Music that Imprinted on you as a Child

[Encia22]

Listening to this right now he has a tremendous range and a very chill groove.... Sunday morning vibes 

Cheers for that! I know he did solo concerts at The Royal Albert Hall, but I never got to see him again.

[Oldcarpy2]

First single I bought was Crazy Horses by the Osmonds (apologies - I was little.). Then My Sweet Lord by John Lennon. Then got into Tubular Bells and Yes in a big way.

Then Prog Rock and then Blue Oyster Cult (my faves).

Then the New Wave of British Metal. Saxon, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Angel witch etc.

Used to go see Maiden, original line up at the Ruskin Arms. Happy days.

Now have a wide taste, but love Metal.

Looking forward to Helloween tour.

Seen many, many bands live.

Van Halen supporting Sabbath on their Eruption tour was amazing.

Ozzy was like, "how the fook do we follow that, man"?

[CCoburn]

Music has always been important, but how young?

I'm guessing it doesn't begin having any profound effect until maybe 5 years of age more or less i.e. begins "imprinting" (hard to say exactly). I was born late 60s and tons of the 70s imprinted on me. Maybe even a two-year-old or younger can resonate with a musical melody or voicing.
 

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

Probably not any more than you want to be tortured by the Bee Gees, ABBA, or Dan Fogelberg et al.
 

My music tastes didn't get cool until 1993.

The point of this thread is more an analysis of perspective and how it "changes and evolves" as stated in the thread intro, and less about contemporary musical tastes.

And I was wondering when you'd get around to posting the Arch Enemy which only took about a year as far as I can tell, but wrong thread. That'd be like me posting Children of Bodom and Dark Tranquility in lieu of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

The arrival of the internet was a double-edged sword in some ways and stole the anticipation of beautiful things transforming them to broken records.

And speaking of Dan Fogelberg there was this, but of course I don't care for it as much as I once did which is part of the point here more or less, and given a past several decades perspective comes pretty close to borderline embarrassing although maybe not quite so much as I've Never Been to Me by Charlene:

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I'm guessing it doesn't begin having any profound effect until maybe 5 years of age more or less i.e. begins "imprinting" (hard to say exactly). I was born late 60s and tons of the 70s imprinted on me. Maybe even a two-year-old or younger can resonate with a musical melody or voicing.
 

Probably not any more than you want to be tortured by the Bee Gees, ABBA, or Dan Fogelberg et al.
 

The point of this thread is more an analysis of perspective and how it "changes and evolves" as stated in the thread intro, and less about contemporary musical tastes.

And I was wondering when you'd get around to posting the Arch Enemy which only took about a year as far as I can tell, but wrong thread. That'd be like me posting Children of Bodom and Dark Tranquility in lieu of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

Can't all be metal. That is just my favorite genre.

I tried to think of the earliest song I remember hearing. I was young too. Like 3 or 4 years old.

Though they didn't tell us anything, my dad was a stoner, and I know this because he'd always watch this movie. It is the first thing I remember him watching. I don't think I ever watched the entire thing because all I remember is "foreign guy with evil smile as missile launches" and "people in Asian city moving in fast motion with weird repetitive music."

Though I now understand the arty message the Godfather guy was going for.



I think that is the absolute earliest music memory. This memory is also conflated with the Challenger explosion, another early life memory.

And now I find it funny two of my earliest memories are of exploding rockets.

[CCoburn]

I tried to think of the earliest song I remember hearing. I was young too. Like 3 or 4 years old.

I'm not really sure how far back I can go, but I remember being in the car with the old man and Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott (Statler Bros. I assume) coming on the radio, and I was probably six at the time. I recall that moment pretty well, where I was and whatnot. Sometimes there's not much rhyme or reason as to why we remember some trivial things as well as we do. With that song, maybe the title lyric and the way it was sung was catchy to me in some way, and I can still feel that a little to some degree even now.

I do have one memory (at least) from around 3 or 4 years of age, but it's more of a relative musical memory than a melody or lyric and it really freaked me out at the time and I had nightmares about it. It was that album art from Weasels Ripped my Flesh by Frank Zappa – 1970. I remember laying on my sister and her boyfriends' bed and looking at that album cover, and that definitely imprinted on me, but not in a good way.

[sahgwa]

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:

I am responding to this thread specifically (to make it more 'useful?' truthful?) about music that my parents played that I still enjoy or that always brings me back to those times/memories/nostalgia.

Big ones are:
Pink Floyd
Tears for Fears
Led Zeppelin

randos, ie their first albums in the 80s:
George Michael
Madonna

[sahgwa]

I went full metal in college (early 2000s) and Black Sabbath was a mainstay. Had the Hot Topic poster of them in giant crosses on my wall. I actually turned on Led Zeppelin after i read that they used to make fun of Black Sabbath for being terrible. They shared the same rehersal building in Birmingham. 

That lead to Pantera, Anthrax, Iron Maiden, and even some Nu Metal, like Slipknot and Inbubus. And then I went through an Avengened Sevenfold phase which led to metal core and more technical prog musicians.

An uncle (sterotype aside), heard me listening to them, heard "the rev" and told me to check out Rush. Liked their popular "radio" songs (Like Subdivisions) and admire their unmatched skill, but I still get bored listening to prog rock at length, I'm truly sorry. Like Tool's later music. "Yes, you are the masters of unnecessary time signature changes, but this new song is boring as shit." 

Then I learned Angela Gossow existed. This song changed my music tastes towards today's version. 



Like almost everything but metal is my favorite. And since 2011(ish) its gone to Europe where all the best metal singers and music festivals in the world are.

If you are plugged into the European metal scene surely you like some of these masters?
Meshuggah
Epica
Triptykon
Peste Noire
Cult of Luna
? :)

[KKLoco]

I remember back in he 80’s, when my dad was a cool cat (not the raging gaslighting narcissist he is now), very fond memories of The Doors. In particular, riding down the road in the 1970 convertible Dodge Challenger he rebuilt top to bottom. Specifically, remember him shifting gears and burning the tires out to this:



Then on a more low key occasion:



Ahhhh childhood. Wish it would have been minus Jehovah.

[CCoburn]

Silent Running


I always felt bad for the robots. It felt like they had a soul

[Maxmars]

Silent Running


I always felt bad for the robots. It felt like they had a soul

Huey, Dewey and Louie were the bomb... they may have defined the idea of "little helper robots" in cinema!

AI says: "In the 1972 science fiction film Silent Running, directed by Douglas Trumbull, the three robotic drones used to tend to the last remaining forests on Earth are affectionately named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. These names were chosen because calling them “Qui”, “Quo”, and “Qua” (the Latin names for the ducks) would have been cacophonous, according to the film’s production notes."

The robot hall of fame says:

"Huey, Dewey and Louie
The robots Huey, Dewey and Louie were inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in the same year as the T-800 Terminator, but the contrast between them couldn't be greater. These aren't sleek, unstoppable cyborg assassins. These are non-talking robotic worker bees that waddle around awkwardly, performing maintenance and other duties on the domed spaceship Valley Forge.

At the outset of the 1971 movie, "Silent Running," the robots aren't even all that interesting and are known only as Drone 1, Drone 2 and Drone 3."

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

Edit to add... here's a graphic I found...