What Music Takes You Back To Your Childhood

Back Street Boys is the 1st thing that comes to my mind.

 

My Dad played Santana and Tangerine Dream. My Mum Joan Armatrading, Van Morrison and John Martyn. And many others. Pink Floyd got played. Joni Mitchel. I stole their records and played them on my own turntable. Then at age 13 I got into Pop. Prince, Michael, Lionel, Eurythmics, Scritti, Zapp, Stevie. Then I got into Grunge and indie. Nirvana, Lemonheads, Huskers.

 

Childhood or teenage years?


If childhood, it would be the Sesame street theme song, or the Star Trek theme actually because that episode with the flying jellyfish is one of the first things I can remember scaring the crap out of me


If teenage years, well I was 12 years old in 1983, VCRs just started to be somewhat affordable for everyday people just before 1983 so they started popping up every where in depratment and music stores, this was the first really big worldwide music video. Those two things combined meant this was literally everywhere, everytime you walking into a shopping mall there was in each store selling TVs and VCRs, a combo set up in the shopfront playing this:


http://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA

So everytime I hear this I think back to packets of sherbert fizz and the lame little ferris wheel on top of the shopping mall near where I grew up



Edit: Or back to childhood, The Flintstones theme song actually, can still remember every word even though I probably have seen an ep in 30 years


From tha..........town of bedrock

Thereapagerightoutta hiss store reee



Hava yabba dabba doo time

a dabba doo time

We'll have a gay ole TIMMMMMMMME!

 

Whole Lotta Shakin' - Jerry Lee Lewis. First heard it in my parents living room. A couple of my friends were in and as soon as it came on the radio we spontaneously got up and danced. It was so radically different from anything that had gone before - like Teresa Brewer and Perry Como. I was learning boogie woogie and blues piano at the time so good fit with Lewis.

Hit parade of 1974 is another when I was the overnight radio news guy for a local radio station and on lunch break (3am or so) used to cruise through the suburbs in the station mobile with the windows open and the station playing quietly - moments of peace - moments of bliss

 

Growing up in Liverpool, was a great place for music..

Jerry and the pacemakers, Freddy and the dreamers, searches.. Cilla

And of course, the Beatles..

My dad was a big music fan, his fave was the Shadows.

My mum was Adam faith, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

 

6-10 yr. El Paso Marty Robbins
early teens the bubble gum music Quick Joey Small
late teens, White Rabbit,,, Light my Fire,,,, House of the Rising Sun still listing to this today in my 60.s

 

michael jackson...early madonna...corey hart..early bon jovi

 

Anytime anyone even says Bon Jovi, my head goes straight into...


On a zeel horse zaaaay ride

Im wanded

Wan ded

Dead or alaaaahive

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92bmlcmyq0

 

thats the one...slippery when wet ...i probably wore out that tape

 

Hearing old Acid Rock songs...My fave when I was a kid was Spirit in the Sky.

 

Beatles, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel...pretty much all my parents ever listened to.

 

70s and 80s country (back when it was good, anything country after 1993 or so is pretty bad)

I'm from SC, shut up

the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, various other 60s pop, motown

90s grunge

80s hair metal

Air Supply

Bob Marley

 

beatles... pink floyd.. queen

first song i remember being played on the radio was nik kershaws 'i wont let the sun go down on me'

 

The Sesame Street theme song. That's going waaaay back tho lol.
https://youtu.be/SHogg7pJI_M

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo

I remember hearing this song played endlessly on the radio in early childhood. Sitting in drive thrus, strapped in the car waiting for my mom to come out of the store that she was shopping in (I guess you could do that back then, with much less fuss). Driving home from school. Dunno why this song off all of them stuck with me, but it has.

Also, this song, playing in my father's car on warm weekend days. He went through a phase where he listened to CCR religiously. I like them a lot. Consequently, perhaps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ZlI3fCCgY

 

Mortal Kombat soundtrack.

 

Meditation chants