music you liked as a kid

[stimpy]

First time I started getting into music was when I was around 6-7 in 88-89. First band I got into was Dire Straits.

Dont Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerren
Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi
Doctorin' the Tardis by KLF
Teardrops by Womack and Womack
Blame it on the Rain by Milli Vanilli
The Look by Roxette
Toy Soldier by Martika
Poison by Alice Cooper

hahahahaha omg, i liked all of those songs.

 

[Bomber32]

The 80's was when I really started to get interested in music. These are some examples of the stuff I listened to.

Bruce Springsteen
U2
Dire Straits
Midnight Oil
Icehouse
INXS
Foreigner
The Police
Duran Duran
Hall & Oates

...and the list could go on forever. It really was a wonderful era for music.

 

[Alex99]

When i was a kid my brother used to love (**** he still dose) the cure and the sex pistols and i knew 90% of their songs of by heart because he had either band on one night or the next. Always bring back childhood memories when i hear a cure song.

 

[stimpy]

When i was a kid my brother used to love (**** he still dose) the cure and the sex pistols and i knew 90% of their songs of by heart because he had either band on one night or the next. Always bring back childhood memories when i hear a cure song.

the cure are awesome.

 

[Alex99]

the cure are awesome.

Yep Robert Smith can rock on.

 

[Roos4eva]

I grew up on Nirvana as a kid. I was absolutely obsessed by them from about Year 3 until Year 9, and thankfully there was no music that I listened to as a kid that I wouldn't like now (apart from nu Metal when I was about 13).

 

[Bomber Bears]

Liked the beatles when i was 6 or so
Liked some real dodgey stuff which most seemed to like around the age of 9-10. Also liked the living end back then, and got into Frenzal in 99 after seeing their aria award performance.
Liked some shithouse music like Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park in year 6 or so but grew out of that by high school. Since then its mainly been refining my punk rock tastes as well as dabbling in some other shit.

 

[soupaman]

Like many people in my primary school years I didn't have much of an interest in music, however Peter Combe was the man back in prep ("I like to run" is a classic).

Throughout primary school though I grew to like my Dad's taste in music, and thus many of the artists he continually played (U2, The Tea Party, Jeff Buckley) are my favourites now, and we have very similiar taste.

Then around year 6 and 7 I listened to Triple M non-stop, and heard alot of music on that without liking many particular bands. Then aroun d year 8 I started getting more interested in specific bands, with The Tea Party and U2 being big for me then, before in year 9 I discovered the John Butler Trio through a chance viewing on Rage of "Take"and have been a massive fan ever since.

Since then I've started to try out bands that I've liked as support acts, heard on Triple J or that my mates like and have thus grown to like bands like Radiohead, Muse, Paul Kelly, Clare Bowditch, Bloc Party, Coldplay and Kings of Leon.

 

[Mr Eagle]

First time I started getting into music was when I was around 6-7 in 88-89. First band I got into was Dire Straits.

Dont Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerren
Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi
Doctorin' the Tardis by KLF
Teardrops by Womack and Womack
Blame it on the Rain by Milli Vanilli
The Look by Roxette
Toy Soldier by Martika
Poison by Alice Cooper

Couple of years older, but that's an awesome little list there

 

[Carlos]

The first song i remember hearing and getting attached to was Ian Dury's "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick".

I also have vague memories of hearing The Beatles, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac & Frank Sinatra through my parents.

My first favourite song was Kiss' "Hard Luck Woman" which a family friend used to play for me because i loved Peter Criss.

As a 4-5 year old i used to carry around a little tape recorder and play Kiss' Dynasty and Unmasked albums over and over. Mum says i used to strut around singing the chorus to "Charisma" as a tiny tot.

When i was about 10 i bought my first LP which was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA because my older cousins always used to play Springsteen albums at their place. Thats about when i remember first hearing The Police as well who i have love to this day.

Through my older sister i then massively got into Inxs & Midnight Oil who i was obsessed with til my early teens.

Then around 13 or so i heard Guns n Roses Appetite for Destruction and everything changed. Thats when i got serious about wanting to become a muso and started playing drums. From there it was Motley Crue, Skid Row, Poison, Slaughter, LA Guns etc etc. Couldnt get enough of that stuff.

Not long after me and my mates got into Metallica through their older brothers and it became almost religious. Justice was the first album i remember getting right into & then going backwards from there and it was incredible.

From there the obsessions roughly went Pantera (Cowboys from Hell), Faith No More (Real Thing), Sepultura (Arise), RHCP (BSSM) and then the whole Seattle thing exploded and if i could i could freeze time around then i probably would.

 

[Macca19]

Couple of years older, but that's an awesome little list there

Yeah. I used to watch Rage religiously every Saturday morning when I was younger up until I was older and started staying up and watching the Saturday night guests and all that. When I was 10, I went and saw Dire Straits and Roxette in the space of about a week at the Entertainment Centre which was awesome.

Ive also got video tapes of all my favourite songs from 1990 through to about 2002, probably about 2x 3-hour tapes per year, which is funny and interesting to see what songs I liked as a kid and to see the progression of going from typical top 40 guff as a youngster through to my own personal tastes as a teen.

All time favourite song as a kid though would have been 3am Eternal by KLF when I was a couple years older. Could not get enough of it. Still probably my all time favourite song now. Just the start of it where it booms in 'KKAAAYYYEELLLEEFFFFFFF UHUH UHUH UHUH' still gives me shivers. Great band.

 

[Schism]

Def Leppard - Hysteria is the first album i remember completely blowing me away,especially Rocket. Then mum bought it for me on CD which was pretty much NASA technology as far as i was concerned. As a young kid, i loved the stuff my parents and everyone else in our "scene" played back then at BBQ's and parties - Led Zep,Bad Company,Deep Purple,lots and lots of blues (howlin wolf,bb king etc),ZZ Top,ACDC. You know the deal.

 

[smasha]

My first 2 albums which were bought by my old mum on cassette back in the early 70s were Led Zeps II and Black Sabbaths Paranoid.

First vinyls were Buddy Rich Big Band -Big Swing Face and Billy Cobham's Spectrum album.

Not a bad introduction to music aye.

Thanks mum.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Def Leppard - Hysteria is the first album i remember completely blowing me away,especially Rocket. Then mum bought it for me on CD which was pretty much NASA technology as far as i was concerned. As a young kid, i loved the stuff my parents and everyone else in our "scene" played back then at BBQ's and parties - Led Zep,Bad Company,Deep Purple,lots and lots of blues (howlin wolf,bb king etc),ZZ Top,ACDC. You know the deal.

yeah l remember giving Hysteria a good play back in the day my mum would come in and say turn down that def shepherd

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Madness.

Anything and everything by them.

 

[Mr.X]

This guy is obviously still enjoying Whitesnake

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[Lunchlady Doris]

Americana was the first album I ever owned so have always always a big fan of the offspring.

There are some shocking ones in my list I cringe when I think I used to listen to these but:

Savage garden
Silverchair
blink 182
Limp bizkit (they were a trend for about a year before people realised how shit they were lol)
S club 7

You can add Americana to that list. Played Smash endlessly as an early teen, but they went to shit not long after that. Around that time Frogstomp, Throwing Copper, everything Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Smashing Pumkins, Pixies, probably the time I was most intensely into music. Oh, also few years earlier remember playign Hysteria endlessly Also remember Alice cooper - Poison taking our school by storm.

Then there's what you hear in the car on trips when you parents have control. Still love hearing old stuff like the Mamas and the Papas, great for a singalong, Hunters and Collectors, The Cars, classic stuff.

Nowadays Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, I have mellowed

 

[A Bit High]

As a kid for me it was Kiss, ZZ Top, Billy Idol, Twisted Sister and Van Halen. Ohh the memories

 

[Borry]

Remember watching Video Hits religiously when I was 6-8.

Was pretty much enjoying whatever was played on mainstream commerical radio as a kid.

I remember going through a house music liking phase when I was 14 (late 99/00) and the first album I brought was a WILD compilation.

Since then my music tastes have developed and changed a lot and my preferred since has been rock, indie and alternative.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

When I was a kid, it was the Beatles' "1" album on repeat, non-stop. Then when I was about 11, my uncle burnt my dad a U2 compilation. From there I started listening to them more, as well as some stuff from So Fresh o) in the early 2000s. Up until about Year 9, I listened to U2 type bands, plus the Chilis, and Green Day. Then one fateful day in Year 9, I put my iPod on shuffle, and heard "-Human". From that day forth, it's thrash metal all the way.

 

[do you know george?]

I remember listening to The Cranberries - Zombie in primary school, back then of course I had no idea what it meant.

Also remember kids going on about OMC - How Bizarre, and people taking the piss out of that cover of You Sexy Thing.

First album I bought was Silverchair - Freak Show on the advice of some of my friends lol.

 

[adelaide_40]

I remember listening to The Cranberries - Zombie in primary school, back then of course I had no idea what it meant.

I used to love that song as well still do actually.

 

[Vinnie Vegas]

I used to listen to a lot of my dad's Bruce Springsteen and R.E.M. albums when I was a kid... Don't remember too much else of what I listened to as a tacker.

 

[Alex99]

Madness.

Anything and everything by them.

Yep – loved madness especially when they were on The Young Ones

 

[adelaide_40]

Adding to my list I remember liking and trying to sing these songs

Ironic-Alanis Morrisette
You oughta know-Allanis Morrisette
some shania twain song
Larger than life-Backstreet boys


I also really liked Eifell 65 if anyone remembers them.