Lifestages

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another poll on a familiar theme. Obviously most here people will not be able to answer all the questions. Use the comments box to i. gasp at what other people say ii. explain yr choices if you like iii. muse generally on the changing place of music in your life iv. suggest more sensible staging points than the tyrrannous 5 year gap I have imposed here...

[Poll #1044379]

Introspective? Moi?

(oh and also I am using "song" to mean "piece of music", because I am lazy. "means a lot" can mean whatever you want it to - different things for different questions I'm guessing)

Comments

oh and v. !!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

PREDICT what you will like in the future :)

Re: oh and v. !!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

man this is HARD. i seem to have a big hole where the music of 1984 should be, that can't be right can it?

Re: oh and v. !!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I did not realise how hard it wd be - I kept thinking of tracks and thinking "oh no year after".

Also I BLATANTLY cheated by not putting Mercury Rev on my 25 one.

Re: oh and v. !!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

when did we stop playing stroke of genius? i kind of want to put it as 30 (2004), but i think it might be a bit wrong...

push pineapple, shake the tree

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

really there's no excuse, i had to look up the hits of '84 as there seemed to be a bit of blank between adam ant and shakin stevens in 81/82, and live aid in 85 in my pop memory AND NOW I KNOW WHY.

nik kershaw and frankie goes to hollywood frankly a distant second and third to the "mighty" black lace...

Re: oh and v. !!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha good call on Cobrastyle!

I seem to have dodged the Agadoo/Chicken Song bullet. I could look up which novelty rcds were big in 1983 but I think I was moar into my dungeons and draggins at that point. My only real music memory I can definitely place as "age 10" is running about playing BRITISH BULLDOGS with Eye Of The Tiger on 1x "ghetto blaster" in Ben D0wsett's back garden.

Attn Braisedbywolves!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

PLEASE tell me yr 15-year old song was some kind of MASHUP.

Re: oh and v. !!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The NARRATIVE probably decrees that I start listening to gentle and soft music instead of crunk and techno, and getting shocked by whatever 2030's equivalent of the Pussycat Dolls is, at which point people will TEASE - but to be honest I can't imagine this happening at all and will actively fight it every step of the way :)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I feel that somehow Daniel Bedingfield and Space Cowboy were robbed by fickle birthdate, otherwise they would have been the 15 box. Also quite a lot of Eminemg and 'Juicy' by Notorious BIG. The Offspring are probably more representative overall, though.

I was doing my GCSEs at home when I was 15 and spent all day, from Scott Mills' early breakfast through to... John Peel I think, whatever was on last thing at night before googly jazz and things, listening to the radio and furiously TAPIN THINGZ*. I carried on this practice until I went to university, due to a combination of no money and no internet leading me to old-skool piracy methods.

...Oh no, I just realised that what I actually should have put in that box was 'Don't Forget Me' by RHCP. In my defense, it is a stunningly achingly beautiful song.

I feel I lied on the RIGHT NOW box as well but god knows what would have written otherwise.

*Apart from the two hours where I had to switch Chris Moyles off.

anyone else

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

find this ridiculously difficult? even just 'not thinking about it too hard' is hard :-(

Re: oh and v. !!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Nicola Roberts' solo career.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The song that means a lot to you in a given year doesn't actually have to come from that year. At least the way I read your question. So I'm not busy trying to remember songs specific to those years.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I had an entire SERIES of stuffz taped off the radio!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah a lot of mine are not from that year.

[jinty]

Me too. Am aiming for general flavour of around that time.

Re: anyone else

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i blame the port...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The poll misses my big taped off the radio phase by a year or so - I had a tape with New Order's "True Faith" and (less credibly) Hue And Cry's "Labour Of Love" on it which I played endlessly.

Actually 15 was when I taped John Peel's Festive Fifty for the first time and STUDIED it incessantly. But I still listened moar to the Smiths.

Re: anyone else

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

No, I'm finding this awfully difficult as well. The only way I can see it being an easier was if I had kept a diary. As it is, I have a broad idea of what I was listening to, but specific songs that meant a lot, no.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That would be even harder to remember though!

Re: anyone else

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I found it quite easy! I went by years and when things were released...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The final question was difficult. Obviously music hugely important to me now - my hobby is writing about it, I make money doing the same, my social network is rooted in it - but I'd be lying if I put anything other than "18-19" as the answer: half a year of speaking to almost nobody and listening incessantly to it, half a year of talking non-stop to new friends about it. What I like and don't like has never seemed quite as frighteningly, suffocatingly important to me as then.

Re: anyone else

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Release date is a rubbish guide: you might not have even heard it that year.

Re: anyone else

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I remember what I bought at the time...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It is bloody brilliant rediscovering radio tapes. If marginally disturbing in a 'oh my god I've taped Staind three times in a row what was wrong with me?' way.

I feel it is a sad loss for Mp3 age kids to not have to listen to a load of old tosh in order to pirate their songs. Makes 'em more valuable etc. etc. etc. young people of today I don't know etc.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

>> A song that meant a lot to me when I was 10:
> Apache - the Shadows

Because the coolest things in my parents record collection were Shadows and Beatles LPs, and Shadows tunes were easier to learn when you're 10.

>> A song that meant a lot to me when I was 15:
> Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Because I became much better at the guitar and we used to play this in our band at the time.

>> A song that meant a lot to me when I was 20:
> Groove is in the Heart - Deee-Lite

Because it's one of the songs I used to dance to at university parties.

>> A song that meant a lot to me when I was 25:
> Cosmic Debris - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Because by this point I'd watched the BBC2 FZ documentary and started getting into his musics, which are widely varying in style and generally quite interesting.

>> A song that meant a lot to me when I was 30:
> Ray of Light - Madonna

Because it reminds me of moving to London and sharing an office with a couple of guys.

>> A song that meant a lot to me when I was 35:
> Take This Job And Shove It - Dead Kennedys

Because I was playing DKs all day long on my last day when I got made redundant.

>> A song that means a lot to me now:
> Fvck Was I - Jenny Owen Youngs

Because it's a cool song by an artist I found when she was supporting Aimee Mann.