It was 1979 and I listened to everything because it was all great.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 30 April 2012 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
1989/90 - a steady diet of Disintegration and Nothing's Shocking
― sarahell, Monday, 30 April 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
late 80s. i was taping a bunch of pop tunes from the radio and basically had no clue about other stuff beyond the mainstream realm. i started getting into post punk, goth and underground music at 16/17.
― cock chirea, Monday, 30 April 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
1993-4. Mainly thrash and death metal, a little bit of grunge and industrial. About a year off getting into electronic music via NIN and the Prodigy.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 30 April 2012 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
whoa i am way younger than everybody responding to this question
― caulk the wagon and float it, Monday, 30 April 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of people saying dEUS. It's a wonder they didn't become the biggest band in the whole world at some point.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh no just me and seandalai
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
Faith No MoreDag NastyOzzy OsbourneMetallicaLed ZeppelinJimi HendrixPink FloydDead KennedysAngry SamoansLords of AcidBlues TravellerBlack CrowesMinutemenSinead O'ConnorThe Jean-Paul Sartre ExperienceSmokin Dave and the Premo DopesJane's AddictionThe Pixies
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I forgot Bonnie Raitt and k.d. lang
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
Peter GabrielThe BeatlesPeter MurphyBlue AeroplanesPrinceThe CureSinead O'Connor
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
I also forgot the Butthole Surfers
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
I also forgot Eazy E!!! Fuck.D.O.C.Public EnemyN.W.A.
At age 15 I had banished my love of Michael Jackson and Prince and Madonna etc to some kind of purgatory of soft-rock pre-consciousness, what they call "the full rockism"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Phish Jethro TullThe ToastersThe Specialshttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61DEN0W6EFL._SL500_AA300_.gifJanis JoplinJimi HendrixBlues TravellerDead KennedysMudhoneyOperation IvyBeastie BoysJane's Addiction
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
Bad Religion
DeathThe Grateful DeadMinor Threat
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man I also forgot about the amount of time I spent listening to Fishbone.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Was anybody listening to this at 15?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajyzvqVZiM
― henry s, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
in 1980, The Jam, Stranglers, Tom Robinson Band, Beatles and a bit of disco.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
If there was the internet when I was 15 (there wasn't, it was early '90s) my listening tastes would have been completely different. I was a slave to the radio, specifically KISS FM, London. The specialist shows, House, Techno, Soul & R&B, Jazz ... pencil and pad in hand scribbling down songs so that I could follow up with purchases in Soho record shops..
― mmmm, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Odd thinking that I would hear something once and then completely forget what it sounded like until I eventually tracked it down physically.
― mmmm, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Will have to look for that xpost Club Ska '67--unseasonably hot springtime, and I crave ska not reggae (weather makin me antsy) This is what I was listening to at 15http://images.wikia.com/beatles/images/4/4d/Beatles_65_Album_Cover.jpg
― dow, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
also
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/polls/344000/344484_1261331588711_full.jpg
― dow, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
1990, kind of a jumble from what I recall:
Pixies, RHCP, Rush, Pat Metheny Group, Yes, Steely Dan, Public Enemy, R.E.M., Joy Division, Frank Zappa
― Moodles, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
The Animals, Animal Tracks--a military dependent buddy brought this from UK, better cover than US, and some diff tracks, don't remember which was a better selection, if either--what the hell, it was the Animals!http://www.sentimento.pl/images/AnimTr1.jpg
― dow, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
1982...tie between MDC, Echo & The Bunnymen and Afrika Bambaata. yes, a lot of NDW too.
― meisenfek, Monday, 30 April 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
...forgot an "a"
― meisenfek, Monday, 30 April 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
fuck you're all so cool.
me @ 15 = 1983
madness - various duck rock - malcolm mclarenthomas dolby - golden age of wirelessdavid bowie - lodger/scary monsters/lets dance
― mark e, Monday, 30 April 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
ben folds fivedave matthews banddream theater
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
1998also getting into radiohead
for some reason no one liked to listen to music with me
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think you know the reason all too well mad god.
― mark e, Monday, 30 April 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
That year it would have been
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Gimme Back My Bullets"Steve Miller, "Fly Like an Eagle"Rolling Stones, "Black and Blue"Boz Scaggs, "Silk Degrees"
and some older stuff. And the radio.
― Brad C., Monday, 30 April 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Brad C, I am one album younger than you. At 15 I was listening to
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Street Survivors"Steve Miller, "Book of Dreams"Rolling Stones, "Some Girls"Boz Scaggs, "Down Two, Then Left"
Also older stuff and the radio.
― henry s, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
1985- Muncie, IndianaLed ZeppelinRushThe PoliceJimi HendrixIron MaidenThe WhoThe ScorpionsYesTriumphOzzy/SabbathPrince (It was 1985, everybody listened to Prince. We had this little dude at my highschool that used to come to school dressed like him, white flowing shirt and weird boots with heels.)
Around that time I probably heard The Clash, Violent Femmes and Black Flag around there for the first time or so. I know Metallica was '86 as I heard them right before seeing them open for Ozzy. I know I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn in 86 and I probably heard him for the first time in 85.
I know I was also a die-hard WFBQ (Q-95) listener, where Bob & Tom started and still are to this day. It wasn't "classic rock" quite yet, it was just rock. So all that Bob Seger and Mellancamp was pretty much heard all the time too.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
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