Music that you listened to when you were younger

I thought it might be interesting to start this thread in order to find out what music people listened to when they were younger (i.e. a child).

When I was about 9 years old, I bought my first portable cassette player - however, I didn't have any tapes to play in it. Fortunately, a kind lodger who was living in our house at the time gave me a free tape - a hometaped copy of a Beatles album (can't remember which album it was exactly). I used to listen to this tape over and over and over again, sitting on the swing with my cassette player. After that, the next tape I got was a Roy Orbison album - which I liked a lot (I was already quite familiar with his music at the time, having heard my parents play his music often).



When I was 11, I started to develop a liking for pop music - especially S Club 7. I still revisit some of their albums occasionally. I also went through a Vengaboys stage...
A couple years later, I started liking tATu, the Russian pop-duo, and in particular, their song "All The Things She Said" - at this time, I was mildly popular at school, and had several friends, so on the bus going to school and going back home, me and my friend would play the song on our CD players and sing along, and sometimes we'd sync our CD players to the radio, which almost always played the song at a certain time whilst we were on the bus, every single day for several months. Later, I went through the inevitable Gorillaz phase, then Linkin Park, the White Stripes, etc.







Now I want to see what you listened to when you were younger

Ahh, Linkin Park, i m in that boat also. Hybrid Theory was the first album i ever bought so they ll still have a special place in my collection, even though i ve grown up a bit and moved onto more interesting stuff now.

When I was a kid, some of the first musicians I enjoyed were Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. My dad is a huge fan of Elvis; it's rare that he goes a day without mentioning him, so I had lots of exposure to his music. I remember singing Hound Dog as a kid all the time.

Some of the first music I can remember as a kid is Nirvana, Guns N' Roses and Elvis Presley. People would blare the album Nirvana album Nevermind and the Guns N' Roses albums Use Your Illusion I & II on my city block with their windows open in summertime right before I moved from the city I lived in. It wasn't until later that I started listening to these bands, but they were some of the first bands I was exposed to.

OK - the first band I really started 'listening' to was Oasis. I was ten years old or so when I started listening to their album 'What's The Story Morning Glory'. It was my favorite damn album, and played the living shit out of that tape on my Walkman. It was my sister's tape, and I remember her using my Walkman to listen to it or something. I think she'd left the tape in the Walkman, and I decided to give it a try. I immediately got hooked to the music and would always snatch that tape from her to give it a listen. I think that I eventually dubbed the tape for myself so that I could have my very own copy. Music was very important to me as a kid, and I always had my Walkman with me.

This is bad, but I actually went from listening to Oasis to.... Backstreet Boys . I was a little bit older, and started having a little bit of interest in the opposite sex, so I figured that this kind of music would make me popular with girls. I don't think I'd have listened to them so much if it wasn't for this one friend I had who was absolutely obsessed with them. Also, my friend's sister who I had a semi-crush on liked them, so I felt that it was necessary that I like them!

OK, so I eventually got sick of the backstreet boys a year or two later and started listening to Green Day. They became one of my favorite bands for a couple years. I liked their old stuff, like their album Dookie and Insomniac.

By the time I was fourteen, I started listening to 2Pac and Eminem. I'll admit, I likely wouldn't have gotten into this type of music if it weren't for my friends always playing this music in front of me. I eventually sort of gave in and started listening to it. I'd hated rap music until I became fourteen or so. I was absolutely obsessed with Eminem until around maybe half a year before the album 'Encore' came out. I'd gotten sick of him and rap in general and started listening to Nirvana for nearly a year or so. By the time I was fifteen, I'd started listening to older bands like the Doors and the Beatles. These are bands I started listening to as I started experimenting with drugs.

I became a very aggressive person when I was 17, and started listening to death metal, and well, just metal in general. I listened to everything from In Flames to Iron Maiden to Opeth to Burzum to Dimmu Borgir, etc. Iron Maiden and In Flames were my favorite bands for close to a year. This lasted until I was nineteen or so.

Now? I listen to pretty much everything.

By the way, I listened to a lot more bands than the above mentioned ones. I just mainly listed the ones who were most important to me.

I was exactly the same, i would listen to it every single night in bed before going to sleep.

At age 8 - 9 I was nuts about the band "a-ha" and their hit "Take on me".

At age 11 I had a thing for Pink Floyd' s the wall and would play the video all the time. I also liked Return at the same age and Beatles.

A year later I added the Norwegian band Creation to the list.

At age 5-12 I mainly listened to Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Neil Young Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Placebo, Linkin Park, Red hot Chilie peppers, Pink Floyd, The beatles, and some Danish singers.. Because that was what my parents listened to. :b

Then age 12-15 I listened to all kinds of weird bands, like Yellowcard, The juliana theory, Saliva, skillet, trapt and simple plan..

Now I listen to... Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Placebo, Linkin Park, Red hot Chili peppers, Pink Floyd, The beatles, and some Danish singers... But I add'ed some more like Blue October and tons of bands where I only listen to one of their songs. ^^

some favorites were weezer, nirvana, radiohead.
I mostly listened to my older sister's music.

I lol'd at the above post -- the idea of a 5 year old listening to leonard cohen. A bit too heavy for that age.. but I do remember hearing it a lot as a kid too.

As a pre-adolescent, I lived in a radio-isolated area, in a house with no FM radio (deliberate on my parents part, to deprive us of rock). So I listened to light pop music on AM radio. I adored Karen Carpenter's voice and lots of the music they did. But the first record (a 45!) I bought was Donovan's "Atlantis". It was playing one night, while I slept, and got under my skin in a big way. Still love it.

Then someone turned me on to Pink Floyd, when I was about 14 or 15. OMG! All-time #1 favorite rock/fusion band. (seriously, Pink Floyd isn't really rock. It's psychedelic, but mostly not rock).

When I was about 15, I got my own FM radio. At the time, the Dutch band Focus had a hit from "Hocus Pocus". It got under my skin and into my brain, and nothing was ever the same. Years latter, I found their albums in a second-hand store, and discovered I like the rest of their material, maybe even more. They are more jazzy than rocky, over all.

When I was 17 (1974), I heard some strange music barely coming through the wall of the New York City apartment in which I stayed. The neighbour made me a copy of what she was playing. It was Isao Tomita's "Snowflakes are Dancing". This is a collection of DeBussy numbers, done on old analog synthesizers. It remains the most special music I've ever heard, and I honor Mr. Tomita as a musical saint.

My tastes in music range far across the spectrum. I grew up in and around music. I sing and play keyboards, as did my mother. I participated in every choir I was qualified for at church, and then at school, too. Played trombone briefly, and hand bells (in church bell choir).

As a baby, i was rocked to sleep by the sounds of Enter Sandman by Metallica. That alone should tell you enough

I was raised on Metallica and Hendrix mainly, though inexplicably i also developed a love of Simply Red. Nirvana probably summed up my pre-teens the most. I remained a rock/metal loyalist until a couple of years ago, when i embraced hip-hop, house, indie and ultimately my most prevalent recent love - jazz.

Used to listen to Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Green Day (not now though, eugh!!), Led Zep, Prodigy, King Crimson, Radiohead, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls, The Who, Marilyn Manson (Antichrist Superstar was the first CD I ever owned!), Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Lou Reed and Nirvana when I was a kiddo. My parents always let me listen to their records and shit.

Pretty much anything on the radio in the mid 90's-early 2000's.

When I was younger? That's about 20 plus years or so...
I grew up watching and listening to Michael Jackson. I adore and admire him. He looked freaky but he was still the best performer, ever.
And then, there was ABBA. That's when I started to like dance music.
I remember my sister and I would video-tape our favorite artist (someone from Hong Kong, his name is Aaron Kwok) whenever he appeared on live TV. Then, we would replay the video over and over just to copy his dance steps..

I listen to a lot of the same music now that I did when I was younger-- a lot of '90's music. But there are some people I don't listen to now that I did listen to when I was younger: Madonna, Britney Spears, etc. I've outgrown poppy-dancy-crap, for the most part.

i was never interested in music.
o i heared Miyavi with 13!

Here's one:

Bon Jovi - I'll Be There for You. I still love this song.

l was raised in the 90s so a lot of my younger music selections derive from poppy female and male groups. l still enjoy it since it has a huge nostalgic factor, though l definitely consider it a guilty pleasure since the music composition and lyrics are nothing less that shitty.

Spice Girls
Backstreet Boys
S Club 7
Britney Spears

The mighty morphing power rangers soundtrack CD. Man i loved that. I think its what got me into rock/metal. And I think the power rangers is what got me into kung fu films.

l never knew you could get into rock/metal through a kids show/soundtrack. Very cute!

This topic is embarrassing... I used to listen to Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson all the time. I'd put the cassette on just to hear that song. I also thought M.Jackson was a woman and when my mother told me he wasn't I felt mildly guilty for finding him to be an attractive woman.

I loved this too. The words are burnt into my brain now.



I thought Boney M were awesome. Still kinda do.



Manfred Mann as well.



That stuff is before my time but it's what my father liked, mostly.

when i was a child (before ten) i didn't listen to much music on my own. whatever was on the classic rock station my parents were listening to was fine with me.
then around eleven to thirteen i started listening to classical and pop music. from Tchaikovsky's ballets to Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation if it was on a top forty or classical station i was listening to it.
grunge was the rage at high school (fourteen to sixteen) and since my only motive then was to be popular i started getting really into grunge. i tried really hard to like it but i never really did outside of a few songs. at any rate i never became popular so i dropped the facade quickly.
from sixteen to about twenty two i was really into industrial electro anything and punk. bands like Front 242, PIL, Funker Vogt, kmfdm, Christopher Lawrence, Depeche Mode, NIN - they were my bread and butter. after shit went down between myself and most of the scene in that suburb i lived in i couldn't listen to most of these bands anymore.
from twenty three to the present i found jazz and bands that are more popular in foreign countries. Goldfrapp, Shiina Ringo, Ella Fitzgerald, Stereolab, the Coltranes, Miles Davis, Bjork are all things i found within the past seven years. i still listen to some f the old music i used to like more it's just now i have more to listen to.

I did pretty much the same thing. Since I could remember, all the way until I was about 9 or 10, I only listened to whatever my dad had on the radio(Tom Petty, Beatles, AC/DC, Frank Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, ect.). From when I was about 10 to 12, I started listening to a lot more AC/DC and Metallica. When I went into middle school(13-14 yrs old) I started wearing only black shirts, spiking my hair, spiked wristbands, ect. and listened mostly to Metallica, Disturbed, System of a Down, Linkin Park, Korn, Nirvana, RATM, and Chevelle. Even though I still like and listen to those bands, it wasn't until I entered high school that I decided to fuck what everyone was else was into. I started listening to punk(Blink-182), alternative(weezer), grunge (Local-H), rap/hip-hop(Little Brother), and Japanese music(Asian Kung-fu Generation). I still listen to all of those genres regularly, with the occasional toss in of classical/piano, ambient, or heavy metal

I listened to Aqua all the time. I still listen to some of their stuff.



And I still like it.

Yes. I wuz a fat goth kid.