What is the first popular rock song you loved and your age?

[mix]

For me, I suppose I was 6-ish and it was America's "Horse with No Name"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KKGdb4qUY

(post clip, if possible)

[REP]

1. "Fame," Bowie; I was 11

[REP]

2. Glitch dupe

[ghostsofgiants]

3. The Final Countdown. I was 1 when it came out but probably heard it first when I was 4 or 5.

[hellbound-liberal]

4. Blowin' in the Wind also 6-ish at the time. I liked Peter, Paul and Mary's version best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4

[mitchum]

5. "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby" aged 6...

it was also the first non Flipper, Mr Ed, Flintstones, etc. record I ever bought

[MineralMan]

6. Rock Around The Clock

I first heard it when I was 10 years old, being covered by a band at a roadhouse in Merced, CA, near where my family was camping. I'm 64. I think I was 10 or 11 years old.

"What's that music?" I wondered. "I like it."

1955 or 1956, I guess. It's still Rock N Roll to me.

I don't know who the band was, but it was probably a cover of the Bill Haley version. However, given the times, it could have been Bill Haley and Comets at that roadhouse. I couldn't see the band.

[RebelOne]

27. We are both older than dirt. That was my favorite, too.

But I was about 14 or 15 when it was popular.

[MineralMan]

28. Seems like there's a lot of that geezer going around.

I don't mind, except my knees creak.

[old mark]

46. WOW! Mine. too! Good old Bill Haley and His Comets!

I also freaked out over Chuck Berry, any of it , but School Days, Rock and Roll Music and Maybellene I liked best.
I also remember Gene Vincent songs on radio.
I will be 62 next month, but I loved to listen to music early, so I was probably about 5 or 6.

I seem to be old now.

markO8)

[alsame]

7. "She Loves You" by the Beatles. I was

about 5 or 6 at the time.

[mix]

9. i will never forget the story

an older friend who was in junior high in LA when the Beatles hit told me once about hearing them for the first time and how they were so different from everyone else...that memory and his beautiful telling of it started to slowly melt away my glacial hatred of the Beatles...i now get it

[alsame]

11. Yes, even at that very young age I knew the sound was

different from anything else I had ever heard on TV or radio.

I'm so glad you came around to the Beatles. :-)

[GReedDiamond]

8. Don't know if was the first rock song that I "loved"...

...but the first record I ever bought was the 45 of "Surfin Bird" by The Trashmen, 1963, so I was the advanced age of 8. I think the B side was a song called "The Birdman of Alcatrash."

Here's a YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

[Zavulon]

10. Slow Ride by Foghat.

I'm 45 now.

[mix]

12. i had a foghat moment n/t

[Rambis]

32. Have another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPD3ICfYMNY

[mix]

38. thanks !

[merh]

13. Jumpin' Gene Simmons - Haunted House

I would have been about 4 - I remember singing it all the time.
Also Chubby Checker's Twist (which had been released in 1960), guess I had siblings that loved the Twist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBg0rnWTz3U

HAUNTED HOUSE (Robert Geddins)

I just moved in my new house today
Moving was hard but I got squared away
When bells starting rings and chains rattled loud
I knew I'd moved in a haunted house
Still I made up my mind to stay
Nothing was a-gonna drive me away
When I seen something that give me the creeps
Had one big eye and two big feet
I stood right there and I did the freeze
It did the stroll right up to me
Made a noise with its feet that sounded like a drum

Said "You gonna be here when the morning comes?"
"Say yes, I'll be here when the morning comes
I'll be right here, I ain't gonna run
I bought this house, now I am boss
Ain't no haint's gonna run me off"

In my kitchen my stove was a blazing hot
Coffee was a-boiling in the pot
Grease had melted in my hand (pan?)
I had a hunk of meat in my hand
From out of space there sat a man
On the hot stove with the pots and pans
"Say that's hot" I began to shout
He drank the hot coffee right from the spout
He ate the raw meat right from my hand
Drank the hot grease from the frying pan

And said to me "You better run and don't be here
When the morning comes"
Say yes I'll be here when the morning comes
I'll be right here now, I ain't gonna run

I bought this house now I am boss
Ain't no haint's gonna run me off.

[blondeatlast]

14. "Kicks" by Paul Revere and the Raiders--before my time.

Mid-40s here but have much older siblings.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. "All I Have To Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers. I was about 10.

[mix]

16. kick for any old fan

[Symarip]

17. Too Drunk To Fuck

Dead Kennedys

[TZ]

18. Sounds like the theme song of your life....

:evilgrin:

[Symarip]

19. Reread the song title

Does it say 'Too drunk to make love'? No. It does not. It's totally unrepresentative of my life.

[TZ]

20. "Little Willy" by Sweet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbEuRzlhIs

I must have been 4 or 5 at the time.

[Mr. Ected]

21. Questions 67 and 68 by Chicago

I was 9 at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNpk2XcLaKc

[SacredCow]

22. It would have to be "I Saw Her Standing There"....

But it doesn't really reflect my age (38). My parents were NOT Beatles fans by ANY stretch- Dad is a certified opera snob and Mom was into show tunes and early folk (Kingston Trio and the like). For some reason, there was a copy of "Please Please Me" hanging around the house that my sister (5 years older than me) and I would listen to. I completely wore out the "I Saw Her Standing There" track. I still love the song- it's among my signature guitar playing warm-up exercises.

The first album I went out and bought was KISS- Dynasty. I plead temporary insanity, and thankfully it didn't last long.

Later, I got into Blondie and Talking Heads, which would be the first bands of which I considered myself a fan.

[travelingtypist]

23. Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

I was 14. I played it over and over and over. It drove my mom insane. (Side benefit obviously.)

:evilgrin:

[surrealAmerican]

24. "Yellow Submarine"

I was 5 when I saw the movie. I loved all the songs.

[Strong Atheist]

25. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[mix]

26. there's a pattern here

:hi:

[Strong Atheist]

30. Damn straight.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Strong%20Atheist/15

:hi:

[momto3]

29. 50 ways to leave your lover.

Paul Simon. I was 5. According to my Mom, I knew all of the words and would sing it endlessly.

[DevonRex]

31. "Heart Full of Soul" Yardbirds with Jimmy Page. Edited to add video link.

And I was 8.

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0D-s0zTI4&feature=related

Here's another one. Shapes of Things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTO7WVxjz3A&feature=related

[Tikki]

33. Older brother, late 50's...when he moved out (Army) he left a....

record player and 45's.

My favorite was "Willie and the Hand Jive"...Johnny Otis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeeGMpM_Nk
"Willie and the Hand Jive"....Johnny Otis

Danced around and 'round that puppy like a fool..

Tikki

[Bertha Venation]

34. "Crocodile Rock" - I must've been about 12

Not sure when it came out. I was born in '63.

[mix]

36. oh yeah

Crocodile Rock turned me into a lifelong Elton John fan (i'm listening to Madman Across the Water, the album, right now)

[Bertha Venation]

37. The first time I heard Elton John on an Oldies station, I thought,

"What's that doing on K-Earth?"

Then I realized that the song - "Daniel" - was 35 years old. THIRTY-FIVE! I guessed then that it qualified as an oldie.

:cry:

[Eyerish]

41. The last time I heard K-Earth they had "Roxanne" on...

and I couldn't believe it... "Roxanne" is now considered an "oldie"... :cry:

[Bertha Venation]

44. oh, my god . . .

:cry:

[mix]

45. lol

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

35. Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You."

I'm 43, so I was, what, four or five when this came out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYSu2OVCGM

I love this comment from bhite41 on the youtube clip: "you know your life is pretty much over when you wonder if you still look as young as Ruben Kinkade does" :rofl:

[tk2kewl]

39. My parents had a copy of this spoof version of Wild Thing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMI7dVWINI

Sung by comedian Bill Minkin pretending to be RFK. I used to play it over and over on one of those little recodr players like the one in the video. I must have been 3 or 4.

[Dulcinea]

40. Bennie & the Jets.

I was 7 or 8. I'm 43 now.

[mix]

42. that song still transfixes me

:hi:

[datasuspect]

43. three dog night, the show must go on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAlzo_pqys