cd's liner notes. Love that band.
This thread makes me feel old.
Ditto.
Now, describe your childhood in four songs.
No-can-do, but I'll try to do it in four albums:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Band
Exile On Main Street
Ride The Lightning
The Crow Soundtrack (over and over and over)
Fiona Apple
Neil Young
Ministry
The Cure ("Just Like Heaven" is still one of my fav. songs EVER)
The Doors
Judas Priest
Pink Floyd (Meddle is by far my fav. album)
KMFDM
Marilyn Manson
Janis Joplin
Joan Jett ("I Love Rock and Roll" usually finds me playing pool and drinking beer)
Alice in Chains (was always in love with Layne Staley)
It is from these angsty, murky music choices that I gleaned my love for dark writing and poetry.
of note: Brandon Lee's sister later was the singer for this band.
KMFDM - Adios
Wreckless Eric - The Whole Wide World
Goyte - Someone That I Used to Know
Beck
Pearl Jam
Jane's Addiction
Ministry
Ataris
Airbourne Toxic Event
And Many Many More.
"Beck"
Yes.
Totally, Jeff Beck.
From childhood:
Run DMC
NWA
Motley Crue
GNR
Van Halen
Pink Floyd
anything on the oldies station
NIN
Ministry
Front 242
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Live
The Toadies
Dinosaur Jr.
Primus
Sunny Day Real Estate
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Scarface/Geto Boys
Ice-T
The Clash
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Etc...
Anything from Journey's Greatest Hits -- "Don't Stop Believing" and "Wheel in the Sky" especially
"Come Sail Away" by Styx
"Back in the Saddle Again" by Aerosmith
"Someday" by Sugar Ray
U2's The Joshua Tree -- especially "Where the Streets Have No Name"
"Jumper" and "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind
...Pretty random, I guess, but such is childhood. And life in general.
Elementary:
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
Johnny Cash
Middle School:
Korn
Marilyn Manson
Cradle of Filth
High School:
Minor Threat
Dead Kennedys
AFI
Present:
Leonard Cohen
Tom Waits
Nick Cave
I like Kitts approach.
Early, Columbia Record Club:
- Kiss Alive
- Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
- Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
- Peter Frampton Comes Alive
- Rod Stewart 'Blondes Have More Fun'
- Chic 'Le Freak' Savoir Faire
- Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo
Pre-Masturbatory Columbia Record Club:
- Kiss Alive II
- Rush 2112
- The Rolling Stones Some Girls
- Jean Michel Jarre Oxygène
- Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
- The Alan Parsons Project Pyramid
This is going to take awhile.
Stevie Wonder - Lately
Elton John - Your Song
Tchaikovsky - A Time For Us
Deep Purple - Black Knight
Great to see KMFDM get some love in this thread. One of my all time favorite bands.
@Martin how about Skold? Either way, check out Skold vs. KMFDM
