Songs from your childhood.

[cola 384]

hilary duff

[DUKE 2,525]

All of those songs I heard around 1998 or 1999 for the first time. They cover my early childhood years and I see those songs in particular as responsible for my taste in music nowadays, as well as my interest in art and music. Especially the solo artists were the first people I started to identify myself with. And as pathetic as this sounds, they were also the first people I built "strong" relationships with through the years. Their entire work just resonated with me in a way that is still indescribable after all these years.

 

MARILYN MANSON - "The Nobodies"

 

This is one of the newest songs from this list. There is something about Marilyn Manson that really drew me to him when I was a young child. The disturbing images in his music videos and the aggressive sound of his music really haunted me for a long time when I was really young. But not in a bad way. I was so fascinated by this dark imagery I didn't understand and the fact that he had such a bad reputation for it made me extremely curious.

 

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

 

 

SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR - "Get Over You"

 

Nu-disco or whatever that genre is called sounds pretty much the same as Daft Punk in the early 2000s and this is a sound I really enjoyed. I still can't say what it is that attracted me so much to her music, I guess it's her voice, but I still enjoy her music. Her British accents gives me chills...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOSKedT9gU

 

 

STING - "Englishman In New York"

 

I worship Sting, I always have, I always will. I listened to this song on repeat in the late 1990s and still do to this day.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU6Krr7nCKc

 

 

CHER - "All or Nothing"

 

My mother always liked Cher, so naturally we had the Believe album like almost every household in 1998. This still is my favorite track from that record. It sounds really fresh, still in 2013.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXs_4kma65I

 

 

DAVID BOWIE - "Hallo Spaceboy"

 

I found the Outside album at some point in 1998, I think, and fell in love with it. It was so different to all the music on the radio, Britney Spear's "Baby One More Time," for instance. Being born in the 1990s, I did naturally grow up with electronic and techno music. David Bowie has become one of the strongest influences on me as a person, ever since I discovered this song. I sometimes joke around saying he's my father and my "mother" is the artist following...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxA2sOTf7dI

 

 

MADONNA - "Nothing Really Matters"

 

Madonna is along with all these artists my very first musical experience. I've been a fan since 1999 and it is this song and its music video that made me a fan. The Ray of Light has to be one my most played albums of all time. See David Bowie for family reference...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRbR4u5Y8XM

 

 

DAFT PUNK - "One More Time"

 

Still puts a smile on my face when I listen to this song. I adore Daft Punk and I adore this song, it's just incredible.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdy1rK9F1E

 

 

PET SHOP BOYS - "Suburbia"

 

This may be the oldest song in this list, and still in 1999 it received heavy radio play. What a classic by now.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1Mu1Q-7Sc

 

[Hello Heaven 1,575]

I still love this song. I just love anything mainstream from this era, haha.

 

And this was No. 1 the day I was born. I'm so lucky. Well some may think I am. It's a hideous song but I like it like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbXiECmCZ94

[deeth 105]

when I was 12 or 13, I'd always listen to these Russian Soviet Communist Childrens songs. I had no idea what they were singing, (probably a lot of propaganda) but it was always so beautiful. It really touched me *SONICALLY*

 

My favourite one had lyrics like "Uncle Lenin's forehead is so big that it can hold the whole earth and even the sky. And uncle Lenin smiles, his eyes twinkle and he laughs like uncle Ho-Chi-Minh.".

 

Anyway.. the music of my childhood:

 

- My mom's record collection (Queen, Elvis, Dolly Parton, Fame soundtrack.. I also remember loving "the tiger record" [Thriller by Michael Jackson] and Madonna's True Blue.)

 

- Spice Girls

 

- My friend's older brother's music (Guns n' Roses, Nirvana and Hanoi Rocks. He taped me a copy of From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, which I was obsessed with for a while. Then I forgot about it.)

 

- Music programs of TV (basically all the album and single charts and a daily 1,5 hr music program that was on after school. I never had MTV.)

 

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

Madonna - Frozen

TLC - No Scrubs, Waterfalls

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

All Saints - Never Ever

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue, Otherside

Macy Gray - I Try

Aaliyah - Try Again

Sugababes - Overload

[Baby V Alex 2,858]

So you may not know her, since is a Mexican pop singer, she was the Mexican Britney, and I was a stan for her, I used to have all her cassettes. The funny part it's that she used to say she was 17 yo when she was like 25 lol

 

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

 

I still twerk to this tho, I was like 5 lol.

[Hello Heaven 1,575]

 

Spice Girls

TLC - No Scrubs, Waterfalls

All Saints - Never Ever

Sugababes - Overload

 YES

[Rafael 3,510]

This thread just takes me way back. The 90's-00's was and always will be the best eras imo 

Here's a really long list of anything really that makes me feel truly nostalic:

 

LENE MARLIN - Unforgivable Sinner

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohu231K-jHs

 

 

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA - TORN

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bxh5ajxqyU

 

 

SAVAGE GARDEN - To The Moon And Back

 

 

 

EIFFEL 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

 

 

 

DADDY DJ - Daddy DJ

 

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

 

 

THE VERVE - Bitter Sweet Symphony

 

 

 

RADIOHEAD - Creep

 

 

 

CHUMBAWAMBA - Tubthumping

 

 

 

LIQUIDO - Narcotic

 

 

 

BOOMFUNK MC'S - Freestyler

 

 

 

COOLIO - Gangster's Paradise

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6voHeEa3ig

 

 

HANSON - MMMBop

 

 

 

AQUA - Cartoon Heroes

 

 

 

BRITNEY SPEARS - Lucky

 

 

 

JENNIFER LOPEZ - Waiting For Tonight

 

 

 

MADONNA - Frozen

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhByOf6dnY

 

 

SPICE GIRLS - Viva Forever

 

 

 

Brb, gonna go grab the time wasted compiling this list 

[Heaux 1,396]

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

 

 

 

 

 

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3m_T-NMOs

 

 

Blondie - Call me

 

 

 

 

Blondie - Heart Of Glass

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxpe1oSp_sg

 

 

ABBA - SOS

 

 

 

 

ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme 

 

 

 

 

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

 

 

 

 

 

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero

 

 

 

[lauradelxx 1,080]

*reminisces childhood* *remembers spice girls*  *screams* I TELL YOU WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT    *skips to scary's part* I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANNA ZIGGA A ZIG AH" 

[Wryta Thinkpiece 3,340]

Oh, god, I'm gonna have a ball with this topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCaFlXy0etM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mOY2eWO2qw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uRtNMFfF-g

 

I'LL SAVE THE REST FOR ANOTHER POST. THERE'S JUST TOO MANY.