prp2

The whole what was your first album thread got me thinking about this one. What songs did you first hear as a kid growing up that still stick in your mind?

For me, there are a few:

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (I remember break-dancing to that when I was about 5 years old)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (ditto there, though the video scared the hell out of me, especially the part where he changes into the werewolf)
Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years (heard that often in the car with my mom. It always made her sad since her dad died in a car crash when she was 17)
Eagles - Hotel California (this was played a lot by some distant cousins of mine when they babysat me for a week while my parents were in Bermuda. I think I was 7 or 8. This song being played, and eating Thai food, I can remember greatly)
Roxette - Listen to Your Heart (first heard this song on MTV when I was 9, bought the tape shortly afterwards, think it was the first tape I owned myself, others I'd snagged from my older brother's collection)
Boyz II Men - Motownphilly (my older brother was really into the new jack swing in the late 80s/early 90s, and it was cool when he'd let me go with him places since I'm 8 years younger. I remember him playing that album, and that song in particular, when driving around to the mall or to a few baseball card shows)

Those were the days.

DaveWadding

Richie Valens - La Bamba
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting

The Cow

Convoy - C.W. McCall

Shamus McAnally

Young kid - Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Kid - Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Pre-teen - Thriller - Michael Jackson
Stick 'Em - Fat Boys
Teen - Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

TGM

Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - TCDB

FantasticVSDoom

Rolling Stone- Sympathy for the Devil (my Dad's all time favorite)
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Kansas-Wayward Son
Quiet Riot-Cum on feel the Noise (when I started getting into my own music)
Nucleus- Jam on it

Tscott

Some early music memories.

The Peter Paul and Mommy album, with Puff the Magic Dragon, Marvelous Toy and others. My parents played it for me and my sister all the time.

Barbra Streisand - Jingle Bells (which she sings at 80MPH; I grew to hate this song as I heard it Billions of times every damn December.

Scandal - Goodbye to You
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Michael Jackson - Thriller (all three of these were seen on MTV at someone else's house because my parents didn't want to get MTV for us.)

Michael Jackson - Beat It (overplayed and at least 3 different acts danced to this song at my sixth grade talent show)

Depheche Mode - Master and Servant ("oh my! dirty lyrics!")
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene ("I've got no idea what I'm listening to but I think I like it")

Maddona - Lucky Star (I heard other kids on the bus talking about it before I saw the video. The next year "Dress You Up" would end up being my favorite song by her.)

rw2516

My sister is 7 years older than me and she was 13-15 during the mid-sixties and Beatlemania. I heard endless amounts of Beatles, Monkees and Herman's Hermits. The one record she played the most, in fact I can remember a day she played it over and over and over, The Hanky Panky by Tommy James and the Shondells.

planetaire

The first song that came to mind was "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boys.

giddy up a boom boppa boom boppa mow mow...

Giles

when I was real young I remember hearing alot of classical music as my parents listened to that genre primarily - my favourite piece being Ferde Grofe's 'Grand Canyon Suite' - the Donkey part and the thunderstorm part particularily.

"Pachebel's Canon in D Major' as it accompanied the IMAX feature: 'To Fly' at the Air and Space Museum

I should remember music during the latter of the seventies, but I'm drawing a complete blank... the music that really shaped my interest were the 80's stuff - Madonna, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Asia, A-Ha to many to mention as I listened to DC's 107.3 alot. A trip to Chicago during a Junior High School choir trip introduced me to the Chicago House Music Scene - now that was eye and ear-opener!

printerati

Ghostbusters.

wendersfan

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" by B.J. Thomas.

jdodd

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda", honey.

cranberries fan

IF-Bread (( still to this day one of most sad songs I have ever hear )).

E. Honda

I was 11.. song was Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It". First song I actually liked enough to tape off the radio. Played it over and over. That and Come On Feel The Noise by Quiet Riot.

kms_md

listening to flock of seagulls' flock of seagulls while reading in cold blood. they will always mesh well in my mind.

TimJS

The LP's my parents listened to I remember quite clearly, Frankie Laine, Engelbert Humperdinck, Glenn Yarborough, Marty Robbins, Johnny Mathis, but the one I went crazy over was a Columbia anthology that had Johnny Horton's Battle Of New Orleans and Springtime in Alaska, Freddie Hart's The Wall, Lefty Frizzell's Long Black Veil, Johnny Cash's Frankie and Johnny, and Carl Perkins' Pointed Toe Shoes (Everything's Alreet, I Got 'Em on my Feet, I said the points are comin' back again, RAWK!). I still think that record kicks ass.

reel_deal

Show Me Love-Robyn
Never Ever-All Saints
Standing Still-Jewel
As long as you love me-Backstreet Boys
Im gonna miss you forever-Aaron Carter

Those were my favorite music before but I still listen to them up to now. It reminds me of my chidhood-pre-teen days

PerryD

When I was around 8 or 9 (mid-70s), my dad made me a some cassette tapes of Elvis, the Beach Boys, and Jan & Dean. I used to love to listen to those tapes, especially Jan & Dean.

In my early teens when I was all over Billboard top hits, I remember the hooks in songs like Jack & Diane, Centerfold, We Got the Beat, and the slow dances in junior high with songs like Babe, Open Arms, and anything from Air Supply.

In high school, I was into Def Leppard, Scorpions, Pat Benatar and Night Ranger. Entering college, I moved onto Slayer, Metallica, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden.

PopcornTreeCt

Piano Man - Billy Joel
Pinball Wizard - The Who

Dad played those a lot growing up.

salamander2

for some reason, when I think of my pre-junor high years, I remember

DREAMS-Flettwood Mac
DANCING QUEEN - Abba
HOW MUCH LOVE - Leo Sayer
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT - manfred Mann
LIDO SHUFFLE - Boz Scaggs
DEVIL WOMAN - Cliff Richards
SERPERTINE FIRE - Earth Wind Fire

don't ask me why!