I believe Todd Rundgren was 19 when he wrote "Hello It's Me"
― Number None, Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Robin Gibb (b. 22/12/49) had a hand in a fair few. As did Maurice, for that matter. (Andy Fraser was 17 when we wrote "All Right Now btw).
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
Christian Wolff was 17/18 when wrote this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDKXlMnhdT4
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
Elliott Smith - Condor Avenue
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Ha, I compiled a similar list a few days ago.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Oh I bumped this thread because I saw your list but wanted to expand the idea beyond pop! Good list though
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
Cardiac Arrest - A Balloon For Bertie's Party
I've read that As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea was written in 1976 so he would have been around 14. It's one of my favourite songs.
The 2005 'rehearsal' version if anyone needs evidence. Also one of the best things on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/N5QYijFfOaQ
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
Felix Mendelssohn and George Enescu's string octets, written when they were 16 and 19, respectively. Here's a quality performance of the latter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugv_o2XsJoE
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
nobody mentioned Rowland S Howard's 'Shivers'?!?!
― whitehallunity, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
George Michael was 17 when he wrote "Careless Whisper."
― Ex Slacker, Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
McCartney wrote « When I’m 64 » when he was 15. It might not be « great » though!
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
It isn't.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Monday, 15 January 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rfGKIMwpJk
― mick signals, Monday, 15 January 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
That album by Jethro Tull, written by Gerald Bostock..
:-)
― Mark G, Monday, 15 January 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
entirety of Fiona Apple's Tidal, but especially "Sleep to Dream" and "Shadowboxer".
― Roz, Monday, 15 January 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
totally otm Roz
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Just realised Matt Johnson wrote Icing Up when he was still a teenager. I think it's one of the greatest songs ever written tbh
― imago, Monday, 6 August 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
Billy Nicholls wrote Daytime Girl when he was 18
(by contrast, "boy genius" Brian Wilson was 20 when he wrote the enduring surfpop masterpieces 'Cuckoo Clock' and 'Heads You Win, Tails I Lose')
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
those are my favorite songs on Pet Sounds
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
Kate Bush wrote The Man With The Child In His Eyes when she was 13. Beat that.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 05:17 (five years ago) link
</simon day voice>
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 07:15 (five years ago) link
40. To Know Him is to Love Him - Teddy Bears
Still my choice for the eeriest no. 1 single. A teenage love song inspired by the words on a father's gravestone after he commits suicide. Also the fact that Spector's father killed himself in 1949 in NY and the Teddy Bears released the song in LA in 1958, so Spector must have had the words rattling around in his head for all those years...and suddenly he turns it into a song of teenage angst amid the California sunshine.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link
Most of the first Supergrass album.
― chap, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link