Music that Imprinted on you as a Child

[CCoburn]

Music that Imprinted on you as a Child


Everything is always changing and evolving. New minds meld with musical melodies while lyrics linger on into longevity with a layering of lacunas and generational gaps and styles inevitably.

There is this one that was apparently written by Boz Scaggs and became a hit for Frankie Valli, but what I remember most and ultimately "imprinted" on me for a time was this version by Rita Coolidge from around 1977:

We're All Alone



I think she really gave this song some soul and depth and definitely made it memorable.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Music has always been important, but how young?

Do you really want to be tortured with Paula Abdul, Madonna, and then Boyz 2 Men?

My music tastes didn't get cool until 1993. I skipped around hair metal which I didn't get into until high school (GNR), but as an early 80s kid, Nirvana eventually became my favorote band. They had a lot of songs that were impactful, but of all them my favorite was Lithium. Here it is performed by St. Vincent at the Nirvana Hall of Fame Indiction..

As I got older, after the Mr. Seattle shot himself, I got into darker more "gothic" things like the bad influence 17 year old next door. By 1996 it transitioned to Marylin Manson, White Zombie, Type O Negative, and even Cradle of Filth. I still liked pop, like Semisonic type stuff, and even liked techno, but the dark tastes were the favorite.

It took until 14 or 15 before music got profound. The following music event got me political.  Something very traumatic, small-minded, and humiliating happened regarding religious BS, and like a "sign" this performance happened at the right time.

It contributed to becoming really angry at organized religion and oppressive religious people.



It started a rebellious streak that never really ended. Though it's not angry at christian indoctrination anymore.

[argentus]

My 'impressionable' music is much too old to be showcased here.   It's not that I'm embarrassed about loving it, it's just that I think it needs to be protected.

[Encia22]

Lots of Italian 1960s songs for which I can't find videos with English subs, some Beatles songs, but...

The first song I ever learned by heart and that I still sing to myself regularly, especially after I meet unbelievably stupid people...



Oh, and nearly forgot... 

[CCoburn]

I mention "evolution" because I've moved beyond the ability to be captured by any of this music in a way that I once was although of course I still do have recollection of it and the way it made me feel, and music is so multi-faceted that it's not only the lyrics, but the voice as instrument, and also the melodic energy that a particular piece projects.

It would be nice to just 'forget' and enjoy these pieces as I once did, but like I said: "everything's always changing", so I can at least write about it, document it, and make the attempt anyways.

My experience with music that imprints extends backwards to maybe around the early 60s, but mostly late 60s and 70s I'd say, and speaking of the "Beatles" this one definitely made a mark on me. It reminds me of sunny days that were new while playing on the radio with those walks to the beach like I wrote about in Short Stories here a while ago: