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