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Which 3 songs had the biggest influence on you when growing up.

Started by chloe savannah, May 13, 2011, 12:57:35 PM

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chloe savannah

My 3 in no particular order are.
1 All or nothing by the Small Faces the reason the haunting lyrics and Steve Marriots voice.

2 See Emily Play The Pink Floyd 1st heard it in 69 at a pub in South Shields real trippy.

3 Keith West Except from a teenage opera, need I say more I grew up in the best era for music.
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Janet_Girl

From my early childhood.



Young rebel day ( preteen )



Transition

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Megan Joanne

Uh, never got into mainstream music back then, didn't start finding what I liked in music (that wasn't game or cartoon related) til less than a decade ago when I took a liking to ones such as Aqua, t.A.T.u., Nightwish, Aly & AJ, and Morning Musume - hell of some contrasting variety, huh. But growing up, cartoon theme songs were my favorite, Thundercats, Silverhawks, TMNT, G.I.Joe, ect., yeah, seriously, this was fun stuff (actually still is  ;D ). And then there's game music, usually not with vocals, but still songs, so many ever so catchy and memorable tunes that every day since I've been gaming from my first days on the NES to now, I'll always be humming some random tunes from one game or other. But I really think Sailor Moon had a really big influence on me in my later years prior to transitioning, from mid 90's to shortly after getting on hormones, maybe about 10 years, this was easily my favorite animated show since She-Ra that wasn't revolving around a mostly male cast of characters, and in having so much influence as a show, I got into the music as well, did a lot of good for me during my times of confusion when I was trying to figure myself out, must've listened the my Sailor Moon CD's hundreds of times in the decade and half that I've owned most of them. Kinda hard for me to pick 3 particular songs of any time that had the most influence on me growing up. I know that I'm an oddball, but hey, I'm young at heart, most music I like has to be catchy, fun, something that I can hum or sing along too, and still remember most if not all of the lyrics to even a decade, two decades or more later, it makes me feel good that I can still enjoy listening to things that I did when I was young, even if most adults would look at me like I was childish.

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Princess Rachel

Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Pretend We're Dead - L7


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tekla

I can remember moments, but its not like influence, but more like things having a sacred space for having been the vehicle of the moment.  It didn't have to be them, could have been a ton of other stuff, but it's what it was.

1. (always) Beethoven's 9th and a 4 record collection of Chopin that my mom had, taught me how to love music, and indeed, what music was.
2. (Winter, 63-64)I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles.  First time I ever heard Rock and Roll.  I was sold.
3. 7th grade, so 67 - King of the Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson.  I bought this record because it was on the cover of my favorite Bob Dylan record Bringing It All Back Home.  It changed my life.  If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day in particular.
4. Stoned off my ass in my friend's (it was his parents actually) fallout shelter, now long forgotten and turned into the "Bombed Shelter" (we were ever so clever) for our smoking and drinking pleasure, on my 16th Birthday. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis.  After repeatedly trying and trying, my friend finally got me to 'get' jazz.
5. A rainy night in 74 at a college study group up on Brush Creek Road I got real high and sat and watched the rain and the drifting conversation in political philosophy and Wake of the Flood was on and I 'got' Jerry Garcia.  Eventually I'd kinda get the rest of the Grateful Dead.  But I always was a Jerry Fan from that day forward.
6. 1980 King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown - First time I heard Dub
7. The Message - Grandmaster Flash - I was dancing with a friend on the off night (but very trendy off-night, Tuesday to be exact) at one of the ultra trendy places in SF at that time (The I-Beam) and this came on.  It was 1982.  I knew I was hearing the 'next thing' - it just tingled. 

They all hold a place, one I can almost instantly go back to and see and feel in detail.  I can see myself dialing the radio in my dad's Ford around, how it was winter, how we were delivering papers for my paper route...  Some moments are just like that.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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xxUltraModLadyxx

this is just one.



i'm not to into music, so i couldn't think of 3.
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