Raised On The Radio - What Music Did You Grow Up Listening To?

Paul Smeenus · 04-10-2014, 01:51 PM

I totally grew up with rock and roll, I was 6 when the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show.

ladyislingering · 04-10-2014, 07:31 PM

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I totally grew up with rock and roll, I was 6 when the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show.

Every day I mourn the fact that I wasn't alive then.

My mother was a baby that day.

Astronomer · 04-10-2014, 07:33 PM

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Every day I mourn the fact that I wasn't alive then.

My mother was a baby that day.

Me too! I wish I had grown up in that era. My dad was a teenager when the Beatles came to Australia.

ladyislingering · 04-10-2014, 09:23 PM

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Me too! I wish I had grown up in that era. My dad was a teenager when the Beatles came to Australia.

I've been pained by this practically since birth.

I can't seem to find a lot of value in music from the past 30 years, because there's subtle differences in production quality and nothing sounds organic or "real" anymore; nothing has really connected with my soul the same way music from the 60s and 70s has.

Astronomer · 04-10-2014, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

I've been pained by this practically since birth.

I can't seem to find a lot of value in music from the past 30 years, because there's subtle differences in production quality and nothing sounds organic or "real" anymore; nothing has really connected with my soul the same way music from the 60s and 70s has.

Definitely. I adore not just the music, but the whole vibe of that era. I was meant to be born then, I swear it! I've been watching a ****ty Australian drama this week called Love Child which is set in Kings Cross 1969 and I just want to be saturated in everything I see - the music, the fashion, the attitudes, the film and tv industry, the cars, the shopfronts, the furniture, the twinge of social revolution, everything. Of course, the show is all about what they did to unwed pregnant mothers during that time, so of course there were equally ****ty times but then but DAMMNIT I want to live in the 60s!

Completely unrelated to what I've just said, but relevant to this thread, I remember grow up listening to the radio and trying to tape (i.e. cassette tape) my favourite songs when they came on, and trying not to let the radio DJ/presenter's voice cut in the beginning or end of the song. Good times.

ladyislingering · 04-10-2014, 10:45 PM

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Definitely. I adore not just the music, but the whole vibe of that era. I was meant to be born then, I swear it! I've been watching a ****ty Australian drama this week called Love Child which is set in Kings Cross 1969 and I just want to be saturated in everything I see - the music, the fashion, the attitudes, the film and tv industry, the cars, the shopfronts, the furniture, the twinge of social revolution, everything. Of course, the show is all about what they did to unwed pregnant mothers during that time, so of course there were equally ****ty times but then but DAMMNIT I want to live in the 60s!

Completely unrelated to what I've just said, but relevant to this thread, I remember grow up listening to the radio and trying to tape (i.e. cassette tape) my favourite songs when they came on, and trying not to let the radio DJ/presenter's voice cut in the beginning or end of the song. Good times.

I'd love to be this age, living on the west coast, in the late 1960s.

I agree with your entire post, pretty much.

I'm never sure if I find most people and things repellent, or if it's just modern people and modern things that are lame and distasteful.

Engine · 04-10-2014, 10:54 PM

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I'm never sure if I find most people and things repellent, or if it's just modern people and modern things that are lame and distasteful.

I'll bet cash both is true. I think you'd have found ways to hate most people 50 years ago.