Penchant for music from your childhood years?

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Do you listen to - or want to listen to - music that you used to enjoy as a child?

At the moment I enjoy Third Eye Blind and Joe Satriani, and I am on the lookout for a copy of Aqua's 'Aquarium' going for a good price.

I have a penchant for anything from the 80s, and even the late 70s (I was born in 1979).

I generally listen to a wide variety of music whether I heard it as a kid or not. About the only type of music that I can't stand is rap.

I generally prefer to listen to female voices, but not exclusively.

So if you come visit me, you will never know if you are going to be listening to The Sons of the Pioneers, The Mediaeval Baebes, Melanie, Diana Krall, Doris Day, Enya, Frank Sinatra, Kiri Te Kanawa, Pink Martini, Sarah Brightman, Ravi Shankar, Suzanne Ciani, Heyley Westenra, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, the Carpenters, the Beatles, Astrud Gilberto, Nancy LaMott, Julie London, Paul Winter, Olivia Newton John, Connie Francis, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Willie Nelson, a church choir, monks chanting, ... .

When I was 7-8 years old, I had albums by Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Johnny Winter and The Rolling Stones, so Classic Rock is a foundation to what I listen to, but I generally perfer much odder stuff than that.

There are a few 80's things I like, like Cyndi Lauper, the Eurhythmics, B-52's, but especially Huey Lewis and The News. But a lot of my music is based in the 90's (BSB, Jewel, Foo, Garbage, Alanis, the Cranberries).

I failed to realize when I was younger how special music of my childhood was superior to a lot of trash these days (not all of it is trash, but a lot of the commercialized pop music is). When the 90's came along, I was age 5 almost 6 at the start and I was 15 almost 16 when the decade came to a close.

People would trash me even back in the 90's for liking BSB, and unlike the group, not too many boybands these days will willingly grab a mic to sing a capella on command or even work it into their performance to prove their singing talent. Or the ones that have come since.. they're just... generic. There's not much of a spark or spirit or charisma to them and they all have the same or similar voice types. BSB were (and still are almost 20 years later) all different as members and that's the core of their formula and they rocked that harder than anyone else. I suppose it'd be really difficult to put another one of them together though, because the reason it works for them and that they're able to blend to begin with is that Nick's voice type is in the middle of everyone else's. But when they sing, their sound is very distinct. There's no mistaking them for anyone else.

Don't get me started on R&B groups. Most mainstream R&B acts these days-- En Vogue and Boyz II Men s**t all over them.

A lot of "Rock" or "alternative" has been reduced to half-brain half-baked Nickelback-style crap that 40 year old former groupie milfs for some odd reason love. One thing I miss about the 90's was that it wasn't all about just girls/drugs/sex in rock music, and when it was, at least they were f*ckin poetic about it with a well-written song. Like in the case of Third Eye Blind. And all of their songs weren't dedicated to groupies, but other topics as well.

I would be hard pressed to find a pop song these days that is a top 10 hit that has something peculiar about it-- like a yodelly voice and a breakdown with bongos like The Cranberries did in "Dreams" (or even featured heavy usage of a harmonica like Blues Traveler did). Too many people are scared to risk anything that nobody gets ahead by thinking outside of the box. So they just rather sit in the box and suffocate themselves. This is why radio is full of songs that sound alike. That and the same writers get overused too (If I heard one more song that was co-written/produced by Ryan Tedder that uses that same damn drum sequence again...).

I'm not sure if there'll ever be a resurgence of something as crazy epic as grunge. I think that died with Kurt. Nirvana were always in a category of all their own anyway. I just wish someone or something came along and took us all by surprise the way that grunge punched its way straight through the door in the early 90's.

And later on in the 90's, even songs in almost all genres had a very melodic sensibility to them.

The way I look at it, there were so many awesome divergent things going on in music at the time of the 90's and I was lucky to be there at the time to experience it. There was also room for everyone in the 90's.

It sounds like a lot of you still like the music you used to listen to when you were kids!

Anna, I like your style

I sometimes listen to music that was out when I was a kid but I also listen to new music that's popular with kids

That's all I listen to, actually. I was born in '78, so I grew up with the 80s music. I have a lot of fond memories from those years.

I've really been into music from a very young age. I remember getting Blondie singles for my Christmas, when I was 5 or 6 and I was a fan and still like their music. I do love music from the 70s (anything at all) and 80s (mainly electro-pop/ new romantics). But, I do have a very broad taste in music and will listen to anything, including very early classical, metal, rock, soul, funk, disco and modern stuff, although the 90s was mainly a disappointment (I can't stand the Brit Pop of that era, e.g. Oasis). If it has a pleasant melody and a beat, I'll listen.