Music Your Childhood Soundtrack

I've been taking a trip down memory lane tonight, listening to those songs you liked at school. Music played a huge role in me growing up (I was in a band with friends for 6 months, it was an awesome experience), so what music reminds you of growing up?

Mine are quite mainstream given the current genres of music I listen to (thrash, power and heavy metal with a dose of classic rock). The main 'anthems' are:

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Linkin Park - In The End
Boxcar Racer - I Feel So
Feeder - Buck Rogers
Iron Maiden - Brave New World (whole album)

So - what's yours? I should probably add that I was born in '87, so I left secondary school in 2003.

 

That just reminded me. I think Minutes To Midnight had to be the album that got me in to the music I like today. Otherwise, I still listen to the most epic tracks of all time:






Best motivational track ever. REMEMBERING SPONGEBOB:

 

Anything from the Transformers Cartoon movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwEiiVyPwA

 

Slade,Suzie Quatro,john mayall,deep purple

 

Public Image Ltd. - Happy and The Velvet Underground & Nico.
Played seemingly endlessly in the car while on camping holidays.

 

As a kid I listened to Dire Straits almost exclusively.

The only other music I really associate with my childhood is film soundtracks, most of which are by John Williams. Let's see:

Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Junior
Axel F (Bev Hills Cop) - Harold Faltermeyer
Raiders March - John Williams
ET theme - John Williams
Superman theme - John Williams
Star Wars soundtrack - John Williams
Back to the Future - John Williams, Chuck Berry, Huey Lewis

 

Albums of my youth/early teens/wannabe grunger days, couple of which I'm not particularly proud of! -

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Papa Roach - Infest
Green Day - American Idiot
NOW! 44
Feeder - Echo Park
Sum41 - All killer no filler
Limp Bizkit - Hot dog flavoured water

 

Pokemon theme tune

 

Hmmm... Albums that were definitive in my youth...

The Offspring - Americana - This was the first album I ever bought. Fantastic.
One Minute Silence - Available in all Colours/Buy Now... Saved Later
Fony - Routine Irregular
Metallica - Kill/Ride/Justice/Puppets
Slayer - Diabolous In Musica
Papa Roach - Infest
Fun Lovin Criminals - Come Find Yourself
Alien Ant Farm - Anthology
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

 

As a child (i.e. before the age of 10) I was subjected to repeated playthroughs of the following two albums every time we went on a car journey:




I was lucky to retain my sanity into adulthood, where I promptly lost it anyway. Don't do drugs

 

When I was like 6, Petshop Boys and Classic FM..

 

I spent most of my youth (from ages 7/8 to 16) listening to Tears for Fears, The Police, Evergrey, Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Accent, Mroja and Lyapis Trubetskoy.

Most of the Prog Rock & Metal was caused by a neighbour playing it fairly often to the point that I started collecting it myself.
The last three bands are from when I lived in Belarus for a while.


I also loved (or still do) a couple of cartoon themes; Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Jonny Quest, The Bots Master, Bucky O'Hare, Mysterious Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31 to name a few.

To top it all off, my childhood soundtrack would have to include lots of video game themes... too many to list. The games of the 80's were full of tunes that were so infectious that you couldn't resist humming them all on a daily basis.

 

This one wins for me:

 

If we're playing that game...

 

If we're going into game tunes that were definitive, I can't leave this out:



Endless hours playing this with my best mate, endless. Joyous times.

 

A song I remember loving at about age 6 was 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' by Deep blue something.

 

What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?

 

This. As I was born in 1980 I can relate to all of the above with the addition of the Never Ending Story Soundtrack. Also I can remember my mom listening to Fleetwood Mac while doing the housework lol

 

How ridiculously homogenous we are! As I was submitting that post I thought "Shall I add
Neverending Story?" I didn't because I didn't want to ruin the thread so early by just dumping it full of references, cos if I'd have gone for one more I'd probably go for 50 more...

And yes, I was born 1980 too.

 

So much awesome in this thread.