Did any soundtrack particularly define your childhood or adolescence?

The Batman soundtrack (Michael Keaton as Batman) by Prince was mine. First album I ever bought. Pretty sure from a tape mail order club. I loved that movie so I think it was more about the movie than the music but I did listen to the tape a lot.

 

Oliver! I liked it but I just couldn't get away from it. My parents watched & loved it & the songs. My school did too. I always passed voice test so had to sing in music class & join choir. We had to sing the songs for Oliver! In fact, the 1st ever part I had to play was a flower-seller in Oliver! & I only got to do that because they wanted a few good singers on stage being flower-sellers & buyers. (I never got a chance to act before because all the best singers had to join choir. In school nativity plays I got to do choir as well. I'd have loved to be Mary or a shepherd or even an angel but no, I had to be in the choir instead because I passed voice test.) All I had to do was glide gracefully across the stage, pretend to sell flowers & sing "Who will buy?". I like Oliver! don't get me wrong but I got sick of it after a while. Having a break from it made me appreciate it again.

 

Over The Edge (1979)

Cheap Trick, The Cars, Van Halen are the highlights:

 

A Hard Days Night and Help

 

EG.

 

How The West Was Won (1962) - it was like learning family history.

 

Saturday Night Fever. Used to replace my regular bedroom lightbulb with a black light every saturday night and watch my black light posters come alive. Added some tinsel garland to the light for a quasi-disco ball effect.

 

The Angus movie soundtrack

 

I listened to Natural Born Killers a lot when I was a little older. Oh and the original Twin Peaks soundtrack almost every night.

 

This one certainly did:



Considering that the original Command and Conquer soundtrack cover quite a number of sub-genres from metal, orchestral, electronic, hip-hop, industrial, pop, and ambient, I'd say it's responsible for massively develop my taste in music when I was 12-13 years old.

 

Jesus Christ Superstar
Stand By Me
Almost Famous

 

Summer of '42, Dr. Zhivago, and later, Saturday Night Fever. Discovered I like my music dramatic.

 

I can only think of individual songs that defined my adolescence. "Rock and Roll Radio" by the Ramones came out long after that time had passed but the line, "Do you remember lying in bed
With your covers pulled up over your head? Radio playin' so one can see" was exactly what I was doing from the ages 10 - 13 as my folks didn't approve of rock. I, of course, was addicted.

"Schools Out" and "Smokin' in the Boys Room" were more timely tunes that defined characteristics of my adolescence coming out when I was in Jr. High - I was dead-center in the market for those records.

 

This holds up as a super solid pop punk comp. plus that marching band arrangement of the love spit love song!

 

My childhood was The Sound of Music. In my teen years probably Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

 

The Sound of Music is my fave musical and my intro to organ music - my mom had the organ music book. It was also my intro to music notation in general. She taught me how to read music from that book.

 

Yellow Submarine - my first film and first album at age 3

 

Hard to pick one but Purple Rain was a good one.

 

'Tommy', the Who

issued in `69 though still hugely popular in `74 , played as the soundtrack to the summer of my 13th year

before that it was 'Magical Mystery Tour', discovered when I turned 8 y.o. , and before that one was 'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud' by Miles Davis, the 1958 album featuring the musical cues for the Louis Malle film of the same title - though at an early age I didn't know it was music from a film, only that my mother played it frequently and I became familiar with it, actually liking it even at the age of 4or 5.

 

Various - Phantom Of The Paradise - Original Soundtrack Recording
When I was a 10 year-old kid in Winnipeg back in the mid-1970's, me & my buddies went to see this movie 1000 times. Wore the groove off of countless LPs. Still my fave soundtrack...

 

you inspired me !

playing the album now

 

Two immediately spring to mind, and both are little known and highly recommended.

Both came into my life when they were new and freshly released, and both are still among my absolute favorite soundtracks ever -

'Heartbeeps' ( 1981 ) by John Willaims.
Fantastic blend of synthesizers and full orchestra in this playful, beautiful, and at the same time gloriously unknown score by the Master.
Seek it out....NOW!


'Animalympics' ( 1980 ) by Graham Gouldman
Great songs, great musical scoring.
Absolute unknown gem.
Highly recommended.

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Could be Back To The Future, purely for my obsession with Huey Lewis & The News growing up as a kid. Into my later teen years, it became the Jerry Maguire soundtrack.