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5-10-15-20 "Music of Our Lives" Draft - Round 14 (1 Viewer)

MAC_32 said:
10 year song - Come Out & Play, Offspring

I missed the grunge explosion. It would be a few years before I ever really understood rock music's transformation in the early 90's. I was exposed to some of it by my older brothers, but it was primarily in a what I could here through the walls manner. Cause teenage boys don't want to deal with their 7 year old brother. Between that, my parents terrible music tastes, and the nails on a chalkboard pop radio all of my friends listened to music wasn't really a big part of my child hood. Then 1994 happened. 

I was a wanna be punk full of unfounded angst. This was the year that really helped me figure out who I am. Or at least who I thought I was. And I can't think of a better song to connect to this year than:

(ya gotta keep em separated)

Many others have better stood the test of time, but the attitude exuding from this song. It resonated with me in a way nothing had before and set the path for the next few years of my life.
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Smash is on my short list for albums at this age. 

 
I'm a bit torn because there's a couple albums 10 years old me liked at the time and really loves now but I think the one I loved the most at the time is not one I still love as much - but should probably be my pick. 

 
Ten years old is still a little too early, I don't think I even owned any tapes until 11, though I did have Paul Stanley solo on vinyl thanks to my grandmother 

1982's biggest album was also the biggest album ever.  It wouldn't be a stretch for me, or just about anybody my age, to take that record or their favorite track off of it.. but.. NAH

So back to the grab-bag of radio hits.  This song was its own little pop culture moment 

Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny

Second place by a hair -  Little Red Corvette

Also ran: My Kinda Lover, You Got Lucky, Twilight Zone
 
The Dreaded Marco said:
10 year old me had an allowance.  Didn't rely on my parent's record collection, just on mom driving me to the record store.

This song is off one of the first albums I ever bought with my own money (and, yes, still own it). The first album I bought will be my selection tomorrow.

Nick Gilder - Hot Child In the City

I bought the album but pretty much wore out this track only.
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runnin' wild and lookin' pretty

 
Northern Voice said:
I'm a bit torn because there's a couple albums 10 years old me liked at the time and really loves now but I think the one I loved the most at the time is not one I still love as much - but should probably be my pick. 
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I'm in the same boat. 

Going to go with the one I listened to at that time despite the fact that I've not listened to it 40 years.  I may play it tonight to remedy that.

 
10 year song - Miss You - The Rolling Stones

When I did my Stones thread I mentioned that I had only two favorite bands in my lifetime. One was from about 7 years old to 10 years old and their album will come tomorrow. The other happened when my friend Steven wanted to expand his music and bought, or had his parents buy, Hot Rocks which was a double greatest hit record with the classics. That was when I made the transition to the Stones who have been my favorite band ever since and to this day. This song was all over the radio and culture shortly after I heard Hot Rocks and that was as they say "history". This song sounds like 1970s New York about as perfectly as any song can. 

I could list these guys in every year after but I will fill those slots with other things I was also listening to at the time.

 
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Dr. Octopus said:
10 year song - Miss You - The Rolling Stones

When I did my Stones thread I mentioned that I had only two favorite bands in my lifetime. One was from about 7 years old to 10 years old and their album will come tomorrow. The other happened when my friend Steven wanted to expand his music and bought, or had hos parents buy, Hot Rocks which was a double greatest hit record with the classics. That was when I made the transition to the Stones who have been my favorite band ever since and to this day. This song was all over the radio and culture shortly after I heard Hot Rocks and it was as they say history. This song sounds like 1970s New York about as perfectly as any song can. 

I could list these guys in every year after but I will fill those slots with other things I was also listening to at the time.
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Marquee Moon is a slightly better '70s NYC song, but i hearya

 
10.S  Monster (single version) - Steppenwolf

My parents were too old for rock 'n roll and my older sister was never much of a music fan (except for a thankfully brief John Denver/Dan Fogelberg period) but it takes a village to raise a nerd. 

My best friend Perry lived up the street with three older brothers including one who played guitar.  Perry's brother and some of his friends had a band that played in their garage, at least when it wasn't occupied by one of their beater muscle cars.  I don't think they played Monster but I pretty sure they took a crack at Born to be Wild.  Perry had a stroke as a teenager and suffered some paralysis.  We drifted apart when I went away to college and later San Francisco.  I last saw him ten years ago when he came to my mom's funeral.  I stopped by his house before I left for the airport on that trip.  I peeked in the garage and saw a mid-60s Bonneville that was a long way from being roadworthy.  I was glad to see some things never change.

Monster covers a lot of ground in four minutes.  It recounts the history of America with some very pointed late 60s social commentary and a great singalong chorus.  I'm opting for the single version because it's the first 45 I ever bought.  The album version runs over nine minutes and has a lot of guitar noodling that doesn't add much to the proceedings IMO.

'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

 
Ok - after realizing I could go all day going through all the possibilities of just the right song to represent the 10 yr old me, I picked:

10 Yr Old Single: Valeri - The Monkees

I had a couple 45s and no albums at that point.  It was all about the hits on AM radio.  FM radio - album-oriented rock popularity was several years away.  I'm not 100% sure, but I don't believe many radios even had a FM dial.  I had my red Sears transistor and a clock radio by my bed.  When I think of that age, I think of spending summer days at the putt-putt dollar days as the popular WING AM 1490 blared through the loud speakers in the center of the course.  Or listening quietly under the covers to the top 40 of the week after bedtime.  

When I went to look up top hits of '67 & '68 - there were too many I wanted to pick ...would love to go through a bunch of them ...but NO SPOTLIGHTING!!!

I went with one of several Monkees songs that still draw me in.  I had shifted off of the Beatles, they had become too "subversive" for me ...the music was no longer innocent pop songs - and they kind of looked scary to me.  The Monkees took their place.  Their show was similar to "A Hard Days Night", and "Help" ...and NOT the Magical Mystery Tour.  They were funny, cool, and not threatening.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Ok - after realizing I could go all day going through all the possibilities of just the right song to represent the 10 yr old me, I picked:

10 Yr Old Single: Valeri - The Monkees

I had a couple 45s and no albums at that point.  It was all about the hits on AM radio.  FM radio - album-oriented rock popularity was several years away.  I'm not 100% sure, but I don't believe many radios even had a FM dial.  I had my red Sears transistor and a clock radio by my bed.  When I think of that age, I think of spending summer days at the putt-putt dollar days as the popular WING AM 1490 blared through the loud speakers in the center of the course.  Or listening quietly under the covers to the top 40 of the week after bedtime.  

When I went to look up top hits of '67 & '68 - there were too many I wanted to pick ...would love to go through a bunch of them ...but NO SPOTLIGHTING!!!

I went with one of several Monkees songs that still draw me in.  I had shifted off of the Beatles, they had become too "subversive" for me ...the music was no longer innocent pop songs - and they kind of looked scary to me.  The Monkees took their place.  Their show was similar to "A Hard Days Night", and "Help" ...and NOT the Magical Mystery Tour.  They were funny, cool, and not threatening.  
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i think all my monsters would have overwhelmed me early were it not for the transistor under my pillow. most of my early hustles were to keep myself in 9Vs

 
Steppenwolf run  :lmao:

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (age 10)

This is the first song I can remember being really "into". My mom had the Easy Rider soundtrack and I would grab the keys and sneak out to the car to rock out to it.  Can't remember if it was an 8-track or cassette. Anyway, this was my first jam. Still a sweet tune, but I don't return to it much.

 
Bonzai said:
Steppenwolf run  :lmao:

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (age 10)

This is the first song I can remember being really "into". My mom had the Easy Rider soundtrack and I would grab the keys and sneak out to the car to rock out to it.  Can't remember if it was an 8-track or cassette. Anyway, this was my first jam. Still a sweet tune, but I don't return to it much.
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Another album my parents had and played a lot (though I think it may have been the greatest hits)

 
3.xx - 10 Year Old Song - The Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)

This was when MTV made it into my house. I can remember our old basement well. In addition to that, I can remember Robert Palmer and the Taylor brothes ripping this cover. I was unaware of who Bolan was, of course, but this being at the top of the play charts would always stick in the old memory banks.  I might have been on the wrong side of eleven for this, but who's counting? The alternating funk/guitar breakdown at 3:30 makes it. 

Get It On!

 
rockaction said:
3.xx - 10 Year Old Song - The Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)

This was when MTV made it into my house. I can remember our old basement well. In addition to that, I can remember Robert Palmer and the Taylor brothes ripping this cover. I was unaware of who Bolan was, of course, but this being at the top of the play charts would always stick in the old memory banks.  I might have been on the wrong side of eleven for this, but who's counting? The alternating funk/guitar breakdown at 3:30 makes it. 

Get It On!
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I thought you were older than that - lol.

 
My 10 year old music is a problem for me.  When I was 8, we moved to Italy where we had no music- turntable or radio.  A year later, we moved to West Germany.  For the next five years, I listened to the British Forces Broadcast Service, which played the BBC.  (We were in the British Sector.)  Still no turntable.  I have no album to pick because I just didn't have access to albums, so I'll be picking two singles.  It's also why I thought Donnny Osmond was a girl when I saw his picture for the first time.  He did look a lot like Marie.

This song was big in 1970 when I was doing a lot of travelling by air.  I still think of it when I fly.  

10 year song - Leaving On A Jet Plane  -  Peter, Paul and Mary

It probably helps that John Denver wrote in my key.

 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
My 10 year old music is a problem for me.  When I was 8, we moved to Italy where we had no music- turntable or radio.  A year later, we moved to West Germany.  For the next five years, I listened to the British Forces Broadcast Service, which played the BBC.  (We were in the British Sector.)  Still no turntable.  I have no album to pick because I just didn't have access to albums, so I'll be picking two singles.  It's also why I thought Donnny Osmond was a girl when I saw his picture for the first time.  He did look a lot like Marie.

This song was big in 1970 when I was doing a lot of travelling by air.  I still think of it when I fly.  

!0 year song - Leaving On A Jet Plane  -  Peter, Paul and Mary

It probably helps that John Denver wrote in my key.
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my next pick, i'll be talking about the first album i ever bought. i owned albums before this, but they were all bought for me by my aunties. now i like Peter, Paul & Mary just fine (matter of fact, one of my first comedy-writing jobs was for Peter Yarrow when he was trying to start an ecumenical radio network) but i swear EVERY long-playing record i received from an auntie was PP&M. uncanny

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Because I was listening to the Beeb, I got the British comedy stylings.  Here are two of my favorites from the period:

The Birds and the Bees

Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)
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i hear Benny was more famous in his home country for that kind of stuff (esp Birds & Bees) than he was for the Yakety Sax birdchasing & slapping the li'l bald guy on the head which made him all the rage over here. my uncle played me tape of the Goon Show (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan) in my teens - changed my life.

 
10 years old in 1979.  I would stay with my grandmother when I got of the bus until my mom got home.  She would (for some reason) turn on the radio and Gary Numan's Cars would come on almost every day.  It was new to me (my parents usually only listened to country. It was like some space aged tomorrow music to me.  My grandmother would say, "here comes the cars song" and she would dance sort of like she was doing the lindy - but by herself.  It was a hoot.  This song always reminds me of my Nan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3JzxlatUs

 
Still torn between two songs...pop meghit and track off an album I loved that was part of the grandparents purchase and more attuned to grown-up floppo.

#### it, I'll go pop.

10 year old floppo single

What a fool believes- Doobie Brothers

Good groove, and Michael MacDonald was one smooth dude. 

 These were my AM radio jams. Hard to differentiate them for me at this point.   

misunderstanding- Genesis ...was a close runner up in the pop world. As was the third album from grandparent haul... dust in the wind- kansas...hfs that video. 


Also...years ago, the wife and I went to a wedding up the Hudson a bit and had the idea to drive home after. Got to Poughkeepsie before giving up...stayed at a motel called the Excalibur which had a 40' tall Knight holding a sword statue out front and a bar attached. Turned out to be a karaoke bar. We were already a bit gone from the wedding, but another couple drinks had us back...and the people singing- holy hell, they were good- like, rehearsed harmonies good. So there's a break between songs and this young guy in a wheelchair rolls up to the mic, looking sad...started to bring us the #### down...until he sang- dust in the wind (with foxy waitress who did the harmonies) and just crushed it in a drop the mic way. Place went nuts. We went nuts. Bought them a round and thanked them both.

About a year later, we were trying to think of a weekend spot, and actually went back to the Excalibur solely on the basis of that one performance. This night, the singing sucked (other than my version of Night and Day that I always do for the lovely lady)...the magic of the sword was gone...like dust in the wind.
 
Hov34 said:
10 years old in 1979.  I would stay with my grandmother when I got of the bus until my mom got home.  She would (for some reason) turn on the radio and Gary Numan's Cars would come on almost every day.  It was new to me (my parents usually only listened to country. It was like some space aged tomorrow music to me.  My grandmother would say, "here comes the cars song" and she would dance sort of like she was doing the lindy - but by herself.  It was a hoot.  This song always reminds me of my Nan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im3JzxlatUs
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Not new wave. Not a classic.

-timscocket

 
10 year old song - that would be 1976.  Mid 70s is when FM was big, and the radio station I listened to was WKZL.  That station played pop, funk, disco, rock, soul, and jazz.  Jazz was Sunday mornings.  It did not play country, but I heard that from mom and dad playing their records. The station did deep album cuts a lot, and Sunday night was the King Biscuit Flower Hour.  In '76 my family had one TV, which was in the family room. All of us kids had radios and record players, so we listened to music a lot. My sister and I had a lot of 45s, and we danced and sang to the following song all the time. I still boogie to the song.

Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

 
Most people made their round 3 pick today, so we'll do round 4 - Age 10 Albums tomorrow. 

Let's just do this
Every day's the weekend
Doesn't matter what they say
Every day's the weekend
Don't know, don't care
Every day's the weekend
#### work, you're here
Every day's the weekend

 
wikkidpissah said:
i hear Benny was more famous in his home country for that kind of stuff (esp Birds & Bees) than he was for the Yakety Sax birdchasing & slapping the li'l bald guy on the head which made him all the rage over here. my uncle played me tape of the Goon Show (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan) in my teens - changed my life.
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I grew up on that stuff.  Ken Dodd, I'm sorry I'll Read That Again, The Goon Show, Dad's Army, and tons of other fine quality humour.  Also Victor Borge.  

It might have had some affect on my brain.

 
I had three important pop-culture influencers when I was a kid. My grandmother, an English teacher who taught me to love books and had an encyclopedic knowledge of sports. My mom, also a book lover and who was my first exposure to music.

And my aunt. She's ten years older than me and was your typical hippie chick cool aunt. She turned me onto The Hobbit when I was 7 or 8, took me to see movies my mother would have never let me see at the time (Blazing Saddles, etc....), and opened up a whole new world of music to me. 

She'd always come home from college for holidays with an armful of albums. Santana, CSNY, Richie Havens, The Dead (sorry, Mary, but that one never stuck), Zep, Rare Earth, Janis, etc..... So, before whatever holiday meal we were having, I'd go upstairs and listen to her records. 

She had several LPs by one artist that seemed to hang with me the most, probably starting when I was around 8. By the time I was 10, I couldn't wait for her to get home with the latest by this act. 

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you......

The One

The Only

The Immortal

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!

Age 10 Album: "Phoenix" (full album)

Sample Song Of Their Greatness - "Rock And Roll Soul"

 
Age 10 album: The Black Album by Metallica 
I remember having my first Walkman and listening to this tape over and over everywhere I went. The grunge/alternative rock movement hadn’t quite hit Detroit yet so this was my real introduction to modern rock. My parents were hesitant but my dad got us tickets to see Metallica- my first concert. He wasn’t a big fan of Metallica but he dug Enter Sandman and got the overall appeal. He just kept insisting to me there were much better rock bands out there.
 

Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies opened up for them. It was a hell of a fun show. We sat outdoors on a grassy hill and during the Danzig set, the crowd began tearing up the sod and throwing it all over the place. While my dad was disappointed they were damaging the well maintained lawn, I loved the spontaneous act of rebellion. Ofcourse now I see it from his perspective, it’s a shame to tear up all that grass and there were certainly much better bands making music in the early 90s.
 

The Unforgiven

 
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age 10 album:

Love it to Death - Alice Cooper

first album i ever bought was "Through the Past Darkly", a comp album from the Stones - mostly due to the octagon cut album cover, and was treated to a surprise poem in memory of Jonesy within: "when this you see/remember me/and bear me in your mind/let all the world say what they may/speak of me as you find"

started my digging into Brian, and i have been the hugest fan ever since.   

... but i was already familiar with most of those Stones tunes, and the band, in general, from my older brothers and babysitters, etc ... hell, everyone loved the Stones (the Beatles? ehhhh, not so much -  not very popular with those kids i mentioned at all).

so it was this second album i ever purchased by Alice that felt like my own ... sure the older kids listened, but he/they weren't as revered as the Stones or the Doors or Jimi or the Who or Zep or Floyd or Sabbath ...

another awesome album cover (hey, 10 yr olds are so impressionable - they look like the grimiest wannabe drag #####es you'd never wanna meet in an alley).

i always loved the classic hit "Eighteen", the tune which broke them big time.   so, yeah, backed by the visual stimulation, and love of the track, i plunked the $5.98, and awaaaay we went. 

though it was released in early '71, it had ZERO effs to give to the hippie crap ... this was dark and sinister and claustrophobic and scary and rockin' - everything a proper altar boy blowing his confirmation money on needed!

it just sounded different - putting the needle down slams you right into Caught in a Dream "when you see me with a smile on my face/then you'll know i'm a mental case/woah ah wooooaaahhh oh/ woah a wooooahhhh oh/whoa a woooahhh"

the tracks continue to probe this feeling of mental instability, all crafted and produced as slick and crisp as could possibly be, given the gutter snipe ambiance of the recordings ... it's a rare platter that can combine those two traits - Alice's backing band was immensely talented, as tight a four guys as any frontman ever enjoyed ... my favorite grew to be bassist Dennis Dunaway - dude looked like the 70s version of Cliff Burton ... and he just oozed that rock persona.  bass slung low, damn near skeletal under that poker straight/waist length dark hair - but not a hippie! #### yeah!

as great as side one is (and it's capped off by the laborious, if not downright creepy, 9 minute "Black JuJu" - BOOOOODDDDDDDDEEEEE!), side two is unquestionably their finest hour (or 24 mins.) - beginning with the snarkily seductive "Is It My Body", but then giving way to the incredible three song run of Hallowed Be My Name/Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Fry

yeah ... that's about as great a trio as i've ever heard back to back to back ... "Second Coming" still chills me to this day, and "Dwight Fry" is some nasty #### for a 10 yr old to be digging.   had to hide that from my mom, she heard me playing it once and kicked the turntable over (the Irish, eh?) - had to bury the album under my socks for fear of her breaking it ... but the valium did her well in that regard, i guess - it survived.  

sent me on a mission to unearth who the #### Fry really was - found out he played Renfield in Dracula, and also had a part in Frankenstein.  neat guy. 

Alice was solo by this time ('79), and dealing with some heavy personal #### ... didn't even bother with anything post "Muscle of Love" 'cuz i loved the band so much.   

this foray into some edgier stuff led me to digging deep into the Dolls, then Iggy and Bowie and Lou and the Velvets, all while punk was still vibrant, though it crashed and burned spectacularly on the Winterland stage in January of '78, and heard it's death knell in October of that same year with Nancy's death in the Chelsea - by the hand of Sid?  who the #### knows ... but his OD in Feb '79 put a bow on the whole affair. 

so off i went, and Alice became a staple of mine, even as i dove head first into all the new #### (most notably the Ramones and the Clash, for starters).

but it's this album that convinced me that there was a more seedy side to this whole music shebang, and the more i was told not to to look into it, the more i dedicated every minute into pursuing it.  

 
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Age 10 album:

I was 10 in '76, the year that Frampton Comes Alive was the soundtrack of the Summer. The lifeguards at the local pool would put the radio on the P.A. and the rock/pop stations had multiple cuts from the album in their rotation. The extended "Do You Feel Like We Do" perfectly matched the lazy pace of idling away the time and enjoying endless days of lounging and frolicking. The reference to the album in Wayne's World is part of the reason I like that movie so much, since it resonated with my own childhood. To me, it seemed as ubiquitous as the Police's Synchronicity  was during the Summer of '83, though I tired of the latter sooner that I did of the former.

However, I can't claim that album, as I never owned it, and in fact only owned one album at the time: Barry Manilow II. Yes, it's the one that features Mandy, but I'm going to go with a deep cut from the album, It's A Miracle. 

 
Age 10 album

Say what you want about this band but they were pretty unstoppable during this time. A hit making machine. It was between this and DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince. After looking at the songs from each, this one is much more memorable. 

Bon Jovi- New Jersey

 
Age 10 album: Kiss - Alive II

By this age, I was into approximately a two year stint in the Kiss Army, but was looking to de-enlist due to other interests. My three friends and I wore the obligatory makeup - I was Ace, as I thought he had the coolest costume and, as it turns out, the only member of the band with real music talent. Almost picked Shock Me as my age 10 song, but wanted to diversify. Great times back then.
:ph34r: :topcat: :P 😼

 
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zamboni said:
Age 10 album: Kiss - Alive II

By this age, I was into approximately a two year stint in the Kiss Army, but was looking to de-enlist due to other interests. My three friends and I wore the obligatory makeup - I was Ace, as I thought he had the coolest costume and, as it turns out, the only member of the band with real music talent. Almost picked Shock Me as my age 10 song, but wanted to diversify. Great times back then.
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One of the few redeeming qualities my older sister had at that time was she had a friend that worked at the Capital Centre, the big venue in the DC area in the 70's, and was able to score floor seats for their show at the height of their power.  Oddly enough, she did it as a favor to my mother, as I had asked for them as a birthday present.  I hadn't been a huge fan of theirs, just caught up in the hype of the moment. It was a great show, but I never joined their army.

 
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