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Maybe a silly question (was this already asked? search said no), but
Did you have "taste" at 10 yrs old? Did any of the music at that age--if you listened to music--foreshadow what you'd like today?
I was 10 in '94-95...I think it was Ace of Base from a neighbor, the parentals had questionable taste, but played Yaz, Talking Heads, and The Fine Young Cannibals. I did not live around a culture that was immersed in music, so I eventually had to look for it on my own. But at that age I don't think I had taste, I just listened to what I was surrounded by.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

1990-1991 mostly charty rave stuff. I loved T99, Prodigy, N-Joi, Tricky Disco, Altern-8, Adamski and all that stuff. I wanted to play keyboards when I grew up and have a big hit like "Killer".

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

biggest infs at age 10 (in 1986): madonna, latin freestyle, new york hip-hop

― PRIVATE HELL 36 (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

i think the only stuff i still like that i liked at 10 is the beatles and nirvana, maybe?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

"But at that age I don't think I had taste, I just listened to what I was surrounded by."

Yep, same for me. My dad was a fan of late 50's/early 60's rock and roll (ie., Elvis, Fats Domino, just about anything you hear on "golden oldies/Cousin Brucie" type radio), so I had a nice schooling in that stuff. My favorite 45's from my dad's collection were "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips and "Do You Wanna Dance" by Bobby Freeman. It definitely shaped my own tastes, so much so that I routinely buy collections of 50's and early 60's rock and roll (especially Bear Family, Norton and Ace Records type compilations).

― James, Monday, 13 March 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

i liked van halen and men at work and creedence clearwater revival and the the rolling stones and michael jackson and joan jett.

(ccr + the stones from my parent's collection)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

This was when I started exploring music in any real way--definitely Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" but I get a little confused about the chronology of the rest. I think MC Hammer was after but I would have to check allmusic and this is not what I should be doing with my time right now.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

At 10: 1983-84: music my father put in magnetophone: Frank Sinatra, Fausto papetti, Indios Tabajaras, Mantovani, Ray Coniff, a lot of music like that. But I remember hear things like Madness' "Our House" on the radio

― antonio, Monday, 13 March 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

At 10, I already knew I liked big bright guitars. At that time (1984), I latched on to things like Van Halen, Ratt, Dokken and whatever else the older kids down the street were listening to. I still listen to all that stuff on occasion and remember it fondly. And my predisposition to guitar-based music remains to this day.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I think my only favorite albums at the age of 10 would've been Buckner & Garcia's PAC-MAN FEVER and Men At Work's BUSINESS AS USUAL, and Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl" from SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE A DROWNING WITCH. Still like the Men At Work album but haven't heard the others in years.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

When I was ten, I was living in Hollis, Queens. I was surrounded by disco and, beimg an impressionable kid (who isn't at ten to a degree?) I openly espoused my love for disco.

A neighboring kid who was several years older than I was heard me say this and, taking me under his wing, made me come over to his place and forced me to listen to some rock and roll. It was then that I listened to "Roundabout" by Yes, several songs by Led Zeppelin and also "Rock Lobster" for the first time. I loved it all and swore off disco then and forever.

So ten was kinda important to me. Because it helped form my tastes. Also, I would look horrible in polyester and I cannot dance so I was saved from a lifetime of ridicule.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

my son, aged 10 was into sum 41, green day, nirvana (from the age of 7) and took to listening to bits off punk / new wave box sets - he watches a lot of kerrngn / mtv2 etc.. at 11 he now likes the above and slipknot, system of a down, incubus etc..

my daughter is 10 and likes bis, freezepop, incubus, weezer, killing joke, good charlotte and so on.

i try to not interfere with their music with the exeption of telling my son to turn down slipknot.

that slipknot live album is bloomin awful. motherfuckin this and motherfuckin bullshittin that.

and relax...

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I think I was the same age in 94-95. Embarassingly enough it was all about Rap then (still is too I guess), so just to be normal and fit in I claimed to like the stuff, but I wouldn't be able to tell you any rap I liked if I had a (rapper's) gun to my head!! It wasn't until one summer after my parents split up and I had to move in with my grandparents that I met the neighboor across the street. He had Mtv and for the first time I saw videos by Soundgarden, Alice in Chains etc. It was kind of like my eyes were opened and I immediately gravitated toward this modern rock that I had no idea existed! At the same time I also had this cousin who's hair was a different color every time I saw her, she was a lot older and that was very impressionable on me, this was also around the time that Kurt Cobain died, I remember one day at school two kids were arguing whether or not Kurt Cobain shot himself in the head or in the mouth (I still laugh at this memory), they asked my opinion and of course I had no clue, that was definitely the first time I had ever heard of him, and I had just barely missed out on what would have eventually become my favorite band!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Did any of the music at that age--if you listened to music--foreshadow what you'd like today?

absolutely. my favorite music then was very "produced" and technology-heavy and that's still quite true today.

― PRIVATE HELL 36 (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

I was barely aware that music existed. If we had a radio I don't remember hearing it, and we certainly had nothing else. (It was similar for books and other things too.) It was moving to a new school at 11 that got me interested, so I got a little radio quite soon, and then it was a long fight to finally get a record player at age 13. My taste was great then, except really I think it was dumb luck that my first records were T. Rex and Slade, acts I still love now.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I think I've spent 10 years trying to unlearn "taste". In 1979 I pretty much indiscriminately liked music I'd hear on the radio plus whatever my Dad played in the car: Simon & Garfunkel, Roy Orbison, early Beatles, Dionne Warwick, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver, some stuff I haven't been able to place. Then through my teens I'd be rejecting stuff that opposed the template of whatever I was into at the time, but by 1989 I was starting to avowedly like anything I liked the sound of again. So maybe my 10 year old me did foreshadow me now.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

At 10 I was just finishing being into children's music and starting to like so-called "rock'n'roll". Although mostly with Norwegian lyrics only.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I liked that song "bitch" by that one Lillith Fair girl because it said a swear word in it, and "born in the USA" because I was born in the USA and I remember being really confused as to why people bought CDs, or went to concerts and I kept asking all the time and couldn't figure out why still.

― _____, Monday, 13 March 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

At ten was really into 'Best of the 50's' type compilations lying around the house, possibly started off liking 'Sugar Sugar' by the Archies and the more bubblegum elements. Loved Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis as well though. Though 'See You Later Alligator' was probably the first rock n roll song I liked. A little before that my favourites were Leo Sayer and 'Maxwells Silver Hammer' by the Beatles.

― !Kapow! (fractal), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I definitely had a taste-- it was Nirvana, Soundgarden, Rancid, Green Day, Weezer, and the Circle Jerks. Rancid and the Circle Jerks then got me into the Dead Kennedys, and by the time I left elementary school, I had a mohawk and was totally into 77 punk. Everyone thought my parents were crazy.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I was into Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Weird Al, Huey Lewis, "Electric Avenue," and Top 40 radio -- just like today! (Except I've outgrown Springsteen.)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

'97-'98: Video game music. Radio-wise I mostly listened to country and '50s-'60s era rock. I was a year away from hearing Weird Al, through whom I got into pop musik.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i was big into DEvo, b-52s, the cure and sex pistols, kraftwerk, john foxx , the residents ( thought it was funny) at 10...had a pretty hip older bro

― grapple (grapple), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

A few mentions of music on this ILE thread: Tell me all about 10-year-old you

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

when i was 10 years old i'd just come off an exhilarating year listening to casey kasem's American Top 40 -- my two favorite songs were "safety dance" and "total eclipse of the heart" -- i was crushed when "i'll be watchin you" took #1 on the year-end Top 100 countdown -- i'll always remember the radio out in the clearing behind my parents' house that we optimistically called "the glen" (it has since become hopelessly knotted again with wysteria), a bonfire and the radio both crackling through the knoxville night, the smell of woodsmoke and me and my best friend josh hanging on every song of the countdown as the rest of our families carried on, strangely oblivious to the drama. i also loved "cum on feel the noize," "king of pain," "dirty laundry," and a bunch of other stuff. i was still 9. when thriller came out, i bought it, with my own, saved-up allowance money. i have no idea exactly when during the year i bought it, so i may have already been 10, but at any rate that year was a headlong tumble into michael jackson, the moonwalk, and breakdancing ("breakin" came out the summer i turned 10). strangely, despite my fairly catholic tastes -- dictated directly by the Top 40 -- i will always recall, around the same time -- it may have even been 1984 -- being in georgia for a big family thanksgiving and someone asking me what kind of music i liked, casting about for an answer -- it was hard to answer even then! -- and replying that i liked rock, but SOFT rock -- not that hard rock stuff.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

I got THRILLER as a Christmas gift when I was 11. I remember getting mad at my aunt that year because she bought me Def Leppard's ON THROUGH THE NIGHT, not PYROMANIA.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

oh, i also liked pete seeger, john mccutcheon, si kahn, guy and candy carawan, woody guthrie, leadbelly, mississippi john hurt, rich kirby, tommy bledsoe, and a bunch of others, but that was all from my parents, so somehow it fit into a completely different category. no older bro in my family.

xpost: hahaha oh man. THE TRADGIDY!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

i didn't listen to any music at 10. at all.

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

i had just gotten into the top 40 (before that it was all my dad's beatles and stones and who records). i loved "you shook me all night long," "funkytown," a bunch of stuff. "ah leah" was the first 45 i ever bought. greg kihn's "breakup song" was the second.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

(i still like all those songs)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

jurassic park soundtrack.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't really interested in a lot of music aged 10, but I would dance around to Michael Jackson with/at my hot older babysitter and her friends. Perhaps it was some prepubescent mating ritual. That and On Kielder Side by Kathryn Tickell, which my parents would play in the car on holiday in Scotland. That's a great record though, the exception that proves the "all-traditional-English-music-is-shit" rule. Billy Pigg tunes with enough of a rhythmic oomph to conceivably inspire some sort of movement more intense than Morris dancing. Not sure mandolins and guitar are really the merrymaking tools of the pre-industrial Yorkshireman though. But mostly Michael Jackson.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

I had no taste beyond the radio. Top 5 songs singles day I turned 10:

"Sad Eyes" - Robert John
"Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson
"Rise" - Herb Alpert
"My Sharona" - The Knack
"Sail On" - the Commodores.

I loved them all except for Herb Alpert, can't remember how that goes.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I get Rise confused with the theme from Loveboat if that tells you anything.

I turned 10 just in time for the Beatles to touch down at JFK. AM radio was my good friend in those days. Always watched The Ed Sullivan Shoo and paid particular attention to musical acts that weren't Jerry Vale or John Davidson. The British invasion was just beginning and everything else would soon take a back seat to it. This was when I began my music appreciation years.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

top 40 radio. i'd tape the top 40 run down every week and keep the songs i liked. beyond that, i don't think i was aware that any other music existed. all the taping led to a full on blondie obsession. funnily enough mark, 'rise' by herb alpert was one of my favourites from back then and i can still remember how it goes. i even sampled the bassline from it recently.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

x post - it does sound a little like the loveboat theme. the follow up single 'rotation' which just scraped the top 40 is awesome. i'll get my coat.......

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

and replying that i liked rock, but SOFT rock

that's really funny.
Reminds me that the best part about that sort of age really is the sincere logic. I think that's why it seems like an honest age, musically. because generally, at 10, you may not have taste, but you have the means to appreciate what's around you.
And you can still discern between good and bad, but good and bad is much more simple.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Had to go back and listen -- sure I remember "Rise", good stuff. Sounds kinda like the bassline to Biggie's "Juicy" also.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Actually not "Juicy" -- what Biggie track am I thinking of?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

generally, at 10, you may not have taste, but you have the means to appreciate what's around you.
And you can still discern between good and bad, but good and bad is much more simple.

This reminds me of when I was in 4th grade (so I was nine), telling a friend that I liked a certain song ("Electric Avenue" again), and him scoffing about how bad it was. This was my attempt at defense and diplomacy:

Me: "It's just about different tastes in music."
Friend: "And if you like 'Electric Avenue,' you have BAD taste in music!"

How could I respond to that? I was silent. Defeated!

So my tastes may have changed (could my friend have been right all along? If I still had the old "Killer on the Rampage" LP, I could check), but I haven't picked up much in the way of analytical or rhetorical skill!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Oddly enough, ten was the age at which the hipsters at my local indie record store started really pressing interesting music on me. I'd been going there with my dad since I was a toddler, and since the store was only a few blocks from home, we were a regular fixture there every Sunday afternoon when Dad had custody. So, around this time, they started introducing me to stuff like (I kid you not) Bongwater, Iggy and the Stooges, They Might Be Giants, David Thomas, the Residents, Moe Tucker, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and slews of other records that I still have bundled up safely in storage. I owe my entire musical education to them (although they ultimately went out of business when the box stores moved into town, to noone's surprise).

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:59 (twenty years ago)

At age 10 ( in 1989-1990 ) i had a taste as i do here in 2006 for classic R & B things like Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind and Fire, Temptations, O'Jays, Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson Etc. Also i had a thing for New Jack Swing/Hip Hop. People Like Bell Biv Devoe, Guy, Keith Sweat, MC Hammer, After 7 and so forth. ALso had a thing for Sci-Fi music soundtracks like Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and etc.

― startrekman, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

At 10 in 87, I listened to lots and lots of Guns N Roses.

― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:44 (twenty years ago)

at ten it was kiss and blondie.abba had just ended.1980

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Owned lotsa 45s, (most of which were from the late '50s/early'60s and were originally my parents') but only about a dozen LPs. At least two of which certainly helped shape my tastes: Rocket To Russia (tuneful loud guitars) and Songs In The Key Of Life (funk, '70s style/lushly produced headphone-fodder).

(Also had the Grease soundtrack, but my enjoyment never made it to the '80s intact.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

I was into DC Talk, Jars of Clay, and the second half of Abbey Road (the only half of the cassette that functioned). I wish I had some of these types of memories of good music like the rest of you, but I am not so blessed. When I got my first CD player in sixth/seventh grade, it was the Newboys and Weird Al that I remember most. Weird Al also got me into pop music. I specifically liked the Kinks and Red Hot Chili Peppers parodies. A bit later, 12 probably, I got into an MxPx song and an O.C. Supertones song from a Christian sampler CD called "Seltzer: Modern Rock to Settle Your Soul." It's pretty funny to look back at that now: right here.

Anyway, this means I read about good music before (in some cases long before) I actually heard it. This has caused me some stress about how I have formed and do form my musical tastes. In fact, here's a little excerpt of an email I wrote recently about the same damn subject:

On a similar note, I've been thinking about musical taste a lot recently. This is a weird issue for me since I grew up listening to so much fucking BAD music, i.e. tons of Christian stuff and then like bad pop-punk and then Death Cab for Cutie. So I not only don't have the childhood memories of good music other people have, but I don't exactly remember the timeline of when I've heard/enjoyed good stuff recently, as it has mostly taken the form of drowning myself in shit to know it more than to love it. This also means I was reading about this music before I ever really heard it, so I have a weird relationship to music criticism in the sense that I sometimes feel my tastes dictated by outside sources and have an unclear about the ideas I have that determine what I like and how. Of course I don't want to be a sheep, but I've been realizing how flexible things are when it comes to taste. What I mean is that there quite a bit of stuff that has been labored over to the point where the music/art at stake is quality stuff, so a lot of taste comes not in the actual listening/appreciating of the stuff but choosing what to listen to in the first place. I guess the metaphor I would use is that of choosing things on a restaurant menu. Like, of course you taste the food and decide whether you like it or not, but first you have to order, and the ordering determines so much of what you taste, i.e. if you order something you really like and don't get sick of, you might stick with that for a helluva long time at the "expense" of tasting some of the other great stuff, which isn't really an expense as long as you still enjoy your choice and don't feel bad for not "expanding your horizons." I guess this is the whole listening widely/deeply conflict. Anyway, if you can make sense of this, what do you think? How have you chosen your own tastes and how much do you think you've been steered by the choices you make? What's the method you've used for discovering what feels like it's yours? Replay value? "Importance"? Nostalgia? Just wondering, 'cause I like to get your opinions on this kind of stuff.

Because of all this, Christian music and the formation (or lack thereof) of tastes are the only things I feel at all able to comment thoughtfully upon. :(

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

I was ten in '94, by the way.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

God, I feel so dumb that I just started listening to most of this stuff now (at 24). When I was 10, it was like the Beatles and the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song. Oh well, I'm like a grown-up pupae man anyway, so that's the way it goes...

― LoneNut, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 08:13 (twenty years ago)

Me: "It's just about different tastes in music."
Friend: "And if you like 'Electric Avenue,' you have BAD taste in music!"

How could I respond to that? I was silent. Defeated!

You should have kicked him in the shin.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Ten records I loved when I was ten (and still do):

Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom
Sparks Kimono My House
Cockney Rebel The Psychomodo
David Bowie Diamond Dogs
Eno Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Can Soon Over Babaluma
Todd Rundgren Todd
Kenny Wheeler Song For Someone
Peter Hammill The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
Richard and Linda Thompson I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 09:14 (twenty years ago)

probably Tone Loc and Neneh Cherry and stuff

― rizzx (rizzx), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Ten?

"Hot Love" T-Rex
Back off boogaloo - Ringo
ach, some other singles.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

I liked Prince and Tears for Fears a lot. Michael Jackson, too, though I was sort of over him by this point. Mostly TFF though; I think my brother dying that July had something to do w/this. (He was a year and a half old, had a heart condition.)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Steely Dan, Woody Guthrie, The Pogues, The Doors, Iron Maiden and Guns and Roses were my staples aged 10.

Guess I was eclectic.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Bryan Adams, West End Girls (the group), Paula Abdul, NWA, NKOTB, Wilson Phillips, Skat Kat, whole bunch of hockey anthems, Rhona Raskin on earbuds while at church...age ten had tons of general family/everything horror, if I recall correctly (I obviously can't)...um my dad beat the shit out of a local teen G3off W4LLis in front of the whole neighboorhood for being called a fag, that was not good PR at all...one of my friends did that KBC triangle flip gang tattoo on his forearm despite declaring he hated filipinos (he had that flip haircut with only the bangs not shaved too)...only Brent, Davis and Melissa were true friends and didn't grow up to slang dope or become born-again and work with computers and eat at Cactus Club every weekend like some jerks

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

half the guys I went to church with now OBVIOUSLY filp that yam yam or better and race imports, and STILL go to the same church to stay up on 'classy girls'. it's nuts like macadamia how that demographic do!

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

"oh hey man! holeee shiiiit it's been like how many years??? HOOLY shit man...you still talk to Danny and those guys? you still talk to Danny and those guys? HOLYYY...hey, you ever talk to SDLLLrvnohaf&*^^SD*OIha and those guys? oh he's doing reaaallly well man...what are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggssssssssssssssss(static))))))))))))

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Ten records I loved when I was ten (and still do):

You know, from time to time, I revisit the list of my favorite albums, and it hasn't changed radically since then either. The major exceptions being that I can no longer stomach They Might Be Giants or most of Frank Black's output, and I own far less stuff on Wax Trax! now than I did in the late '80s. I'd even venture to say that by the time I started college in '95, I'd already discovered 90% of the music that really makes me tick.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I was 10 in (gulp) 1968

Top 40 on transistor radio -- compulsively daily listening.

my uncle gave me his copies of Sgt Pepper & Magical Mystery Tour to go along w/our Peter Paul & Mary albums.

also had a few singles from teh Beatles and (inexplicably) "I Fought The Law" by Bobby Fuller Four. my pride and joy was a "collection" of trash-can recycled singles from a neighbor, 50s/60s stuff like Patti Page and Joni James and Lonnie Donnegan's immortal "Does Yr Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bed Post Over Night?"

our son is ten now and owns a couple dozen CDs, listens to radio.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Songs I Loved When I Was 10 Years Old.

Without You, American Pie, Beg Steal Or Borrow, Mother & Child Reunion, Son Of My Father, Meet Me On The Corner, Got To Be There, Look Wot You Dun, Poppa Joe, Storm In A Teacup, Say You Don't Mind, Have You Seen Her, Telegram Sam, Sweet Talking Guy, Young New Mexican Puppeteer, Debora, Radancer, A Thing Called Love, Stir It Up, What Is Life, Rocket Man, Metal Guru, Sister Jane, Rockin' Robin, Take Me Bak Ome, Rock & Roll Part 2, Little Willy, Little Bit Of Love, Doobedood'Ndoobe Doobedood'Ndoobe, Nut Rocker, I'll Take You There, Sylvia's Mother, School's Out, Seaside Shuffle, Starman, Silver Machine, Automatically Sunshine, I've Been Lonely For So Long, Popcorn, All The Young Dudes, Layla, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Standing In The Road, I Get The Sweetest Feeling, Too Busy Thinking About My Baby, Sugar Me, Where Is The Love, Virginia Plain, Lean On Me, Children Of The Revolution, Living In Harmony, Wig-Wam Bam, Mouldy Old Dough, Suzanne Beware Of The Devil, I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock 'N' Roll), Donna, Burning Love, Elected, Goodbye To Love, Back Stabbers, Leader Of The Pack, Loop Di Love, Let's Dance, Here I Go Again, My Ding-A-Ling, Crazy Horses, Crocodile Rock, GudBuy T'Jane, Solid Gold Easy Action, The Jean Genie, C Moon, Ball Park Incident, You're So Vain, Desperate Dan, Blockbuster, Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah), Wishing Well, Daniel, Paper Plane, Sylvia, Whisky In The Jar, Hocus Pocus, Cum On Feel The Noize, Superstition, Feel The Need In Me, Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, Killing Me Softly With His Song.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Admittedly at 10 my personal music collection was limited. Four cassettes:

* Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistable
* INXS - Kick
* Hit Pix '88 compliation
* 88 Hits in the Sun - compliation

While the Palmer offered really sexy chicks in his video, and INXS flagrant swearing on their album (cool for a 10yr old) it was the too compliations where you could start to define musical preferance.

Kylie's I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky was too cheesey and poppy for a 10yr old. Jimmy Cliff's Sitting on the dock of the bay, too moody. AC/DC heatseeker too hard for that age.

First track that really signalled my musical preference was Moby - Go.

― rchinn (rchinn), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Not too sure about all these dates but my meagre cassette collection and perma-hipped walkman served me pretty well at the age of 10.

Wayne's World Soundtrack
Thriller
MC Hammer
New Kids On The Block
Divine Madness
Chaka Khan (mothers)
Simple Minds (mothers)
A lot of 50s rock'n'roll (fathers)

― tommytannoy, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

i also would tape the Top 40, from the radio to a little tape recorder. i recorded it with no cables - through the air, from the speakers to the built-in "condenser" mic on the tape recorder.

between songs, me and a friend would record our own versions of the commercials that would appear on the Top 40 -

"Topol don't let your smile go up in smoke / do doo doo, do do doo doo - TOPOL: THE SMOKER'S TOOTH POLISH"

"whaddya call a kid who could kick like that - you call that kid a cracker jack! / whaddya call a kid who could swing like that - you call that kid a cracker jack! / whaddya call a snack with a secret toy surprise in the pack?? / peanuts and popcorn, that make your lips smack? / it's caramel-coated cracker jack!!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

oh, I had the "Please Hammer dont hurt them" album too. But that came later with the Best of the Brit Music Awards, featuring Tom Jones singing Kiss.

― rchinn (rchinn), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

1984-1985: Men at Work, The Police, Michael Jackson, Prince, the Cars, Billy Idol, Culture Club, Go-Gos, "Our House", "Electric Avenue".

― Jason Toon (Jason Toon), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Actually not "Juicy" -- what Biggie track am I thinking of?
-- Mark (r-...), March 13th, 2006.

"Hypnotize" samples the bassline from "Rise".

― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

i was obsessed with the oldies station until i turned 11. after that point, i was obsessed with the oldies station and Salt n' Pepa, until i heard Greenday when i was 12. then everything went to hell.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 06:17 (twenty years ago)

I wish Salt n' Pepa would reunite to make a concept album about the war.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 06:44 (twenty years ago)

SNP! One of the Greatest Rhymes Ever: "If she wanna be a freak and/Sell it on the weekend/It's none of your business."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 06:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm too old for this thread.....

― Radio Caroline (chris moran), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

1984-1985: Men at Work, The Police, Michael Jackson, Prince, the Cars, Billy Idol, Culture Club, Go-Gos, "Our House", "Electric Avenue".
-- Jason Toon (jason.too...), March 14th, 2006.
we share gr8 taste,man.

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

When I was 10, there were a number of Hall of Famers that I liked thinking that you just had to like Madonna, Michael Jackson, George Michael. It was the year when I started discovering the joys of building individuality through music. I was weirdly obsessed with Suzanne Vega and The Bangles.

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)

"Hypnotize" samples the bassline from "Rise".

-- A Licky Boom Boom Down

Yes, thanks.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm too old for this thread.....
-- Radio Caroline (chris2f...), March 15th, 2006.

no, i mean, they still had turntables in the late 1800s..;)

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

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