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Songs of Childhood.

  • 28-05-2021 11:54pm
    #1
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭


    Listening to Tom waits Kentucky Avenue, a beautiful song depicting his childhood. What songs remind you of your childhood.

    https://youtu.be/-VOYcRXzs1Y


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My first record
    Prince Charming...

    Aaa-ah
    Eh-aa
    Aaa-ah


    Denis D Young on MTUSA with Vincent Hanley

    Ah.. Happier times


  • #3
    Los Lobos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Los Lobos


    Zig and Zag Zigzaggin' around, belter


  • #4
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Apparently, I used to bop around the kitchen to this great tune:



  • #5
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Fab Vinny on MT USA on a Sunday afternoon. My introduction to rock. The video was as cool as the music.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae829mFAGGE


  • #6
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    My first record
    Prince Charming...

    Prince Charming was my first album too. On cassette. Bought it with my communion money.

    Every Sunday in the 80s, we used to go on a picnic to the Wicklow mountains or somewhere out in Meath or Kildare. My father was an awful creature of habit. Every single Sunday he’d put on Radio Nova while we were driving, and there was this god-awful “Irish country” show that used to play all the usual Irish-country dirge, but the one song that stands out was called “The Rooster Song” about this horny rooster coming into a farm and interfering with the other animals. Like, it rapes an Elephant, resulting in it laying ivory eggs. After a number of verses of this roster forcing itself on various other animals, the last verse suddenly presents the rooster as gay, but then this chicken comes along and rapes him, resulting in some kind of bizarre conversion therapy that “straightens” him.

    I can’t find the exact version on YouTube. It was recorded live by an Irish male singer. You can just imagine the Biddies in the audience. Roaring laughing at the hilarious antics of the rapist rooster, clapping along out of time on beats 1 & 3. I hated it so much.

    But then came my Communion and financial freedom in the form of £70. I bought a Walkman and Prince Charming, and a while later some compilation pop albums from the Hits and Now That’s What I Call Music series. So I could drown out Radio Nova and The Rooster Song.


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