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Apologies if this has done through songs that are your guilty pleasure...looking to share songs that take you back to a certain time and/or place in your youth, but they are songs that are well outside your usual music tastes and could be considered a bit suspect or embarrassing. Stuff that you listen to purely to reminisce rather than because the singing or lyrics or music itself is good, and you wouldn't listen to it with friends in the car unless they are your closest and have shared memories of that song.
Might just be me and because I am turning 50 this July?? Like there's lots of old music I like from my youth and 20s and have no shame in playing, like Zeppelin, Angels, AC/DC, INXS, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Powderfinger, Fooeys etc - but this is about the songs that are very niche, likely wasn't your choice to listen to at the time, it is what others subjected you to. As these are 'bad' songs there is no expectation that you click all or even any of the following links. Among the 'good' songs in my earliest memories, there is also 'bad' stuff like the Grease soundtrack and Leo Sayers Greatest Hits, and weirdly I get flashbacks from Captain & Tennille "Love Will Keep Us Together)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o and Donna Summers "I Feel Love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0 Reckon nearly everyone of my vintage would recall the theme to the show 'Minder' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRR-x9JZ_Oo which takes me back to certain house lived in for 2 years in small country town when I was 10, along with Billy Field "Standing on the Outside" (You weren't in Love With Me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMer297X_LI Same place, eldest sister had Suzi Quattro Greatest Hits on high-rotation, so there is the obvious "Devil Gate Drive", "Can the Can", "48 Crash" and "Daytona Demon", but more vivid memories for me come from the funky 'Your Mamma Won't Like Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZEy-2iztE and the mellow duet "Stumbin' In" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGaF4tKUl0o Same sister was also into The Stranglers, so several of their songs take me back to various times and places in the 80s...obviously there is "Golden Brown", but for me the first 10 seconds of "Skin Deep" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9mEFn38to immediately brings back not only a time and place, it brings back the smell of the bee-hive in the wall cavity of the scout hall that we dangerously raided, and the smell of the burning porno mags we thought had smoked the bees. "Always the Sun" also takes me to another time in 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQTL-ws6p4 Other sister was into Joe Jackson, so my playlist now has "Real Men" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA65lg1HWt4 and "Steppin' Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt2dxx9yg and "Breaking Us in Two" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7IGRNWVQkc Year 11 was when I have to take responsibility for some of my own choices - I'm ok with entire Beastie Boys License to Ill album that I taped off a tape I borrowed from the library (and got on CD in late 90s)...but have to fess up to listening to some Sigue Sigue Sputnik like "Massive Retaliation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE28b0fX0tk and "Rockit Miss USA" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTbFulJdbk Year 12 there is They Might Be Giants "Don't Let's Start" which I'm sorry I can't (won't) explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAmFTmCs3IY 1991, Drooper B&S Ball at Roseworthy, they had Big Audio Dynamite "Rush" on high rotation, literally playing it every hour and sometimes 2 or 3 times back to back...and when they would play it everyone would go even more mental than what was already the most mental B&S I can (and can't) recall. There was a drooping cock about 3 or 4 metres long suspended from the roof of the marque, it would occasionally shoot water out the end and given we were in a paddock in winter it created a massive mud-bog...few times I had to be showered in my tux from head-to-toe by a beer-gun-guy, which was fine until I didn't make it into my swag but slept in the back of mate's mum's Escort panelvan that was bare metal, soaked head to toe in clothes wet with beer, middle of winter. Following morning we got into footy clubrooms in town, no hot water but showered anyway, no towel only a handtowel we found under a bench that was dirty and dried stiff and I think was the "magic wet towel" that a country footy-trainer thinks fixes any injury. 3 of us used it before returning for the recovery. Not long after that, every friggin' club in Adelaide, Utah Saints with Kate Bush "Something Good" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMWhpg0iXU And around then too, Transformers on Friday night at the Bridgeway, the last-song-of-the-night-lights-come-on song was Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons "Oh What a Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM Sorry for massive post. Anyone got a weird/dodgy/random playlist they want to admit to? Last edited by Mulva; 20-02-2021 at 02:58 AM. |
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I’m going to put a Spotify playlist together based off this thread
Here’s my entries Escape club, wild Wild West https://youtu.be/6vE5ewvxdfo Lucus, Lucus with the lid off https://youtu.be/sY5zaDZq0sc Thomas Dolby, she blinded me with science https://youtu.be/V83JR2IoI8k I’ll post more later
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The stuff from the very back end of the ‘70s and all the ‘80s takes me back to my school years of family holidays, crushes on girls at school etc etc. what a time to be a hormonal kid. Geeze life was so much better then, or so it seemed.
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Oi, nothing wrong with big audio dynamite (or B.A.D.2), turn it up!
How about punk, but with saxophone? Not so sure about that, but I like it anyway. |
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This is the good thing about being a 'Boomer'. We got to hear and see all the good bands the first time around ..............................and before Autotune
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The Offspring, Nirvana, Pantera, Frenté, Boss Tones, 'Tallica, Elton John, etc...
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Yeah the Offspring is pretty cringey these days. As far as nirvana everyone talks about the legend, but hardly anyone listens to it these days.
What about the 1970s? Some bands were huge then and ingrained in our culture - everyone knows the songs, some are in movies and ads. Some of the potentially embarrassing ones I have on my playlist are things like ELO, BTO and fleetwood mac. I crank them in my car but probably turn them down at the red lights. |
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I like just chancing on some old stuff; especially when your earworm matches what’s playing in somewhere you’ve just walked into.
My father was into punk and some of its offshoots in the seventies; Stranglers in their pre-Golden Brown days, early Boomtown Rats, Wire, Radio Birdman… If there was a defining childhood tune for me it was probably Autobahn! |
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I guess I just don't give a dam what anyone thinks about my tastes in music so don't get embarrassed about it, it's all over the shop anyhow
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My memorable music years were late 1960s when I was an apprentice mechanic.
A few years ago a friend put me on to a Perth heritage radio channel - I tried it out and by chance the first song I heard was Down in Monterey - Eric Burdon and the Animals. I had to just sit in my car and listen to it - it was like a religious experience after not hearing it for over 40 years. For you "young ones", the Monterey Pop Festival preceded Woodstock by about 2 years in 1967. So many stars performed at Monterey, this video shows a few of them, that's Ravi Shankar at the start. And its a very powerful piece of music IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExo67OLrdY Cheers.
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Got to admit, when I saw this thread the following day, there was that moment when you see a weird thread, then you see it was you that started it
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Ah-lala-laha-long, Ah-lala-laha-long, Ah-lala-laha-long, long le long long longgggg......
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Same CD also has some Simon and Garfunk too - Hazy Shade of Winter. The USB I listen to instead of CD has the Bodyjar version of same song. |
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They didn't have videos or music clips for the songs I heard as a child in the middle of last century...
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i'm currently going thru my muzic comp that i've just fired up again .. . . .. currently grabbing some music off upay to add. no one has mentioned the sex pistols ................ or wacko jacko of "i'm an individual" fame
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My old man was into Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, so memories of the 70s come back from songs like:
Still the Same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuqagqnaDmY Hollywood Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhuVwVpr3WY (mate that is a drummer (so low IQ lol) says this is a physically taxing song to drum) We've Got Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQR3KqvYPc Night Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRFWQoXq4c |
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No need to turn it down at lights but,many moons ago (more than many) headed off in my long gone XYGS with a few mates to see Flowers as they were known then ie Icehouse and these guys kicked the evening off.
https://youtu.be/5kk4m33lqyA
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John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom.
Dad used to fire it up early on a Saturday morning in the 90's, on our Yamaha home theatre system when us teenagers were still in bed at no doubt, felt like 6am to us, but was more like 9am. Then he'd start vacuuming the house... It's now on my Spotify playlist for liked songs.
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I have no shame .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bo4ByFhLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X02t8vKLtbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPx55UxCUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVecMeeplY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QGRBpH64sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM |
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Looking at this video I think I now understand why younger me was keen on the woman singing the chorus - must be her really big...err...voice
Promises - Baby It's You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqM3P7LziIc Think this one was Cav's favourite song at his 50th birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge8_6rtQvs Last edited by Mulva; 29-04-2021 at 02:08 PM. |
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