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.

I assume we're talking about very early years here.

My parents grew up in the 50s and 60s, so in my house there was a lot of Roy Orbison, Everly Brothers, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Eagles and Dire Straits going on.

My brother was born in the late 60s, so when I hung out in his room it was all Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush and whatnot.

When I was really little I tried to go my own path by listening to pop stuff that everyone else listened to. But I also remember my parents listening to a lot of Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones and American standards like the Cole Porter songbook, George Gershwin songbook, Ella, Fred Astaire, Billie Holiday. Stuff like that.

Prog. Punk.

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I would say more but I didn't want to say more than the OP, even your title is longer than your opening post.:confused:

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Plankton, what music did you grew up Listening to?

This brings back some good memories:

Sometimes you engineer types are so illogical. The thread title is not self explanatory at all. Are you asking what we listened to on the radio while growing up, or just what we listened to growing up? (obviously most of the MB demographic is too young to have grown up listening to the radio)

nysi, I grew up listening to Madonna on THE RADIO. The best Madonna. Her first 3 albums are still some of my favorite pop music.


Also.. INXS, Heart, Prince, The Bangles, Def Leppard, Tiffany, Salt N Pepa, Belinda Carlisle, J. Geils Band, Midnight Oil, Huey Lewis and The News, etc., was a mid/late 80s child.

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.

And you'd think we'd be the type to over-analyze. Get a grip man. Just answer the dam question.

wtf

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.

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

The 60's and 70's were both awful awful decades.

Care to elaborate, my friend?

Mom pop and sister of course

Dad -ROCK zeppelin Sabbath Rush stuff like that

Mom- whatever my dad listend to along with rod setwert and Yani

SIster- pretty much 90's Rap and RNB along with selena

:eek:
but... hippies? disco..? Surely you jest. I mean.. people at least cleaned up after themselves in the thrift shops right?

Thanks for you input, I appreciated it muchly. :)

I listen to the Oldies, Classic Rock and College Radio, the first two were very strict formats and the last played basically what the dj felt like. I feel I learned more from those three than anything else. I gave up on the radio for various reasons, it became the same ol' same ol' and once I had money to buy what I wanted to hear I didn't feel I needed the radio anymore.

I love college radio, because there was no strict format, but then again that had it plus and minus. The downside is I would only hear this just once or time slot for certain music would be gone once the dj left college or replaced by another. One dj would do this thing where he travel back in time and play what was on UK charts in the 70s during a particular week. What I remember it was a mix of Pop and Punk and different kind of junk. Looking back at it now something like that blows my mind having so different things on the chart at one time. I still like to look for songs on the UK pop charts, esp on everyHit.com - UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts

I forget the actual weeks he did, but relying on everyhit this is a perfect example of the songs he would play:
UK Charts February 1978
#37 on the UK Singles chart What Do I Get?

#1 on the UK Singles chart Take a Chance On Me

Bull Connor
Church Bombings
George Wallace
Mississippi Burning
Selma
JFK
Watts
Nam
Detroit
MLK
Cities burn
RFK
Chicago

One thing about the 60's, the generations, the older generation that fought in WWII vs the younger generation being drafted to fight in Vietnam, just hated each other. We were more divided in the 1960's than any other time in my life. It was an extremely painful time for most.

The '70's

Kent State
Attica
Munich
Watergate
Recession
Stagflation
Energy Crisis
Iran

By the late 1970's there was a palpable sense of being beaten. That, whatever greatness we had achieved in the past was gone. It was a very depressing time.

Every decade has ups and downs of course. The '60's and '70's had such sustained downs that I'd pick them as the worst decades of my time on this planet. The 2000's were pretty bad too, with the single worst day I hope I ever see. But as a sustained crappy decade the '60's and '70's really take the cake.

If I had to pick a best decade I would go with the 1990's followed by the '80's, depending on what happens during the rest of the 2010's

^ Fair enough Paul Smeenus, however I think in any generation or era of time you could dig up just as many negative experiences and "sustained downs" as you put them. However, I did not live through the 60s and 70s so I could not comment!

I can only say I *did* also live through the '80's '90's and '2000's and only the latter comes close to being as bad. In particular the '60's with brutal racism instilled into law in the American south, and a decade long, wicked, bloody, pointless war, which also carried over into the '70's. The Bush/Cheney war in Iraq was as bad in principle but not close in scale.

Can definitely understand the dissonance of that time in America. While racism and war were still extremely prominent here as well during that era, things were very different in Australia in the 60s and 70s as my parents and older siblings describe. Almost... simple (albeit ignorant...ha!).

I hate to say this but this general attitude in my experience always only comes from white females that I know. It wasn't even a great time for women back in those days but then again it's all hearsay since I didn't live in the 60s but obviously I would NEVER want to live in the 60s. I'm perfectly fine with the decade that I was born in. The only people that would actually benefit from living in the 60s are white male and you better hope that you were rich enough to skip out on the draft and didn't get sent to Vietnam. For all the positive things that people usually list off about the 60s, I always tend to see all the negative sides. It was pretty awful in general in my eyes and I just don't see why it gets romanticized so much.

I remember recording songs off the radio unto cassette's but I didn't care so much about the DJ's voice being on it. I just wanted to make sure that I caught it in time. I actually used to do my own fake news radio show with a friend of mines and we would record it on cassettes. I used to head up weather and traffic haha.

I used to love doing that but I didn't just stick to one decade. I would go to 50s and play rockabilly tunes also.

Anyways back to OP.

I grew up on Green Day, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers. I used to listen to an Alt Rock station heavily. I didn't like the pop station at the time. I would get my hip hop/R&B tunes from MTV. Coolio with gangsta's paradise, Juice and Gin all the standard fare from back then.

I think the attitude is there because the sixties were basically where a revolution of social norms began - yes, it wasn't as great to be a cultural minority as it is now, BUT it was a time where countercultures bloomed and conservative/restrictive views on women, freedom, war, and race were being challenged. It's romantisied because it was a pivotal point in changing views surrounding a whole plethora of social issues.

I think the worst part about that is that the decade is lightly romanticized, rather than actually considered an important time for civil rights. I will admit that white privilege is ultimately being able to time travel and not get your ass beat for the color of your skin (although sadly, that's still happening all over the world; everyone's always thinking humanity is in a post-racism stage, but in reality the media is whitewashed to the point where violence against nonwhite races has been erased from the news). I will admit that I remain shocked over the race riots, and just the fact that it was somehow ok to blatantly discriminate against people of color, but the fact that people began to question it (people of ALL races) and fight for a change ... that makes me glad.

A lot of scary shit happened in the 1960s. It wasn't a particularly good time for minorities or women (let's face it - history has always been kindest to the white male) but people were standing up and saying "this is bullshit!" People were marching and protesting; people were angry and not afraid to show it. Do you know how angry I am about Vietnam? I wasn't even alive then; I didn't know anyone that fucking went there and I'm so angry by just the slightest mentioning of that war; it makes my blood boil. But you know what? People marched; people made signs, people were willing to get the **** beaten out of them to be heard. The police tried to silence them. But they were having none of it. Nobody just fucking ran away and said "oh, I'll just be quiet now; I have an opinion but I think I'll just keep it to myself and let horrible things happen because they aren't happening to me."

People had a real sense of passion in those days.

It's strangely missing from this world now.

My dad got me into a lot of cool stuff as a kid like Sabbath, Mr. Bungle, Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Rush, and Alice In Chains but I got the downside of his taste like Van Halen, nu metal, Nickelback, and ****ty post grunge. My mom didn't listen to much music besides from Heart, so there's that. I went my own direction after discovering my love for jazz when I was 14.

I grew up on music from my parents like The Beatles, Queen, Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers, CCR, The Who, etc. I also got into some of the more popular Metal bands at the time thanks to one of my Uncles and Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Some of those bands were Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Dragonforce, and a few others.

Most of the music I listened to when I was a kid I've come to enjoy considerably less in the present, but I don't really feel ashamed for liking any of the bands I used to like. Also, some don't do anything for me anymore like Avenged Sevenfold, but others have fared a bit better like Iron Maiden, Metallica, and The Beatles.

Also, I'm curious if at any point in the future my taste will change to where I feel about what I currently listen to, the way I feel about what I used to listen to now. But I think my taste has become pretty cemented in place, though I believe my taste will still expand, I doubt there'll ever be a point where I'll lose interest in a large portion of the bands and artists I currently listen to.

The Beatles, E.L.O, Blondie, Queen and mixtapes of Reggae music that my dad got hold off as he grew up in Birmingham close to Handsworth.

I always had this knack of finding The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin on the radio. It was like a sixth sense, I would get a feeling they were on another station and I would turn the dial and voila they're were there.