Music you grew up with ...

[charlou]

I like a broad range of music, but I have a sentimental soft spot for the "homegrown rock" I grew up with. ACDC, Divinyls, Australian Crawl, Cold Chisel ...

[charlou]

Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes (then):



'Barnesy' (now):

[charlou]

The Angels ...

[charlou]

Skyhooks ...

[charlou]

Rose Tattoo ...

[JimC]

Skyhooks were sensational, and wrote songs about the Melbourne of my era...

Also, Daddy Cool, Spectrum, and the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band...

(yes, they really existed...)

[Animavore]

Kiwi rap. This is hilarious

[devogue]

I would let Michael Hutchence fuck me.

Just him and Elvis are allowed.

[Animavore]

I would let Michael Hutchence fuck me.

Just him and Elvis are allowed.

Great dodge there. Pick two dead guys.

[charlou]

What music did you guys grow up with?

[normal]

[Pappa]

What music did you guys grow up with?

None really. My house was pretty much music free as a kid. I discovered music in stages from my teens on. First (for a year or so) pop, then metal, then techno/trance. Since then, I seem to have worked backwards, discovering all the amazing music from previous decades.

[Thinking Aloud]

Predominant around my house when I was very young were the works of The Mamas and The Papas, the Beach Boys, Seekers / New Seekers, Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel and John Denver. But most of these in the form of "best of" collections rather than a more complete collection.

Towards the end of the 1970s I discovered pop music for myself, and kind of rebelled against my parents' tastes, and instead "grew up to" The Police, Adam and the Ants, and their ilk, through to the Duran Duran / Spandau Ballet era. The early bleeps of Depeche Mode and Soft Cell also drew my attention, being a "keyboard" player myself.

Then in about 1984, some old friends of my parents lent my dad another "best of" album, which I became vaguely aware of, and then curious about, with its layered vocals and orchestral (but not quite) arrangement and sounds... And so I was introduced to The Moody Blues - probably the heaviest influence on me over the years.

In my late mid-late teens my "electronic" side enjoyed the Pet Shop Boys and a smattering of other pop acts from the period, but there wasn't much stuff out there that grabbed me. Perhaps because I've never played guitar myself, I never felt any affinity towards guitar (only) bands. Then, quite by accident, my sister opened up a window on the past: she was trying to play "Sealed With A Kiss" (the Jason Donovan cover) on the piano. It's first seven notes ("So we gotta say goodbye...") played out of context are exactly the same tune as "Hello darkness my old friend..." - and I found myself dragging out mum and dad's Simon and Garfunkel and John Denver collection that I recalled from all those years ago.

Full circle ... and by this time I guess I'd grown up. Ish.

[Animavore]

Some songs that really stick out in my mind as a child.















Then after that lots of Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Cliff Richard, Louis Armstrong, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Queen, The Who, The Crickets and whatever was on the radio so lots of Madness, Michael Jackson, Ah-Ha, Wham, various one hit wonders like Let's Talk About Sex, 99 Red Balloons, She Drives Me Crazy,... then into my pre-teens it was MC Hammer soon it was real hip-hop, NWA et al. Then Cheezy dance like Snap and 2 Unlimited then real dance like The Prodigy aslo started listening to Blur, Oasis, Radiohead, Supergrass along with the whole Grunge thing and metal.

[Bella Fortuna]

I'd have to classify it into two categories, the "oldies" station my mum always listened to (popular songs from the 1950s/60s - mainly the latter), and my mom's popular 1970s favourites, most of which I loathed and many I still do. My mother's taste in music I've always found to be singularly abysmal. However, of the albums we had, CCR, the Eagles, Paul Simon, and John Denver were my faves and my appreciation over the years has only grown.

My uncle, on the other hand, was truly eclectic and owned thousands of records, exposing me from everything from the Talking Heads to the Stones to Commander Cody to the Indigo Girls to...well, you name it. If it was cool, he had it. I borrowed and taped as many of his albums as he would let me. He also took me to the "US Festival" in 1983 where I got to see the Divinyls, INXS, Wall of Voodoo, English Beat, Flock of Seagulls, the Stray Cats...(missed the Clash, though! ). That was seminal in my musical education.

My mum also had a friend she worked with who had a widely-varied record collection, and I borrowed all the Kinks albums from her and many more. From my grandad I learned a love of big band music from the 1940s, and I still have all those thick brittle discs of his... there used to be a radio station that played only that music and I would have it on constantly.

When I started buying music for myself, I remember some of the first records I got: Blondie, the Monkees, Culture Club, the Ventures, Siouxsie, Janis Joplin, Patsy Cline, the Jam - an odd mix.