Music that Imprinted on you as a Child

[CCoburn]

Sorry for the off-topic... I just have a soft spot for the movie "Silent Running."

It's fine. this has actually been happening to me a lot lately. I get one or two post in that are off topic, but the next time I catch myself and migrate to an appropriate thread sometimes taking one or two prior posts with me.

[UltraBudgie]

This video is hilariously groovy:




I've had this song running through my head today, and I don't know why. I listened to it on a loop, along with Last Train to Clarksville and other Monkee's greatest hits many many years ago and it has imprinted on me.

Always though the song could use a few more stanzas. That's true of a lot of Monkee's tunes.

[Encia22]

This video is hilariously groovy:

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqeSJlgaNk]

I've had this song running through my head today, and I don't know why. I listened to it on a loop, along with Last Train to Clarksville and other Monkee's greatest hits many many years ago and it has imprinted on me.

Always though the song could use a few more stanzas. That's true of a lot of Monkee's tunes.

Oh, YES, absolutely! I can't think of one song I don't like.

I watched all their episodes... thrice and more. Also, the crazy humour heavily influenced me as a child/teen.

 

[Shoshanna]

When I was a kid, my dad always had on the oldies station and I heard a lot of songs that I still love today.

Back then I was OBSESSED with the song "Downtown" by Petula Clark. At the time I had no idea who she was and I don't know what I was expecting when I finally saw what Petula Clark looked like but it was not this sweet looking lady. I mean. She just LOOKS like the sweetest person in the world. Which just enhances the feel of the song.




Also Don McClean's "American Pie" I heard it on one of those "time life music" infomercials and I quickly found a cassette of the song and memorized all the words to it which I still know today I love this song.

Of course The Carpenters heavily imprinted on me and Karen is an angel and the greatest voice of all time period.

[Maxmars]

When I was a kid, my dad always had on the oldies station and I heard a lot of songs that I still love today.

Back then I was OBSESSED with the song "Downtown" by Petula Clark. At the time I had no idea who she was and I don't know what I was expecting when I finally saw what Petula Clark looked like but it was not this sweet looking lady. I mean. She just LOOKS like the sweetest person in the world. Which just enhances the feel of the song.

[Video: https://youtu.be/z_m4Qb0iW-o?feature=shared]

Also Don McClean's "American Pie" I heard it on one of those "time life music" infomercials and I quickly found a cassette of the song and memorized all the words to it which I still know today I love this song.

Of course The Carpenters heavily imprinted on me and Karen is an angel and the greatest voice of all time period.

Well, Shoshanna...

We're on the same page, you and I....

Frankly, I was one of the few people I knew that realized Karen Carpenter wasn't just another "pop" singer....

I used to anger myself by imagining what might have happened if the "modern" music industry had gotten their hands on Karen.
("Modern" meaning no longer about music... or even lyrics.... just video imagery and sexual oomph.)

Do you think she could have performed in a vinyl push up corset and pumps, or grinding on a pole? 

Yeah... the American music producers decided American music was only good for porn.
That without the porn element... it was "no good."   Hence it is official music industry policy...
ugly non-sexualized performers will never be 'produced,' even if they make beautiful art...

Ooh I'm sorry, that must bother me more than I thought....  in any case,

Karen's writing and performance were beautiful and moving ... not sexually enticing, ...
How "horrible" and "unprofitable" that would be today.... right?

[Oldcarpy2]

Well, Shoshanna...

We're on the same page, you and I....

Frankly, I was one of the few people I knew that realized Karen Carpenter wasn't just another "pop" singer....

I used to anger myself by imagining what might have happened if the "modern" music industry had gotten their hands on Karen.
("Modern" meaning no longer about music... or even lyrics.... just video imagery and sexual oomph.)

Do you think she could have performed in a vinyl push up corset and pumps, or grinding on a pole? 

Yeah... the American music producers decided American music was only good for porn.
That without the porn element... it was "no good."   Hence it is official music industry policy...
ugly non-sexualized performers will never be 'produced,' even if they make beautiful art...

Ooh I'm sorry, that must bother me more than I thought....  in any case,

Karen's writing and performance were beautiful and moving ... not sexually enticing, ...
How "horrible" and "unprofitable" that would be today.... right?

I have always loved the Carpenters.

My childhood song.  Puff the Magic Dragon:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=puf...ORM=VRDGAR

Wait, it was this version by Nina and Frederick:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=puf...RE&PC=U534

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Around 6 or 7 is when you first latch on to you're older siblings favorite music. And I remember this standing out, it was one of the first cassettes I ever owned.




I haven't really done it though. I like to believe I have, but I'm far too pre-judging and make too many generalizations to live it.

[Shoshanna]

Well, Shoshanna...

We're on the same page, you and I....

Frankly, I was one of the few people I knew that realized Karen Carpenter wasn't just another "pop" singer....

I used to anger myself by imagining what might have happened if the "modern" music industry had gotten their hands on Karen.
("Modern" meaning no longer about music... or even lyrics.... just video imagery and sexual oomph.)

Do you think she could have performed in a vinyl push up corset and pumps, or grinding on a pole? 

Yeah... the American music producers decided American music was only good for porn.
That without the porn element... it was "no good."   Hence it is official music industry policy...
ugly non-sexualized performers will never be 'produced,' even if they make beautiful art...

Ooh I'm sorry, that must bother me more than I thought....  in any case,

Karen's writing and performance were beautiful and moving ... not sexually enticing, ...
How "horrible" and "unprofitable" that would be today.... right?

It is so funny you said this because I was listening last night to a bunch of different music from different years and genres and it seems like it was a steep descent into debauchery in music starting in the mid 90s. Even rap music. Initially rap music was not about sex and drugs. Groups like Mobb Deep and even Tupac mostly rapped about their own personal struggles or the struggles they saw around them. I think the blurring of lines between rap and "hip hop" which pretends to be like r&b but is heavily sexualized really created the modern rap we have about women, money, drugs etc.

It is very difficult to find any song with lyrics that have meaning that was made after the year 2000.

They would have ruined Karen's music with autotune and stuck her in a tube top and daisy dukes up there. I watch a music analysis channel on YouTube and he showed how live recordings of Karen are actually more accurate and on pitch than the studio recordings. So if they were editing her vocals back then just imagine how they would ruin them now.

[Bootless]

It was 1966. My older sister had the radio on, and this song came on:


I really liked it; it seemed so cool and determined. The brass really spoke to me.
Time passed,
as time does.
Other songs took my fancy.
I forgot.

Thirty one years later,
alone in a cheap apartment,
I turned the radio on
set to an oldies station.

And there it was
like a ton of bricks:
my life story.

(part two)
It was suggested to me around then:
"Dude! You so remind me of that song Desperado.
You really need to let somebody love you."



I would perhaps settle for Platonic Love,
but I ain't no Platonist.
Epicurus is more my style,
that is,
except for the no women allowed in the school part.