Childhood songs

A thread for talking about the songs that take you way, way back. As a kid, one of my favorite songs was "Still Crying" by Essence, an extremely obscure song which I knew of because my dad had a CD of songs inspired by literature and the character in song's name is Isis.

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Oh man, this song is 13 years old.

edited 24th Jun '13 10:26:42 PM by PhysicalStamina

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."

When I was a little kid, my parents tell me, I used to always sing along to Gloria Estefan. To this day, I still get excited whenever I hear "Heaven's What I Feel", and I still know most of the words to "Everlasting Love". (Yeah, a cover, I know, but Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me—aka her cover album—is the only actual album of hers we had, if I recall correctly).

edited 25th Jun '13 12:27:58 AM by 0dd1

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Hmm, I have a good few thanks to many long car trips and my easily distracted nature as a child. The bands include Garbage, Metallica, The Police (mostly Sting's solo stuff really), U2 and Phil Collins Genesis.

Out of all of them, it's Sting that really takes me back.

Specifically, Mad About You on Soul Cages was my favourite of all his work.

To this day the song entrances me.

edited 25th Jun '13 6:03:02 AM by TopographicOcean

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REM's It's The End Of The World As We Know It and the Steve Miller Band's Fly Like An Eagle are two songs I heard constantly on the radio during the first half of my childhood:

It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Fly Like An Eagle:

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edited 25th Jun '13 10:44:36 AM by lewattoo

"I'll show you all of Paris, I'll take you on a tour, we'll go up and up and up so high they'll long for an encore!"

I grew up on lots of old folk rock, which was mainly my dad's influence (Simon And Garfunkel, Peter Paul & Mary, etc) and a little bit of what was popular at the time ("the time" being the mid-80's through early 90's), which was mainly my mom's. Examples of the former that were among my favorites included "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens and "The Unicorn Song" by the Irish Rovers *

. Songs that I liked that were actually popular at the time included "I Can't Dance" by Genesis, though when my parents got the album We Can't Dance I remember not liking anything else off of it and just wanting to hear the almost-title-track.

edited 25th Jun '13 12:05:25 PM by MikeK

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

A lot of country hits from the early-mid 90s. I could fill a whole playlist.

• "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks. I remember my aunt asking me to sing this at a restaurant when I was little.

• "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus. A favorite among my cousins and me. We would often ad-lib juvenile lyrics for it.

• "The Cheap Seats" by Alabama. Not a big hit, but it reminds me of my cousins and me going to see the local radio station's deejays play ball for charity, and listening to Ernie Harwell doing play-by-plays of Detroit Tigers games.

• "Jukebox in My Mind", also by Alabama. I remember singing this one to my mom at A & P.

• "Dumas Walker" by the Kentucky Headhunters. First tape I ever owned was their debut album Pickin' on Nashville, when I was 3. My dad loved these guys, and I nearly wore the tape out listening to it so much.

• "Blame It on Your Heart" by Patty Loveless. Among my three cousins and me, I was the only one who could ever get the "blame it on your lyin, cheatin', cold, dead-beatin', two-timin', double-dealin', mean, mistreatin', lovin' heart" right.

• "Love, Me" by Collin Raye. A superb Tear Jerker. One of the first concerts I ever attended was seeing him at a local bar (no longer in business) after this song came out.

• "Small Town Saturday Night" by Hal Ketchum. One of the first music videos I remember seeing. I remember banging along to this song on a toy drum when the video came up on TNN.

• "When She Cries" by Restless Heart. One of my oddest musical memories is this song playing during my childhood bout of chicken pox. I was submerged in a tub full of oatmeal when this song came on.

• "On the Road" by Lee Roy Parnell. No idea why, but this song always evokes a saudade feeling within me. Probably because it came out right before my grandpa died, and made me think of the long trip to Beloit, Wisconsin and back.

When I was really little, I'd tell people my two favorite songs were "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Love Shack".

I didn't write any of that.

This was my favorite MJ song when I was a kid.

edited 25th Jun '13 2:49:07 PM by PhysicalStamina

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."

Man, my taste kinda slightly changed a f#%&ing lot.

No regret shall pass over the threshold!

You win the thread

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That is pretty great. And now I'm also imagining how awesome The B-52's covering "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" could be.

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

Ah, Busted. This was my favourite band when I was 7/8.

Ah, yes. That song takes me back all the way to primary school, as well. So do these gems:

The Underdog Project vs. Sunclub - Summer Jam 2003

The Rasmus - In The Shadows

Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous

Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi

Jason Paige - Pokémon Theme

Jody Bernal - Que Si, Que No

Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

Nelly Furtado - Powerless

Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out

Five - If Ya Gettin' Down

Safri Duo - Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)

I should make a CD of these songs.

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...

Was a huge Allan Sherman fan as a kid; now see him as a lesser even amongst novelty singers.

I'd say I'm being refined Into the web I descend Killing those I've left behind I have been Endarkened

Even though no one has posted on this thread in a while. This song does remind me of my younger days.

My dad was really into country music when I was a toddler, so "You Got Gold" by John Prine, "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes" by Jimmy Buffett, and "Small Town, Saturday Night" by Hal Ketchum are among the earliest songs I can remember hearing.

My dad used to sing this to me when I was a little'n. I now have part of the melody tattooed on my arm◊.

Stand up against pinkwashing, don't fall for propoganda

Gangnam Style by PSY, Dynamite by Taio Cruz and Hot and Cold by Katy Perry = my childhood anthems.

They take me back to playing Club Penguin and old roblox back in 2009-2012

Im on a long hiatus/quitted because im burnt out sorry

When I was a kid, there was only one country station in the central Arkansas area, and it still played Eagles and Jimmy Buffett songs, so songs like "Margaritaville" and "Take It Easy" are still gateways to my childhood years, along with pretty much anything by Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Ricky Skaggs.