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For me this is Michael Jacksons best song. Yes its a bit cheesy and the key change is a bit of a cliche but every time this song comes on the radio or tv i sing every word. The bad album was the first album of his i owned and so this album and especially [...]
This is such a feel good record..if you’re feeling down at all..no matter what is going on..this will cheer you up.
Catriona Burke in Derry
One Crowded Hour is by a band called Augie March…a band that became very popular after this (well in some places)
It has a very fond place in my memory from Australia Day 2007, when i got up at 7 o’clock in the morning to tune into TripleJ Radio on my PC and proceeded to listen [...]
It was with great disappointment that I revisited your site many times and found no additional entries since March. I so much enjoyed reading about other peoples memories and had hoped your site would continue to grow. I would appeal to anyone logging on to post their memories. It doesn’t take long and your story doesn’t [...]
If there is one song that changed my life i think this might be it. Its not my favourite song and by no means a musical masterpiece but one night in October in 1994 it was fantastic.
I was 17 and and had just started studying my A-levels. I had been playing guitar now [...]
Brilliant piece of rock music….no pretence, just a good upbeat song.
It reminds me of the first time i met my father’s new wife and when she said this was one of her favourite songs i knew maybe he had found someone he could stick with. I don’t think what music a person likes is important [...]
My first memory of music takes me back to my parents front room when i was about seven or eight. My dad bought me my first album on vinyl and i would play it over and over again! Olivia newton johns greatest hits.My favourite song The Banks of the Ohio i now know is a heart [...]
This song rocks! I had to get that in first before I explain why. It’s by a band called the Decemberists, a modern american group who do “indie-folk”. It’s all about a couple who get separated by war…sad, but i think it would speak to anyone.
It changed my life because it connected me to someone [...]
I was listening to Paul Weller’s STANLEY ROAD album when I went to Rwanda filming for Concern after the genocide. On the first day we went to an orphanage and met a group of children that had lost their parents. Concern was trying to trace distant family members to raise each of the children. We [...]
Snowpatrol…after chatting to a friend I think this deserves a mention because its meaning isn’t being celebrated here anywhere near as much as I think it should be.
Its definitely my favourite song of 2008 and the song that I think sums up how I have felt about the city I live in since i got [...]
Lame song choice I know!…But it was the very first record I chose all for myself when I was only 5.
When I was in my teens and the inevitable conversation with friends of our first single arose (most of my friends listed cassettes) I hid my head in shame and tried not to mention mine, [...]
The first 45 i bought was sign your name across my heart by Terence Trent Darby.
This was a song that my sister had recorded of the radio and had played constantly so it was implanted in my brain. I saw it in the record shop in Connswater and hassled my Mum to buy it [...]
The first 45 i ever bought was donna summers i feel love. It was around 1977 and I think I bought it in Woolworths in Belfast. It was like nothing I had heard before. The bass line was hypnotic and Donnas voice mysterious over the top of it almost like an opera singer. For me [...]
This haunting piece of music reminds me of a holiday spent in Ballycastle. It was possibly 1964 or 1965. Life was innocent then. An enjoyable time was to sit with a radio and a soft drink with the local talent and listen to Radio Caroline. One of those local lads whom we met during that holiday [...]
In the summer of ‘96 I took a call, informing me that a good friend and football team mate has died. Timmy was only 17. He didn’t smoke, hadn’t started drinking and had no idea what a drug was. He was a talented footballer, funny bloke, and a great friend. He complained to his dad [...]
Not many people will know this song. In fact I would put the number at 5 people at the most. My best mate of my youth was growing musically mature quicker than I was and picking up instruments and playing them well. I was impressed then and still am to a certain extent when he [...]
Road to Nowhere, Talking Heads. I remember watching this video and seeing the passing of time in a life. The Hari Christener model at Cornmaket in Belfast always fascinated me. The video brought it to life for me, I realised at that point that we are all on a road maybe not to no where [...]
Complete and utter romantic freedom was afforded by Adam & the ants in the early 1980’s. I loved it as it offered what seemed to be fantastic fun. I was still at school and enjoyed the rebellious image of dressing like a fool whilst leaping around in a pirate/highway man outfit. I remember being caught by [...]
For me the late 80s and early 90s was a blur of big hair and air guitar. Bon Jovi Started it all. They would be followed by the likes of Def leppard, Extreme, Poison, Motley Crue, Slaughter, Alice Cooper and Aerosmith. I didn’t grow my hair or ever really look like a metal fan but [...]
Visage. Fade To Grey was number one early in 1981. The 80s a decade of bigs. big hair, big phones. big cars, big shoulder pads, big sound systems with massive big speakers. Even the cinema reflected the big decade with its own film called Big. I never really understood the love of all things [...]