Songs that bring you back to your childhood

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I can't remember exactly, but the first album I ever bought with my own money was either Alive, or Sugar Hill Gang. Great memories of both.
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Kiss Alive was one of my first albums also . Apparently it was doctored up in the studio but it still sounded way better than the...
Kiss Alive was one of my first albums also . Apparently it was doctored up in the studio but it still sounded way better than the first three studio albums in my opinion. We had the stereo in the basement and spent hours listening to music down there . Good times .
First albums I ever bought were, Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden, Motley Crue’s Too Fast For Love and, Kiss Animalize because of this song. Heavens on Fire.

I got a bunch of clothes for Christmas that were too big. My grandmother took me to return them. I used the cash to pay for the three cassettes.


I can still hear my grandmother yelling, Damien, what the hell are you listening to as the intro of Number of the Beast was playing.
For it is a human number. It’s number is, 666. Seems like yesterday.

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Herb Alpert brings back "Childhood" memories. My parents used to blast his records on their gigantic stereo hi-fi record player. The most stared at album cover in my parents whole record collection Shocked Laughing
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Tyrone lavelle 9/27/2022 6:13pm
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Before rock there was Wagner.
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To this day I still remember the lyrics and melodies from some more classical stuff that my mother introduced me to starting when I was 6 or so. We had a record player and some 78's early on. She began collecting some of these as time went on.

Porgy and Bess.
My Fair Lady
War of 1812 overture
Nutcracker suite.
Music Man

She probably went to her grave thinking that her attempts at stirring my interest in this stuff was a waste of time.
I remember and cherish every bit of it.

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SEEMEFIRST 9/27/2022 7:46pm
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Borg gets it.
The title said "Childhood". Not when you started smoking shitty pot and listening to rock.

For me it was:
Tijuana Brass - Shaped my musical direction.
Dean Martin - No explanation required.
Roger Miller- Had to be there.
Bobbie Gentry- Again, had to be there.
Neil Diamond and BJ Thomas- Same freaking thing. I hated that stuff....top 40.

I was thankfully exposed to guys like Louie Armstrong, and to musical composers who Shaped music from way back, like Chopin, Wagner, Beetoven, etc.

Eclectic is healthy.
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borg wrote:
To this day I still remember the lyrics and melodies from some more classical stuff that my mother introduced me to starting when I was 6...
To this day I still remember the lyrics and melodies from some more classical stuff that my mother introduced me to starting when I was 6 or so. We had a record player and some 78's early on. She began collecting some of these as time went on.

Porgy and Bess.
My Fair Lady
War of 1812 overture
Nutcracker suite.
Music Man

She probably went to her grave thinking that her attempts at stirring my interest in this stuff was a waste of time.
I remember and cherish every bit of it.

I had a little record player when I was a kid (4 or 5). My mom would always play Blondie and, sing. The Tide is High always takes me back.
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borg wrote:
To this day I still remember the lyrics and melodies from some more classical stuff that my mother introduced me to starting when I was 6...
To this day I still remember the lyrics and melodies from some more classical stuff that my mother introduced me to starting when I was 6 or so. We had a record player and some 78's early on. She began collecting some of these as time went on.

Porgy and Bess.
My Fair Lady
War of 1812 overture
Nutcracker suite.
Music Man

She probably went to her grave thinking that her attempts at stirring my interest in this stuff was a waste of time.
I remember and cherish every bit of it.

Chance1216 wrote:
I had a little record player when I was a kid (4 or 5). My mom would always play Blondie and, sing. The Tide is High...
I had a little record player when I was a kid (4 or 5). My mom would always play Blondie and, sing. The Tide is High always takes me back.
Debbie Harry showed me her special place once...

My wife still gets a real kick out of it when I bring it up.

It wasn't bald....
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Chance1216 9/27/2022 8:51pm
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I was nine when my uncle introduced me to Led Zeppelin.
We had a trip planned to go riding and, camping in a place called Gorman for a whole week. He was excited since he just bought a new radio, bought a bunch of cassettes and, a ton of batteries. When we got there he said, grab the radio and, the cassette case. Well, I grabbed the radio but, couldn’t find the cassette case. The look of being stoked disappeared when he realized the case got left at home.
Fortunately, there was one cassette in the radio.
Led Leppelin’s Physical Graffiti. We listened to that cassette every night for a week straight while eating dinner next to the camp fire. Here’s one of my favorites from that album.
Good times for sure. https://youtu.be/pNo1nS_JV5k
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Chance1216 wrote:
I was nine when my uncle introduced me to Led Zeppelin. We had a trip planned to go riding and, camping in a place called Gorman...
I was nine when my uncle introduced me to Led Zeppelin.
We had a trip planned to go riding and, camping in a place called Gorman for a whole week. He was excited since he just bought a new radio, bought a bunch of cassettes and, a ton of batteries. When we got there he said, grab the radio and, the cassette case. Well, I grabbed the radio but, couldn’t find the cassette case. The look of being stoked disappeared when he realized the case got left at home.
Fortunately, there was one cassette in the radio.
Led Leppelin’s Physical Graffiti. We listened to that cassette every night for a week straight while eating dinner next to the camp fire. Here’s one of my favorites from that album.
Good times for sure. https://youtu.be/pNo1nS_JV5k
You could have done worse, for only having one tape that's not a bad choice.

That album takes me back to us just getting drivers licenses on our 16th birthdays and driving around southern california to skateboard spots.Laughing
There's was no "No passengers until you're 18" bs back then Laughing
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profeshenal125 9/27/2022 10:52pm
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A ton of 70,s songs like seasons of summer, brick house - the 1st song I changed lyrics to that I can remember. Crocodile rock I went hyper to that 1. Captain and Tenial - you. Chevy Van song. Ballroom blitz. I joined the Alice Cooper fan club in the late 70,s . I had all his song’s memorized. Black Sabbath greatest hits I bought that at 7 or 8 yrs old. Sweat leave was my favorite song funny I had no idea what the song was about.
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I remember my Dad going out and buying a Curtis Mathes console stereo. That night he took my two sisters and me to Sears to get a couple of records. He got Tennessee Ernie Ford and my sisters bought the first Beatles album. That was my first memory of listening to music at home. That Beatles record got plenty of playing. Later on Dad progressed up to a Glen Campbell album. To this day I hear any of those songs I remember sitting in the floor in front of that stereo and listening to music.
I still have that console stereo in one of my spare rooms. Can’t bring myself to get rid of it. Still have that Beatles album also. Very good memories.
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First album I purchased at 10 y/o....rock on!

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First album I purchased at 10 y/o....rock on! [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/09/28/571002/s1200_61ybI8BGViL.jpg[/img]
First album I purchased at 10 y/o....rock on!

I think I was 9 when we got that one.

Another one I wore out in those days was a 45 by Bad Finger.
My Baby Blue.

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There's alot already said...but...
The monkey's...

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dsmith wrote:
There's alot already said...but...
The monkey's...

I'm a believer.
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Rock Lobster by B52’s and Devo take me back to 5th grade dances.
First concert was Flock of seagulls and the GoGo’s
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https://youtu.be/tk52nGxF-jc

My older brother got a dirt bike and played this “new song” until I thought my Dad would throw the whole damn stereo out the window in our little house. 6 years later I got a dirt bike, found the old album, rinse/repeat.
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Last train to Clarksville.

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motoman617 wrote:
I remember my Dad going out and buying a Curtis Mathes console stereo. That night he took my two sisters and me to Sears to get...
I remember my Dad going out and buying a Curtis Mathes console stereo. That night he took my two sisters and me to Sears to get a couple of records. He got Tennessee Ernie Ford and my sisters bought the first Beatles album. That was my first memory of listening to music at home. That Beatles record got plenty of playing. Later on Dad progressed up to a Glen Campbell album. To this day I hear any of those songs I remember sitting in the floor in front of that stereo and listening to music.
I still have that console stereo in one of my spare rooms. Can’t bring myself to get rid of it. Still have that Beatles album also. Very good memories.
Very cool. My Dad liked Nat King Cole. Woverton Mountain and Clifton Clowers kept him from gettin some.
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My Mom loved Nat King Cole.
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Pennywise - Alien
Andrew WK - ready to die
Fastball - The Way & Slow Drag
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
Living End - Strange
Rob Zombie - Blood, milk and sky
Foo fighters - learn to fly
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Lol, I'm about to blow up your brains.

6th gradeish, 1968

8-track tapes.... Peter, Paul, and Mary's greatest hits....Johnny Horton biggest hits. (Whispering pines, sink the Bismark, battle of new orleans)..how about the streak (don t look ethel!)?
My first album I bought was meatloaf, bat outta hell, Secon d was heart, barracuda, third was beach boys, then cb radio hit and it was cleetus maggard and the citizens band with convoy. New every song on the album from memeory

And I leave this with a you tube video
[url=https://youtu.be/8z9ntoTwQfc]

My step father is Cherokee.... was into all kinds of native amaerican and Indian oppression and he had all kinds of unusual music.

My wife now is Choctaw. I sent her the video and she asked where I got thos effed up vision of indians....lol....

It's weird how life take you do w paths with people and cultures, it's important to learn from them all.

Hope you guys laugh at the video.

Pisto

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My mom had Peter Paul and Mary records that I remember listening to a lot back in the early 70's.

Simon and Garfunkel also. I was a hyper kid and "the sound of silence" intrigued me. Perhaps because I sensed that was what mom longed for.

My dad listened to country. Classic jones, cash, Twitty and others. I watched the Ken burns documentary on PBS about country music and it brought back a lot of memories. Never really thought about Charlie pride being black and what a revolutionary thing that was. Just knew he had good music that I still remember.

I do remember a rather obscure country song that still runs through my head occasionally, but haven't heard on the radio in about 40 years. Billy "crash" Craddock belting out "you rubbed it in all wrong"
. Weird...

I remember in Jr high a boy had one of the old early cassette players blaring a song I thought was just a bunch of racket. I am sure the mono sound probably recorded off the radio didn't do it justice, but it was kiss, and I was not impressed, and never converted.

My first true loves were Ann and nancy wilson. They rocked my world. My heart still speeds up when barracuda plays. My cardiologist should use it for my next stress test. I dreamed of being a magic man.

My brother was into the beatles. They were ok. He also had all the who albums. They rocked, and I still feel like Roger Daltrey is the best male vocalist ever.

Some music I didn't really appreciate at the time, like journey. But as I have gotten older I have learned to enjoy the passion that Steve perry sings with.

I wonder if kids today will remember music of their time like we do ours. I would think that the ease with which they have access to it cheapens it. Waiting for it to come on the,r radio a couple times a day, or having to spend hard earned money to buy music might have made us appreciate it more.

But then we did have Columbia house...lol

I doubt they will be hearing much of it in ads 40 years in the future.

But then I never dreamed hearing Bob sieger, the who, and so many others now, and I know my parents never imagined it.

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Summer 1997. Third eye blind “semi charmed life”. Instant flashback. 14 years old. Nothing mattered but dirtbikes and hanging with friends

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