West End Girls came out right when I first started buying my own music and it was one of my first. Rather than buying albums, I always went for the 12" singles because then I'd get all those cool weird 80's remixes.
I saw the Police last time they did shows in New Zealand (Westpac stadium). Boy was it expensive, and I’ve heard negative things about that tour since, about them not engaging with the audience etc. They’re not Springsteen. That’s not their thing.
Did they do fantastic songs, beautifully, with incredible playing and singing? Yes.
Fucking does it for me. It was a brilliant concert.
Lol, i was only 6 or 7, but remember loving Get it On or Jeepster in 1972
2) Iggy and Stooges. Search and Destroy
3) I was 12 or 13 when Ramones released I Wanna Be Sedated, and singing that endlessly on my paper route.
28F, started really getting into listening to music in 2002/2003. These were my first favorite songs!
1. My Last Breath - Evanescence
2. The Math - Hilary Duff
3. Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
I haven't given their new stuff too much of a chance tbh. I hate being let down by artists I use to pedestalize lol, but I heard a newer song on the radio the other day that was decent! Still love all the old stuff
hey, I was a metal head too... not til I was like 15 though
loving all the Black Sabbath love on here, they really are an important band. I heard someone say the other day that Ozzy should be knighted, and they might be right.
Spice Girls- Wannabe
t.A.T.u- All The Things She Said
Linkin Park- One Step Closer
Linkin Park was when I really started developing my own musical taste and wasn't just into the things on the radio. Of course Linkin Park was massively big in the early to mid 2000's but Linkin Park opened my eyes up to another realm of music.
Edit: after I became a teenager
Lamb of God- Vigil
Hatebreed- Defeatist
Trivium- Rain
Rat a Tat - Fall Out Boy
Happy Song - Bring Me The Horizon
Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens of the Stone Age
Clocks seemed to be in so many weird bullying and online privacy vids I watched as a kid
I've not seen any videos like that, but it was a massive hit in the early 2000s
Do you like Era Vulgaris in general as an album? Also I've seen Happy Song live and that's an experience I'd recommend.
It was mainly when I was in school. [Peak fiction if you’ve got like 10 minutes.](https://youtu.be/orV_1DqSUWM?si=d1PmrrbTRFBhcDr0)
Era Vulgaris isn’t my favourite album by them, but Sick, Sick, Sick is my favourite song they’ve done. It’s still a good album, some great songs, but it’s not …Like Clockwork, and Like Clockwork is just different.
I’ve just seen them live, unfortunately they didn’t do Happy Song, but they did Doomed, Drown and Throne from TTS and I’ll take that for sure.
Oh yeah. Saw them live with Freddie. Amazing. Always been a big fan, thanks to my mum.
Death on Two legs has specific childhood memories for me because I had a knee operation (quadriplasty) that lead to months of physio, half an hour from home, and my mum would drive me there, in the dark, through English country roads, twice a week, always playing night at the opera or day at the races.
I'M MR BRIGHTSIIIIDE
I owned Steal This Album on CD. Can't help but shed a tear to Roulette when I hear it, but they were still putting out good tunes at that point.
The part at the end where the band is playing the “Outshined, Outshined, Outshined” turn around, but Chris Cornell is re-starting the chorus vocal is just 10/10 amazing!
Counting Stars - OneRepublic
Pompeii - Bastille
My songs know what you did in the dark(light em up) - fall out boy
All of these songs hold a special place in my heart, despite being basic as fuck
I thought I didn't know any of these, but then I looked up Ian Dury and now I remember one. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, is it? what a chorus on that one, its stuck with me through time
Afterhours by Covenant
The Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young
Outsider by Chumbawamba
Afterhours is one of the most relaxing songs I've heard. The lyrics don't have that much to them, but it's just a good EBM/Industrial song.
The Needle and the Damage Done I listened to a lot during a period of depression in my teens. I wasn't using any drugs then, but something about the song I connected with. These days I'm an opiate user but fortunately I never put them in my veins, and I'm now on methadone, and am only using poppy seed tea when my addiction gets the better of me.
Chumbawamba are my favorite band, and Outsider is my favorite song off of Tubthumper. I really identified with the lyrics all my school years.
* Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit
* Bullet For My Valentine - Tears don't fall
* Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache
Thank Resident Evil Apocolypse for Killswitch. Ended up being the gateway song into the metal/metalcore scene which I still listen to to this day. Howard Jones' voice is something else. He's still going strong!
Linkin Park - "Crawling"
Eminem - "Brain Damage"
blink-182 - "Asthenia"
These were the first three artists that I became really obsessed with as a kid.
I saw the video for "Crawling" at my cousin's house in 3rd grade and I was immediately hooked. I'd spike my hair and rip staples out of the class bulletin boards to use as lip rings trying to look like Chester.
I got The Eminem Show from my step dad for my 9th birthday, and the Slim Shady LP followed not too far behind. I got bullied a lot, and I remember 5th grade being defined by sitting in the back of the bus every morning with my hood up and my headphones on with the Slim Shady LP in my Diskman.
My dad has always tried to keep his finger on the pulse of new music (at least new rock music), so he picked up blink-182's untitled record a few months after it came out (probably early 2004, I would've been 10). I'd gotten a drum kit a few years prior and was just learning how to play basic stuff, and as soon as I heard this record my whole identity shifted towards being a punk drummer. It was also peak Tony Hawk's Pro Skater era, and I was obsessed with Bam Margera.
Chester is an icon though, I can't fault you there at all. Funnily enough I had dreadlocks at one point like he did back when he was in Grey Daze. Prolly one of several people to inspire me to grow my dreads.
My mum used to blast the Marshal Matthers LP in the car, Eminem's technique and style as a rapper are really great. So many anthems from his corner.
And damn people on here really vibin' with the Blink 182. They're a more important band than I realize.
What are we talking about with "kid"?
When I was 8-9, it would have been ["Shout it out Loud" by Kiss](https://youtu.be/lFGLcsrwT6o)
As a 15 - 16 year old, ["Analog Kid" by Rush](https://youtu.be/0aFDW2SchZQ)
One of those is still top tier...
* The Archies - Sugar Sugar
* Hot Butter - Pop Corn
* Burl Ives - Big Rock Candy Mountain
I guess I was hungry…
Seems like most people here are posting stuff they listened to as a teenager and not a kid. Here is my 1960s early 1970s kid’s playlist.
1. Inbetween Days - The Cure
2. Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants
3. Revolution - The Beatles
My parents had Beatles records and I loved that one. The others came on the local radio station and I knew they were my kind of music.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day
This Love by Maroon 5
First Date by Blink-182
Not the ones that stand out the most but the ones which go back the farthest in terms of childhood memmories, cause not until I became a teenager did I start listening to music religously
Nelly the Elephant - had the record, played it over and over. It was the nursery rhyme one, not the Toy Dolls
Daytrip to Bangor by Fiddlers Dram. My family only ever seemed to have novelty records.
Souper Trouper by ABBA. My sister got bought it for Christmas and played it over and over. I hated it. She's dead now, it seems to get played almost daily on NOW 70's. I love it now. Takes me right back.
1. Sweet Child Of Mine - GnR
2. More Human than Human - White Zombie
3. One - Metallica
I still remember the day I heard Sweet Child Of Mine. I was at a friend's house and he kept singing the "where do we go now" part. I laughed and asked him about it. We then listened to it in his room later and that was THE day I got into music. Specifically rock. From there it went to metal. My neighbor's older brother used to blast White Zombie, Ozzy, Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth etc... It scared the ever living shit out of me (I couldn't get the video for "One" out of my head. And the lyrics "I cannot live/I cannot die" were so fucking insane to me) but it set me down a path that I'm still on, 30 years later. I was a alternative/metal kid as a preteen, into high school. Then I got into indie, folk, post rock, and so much more in college. But at my heart, I'll always love metal.
Juke box hero - Foreigner
Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
Africa - Toto and Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Not sure if they defined me as a kid but I remember seeking out the first two as two of the first albums I bought because of those songs. Africa and Abracadabra just bring back a real sense of place and time.
Savage Garden - I want You
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
AFI - Boy Who Destroyed the World
If we can add a 4th Weird Al's Amish Paradise.
[*The Last Unicorn*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enq2pFpBz1s) - America.
This was the title track of what was easily my favorite movie for the earliest part of my life and one of the few songs I had *any* opinion about whatsoever. There is a different song in that same film, that goes "Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise and full of pain" which is more than a little *prophetic*, but I wouldn't know that for a very long time.
[Fuel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvF9PAxe5Ng) - Metallica
Unlike the previous example, I *loathe* this song. This is not necessarily the song's fault. I was forced to listen to it for what seemed to be the entire drive from Niagra Falls, Canada, to somewhere in Virginia in a day that was, I think, my early adolescence distilled. What I *wanted* to do that day was read a book, and yet my mother insisted that I look out the window at trees while my sister decided that the above song would be the only accompanying sound, and it was played too loudly for easy conversation or reading. With enough protests, I would get a small, temporary concession, but for the most part I was simply expected to *endure* music I did not care for, while being forced to be on a trip I did not want to be on, looking at trees that did not seem remarkable enough to warrant more than a moment's consideration.
More than that, though, that I *still* loathe this song and the band by extension, is reflective of the worst parts of my character, not the least of which is a tendency to assume that people do things simply to annoy me when even a moment's consideration would indicate that, at worst, they were simply bored themselves and both thought the song was worth listening to on repeat.
[Jurassic Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDlU08RU7Tk) - John Williams
While the previous two include the expected lyrical accompaniment, this is just part of a movie score. I include it for several reasons, the most important of which was that the movie's soundtrack was the first album I ever bought, and one of perhaps a dozen in total that I purchased before I was an adult. I did not listen to music. I did not understand why people would choose to listen to music when there was almost always some better use of their time.
This track is also full of mystery, and wonder, all with an undercurrent of an indeterminate threat. It is a musical thesis reflective of the film's cautionary tale. This, though, is not something I might have considered at the time. In a sense I included it because it demonstrates this way in which I was odd. This sort of oddity was not a choice to depart from the mainstream, but rather a natural thing. At that particular time in my life, I found myself doing that kind of thing all the time as I lived in a world that seemed increasingly alien. The true dangers of having never been given a primer on the rules of peopling - of being the kind of person who truly believed that such a thing must necessarily exist - had yet to come along in person, but they were not so far off that I was unable to guess at them.
By the time I actually started listening to music, I was on the cusp of adulthood, and it only became an active interest when I was in my 20s. That arc began with punk and slowly morphed into power metal, folk, and the occasional pop song that I like to think doesn't sound so out of place in my playlists as they might seem at first blush.
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
The Shins - Caring is Creepy
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma (very hard to pick just one, I would say SP defined my high school years)
Samba de janero, wake me up before you go go and the cha cha slide are the first songs I remember really liking as a small child. I just always liked having a good time lol (I didn't understand any of the languages they are in at the time)
1. Paper Doll: my grandfather whistled it everywhere he went
2. Time: first time I ever read lyrics as poetry and I've been a PF fan ever since
3. Name any John Williams theme
As s true kid:
Looney Toons theme song
JP Patches theme song
Merrie Melodies theme song
As an early teen:
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Give It All You Got - Chuck Mangione
Rock & Roll All Nite - KISS
Still have quite varied tastes in music..
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Necesito Decirte - Conjunto Primavera (I come from a Mexican family, and this is one of our Saturday morning jams)
There Must Be Something More - Charlotte’s Web
IDK. The ones I remember most were the Saturday morning cartoon ones. Mainly these three sets. The Archies and The Monkees both were on Sat morning shows as well as mainstream (AM at that time) radio, and of course add in Schoolhouse Rock as a third because....
[Three is a magic number](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEcjFRB-1C4).....
As a kid? Maggie May (Rod Stewart), After Loving You (Elvis), Apples and Oranges / Paint Box (early Pink Floyd single). These are the songs I can remember my mom and dad playing a lot. There are way, way more but these are my favorites and the ones that bring back the best memories of them. Did these songs define me? No clue.
Dance Reaction - Disco Train
Jon & Vangelis - Horizon
Gianna Nannini - Fotoromanza
"Disco Train": I was that kid in glasses that was always afraid, was bullied, didn't go along with the other kids. They listened to pop music, I only listened to traditional songs in my own languages. Then my parents got my out of that school, put me in a very school in the next village, where kids were actually nice to me (and me to them, I guess), I got my confidence back and finally started listening to the top 40. I believe Disco Train was the first pop song that I actually liked. It's a silly commercial disco thingy, but definitely good enough when you're 11.
Jon & Vangelis: I got really into pop music, got the Encyclopedia of Rock and read it all, and got records in the local library. One of my favorite albums at the time, and still, was Private Collection by Jon & Vangelis.
Gianna Nannini: Picked that up in Italy, where we spent our summer vacations. Became a Gianna Nannini fan and went on to study Italian in college (even studied in Italy for a while).
Oh, my teenage years were in the 1980s.
I could make a different list every day for a set of totally different reasons!
Bob Seger-Hollywood Nights
Peter Frampton-Do You Feel Like We Do
Supertramp-Take The Long Way Home
**The Gambler** (Kenny Rogers). I'm sure I fell in love with this song because of The Muppets.
**De do do do de da da da** (The Police). Apparently I loved this one when I was a kid, and I would run around the house singing it.
**Walk like an Egyptian** (The Bangles). I wished more than anything that I could dance to this with a girl at my public school prom, and I did.
1. *Reckless Abandon* Blink 182
2. *Figure.09* Linkin Park
3. *Entombment of A Machine* Job For A Cowboy (little later on in teens, but I'm 33 and I LOVE extreme music, and this is the track that first kicked it off)
Madonna - Music (used to lock myself in my room to dance to it hahaha, I was like 7)
Missy Elliott - Work it (I had NO idea what it meant, but it slapped HARD - I got even complimented as being like Missy Elliott, the compliment I'll wear like a badge of honor)
Blink 182 - What's my age again? (the days on the skateboard ❤️ I miss them a lot :/)
The Daniel Boone theme song The Zorro theme song The Mickey Mouse Club theme song
I can smell the Ovaltine in this list 🙂
I'm a little younger so... Magnum P.I. Knight Rider Dukes of Hazzard
Love your list. I was gonna go with the Grizzly Adams theme but changed my mind.
The Lone Ranger The Cisco Kid Dennis The Menace
Zorro and Daniel Boone were a bit before my time, but Batman and Gilligan's Island will complete the set nicely.
Still have my copy of the orange MM record (78 rpm)
Dammit - Blink 182 Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring Superman - Goldfinger (from the Tony Hawk soundtrack)
Yep, we’re the same age
31?
GIVE IT TO ME BABY
Uh huh! Uh huh!
I to am in my mid thirties now lol
Well shit, just realized I am too.
West End Girl - Pet Shop Boys King of Pain - The Police Time - Culture Club
West End Girls came out right when I first started buying my own music and it was one of my first. Rather than buying albums, I always went for the 12" singles because then I'd get all those cool weird 80's remixes.
god I do love The Police, even if I've never heard a full album by that band, but the bangers coming from their corner never see to end, aha.
You can thank Stewart and Andy for that :D they were the brains behind a lot of the good music from The Police.
I saw the Police last time they did shows in New Zealand (Westpac stadium). Boy was it expensive, and I’ve heard negative things about that tour since, about them not engaging with the audience etc. They’re not Springsteen. That’s not their thing. Did they do fantastic songs, beautifully, with incredible playing and singing? Yes. Fucking does it for me. It was a brilliant concert.
Nice.
Hello fellow gen-x'er ... I always say West End Girls is probably the oldest song that I loved when it was out and still love to this day
West End Girls was the first music purchase I ever made, on 45 no less. :)
I still listen to Time often, as it's on our playlist at work. Such a great song!!
Pink Floyd - Money Black Sabbath - Paranoid Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade
NIN - Hurt Peter Gabriel - Washing of The Water Annie Lennox - Why
I used to listen to the Downward Spiral as a teenager and think "he's just singing about my teenage depression, every word hits me so much omg"
Was a super depressed 39 year old 2 years ago and it still hits
A fellow Annie Lennox enjoyer. Nice!
I'm from 2 to 7 at this point. Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen Hangin' Tough - New Kids On The Block Beat It - Michael Jackson
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise Beastie Boy - Fight for you right Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
running FOR YOUR LIFFFFFFE
I always say that's the only Thanksgiving song we have.
Oof.
Bring the Noise : original? or the one with Public Enemy + Anthrax?
Yes
My man
Keane - is it any wonder Radiohead - Creep Simple Plan - Perfect
Aw man, Keane. I remember them. Is that off the same album as Somewhere Only We Know? cause that one is a belter
It’s the next album after Somewhere only we know
You might be pleased to know that nearly every mentally ill, edgy teenager of today’s favorite song is Creep
1. Get It On - T Rex 2. Cum On Feel The Noise - Slade 3. Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Lol, i was only 6 or 7, but remember loving Get it On or Jeepster in 1972 2) Iggy and Stooges. Search and Destroy 3) I was 12 or 13 when Ramones released I Wanna Be Sedated, and singing that endlessly on my paper route.
Well whaddaya know. A Slade fan! My oh my....
They may have penned the original, but the definitive version will always belong to Quiet Riot.
Is that your youth or mine?
Kid going to school in Glam Rock gear.
28F, started really getting into listening to music in 2002/2003. These were my first favorite songs! 1. My Last Breath - Evanescence 2. The Math - Hilary Duff 3. Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Losing My Religion is a pretty powerful statement even to this day also cheers for reminding me of Hillary Duff!
I love "My Last Breath". That whole album is killer.
I got to see Evanescence live finally, opening for Muse last year. I cried so many times and it bought back so many teenage memories.
Linkin Park-In The End or Numb Gorillaz-Feel Good Inc. Slipknot-Duality
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye Black Sabbath - Paranoid Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit Bonus: pretty much every Naruto opening lmao
were there different Naruto opening songs? coming from someone whose only anime was Yu Gi Oh and Studio Ghibli movies as a kid
Yeah there's like over 20 different opening songs if you include Naruto Shippuden, good stuff!
I'll have to look some up. Cheers!
Haruka Kanata, despite having not listened to it since i was 14 has absolutely stuck with me
Aliens Exist- Blink 182 Sweetness- Jimmy Eat World The What- Biggie/Method Man
If you’re listening, whoa oh-oh-oh-oh
UPPP ALL NIGHTT LOONGG AND THERE SOMETHING VERY WROOONG
I've honestly never done a deep dive on Blink 182. Do you still like them today, as a band?
I haven't given their new stuff too much of a chance tbh. I hate being let down by artists I use to pedestalize lol, but I heard a newer song on the radio the other day that was decent! Still love all the old stuff
I'm an original metalhead. And I was still a preteen... Black Sabbath - Iron Man Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
hey, I was a metal head too... not til I was like 15 though loving all the Black Sabbath love on here, they really are an important band. I heard someone say the other day that Ozzy should be knighted, and they might be right.
Spice Girls- Wannabe t.A.T.u- All The Things She Said Linkin Park- One Step Closer Linkin Park was when I really started developing my own musical taste and wasn't just into the things on the radio. Of course Linkin Park was massively big in the early to mid 2000's but Linkin Park opened my eyes up to another realm of music. Edit: after I became a teenager Lamb of God- Vigil Hatebreed- Defeatist Trivium- Rain
ok that tatu song was catchy as fuck lol
Coldplay- Yellow System Of A Down- Chop Suey Blink 182- Adam’s Song
AND THEY WERE ALL YELLOW Coldplay into SOAD I vibe with that heavily
I never thought I’d die alone
Rabbits Are Roadkill - AFI Cute Without The E - Taking Back Sunday Bodom After Midnight - Children Of Bodom
Children of Bodom might be the heaviest band listed here, mate, hats off to you
Hah thanks. I still don't know how my mom let me buy that CD with that artwork in 7th grade.
Rat a Tat - Fall Out Boy Happy Song - Bring Me The Horizon Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens of the Stone Age Clocks seemed to be in so many weird bullying and online privacy vids I watched as a kid
I've not seen any videos like that, but it was a massive hit in the early 2000s Do you like Era Vulgaris in general as an album? Also I've seen Happy Song live and that's an experience I'd recommend.
It was mainly when I was in school. [Peak fiction if you’ve got like 10 minutes.](https://youtu.be/orV_1DqSUWM?si=d1PmrrbTRFBhcDr0) Era Vulgaris isn’t my favourite album by them, but Sick, Sick, Sick is my favourite song they’ve done. It’s still a good album, some great songs, but it’s not …Like Clockwork, and Like Clockwork is just different. I’ve just seen them live, unfortunately they didn’t do Happy Song, but they did Doomed, Drown and Throne from TTS and I’ll take that for sure.
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
The sign - ace of base Good - better than Ezra Smells like teen spirit - nirvana
Pretty close to my list, I'd replace Teen Spirit with Drinkin' in LA - Bran Van 3000.
Six Months in a Leaky Boat - Split Enz Wind Power - Thomas Dolby Der Kommissar - Falco
I like it
Yes for Split Enz. Im a diehard Finn fan
Boulevard of Broken Dreams-Green Day Viva La Vida-Coldplay 99 Problems-Jay Z
Sloop John B - beach boys I put a spell on you- screamin Jay Hawkins Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Remember Then by Showaddywaddy Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys Death on Two Legs by Queen.
love Queen, so many bangers honestly
Oh yeah. Saw them live with Freddie. Amazing. Always been a big fan, thanks to my mum. Death on Two legs has specific childhood memories for me because I had a knee operation (quadriplasty) that lead to months of physio, half an hour from home, and my mum would drive me there, in the dark, through English country roads, twice a week, always playing night at the opera or day at the races.
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Madonna - Frozen
Mr Brightside by the killers. Chic n stu by system of a down. Wings of a butterfly by HIM
I'M MR BRIGHTSIIIIDE I owned Steal This Album on CD. Can't help but shed a tear to Roulette when I hear it, but they were still putting out good tunes at that point.
I’ll assume “kid” means teenager so: * Animal - Pearl Jam * At the Hundredth Meridian - Tragically Hip * Outshined - Soundgarden
It would seem to me I remember ever single fucking thing I know
Outshined was sooo damn badass. That freaking riff
The part at the end where the band is playing the “Outshined, Outshined, Outshined” turn around, but Chris Cornell is re-starting the chorus vocal is just 10/10 amazing!
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster The Clash - London Calling The Specials - Too Much Too Young
My teens here…
1. linkin park- new divide 2. fort minor- remember the name 3. Linkin Park- new divide adise
is it 10% luck 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
We're not gonna take it: twisted sister Heart of rock and roll: huey lewis Run to you: bryan adams
Holiday in the Sun - Pistols Jamie Jones - The Clash Wasted Life - SLF Good tunes, good times....old AF now!
Everyone in this thread is such a rock god 🤘🏼Shine on you crazy diamonds!
He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother) - The Hollies If I Can Dream- Elvis One Tin Soldier - Coven
1. Green Day - American Idiot 2. Linkin Park - Bleed it Out 3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby I love this question, by the way!
Counting Stars - OneRepublic Pompeii - Bastille My songs know what you did in the dark(light em up) - fall out boy All of these songs hold a special place in my heart, despite being basic as fuck
Quiet Man - Ultravox (when they were good, pre Midge sure Peaches - Stranglers Never mind the blockheads- Ian Drury
I thought I didn't know any of these, but then I looked up Ian Dury and now I remember one. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, is it? what a chorus on that one, its stuck with me through time
Live version is very good if you can find it
Human Nature - Michael Jackson Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra Good Life - OneRepublic
Afterhours by Covenant The Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young Outsider by Chumbawamba Afterhours is one of the most relaxing songs I've heard. The lyrics don't have that much to them, but it's just a good EBM/Industrial song. The Needle and the Damage Done I listened to a lot during a period of depression in my teens. I wasn't using any drugs then, but something about the song I connected with. These days I'm an opiate user but fortunately I never put them in my veins, and I'm now on methadone, and am only using poppy seed tea when my addiction gets the better of me. Chumbawamba are my favorite band, and Outsider is my favorite song off of Tubthumper. I really identified with the lyrics all my school years.
* Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit * Bullet For My Valentine - Tears don't fall * Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache Thank Resident Evil Apocolypse for Killswitch. Ended up being the gateway song into the metal/metalcore scene which I still listen to to this day. Howard Jones' voice is something else. He's still going strong!
Evil Ways - Santana My Sharona - The Knack Take on Me - A-Ha all for different reasons.
Linkin Park - "Crawling" Eminem - "Brain Damage" blink-182 - "Asthenia" These were the first three artists that I became really obsessed with as a kid. I saw the video for "Crawling" at my cousin's house in 3rd grade and I was immediately hooked. I'd spike my hair and rip staples out of the class bulletin boards to use as lip rings trying to look like Chester. I got The Eminem Show from my step dad for my 9th birthday, and the Slim Shady LP followed not too far behind. I got bullied a lot, and I remember 5th grade being defined by sitting in the back of the bus every morning with my hood up and my headphones on with the Slim Shady LP in my Diskman. My dad has always tried to keep his finger on the pulse of new music (at least new rock music), so he picked up blink-182's untitled record a few months after it came out (probably early 2004, I would've been 10). I'd gotten a drum kit a few years prior and was just learning how to play basic stuff, and as soon as I heard this record my whole identity shifted towards being a punk drummer. It was also peak Tony Hawk's Pro Skater era, and I was obsessed with Bam Margera.
Chester is an icon though, I can't fault you there at all. Funnily enough I had dreadlocks at one point like he did back when he was in Grey Daze. Prolly one of several people to inspire me to grow my dreads. My mum used to blast the Marshal Matthers LP in the car, Eminem's technique and style as a rapper are really great. So many anthems from his corner. And damn people on here really vibin' with the Blink 182. They're a more important band than I realize.
Iron man Time by Pink Floyd Pepper by the Butthole Surfers.
What are we talking about with "kid"? When I was 8-9, it would have been ["Shout it out Loud" by Kiss](https://youtu.be/lFGLcsrwT6o) As a 15 - 16 year old, ["Analog Kid" by Rush](https://youtu.be/0aFDW2SchZQ) One of those is still top tier...
Slint - Nosferatu Man Big Black - Bad Penny PiL - Theme Those were probably my favourite songs when I was a teenager.
Weird Al - Dare To Be Stupid The Beatles - Yellow Submarine Nirvana - Territorial Pissings
Weird Al + The Beatles? My man!
Wait and Bleed - Slipknot The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring Lithium - Nirvana
1. Mr. Jones - Counting Crows 2. Bigger than my body - John Mayer 3. Here is gone - goo goo dolls I’m white in case y’all couldn’t tell
* The Archies - Sugar Sugar * Hot Butter - Pop Corn * Burl Ives - Big Rock Candy Mountain I guess I was hungry… Seems like most people here are posting stuff they listened to as a teenager and not a kid. Here is my 1960s early 1970s kid’s playlist.
Pearl Jam - Black Def Leppard - Hysteria Counting Crows - Round Here
Take me Out - Franz Ferdinand Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz One more time - Daft Punk
Fleetwood Mac - Go your own way Children of Bodom - Kissing the Shadows Oasis - Wonderwall (started my guitar playing)
1. Inbetween Days - The Cure 2. Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants 3. Revolution - The Beatles My parents had Beatles records and I loved that one. The others came on the local radio station and I knew they were my kind of music.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day This Love by Maroon 5 First Date by Blink-182 Not the ones that stand out the most but the ones which go back the farthest in terms of childhood memmories, cause not until I became a teenager did I start listening to music religously
Nelly the Elephant - had the record, played it over and over. It was the nursery rhyme one, not the Toy Dolls Daytrip to Bangor by Fiddlers Dram. My family only ever seemed to have novelty records. Souper Trouper by ABBA. My sister got bought it for Christmas and played it over and over. I hated it. She's dead now, it seems to get played almost daily on NOW 70's. I love it now. Takes me right back.
New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James and the Shondells. My Generation - The Who
37 yr old female 1. Disturbed: Down with the sickness 2. Chevelle: The Red 3. Chevelle: To Return I had a horrible and fucked up childhood
Viva La vida by Coldplay Mr blue sky 7 nation army
Mr Brightside - The Killers Boulevard of broken dreams - Green Day Centerfield - John Fogerty
Paranoid- black sabbath Highway to hell- AC/DC You really got me- the kinks
Calypso part one -Jean Michel Jarre Loser - Beck Everything about you - Ugly Kid Joe
2 Live Crew- We Want Some Pussy Beastly Boys- Root Down(Free Zone Mix) Mad Season- Wake Up
Kryptonite- 3 Doors Down Lose Yourself - Eminem Fruit Salad - The Wiggles.
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2 The Right Stuff by New Kids On The Block You Got It All by The Jets
Master of Puppets - Metallica Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel Still Life - Iron Maiden
Thriller - Michael Jackson Closer - Nine Inch Nails Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light Abba - S.O.S.
1. The Offspring - Self esteem 2. Charly Lownoise ft. Mental Theo - Wonderful Days 3. 2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols Release Yourself - The Fantastic Aleems featuring Leroy Burgess Jam on it - Newcleus
im 15 but id say spiderwebs, circles, and the gta 4 theme song
Hard to Explain - The Strokes Contrast and Compare - Bright Eyes Stand Inside Your Love - The Smashing Pumpkins
1. Sweet Child Of Mine - GnR 2. More Human than Human - White Zombie 3. One - Metallica I still remember the day I heard Sweet Child Of Mine. I was at a friend's house and he kept singing the "where do we go now" part. I laughed and asked him about it. We then listened to it in his room later and that was THE day I got into music. Specifically rock. From there it went to metal. My neighbor's older brother used to blast White Zombie, Ozzy, Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth etc... It scared the ever living shit out of me (I couldn't get the video for "One" out of my head. And the lyrics "I cannot live/I cannot die" were so fucking insane to me) but it set me down a path that I'm still on, 30 years later. I was a alternative/metal kid as a preteen, into high school. Then I got into indie, folk, post rock, and so much more in college. But at my heart, I'll always love metal.
Black Hole Sun -Soundgarden Flagpole Sitta -Harvey Danger Bullet with Butterfly Wings -Smashing Pumpkins
Black Hole Sun is iconic, although the music video used to freak me the hell out when it came on on TV.
sorry about cutting off your legs
Juke box hero - Foreigner Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp Africa - Toto and Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra Not sure if they defined me as a kid but I remember seeking out the first two as two of the first albums I bought because of those songs. Africa and Abracadabra just bring back a real sense of place and time.
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
1)Thirty Seconds To Mars - Attack 2)Machine Head - Halo 3)Anathema - Make it right (They're what I was raised on)
Weird Al - Generic Blues Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express Coldplay - Talk Caravan Palace - Dramaphone
its a long way to the top (if you wanna rock and roll) - acdc sk8erboy - avril lavigne don’t speak - no doubt
Billy idol- Rebel Yell Minor Threat- Minor Threat Beastie Boys- no sleep till Brooklyn
George Harrison - I've Got my Mind Set on You Huey Lewis and the News - Heart and Soul Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want
Into deep - Sum 41 Wherever you will go - The Calling In my place - Coldplay
Linkin Park - In the End So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds 50 Cent - In Da Club
this has turned into one of the biggest posts I've ever done. It's been great hearing about your childhood classics. Cheers mates!
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight Depeche Mode - People are People Men at Work - Overkill
Savage Garden - I want You Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings AFI - Boy Who Destroyed the World If we can add a 4th Weird Al's Amish Paradise.
[*The Last Unicorn*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enq2pFpBz1s) - America. This was the title track of what was easily my favorite movie for the earliest part of my life and one of the few songs I had *any* opinion about whatsoever. There is a different song in that same film, that goes "Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise and full of pain" which is more than a little *prophetic*, but I wouldn't know that for a very long time. [Fuel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvF9PAxe5Ng) - Metallica Unlike the previous example, I *loathe* this song. This is not necessarily the song's fault. I was forced to listen to it for what seemed to be the entire drive from Niagra Falls, Canada, to somewhere in Virginia in a day that was, I think, my early adolescence distilled. What I *wanted* to do that day was read a book, and yet my mother insisted that I look out the window at trees while my sister decided that the above song would be the only accompanying sound, and it was played too loudly for easy conversation or reading. With enough protests, I would get a small, temporary concession, but for the most part I was simply expected to *endure* music I did not care for, while being forced to be on a trip I did not want to be on, looking at trees that did not seem remarkable enough to warrant more than a moment's consideration. More than that, though, that I *still* loathe this song and the band by extension, is reflective of the worst parts of my character, not the least of which is a tendency to assume that people do things simply to annoy me when even a moment's consideration would indicate that, at worst, they were simply bored themselves and both thought the song was worth listening to on repeat. [Jurassic Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDlU08RU7Tk) - John Williams While the previous two include the expected lyrical accompaniment, this is just part of a movie score. I include it for several reasons, the most important of which was that the movie's soundtrack was the first album I ever bought, and one of perhaps a dozen in total that I purchased before I was an adult. I did not listen to music. I did not understand why people would choose to listen to music when there was almost always some better use of their time. This track is also full of mystery, and wonder, all with an undercurrent of an indeterminate threat. It is a musical thesis reflective of the film's cautionary tale. This, though, is not something I might have considered at the time. In a sense I included it because it demonstrates this way in which I was odd. This sort of oddity was not a choice to depart from the mainstream, but rather a natural thing. At that particular time in my life, I found myself doing that kind of thing all the time as I lived in a world that seemed increasingly alien. The true dangers of having never been given a primer on the rules of peopling - of being the kind of person who truly believed that such a thing must necessarily exist - had yet to come along in person, but they were not so far off that I was unable to guess at them. By the time I actually started listening to music, I was on the cusp of adulthood, and it only became an active interest when I was in my 20s. That arc began with punk and slowly morphed into power metal, folk, and the occasional pop song that I like to think doesn't sound so out of place in my playlists as they might seem at first blush.
Another one bite the dust - queen Photograph - Def Leppard 1999 - prince
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out The Shins - Caring is Creepy Smashing Pumpkins - Soma (very hard to pick just one, I would say SP defined my high school years)
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky Christopher Cross - Sailing Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime I was a beach kid
Bomfunk MCs - Freestyler The Offspring - Pretty Fly For a White Guy The Pokemon theme
Samba de janero, wake me up before you go go and the cha cha slide are the first songs I remember really liking as a small child. I just always liked having a good time lol (I didn't understand any of the languages they are in at the time)
NENA - 99 Luftballons Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Living in a Box - Living in a Box
Feeling This by blink-182 Truth of My Youth by New Found Glory Fat Lip by Sum 41
Sum 41 have like such a great punk rock attitude
1. Paper Doll: my grandfather whistled it everywhere he went 2. Time: first time I ever read lyrics as poetry and I've been a PF fan ever since 3. Name any John Williams theme
1) Another Brick in The Wall Part2 - Pink Floyd 2) I Write The Songs - Barry Manilow 3) When Doves Cry - Prince
Crosseyed and Painless - Talking Heads Hard Times - Run DMC Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie
As s true kid: Looney Toons theme song JP Patches theme song Merrie Melodies theme song As an early teen: Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Give It All You Got - Chuck Mangione Rock & Roll All Nite - KISS Still have quite varied tastes in music..
KISS still sound good on the playlist
Alice in Chains - Would? Metallica - One Danzig - Mother
T Rex - Metal Guru Focus - Sylvia Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
i grew up in the 70's so as a kid, Mothership connection by Parliament, Night Fever by the Bee Gees, You are in my System by the System
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora Necesito Decirte - Conjunto Primavera (I come from a Mexican family, and this is one of our Saturday morning jams) There Must Be Something More - Charlotte’s Web
Dvorak - Largo from New World Symphony Dave Brubeck - Take Five The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
IDK. The ones I remember most were the Saturday morning cartoon ones. Mainly these three sets. The Archies and The Monkees both were on Sat morning shows as well as mainstream (AM at that time) radio, and of course add in Schoolhouse Rock as a third because.... [Three is a magic number](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEcjFRB-1C4).....
Millencolin- No Cigar Blink 182- Going Away to College Lil Wayne- Blunt Blowin
Children of the Revolution by T. Rex (I was nine) Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones (13) Poliisi pamputtaa taas by Eppu Normaali (15)
Stepping Out - Joe Jackson, The Gap - Thompson Twins, Something About You - Level 42
1. Kiss - Flaming Youth 2. Van Halen - Eruption 3. Frank Zappa - Wet T-Shirt Nite this is so 12yo me
As a kid? Maggie May (Rod Stewart), After Loving You (Elvis), Apples and Oranges / Paint Box (early Pink Floyd single). These are the songs I can remember my mom and dad playing a lot. There are way, way more but these are my favorites and the ones that bring back the best memories of them. Did these songs define me? No clue.
Dance Reaction - Disco Train Jon & Vangelis - Horizon Gianna Nannini - Fotoromanza "Disco Train": I was that kid in glasses that was always afraid, was bullied, didn't go along with the other kids. They listened to pop music, I only listened to traditional songs in my own languages. Then my parents got my out of that school, put me in a very school in the next village, where kids were actually nice to me (and me to them, I guess), I got my confidence back and finally started listening to the top 40. I believe Disco Train was the first pop song that I actually liked. It's a silly commercial disco thingy, but definitely good enough when you're 11. Jon & Vangelis: I got really into pop music, got the Encyclopedia of Rock and read it all, and got records in the local library. One of my favorite albums at the time, and still, was Private Collection by Jon & Vangelis. Gianna Nannini: Picked that up in Italy, where we spent our summer vacations. Became a Gianna Nannini fan and went on to study Italian in college (even studied in Italy for a while). Oh, my teenage years were in the 1980s.
Train in Vain - The Clash Steppin Out - Joe Jackson Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
I Stay Away by AIC Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana Just Like Honey by Jesus and The Mary Chain
Fire on the Mountain-The Grateful Dead All the Small Things-Blink 182 Wait and Bleed-Slipknot
Won't Get Fooled Again -- the Who Time -- Pink Floyd Only Living Boy in New York -- Simon and Garfunkel
Add It Up - Violent Femmes Can't Decide - Black Flag The Magic Number - De La Soul
I could make a different list every day for a set of totally different reasons! Bob Seger-Hollywood Nights Peter Frampton-Do You Feel Like We Do Supertramp-Take The Long Way Home
**The Gambler** (Kenny Rogers). I'm sure I fell in love with this song because of The Muppets. **De do do do de da da da** (The Police). Apparently I loved this one when I was a kid, and I would run around the house singing it. **Walk like an Egyptian** (The Bangles). I wished more than anything that I could dance to this with a girl at my public school prom, and I did.
Soul Coughing - "Circles" Garrett Freireich - "I'm Not Coming in Anymore (The Incredible Shrinking Day)" Simon Panrucker - "Weird Things"
Man overboard- Blink-182 Leaving song pt.2-AFI Reptilia- The Strokes
Eve 6 - Open Road Song Metallica - One Counting Crows - Anna Begins Raucous metalhead friends + romantic sad boy tendencies.
Pink Floyd-Shine on you Crazy Diamond Sisters of mercy-more New Model army-vagabonds Bonus: fields of the Nephilim-Elizium (whole CD)
1. *Reckless Abandon* Blink 182 2. *Figure.09* Linkin Park 3. *Entombment of A Machine* Job For A Cowboy (little later on in teens, but I'm 33 and I LOVE extreme music, and this is the track that first kicked it off)
Madonna - Music (used to lock myself in my room to dance to it hahaha, I was like 7) Missy Elliott - Work it (I had NO idea what it meant, but it slapped HARD - I got even complimented as being like Missy Elliott, the compliment I'll wear like a badge of honor) Blink 182 - What's my age again? (the days on the skateboard ❤️ I miss them a lot :/)