What did the kids you didn't like at school listen to?

Grebos: Grunge, Punk, Metal, Britpop etc. Anything without guitars or that featured keyboards or samples was considered "rave music". That is until the day Firestarter came out and then it was okay to like techno.

Ravers: Hip-Hop, Jungle, R'n'B (or Swing as they called it then), Pop, Trance.

ME: Do you still listen to Pantera?
METAL HEAD: Fuck yeah! Do you still listen to Dinosaur Faggot Fucking Junior?
ME: Yeah.
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Ah yes, my one moment of 9th grade glory.

wanna finish the verse and relive that glory?

I think I can still somehow rap the whole of "boom shake the room".

what about

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Well at least that's how I rapped it. Did he really say "take a chomp out a candle"? You wouldn't be able to taste food for days. Waxy waxy.

"Wax a chump like a candle" is the lyric
yes I am the biggest dork you've ever heard of

anybody wants to clown us can fuck off. Everyone had that record it sold a bazillion copies.

WOOHOO!

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The Wu is coming through at a theater near you and get funk like a shoe. What?
Ok think I better go get some sleep. That was fun

Hm. There is no excuse for that 1,000th Kanye West thread, then.

These were the ones I *really* didn't like, the ones I just didn't like much, which was almost everyone else, listened to much the same grunge/Britpop sump as myself

I was a punk, but there were people that I didn't like in all of the above. It depends if you define them by the music they like, which is a bit daft, or whether you like them personally. Also, me and my closest friends also liked virtually all the above musics in addition to our base camp of punkiness. Except probably prog, which had been deemed untouchable by punk law.

Each Friday there was a school disco in which all of these factions met in a huge soundclash. I have fond memories of dancing to the likes of The Pistols, Motown, Donna Summer, The Specials and Abba in quick succession. There were certain recds which united the whole dancefloor e.g 'Gangsters', Heatwave's 'Boogie Nights' and for some unfathomable reason The Sweet's 'Love Is Like Oxygen'! (Great guitar riff that 'Na Na Na-Na-Nar Na Na-Na-Nar...'

bizarrely, the only music of mine they tolerated was Erykah Badu.

Oh yeah...the rednecks/hicks...bad country...Skoal-chewin' boot-wearin' pickup-drivin' cousin-marryin' neanderthals.

You actually had teds at your school Doc? Wow!

At the school I was at we just had an unwritten rule that everyone who wasn't actually a punk was considered a de-facto ted for the purposes of (regularly) kicking the crap out of the punks!

The punks at my school 1977-79 = me + my mate Cally.

Come to think of it, no-one was (or at least, no-one admitted to being) into Northern Soul or Disco either as far as I can remember (I suspect that to have done would have been considered tantamount to openly pronouncing yourself to be a homosexual = a sub-human life form almost as deplorable as those damned punks).

In fact as far as I can remember the school I attended 1977-79 contained 498 kids wearing flares, cowboy boots, wing collars, kipper ties, tweed jackets and tank-tops; and 2 wearing drainpipes, DM's, ripped shirts, skinny ties, leather jackets and a permananently worried expression!

Best days of your life, right?

**Come to think of it, no-one was (or at least, no-one admitted to being) into Northern Soul or Disco either as far as I can remember (I suspect that to have done would have been considered tantamount to openly pronouncing yourself to be a homosexual = a sub-human life form almost as deplorable as those damned punks)**.

That's interesting. Maybe there were some benefits to being in a backwater oop North - by and large at my school most kids just liked what they liked without worrying about being cool or what other people thought. I have to say that everyone was a bit suspicious of the 7 or 8 Teds - they were a pretty strange bunch.

I ran into him a few years ago, and he’s now the REVEREND Theodore B.!

1. Vice is Nice
2. New Thing
3. Used By You
4. Hang Onto Yourself (Bowie)
5. Blockbuster (Sweet)
6. Hovis-land
7. Stop Hanging Round
8. Paranoid (Black Sabbath)

Should I know what a "Ted" is?

Needless to say, rap/hiphop had virtually NO audience at that particular point in the time-space continuum.

Ahhhh....those were the days, eh?

All the kinds I hated at school like, in retrospect, really great Hip Hop, R&B, and rave music. They did not see the genius of Sebadoh and Love Battery.

OH GOD YOU COULDN'T BE MORE OTM!

I remember in 9th grade (around '96-97) the kids who listened to ska, Sublime and Christian punk I wanted to kill (no, not literally). Their music was so peppy and happy and I was so bitter and hateful and resentful. There were also a couple of "Satanists" who were kinda scary to a naive dipshit like myself. They were into My Life With the Thrill Kull Kult and 80's Wax Trax stuff. I actually liked the fact that they were there to creep out all the christian punks and hippie assholes, but I was scared of them too.

The guys I didn't like were into very little really. Occassionally, someone would hold up a Level 42 album or a copy of "Brothers in Arms" in class and suggest it was good. It didn't cross over all that much at school and people didn't get in each others' way much. I did get a slagging once for playing The Stranglers' "Black and White" in the common room once. Someone pulled it out and stuck on the Dee-Lite album. That said, we never got into any grief for liking the Smiths or Spacemen 3.

We *certainly* didn't have any northern soul fans at school.

I do hope you slew them all for that.

!!!!!!

Grade school:  A lot of Madonna and Michael Jackson in the early years, followed by hair metal (e.g. Poison, Motley Crue) in the "middle school" years. The only one I actually found reason to like was Madonna.

High school:  Some of the same things I liked to listen to, as well. "Alternative" music was huge at the time and so a lot of the school's population was listening to that, though I never heard anyone else extolling the glories of Liz Phair. My closest HS friends were actually those people who shared with me almost no common ground musically.

College:  I didn't take note of the few people I didn't like at this time.

Nothing but Pantera.

-- Alex in NYC

Meow!

Probably the reason I abjectly loathe the Gratefuel Dead and the Allman Brothers and Little Feat is because of the hackey-sackin', BMW-drivin' human swill that vociferously extolled their merits in between fingerful's of pungent chewing tobacco.

(Double meow!) C'mon Alex, don't hold back: Tell us what you really think!

Some kids I liked had musical tastes I didn't get, but then when punk happened, they all foreswore off ELP and the like. But, hey: I Remember...