Re: What kind of music did you listen to when you were a kid?

Date: 28 Apr 2003 13:47:01 -0700
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email-address-deleted (Saerah Bennett) wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> I was reading an article in the paper today about "alternative" children's
> music(you know, the kind that doesnt suck), and i got to thinking about some of
> the music i loved when i was a kid. what did y'all listen to?
>
> some of my faves around the time i was 6 or so (and now, too!)
> "it's not easy bein' green" and "sing" from the sesame street live album
> nearly every song on "free to be you and me"
> "uncle john's band" by the dead
> "For what it's worth" and "mr soul" by buffalo springfield
> "real good for free" by joni mitchell
> Saerah
> **NO WAR**
> "The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason
> for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is
> a fake"
I didn't really listen to much music until I was about 13 and started
discovering PJ and Nirvana. Before that I'd just hear whatever my mom
would have on the radio in the car. I remember the first song I ever
really liked was the Ghostbusters theme by Ray Parker Jr. when I was
4. I always liked the old motown and 50s rock my mom would listen to
on the oldies station, too, along with the synthpop they'd play on the
easy listening channel because it reminded me of the cartoons I'd
watch on TV. And Michael Jackson's 80s stuff was cool, too. So here
are just a few songs I remember thinking were cool:
the Ghostbusters theme (I was 4, afterall)
"Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis
"Johnny B. Good" by Chuck Berry
"Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police
"My Girl" by the Temptations (who were the first concert I ever saw)
oh, and when it came out, I thought that Ninja Turtles tape they sold
at Pizza Hut was cool too.
Jeremy