THIS is the stuff I remember blasting out of my mom's 8-track car stereo (AM Radio, natch) when we'd tool around town to the mall or go to Target back when it was called Ayr-Way and people could smoke in the store and the shopping carts had built-in ashtrays.

DAMN, I'm old.

Anyway, this is the golden cheese of my tender years:





Gerry Rafferty, "Right Down the Line"




Yvonne Elliman, "If I Can't Have You"




Nicolette Larson, "Lotta Love"




Player, "Baby Come Back"




Paul Davis, "I Go Crazy"




Olivia Newton John, "Totally Hot"


(and if they had Rita Coolidge's version of "Higher and Higher" on YouTube, it would be here too )

Now share some songs that take YOU back to childhood.

Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Pink and Mya - "Lady Marmalade"

Anxiety said:

Great tuuuuunes...i'llpost some from my early teenage years

Pablo Cruise "Love will find a way



Baker street








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The Smashing Pumpkins - '1979'

...might not be childhood, but adolescence... It instantly reminds me of 8th grade, MTV, and hanging out with my friends

Madonna - 'Who's That Girl'

...spent much of my early years infatuated with Madonna, and this was the first song I can remember hearing when it was still new.. I must've been about 4 years old, but I have vivid memories of the song and the stupid movie promo video that was spun endlessly.

The entire Cosmic Thing album by The B-52's, especially 'Roam' and 'Channel Z'

...after Madonna, the B-52's were the first group that I was really into. I think I got this for Christmas in '89 or '90 and played it so much that my mother still can't bear to hear it.

Depeche Mode - 'Enjoy the Silence' and 'Policy of Truth'

...reminds me of summer nights spent out on the patio with my mother and father while they'd spin Violator.

IAintTheOne said:

i gotta get a copy of that stupid gerry rafferty album. i used to hear the whole damn thing from beginning to end ALL THE TIME when i was little.

Boney M - Rasputin
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Walter Egan - Magnet and Steel
jacksons - shake your body to the ground

Ok for those Longtime Orgers that know me online & off, you know I can go on & on. So this is just a little sample of jams that come off of me head at the moment.


Voodoo Chile -Jimi Hendrix


Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix


Machine Gun-Jimi Hendrix


Wildthing-Jimi Hendrix


SummerBreeze-Seals & Croft


Diamond Girl-Seal & Croft


Love Is Alive Gary Wright


Dreamweaver-Gary Wright


Could It Be I'm Falling In Love-The Spinner


Didn't I Blow Your Mind-The Delfonics


People Make The World Go Around-The Sylistics

jermaine stewart - we don't have to take our clothes off


sade - sweetest taboo


michael jackson - rockin' robin (the entire got to be there album, for that matter)


exposé - come go with me


keith sweat - i want her (all of the make it last forever album is very memorable to me, as it reminds me of a really sad/scary time in my life)


digital underground - doowutchyalike

ll cool J- hey lover with boyz 2 men
tell me- groove theory
envogue
mariah carey, daydream,
coolios, gangstas paradise
boyz 2 men
gloria estefan
madonna, bedtime stories i think
michael jackson-
keith sweat, twisted
hootie and the blowfish



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Carpenters- A Kind of Hush

Jacksons- Dancin' Machine

Etlon John- Crocidile Rock

Rita Coolidge - We're All Alone

OMFG, this song and video is so 70s I can hardly stand it.

as a kid,well around when i was 5. i used to have this like major gloria trevi fascination.

The Carpenters-Close To You

Roundabout-Yes

Peg-Steely Dan

MJ-Bad



Aaliyah-Back and Forth




Phill Collins-Another Day In Paradise



TLC-Creep



'Nsync-Tearin' Up My Heart






Usher-You Make Me Wanna




Notorious B.I.G.-One More Chance


Adina Howard-Freak Like Me
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The Beatles-Here Comes The Sun

Bowie-Changes


The Temptations-Just My Imagnation

Roberta Flack-First Time Ever I Saw Your Face


Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway Be Real Black For Me
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Dire Straits - Money for nothing

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Prince - Bat dance

Wow, there are so many I could choose, but I'll show y'all just a few of the songs that stick out from my childhood, some local favorites that almost no-one here knows:

Queen - The Invisible Man:


MC Hammer - Can't Touch This:


2 Unlimited - No Limit


Icy - Gleðibankinn (Bank of Fun) (it's the Icelandic entry for the Eurovision song contest in 1986 - mimed on some charity TV show )


Bubbi Morthens (yep, THAT Bubbi, Anx ) - Aldrei fór ég suður (Never Moved to the City) - "unplugged":

The Whisper-Just Keep On Loving Me
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Songs that make me long to ride to grade school in my mom's old Dodge...

Vanessa Williams - Comfort Zone
Shanice - I Love Your Smile
Sade - Kiss of Life
TLC - Ain't Too Prouad to Beg
Jodeci - Forever My Lady

These in particular always bring back memories of sleeping in the backseat, PB&J sammiches, fingernail polish, and Estee Lauder perfume

Fatback-TheBackstroke

What's The Name Of The Game-Abba


Take A Chance On Me AbbA


Lay All Your love On Me-AbbA

there's so many, here are some:

Lets Hear It For The Boy-Deneice Williams
Breakdance-Irene Cara
When Doves Cry-Prince
anything from the first 3 Madonna albums
Somebody's Watching Me-Rockwell
Careless Whisper-Wham
Shout-Tears For Fears

tons of others.

War & Eric Burdon -Spill That Wine
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Jefferson Starship - "Sarah":



The Moody Blues - "Your Wildest Dreams":



Michael Jackson - "Human Nature" (dunno why youtube doesn't have the official vid):

GREAT TOPIC !!!!

For me I guess the Jackson 5 ...
LOOKIN THROUGH THE WINDOWS.
Maybe Tomorrow..
actually anything from the first few albums..
ABC
I WANT YOU BACK
GOING BACK TO INDIANA
I'LL BE THERE
Ect..

STEVIE WONDER:
YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE..
SIR DUKE
I WISH

My mom was a deep music fan..so I heard everything soul related..