While working on my post for day 11 of Blogtober my other half and I kept thinking of songs from our childhood as opposed to our teenage years. There were some rather amazing songs to get us through our childhood so of course, I had to share them with you. If I could still remember the dance to a few of these songs I would so do them!
1. B’Witched – C’est La Vie
I think this may be a contender for best song of the 90s. I still remember all of the words and will happily listen to it during a cheesy music binge at 2am. Weatherman was actually my favourite song of B’Witched but C’est La Vie always got me grooving as a kid.
2. Nelly Furtado – I’m Like A Bird
I had Nelly Furtado’s debut album and only ever listened to two songs from it. Obviously one of those songs was I’m Like A Bird (the other being Turn Off The Light) and I played it so much my bulky, silver CD player eventually refused to play it.
3. Robbie Williams – Let Me Entertain You
My mum was quite a big fan of Robbie Williams back in the day and I would always “borrow” his albums from her. Let Me Entertain You was my favourite song by Robbie Williams and I used to get so into it I would put my glasses on a chair, dance around the room and then sit on the chair and accidentally break my glasses in the process.
4. Papa Roach – Last Resort
While a lot of people my age seem to associate Last Resort with their emo teenage years, I associate it with my childhood. I was 7 when Last Resort was released and my brother played it so often, I had no choice but to love it.
5. Steps – 5, 6, 7, 8
Every Friday my friends and I would go to the swimming pool disco and would always end up dancing on the platform to this song. We had our own little dance to it as we were just that cool…
6. Linkin Park – Crawling
Like Last Resort, Crawling was released when I was 7 and I was actually given Linkin Park’s debut album for Christmas that year. Linkin Park ignited my love for nu metal and hard rock (a love I’ve since outgrown) so I guess I was always destined to be that weird mosher kid at high school.
7. Darius – Colourblind
From what I remember Darius was on Pop Idol or whatever the heck it was called and came third (I’m sure Will Young and Gareth Gates were also on it that year). I didn’t really watch the show but I heard Colourblind one day and demanded his album for Christmas. My brother kindly gave me it and, much like Nelly Furtado, I only listened to a few songs. Colourblind of course was my favourite and I distinctly remember trying to sing along but getting confused by the colours each time.
8. Shania Twain – Man, I Feel Like A Woman
Again, my mum was a big fan of Shania Twain so I would borrow the album with Man, I Feel Like A Woman on it and would subsequently break my glasses after dancing to it. For some reason it was only Shania Twain and Robbie Williams that caused me to break the thing I needed to see.
9. Liam Lynch – United States of Whatever
What even was United States of Whatever? It’s such a random song yet I somehow managed to listen to it hundreds of times. If I wasn’t waiting for the video to come on TV, I was listening to it on the Top of the Pops CD I had.
10. Avril Lavigne – Sk8er Boi
It was my next door neighbour who got me into Avril Lavigne. She had Sk8er Boi on CD and let me borrow it for a couple of days. I must’ve annoyed my parents so much with that song as I played it over and over again. It paid off though as we had a singing competition at a friend’s sleepover with this song and I won! I also won the competition for who looked most like a celebrity (I was Baby Spice and was given a rather large bra with a lot of socks stuffed into it to wear under a very short dress).
Writing this post has made me wonder how many times we had to go to the opticians due to all of the glasses I broke. I’m sure it wasn’t that often but I’m rather worried now as I listened to Robbie Williams and Shania Twain a lot. Actually, I listened to all of these songs a lot, I rarely listened to anything else. What a diverse child I was.
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