― alext (alext), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 26 August 2002 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 26 August 2002 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Winkelmann, Monday, 26 August 2002 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 26 August 2002 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 26 August 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 26 August 2002 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Calum, Monday, 26 August 2002 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Dils
― autovac, Monday, 26 August 2002 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Beckhouse, Monday, 26 August 2002 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maura (maura), Monday, 26 August 2002 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
Can I also add that the Sugababes are fab too? Some of the best pop I've heard in donkey's years.
Has anyone mentioned 'Acetone' by Kenickie? Dire band but top song. Not worthy or being mentioned in the same breath as 'Wuthering Heights' etc obviously, but just thought I'd give it a wee mention all the same...
― Calum, Monday, 26 August 2002 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 26 August 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
i don't know why i picked that.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 26 August 2002 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 26 August 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Kenickie's first album had some AMAZING moments on it -- since I can't remember many of the song titles, I'll go with the single, "In Your Car."
― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 26 August 2002 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
Plus 'Girl From Mars' + 'Oh Yeah' ~ Ash.
― DavidM (DavidM), Monday, 26 August 2002 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 26 August 2002 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 August 2002 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Took the words right out of my mouth.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 26 August 2002 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 August 2002 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith, Monday, 26 August 2002 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 26 August 2002 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 26 August 2002 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― patrick, Monday, 26 August 2002 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, the original "Golden Lights" is terrific, and so is "Mickey", though it's a bit retro sounding for '68. Don't know much else, though--I've never heard her biggest hit, the motorcyle boy teen death ballad "Terry."
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 26 August 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 03:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Vince Clarke -- and I believe he was, yes. (Gore only wrote a couple of songs on Speak and Spell and has never cowritten a song with Gahan -- indeed, Gahan's never written any song for Depeche at all!)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Production values aside, Graham Smith of Kleenex Girl Wonder wrote about loads of amazing pop songs as a teenager which would have been top 40 hits in a sane universe. I'd pick "Tendency Right Foot Forward" as my favorite...it's like the Rushmore soundtrack as written and performed by its teenage protagonist.
I think Ellen Dedrick of the Free Design was a teen when she wrote "Never Tell The World"...not a hit but an unbelievably gorgeous and heartbreaking pop song. And Lesley Gore didn't write "You Don't Own Me" but she picked it herself, which is pretty amazing.
― Clyde, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Ben Folds wrote "Underground" when he was 17 as well)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― spiffy james, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
You people have odd definitions for "Top 40-friendly, bubbly, girl/boy music."
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
(I was suprised too when I found that out.)
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
She was a prefab dance-pop wave-rider who WROTE HER OWN SONGS. Now go write yr own...
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 04:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― thom west (thom w), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 12:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Carey, Thursday, 29 August 2002 12:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 29 August 2002 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff (Jeff), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 30 August 2002 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 30 August 2002 03:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Old thread! I came up with a list of favorites..., with several songs mentioned in this thread.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 January 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
Surprised no one mentioned Laura Nyro here. She was 19 when her first lp came out and it contained three future top 10 hits by other artists.
btw I doubt Corina recorded "Tempation" as a teen - my source says she was born in '63
― Josefa, Friday, 12 January 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
just popping in to say that lorde sucks! kthx
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
Soto's list seems p decent though, gj
― #TeamHailing (imago), Friday, 12 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Beyonce was 19 when "Bootylicous" was released
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
Lisa Lisa was 16 when "I Wonder If I Take You Home" and "Can You Feel the Beat" came out (did not write them, p sure)
― Josefa, Friday, 12 January 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
Van wrote "Gloria" when he was 18.
― that's not my post, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
If Will You Love Me Tomorrow is the greatest pop song ever then it's also the best teen pop song written by a teenager.
― abcfsk, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
Most of it ain't bubbly but do not sleep on Janis Ian's early material. Astoundingly precocious and legitimately good. She wrote 'Society's Child' at 13!
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 January 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
('At Seventeen' was the middle-aged rumination she dropped at the crusty old age of 24, after a decade in the biz.)
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
Absolute must for this thread: the Chantels (still 15 when their first singles were released in 1957). More obscure: Margaret Mandolph (13) and the incredible "I Wanna Make You Happy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6voP88PZEk
― clemenza, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
(I think that's Bread's David Gates with the production credit--the single came out in 1965.)
― clemenza, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
I think this might win, although Goffin was 21! I had no idea they were so young
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
"Gimme Some Lovin'"
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
What I meant to say above was that Arelene Smith of the Chantels was 15--the rest of them were older, I think.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 January 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 January 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
Prince promoted the song by lip-syncing it with his band on The Midnight Special and American Bandstand, where he gave host Dick Clark an awkward interview, answering his questions with one-word answers.[4] Prince claimed to be 19 but was 21 at the time. Clark later said, "That was one of the most difficult interviews I've ever conducted, and I've done 10,000 musician interviews."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_Your_Lover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_Your_Lover
was going to suggest Prince "I Wanna Be Your Lover" but
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 January 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:15 (yesterday) Permalink
this is what immediately came to mind. the best. carole king is the absolute best.
the early / mid 1960s stuff is so so so essential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY3gr_d8kCg
and this brenda lee cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knrJDz05dcM
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Jackie DeShannon - Buddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGoEH2Yve8w
she wasn't an established songwriter at the time, but I can easily imagine this becoming a hit if she'd pitched it to someone like Brenda Lee or Wanda Jackson. she wrote the underrated Brenda Lee song Funny Feelin a few years later when she was 19.
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Sunday, 14 January 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
How 'bout "Shivers" by Rowland S Howard?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link