FabSwingers.com forum: Formative music

By *hePervertedPlumber OP Man
4 weeks ago

Edinburgh

What Artist/Song/Album holds core memories for you of your formative years?

I remember just leaving school, getting into my apprenticeship and dating the hottest girl I knew. All with "Infinity on high" by Fall Out Boy as a soundtrack for the whole experience. Can't listen to that album without feeling the old reminiscint ache in the chest!

Ahh, the good old days 👴🏻

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By *atgirl and RobinCouple
4 weeks ago

Durham

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers. First record I ever owned when I was a kid and it got played to death

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
4 weeks ago

1313 Mockingbird Lane…

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
4 weeks ago

1313 Mockingbird Lane…

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
4 weeks ago

1313 Mockingbird Lane…

SMOOTH CRIMINAL BY MICHAEL JACKSON

First album I bought.

I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE BY MEATLOAF

The looong commute to my far away secondary school.

STEAL MY SUNSHINE BY LEN

Sixth Form college.

CRUSH BY JENNIFER PAGE

My first kiss.

MY DESIRE(Dreemhouse Mix) BY AMIRA

My clubbing days.

DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT BY TOPLOADER

My first love

PET SEMATARY BY PLAIN WHITE T’s

Halloweens with my children.

WASN'T EXPECTING THAT BY JAMIE LAWSON

Starting my own business

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By *gf301Man
4 weeks ago

canterbury

I think it was ELO... I remember studying the gatefold sleeve of "Out of the blue".

The power of art and music.

Despite never being able to play a note, the love of music is a lifelong passion.

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By *SCouple81Couple
4 weeks ago

Between Edinburgh and Scottish Borders

The Exploited - Punk's not dead

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By *he OpalsnakeMan
4 weeks ago

Thirsk

"The Exploited - Punk's not dead"

Noice!!! 🤟🤪

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By *reachersdaughterWoman
4 weeks ago

Someplace

Lana Del Rey

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

As a 5 year old, my older siblings had the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture show. I knew all the words. Look at me now. 😏🌈

At school...

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

A Broken Frame, Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward - by Depeche Mode

Rio by Duran Duran

At uni...

Black Celebration, Violator by Depeche Mode

Phantasmagoria by The Damned

First and Last and Always by The Sisters of Mercy

God's Own Medicine by The Mission

Dead Can Dance, Garden of the Arcane Delights, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, Spleen and Ideal, The Serpent's Egg, Aion, Into the Labyrinth, Toward the Within - all by Dead Can Dance

💕😊

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
4 weeks ago

Basingstoke

Dookie by Green Day.

Totally relived my entire early 20s last year when I saw them play it out in full 🤎

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By *ade crossTV/TS
4 weeks ago

chiselhurst

A few. Iron Maiden Run to the Hills

ACDC Highway to Hell

Lots of Richie Blackmores Rainbow

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By *uddy laneMan
4 weeks ago

dudley

Listening to led zeppelin songs around 13, which got me into reading Tolkien and what an adventure.

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By *zeroMan
4 weeks ago

Glasgow

Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory and Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish was the gateway to listening to heavier music.

I know some people look back at "nu metal" and the style at the time and cringe but I always had good memories. Got to see both of them live and it made 12 year old me very happy.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Transsexual Transylvania

"Listening to led zeppelin songs around 13, which got me into reading Tolkien and what an adventure.

Isn't that funny - reading Tolkien got me into Led Zeppelin. 😂

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By *issy_named_cTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Edinburgh

"Lana Del Rey"

I can't for the life of me understand her appeal.

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By *issy_named_cTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Edinburgh

Formative years was choral and classical music.

Teen years was REM / Eric Clapton

Early Phase of Clubbing was Banging Techno from Detroit - Claude Young / Derrick May / Kevin Saunderson

Later clubbing was Masters at Work & all at Southport particularly the Jazz Room

Jazz Funk of Donald Byrd / Azymuth

And the Deep Funk pioneered by Keb Darge

Whilst Also Fela Kuti

Then a deep dive into old Soul & the more well-known Northern Tracks

& Mainly now into Disco & Funk

Never a single artist - with the absolutly untouchable and unparalleled Terry Callier excepted.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
4 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Meatloaf Bat out of hell 1 and 2

Jim Steinmam Bad for goo

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By *he Old School RockersCouple
4 weeks ago

Gloucester

Early stuff included Stiff Little Fingers, Blondie, Toyah, The Specials, then Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Dio, Deep Purple, before getting into industrial music like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM.

Also had a grebo phase, loving PWEI, Carter USM, Ned's Atomic Dustbin. (Male half)

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By *layfull pairingCouple
4 weeks ago

Bristol

Specials, Sex pistols, Angelic Upstarts, Stiff little fingers, the Clash...... Still listen to it all today and waaaaay better than all the horrid noises the kids listen to now....

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By *uskymotoMan
4 weeks ago

Cumbria

Bon Jovi, slippery when wet

Def Leppard, Hysteria

Guns n roses, appetite for destruction

Van Halen, 1984

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
4 weeks ago

belfast

"Specials, Sex pistols, Angelic Upstarts, Stiff little fingers, the Clash...... Still listen to it all today and waaaaay better than all the horrid noises the kids listen to now.... "

Plenty of good punk about today.

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
4 weeks ago

belfast

The meteors - wrecking crew

Clash - should I stay or should I go

Slf - alternative Ulster

Secret affair - time for action

The chords - British way of life

Also king kurt - ooh wallah wallah album.

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By *hechonkyduoCouple
4 weeks ago

Café Leblanc, Stourbridge

"Specials, Sex pistols, Angelic Upstarts, Stiff little fingers, the Clash...... Still listen to it all today and waaaaay better than all the horrid noises the kids listen to now....

Plenty of good punk about today. "

Dead on. There's some phenomenal punk about today.

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By *my-blackTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Poole

"Listening to led zeppelin songs around 13, which got me into reading Tolkien and what an adventure.

Isn't that funny - reading Tolkien got me into Led Zeppelin. 😂"

Well I have listened to Zeppelin since early teens as well as devouring Tolkien but I don't think one led onto another.

Nearest might have been finding Rush - Rivendell and thinking that mixing Tolkien (and myth/fantasy in general) with a decent rock band was amazing.

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
4 weeks ago

belfast

"Specials, Sex pistols, Angelic Upstarts, Stiff little fingers, the Clash...... Still listen to it all today and waaaaay better than all the horrid noises the kids listen to now....

Plenty of good punk about today.

Dead on. There's some phenomenal punk about today."

If you're into oi it's probably as good, if not better than ever if you ignore pretend oi bands.

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By *artfordBlokeMan
4 weeks ago

Dartford

Fire by Arthur Brown, saw it on sounds of the 60s, the flaming helmet video, when I was about ten and it blew my mind. I'd buy a record of him singing his shopping list tbh. Saw him live and met him 10 years ago and he was just the nicest, coolest bloke.

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