The first song you remember listening to...

[Spexvet]

(Queen was an amazing group. Never was another before or after like them.)

Agree!

The early to mid-eighties new wave is my personal favorite, though.

In no particular order:
Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Devo, B-52s, The Police, The Clash...

[Lynne]

[QUOTE=drk](Queen was an amazing group. Never was another before or after like them.)

Truly, can anything rival the 60's for music? Diverse as can be, and sophisticated. The 70's were way too hard-rock-sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll to be considered the best decade. Rock and roll was too nacent in the '50's, and while the music was fun, it was unsophtisticated.

:) Yup, late fifties, early 60's, definitely the best! My kids, aged 29, know all those songs, cos they grew up to me playing the Golden Oldies, either on tape or radio..... Drain pipe trousers anyone? Duck tail hairdo? Beehive for the girls, with impossible stilleto heels, wide tight belts, full skirts..... Here I go, showing my age again.....;)

Now I listen to golden oldies, and NPR for some classical, the jazz that my sons like, esp. Jane Monheit, and gospe, and Elvis, Elvis and Elvis

[Bev Heishman]

Sometime in the mid 60's...Herman's Hermits.....Henry VIII after that the Monkees...Pleasant Valley Sunday's, Grassroots and Jefferson Airplane.

[Mikef]

I remember playing the Beach Boys quite a bit.

I had to pick from music my parents bought. Other than that they had Perry Como and big bad stuff.

The first record I bought was Kiss "Love Gun"

[jediron1]

drk
(Queen was an amazing group. Never was another before or after like them.)


Really you thought Queen was an amazing Group? Ok to each his own I guess!

Can't remember my first song, there were way too many, but it would've been late 60's: Maybe "Hey, There, Georgie Girl". I can remember when Jim Morrison would sing "Light My Fire" on the AM radio. Momma's and Pappa's, man, they were underrated. All that '60's hippie stuff.



Truly, can anything rival the 60's for music? Diverse as can be, and sophisticated. The 70's were way too hard-rock-sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll to be considered the best decade. Rock and roll was too nacent in the '50's, and while the music was fun, it was unsophtisticated.

The early to mid-eighties new wave is my personal favorite, though.[/QUOTE]

"The 70's were way too hard-rock-sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll"
Did you forget the 1969 festival at Altamont or Woodstock, talk about sex, drugs and rock and roll that is where it started almost. Or Monterey Pop festival in 1967 where Jimi lite his guitar on fire!

[Monkeysee]

"Hey Hey we're the Monkees, and people say we monkey around... but we're to busy singin', to bring anybody down...."

seriously, that's the first music I remember listening back in the late sixties. I never missed the show, and my friend had their record and I remember listening to it over and over on one of those portable record players..
The first records I remember having were The Fifth Dimensions Greatest Hits and those goofy K-tel albums (Get it On!, Dynamite!) and a whole bunch of 45's (still have a few kicking around. (Edgar Winters "Frankenstein" is a prized possession-I remember having it specially ordered and waiting for weeks for the record store to get it in for me)...