What you loved when you were 10

[dave from knoxville]

One of the few good things about being old? When I was 10, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, the Stones, Otis Redding, Tommy James, the Kinks, Hendrix, Dylan and Johnny Cash all had top ten hits. And for an ever 10, Marty Robbins.

[Bryan]

I spent a good portion of my time drawing crappy pictures of Ninja Turtles and selling them to the 3rd graders for their milk money.

This is hilarious.

[Geoff Johnston]

I was waaaay into Hall & Oates when I was 10.  In fact, my first concert was H&O at Nassau Coliseum w/opening act...


[wait for it]


...'Til Tuesday.

[JonFromMaplewood]

A girl named Suzanne who lived next door. I imagined she was my girlfriend, which entailed nothing more above and beyond things as they actually were, except that we would maybe hug after we stopped riding our bikes all over town.

But I guess that is "who" I loved. Not "what" I loved.

What I loved:


The "Salem's Lot" TV miniseries (scared the pants off of me)
Playing with my dog
"The Empire Strikes Back"
Steve Martin's "A Wild And Crazy Guy"
Roller skates
"That's Incredible"
"Hello, Larry"
Going to the beach
Riding my bike
The White Album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, and pretty much anything else my brother put on his record player.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Videogames (this being 1980, mainly Asteroids and Pac Man).
I think computers, although that may have started at 11.
Airplanes.
Drawing cartoons and making little books of them.
The library.
Swimming.
The Muppets/Muppet Show.
The Pink Panther movies (Peter Sellers).
M*A*S*H.

Oh, this was supposed to be about music. I seem to recall I liked the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Hall and Oates. Possibly John 'Cougar' Mellencamp because the local stations played his stuff relentlessly.

[gravy boat]

I liked Billy Joel and Queen and Hall & Oates (1980). I used to listen to a nightly top 10 countdown on WNBC radio (AM). Billy Joel owned that thing for while. Around that time, we had a class trip to WNBC studios and they gave us each 45's of ...  Kenny Roger's "Lady." A slow ballad by a country guy? I was crushed.

I liked football and baseball and collecting cards for each.  Cripes, I loved TV - Different Strokes, Happy Days, Dukes of Hazzard, 3's Company, CHiPs, Facts of Life, Soap (one of the few that my mom and I both liked).

All in all, very average, except that I loved, obsessively, playing with these action figures by Fisher Price called "Adventure People."  They were just regular action figures (not from a comic or Star Wars) but they came with things I guess I thought were cool like a kayak and a parachute. No other kid I knew liked playing with action figures as much as I did, and no other kid I knew played with these.

[Amplituden]

Skateboards and Skateboarding.

I still think its really cool.  If I had a zillion dollars I would buy up all the Mark Gonazales related paraphanalia available.

[Trotskie]

All in all, very average, except that I loved, obsessively, playing with these action figures by Fisher Price called "Adventure People."  They were just regular action figures (not from a comic or Star Wars) but they came with things I guess I thought were cool like a kayak and a parachute. No other kid I knew liked playing with action figures as much as I did, and no other kid I knew played with these.

I liked them because they were made of tough stuff.  Bury a Star Wars figure a couple of times and the heads popped off.

[samir]

...cos they be kickin' the flava that make you wanna jump.

[Amplituden]

I liked Billy Joel and Queen and Hall & Oates (1980). I used to listen to a nightly top 10 countdown on WNBC radio (AM). Billy Joel owned that thing for while. Around that time, we had a class trip to WNBC studios and they gave us each 45's of ...  Kenny Roger's "Lady." A slow ballad by a country guy? I was crushed.

I liked football and baseball and collecting cards for each.  Cripes, I loved TV - Different Strokes, Happy Days, Dukes of Hazzard, 3's Company, CHiPs, Facts of Life, Soap (one of the few that my mom and I both liked).

All in all, very average, except that I loved, obsessively, playing with these action figures by Fisher Price called "Adventure People."  They were just regular action figures (not from a comic or Star Wars) but they came with things I guess I thought were cool like a kayak and a parachute. No other kid I knew liked playing with action figures as much as I did, and no other kid I knew played with these.

I liked all those things too!

My little nephew and I  play "Adventure People" at my parents house. Still fun.

[bonnaventure]

I think there is a reason I am agreeing with a lot of these things.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and the Muppet Show were two things that probably brought me to this point of posting on a message board for a radio show that happens in New Jersey?

[fonpr]

I think there is a reason I am agreeing with a lot of these things.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and the Muppet Show were two things that probably brought me to this point of posting on a message board for a radio show that happens in New Jersey?

Dr Demento and Casey Kasem

[dave from knoxville]

When I was 10, I loved Batman, The Monkees, and Chef Boy-r-dee

[chinapig]

I was waaaay into Hall & Oates when I was 10.  In fact, my first concert was H&O at Nassau Coliseum w/opening act...


[wait for it]


...'Til Tuesday.

my first concert was Bob Dylan





the opening act was Aimee Mann



 

[Barry Egan]

Baseball Cards
John Elway
Metallica's Master of Puppets (the result of having a "cool" older sister)
Cats, of course