what was the coolest band/artist you were into when you were 17?

This was like 2002/2003, so I was mostly listening to stuff from the burgeoning mashup scene (or Bootleg/Bastard Pop as it was known then) like Go Home Productions and other stuff that was being posted on the likes of Boom Selection and GYBO. And I was listening to the early recording of some guy named Neil.

So in other words, nothing cool.

seems like "what was the coolest band/artist you were into when you were 13?" would be more interesting, or more fun anyway

― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Monday, September 12, 2016 8:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is true because the idea that something is "cooler" than something else probably only makes sense to a 13 year old

(not trying to be facetious)

Coolest album I bought when I was 13 was Massive Attack but I didn't really listen to anything but Teardrop, I just saw that singing phoetus video on MTV and loved it. 3 years later or so I finally listened to the rest and was mindblown.

I guess Nirvana, Cafe Tacuba and Smashing Pumpkins were the 'cool' bands I listened to when I was 13. Either that or the Vengaboys and Aqua.

mine was probably a new kids on the block record/tape or something i don't even remember

thought i was pretty bad ass

hangin' tough

at 13...hmmm, maybe Run DMC? And I liked "Perfect Way" by Scritti Politti. Not even sure I owned any records at that point.

i was 17 in '94 = blues explosion, velvet underground, can, black sabbath, stereolab, sonic youth, nirvana, beastie boys, sebadoh

when i was 8 my favourite two bands were xtc and the cure, favourite album pornography ^_^

I was 13 in 1992, which is when I went from Gr 8 to Gr 9, i.e. elementary to high school. I don't think any of the rock music I listened to was that cool in elementary school but I distinctly remember going up a little in the estimation of the other guys in Gr 9 science class because I owned Badmotorfinger. Classic Yes and Moving Pictures were probably the least cool.

damn i when i was 17 i was obsessed with bitches brew and close to the edge and im still obsessed with them... fucking depressing :(

13 for me was the Replacements, the Clash, Husker Du, R.E.M., Velvets, MC5, Moby Grape, the Jam, U2, '60s garage (the '80s Rhino Nuggets compilations -- "The Hits," "Punk," "Pop," etc. -- had just come out), and my first foray into Who bootlegs (Philly '73).

Discovered all of the above within a 3-4 month period. Good times.

17 was Public Enemy, De La Soul, Green, and Sonic Youth, but mostly dominated by a Kinks obsession that lasted a solid 18 months.

When I was 17, I liked Spoon, Arcade Fire, and the Hold Steady--all bands that were cool then but are apparently lame now.

The Hold Steady are definitely not lame

I agree, just noting the movement of cool away from indie rock over the last decade (not that there's anything wrong with this)

13? i listened to mostly chart music from the radio, which these days i guess would make me a super-cool poptimist but in reality i just wasn't aware of the existence of anything other than chart music (and it's not like the late '80s were a golden age for chart music). i had a tape of def leppard's "hysteria", i loved that record a lot. and i was really bugging my mom to let me buy "appetite for destruction", which she did finally relent on.

i had both of those records

Hmm, coolest? Public Image Limited, and Kraftwerk.

Least cool? Ummm... oh the phone is ringing..