My name is Julie and I was born on 16th February 1987 so I have been on this god forsaken planet for 30 years. I am taking up a challenge that was started on Youtube and have seen done a couple of times there, I am going to share 30 songs that have been apart of my life but it's in blog form rather than video, I am going to do it in three parts so this part will feature from 1987 to 1998, some will be from that year and some not so much so let's get this show on the road.
1987: "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles
I chose this song because it was the number one hit in Australia in the week of my birth which is okay by me as this song is actually pretty damn awesome. Imagine some of the adults in a couple of years time discovering that the previous generation made "Can We Fix it?" by Bob the Builder a number one hit in the week and year of their birth in the early 2000s but yeah, "Walk Like an Egyptian" is a terrific song.
1988: "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
I don't have the strongest memories of what I liked musically as a baby but for some reason I have a recollection of hearing this song either via the analogue TV which somebody would have to adjust the aerial to. This song really does make me tear up a fair bit.
1989: "I Feel The Earth Move" by Carole King
Ironically the same year that Martika would have a hit with her cover of this Carole King song but I have chosen the original "I Feel The Earth Move" because 1989 was the year of the Newcastle earthquake, my mother was about 7 or 8 months pregnant with my sister at the time and on the day of the earthquake, my dad, mum, another relative (can't remember if it was my nanna or my grandma) and I were at Garden City, I was in a pram sound asleep and apparently didn't even stir when the ground shook.
1990: "Sister" by Sister2Sister
So I was soon to be a three year old but ten days before that third birthday in 1990 arrived my little sister so I have chosen Sister2Sister's 1999 hit "Sister" which got to number 3 on the Australian ARIA charts. The song is a bit cheesy but damn, as a three year old I was more into Fat Cat and Romper Room rather than music!
1991: 'The Pushbike Song" by Play School (originally by Mungo Jerry
1991 was the year that my parents brought me by first CD and first CD player which was from the cast of Play School and I literally thought that the Play School CD was the greatest thing on earth especially the cover of Mungo Jerry's "The Pushbike Song" performed by Phillip Quast. I couldn't get enough of the song, since that little phase I've always thought the song to be a bit childish.
1992: "Camptown Ladies"
1992...the year I officially started 'Big School'...yep, mum would take me to school with me wearing the school uniform a size or two a bit big and a school bag with recess, lunch, something for show and tell, a hat and in summer mosquito repellant. "Camptown Ladies" was one of those silly ones that as a five year I absolutely loved even if I got the lyrics wrong half of the time.
1993: "Eggs' by Don Spencer
My parents didn't want me to get into the latest pop music at the time because understandably the themes in top 40 music are something impressionable young kids shouldn't be hearing but my parents would let me get appropriate cassettes of kids music and one of them was Don Spencer's kids album called "Walkabout" of which the song "Eggs" is on and at the time, I used to copy the actions of the presenters on Play School (I loved John and Benita although George and Monica were awesome too!) when I saw the song performed on Play School.
1994: "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin
So as a seven year old, I was being introduced to music not just at home but at school as well because my grade 2 teacher Mr Davies would bring his guitar with him and teach us these two or three songs, one of them was "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin - a song about a father who never spent much time with his son as he grew up, it's actually an extremely sad song but one I have felt has always been apart of my life.
1995: "Love Is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet
Ughhh. This is my biggest memory of 1995 at school when my classmates and I were forced to sing this sappy ballad every Tuesday in the open learning area. I still hate this song to this day and damn those images in my head.
1996: "Eight Days A Week" by The Beatles
This was the last year I'd let my parents influence what I listened to musically, I still loved my Don Spencer tapes but in 1996 somebody brought me a tape called "Beatles Hits for Kids" which featured songs like "For the Benefit of Mr Kite" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and I fell in love with the music of the Fab Four especially "Eight Days a Week", I had memorised the lyrics of the song and while walking home from a night out during a holiday on the Gold Coast, I started singing "Eight Days A Week" and was quite proud I'd memorised the whole song! I also got my first sony Walkman so I could listen to music in the car without annoying mum and dad.
1997: "Say You'll Be There" by Spice Girls
The first 'hip' popular culture CD that parents brought for me was the Spice Girls album "Spice", my dad would even tape the CD and put it onto a little recordable cassette tape so I could listen to it on tape. I would also start loving making my own cassette mix tapes of songs I liked so I could listen to them in the car whenever I liked.
1998: "All I Have to Give" by Backstreet Boys
In 1998, I was hit by the "I'm in love with a boy band" and for me it was the Backsstreet Boys, they have better songs than "All I Have to Give" but it seems appropriate given it was on the year end ARIA Chart for 1998 and a decent way to end things for part 1 of this marathon. I was also a school leader and helped lead my house to winning the school athletics carnival which was exciting and madly in love with Nick, Howie, AJ, Brian and Kevin from the Backstreet Boys.
Next up the teenage years from 1999 through to 2007 but before that the ARIA Chart top ten/review (that is crazy) and hopefully the return of New Music Friday this week but no promises on that.
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