Share a cool song from your youth...
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^^^^^ You can't be all up in your '70s feels without Little River Band:
They had a ton of hits but my favorite thing about them is that they just looked like a bunch of dads jamming out.
They had a ton of hits but my favorite thing about them is that they just looked like a bunch of dads jamming out.
Not from my youth, but I love the trademark sound Luke Doucet gets from his White Falcon. He actually recorded one album as "Luke Doucet and the White Falcon" although he's currently in a band called Whitehorse with his wife, Melissa McClelland. She's the guitarist in the blue dress in this video:
White Falcons have been used by Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Brian Setzer (of course), Pete Townshend, and Billy Duffy of the Cult. Billy Duffy even has a signature Falcon!
Which reminds me of another HUGE song from my early 20's. The whole album The Cult- Electric was amazing. Not a bad song on the whole record... tape... cd.
Me and a couple of buddies saw The Cult open for Billy Idol in the late summer of 1987, at the old Charlotte Coliseum on Independence Blvd. After their show, we left. I had no interest in seeing Billy Idol. Anyway... we happen to see Billy Duffy and the bass player sitting on the hood of a Buick Century near a load-in door and we hung out and chatted for a few. We were pretty drunk and I really had difficulty understanding them because they had thick accents!
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just throwing out a tie-in from my current rotation.Here's another from my youth, a song probably everybody here knows. I was about 8 or 9 years old. One of the guys who worked with my stepfather had our family over for a cookout. The coworker had a couple sons who were maybe 14 and 16 years old. My brother and I thought they were so cool because they had dirt bikes and mullets. So imagine how excited we were when they invited us down to the basement to play pool. I very vividly remember playing pool (badly) while eating Bugles and listening to this album. It was awesome.
Absolutely. As @heelmanwilm, @TarHeelMark, and @gunslingerdick have already mentioned, the music listening experience has changed a lot since the days of records. I loved the album art, and I loved reading the liner notes, too. There was a time I could tell you the producer and the session musicians on most of the albums I owned. It was always cool to see a guy like Lenny Castro, for example, show up in the percussion credits across two completely different genres of music (that guy is everywhere).
I love this. It show how fantastic a voice Freddie Mercury had.
This is incredible too. Brad Delp could hit those notes with precision of a select few. Not like that autotune crap nowadays.
This is incredible too. Brad Delp could hit those notes with precision of a select few. Not like that autotune crap nowadays.
Interesting that this album was greatly influenced by the suicide of Browne's wife, Phyllis. He wrote "Here Come Those Tears Again" with Phyllis's mother.
I'll throw out:
These songs (and most of the early R.E.M. albums) remind me of my sister. I remember her listening to her walkman (lol) and at the time, I didn't have a walkman. So I would always go and steal hers. And R.E.M. was always in.
When I was a kid, I had an old B&W portable TV in my bedroom. I used to stay up until David Letterman came on (or, I tried to as often as I could), and I remember watching these two broadcasts... at a low volume. This was when I was in around 7th and 8th grade.
This is going to show the type of music I was exposed to as a youngster.
When I had an 8 track player installed in my 1968 Mustang, this was the first 8 track I purchased
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
My favorite track was "Bell Bottom Blues" but I even liked better Clapton's acoustic version below
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
My favorite track was "Bell Bottom Blues" but I even liked better Clapton's acoustic version below
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My roommate from college plays guitar/bass and has been in various bands since high school. I taught myself to play guitar (badly) while in college, and "Bell Bottom Blues" was on the short list of songs we could play as a duo...to woo the ladies, of course. LOLWhen I had an 8 track player installed in my 1986 Mustang, this was the first 8 track I purchased
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
My favorite track was "Bell Bottom Blues" but I even liked better Clapton's acoustic version below
Janis Joplin- Pearl is amazing. My mom wore it out when I was a like 4 or 5. I didn't appreciate it as much back then. But, now... I love almost every track. When I was a kid, I would wait for this one and sing along:
Don't know how we can let this thread fall off. I think of childhood songs all the time.
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My neighbor and I were schoolmates for 12 years- same age. He had a nice basketball goal. 2nd grade, I beat him at HORSE five games in a row. The prize? This 45 rpm:
See the second post on this page.
Funny we both thought of the same song. Love me some LRB.
Here's one from a band that raised the question: how many acoustic guitars is too many? They had a ton of hits but this is one of my favorites for the images it evokes:
Alright, guilty confession. This thread led me to tune in to the Pandora 70s Lite Rock station and now stuff is popping up left and right. The Eagles come on every 4th song for crying out loud. But here's a song that I had on 45 as a kid (and if you don't know what a 45 is, well...). JMO but this has held up pretty well over time (assuming you enjoy sappy love songs and red leather pants in the first place, that is).
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Here, kids. Jump aboard this windowless bus with a strange, mustachioed man who wants to know whether you have "your funky bus fare." Those were simpler times I guess.
See, now that's the kind of stuff I was hoping this thread would dredge up. I know that song well but had totally and completely forgotten about it.
Me too. I like to hear back-stories as to why they're special in some way.
Back in the day, when I heard something on the radio, if it was obscure and I'd never heard it, and the DJ didn't announce it after (or before), I had no idea what it was! It took me 3 years from the first time I heard this to figure out who it was and what album. I was in 6th/7th grade at Farm Bureau Ins. office where my mom worked, it came on the radio and I was like "Whoa! That is awesome! I love that song! WHO SINGS IT?" I figured Seagull was probably in the title.
