Greatest Songs From Your Childhood

1 out of 2 ain’t bad.

 

Rick Beatto’s episode of What Makes This Song Great on ‘Losing My Religion’ is very good and does open the song up even if you are already very familiar with it.

 

How are we defining “childhood” here?

I’d struggle to name much from years 6-10 but after that there would be loads!

 

I was a big fan of the Bangles album Everything. It made my willy tingle but I didn't know why.

 

No Meatloaf m8.

 

I love loads of pop songs from when I was those ages. I did have older siblings who bought a lot of records, so maybe that was a factor. Two I loved/still love.

 

Didn’t discover “pop music” til I was 11. Up to then my favourite was Schuberts unfinished symphony. First record I bought was Suzie Quattro “Devil gate drive” then Glitter Band, Mott the Hoople and showaddywaddy.

 

I guess I was about the same age. I certainly remember music from before then, esp. Sweet, Slade, Mud, the Rollers and (ahem) Gary Glitter, but I wouldn’t say it has “stayed with me” in the way that music from 10/11 onwards has done. Although I have rediscovered that period since (Mott and Roxy Music in particular).

I don’t think I bought a single until 1978.

The first song I can really remember hearing and having some sort of impact was ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’.

 

"Suzi" and "Quatro", you idiot.

 

my older brother played this on a loop when I was a young kid…

 

I still listen to a lot of that music from 74-76 because it means something to me and I can still see why I liked it as an 11-13 year old, eg "Hey Rock'n'Roll" is a great song. I feel sorry for anyone having the early 90s as their formative years. Just dreadful monotonous manufactured dance/rave music until britpop came along, Blur, Oasis, Sleeper etc. A cultural wasteland.

 

God knows why but my parents had this song in their collection and I still like it today despite it being fairly depressing

 

First record I ever bought ( I think but memory isn't what it was)

If it wasn't that it was this one

 

Dripping with 80s perfection, Nick Beggs bass is phenomenal.



Nick Beggs went to the same school that I did but a good few years prior, still remember him coming back to visit the school when they were at their peak, was crazy, girls screaming and crying etc. Linslade Middle School in Leighton Buzzard if interested.

 

The first EP I bought was Human League's "Don't You Want Me"



I hit my teens in the early 1990s, So Young and Animal Nitrate by Suede reminds me of my youth more than any other for some reason, it came out when I was 17.

 

Was 'Don't You Want Me' an EP?

 

I have memories of hearing ‘Life on Mars’ when it was first out, loving it and remembering it because we were on holiday near the Norfolk Broads.

 

This is pedantry I can get with. I think my answer is ‘no’ though it did have ‘Seconds’ as a B side.

However, the 12” single had the single version and the extended dance remix as well as ‘Seconds.’

To answer this you need to define ‘EP.’ I’d normally think of that as a 7” with more than two tracks, but I can’t claim that is definitive. In fact lots of discs claim to be 12” EPs.

 

I had it! A quick Google shows that it was released in Europe only on the 7" format.

 

Aha!

 

I think 12"s effectively superseded EPs, didn't they?

 

Oakey, lets move on. He's only human.

 

Different band m8.

 

Controversially, altough I am a fan, I think the best thing Phil ever did was '(Together in) Electric Dreams'.

 

Perhaps it's a misunderstanding on my part, but I took 7" to be EPs (a single) and 12" to be LPs (album)

 

"Extended play

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Extended_play

An extended play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. Contemporary EPs generally ..."

Bear in mind, anyone can edit wiki.....

 

I think (could be wrong here) that an EP is on a 7" disc but plays at 33rpm? Perhaps @Otter can help by giving his HL track a spin?

 

Probably more down to Moroders than Oakeys input though ?

 

Yeah, maybe. I mean, his vocals were always a bit dodgy, truth be told.

His voice has improved as he has got older (imo).

 

You are correct ......in that you are wrong.

 

Am I? I'm pretty sure the 7" thing is right so how do they squeeze the extra tracks in?

 

Read that wiki page - it explains - basically grooves squeezed closer together....still played at 45rpm though....
"Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the cutting levels and sound compression optionally, enabled them to hold up to 7.5 minutes per side—but still be played by a standard 45 rpm phonograph."

 

Anyone can edit wiki

Seems it could be both:
"Many associate EP’s, regardless of diameter as a 45 r.p.m. record, but many of them are pressed at 33r.p.m."

Source: https://pro-jectusa.com/2021/05/13/what-does-ep-stand-for/

 

Apparently if you play it backwards you get a message from TuT and Keighley agreeing with each other. @Otter can you confirm?