Music when you were younger

Ruu_Old

Probably been posted before but anyway. What did you listen to? Mine was Bros (remember those horrible clothes, the Goss brothers), Rick Astley, Wham and the Clash. Now we didnt have any of the MTV so we had to settle for the radio or the beat box

Nightwish

everything from Nirvana to Scooter. This was when MTV actually played Music

Ruu_Old

aye when we first got Sky in, i was thinking of music videos all day, but no, they had feck all actual music on it!

missingtime

I just remember the one hit wonders. Cotton Eye Joe, Scatman (which has taken on a whole new meaning since) and that song 'informer...i licky bum bum now' and everyone went around saying 'farmer' cos they had no clue what was being said.

Ruu_Old

Do remeber those songs and people trying to sing the scatman but not getting close to the speed he was singing at

heres your lyrics, you werent that far off

http://www.lyricsstyle.com/s/snow/informer.html

missingtime

My version is so much better.

arctic lemur

I used to listen to wet,wet, wet, duran duran, thompson twin and annie lennox.

Tar.Aldarion

my first serious thing for a band was when i was 8,slayer,still my favourite band...oh the sweet memories.these were then followed shortly after by more bands that I still love.

Ruu_Old

my brother still wears his Slayer t-shirt, tis fading badly though

tj-music.com

artic lemur wrote:

I used to listen to wet,wet, wet, duran duran, thompson twin and annie lennox.

And they were all worth listening to!

I am 38, so in my "teens" I would have been listening to Spandau Ballet, Culture Club and all them.

But I also grew up on Kiss, Motoerhead and Maiden.

I remember when breakdance came in so did new wave and I was into Depeche Mode and so on.

1984 was my favourite year. I was 17, handsome looking and everybody from Stevie Wonder (I just call to say I love you) to Prince, Billy Idol and George Michael (Careless Whispers) had brilliant hits.

Oh, how I miss it

Larianne

Kylie's album was the first one I ever got. So that was played to death along with an old Abba's greatest Hits and Enya.

Pjays

All i really remember is that band Eternal and all that early pop oh and PJ and Duncan. who could forget our radio rocks!! Must say love Duran Duran best ever!!

FatherTed

The first album I bought by myself was The Police's Synchronicity.
Was into Big Country, Queen, Simple Minds, U2 kind of stuff when I was in secondry school in the mid-ish 80's. Used to watch Val Hanley on MT-USA on Sunday afternoons. Remember eveyone being shocked when Madonna's video "Like A Virgin" was on. Also remember them showing a lot of ZZ-Top. Great stuff indeed.

billy the squid

Gone are the days when music television actually played music. Long before MTV reached us here in ireland we had Music Box. anyway enough of that.

The first album I ever bought was "Like a Prayer" by Madonna. Remember the Video for Like a prayer being banned by RTE and BBC and the only place you could see it was on SuperChannel. While burning crosses is something you could expect to see coming out of america, I think it was the statue of St. Martin coming to life which pissed people off most.

The first Now Thats what I call music album I ever had was Number 13. I still have it on vynil.

We got our first video recorder back in 1984, a betamax, and the "in thing to do then" was to tape the videos of songs which were featured on MTUSA. Some of the songs I remember seeing on that show included, Michael Jackson songs such as Billy Jean, Beat It, and Thriller. Beat it was later parodied by Weird Al Yakavicz (sp) and was called "Eat it" Other artists I can remember were the likes of Cindy Lauper (Time After Time, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Pat Bennetar(Love is a Battlefield), Billy Joel (Uptown Girl)

Some of my favorite songs when I was young, which still remain favorites today included "Moonlight Shadow" by Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reily, and "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

Anyway, MTUSA went by the wayside and was replaced by the likes of Music Box and the Coca-Cola European top 50 on Sky Trax.

Into the late eighties we had Austrailian artists like Kylie Minogue and Jason Donavan. It was only a matter of time before they did a duet, and finally they did "Especially for You" which remained Number 1. After that Jason Donavan dissappeared into obscurity, and the quality of what Kylie was singing went to hell.

the 1990s were not as good as the 1980s music wise. we started to see more and more rubbish cover versions. but it wasnt as bad as it is now.

FatherTed

billy the squid wrote:

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The first Now Thats what I call music album I ever had was Number 13. I still have it on vynil.

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I got the first NTWICM album with the likes of Genesis, Howard Jones on it...

Ruu_Old

i watched the New Kids on the Block cartoon thingy on Channel 4 i think >_<

Beer is Life

Nightwish wrote:

everything from Nirvana to Scooter. This was when MTV actually played Music

Scooter as in the "rapper"?

Keano_sli

Yep child of the 80's here as well, the first album I bought was MJ Thriller in 6th class, but after that my tastes improved:D , not that everyone would agree. Got through secondary school on a healthy diet of The Cure, The Smiths, The Cult, The Mission, Prince (yes dosen't seem to fit, but a genius), The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Audio Dynamite and later discoveries of The Beastie Boys and INXS. Still love my music and now listen to anything from Jazz and Electronic to Indie Rock and Rasta (although not S O'Connors current offering) as you can see I was in the miserable brigade, wearing black and funny haircuts. Loved it though, bring back the good old days!