Songs That Typify Your Era
August 9th 2009 22:23
From the doo-whoop hits through to the Beatles, the Stones, hippy folk and the early 70's ballads to power pop, disco, 80 new wave or todays more contemporary sound - each era, each generation have songs which help identify their place on music's genealogical calendar.
So whether Skyhooks 'Living in the 70s' means something to you or The Bangles "Manic Monday" is more your go - which song or songs best pay homage to your formative years.
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Comment by Natalina
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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I remember hearing that Mike and Mechanics song for the first time at the beach and thinking the same thing.
As for Walking on Sunshine (was that Katrina and the Waves?) that really was pop music dosed up on red fizzy drink hey!
Good times . . .
Comment by bookgirl
as a primary kid - Sherbet's Howzat and Abba's Mamma Mia and Fernando
as a younger high school kid - all the New Romantics - Ant Music, Simple Minds' Chant No 1, and Duran Duran's 'Planet Earth'
as an older high school kid - Prince's 1999 and Madonna's Holiday
uni days - lots and lots of aussie music - Hunters and Collectors' Throw Your Arms Around Me, The Clouds' Anthem and Midnight Oil's Beds are Burning. Not to mention Violent Femme's Blister in the Sun
all good stuff. i love the way you can hear a song from your past and you are instantly taken back to a time and place.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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What an eclectic mix - but some nice choices all the same.
Have to be honest though and say that Prince never - ever did much for me.
Big fan of the Hunters and the Oils though. Thank goodness that the regulatatory authorities made it LAW in the early 80's that a certain amount of local music content had to be played on all Australian radio stations - otherwise we may never have had the opportunity to discover everyone from Australian Crawl through to Cold Chisel.
Can't recall the name they give to the phenomona that signals the whole trans-time juxtoposition - but it's a wonderful sensation isn't it!
Here's to memories . . .