The Official Music Nostalgia Thread
 

I know we have one already about how music was better back then, but this is not about that, so hopefully will be left separate. This is just a place to post and discuss the music you enjoyed when growing up (if you're not already grown up) and recall maybe the feeling it gave you. What was on the radio? What was in your Walkman? What albums were you buying? What was in the charts? Post anything and everything, as long as it's not current, so let's assume since it's nostalgic, cap it at say minimum 10 years ago, but ideally we're looking back to the twentieth century. No real rules though: any genre, any type of music, as much or as little as you want and write about it if you like or just post the videos.

One thing I would say is that for everyone's convenience, title your video as sometimes videos are unavailable or get taken down, and it's annoying to see a black box and not know what the video was, if you want to go looking for it.

Now, I remember back when all of this was fields.
Oh wait: it still is...

**** you all, this is pure pop gold from the eighties.

Go West - "We Close Our Eyes"

The strongest sense of loyalty I ever felt to a radio station was in my early teens: fascinated by pop music, but without the money to buy records, I listened to Radio London day after day. Despite its respectable-sounding name, Radio London had extra appeal because it was ctually a pirate station, operating from a ship in the English Channel and thereby dodging various copyright restrictions about playing "original artists" material non-stop.

Here are two artists that were given air-time on RL for a few months, though they never made it big enough to be played on the (legal) TV channels - in fact I have barely heard their names or their songs since. For me, that fact cranks up the nostalgia more than, say, for a Beatles or Floyd song that you subsequently get familiar with as an adult because they are always turning up somewhere.



Days of Pearly Spencer by David McWilliams



Postcard by Blossom Toes

My first memory of having a favorite tune:

The Jungle Book - I Wanna Be Like You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfIoI3DNx6c

We'd (my brother and me) play the entire album at my Grandma's house all the time. Bockitcha bockitcha bockitcha...

My Dad actually took me to see this movie when it came out. My parents were going through a divorce at the time so I only got to see my Dad twice a week so moments like this were special to a six year old boy.

We saw it at the theater too, then we got the album for Xmas or something like that. Same for me (us) with the divorce stuff.

I'll share a related retro oddity. T.C. released a drum n bass hit called "Where's My Money" in 2007, which was dubstep-remixed by Caspa a year later.

The track was parodied by Parker in 2009 who reworked it as the web-exclusive release titled "Where's My Monkey."

"Monkey" samples your beloved "I Wan'na Be like You (The Monkey Song)" transforming it into a club track.

A quirky little element from the earlier days of the web.

Well dang! Thanks for that ISB.

Some classic 70s soul


The Real Thing - "You to Me are Everything"

Trying to rack my brain and this one popped up:

Hot Butter- Popcorn Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYjZTdrJlA