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

Gowan - A criminal mind - An iconic video from my youth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeFm-rM51K4

I was a musical sponge during the 80s. My father had a record playing all the time. His tastes were, and continue to be, eclectic. One day he could be playing Neil Simon. Another day, he could have Genesis playing.

I started buying my own cassettes around 1986. I didn't have much of a collection, maybe 20 tapes.

I listened to a lot of radio. There was a station from a Mohawk reservation that I loved to listen to. I recorded a number of songs from there.

I'd say that for the 80s, Bon Jovi and U2 were my favourite acts. I picked up Motley Crue during the Dr. Feelgood era. From there, I got into Skid Row and Queensryche.

I had heard some metal, such as Priest and Maiden. I didn't get it back then. I thought it was mostly noise. Once the 90s hit, I went for louder music. I discovered the Cure when Wish was released.

As for my buying habits, I would almost always buy the back catalog of a band I enjoyed.

Much Music was a big deal. The biggest benefit from watching Much was being able to discover Canadian acts. They promoted a lot of talent.

My favourite way of listening to my tapes was to lie down on the floor, headphones on. I'd read, then memorize, the liner notes and lyrics.

I wonder what the people of the 1860s what felt nostalgic to them when physical music first started

Norg, physical music didn't start in the 1860s! Where are you going??

Music collector: Neil Simon? Isn't he a playwright? :confused:

Thanks for correcting me. I meant Paul Simon.

i meant a physical recording of music what year did it start then hot shot ..???

In 1982 I was in Graphic Arts class in HS and the teacher, Mr Rocket, gave us permission to take turns playing music throughout the course. Each student got a day to bring in one album, and when it was my turn, I brought in Iron Maiden - Killers. I had already drawn a block shaded version of Eddie from the cover art for screen printing that I was working on, so I thought it was only appropriate to play the album while I worked on printing mirrors, note pads, and a t-shirt. Most everyone looked at me like I was an alien, but there were one or two early metal heads that came up to me and said they were absolutely floored by what they just heard. It was also one of the first albums I learned on guitar note-for-note, front to back. I had a real passion for this stuff early on.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dH_GQnvvw

Mr Rocket kept my blue poly printing negative for future students to use, and when I got out of the service, I was at a friends house and noticed his little bother had used my work on a mirror that was hanging in his room some 8 years later. There were a few others (I used to draw a lot of dragons) Mr Rocket kept as well that were also on display at my friends place. It was a little surreal, and I had no idea up until that point.

Nostalgia feels.

"I only knoww 3 chords!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3TcbqFjco

Nice quote, and a great Proto-Industrial track from Sir A Sullivan !

And a sort of answer to norg's question: I can't remember the exact quotation, but this is from a poet, more or less in 1918 who came from a priviledged background but was then thrown into the horrors of WWI:-

"I return in my mind to the blue remembered hills of my childhood, my mother playing the piano in another room. She always played The Moonlight Sonata, although she only knew the first movement."

I suspect that none of us had that kind of experience, but boy, does he bring it to life, and who among us doesn't occasionally want to return to the blue remembered hills of their childhood ?!

He sounds like a fun teacher. I had some good and fun teachers in school. None were that fun. My grade 13 French teacher had us making movies. I'd rather listen to Maiden though.

He was one of the cool ones. He kinda bounced around in the arts programs, and a year or so later I had him in pottery class. I made an Eddie head bong that wasn't really too noticeable until you examined it. He just smirked and gave me an A.

He probably had an Eddie jean jacket patch!

He would have been a good "stay in school" advertisement back then.

I wasn't sure if maybe you meant Neil Young, or even someone else.
You have to be specific. If you mean when did music get physically recorded, I think the first machine that could capture music was the Edison phonograph in 1877, but physical music would have been around back in the stone age, when they were using the skulls of their enemies as drums. Perhaps they were nostalgic then, too:

Urkh: "I miss the beat you used to get when you tapped on the skull of one of those guys from Cave 116!"

Hakkh: "Yeah, these guys from Cave 3214 just don't sound the same."

Urkh: "Those guys sold out, man. It used to be about the music."

Hakkh: "I know what you mean, dude. They've been dining out on BONG-BONG-CRASH-THOK-BONG now for centuries!"

Urkh: "You know, you tell that to the kids these days, they don't believe you."

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cart...wan956_low.jpg

Two titans at the very top of their game. You can almost smell the animosity and coldness with the slow death of love guttering like a spent candle beneath it. Superb.



Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand - "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"

That was my Moms favorite song. She was a fan of both and when they released that, I though she might spontaneously combust.

I know my grandmother loved that song. She loved Neil Diamond. She was the first one to tell me that he wrote Red red wine.