i think about this a lot, as i was 15 in 1982, and that seems like THE pivotal year in terms of my cultural development. it's when i really started to get into music in an active way, rather than just passively absorbing and reacting to the stuff that happened around me. some of my favorite albums circa 1982:
Cheap Trick - One On OneBlue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin and Some Enchanted EveningPrince - 1999The B-52's - The B-52'sDevo - Freedom of Choice and New TraditionalistsThe Buggles - The Age of Plastic (came late to several of these)Rush - Moving Pictures and Permanent WavesAdam Ant - Friend or FoeThe Cars - The Cars (side one of Shake It Up was cool too)AC/DC - Back In Black and Dirty DeedsBlondie - Parallel Lines (and some of the later stuff, too)The Police - Ghost In the MachinePink Floyd - The Wall and Dark Side of the MoonThe Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (along w Hot Rocks, a childhood staple)Roxy Music - AvalonThe Go-Go's - We Got the BeatThe Clash - Combat RockBilly Joel - Glass HousesTalking Heads - 77 (a gift from my dad, inaccessible aside from the hit, but kind of fascinating)Laurie Anderson - Big Science (similar to the talking heads - i didn't really "get it", but kept listening anyway)The J. Geils Band - Freeze FrameDire Straits - Love Over GoldMen at Work - Business As UsualSoft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
it will be noted that i wasn't digging terribly deep, i seem only to have liked music by white guys, and there's a lot of fairly embarrassing crap in that list. still, it all meant a great deal to me at the time. was getting tired of earlier favorites like KISS, my parents' beatles albums, abba's greatest hits and the star wars soundtrack.
a year or so later, my tastes would be upended by murmur, the violent femmes' debut, boys don't cry, speaking in tongues, peter gabriel, king crimson, and xtc
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Monday, 30 April 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
It was 2000-2001 when I was 15. This are the albums I remember buying and listening to the most those months... (several of these are actually 1998-1999 but I was catching up):
Amon Tobin - SupermodifiedBoards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To ChildrenBows - BlushDNTEL - Life Is Full Of PossibilitiesFour Tet - PauseGodspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a# infinitySigur Ros - Aegetis ByrjunSparklehorse - Good Morning Spider / It's A Wonderful LifeModest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About / The Lonesome Crowded West / The Moon & AntarcticaMúm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OkayRadiohead - Kid AA Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone / Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
Sort of typical... I remember my classmates and friends at the time listened to Manu Chao, Mogwai, Moonspell, Lostprophets, Incubus and Depeche Mode. There were several more, of course but those are the ones I remember.
― Moka, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
Ah yes, I forgot Cat Power! I was a huge fan of her and Modest Mouse at the time. I very rarely listen to them anymore tho.
― Moka, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
As for older stuff I think the Pixies and the Breeders consumed most of my listening iirc.
― Moka, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
95-96. Blur, the Boo Radleys, Bis, the whole Britpop brigade, dEUS, Cypress Hill, lots of grunge, not of Metallica. Nothing mindblowing tbh
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 30 April 2012 07:27 (twelve years ago) link
I was born in June 1979, so in 1994 and 1995 I was listening to mostly to electronic and dance music: trance, techno, jungle, rave, etc. Some of my favourite tracks from the were:
The Prodigy - Break & EnterWestbam - Wizards of the SonicMarusha - RavelandPaperclip People - ThrowLove Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.Lemon Interrupt (aka Underworld) - Dirty (the instrumental version with the Akira sample, not the later vocal version called "Dirty Epic")Moby - Everytime You Touch MeM.C. Sar & The Real McCoy - Automatic LoverBanco de Gaia - KincajouHardsequencer - Plastic FantasticULTRA-SONIC - Check Your HeadM-People - Moving on UpStakka Bo - Living It UpShy FX & UK Apache - Original NuttahSubnation - ScottieDJ Krome & Mr. Time - Ganja ManCypress Hill - Insane in the BrainWarren G. - RegulatorsMichelle Gayle - Sweetness (LTJ Bukem Remix)Toni Braxton - Another Sad Love SongErasure - Saturday Night
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
"some of my favourite tracks from that era were"
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
was a pretty hardcore music fan from a young age... I was raised in a very musical household, with a lot of Laurel Canyon folk, psych, bluegrass, and 70s Jesus music always playing, got heavily into 60s and 70s soul on my own at age 8 for some reason, and then metal and stoner rock at age 11 - as my worldview got a little darker (as it can when you enter middle school).
by age 15 - 1995 - I'd followed metal back into psychedelia and fell deeply in love with the Grateful Dead - who I realized pretty quickly were much more about shows than albums, and collected a lot of their live tapes.
things really opened up for me musically around that time - something about the whole nomadic philosophy around the Dead, their extended jams and use of drums and space,(plus my getting into head drugs) introduced me to beats/groove and abstraction, and I soon got obsessed with Sun Ra, hip hop, dancehall, and then raves - esp jungle/dnb - which, next to the Dead, was probably the other great musical love of my life
the whole crossover alternative thing happening though (well, the post-Nirvana stuff, with some exceptions) - and the wave of pop-punk and ska that followed - was totally beyond the pale for me, really rang false
― Chris S, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
it was 91 and i was listening to the geto boys, epmd, misfits, dead kennedys, sonic youth, jfa, gang starr, black flag, public enemy, fugazi
― JacobSanders, Monday, 30 April 2012 07:47 (twelve years ago) link
1989 - mostly Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Depeche Mode, Cure, Jesus & Mary Chain, Sisters of Mercy - plus assorted dance/hip hop hits like Bomb the Bass, S'Express, De La Soul, etc.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Monday, 30 April 2012 08:10 (twelve years ago) link
1977. Punk rock year-zero fundamentalism, informed by taping Peel every night I possibly could. Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Pere Ubu import singles, Peel sessions from The Slits / Banshees / Generation X / XTC / Adverts. Loads of singles, very few albums.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 30 April 2012 08:31 (twelve years ago) link
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