Does anyone else listen to music from back in the day

[Toffeesgirl]

When you were young, with no responsibilities and life wasn't totally shit?

I'm working my way through YouTube live Marillion concerts from the 1980s and marvelling that I can remember most of the words when I forgot 2 of the 5 things I needed in Tesco earlier 😂

Anyone want to share their 'I was young and happy once' tunes?

I ONLY listen to music from back in the day!

Picked up some vinyl at the weekend - OH got a Belinda Carlisle album, as he fancies her - I've told him he can have her, if I can have Martin Kemp, lol!

Tropical Gangsters by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Alf by Alison Moyet, and Sports by Huey Lewis and the News - great to hear them again! Loved Aztec Camera too...

I still listen to 90/00s boy bands. A lot.

Another Marillion fan here. Saw them a few times in the early '90s not long after Fish left and they were brilliant. Saw them last year for the first time in 30 years and was a bit underwhelmed tbh. Guess we've all got a fair bit older in that time!

I listen to Boom Radio every morning, and Sounds of the 70s (and 80s) on Radio 2. Nothing that’s currently on release is likely to endure the way music from the 1960s to the 1990s has.

Spotify is usually playing my Shazam playlist but the classic MN -The Underrated is up there with my favourites. Anyone else kept it?

Yep to forgetting items of shopping but being word perfect on Jurassic 5's Concrete Schoolyard....

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3477600-to-ask-for-songs-you-think-are-underrated?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

I'm early 50's and still mainly listen to 80's music, it was better. Absolute 80's and Absolute rock on the radio.

Favourite song that takes me back to being young and carefree probably Gloria by Laura Brannigan.

Still got LPs & cassettes from the 80s although I tend not to play the cassettes in case they get chewed up. I lost a mix tape a friend made this way which I was gutted about
Absolute 80s in the car...
Lost myself last night on YouTube on the Depeche Mode channel. Wonderful stuff especially as I saw them in Twickenham earlier this year.

I realised the other day that I basically still listen to all the same music as when I was 12. Thankfully this was all largely indie/punk/ska stuff with a fair few 80s power ballads thrown in. I would hope not to be listening to the Spice Girls or Steps or something at the grand old age of 38 😅

My 21 yr old Ds had Jennifer rush-ring of ice on his Spotify playlist and I knew I'd raised him right 😆
I miss the 80's ☹️

Greatest Hits radio is my not-so-guilty pleasure.

Love Aztec camera and remember going to see them a couple of times

Still have high land hard rain album, it was so good

My DD is 11 and has been into 80s stuff (as well as some of her 'own' modern stuff) for a while now. I guess I was the same in that my Mum and Dad influenced me with their 60s music (The Who, The Beatles) but I was also a slave to my own generations music.

I was in the car the other day and realised that I had owned it for 2 years and never played a CD in it. So I've just had this CD delivered from music magpie which cost £2. Fantastic 80s it's called. Going to go out for the day tomorrow and play it in the car.

I also still have loads of vinyl, but need to psyche myself up to go through it as it's packed away in spider territory.

Great cd

Credit Card Baby remember that one

You can have my credit card, baby but keep your red hot fingers offa my heart baby thinks that right or lady.

I'm 58 and have some Spice Girls on a Spotify playlist 😎 Specifically Who Do You Think You Are

@RainbowZebraWarrior Great CD!

We listen to gold or smooth radio lots of 60's and 70's songs.
Our 18 grandson has Marvin Gaye on his play list.
All music can span generations at different stages of life.

Quite often ask Siri to play Kayleigh - one of my favourite songs. Must admit, didn’t know their other stuff but listen to ‘ Best of’ and really enjoyed it.

We have Smooth Radio on at work and that has a lot of old music and we all find ourselves singing along to it.

Saw Tony Hadley earlier this year, and went to “Let’s Rock 80s” last year.

Whats scary is that 80s music is 30 years ago. That like listening to 50s music when I was a teen.

I agree @Abhannmor I was definitely a music snob in my youth but didn't appreciate how much the pop culture music of the time was the sound track to my life.

Recently I heard 'Cotton Eye Joe' and nearly welled up cos I realised, awful as it was, that song took me back to my best times. Other ones I love now are 90s dance classics like only love can set you free or rhythm is a dancer. The young scene for me was very much split between dance v grunge/indie and I was firmly on the indie side. I recently made a Spotify playlist of 90s dance classics and love it.

I also listen to a lot of 70s and early 80s stuff, a little before my time but IMO 80s especially the earliest years was the best era ever for feel good music. I love 70s easy listening stuff too, that was the golden oldie stuff when I was young and it bring back such a sense of nostalgia. As a kid on a Sunday there was a 2 hour golden oldie radio show that I used to be glued to.

Haha for sure! I listen to new (and old obvs) country but everything else is from ‘back in the day’, be that Ibiza classics from the late 90s/early 00s or pop punk from the noughties 🤣 my two year old son loves a bit of Blink 182, evanescence, the offspring, linkin park… ah the memories 🤣

I still own my mum's Beatles albums from the 60s.

I never chuck anything out, me.

Hmm, when I was young in the 70s/80s, Radio 1 and local stations overwhelmingly played current music of the time, plus the odd earlier tune. 50s and before was for Radio 2 or other stations.

Now I mostly listen to local radio, or sometimes Radio 2, and they play music from all pop and rock eras - well, mostly 80s onwards I suppose, with a bit of 70s/60s. It actually makes me feel like the last 40 years is all much of a muchness, that we haven't moved on at all.

Dusty Springfield said she always knew when she had a hit - the milkman would be singing it. That's never going to happen again alas

Yes my dc love Fleetwood Mac and Queen and know most of the 60s, 70s, 80s as it was always playing

Music is evocative and you know exactly what you were doing a lot of the time