Music of yr childhood
 

What kind of music did you grow up listening to?

I remember vividly listening to The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and a lot of motown. When I hear stuff like that, I can't help but smile and remember "the good ol days"

My mom and aunt were both kind of hippies so I was exposed to more psychedelic-leaning classic rock than anything, I guess. My father is a bit older so he always enjoyed doo wop and motown type of music.

Nobody I grew up around really liked 80s music, metal or arena/stadium style rock. I'm like the only person in New Jersey who doesn't appreciate the jersey holy trinity of Springsteen/Bon Jovi/Billy Joel. Just was never my thing.

I'll be honest, I really didn't listen to much music at all before the age of about 16 or 17.

Really didn't care much for it at all before then.

Like The Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against the Machine and 311 and Green Day and Nirvana, and rap music mostly. My parents just listen to Arabic music.

Aside from all the Mexican music my parents listened to, I grew up listening mostly to "oldies"

Stuff like this

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Got my oldies playlist on blast now

Got me in the mood for the song "Baby Love"

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So happy right now

The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Beach Boys, James Brown, and Eiffel 65 mostly

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Country music and the Space Jam soundtrack.

This plus a lot of country, Michael Jackson and whatever stuff my parents had lying around.

I grew up listenin to Toni Braxton, then from there to the No Limit Soldiers, Bone Thugs and Harmony doin Crossroads and the such.

i grew up on country music because that's what my family listened to. lots of hank williams, johnny cash, waylon jennings, as well as garth brooks, reba mcentire, and brooks & dunn. my first 2 cds were vanilla ice - 2 the extreme and mc hammer - please hammer don't hurt em, though. also was a huge fan of weird al. couldn't get enough of that jokester. then i found q101 (the alternative station here) in 4th grade and my tastes changed considerably. lots of rock and grunge and punk and metal after that. never had much exposure to "classic rock" growing up because neither of my parents were into it. my dad actually dislikes most of it for some reason. had to find all of the "good shit" on my own.

fuckin parents had reo speedwagon and david bowie top hit albums that i dug on, too. just to a lesser extent back then.

and i guess when i was like 2 i told my grandma not to change the radio station because whitesnake was on.

Hank Williams Sr. Patsy Cline, The Beach Boys, and The Temptations. Stuff like that when I hear them now it takes me back to being a little kid some of the best times of my life.

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and other shit like that.

Childhood

The Beatles (has the whole collection)
Frank Sinatra (I think my dad has like 40 Sinatra CDs)
The Beach Boys
Various Motown and Doo Woop artists
Low rider oldies like Temptations, Manhattans, Four Tops
Michael Jackson (Timeless)
I remember RUN DMC in that CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ALBUM my dad had
Barry White (?)
Anita Baker (MF Doom sampled one of her songs after listening to one of my dad's CDs)
George Benson (Lil' Kim and Spice 1 sampled 'Turn your love around' )
That BLAME IT ON THE RITZ song

Pre-teens

Warren G
2Pac
Poetic Justice, Bad Boys, Above The Rim Soundtracks
Too Short (Got a mad boner after listening to Cocktails. Felt like I was watching porn)
FuGees
Bone Thugs
Naughty By Nature
Da Brat
Eazy E
Biggie




This song reminds me of my CHILDHOOD...

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thanks for this thread, it feels nice to REMINISCE on my early years.

Feel childlike right now, it's very therapeutic, no homo

Gonna youtube a bunch of the old shit

Mostly stuff like Michael Jackson and all those early 90's 'nostalgia' hits like Ace of Base, Ice MC etc...

And there was the 'Dad Rock'. Stuff my Dad would always have on in the car. Genesis, Beautiful South, Fleetwood Mac, Duran Duran etc.

So far everything already posted. I always had the radio on and never cared as long as it sounded good. Oldies, 80's, rock, what little rap that did get played at night, since we didn't have a rap station up here until 99, Pop, Punk...Whatever. Copy and Paste best of the late 80's/early 90's.

With that said, this song is always the first to pop into my head.

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Oh and have to give some love to B2M :kiss:. How many people can say they're 100% related to causing a population boom?

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I liked 70's/80's stuff like Earth Wind & Fire and Wham

Fucking loved the Space Jam soundtrack

Don't get me started on music from ages 10-14. All crappy rap music and like KoRn, Grene Day and the Offspring.

Smashing Pumpkins and whatnot too though

I think the first CD I ever bought was Puff Daddy & The Family - No Way Out

First CD I ever bought:

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First REAL CD I ever bought:

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My first concert was Backstreet Boys in 3rd grade and I fucking loved it.

Would always play the following cassettes

Green Day - Dookie
Offspring - Smash
Nirvana - Nevermind
Live - Throwing Copper
Blur - Blur

SAME

On Audio Cassette though

Actually no I think Life After Death was first

Mainstream pop. Every boy band you could think of.

My first was War in like 7th grade at the Alameda County Fair lol

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Even though she is a waste of space, my sister heavily influenced me on what music I listened to from about 8 (she was in her mid-teens at the time). I'd hear bands like Pantera, NIN, Therapy, REM, Hole, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins; and of course I started to listen to those acts, and metal/alt rock pretty much formed the basis of my tastes until I was 17, when I started to branch out into other styles.

I grew up listening to stuff like

Genesis
The Who
The Jam
Rolling Stones

as well as whatever was played on music tv channels. Loved I believe I can fly.

As I started getting into my teens I would mostly listen to whatever was being played on Kerrang - Blink 182, The Offspring, Static X, Korn etc

First single I ever personally bought though...
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Totally had Mase - Feel So Good on a cassette single that I begged my mom to buy for me on line at Walgreens

I grew up listening to mainstream metal and punk like Metallica and Dropkick Murphys. Oddly enough, I can't stand either band these days.