• Captain Janeway@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    Blue - Eiffel 65. I was ~6 when I discovered it. My poor mother had to listen to that on repeat. I ended up growing up with severe depression. I guess I really am blue.

    • TehBamski@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      Don’t feel too bad. I’m certain that at least 100 million mothers had to hear that song on repeat, from across the world. It was HUGE amongst the kids at my school in the US.

  • Subverb@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    I liked rock sort of “meh” when I was a kid, being born in 1964 a lot of it was old hippie stuff that never clicked with me like Zeppelin.

    Then one day I was playing D&D at a friend’s house and he played Mongoloid by DEVO. Holy shit I lost my mind. There was music out there that actually spoke to me!

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
    2·
    7 months ago

    This is letting my inner basic bitch out, but Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls. Still have a soft spot for that song to this day, right alongside Semisonic’s Closing Time.

  • gordon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Idk which was first, but it was either blue ba dee or walkin on the sun. Both were absolute bangers to me as a kid.

  • Acamon@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    Take On Me by A-Ha, when I was four I use to beg my mom to give my change for the jukebox every time we went to the local cafe, then proceed to dance about to it, week after week.

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    Feel Good Inc.

    When it came out, I was a young teen who had never heard anything quite like it before. Alt-rock meets hip-hop? I don’t feel like I’m alone in that

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Baby got back by sir mixalot.

    Made all the more favorite by the fact that I listened to it in the living room, on cassette tape, and my grandmother marched over, took it out, and chastised me for listening to such filth.

    Then broke hte tape with her big wooden spoon that she had on the wall.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      0·
      7 months ago

      I like big spoons and I cannot lie  
      Other grandmothers can’t deny  
      That when the kid comes in with a tape full of sin
      It gets *crushed*, want to grind up dust

      Cause you heard that the MC cussed  
      On the wall that the spoon is sharin’  
      With the room where the speakers was blarin’

      Oh darling, can’t let you hear that  
      Can’t even let you near that

      My bridge club tried to warn me  
      But that tape you got made me so onery

      Oh little munchkin  
      Do you wanna play connect four once again?

      Well lookie, here lookie  
      Does my dearie want another cookie?

      I’ve seen you napping  
      To hell with that rapping

      This house is neat, sweet  
      So shoes off and then wipe your feet

      I’m tired of MTV

      Saying hip hop is for Gs

      Take the average Gran-Gran and ask her that

      Do the little ones need that rap?

      So Hilda (hello!), Matilda (hello!)   Have grandsons found that smut? (Heavens no!)

      Tell them to sit down, put milk in a cup

      I think Grandma’s still got those buttercups

      “Mixtape” got whacked! (Heavy spoon and a plastic shell case)

      “Mixtape” got whacked! (Heavy spoon and a plastic shell case)

      …

      Unfortunately Im out of time and have to go meet a friend.

      I’d like to save this and finish it later but I’m too sleep deprived to remember.

      At some point I need to work in the line:

      Cause you know that Gran-Gran mix a lot

      And got that spoon swing down

      “Mixtape” got whacked!