Fave tunes you grew up with

[Captain Haddock]

Through my life I've listened to lots of things, mostly metal by default, but I did go through a poppy radio faze when I was a teen in the mid 90's. This is one of the songs I most enjoyed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkg7Ozu0pH8

Feel free to share yours!

[90sKid]

Yes! A 90's song! I may have been born in 91, but I still thrive on my love for 90's music. I seriously think something happened to music around 2003 and it's been crashing and burning ever since. I try to give today's music a chance, but anything new played on the radio sounds like dance/club mixes.

Anyways when I was a kid, I lived on Sailor Moon, DBZ, Batman and these songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFvl2qsFLCs

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qBzuYyK_z0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ2yXWi0ppw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iho1V--8G4

My childhood was epic. xP These songs make me wish I was a teenager in the 90s though, because I never dreamed music of this quality would disappear and get replaced by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry when I grew up...

[Captain Haddock]

There does seem to have been a marked change, I think music along with film in many ways has got into the torrid state of making endless remixes and such like as opposed to original content. Money of course has always been a factor in pop music, but now its got to the stage where people seem to think that as long as so and so looks good or puts on a good show it doesn't matter if they have no musical ability. A bit of that's ok, but the fact its becomming the norm now is deppressing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4cgLL8JaVI

This song is kind of fun for a new one, but of course they're a 90's band...

[Macron one]

Personally i've always been a fan of 80's pop and 70's/80's rock music. While the 90's were my teenage years, there's actually very little music from that decade that i enjoy. I especially dislike the sort of depressing, gloomy pop music and gangster rap that were popular at the time.

Some of my favourites from when i was a kid:

Another Weekend (Five Star): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfMQJmdw4TI
The Reflex (Duran Duran): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo
Close To The Edit (Art of Noise): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
Too Shy (Kajagoogoo)): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdLQ7E_wZk
West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
The Invisible Man (Queen): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKdxd718WXg
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg
Get Outta Town (Dan Hartman): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfilFfczwQ
Stir it Up (Patti Labelle): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqUlSZrE ... re=related
I'm Not Scared (Eighth Wonder): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkE-UKVEdCo
Invisible Touch (Genesis): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN60DR5GQpg
The Discovery (from the movie Beverly Hills Cop): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsThlsaI ... re=related
Theme from "Fletch": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjU_okxT ... re=related
Off Road Battle (from the movie Tango & Cash): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26gLPBp6 ... re=related
Bus Chase/Cocaine (Tango & Cash OST): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_4b3Vn ... re=related

[Captain Haddock]

I think your wrong Macron One, if you were coming from an American perspective I could kind of understandish, but I think the 90's had a real good thing going on with dancy/pop kind of things.

That isn't to say I think the 90's were best. infact I'm going to drive a truck through my previous argument here but hell I'll be contradictory who cares. It's very easy to get stuck in your own thing and believe it's the bomb for whatever reason. I love 90's poppy dance music because I grew up with it and listened to it on the radio when I was an early teen and couldn't afford my own cd's, that was it. It has its meaning for me, but I see it for what it is fun cheese. 80's and 70's were both in very different ways very rich in music in many different genres, the 90's just happened to be the best for electro dance. Most of the best musicians in this genre come from that time, period. That said I do like alot of recent music, I think the likes of Winehouse are great (even though she's rehashing an old genre). But I can see and appreciate modern talent. I guess everyone understands what they listened to was important, which it was and no one should think otherwise, but its harder to see and accept what is new amd worthwile. So I don't know, I think people should just open their minds myself included. Stop being so miserable me!

[Captain Haddock]

Well look at that I can write coherently drunk. That's a relief.

[kathpatty]

Showing my age....
some from top of my head....yea, I know all the words

So much great music in the 60-70's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQCgaZnO0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payftCSI ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7UMZulD ... re=related

[teggacat]

Showing my age....
some from top of my head....yea, I know all the words

So much great music in the 60-70's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQCgaZnO0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payftCSI ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7UMZulD ... re=related

Yea KP!!!
I love music from the 60s-70s!!!

[Macron one]

I think your wrong Macron One, if you were coming from an American perspective I could kind of understandish, but I think the 90's had a real good thing going on with dancy/pop kind of things.

You're jumping to conclusions a little, methinks. I never said that all 90's music was bad or anything of the sort. All i said is that there was very little music around that i personally liked. I'm not so presumptuous as to think that my own tastes determine what is good and what isn't. The 90's were merely a disappointing decade for myself in terms of popular music because the majority of what was in the charts at the time fell into genres i didn't much care for.
Indeed, dance/trance/techno/house music does not appeal to me at all either, so i didn't really benefit from the abundance of those types of music.

That said I do like alot of recent music, I think the likes of Winehouse are great (even though she's rehashing an old genre). But I can see and appreciate modern talent. I guess everyone understands what they listened to was important, which it was and no one should think otherwise, but its harder to see and accept what is new amd worthwile. So I don't know, I think people should just open their minds myself included. Stop being so miserable me!

I have no doubt that there's a wealth of fantastic music to suit everyone's tastes being made currently. However, music isn't a hobby of mine and is not important enough to me for me to go out of my way to track down promising, lesser known artists whose stuff i might really enjoy. I expect the same is true for a lot of people who have jobs, family and various time-consuming hobbies, which means most people tend to stick to genres they're familiar with. In an ideal world, everyone would do research and take the time to find new and exciting artists and bands to listen to, but most folks, myself included, will just put on whatever radio station best suits their specific tastes or play CDs/MP3s of their old favourites. Nevertheless, every so often i do come across some new song that i'll happily hum along with...


Getting back to 90's music, here's a few tunes i did enjoy quite a bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5IhGvAiRdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmENMZFUU_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RaHTDNude4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4

[Macron one]

So much great music in the 60-70's


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQCgaZnO0o

Love that one!!

[Captain Haddock]

He Kathpatty the 60's, 70's were great The Stones, Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane well I could go on for ever. Wish I could have lived through them myself in many ways!

Macron One I wasn't suggesting you were writing off a decade of music or anything I was reacting to the following:

I especially dislike the sort of depressing, gloomy pop music and gangster rap that were popular at the time.

Ok I laboured the point a little, but as I said sobriety was not a virtue I was in possesion of at the time. It's a shame that you don't have the time to explore music more though, but if you havne't got the time/inclination it can't be helped I guess.

I did listen to Jamoriquai as a teen mostly because my mate listened to it alot so I had to learn to like it by extension. I always had the problem of liking the music but not the man, he was very into Cocain and getting into fights as I recall. I shudder when I hear TLC though, not because its bad or anything though R&B isn't my cup of tea. It's more the fact that at school alot of the girls liked it so then all the guys started pretending to like it to sort of try and look cool I guess. I got sort of put off of it by association really, though perhaps I missed a trick .

[GuyvarIII]

… depressing, gloomy pop music and gangster rap…

Coming from an “American perspective”, the music of the ‘90s… yeah, that’s what I remember it being.
It’s angry, often whiney, and largely self-absorbed… but isn’t that how people feel sometimes?

‘90s Zeitgeist. Some popular favorites from that decade would include:

Nirvana- Smells Like a Teen Spirit - 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

Pearl Jam- Alive -1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5mrEAPMLk8

Offspring- Come Out and Play - 1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFwkv14u3b4

Stone Temple Pilots- Big Empty -1993
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QlebgY2vwE

Cranberries- Zombie -1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIRK0nMD1Lw

KoRn- Blind - 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hIojjA3A4

Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self Destruct - 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3xOgg9mtk

Coolio- Gangsta’s Paradise - 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFK6H_CcuX8

Rammstein - Rammstein - 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7tjw5Au1bc

Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet With Butterfly Wings - 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0&ob=av3e

David Bowie with NIN- I’m Afraid of Americans - 1997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ

Running One from the “Lola Rennt” Soundtrack - 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsQFeURCk_Q

Edit: Removed an extra word.
2nd Edit: Fixed dead links.

[Captain Haddock]

Good choices in their Guyver III and I quite agree with what you said about anger and depression in music, aside from a diversion into pop in my early teens it is what I spent most of my youth listening to after all. Man the Korn track took me back, just as I was getting back into metal they were just getting big, I must have listened to that track and that album so many times! And I don't think anyone alive then could have missed Gangsters Paradise, that song was never off the radio! I'm quite suprised you didn't mention Tool, though I do admit they are an aquired taste not shared by all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm38Ojh61lY

When I said 'American Perspective' it wasn't meant in a negative way I was just reffering (obliquiely I concede) to Rap which was predominantly American at the time that was all. And I do like some rap, though it's pretty slender pickings as a genre to me.

[BeautifulAlone]

I actually only listened to musicals/showtunes in my tween/teen years. Because I'm an oddball like that. Progressed from the oldies like "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" type shows, to "Pirates of Penzance" to "Les Mis" and "Jekyll and Hyde". The only thing I remember liking on the radio was Bonnie Tyler.

[Captain Haddock]

Dude if musicals/showtunes and Bonnie Tyler are what hit the spot for you don't do yourself down for it, love the things you love it's all you can do in life.