thread: songs I liked when I was x years old

[zn]

My first one?

A song I liked when I was 15.

[nittany ram]

I still like that song and I’m a few decades beyond 15.

[joemad]

most people will say….., “music started to suck in 19XX” XX = your HS year of graduation.

I had 2 older brothers that exposed me to a lot of music as a kid (6 years and 12 years older than I) From Elvis, Rolling Stones, the British invasion, Rare Earth, Motown, to Santana to KC and the Sunshine band, etc….

however, When I was 15, I bought this Van Halen 8 track tape just because of the Kinks cover tune of “You Really Got Me” then I heard this …i still remember, it’s the 1st song of track 2……it struck a musical chord in me that blew me away…… to this day, this is still on of my favorite all time songs….

[zn]

nittany ram wrote:

I still like that song and I’m a few decades beyond 15.

I still like it too. I wasn’t disparaging it. (I guess I wasn’t clear about that.) In fact the inspiration for posting it was that my daughter had not heard it, so I pulled up that particular vid for her. I told her about how I just loved that song when I was that age (the year it came out).

In fact to this day that song embodies the wistful dreaming spirit of being a 15 year old boy. And the wistful dreaming 15 year old boy is still a big part of me.

The premise to the thread allows for this interpretation: “songs I liked then but not now.” But it allows for other interpretations too. Or it’s supposed to anyway.

[nittany ram]

joemad wrote:

most people will say….., “music started to suck in 19XX” XX = your HS year of graduation.

I had 2 older brothers that exposed me to a lot of music as a kid (6 years and 12 years older than I) From Elvis, Rolling Stones, the British invasion, Rare Earth, Motown, to Santana to KC and the Sunshine band, etc….

however, When I was 15, I bought this Van Halen 8 track tape just because of the Kinks cover tune of “You Really Got Me” then I heard this …i still remember, it’s the 1st song of track 2……it struck a musical chord in me that blew me away…… to this day, this is still on of my favorite all time songs….

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That first Van Halen album reset the bar. Nothing even remotely like it up until that time.

[canadaram]

I liked this when I was six years old. I think I remember reading somewhere that he tried unsuccessfully to sell the song to the Beach Boys.

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