What music really influenced you as a kid?

[RubyBlue]

when I was a kid (about 10) to my eternal shame - I stole my older sisters singles - which incidentally I liked - all old motown - and flogged them to the local second hand store - for money to buy chips

She knows this now but I still feel a rush of shame.

 

[RubyBlue]

Does anyone remember sniff n the tears? drivers seat? My older sister had it and I'm listening to it now - I still think it's

 

[Cloo]

I loved music, but it never really had a big emotional life-meaning for me (though lots of music makes me emotional) as I had a largely pretty nice and fun teenagerhood. It was the bit just before then that was shit, and I wasn't really in to anything specific before then.

The 'Britpop' era has some meaning to me, I suppose, as it's when I got into my social stride, really found my friends and my scene, saw lots of female-fronted bands, did a fanzine and all that. It was a good time 94-96.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

What really helped you along your long teenage years? Mine was Motown as a kid progressing to early new age / punk - Lene Lovich, Home, was particularly resonant to me but all of her stuff was fab (David Bowie and glam rock along the way), later, living alone in B&Bs as a lonely teenager it was Siouxie - many was the nights of getting stoned listening to her. She remains an idol even now.

I'm talking what you liked when young - what helped you get along - not your current tastes.

11 - Michael Jackson
12 - salt n Pepa
13 - Transvision Vamp, Neneh Cherry
14 - Aerosmith, Soup Dragons
15 - Public Enemy
16 - Nirvana, u2, Mudhoney, L7, Babes in Toyland, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains
17 - God Machine, Screaming Trees, Sugar, Pixies, Sonic Youth
18 - FSOL, Aphex twin, etc

 

[maomao]

T'pau.

 

[felixthecat]

Dad's record collection - Elvis, the Everleys, assorted C&W particularly Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash. By the time I started school I could sing along to the most mournful of country!

 

[bi0boy]

I used to jump up and down on the to it when i was about 12.

 

[RubyBlue]

4 Neneh Cherry

I still love Neneh - 7 Seconds is

 

[Pip]

I used to sing along to this on my imaginary walkman

 

[Orang Utan]

I used to sing along to this on my imaginary walkman

that's awesome - i play when drunk
where are you baby is wicked too

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I still love Neneh - 7 Seconds is

I still like everyone I listed

 

[killer b]

when i was a proper kid, i guess the music i enjoyed was some of what my folks liked - so jazz (ella, sarah vaughn, duke ellington, miles and the like), some english folk (my dad played fiddle & squeezebox for a morris dancing side) - they listened to a lot of orchestral stuff, but that never interested me much.

i went through a period of recording stuff off the top 40, but didn't really have any preference - i loved mike & the mechanics as much as i loved the klf... whatever was in the hit parade.

then i got heavily into queen, and didn't listen to much else until i discovered drugs & dance music...

 

[cybertect]

[thinks back]

When I was 15 or 16 I was mostly listening to

XTC
Frank Zappa
Rickie Lee Jones
The Doors
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
David Bowie
The Beatles
Aztec Camera
Art Blakey
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Al Casey*
Orange Juice
Billy Bragg
Talking Heads
The The

I did get into heavy metal briefly and borrowed a couple of Whitesnake and Iron Maiden albums from the library. That lasted for about two weeks.

Not a huge amount of change since, then

e2a: * the jazz guitarist, not the rock and roll guitarist. Hearing him made me want to learn to play some jazz guitar, so he was a big influence. The best part of fifteen years later I finally got to see him live at the Pizza Express in Soho in about 1995, supported by Pete Thomas' band on a pickup. Awesome.

 

[RubyBlue]

i guess the music i enjoyed was some of what my folks liked ...

My folks had no music my mum has only ever owned one single in her life (and my dad bought it for her) Peter, Paul & Mary - Blowing in the wind and 3 other tracks that I can't remember - my dad has limited classical stuff - I only remember Peter & the Wolf He has a shit load of 78's though and an old wind up thing to play them on - during the 70's blackouts when I was a right little nipper I loved listening to Doris Day - Whipcrackaway

 

[killer b]

my folks met at music college, so it was always a big part of life when i was a nipper - just not any pop or rock type stuff at all...

 

[sam/phallocrat]

12 and under - Radio 3

12 and over - capital fm, radio 1, garage pirates and commercial dance, oh and hardcore