51 reads, and no one has any thoughts on this? That part of my life meant a lot to me. I suppose what happens in our teens is hugely formative and important to us all.

When I was younger I remember associating different guys with different songs.

To this day when I hear Rod Stewart's "Tonights the Night" I think of A...

Then there was Neil Diamond's "Long Fellow Serenade" for G... who was very tall!

Sadly, time has a habit of passing -and they're old men now!

(Since the Winter Olympics I'll forever associate K D Lang with all things Canadian.) 

Oh No! KD Lang is a terrible representation of Canada! May I suggest Sarah McLachlan or Neil Young instead!

Yes, songs get imprinted with memories and feelings. I have a song for just about every stage of my life, sometimes even ringing back smells, the smell of my grandmother, or of the Strassenbahn station in Hannover. In fact, I have a three tape set of my life so far up to the age of 21. Time to make the next installment!

While not that much of a KD Lang fan, I have to ask why you think her a bad representative for our dear land.

I've allways disliked her. She's just not my thing at all!

I have a lot of songs (and some smells) associated with my teen years.  When I hear 'Everything I do" by Bryan Adams, I'm in a jeep on the highway in the summer while visiting a friend at his cottage.  When I hear "Wild World" by Cat Stevens, I'm on the Latin Conference Trip, sitting on a bus with friends on our way to Kingston.  Life was so intense back then...everything was extreme.  I don't know how I ever had the energy to feel so much!  I also found that the Twilight series brought a lot of those old feelings back.  Stephenie Meyer perfectly captures how it feels to be a teenaged girl experiencing obsessive love.

Totally! And she's the same age as us. She graduated in '92, so her memories are very similar. The kids in school in Twilight remind me so much of people in my high school. It was sooo intense. Yup, obsessive love. Ahh, to reminisce.

Hey I'm a huge k.d. lang fan.  You chose a good person Pilgrim!  Nobody sings "Hallelujah" like she does.

TL

Let's see - TL, Pilgrim, and Leonard Cohen all think k.d.'s great.   

It's settled then!  

I agree - I like Leonard Cohen's original version of the song, but this is one of the few cases when I think the cover version is better than the original. She takes it to a whole new level.

I agree!

Er, the numbers are growing - we'd better form a fan club. 

Add me to the K. D. list (and I don't mean Kraft Dinner)

My teens, well I'm going to show my age but I loved Tommy James and the Shondells "Crystal Blue Persuasion", "Mony Mony" "Crimson and Clover" just because some of their music sounded ethereal and pretty. Made me feel good.

The group "Bread" did the same.

Most of the songs from the 60's and 70's bring back recollections of driving in my dad's car,with all the windows down and my hair flying all over the place going to the beach to meet my friends or go roller skating. And yes most were associated with the current love of my life.

Then of course their were the songs that fed my soul and made me feel like I was part of a generation that really cared about what was going on "Ohio" by Crosby,Stills, Nash and Young, Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock (all together now) "and it's 1,2,3, 4 what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam" etc....

Good idea!

Oh and to answer the original question I do find that music takes me back.  lol - songs from the album Bat out of hell by Meatloaf (although now rarely heard!) seem to remind me of being 12 or 13 and I think of the kids that I went through grade school with.  As do 2 particular songs by Queen.

TL

Anyone here old enough to remember "The Purple People Eater" - or "The Witch Doctor"?

Ridiculous songs, ridiculous words - yet I can't get them out of my mind. (I've an awful feeling my last words are going to come from one of these stupid songs!)

"What did she say?"

"Er, I think it was "It was a one-eyed, one-horned, purple people eater............!"

 He was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater...one...

and the rhythm of the witch doctor...that and the Monster Mash..

all are songs that my brothers listened to...he is 8 years older than me.

I posted on my facebook page...Carole King and James Taylor singing 

This song is from my teen years. Think I wore out my James Taylor "Sweet Baby James" & Carole King "Tapestry" albums

 oh, ps, chalk me up as a KD fan as well.  She has a great voice and good interpretation of multiple pieces.  You can watch them on you-tube, where they have posted a number of her interpretations of Canadian pieces (Jane Siberry, Gordon Lightfoot).  I didn't realize that she actually sells more music in Australia than Canada.  interesting.

She spends a lot of time here - we Aussies know talent when we see it!

Howzabout Jane Siberry and  K.D. singing "Calling All Angels" -  fan-bloody-tastic!

BTW, we can't get Jane Siberry here - we have to put it on order.

Elanorgold,

Are you still there?

I hope you're not sulking coz I'm a K.D. Lang fan - friends can't agree about everything - or we'd lose our individuality! 

No No! Of cource not! I just got here! Was surprised to see so many posts! I've been struggling to keep up with what's going on in religion lately, and didn't really expect the this thread to survive anyway.

Thanks everybody for your replies. I think it's wonderful how mucic encapsulates the past. We all go down memory lane from time to time. I like "Crimson and Clover" nice song. I like King Crimson too "Court of the Crimson King", reminds me of this job I had when I was 20, longing to be elsewhere fullfilling my destiny, rather than counting parts for inventory at the factory.

My mom likes Flying Purple People Eater and Witch Doctor. My song in that category is Rapture by Blondie, where the alien goes around eating everything. "He comes right down and he lands on the ground and out comes the man from mars, you try to run but he's got a gun and he shoots ya dead, and he eats yer head, and then yer in the man from mars, you go out at night eatin cars, you eat Cadilacs, Lincolns too, Mercurys and Subaru... bars, guitars, etc..." I was 12.

My heart throb when I was a teen was Ricky Nelson.  I can still remember the words to many of his songs, and sing along if they are played on radio.

My favourite was "Poor Little Fool".  Kind of encapsulated teenage angst.

Unfortunately Ricky died in an airplane crash...such a waste of talent.

Elvis Presley was OK - many songs I liked and like to this day - "Love Me Tender", "Blue Hawaii".

Later on it was the Everley Brothers and Simon and Garfunkel because their song lyrics tended to be about social issues.

Then for whatever reason, I decided I liked instrumental music better - easy listening and classical.

At this ripe age, I am a huge fan of Josh Groban.  Received his newest CD for Christmas.  Many of his songs are very uplifting.  Perhaps for me they are a positive force in an ever-changing world of cyncisim.

I seem to remember there was a show on television about the Nelson family?

Ricky Nelson. David Cassidy, Paul Mc Cartney, Canada's own "Little Beaver with the Bangs" - all suitable fodder for teen-age angst.

All "pretty" boys whose masculinity isn't too threatening for young girls on the threshold of their sexuality.

Hmm, that gives me an idea for a new threa, again...a thought I've had before...