The Number One Song When You Were 14

1 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" The Beatles
2 "She Loves You" The Beatles
3 "Hello, Dolly!" Louis Armstrong
4 "Oh, Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison
5 "I Get Around" The Beach Boys

This was 1964, for those of you don't remember it (or whose parents don't remember it). It was right in the middle of the British Invasion, so the top 100 was full of Beatles and Beatles wannabees songs, Motown, a couple of Beach Boys, and outliers like Hello Dolly (Louis Armstrong), and Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin). I assure you, neither of those last two had any effect on how I viewed the world. I wouldn't listen to them even now, at my advanced age (they ain't worth the hearing aid batteries). :)
 
I just stopped at the bank. Small branch, know my name and always chat for a bit.

I told them about it. One teller is young. She said “let’s see. I turned 14 in 2005 let me look that up. Holla back girl?!?”

An older teller just said “well that explains a lot.”

Lmao.
 
teamglock2002 said:
My Sharona by The Knack
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A friend of mine called up a radio station for a contest once, "My Sharona" was playing on the air, but in the background of the phone call he could hear one of the deejays singing, (da da DA DA da DA da DA da da DA da da DA DA da DA) "My Sca-ro-tum".
 
noway2 said:
I turned 14 in 1985. According to the tunecaster chart, it was dire straights, money for nothing. I remember working that summer and saving up about $1000. My parents threw in some more and I bought a Kenwood 55B rack system. At the store they put this new thing called a CD in there and turned it up to demo the unit. The song: Miney fir Nothing.
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Fun fact: Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums recorded on a digital machine. Granted, it was a digital tape machine, but it was state of the art at the time. I bet that's why they played that song for the CD demo.
 
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Well now, thanks to the research that went into this thread I can narrow the decline of Western civilization to one year... 1996, the year The Macarena topped the pop charts.

And something about Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth topped the Rock, much better and more recognizable further down.
 
I feel fine - The Beatles
 
There were no real No. 1 songs when I was 14 ... disco had taken root.

1 - Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
2 - Bee Gees - Night Fever
3 - Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
4 - Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
5 - Exile - Kiss You All Over

We did have some Seger, Jackson Brown, Steely Dan and Skynryd in the bottom 50 ...
 
Beef15 said:
Well now, thanks to the research that went into this thread I can narrow the decline of Western civilization to one year... 1996, the year The Macarena topped the pop charts.

And something about Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth topped the Rock, much better and more recognizable further down.
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96 was my year as well...
Also:
1979 by Smashing Pumpkins
Wonderwall by Oasis.
Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla


Was a pretty good year for Alt music.
You can keep the Macarena... I'll I stick with Primitive Radio Gods

Pop music was awful....Be My Lover, C'Mon and Ride It, No Diggity....

Although Killing Me Softly was a sure make out song with the catholic school girls.
 
PIsgahboy said:
Fun fact: Brothers in Arms was one of the first albums recorded on a digital machine. Granted, it was a digital tape machine, but it was state of the art at the time. I bet that's why they played that song for the CD demo.
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This reminds me of how you used to be able to look at the back of the CD case label and see a code like AAD or ADD, which was an indicator of whether the various stages were recorded or mixed with analog or digital equipment. I had a demo CD that was labeled DDD and it had a warning about playing it too loud. The digital equipment had a much higher dynamic range and the deep lows, especially at volume, were hell on the linear power supplies of the time.
 
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Ok...summer of 81, two cassettes that got worn out... Journey Escape And Billy Squire The Stroke...played that loud and proud... STROKE ME, STROKE ME, STROKE! STROKE!
 
"Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)" - Rod Stewart
 
Pack72 said:
A friend of mine called up a radio station for a contest once, "My Sharona" was playing on the air, but in the background of the phone call he could hear one of the deejays singing, (da da DA DA da DA da DA da da DA da da DA DA da DA) "My Sca-ro-tum".
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My cousin sang it that way when it came out, I've only been able to hear it that way :D

SDIVER2006 said:
1985 Here as well
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That's a horrible musical flashback!! I did like Phil Collin's work, Mark Knopfler's always excellent.
I was listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Waylon Jennings, Led Zepplin, Allman Bros, Dire Straights, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger
 
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1988

Think I'll go crawl under a rock and not sing Faith in my head. Ugghhh.
 
The number one song the year I turned fourteen in 2002 makes me hate my generation even more.

 
I never listened to the charts about who or what was number 1. Most of what I liked was never on there and they never asked me. I'll guess back in 74 we were listening to Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and the old 60s rockers like Jimi, Carlos, Jefferson Airplane, Doors etc.
 
noway2 said:
This reminds me of how you used to be able to look at the back of the CD case label and see a code like AAD or ADD, which was an indicator of whether the various stages were recorded or mixed with analog or digital equipment. I had a demo CD that was labeled DDD and it had a warning about playing it too loud. The digital equipment had a much higher dynamic range and the deep lows, especially at volume, were hell on the linear power supplies of the time.
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Mmmmmmm, dirty dirty audiophile speak.

I'll be in my bunk.
 
 
Chdamn said:
Mmmmmmm, dirty dirty audiophile speak.

I'll be in my bunk.
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I once encountered one of those idiots that claimed he could hear the missing music or notes from the digitization process. I guess he didn't understand Nyquist and sampling theory. Yes, there is quantitization noise, but the noise is less, substantially less, than the noise associated with vinyl records or cassettes. What he heard, that was missing from the CDs was, noise.
 
I tried really hard to find some quasi legit "top" list that wasn't embarrassing. I failed.

According to Tunecaster, the top song the week I turned 14 was "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna.
 
Tim said:
I tried really hard to find some quasi legit "top" list that wasn't embarrassing. I failed.

According to Tunecaster, the top song the week I turned 14 was "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna.
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While not quite the river of shame, its certainly a tributary hahahaha.
 
According to Tunecaster mine was Jump /Van Halen in 1984.
 
Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins, haha thats pretty true.
 
This is just embarrassing...

1. Too Close by Next
2. The Boy is Mine by Brandy and Monica
3. You're Still The One by Shania Twain
4. Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden

No wonder Millennials are so deeply despised, I hate myself right now.
 
I don't know about on my birthday, but my current ringtone was the #1 song about 2 months after I turned 14... Weird...
 
When Doves Cry - Prince

While I love most of his music, not sure how influential this particular song was on my life. Except it was written for Purple Rain and starred Apollonia and she was “influential” during those years but that is more for the thread about movies scenes lol
 
Tim said:
I tried really hard to find some quasi legit "top" list that wasn't embarrassing. I failed.

According to Tunecaster, the top song the week I turned 14 was "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna.
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I went out with one of Madonnas cousins in the 70s. I was 17, she was 15. awesome times.
 
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Top song of the year was "Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bojangles.

On my 14th birthday, the #1 tune was "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney 'Jimmy Crack Corn and I Don't Care' Houston.
 
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