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

Self explanatory.

Madonna. I ****ing love Madonna still so it stuck

I was going to go into this on the syg thread but saw this...

5ive, Sean Paul, Blue, Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Backstreet Boys, TLC, A1, Steps, Fugees and all that jazz.

Local reggaeton and rap groups.

My childhood basically consisted of 1950s doo-wop, motown & harmonic groups of the 1960s, disco, and 80s pop music.

Some tunes that make me ridiculously happy because I was a really cool kid and had a nice time with my records, cassettes, and radio:

The Crew Cuts - "Sh-Boom"



Little Anthony & the Imperials - "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop"



The Mamas & The Papas - "California Dreamin'"



I played the everloving life out of this 45. (My parents probably still hate me for it.)

Silver - "Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang"



And a few 80s pop tunes that I was obsessed with:

[more in the undercut]

I still love grooving on this first track (especially when I'm drunk) because it's so full of happy memories. It's such a dumb song.

Kajagoogoo - "Too Shy"



Some years later, I started getting into some harder rock (thanks, Dad) and 80s hair metal, as well as 70s jazz/rock and powerpop; many, many years after that I started into my obsession with psychedelic rock, synthpop/electronic music from the 70s & 80s, 60s girl groups... the list goes on and on, and I could have written for HOURS about all the songs I loved as a kid, but I think this has been adequate.

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

When does childhood end? When do we stop growing up?

And while you ponder those soul-searching questions I will fire this uninteresting bullet of knowledge at you:

I grew up listening to a combination of mainly bland pop (S Club 7, whatever was on the Now CDs) and the few nuggets of non bland stuff that my dad listened to on cassette (including but not limited to Talking Heads, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones).

I grew up on music most influenced by my parents, who submerged me in their musical interests.

My mum would play the likes of Nirvana et al why doing the housework when I was a kid.

My dad was a huge 60s/70s fan so I also listened to a lot of classics like the Beatles, Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, etc.

Good times!

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.