...more or less...
― donut e- (donut), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
For me, the Smashing Pumpkins had pretty much taken over my life, and I listened to Dark Side of the Moon almost every night before I went to bed. Also, I loved CCR, and didn't know music got much better than Live's Throwing Copper, Dookie, Weezer, and KISS: MTV Unplugged.
― PB, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
How much of everyone's tastes then was heavily influenced by what was available in the "Alternative" section of those music clubs?
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, man...i could just go on and on. this was right smack at the peak of OCD record/tape buying.
― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
JapanBauhausthe CureCocteau Twinsthe Waterboys for some reasonthe ChurchEcho & the Bunnymenthe Alarm (arrrrgh! wtf I was obsessed with them)
OK that was embarrasing.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Later in the same year I was listening to:The Sex PistolsThe RamonesThe ClashBlondieDevo and the next year 1980, well *that* was golden. 16 in 1980, going to ALL the punk/new wave shows....I'll have to wait for the "what were you listening to when you were 16" thread to tell you about that, old coot that I am.
― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link
...but it took me a while to own up to the stuff that I didn't WANT to remember...
Hothouse Flowers - Home [was on a weird Celtic kick, their Gaelic song prompted me to try to teach myself Gaelic with aid of a library book, failed miserably as you can imagine]Simple Minds - greatest hits [same Celtic kick. patchy, I know]Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse Of Reason (ugh. a guy I had a crush on copied it for me. I listened to it all the time while smitten. I still can't listen to it to this day without cringing)The Cream of Eric Clapton (same guy got me into this. but I actually still enjoy Cream, and fuck it, I can predict the tracklisting for this in my sleep!)U2 - Achtung BabyRatcat - I didn't like Blind Love much, but I was still wearing out the Tingles EPTwin Peaks soundtrack (wore this one OUT. Was even given the 'Secret Diary of Laura Palmer' book for my 15th birthday.)
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
alice cooper - killer & schools outled zeppelin - III & IVpeter frampton - wind of changeatomic rooster - death walks behind youhumble pie - smokinthe guess who - so long,bannatynethe who - who's nextfleetwood mac - bare treesrory gallagher - rory gallagherdeep purple - machine headcapt. beefheart - clear spot
...i am sure most kids in nanaimo,bc were listening to this stuff save for the beefheart. CKLG-FM used to be a lot more eclectic back then and "lo yo-yo stuff" [which i loved] was on pretty steady rotation back then.
― william (william), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Pretty much mainstream, you might say.
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO!
And Europop and rap too.
And (*gasp*) The Cranberries and Bangles.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and it was the year of "Music for the Jilted Generation", that was massive! It made the number one spot on the Finnish charts, the first time (I think) a techno record made such a feat back here, and I remember thinking, "OK, this the beginning of a new era! No more boring rock'n'roll!".
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link
mighty lemon dropsecho and the bunnymencurenew orderchameleonsthe theforgotten rebelsclashp/i/lultravoxbook of lovebauhauslove and rocketsdepeche modeviolent femmesjesus and mary chainfront 242the cultCFNY (toronto radio station)
― metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
fuck knows what else. 1977
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:06 (nineteen years ago) link
The Beatles, Mega City Four, Green Day... I can't really remember I was 16/17 when i started going mad for all sorts of different things.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
PixiesThe CureRideJesus & Mary ChainThe SmithsWonder StuffCarter USMNirvanaSenseless ThingsSlowdiveSpacemen 3Sisters of MercyNed's Atomic DustbinThe Police"The Sound of the Suburbs" compilationBeatles/Stones/Animals/MonkeesThe Stranglers
This was the age I really became a CIF I think!! Prior to 15 I primarily listened to house/hip hop and Queen.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Never Understand in the spring, You Trip Me Up in the summer, Just Like Honey in the autumn, then Psychocandy just before Christmas. Interspersed with these were a couple of John Peel sessions, the first Primal Scream single, the Shop Assistants ep, and several attempts to dye white school shirts black.
― bham, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
BeatlesB-52sLiving Colourclassic rock radiopop radio
I didn't actually buy my first album until November of that year, so I guess I wouldn't say I was a hardcore music fan yet.
― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link
The Cult, U2, Microdisney, Duran Duran, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, The Cure, The Sugarcubes, A-ha, The The, Erasure, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti..
― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Sisters of MercyJoy DivisionNirvanaBauhausNew OrderMarch VioletsAlien Sex FiendSiouxsie & the BansheesFields of the NephilimSex Gang ChildrenThrobbing Gristle
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
bad years.
no ZTT yet, no J&MC, had yet to discover foetus, on-u, cabaret voltaire, shriekback, devo.
subsequently my listening was pretty dire. having said that Madness/2 tone still featured, little did i realise just how big an influence that Herbie Hancocks Future Shock and Malcolm McLarens Duck Rock would have on my future life.
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
mbv, blur, j&mc, sonic youth, cure, smiths, joy division, rem, huskers, clash, happy mondays, daisy chainsaw...the best stuff being played on 120 minutes and WPRI
― b b, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
All very typical really
― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Cocteau TwinsDepeche ModeDiamanda Galas NeubautenPTVCurrent 93Chris and Coseypretty much anything on 4AD Princemy mum raised me on disco, so that never went far away from me...New OrderSiouxsieErasureA-HaNocturnal EmissionsSevered HeadsJesus and Mary ChainSheila E. other things that I can't remember as I am at work.
― ebenoit, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Sisters of MercyJoy DivisionNirvanaBauhausNew OrderMarch VioletsAlien Sex FiendSiouxsie & the BansheesFields of the NephilimSex Gang ChildrenThrobbing Gristle"
Blimey, with the possible exceptions of The Nephs, that could have been '83-'84.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
I remember the one and only time I heard the Dolls on WNEW. The album had just come in to the studio and they decided to play side one track one. Afterward the DJ (I forget who, Pete Fornatale or someone like that) came on and said "I can guarantee that you'll never hear that again on this station." Haha, the Dolls have outlasted WNEW.
― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link