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Love Me Do - The Beatles
Come Together - The Beatles

These songs span my teenage years and their career.

TUESDAY

Ah, yes! The teenage years. Thank God I don't have to go through all that again!

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This was when I started buying LPs. Wings, Elton John, Queen, (when they were still good), Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull...


'Bourée' - Jethro Tull

'Flick of the Wrist' - Queen

'The Bitch is Back' - Elton John

'Gimme Three Steps' - Lynyrd Skynyrd

'Venus and Mars/Rock Show' - Paul McCartney & Wings

1976 ... 15 years of age and impressionable ... hearing 'Anarchy for the UK' for the first time (played on Bobby Gillespie's ghetto blaster at the back of the bus on the way to King's Park School), and being completely blown away by the anger and energy that came flooding my way. It certainly changed our lives in many respects, and Bobby's for sure!

"The back ay the bus, they cannae sing..."


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Sylvia - Focus
She's gone - Hall and Oates
Saturday nite - Earth Wind and Fire
The boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
Back in the night - Dr Feelgood
My generation - the Who
(The angels wanna wear my)red shoes - Elvis Costello
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
Free - Deniece Williams
Thunder Road - Springsteen

Joe
Linlithgow

And how could I forget: Misty blue - Dorothy Moore

J
L

This is an oft repeated them and I think if you cast back a few threads you will see that in my case Bowie was the absolute soundtrack to my youth and teenage years. His music changed almost in time with the changes I was going through as well, he created a series of outstanding albums from IMHO 1968 through to 1980, so from when I was 4 to 16 or thereabouts. Maybe 17. He then had a smattering of good singles, some awful albums and in his latter period some great work again.

His records are the soundtrack to my life, I cannot think of any major event in my life that does not have Bowie as the musical backdrop. I have every record he ever made, including as far as I can tell every collaboration and soundtrack appearance, obscure appearances, you name it.

But.....when I think of him I think of three things:

A summer staying with my Granny. I had three tapes. The Space Oddity tape, Stage and Low.

A trip on ss Uganda where I must have annoyed everyone putting on Boys Keep Swinging on the Jukebox, wonder if Miss Fillyouarky was on that trip....

The Ashes To Ashes single and my wee pal and I trying to get all four of the stamp inserts in the singles from our local Woolies.

Great memories.

Bowie - anything.

My teenage years were spent in the late 60's and early seventies - a period much derided because it is synonymous with prog - but much else was happening.Conversely, the list of things below my pals and myself were into is testament to the quality of the music going on around us and which we justifiably thought fantastic. Matter of fact,if anything, we were privileged.

1968:

Martha My Dear - The Beatles (White Album)
Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream (Wheels Of Fire)
Everlasting Love - the Love Affair

1969
I Talk To the Wind - King Crimson (In The Court Of the Crimson King - I bought it of for the cover, and fell in love with it)

Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Good Times,Bad Times - Led Zeppelin - (Led Zeppelin)
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Tickets To Waterfalls - Jack Bruce (Songs For A Tailor)
Never Comes The Day - The Moody Blues - (On The Threshold Of A Dream)
Behind A Painted Smile - The Islay Brothers (from the world's best ever compilation album- Motown Chartbusters Vol 3)
Badge - Cream - (Goodbye Cream)
The Stomp - Ten Years After - (Schush)

1970
Keep The Customers Satisfied - Simon & Garfunkel (Bridge Over Troubled Water)
Don't Say You Love Me - Free (Fire & Water)
When You Dance - Neil Young (After The Goldrush)
What Is Life - George Harrison (All Things Must Pass)
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

1971

Gimme Some Truth - John Lennon (Imagine)
Reason To Believe - Rod Stewart (Every Picture Tells A Story)
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye - (What's Goin' On)
Hot Love - T Rex
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
My Wife - The Who - Who's Next
Double Barrel - Dave & Ansel Collins
Starship Trooper - Yes (The Yes Album)
Meet Me On The Corner - Lindisfarne - (Fog On The Tyne)

1972

Moonage Daydream - David Bowie - (Ziggy Stardust)
Rip This Joint - The Rolling Stones - (Exile On Main Street)
Dirty Work - Steely Dan -(Can't Buy A Thrill)
I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren - (Something/Anything)
Supper's Ready - Genesis - (Foxtrot)
Perfect Day - Lou Reed - (Transformer)

1973

Do The Strand - Roxy Music - (For Your Pleasure)
Let Me Roll It- Paul McCartney (Band On The Run)
Sylvia - Focus - (Focus 3?)
Us And Them - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

1974

For A Dancer - Jackson Browne - (Late For The Sky)
Wall Street Shuffle - 10CC - (Sheet Music)
Help Me - Joni Mitchell - (Court & Spark)
You Got It - Average White Band (Average White Band)
Midnight At The Oasis -Maria Muldaur
Rock Your Baby - George (and Gwen?) McCrae

that'll do,

regardez youse

henri

fascinating list, Henri, particularly as I would second pretty much all your 60s songs - and then diverge completely for the 70s. Wonder how that happened?
Well anyway, how on earth do you sum up the teenage years in one song? A time of life choreographed to an endless stream of music from Luxembourg, radio 1, Top of the Pops, LPs listened to in friends' houses, LPs bought with Saturday/summer job money, jukeboxes in cafes and pubs - impossible task

Motown obsession

Get ready - the Temptations

radio 1

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Alan Freeman's Saturday rock show

Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer

XL cafe jukebox

Too Busy Thinking About my Baby - Marvin Gaye

Kettledrum jukebox

The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann

TOTP

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

Paddleboat jukebox

Bellbottom Blues - Eric Clapton

friend's house

Empty Rooms - John Mayall

borrowed LP

Here they Come - Ten Years After

le disco, la Baule

Don't let me Down - the Beatles


and on and on

Teenage Years

For most of my life I've been Hooked On Hook. This was No.1 in the charts when I was 13.

When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

:o)

My teenage years began in Nov 74 and ended in Nov 81. During that time I would earn street cred amongst my school classmates as the one who would nip home tues lunchtimes and write down the new chart and deliver it to my classmates in the afternoon. We had four record shops in Airdrie, Menzies, Boots, Woolies and Mills* and every week I would use pocket money to buy 3 or 4 ex chart singles from the 35p box. Much cheaper than current chart singles. The downside was wanting a song I Loved to drop out the chart so I could buy it. My singles collection grew rapidly until I was raiding Fine Fare Supermarket* for the right size of cardboard boxes to house them all. They were my ticket to a few teenage parties at the time. And then came the coloured vinyls, the laser etches, the picture discs and shock horror the weird and wonderful shaped singles that wouldn't fit neatly into my alphabetically arranged boxes. Albums were something you bought from birthday and record tokens and latterly from student grants.

I could list a hundred reasons for a hundred different songs but I'm gonna pick one I've never heard on the tranny before. I first heard it sung at a Scout Camp by a guy with a guitar around 1975 and managed to get a tape copy of it. So many of my mates got to know that song through that tape until tapes of tapes were getting made and the quality got worse and worse. From that scout camp in 1975 to a drunken student all night party in the sand dunes at Nairn in July 1981 that song got laldy.
I never actually owned it on vinyl till my 20's.

*other ex chart record shops and supermarkets were available. Just not in Airdrie.

RIP Teena Marie.

Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra

Great lists Joe and Gaie.
Great stories Pablo, Norrie and Henri.

I'm going down the 'choose one year' route.

Summer of 76. Fourteen going on fifteen and the best summer ever.

Fool to Cry – Rolling Stones
Love Hangover – Diana Ross
Silly Love Songs – Wings
Heart on my Sleeve – Gallagher and Lyle
Mystery Song – Status Quo

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And the hottest

Yuletide felicitations,blogetariat!My early teenage years were spent listening to Radio Luxembourg and watching Ready Steady Go,Jukebox Jury and Thank your Lucky Stars.Always remember on Luxembourg some guy called Horace Bachelor spelling out Keynsham,thats K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M!(You'd have to have been around then to know what I'm on about!)There's a Bonzo Dog Do Da Band album of the same name!First lps were Bob Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home" and like Henri a great Motown compilation called "Hitsville USA"with really early(US) hits like Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts"and the Temptations"The Way You Do the Things You Do".Would be great to hear any of these two or Dylan's"Love minus Zero"Cheers, Willie Bartke

Billy Bragg -- "The Saturday Boy"

I was 15 when I first heard that one. I feel like my life was never quite the same again after hearing it -- it's so funny, sad, and true. All these years later, it's amazing being in the crowd at his shows when Billy does this one, with everybody there singing along and reliving the adolescent traumas that made them fall in love with this song in the first place.

Rich in North Carolina

#9 gaie's list

As a teenager in 1965 I would support "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan as my most memorable song- at the time it stood out because of the amazing organ sound - and it lasted around six minutes on the juke box.

I still think it's stunning every time I hear it

I have to agree most of the blog were teenagers at a much more musically interesting time than myself (and possibly most people younger than me, too). Which doesn't mean I don't look back on 80's music with some affection. Towards the end of that era I gave up on "popular" music. Call it a musical hiatus or hibernation - I was no longer feeding off my siblings' tastes and retreated into a more backwards-looking appreciation of other styles and eras. But that's for another night. Bated breath all round, I'm sure.............

Songs from my teens - some special, others just memorable.
1982
Icehouse Hey Little Girl
(My sister loved this - so did I)
1983
Down Under Men At Work
(A very dear friend who bought this for my 14th. RIP, Sarah)
1984
Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax
(After It's Raining Men, my second dance with future husband. Red faces all round. My Christmases had all come at once. ;o))
1985
Simple Minds Don't You Forget About Me
Don Henley The Boys of Summer
1986
Robert Palmer Addicted To Love
Cameo Word Up
1987
Crowded House Don't Dream It's Over
1988
S Express Theme from S'Express

Aye, that's more than enough of that.

#9 and #19,Got to go with Dylan's finest moment,girls.I remember you had to "flip"the 45 to hear part 2!Al Kooper played the organ on that one if I remember.Dylan looked so weird then with his corkscrew hair,wraparound shades and pointy boots.These days he looks and sounds like Gonzo from the Muppets,except Gonzo's a better singer!Cheers,Willie Bartke

1979 was the year when I came of age musically. My favourite album was 'Fear of Music' so please play:

Talking Heads - 'Life During Wartime'

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Interesting your should mention Gonzo, Willie: Smiffy bought her dad a hat for Xmas and when he put it on, he turned into the sax player in the Muppet band.

But I can't remember his name, so no longer know what to call my de facto father in law? He's staying with us, so I'd kinda like to be settled on the subject because it's bugging the hell out of me. I thought it was Floyd, but I think he's the guitarist?

regardez vous

henri

Zoot, man

Great memories, I've picked one from each of my teenage years. The first and last are from the very first and last charts of those years. Obviously too much time on my hands, what with the holidays!

20th Century Boy - T-Rex, 73
Pinball - Brian Protheroe, 74
Golden Years - David Bowie, 75
Young Hearts Run Free -Candi Staton, 76
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel, 77
Picture This - Blondie, 78
Four Strong Winds - Neil Young, 79
Another Nail In My Heart - Squeeze, 80

Paul from Ayr

Linda Lewis - 'It's In His Kiss'
Peter Frampton - 'Show Me The Way'
Ramones - 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker'
Thirld World - 'Now that we've found love'
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - 'What A Waste'
Siouxsie and the Banshees - 'Spellbound'
Elvin Bishop - 'Fooled Around and Fell In Love'

Teenage kicks...

'76 to '82 saw Punk, New Wave, oh, aye & a MOD revival, Ska, Psychobilly & New Romantics.

Blessed? that's matter of opinion!

Here's my highlights...

1976

Roadrunner ~ T. Modern Lovers
Let's Dance ~ Ramones

1977

Hanging Around ~ T. Stranglers
What's My Name ~ T. Clash
Pulled Up ~ Talking Heads
"Heroes" ~ David Bowie
Moribund the Burgermeister ~ Peter Gabriel
Blackmail Man ~ Ian Dury

1978

Neon Lights ~ Kraftwerk
Picture This ~ Blondie
Pump It Up ~ Elvis Costello
David Watts ~ T. Jam
Gary Glimore's Eyes ~ T. Adverts
Public Image ~ Public Image
Shot By Both Sides ~ Magazine
Satisfaction ~ DEVO
Identity ~ X-Ray Spex
Metal Postcard (Mittageisen) ~ Siouxsie & the Banshees

1979

Planet Claire ~ B52's
No Xmas for John Quays ~ T. Fall
Life During Wartime ~ Talking Heads
Shadowplay ~ Joy Division
True Confessions ~ T. Undertones
Quiet Life ~ Japan
I'm Not Down ~ T. Clash
Smash it Up ~ T. Damned
A Message To You Rudy ~ T. Specials

1980

Kill the Poor ~ Dead Kennedys
I Was A Teenage Werewolf ~ T. Cramps
Biko ~ Peter Gabriel
A Forest ~ T. Cure
Pretty Green ~ T. Jam


1981

Fascist Groove Thang ~ Heaven 17
Our Lips Are Sealed ~ T. GoGo's
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ~ Soft Cell
Joan Of Arc ~ O M D
Preaching The Blues ~ T. Gun Club


1982

Poison Arrow ~ ABC
The Message ~ Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Someone, Somewhere In Summertime ~ Simple Minds
Rip It Up ~ Orange Juice
Arrogance Gave Him Up ~ T. Associates

....eclectic eccentricity!

Henri, you'll be interested to know that that is the Hairy Cornflake in the frog suit.

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Whurr's the Plastic Chicken?

#29

yes, well that just about sums it up: