Monuments o' yr childhood

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I'm referring to songs that u remember that don't necessarily recall specific memories but evoke a certain atmosphere that might have been present for just one day in yr youth but because u can't actually pinpoint what occured on that day, it seems that it was an general feeling from a certain era. If u understand what i'm talking about, then please say what music u remember in this way.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Many Carpenters tunes. Creedence's "Bad Moon Rising". "Grandma's Feather Bed" by John Denver. Some odd panpipe themetune from (BBC) Radio 4. Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes".

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Popcorn" by Hot Butter.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Eddie Rabbit "Love A Rainy Night" = being in the car with mom.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The TEASER & FIRECAT album by Cat Stevens, "Angie" by the Rolling Stones. Some :::shudder::: Seals & Crofts as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The choruses of tons of 70s disco (especially "Electric Avenue") or singer-songwriter songs. My parents only listened to the radio on Christmas or for storm updates. I didn't know you could get other music from it, so I taped K-TEL ads with my little cassette recorder.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

jack, my mom has that Eddie Rabbit album.

― hstencil, Thursday, 9 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

theres a light that never goes out by the smiths. that was the first time a boy had touched my breast.
the wizard by black sabbath. it just gives me this image of my mom smoking weed on the back porch after work.
genius love by the tom tom club. we'd always listen to them on the 20 minute drive to the beach in summer.

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(...many a toon the titles of which would probably say exactly nuthin to anybody else here, 'm afeared)

but as of interna'global pop, "Twist & Shout", the beetly vershn - must've somehow heard it move over the radio waves while being very small'n'yuongy - hearing it again for the first time in my teens, the effect of deja wheeeew!! was fkn flabbergasting

oh and the Polonaise by Oginsky

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

u shd say da toons anyway , dude

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

aaaargh! its all coming back! identify this for me please: its the sound of my summer as an eleven year old (although the song could be earlier, maybe sixties?)
sweet poppy song, chorus goes (something like) "its summer again, all over town flowers blooming etc etc", (and then the punch) "all over town old people dying"

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

mayb u wer rite :,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,-(

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

okeh, nekkid dude (as sin, sir)

:
"vana frakk"/ artur rinne
"igatsus"/ apelsin
"talveõhtu"/ fix
theme toon from "the caucasian captive" ost
theme toon from "the diamond hand" ost
"visla"/ as sung by a schoolmate of mine some thirty yers ago at a xmas party
"...?" - damn, never even knew the title of this eduard hill-sung poignanlty melancholy ditty, with lotsa melancholy whistling...

shd s'fice!!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I appreciate tho don't no any o these by name, at least.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

'Axel F Theme' from the BHC OST. Fuckin' A right I spent the next fifteen years not giving a shit about guitars.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, geez. Too many to name.

If you want childhood, go back to 70's AM radio in the US (which wasn't always the music-less wasteland that it is today). But for the years of say 5-10, lots of stuff like Steve Miller Band, Heart, Ozark Mountain Daredevils ("ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-oh Jackie Blue" still lodges uncomfortably in my mind from time to time) and a bunch of others that can probably be found on K-Tel compilation albums.

Oh yeah, and "Convoy" by CW McCall. Yeah, i'm that old.

-Matt, who thinks that the links between CW McCall and Camper Van Beethoven need fuller exploration.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i am excited to see camper van beethoven mentioned thrice in the past hour.

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nekkid -- 's no wonder, and no big deal really, that you don't know
coz to have heard most of those toons you should've been born someplace like the westernmost outskirts of the soviet fkn empire, like ages ago - and i don't think you'd have fancied that too much
;-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Younger than Matt and more Top 40 FM -- combination of late seventies easy listening and whatever the hell was just post-disco/pre-New Romantics. This is why I seek fame, for I'm going to live forever, light up the sky with my name.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 January 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces, cause my ex-mod parents used to play it a lot. Every time I hear it, I feel like I am back in the front parlour in Cheshunt, a very small girl spinning around, doing the special dance that I only ever used to do to that and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds...

― kate, Friday, 10 January 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Insanity by Oceanic reminds me of bathtime on Sundays and the top 40 with Bruno Brooks or, in later years, Dr Fox.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 10 January 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

carrie- cliff richard
one day in your life - michael jackson

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 10 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Performance - The Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. I found it again and played it the other day and it was a disappointment, perhaps unsurprisingly.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 January 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim Croche owns this thread for me. Anything of his sends me back to suburban Maryland, running around in the front yard...

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 10 January 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

cerrone - supernature
milk and alcohol - dr feelgood??
the theme tune to the biog of Lloyd George, "Qui Mai" or something like that

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 10 January 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The soundtrack of "Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree".

Probably the first album I ever owned.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 January 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"Qui Mai" or something like that

Could it be 'Chi Mai' by Ennio Morricone...?

― jot eff pe, Friday, 10 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Birdhouse in your soul" by They Might Be Giants. I remember listening (and writing all the words down) to it in our bare empty sitting room because everything, carpets, chairs and presses were moved out after the room got flooded from a nearby stream. There was a weird smell there too.

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 10 January 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton. Brings me back to feeling lonely and weird in the room I shared with my brother when I was 10 or so. On a happier note, "More Today Than Yesterday" by the Spiral Staircase always makes me think of the beach in the, uh, Summer of '69. Cocoa butter, transistor radios, hot lifeguards, my sister's cute friends. And I remember marching around the living room to the first song on the soundtrack to Dr. Zhivago, the one with what sounds like the Russian Army Chorus on it.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 10 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Charles & Eddie - Would I Lie To You
EMF - Unbelievable
Jimmy Nail - Ain't No Doubt
Belinda CArlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Boy Meets Girl - WAiting For A Star To Fall
Various Michael Bolton + FYC
That song that goes, "Doo-doo-doo-do-doo-do-do-doo-doodoodoodoo i like yr smile"
Madonna - Secret

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 10 January 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

That song that goes, "Doo-doo-doo-do-doo-do-do-doo-doodoodoodoo i like yr smile"

"I Love Your Smile" by Shanice. I wish this was a song from my childhood. "Psyche!"

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 10 January 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ladies of the Road", in fact all of ISLANDs by King Crimson, reminds me of my first day as a sophomore in High School. I vividly remember playing it before I left home. 'Splain that!

― matt riedl (veal), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Various Roy Orbison + Niel Diamond
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA, Glory Days + Brilliant Disguise

I wouldn't put down anything i willingly listened to, which wd make about the age of ten a cut-off point. There wd b a lot more Outhere Brothers mentions otherwise.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(time was gigantic)
another vote for "popcorn" (one of the few cassettes my parents had was instrumental gold or something -"telstar", "apache", "bridge on the river kwai" etc) - long car trips to the coast.
the seekers - "georgie girl" (from an LP; also, they came & played @ the athletics ground not long after we'd moved up to rotorua, & I bawled my eyes out when my brother stopped/interrupted me singing along to this).
& also one of the tracks from the 70s australian production of jesus christ superstar - also an LP which was glossy & purple&gold & had photos of people with facial hair. um the song may have been one of the judas ones, I'm not too sure.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Build Me Up, Buttercup" by The Foundations. "My Green Tambourine" by the Lemon Pipers, that Bee Gees song that goes "I gotta get a message to you, oh yeah, oh yeah." Some of the first songs I loved, and I get all 5th-gradey when I hear it.

When I was 14 I started work as a dishwasher at a Japanese restaurant, and after a couple days I decided to play a song over and over in my head to pass the time. I picked "Mother and Child Reunion" (Paul Simon, popular at the time) and even now when I hear those burbling first few notes I can smell the kitchen.

When I smell pine trees on a cold day I sometimes get the feeling of when I lived in Germany, but I guess that's for ILE.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much anything by Sam Cooke, but "Chain Gang" especially.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Zappa. British Folk. Loads of classical music. Joni Mitchell. Fausto. Bob Dylan (but of course!) Taj Mahal. Ry Cooder.

At about nine, The Beatles, but that's when I started to get interested in music myself so I don't think it counts.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Richard Marx generally, Show Me Heaven, and that song, "there's a danger in loving somebody too much...baby sometimes love just ain't enough". In a non-music sense, I'd also put a lengthy preview of Indecent Proposal i saw on sky movies one morning.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 11 January 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

" follow the leader" by Eric B and Rakim.

hot summer evenings driving in my uncles 77 coupe deville, with his speakers on blast.

― robert lashley (brotherman), Saturday, 11 January 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Lola by The Kinks, because when I was about six my dad had some 'Lost In The Seventies' compilation CD that he would put on whenever we went on long car trips and my family always used to sing along to that song together. The cross-dressing subject matter was usually ignored, though. Sadly this was one of the only signs of good musical taste my parents ever showed.

― Livvie Tapper, Saturday, 11 January 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Teddy's Jam"

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 11 January 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Skate-A-Round USA

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 11 January 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

'Beds are burning'-Midnight Oil
'Americanos'-Holly Johnson
'Ride on time'-Black Box
'I can hear your heartbeat'-Chris Rea

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

MB, did u receive "O in that H"?

― The Pro-God God (naked as sin), Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. I havent read it yet though. The writing is so tiny on the e-mail, it annoys me to read it so I'll print it off when I get the chance.

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

R u strictly anti-clipboard? ;-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-)

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 11 January 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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