Love, The Doors, The Animals, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Piaf, Connie Francis and other older music
The PoguesThe CureREMThe RieversFairground AttractionKate Bush (Experiment IV)Dr Calculus (Designer Beatnik)
― *tera, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
in '97 some of my favorite recent records were by Ben Folds Five, Skeleton Key, Timbaland & Magoo, the Geraldine Fibbers and Spiritualized, while I was delving into the back catalogs of Elvis Costello, A Tribe Called Quest, Fugazi, the Velvet Underground, etc.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
15 was cool cause that was the year i re-figured out that mainstream rap wasn't evil
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
Prince, Rolling Stones, Billy Joel
― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
in '97 it was impossible to ignore how evil it was, or to resist it (xpost)
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
just saying, bumping the blueprint sure beat the hell out of blackalicious
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra, Wendy/Walter Carlos, AM radio, the STAR WARS soundtrack, very early MTV, smattering of punk rock with my reprobate friends.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
oh i know, i was just thinking of my own milder grappling with mainstream/non-mainstream rap at 15
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I even knew what "underground rap" was until freshman year of college.
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah as a teenager for me it was mostly puffy vs. not-puffy, nothing more obscure than black star
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, April 30, 2012 8:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel this way about indie rock
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
j5, dilated, and pre-fergie BEPs used to get a small amount regular radio play here tho circa 98-02. you didn't have to dig that deep to find that stuff. blackalicious were like one level down the corny west coast underground rap pyramid.
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
Zeppelin, Beatles, Iron Butterfly, Hendrix, Kraftwerk. And (as a concession to the then present-day) the hippest sounds that '82-83 AM radio had to offer ("Electric Avenue", "Da Da Da", "1999" and "I Ran" in particular.)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
In Florida in the 90s we had Rap City on BET. Anything subterranean was early No Limit, Suave House and Jam Pony cassette tapes. I saw Dr. Octagon on 120 Minutes, I guess.
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
we had BET but it shared a channel with the CHANNEL GUIDE CHANNEL FFS until like '02 and cut out to tell you what was on nbc and espn right when you heard "rap titty...rap titty"
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
mostly the original versions of the motown songs performed on the early seasons of american idol, which, you know, were probably better than the stuff i've listened to since officially getting into music
― snack, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
1993/4Public Image Ltd, Pink Floyd, Wire, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Stooges, Joy Division, Ramones, Residents, Rolling Stones, Negativland
About 2/3 of what I listened to was culled from the pages of the Trouser Press Record Guide. (Now it's only about half.)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
luckily i got full-time BET in time to see killer mike rap about the stickers
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i knew what it was until they invented it, when i was about 25
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Pavement and Massive Attack when I was 13. Does that give me cool points or does it reduces them?
― Moka, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
i think you know the answer to that question
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
At 12, Throwing Muses and Pixies, courtesy of an older cousin deeply into 4AD (this was mid-90s Norway). Christmas Eve, 1996, 10pm, "Debaser". Fuck me, what an eye-opener that was.
Then alt-rock extravaganza all through my teenge years. Pumpkins, Jane's, assorted grunge (stuck to first generation, mostly, thank god), Weezer etc.
― Mule, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
I definitely think I was cooler than most people my age at the time who were listening to Spice Girls, Guns N Roses and Metallica but judging by ILM's standards I don't know.
― Moka, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 08:35 (twelve years ago) link
Pavement's pretty cool.. I didn't get them until way later.
― Mule, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Fifteen for me is 1994, so anything that was on the pop stations of that time, mostly embarrassing stuff like Ace of Base, The Cranberries, Enigma (LOL), U2, REM, etc.
― musicfanatic, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
I turned fifteen in 92. Things I remember listening to include:
NirvanaPublic EnemyNed's Atomic Dusbin (God Fodder was the first CD I ever bought.)Beastie BoysIce-T - O.G.Black SheepRed Hot Chili PeppersLemonheadsMatthew Sweet - GirlfriendINXSU2 - Achtung Baby
Obviously not exceptionally cool or anything, but I still like most of this stuff.
I think it was the next year that I started getting into indie rock, etc.
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
1983 - Mill Valley, CA
The Smiths, The English Beat, Simple Minds, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure, Adam Ant
I had switched over from KRQR, an AOR format like the ones I had grown up in the Sierras to KQAK, 'The Quake' 'rock of the 80's' format, essentially leaving behind 60's and 70's classic rock for post-punk and new wave, to some extent impelled by MTV and by the New Wave girls in high school who I lusted after. A friend of mine came back from England w/The Smiths first album which he made a cassette of for me just before I left that summer to tour around Britain on a BritRail pass. That album seemed more moving than any of the pop we were listening to and even more dangerous than any of the gothy poses out there.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
1998/1999 - by this point I thought I was really too cool for school - Air, Bad Religion, Belle & Sebastian, Beck, Daft Punk, Fugazi, Imperial Teen, Komeda, Lush, Luna, Moby, Quasi, Radiohead, Sebadoh, Stereolab, Sunny Day Real Estate, Tool, Weezer, Yo La Tengo
― skip, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Turned 15 in july 1985. That was the combustion year for me-- I didn't stop liking synth pop (saw Howard Jones at the St. Paul Civic Center touring Dream Into Action!) but SST stuff and Sire Records art-haircut stuff teamed up to overhaul my world. Plus Robyn Hitchcock and Foetus. The influence of Greg at Rockhead Records & Tapes on Wabasha in downtown St. Paul (who looked exactly like John Waite) is all over my 1985 shift.
It was also the year I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, the year I started reading indie comix and the first time a girl I liked liked me back (I blew the chance ;_;). So all in all, super pivotal on every level. I think this would have roughly been my top 10:
Husker Du - New Day RisingMinutemen - Double Nickels on the DimeMeat Puppets - Up On The SunBlack Flag - My WarNew Order - Power, Corruption and LiesFoetus - HoleThe Fall - Wonderful And Frightening World OfThomas Dolby - The Flat EarthEcho & The Bunnymen - PorcupineRobyn Hitchcock - Fegmania
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
It's safe to say that every single person on this thread was a cooler 15-year-old than I was, lol.
― musicfanatic, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
the best concert i saw when i was 15 was THE HORDE FESTIVAL, but at least it was the semi-cool year that they had Neil Young, Spiritualized, Soul Coughing, Morphine, Primus, Beck, etc.
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
I just realized that the first show I ever saw was when I was fifteen -- Helmet / Faith No More at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC.
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently I liked New Order (see shirt), Depeche Mode (see wall), and The Replacements (see below) I liked lots of other stuff too, but these pictures were the funnier than a list of bands I liked. http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4030/4708560877_a83a99844d.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6718436027_a8c0ffb9ee.jpg
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
1990 btw
actually i might have been aaaaalmost 16 there -- it was the summer before i turned 16, so 1991
I am in my 1985 yearbook with a New Order shirt and porcupine hair
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
that was my attic bedroom. i loved it so much! it was like having an apartment all to myself. i had a record player, a cassette player, a radio, tons of magazines, scissors, tape, and sometimes my friends would come over and write all over the walls. good times. some of the writing is still there.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol, jon lewis' list = exactly what i was listening to in 1985, when i was 18. plus the butthole surfers, big black, homestead's speed trials comp, replacements, gun club, cramps, etc. definitely wasn't into that kind of stuff when i was 15, though. at 15, i was much closer to musicfanatic (though 12 years prior).
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
lol <3 those lechera pix
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
I wrote all over my damn bedroom walls too, in sharpie. Drew the bird from the cover of Meat Puppets' Out My Way.
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
hoping someone will step in here and say "All I did when I was fifteen was listen to Rene & Angela records."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
i had small discreet shrine to marty willson-piper near my vanity mirror -- what do i win?
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3549/3487401534_066bd048d8.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wDkOwxqKmsM/SN5nB2R0bAI/AAAAAAAABw4/Izv49biRb1c/s400/Byrds+-+Mr+Tambourine+Man+pic+sleeve.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
dow, if you were 15 when the above hits were new, then I must relinquish to you my sobriquet as "ilx's oldest known non-lurker". I'd count that as a huge relief.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
XTCGreen (the Chicago pop-punk-soul band, not the Scritti Politti singer)James Brownthe ReplacementsHusker DuElvis CostelloMidnight OilPrincethe WhoPink Floyd
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
Stereotypes of a high school sophomore misunderstood, but it's still all good:
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me OutSelby Tigers - Year of the TigersPavement - Brighten The CornersRadiohead - OK ComputerPixies - DoolittleX - Under The Big Black SunStereolab - Emperor Tomato KetchupBjork - HomogenicCibo Mato - Viva! La WomanPublic Enemy - It Takes a Nation...Tricky - Pre-Millenium TensionPortishead - PortisheadAtari Teenage Riot - Burn, Berlin, Burn
― d3rs, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 08:00 (twelve years ago) link
When I was 14/15, my friends and I would go to the record shop nearly every day and buy up cut-out cassette singles for 25p each. Most of them were awful, but I discovered dEUS through that, and a couple of other neat things.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
No worries, I was listening to Ace of Base and Enigma too. And I still like them today.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha when I was 18, I made a bunch of my friends lie on the floor of my parents' darkened family room and meditate while blasting the first Enigma album
I don't know what is more amazing, the fact that I suggested this or the fact that THEY DID IT
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link