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What Did Music Sound Like When You Were A Teenager?

Most of it was terrible but there are a small number of songs that have stuck with me.




And by special request of Forest Cat... a Rednex track!

 
crewlucaa_ said:
I always hated this song and the stupid dance that went with it. Another one that haunted my teenage years. Not sure if this was really circulated in the mainstream tho or if it was more just a niche song in urban areas. I also hated the Cha Cha Slide!!!



I loved this song growing up but I'm pretty sick of it now. Although I can still appreciate that it's a good song.



I think every black and Hispanic girl my age has twerked and "dropped it" to this song at some point in their teenage and young adult lives. Most definitely white girls too.
This is probably one of the reasons ass music has gone mainstream lmao



Any other millenials remember this song? I think I had it on a Radio Disney CD lol. I couldn't remember if it was M2M or Play that sang it. It's M2M!


This is from when I was in college. I feel old as hell lol. Many people have said that this song makes them think of me and my personality.
When I was a DJ at a local club, this is one of the first songs I ever included in one of my sets. Female DJs were super uncommon in the 2010s and I had to prove my skills against several men in order to be a DJ and not get relegated to being a "sexy" bartender lol. We were popularly referred to as "D-Janes" for a while :confused: I think EDM mixing and club residency has gotten more inclusive since then but it is still largely male-dominated. I always had to hold my own against male drummers too!

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I'm so surprised to see M2M here, Marit Larsen and Marion Raven. I have met those two girls. :) They are from Lørenskog, where I was born.
 
Forest Cat said:
I'm so surprised to see M2M here, Marit Larsen and Marion Raven. I have met those two girls. :) They are from Lørenskog, where I was born.
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That is amazing!! I didn't realize they were Norwegian! I figured they weren't American though.
I liked more of their songs but I can't remember the names of them off the top of my head. I really liked A*Teens and Vengaboys too.
 
crewlucaa_ said:
That is amazing!! I didn't realize they were Norwegian! I figured they weren't American though.
I liked more of their songs but I can't remember the names of them off the top of my head. I really liked A*Teens and Vengaboys too.
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Here's Marion Raven listening to a new version of one of her songs, "Girl In Your Dreams". It's a little funny because her song is sad and glum. But this guy kept the lyrics and made the song more upbeat and fun. :) Very silly.

 
I was already an adult for most of the 2010s, so idk if this counts, but there were a lot of memorable songs from my college days, for better or for worse lol

Also, don't mind my opinions on these songs, I'm mostly trying to present this humorously.

This song became cringe after the first few thousand times I heard it, ugh
I initially thought this song was about a suicide attempt, which obviously turned me off from it (It's not.)


Ok, this one I honestly liked, and this was the first Dubstep song I ever heard and I was amazed lol


I hate, hate, HATE this song and I think it's a disgrace to the actually good music of this era, but it *is* iconic so I kinda have to include it.



I don't want to hate on Rihanna but this is probably her worst song of all time, and possibly the worst song of the 2010s. But kind of amusing.



Maybe one of the best songs of that decade. I'll leave it at that.

 
Just as the 90s was about to end, Sandstorm happened. I still remember a girl saying "you have to hear this!" and playing Sandstorm. Then I heard nothing but Sandstorm for 3 months. Just like Cotton Eye Joe, it was everywhere. Then it turned into a meme years later. This has to be the most famous Finnish tune ever.


And Freestyler actually happened at the same time, also from Finland. Finland was suddenly the epicenter of electronic music. It was nothing but Sandstorm and Freestyler for months. It was exhausting. 136 beats a minute takes its toll.

 
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Forest Cat said:
Just as the 90s was about to end, Sandstorm happened. I still remember a girl saying "you have to hear this!" and playing Sandstorm. Then I heard nothing but Sandstorm for 3 months. Just like Cotton Eye Joe, it was everywhere. Then it turned into a meme years later. This has to be the most famous Finnish tune ever.

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Sandstorm is, unironically, one of my favorites.
 
I had no idea Freestyler was Finnish too!
Apparently I have always loved Scandinavian music.

And I have no idea why I have such vivid memories of these two songs lol. I was very young at the time, I think I was in kindergarten or first grade when Sandstorm came out! Sandstorm obviously stood out to me tho because I had it on a CD (I think) and later on the first gen iPod, and it’s been in my iTunes library ever since. Over 20 years.

Before I had Sandstorm I had The Wiggles on a cassette tape lol
 
Had a few tapes as a kid - this was a standout tune from my childhood. I didn't rediscover the Jungle genre for about 7 years after first hearing this song:


This is the first CD I ever owned, it came with the Snes game Killer Instinct and was each levels song. This song stood out for me:


First album I owned was this. A true masterpiece if I'm honest, and one of the few albums I owned where each song ended and merged into the next - so it was like a continuous mix:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIuADMrDKIZS3L-dMF8-cVH1x4G3o9_u

There was a girl I liked at school but never spoke to. One of her art projects was a chicken mesh sculpture of a head and torso, it had a mowhawk and war a leather biker jacket with lots of band name patches sewn into it. So I got listening to Nirvana and Green Day and such like.

Still in my teens, and shortly before college I randomly bought a WWF soundtrack in Woolworths. I wasn't a fan of wrestling, but I looked and noticed a few names of bands I'd heard of but never listened to. One of which was Slayer, and then I bought the album it was from - quite a spicy number. My mum made the mistake of randomly picking up and reading the lyrics booklet and said it was "evil"


Oddly enough, the classroom bully ended up giving me a few CD's. One he let me borrow to rip, and from the moment I heard the first proper (2nd) song - I was like "oh hell yes"


Finally, a band I've been a huge fan of ever since I heard a song on the PC/3DO version of the game Road Rash - the band Therapy?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtte6imej8LDbGymc9-nHQ7hTOGzoQX9p

That about does it. I moved away from being a metal head in my teens and in my early 20's I started getting into the dirty rave shizznit, and all the weird and wonderful underground electronic genres.

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Pink Floyd, Beatles, Rolling Stones, are a few. Maybe I am a bit older than the average member here.
 
Who alive in 1962 can't remember the first music from the British Invasion. Walking down the street a girl i knew breathlessly flagged me down to come in and listen to Telstar from The Tornados. I was transfixed and still like hearing it by groups like Los Straightjackets.

But I mainly listened to Dylan and Motown. I used to go to the Fox Theater in Detroit for the Motown Revue. What fantastic times. Kids from the suburbs never wanted to come with me.

Mid '60s were also great for R&B. Here's Otis Redding with Mr Pitiful.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Alo7U0S_VPU

And, of course.

My teens and the '60s closed out for me, January 1970 with American Woman.

Though, I think David Byrne expanded on the Guess Who's sentiments with Miss America more recently.
 
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This is what I watched on TV. Sky TV. Many channels. Many hours. Many acts.
MTV
Kerrang
Music Videos
Of course, flipping through channels, (usually late at night.) I would occasionally find stuff like this:
 
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