LSRUS - INTL: Link a Youtube Playlist: Teen Years

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBr5dOeYO8TtWC7VQmtf-s6LqFOVmBQ

(Please let me know if the link does not work!)

Payphone – This song came out the summer before my 8th grade year (I was 13 going on 14) and I played it on repeat for a while. As an adult, I now realize the song has a deeper meaning than about payphones.

Dark Horse – Oh boy! My freshman year of high school (age 15) was a weird time in my life. But I really enjoyed this song! Again, as an adult now I get some of the references in the song that I did not get as a teenager. But this was a very popular song among my peers in 2014! I liked it a lot better than her other song “Roar.”

Pompeii – Here is a trip down memory lane to my freshman year of high school again! During my spring break of 2014, I spent a lot of time with my dad (my mom and sister were out of town) and I was also taking an online chemistry course. I worked on it a lot that summer with different tutors I had. While in the car with my dad, he let me choose the radio station and this song came on a lot. To this day, he recognizes the song but only remembers one line of the whole song!

Clean Bandit – Aged 16, sophomore year of high school! This song was everywhere and everyone in my grade level loved it! I ended up listening to it so much I memorized the lyrics!

Geronmio – Junior year of high school I was 17 and went through a very difficult point of my life. This song inspired me to just keep on keeping on!

Don’t You Worry Child – This song was popular in 2013 when I was still in the 8th grade. I heard it on the radio and downloaded it onto my iPod to listen to it whenever I wanted! I still like this song a lot!

Blow Me (One Last Kiss) – This song came out my 8th grade year and I played it on repeat when my first boyfriend and I broke up. We were 13/14 at the time but at the time, that breakup was hard for me! Now I barely remember the breakup! Ha-ha!

A Sky Full of Stars – This song came out the summer of 2014 and I heard it on the radio. I already liked Coldplay lot, so I started to like this song from the moment I heard it!

Adventure of a Lifetime – Another Coldplay song! My friends and I were anxiously waiting for this album to come out in November of 2015! Though late 2015 was a hard time for me, I still think of this song fondly!

Taylor Swift – I was never a huge Taylor Swift fan, but I liked some of her songs. In 2014, she decided to go from country to pop music. This song was one of them that I liked a lot from her album 1989!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJg9bQ7hylW5gfl7sy8XFuXYJvqontbMa&si=xV-Amr01cJopmjYI

I had the influence of an older brother I mostly share music taste with, and grew up listening to the world famous KROQ back in its heyday. Then I found more female artists a la Lilith Fair type, and then on to Riot Grrl stuff in college and beyond. Who took the bomp?!

Hello Partners,

Some of these songs won’t seem like those that a typical teen would enjoy. First, I was not a ‘typical’ kid… not by a long shot. Secondly, it was a turbulent time. The 1960s and early ‘70s were marred by both an unjust war (Police-action? Yea, right.) and continued racial injustice. I was involved in protesting and otherwise working to end both. Thus, protest songs were a big part on my life.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_6HlL9hSf1pjprhA3PeJEBfJpk60koQj

(Sorry, SB seems to be deleting part of the comment and I wonder if i'm using punctuation it doesn't like. Does that to my profile, too, so it has to be me.)

14 songs, mostly pop, modern rock, electronica. "love don't leave me / take these broken wings" -> "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister) but that hasn't changed.

I probably should have added another by VNV Nation because two songs are linked in my head.

"Understanding" says "You hold the answers deep within your own mind, but you seem to have forgotten them... Whenever something is too uncertain, too unpleasant to entertain, we reject it. We erase it from our memories. But the imprint is always there."

VNV Nation sampled a section of the movie Jacob's Ladder (another fave, I just can't watch often bc of Vietnam War horror): "If you're frightened of dying and holding on, you see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzqQIoeiD4UyDn9O7MQlNDv0rMDqzANNS

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWeyIv4UCUzaG9GSLV6XLmBv5fblDIi8p

I was (am?) a weeb so here's a playlist full of 80s, 90s and early 00s jrock. :3

@Neea1989 - If you're still checking this thread, what got you into j-rock?