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Watching tv a song by Blackstreet call "no diggity no doubt came on. It bought back memories of myself with pink hair, getting my one and only tattoo done, feeling like I was the part of the coolest group of friends ever, while ever one was team oasis or team blur we loved blur and thinking the group Pulp frontman was beyond. I remember loving the group nirvana. Then being introduced to r.n.b then learning about Sam Cooke and Ella Fitzgerald and nina Simone and reading poems by Langston Hughes and maya Angelou. Going to the record stores buying tracks loving finding Jonny Cash for the first time. I remember a time of bragging to mates about the books you're reading, concerts, seeing new bands before they hit the big time. The thing I love most was finding nick horby and Harry potter and Bridget jones I remember reading Classic books, Jane eyre, Shakespeare all of them. Looking back I acquire a love of reading that's never gone away particular history books and the Stephanie plum series of books by Janet evanovitch for when I want to just switch off and leave my brain at the door.


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Born in 1958... I had an older brother and sister so I used to hear a lot of good music in the late sixties and early 70s.
I remember my older brother bringing home A Hard Days Night by the Beatles and my Dad saying "Bunch of long haired gits...".
During that time I had a fondness for The Small Faces and I was in love with Steve Marriot.
My big sister favoured Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen so my musical upbringing was quite varied.

When I was about 12 or 13 David Cassidy stole my heart and I was in love with him for years and my bedroom was plastered with posters.My 'other' more serious side was Emerson,Lake and Palmer and I am still very fond of them today.
I went to Earls Court when I was 15 and lied to my Mum. I said I was staying with a friend and instead the small band of ELP freaks at our school went to London and saw out heroes playing Brain Salad Surgery which had just come out. Brilliant concert was that.

Met the love of my life when I was 16 and he was 18. The first thing he did (after rolling me a joint) was introduce me to Pink Floyd, Steve Miller Band,Mike Oldfield, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Crosby-Stills and Nash... And a LOT of Reggae. Which was his biggest love. We saw Steel Pulse in Brighton and Dire straights twice at the Dome in Brighton.

Met my new boyfriend in 2003 and was 5 years younger than me and he introduced me to Tim Buckley,Massive Attack,Bjork,Alabama 3,James Yorkston, Goldgrapp,Joy Division,New Order... He was a bit of a punk in his younger years...

Now I am finding my own music. Apart from when I was really young I just listened to whoever I was going out withs record collection.

When my partner died in 2003 aged 49 he left our record collection to my son. 3 thousand albums.
My son still has them. Doesn't have anything to play them on though but I can recall every single album.

I am lucky enough to have Spotify free. I signed up about 7 years ago and I was one of the lucky few who went for Sporify free and to my surprise I still have it.

Mode. No diggedy is an old favourite of mine too.....

Nice thread....

I don't have any music on my hard drive. I just use Spotify free and it is so good....
 
Joy Division have to be my all time favourites with Queen also harbouring childhood love. I have all kinds of 80's playlists on my devices!

As a 90's teenager I avoided much of Blur Vs Oasis by going either more hardcore (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Offspring) or more left field (Athlete, Ocean Colour Scene etc).

The best band playing at the moment is Editors (new album out on Monday), lyrics that reach right into my tortured mind. I am lucky in that one element of my work involves festivals so I get free vip passes to some of the big ones all summer long. Seen some absolyte gems of performances over the years, Elbow with 'One day like this', Placebo 'running up that hill' and Kings of Leon's 'milk' being recent highlights!

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electric dreams.... dunno who sings it, it isnt even my kind of music but when it comes on the radio all the memories of being a teenager and going to the pictures with an old girlfriend to see the film the song came from come flooding back, great times indeed :)


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Hi mode. Very similar thing happened to me, it was I'll be missing you by puff daddy that brought it all back for me! I used to work at a garage on Saturdays and spend my earnings on CDs (and tapes!) from Woolworths and john Menzies! I remember standing in big queues for k by kula shaker, everything must go by the Manics amongst others. Going to see bands like the seahorses and OCS. My first festival! Good times! The love of music and culture never left me tho. I'm nearly 30 but still feel like a 15 year old when I hear new music or read new books.

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Andy12345 said:
electric dreams.... dunno who sings it, it isnt even my kind of music but when it comes on the radio all the memories of being a teenager and going to the pictures with an old girlfriend to see the film the song came from come flooding back, great times indeed :)


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That was Paul Oakley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVZXj53i9Js

Forgotten the name of his band though....
 
Andy12345 said:
electric dreams.... dunno who sings it, it isnt even my kind of music but when it comes on the radio all the memories of being a teenager and going to the pictures with an old girlfriend to see the film the song came from come flooding back, great times indeed :)


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That was Paul Oakley and the band was Human League.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVZXj53i9Js

This was my sons fave: Don't you want me baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0
 
Mr Happy said:
Joy Division have to be my all time favourites with Queen also harbouring childhood love. I have all kinds of 80's playlists on my devices!

As a 90's teenager I avoided much of Blur Vs Oasis by going either more hardcore (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Offspring) or more left field (Athlete, Ocean Colour Scene etc).

The best band playing at the moment is Editors (new album out on Monday), lyrics that reach right into my tortured mind. I am lucky in that one element of my work involves festivals so I get free vip passes to some of the big ones all summer long. Seen some absolyte gems of performances over the years, Elbow with 'One day like this', Placebo 'running up that hill' and Kings of Leon's 'milk' being recent highlights!

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How bizarre, I have a lot of vivid memories of hearing those songs/artists too! I remember the first time my brother told me to listen to Joy Division - was going through a phase of loving The Smiths at the time.

As a kid, I was very much in to Nirvana, Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Linkin park; all the generic rock bands. Always remember my brother and I being glued to the TV watching Kerrang and MTV2, running up a massive phone bill by requesting our favourite songs all day.

I also remember being sat at our first ever home computer in 1997 when my dad first discovered that you could download songs from the internet... first song he put on to show off his new discovery was 'Nothing Else Matters' by Metallica, and I've loved them ever since.

As a very young child (3-5 yrs) I remember my brother constantly listening to Enya... he's 4 years older than me, but that's still not something you expect kids to be listening to :lol: I always hated that he listened to one CD by her on repeat ALL THE TIME so I took it out of the case and scratched it with a ball point pen. The unusual thing is that I now love listening to Enya!

As a young teenager, I discovered the joys of Nine Inch Nails and this love formed the base of a great friendship between myself and a girl in the year above at school. I wasn't allowed to go out much so we'd just sit and talk about music on MSN messenger all night, share pictures of the bands we loved, gossip about how attractive certain band members were ( :lol: :lol: ). She was very much in to Placebo and I'll always credit her as the one who got me in to them. I still have my teenage blog that I look back on now and again for a little chuckle... dare not share the link though. So embarrassing!
 
The acoustic versions of 'nothing else matters' is brilliant, remeber seeing that on mtv unplugged. Just remembered watching the spin doctors and terrorvision in the early 90's, the latter one being somewhat embarrassing as myself and the lead singer were wearing pink leather trousers!

I can't have Enya anywhere bear my music collection, the most chilled I get is Goldfrapp or Leftfield, maybe a bit of Einaudi if I choose the classical route...


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Mr Happy said:
The acoustic versions of 'nothing else matters' is brilliant, remeber seeing that on mtv unplugged. Just remembered watching the spin doctors and terrorvision in the early 90's, the latter one being somewhat embarrassing as myself and the lead singer were wearing pink leather trousers!

I can't have Enya anywhere bear my music collection, the most chilled I get is Goldfrapp or Leftfield, maybe a bit of Einaudi if I choose the classical route...


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:lol: I always remember being fascinated at the lyrics of Oblivion by Terrorvision whenever I heard my dad listening to it.

Einaudi is always a great choice. My 'chillout' playlist has some of his work on there, as well as Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman, Yann Tiersen, Didier Squiban, Thomas Newman and many, many more.
 
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