your favorite music as a kid
 

my favorite album was amy grant's heart in motion. i also enjoyed the musical stylings of celine dion, ace of base, and hootie and the blowfish. eat it, haters. :laugh:

Tom Petty
Howard Jones
Tone Loc
Starship
Joan Jett
Paula Abdul
Ugly Kid Joe
Extreme

early on:
the mamas & the papas
the fifth dimension
the beatles
the beach boys
the monkees
three dog night
the rolling stones

then i tacked on stuff like:
abba
jefferson airplane
the guess who
janis joplin
carole king
the grateful dead
foreigner (heeee)

etc. etc. etc.

my mom is big time into antiques... the majority of my childhood was spent in antique shops, thrift stores, yard sales, tag sales, etc. in order to get me to STFU and stop the "can we go now", she would send me off to look through records and pick out ones that i wanted. other than being able to identify names of artists or songs that i'd heard on oldies radio (thats all daddy ever listened to in the car), i'd just pick out the ones that looked cool. as a result, i have a effing boatload of eclectic records. they range from unbelievably awesome to embarassingly bad. :laugh:

NKOTB

s'all i'm sayin' :distress:

There you go, posting in code again....:laugh:

I'm surprised you'd admit it.

For me:
Mamas and the Papas
The Monkees
The Cowsills (ok, when you live in Lebanon you don't have a big selection!
Janis Joplin
Moody Blues
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five

LOL well, i'm trying to keep in on the DL as much as possible.


and me too :lol:

There's nothing wrong with the Cowsills! :wavey:

And, I would like to add The Grassroots to my list.

I know. And how sad that one of the brothers died during the whole Katrina thing.

:O

I hadn't heard that! Holy cow.

Not trying to thread jack. But, I'll say that Katrina was just bad all around. I have a lot of people on the gulf, in New Orleans, and such as (the iraq and asia and such as :laugh:). That was a really bad time. Plenty of people still aren't back on their feet completely.

Hey there's no shame in some NKOTB love!



Ok. Actually there is. But I loved them too. I had posters, t-shirts, a sweater, buttons, a night shirt, dolls...sigh. Oh how I loved them. They were my first concert.


I listened to my Heart in Motion tape so much that it wore out :laugh: I begged my mom to buy me a new one - and she did.


Other than that:

Debbie Gibson
Tiffany
The Beatles (I guess I had some taste at least)
The Jets :laugh:

Deanna and Michelle both New Kids fans?

I don't think I can affiliate myself with either of them anymore.

For shame, ladies. For shame. :distress:










('Cause Tone Loc is totally acceptable, y'know)

bitch!! i didn't get to go :( i'm still in pain :distress:

omg. I did a talent show to only in my dreams

and I can't tell you how many times i've listened to i think we're alone now


I'm having horrible flashbacks of slap bracelets, big bangs and tightrolled jeans :(

funky cold medina.

that is all.

I have that song on my iPod. :thumbsup:


'Tis better than "Hangin' Tough"

so do i :p along with wild thaaang lol


and I won't disagree with you :lol:

but is it better than baby got back? i think not.

i think not.

Yes, yes it is.

I will say though, that I think I chose the wrong NKOTB song to mock. There are worse choices.


Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
The Right Stuff.

:rolleyes:

Edit:

Oh yeah, and this shizz?

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...da79/NKOTB.jpg

So not cute.

^^I do not believe this at all :mad:


that cut me like a knife.

oh yeah?

well :mad:

http://www.mono211.com/popcultscanfu...s-toneloc1.jpg

take that!

Yeah well, nobody ever said he was cute.

And that youtube vid?


LMFAO at that heinous dancing.

:lol:

OMG you guys :laugh: And yeah - looking back - them were some ugly boys (nkotb). Except for Joey. I will always love Joey :p

I totally forgot the most important part of my musical upbringing.

My best friend and I used to put together dance routines to Paula Abdul songs - them perform them for our parents :laugh:

all you care about is readers and making money off of them. THEY ARE HUMANS!!!!!! :mad:

you're lucky they even performed for you BASTARDS!!!! LEAVE NKOTB ALONE!!!!!!

please.

leave NKOTB alone right now!! I mean it!!!! anyone who has a problem with them, you deal with ME!!!

I don't know any of you people :(

But only cos I'm too old to have liked NKOTB :laugh:

Funky Cold Medina was kinda cool though :o

OMFG. Yeah, my mom used to try to get me to dance to the videos on MTV, but I was like "Yeah, mom, I don't think so."

Here's another crappy classic I found on YouTube.



Oh the nostalg.

I grew up in east TN on country music - Dolly, Loretta, George, Porter, Johnny - as well as Christian standards when I was visiting my grandparents.

The first song I ever remember noticing, liking, and buying (by myself, with my allowance) was:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/80704.jpg

You can imagine my parents' shock when a year or so later, after completely wearing out Debby and the Grease soundtrack, I bought this at the local Kmart:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/41742.jpg

It's called destiny, kids. You simply can't fight it.

pleeaaasee... don't. go. girl. lol

and omg. I did that too. and also to barbie jam songs or something lol i had some tape LOL

omg no you didn't.


it's on.

Color Me Badd!!!

Ha! My brother liked that crap.

Oh, here's a song I loved as a child.



Still do.

I win.

what's happened to my thread? my beautiful, beautiful thread :distress:

^^ I don't think so

Oh, I forgot. I loved Genesis, too.

Totally played the hell out of my "We Can't Dance" tape.

i know. :distress:

i didn't listen to this stuff. :distress:

No, you're wrong. I still win, Michelle.

Why?

Because I love me some Dead or Alive.

You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round...

That ****'s on my iPod, too.

me neither :distress:

oh, and just for the record, i also listened to a lot of motown, heart, benatard, cyndi lauper, barbra streisand, bette midler, jefferson airplane, the who, rolling stones, and, sadly, rush. but that's because my stepdad has no taste.

Back in the day, I totally thought that this was, like, the coolest video ever. Rad.

omg.


my heart belongs to you :laugh:

i loved that video.

but rush is good :(

From the time I found music until I was forced off of them, I was all about the 45. So I can't say that I listened to one gnere or band. I just had a gaggle of 45's. From the Muppet theme song to Hall & Oats. My first real record was the ONJ Physical album, and my first casette was Air Supply. Yea, that's right! haha.
For 45's, I guess I had a bulk of 70's R&B/Disco. Ring My Bell & We Are Family were my 1st 45's, so I loved that kind of music. I started collecting/adoring Stevie & the Mac in 83, so they were the 1st ones that really had me buying multiple things by the same band. Otherwise my choice of music was ALL 80's. LOTS of Missing Person! LOVE the Bozzio. Haircut100, ABC, etc. Then I found Siouxsie, and well, it's been "alternative" ever since save SN/FM.

there is a handful of rush songs that i will defend to the death. :laugh: but overall, can't say i'm a huge fan.