do you still listen to songs of your teenage years?

[Dancing Fire]

I am on You Tube listening to the greatest songs (the 70's) ever recorded. ...

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Yes, oh my ALL THE TIME... It's almost a "guilty pleasure," in that I will You Tube songs from my teen years from the 80s and 90s. No joke but I've had Toto "Africa" stuck in my head for months now. Started after I started using my Kindlefire for Youtubing songs!

What songs are you getting into again?

 

[justginger]

Of course I do! I am constantly amazed by how well I can remember words to one-hit wonders that I haven't heard in YEARS, but I can't remember what I needed to buy at the shops after work.

I get the added bonus of having grown up listening to my parents' music as well, so I love a wide variety of eras.

 

[lknvrb4]

I sure do, love my alternative rock.

 

[Missy]

All the time. We listen on our Sirius XM radio- they have all the decades and as lknvrb4 mentioned- the alternative rock station. Love it!

 

[Enerchi]

I love it when something from the deep recesses of my teen years, is played on the radio, and I too am amazed at how well I remember the words!!! It is such a lovely and unexpected timewarp to go back and remember those moments... then... a current song comes on but its still trapped in your brain for a few hours!

We don't listen to Sirius - we should try it! But youtubing the oldies?? wow, never thought of that!

 

[TC1987]

Oh yeah. At every garage, every factory, every bar, about half of the stores... because my local rock radio station is still playing those same old stale tunes. They never play much that isn't baby boomer music. I rather expected it: Their predecessor AM station remained relentlessly stuck in the postwar 40s through 1965 or so, clear through into the '80s, maybe even into the '90s, lol. I can still sing every Johnny Mathis or The Lettermen or Andy Williams song from memory.

The only lasting enjoyment that I got out of my hometown radio stations was an appreciation for Big Band music, because that AM station for years ran a terrific Big Band show from about 11AM to 2PM on Sundays.

That AM station turned talk-radio a few years ago. But for all those who still want to hear Big Band, check out http://www.wkhr.org/ our of Cleveland. The content varies a little with the DJ, and some of them like the dreamy / trite stuff but others really seek out the best of the dance beats or jazz solos of the day. I love that station, even if people think it's too old for me. Most of their DJs don't go too far into the cool jazz, so you'd have to look elsewhere for that.

(So no, I don't seek out the music of my teenage years. I traveled back to the 'teens or '20s - '40s, haha, and got into the music of someone else's youth. It helps that some of my now-deceased relatives were in NYC back then, or ran hotels and dance halls that those bands played at. Their anecdotes and tales of meeting various artists and movie stars and celebrities made the music and movies of that era interesting to me, not just "old stuff.")

 

[Dancing Fire]

Yes, oh my ALL THE TIME... It's almost a "guilty pleasure," in that I will You Tube songs from my teen years from the 80s and 90s. No joke but I've had Toto "Africa" stuck in my head for months now. Started after I started using my Kindlefire for Youtubing songs!

What songs are you getting into again?

i you tube what ever song pops into my head,so it could be any songs from the 50's - early 80's

 

[vc10um]

No joke but I've had Toto "Africa" stuck in my head for months now.

And now it will be stuck in MY head all day! Thanks, MC!

Of course I do! I am constantly amazed by how well I can remember words to one-hit wonders that I haven't heard in YEARS, but I can't remember what I needed to buy at the shops after work.

So so so true, jg!

The radio stations I tend to listen to play a mix of "80s, 90s, now" or the "hits of yesterday and today"...but always of the "adult alternative"/pop genre. So I hear songs from my childhood/teenage years all the time, and I love it!

 

[HollyS]

I will more often listen to classic rock stations, or "oldie" radio stations, than anything else.

I resent the "oldie" moniker, though. But, Country Joe (of the Fish) did turn 71 today, so . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjreEoe5__w





(Another shocker was Susan Dey turning 60 in December. Yikes.)

 

[ksinger]

I haven't listened to radio in years, honestly. But I still have my old faves, and most of them are from either my teen years, or groups that were big in my teen years, and some groups starting all the way up into the early 90's, at which point radio in my market began sucking mightily and I quit.

I was never a big fan of pop stuff, the tight-harmony, large bands of my youth seem no more - bands like The Eagles and Yes to name a couple, seem to have disappeared, and since I despise the tone deaf, the repetitive, the poetry-challenged, the crude and coarse, the melody-free and rap/hiphop, and since radio music and the music industry in general is a whole different ballgame nowadays, what's the point?

I'm sure the talented and creative musicians are out there, but true originality and stellar musicianship seems in short supply whenever I stop to listen. Or maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. But for now, I'll stick with old (OLD - as in classical) stuff, standards done by people with real voices (NOT Willie Nelson or Rod Stewart ) jazz, the very occasional bright star that has popped up in my firmament in the last 10 years (God rest Eva Cassidy) and the stuff of my youth.

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I heard Avalon/Roxy Music the other day and while that is not of my teenage years--it sure brought back memories. I love Sirius for that reason--surfing for oldies but goodies.

cheers--Shaorn

 

[Amber St. Clare]

I bought th Time Life collection of music from the late 70s/early 80s and listen to it a lot. I was a BIG Doors fan, Cream and Jefferson Airplane.

Lately have become a Rod Stewart fanatic and love to sing along with Celine Dion {backs slowly out of the room in shame}

 

[StacylikesSparkles]

I was just listening to one of my old Silver Chair cds the other day in the car

 

[SB621]

OF COURSE I DO!!!!! Amazing music in the 90's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I listen on the radio or in the house when the kids are at school.

 

[Dancing Fire]

OF COURSE I DO!!!!! Amazing music in the 90's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I listen on the radio or in the house when the kids are at school.

there were no music after the early 80's...

 

[HollyS]

OF COURSE I DO!!!!! Amazing music in the 90's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I listen on the radio or in the house when the kids are at school.

there were no music after the early 80's...

There might even be reason to dispute "the early 80s"!

Well, there has been some music since then. Dave Matthews music will be considered iconic and will be played for decades to come. U2. Stevie Ray Vaughn. And a few others. Heck, even Madonna's early stuff. Maybe even Wham.

But today's "stars"? I can't see anyone playing The Bieb's music in 2033.

Nope. Led Zeppelin and The Stones will still be rocking the airwaves long after people have to ask, "Who was Lady Gaga?"

 

[Amber St. Clare]

I bought th Time Life collection of music from the late 60s/early 70s and listen to it a lot. I was a BIG Doors fan, Cream and Jefferson Airplane.

Lately have become a Rod Stewart fanatic and love to sing along with Celine Dion {backs slowly out of the room in shame}

Had to edit.

 

[iLander]

No. So tired of that stuff.

I listen to stuff of my DD's teenage years.

 

[monarch64]

I was just listening to one of my old Silver Chair cds the other day in the car

Ha, Silverchair--they were like 15 when they recorded Frogstomp. The song "Tomorrow" always brings back delicious memories!

My husband is only 4 years older than me, but our taste in music is so far apart! He absolutely loves classic rock and detests a lot of music that I like (that I still listen to, yup, from the late 80's and most of the 90's). We always laugh about how much difference 4 years made. Even t.v. shows and movies he references from growing up are lost on me sometimes, and he'll shake his head in disbelief that I don't "get" it or recognize significant quotes. I shake my head and laugh when he tries to humor me and starts "grooving" to some old favorite song of mine if my ipod is playing while we're driving somewhere. When I was a teenager, he was in college and traveling. He met Jewel when she was living in a van in San Diego, and once got into a fight with Dave Matthews outside a club he was playing. Some other story about Elvis Costello that I can never remember...

I still listen to a lot of soundtracks from the 90's...Clueless, Reality Bites, Friday, Pulp Fiction, Romeo & Juliet, The Crow... and I love anything from Prince, especially his 80's stuff (Purple Rain, anyone?!)

 

[Sha]

Yes! I think songs from the 80"s are the best songs.