What was your favourite band at the age of 17, and do you still like/listen to them?

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For me, it was probably Joy Division (I turned 17 in 1981). A year earlier it would have been Bowie, a year later it still would have been Joy Division. Yes, I was that kind of male adolescent. And yes, I still have enormous respect for Joy Division, but I can't say I listen to them any more. Maybe once every 18 months. I find it a bit too painful to listen to, partly because of the nature of the material, partly because I find revisiting one's past difficult.

― H., Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure all the way, followed by New Order, JD and Siouxsie. I do find difficult to listen to certain specific albums which I listened to intensively during certain phases of my life, eg. both Godmachine albums, while others mak eme slightly nostalgic and melancholy, when they are associated with good times/friends that are now lost.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Motley Crue and yes, but for different reasons now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm, probably Devo and Motley Crue. Yup. BOTH. I've burned out on both, though. Unfortunate for Devo. I guess I listened to them TOO much, and they just don't seem as essential anymore. I still like 'em both...I just can't listen to either without gettin' bored.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

At 17, I was most heavily into Neil Young, The Who and Traffic.

I still like Neil a lot. Still tolerate the Who occasionally. Every few years able to listen to 2-3 Traffic songs.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Love & Rockets/Bauhaus.

I no longer have any of their records with me, but every time someone else puts one of them on, I get stupidly happy.

I went through a phase of being vaguely embarrassed by my love (you know, goth associations and all) but I've grown out of it.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

soundgarden (93). and no - i've matured since.
well my taste in music has at least.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clash. And yes.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just getting out of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Blur (in answer to the question - respectively, no and no. In the case of Blur it's cos they've gone crap rather than me becoming "mature").

I guess it was something like Pavement or Stereolab aged 17. They still sound pretty fucking cool at their best, although I can't say I throw either on much nowadays.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

1992: The Cure, The Smiths, Pixies, JAMC, New Order/JD, just getting into Blur, Saint Etienne and Denim?

Shityeah, still listening to all of it and loving 99% thereof.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Springsteen by far -- still put those records on occasionally.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking Heads, still is pretty much -- search the archives!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

1980. Probably The Damned (although that was also the year I discovered Killing Joke and I think they had probably overtaken by the end of the year). And yes.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Prodigy, yes (but only just)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(counts on fingers) 1982. Hawkwind. Yes.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly would have been the Beatles, but putting them aside (like a Chinese Restaurant that has one "Best of. . ." for five years in a row, and is now retired into Hall of Fame status so that other restaurants can have a shot at the title), I can't really say for sure. Joy Division kicked in for me more heavily a couple years later. I'll say Siouxsie and the Banshees for the sake of participating, since I do remember listening to them very heavily at that point, and even having a Siouxsie poster up. (I had totally forgotten about that poster until I saw a photo of myself recently in a family photo album.) I hardly ever listen to them now, but I still like some of their songs (mostly what's covered on Once Upon a Time).

― Al Andalous, Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was 17 I was totally addicted to the Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime (this was in 1988). I still listen to it a couple of times a year, even though the CD always throws me off because of the omitted songs.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

At 17, Beatles, Yes, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Living Colour, Rush, Led Zeppelin. I still listen to Beatles, and at least still have all my Queen and Zep albums.

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbital, The Stone Roses, Beastie Boys. 1996.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

How many tracks is Double Nickels supposed to have Phil? The CD I have contains 43 tracks, I thought that was what was on the LP.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Depeche Mode. Then, quite quickly, I went completely off them when I realised how daft the lyrics were. I didn't listen to them at all for nearly ten years. But in the last few months, I've started to play them a lot. Daft lyrics don't bother me anymore, especially when the tunes are so good.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite band at age 17 was Pavement, and now I'm 24 and my favorite band is still Pavement.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"How many tracks is Double Nickels supposed to have... "

The newest 80 minute release omits:
Mr. Robot's Holy Orders
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

Earlier CD versions ommitted a few other tracks also ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

That must've been 1996 *yeuch!*. So it must've been the Boo Radleys who are still luminaries in my eyes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

17? 1992, double nickels on the dime owned my life at that point in time. still does pretty much. I think there's 44 tracks on the lp. not including the car jams that start and end each side. which would make 48 on the cd proper?

― simon 803 (simon 803), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorites at 17 (1990) were The Cure, Prince, Severed Heads, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Ministry, Depeche Mode, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Smiths, The Monkees and INXS. Of this list, the only ones I haven't listened to in the past three months are KMFDM and INXS.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, U2, Duran Duran. First two are still great, U2 is meh with several exceptions, and Duran Duran I've really soured on.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Mercury Rev. Yes.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

94-95: Clickitat Ikatowi, 3 Mile Pilot, Meat Puppets, Beastie Boys, Portishead.

yes, no, no, yes, yes.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Husker Du - 1987 I still listen to them now and then.

― earlnash, Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

eh. scratch three mile pilot. they were boring back then, too. ooh, i also liked heavy vegetable because i got to interview them for the school paper but i still get annoyed trying to listen to them.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hole. And yes, I still love Live Through This.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Ben Folds Five. And as much as I'd love to still listen to them regularly, they just seem... I dunno. Too childlike for me now. I still hold that "Evaporated" is amazing, but they just seem like the sort of band someone with four years less experience than me would listen to.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins/no way

― neil, Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smiths. I still listen to them and I still love them - not as intensely but probably more deeply because I keep hearing things in the music that surprise me. At 17 oddly enough all I cared about were the words, which nearly all hold up too even if they don't Speak To Me any more.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

17? That was 1986 to 1987, so according to my memory I was heavily into Durutti Column, Julian Cope, Felt, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, the Bunnymen, Cocteaus, OMD, Yeah Yeah Noh and just discovering Wire, Stockholm Monsters and the Wake. Do I still listen to 'em? Hell yeah, can't say a week passes without at least one of them gracing my CD walkman.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh Lemonheads and uh no.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

1988. Robyn Hitchcock. Like? Some. Listen? Not really.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

short list of 17-year old faves: talking heads; guns 'n' roses; elvis costello; echo and the bunnymen; peter gabriel; the jesus and mary chain; U2; david bowie; brian eno; frank zappa

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

1994. Pavement, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Sebadoh, Blues Explosion

― Michael B, Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, almost everyone here was so much cooler than i was at 17

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is the one who wasn't cooler?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

1990. The Beatles, Clash, Talking Heads. I also listened to some classic rock and some mid-80s college rock types. I didn’t have much interest in new music at the time. (which sort of changed the following year)

I still actually like all three, but of those I only seem to listen to the Beatles circa 1964-66 and The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads LP.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Since it was only last year...yeah, I still love the Zombies.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

1996. Sonic Youth. And yeah, I still listen to them -- in the last couple of weeks, in fact, I've been going back to their mid-90's work (Experimental Jet-Set thru A Thousand Leaves).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

april 1993 - april 1994, hmmm, it was the cusp year. I was still liking a lot of the old thrash metal (xentrix, anthrax, megadeth, annihilator), coupled with some more indie stuff like the Manic's and Teenage Fanclub. In this period the band I liked the most were Dinosaur Jr, as they were the absolute bridge band between metal and indie, and yep I still like them.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

1987 - Metallica, Slayer, Def Lep
- I had the "live" Metallica poster which included Cliff Burton...so much hair you couldn't see his face...still don't know what he looks like.
- I convinced my mom to purchase "Reign in Blood" for me (are you sure this is what you want?"..goat's heads and crucifixions all over that tape cover)
- Def Leppard has that one-armed drummer

Don't listen to these bands much anymore, although I recently became re-obsessed with "Fade to Black".

― p.j. (Henry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

some others :

The Cure - yes
Smiths - yes
Fugazi - No
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - hell fuckin no

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

R.E.M. and no, although I did put on Reckoning just the other night (because I heard "So. Central Rain" somewhere) and was pleased with how good most of the songs still sound to me.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1998:

howlin' wolf - yes
shudder to think - somewhat
magnetic fields - yes

― bentausig, Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Lessee ... turned 17 in 1992. Faves were U2, Pearl jam, Alice in Chains, Nirvana. Some great albums to worship at that age. The big one was Pearl Jam's Ten.

My feelings on Vedder & Co. now are summed up here:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2002-11-21/recordings4.html/1/index.html

― Chris O., Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

prince, public enemy, my bloody valentine, sonic youth, nirvana, happy mondays - still like them all, only listen to prince, mbv, and sonic youth very often anymore

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is the one who wasn't cooler?
don't worry, ned, it's not you (i'm letting the pet shop boys thing slide)

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

1996-97: Rancid! Yeah! Avail! Yeah! Bouncing Souls! Occassionally! Pietasters! No!

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, i was 17 in 1987. of the bands/artists that i listed -- (a) talking heads; (b) guns 'n' roses; (c) elvis costello; (d) echo and the bunnymen; (e) peter gabriel; (f) the jesus and mary chain; (g) U2; (h)david bowie; (i) brian eno; and (j)frank zappa -- they fall into the following camps: (i) d, f, h-j remain lodestars of my tastes; (ii) i stopped caring about b-c, e and g at different points after 1987 and for various reasons; and (iii) as for a, i put them aside during the nineties, dusted them off late last year and realized that i still like 'em a good bit.

oh yeah, i also liked REM a lot in 1987. what 17-year old smartypants future undergrad with vaguely alt-music tastes didn't? and they fall in category ii -- stopped giving a shit some point after 1987.

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

that was 1980. but it wasn't a band, just one bloke. nick drake. and i still listen to his music though quite rarely. and it is still as pure and magical as it was the first time i ever heard it.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 23 October 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

1992. LED Z3P3LIN and BLACK SABBATH. Yes, I still listen. There is no one better.

― calstars (calstars), Thursday, 23 October 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I listened to the Super Furries all the time, and I still love them as much, if not more, today. Which reminds me, I'll transcribe the relevant bits of the interview I did today at some point...

― person#0 (person#0), Thursday, 23 October 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

1998-9, my main listening was probaly:
Descendents - yes, though I don't listen to them as much these days

Buzzcocks - oh, yes, especially since I found the remastered Singles Going Steady

Dropkick Murphys - Do or Die, the first album, is still a lot of fun, but I never liked their later stuff

Old 97's - still a top-5, easily

Sleater-Kinney - absolutely, and I like All Hands and One Beat better than the other albums

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 23 October 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young, and yes, still.

Ask me about 15: Iron Maiden. Still love 'em.

13: Queen. Like 'em even better than Maiden.

When I was 17 I also liked a lot of weird fusiony shit-jazz like Michael Brecker, latter-day John McLaughlin, and even worse. Just in case you thought I was cool; I wasn't.

― southern lights (southern lights), Thursday, 23 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the year 2000, smashing pumpkins, NIN, radiohead, depeche mode, and coil
i still love them all. (though a bit less of the NIN love, not so angry anymore)

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Some things I listened to a lot in 1995 (when I was 17) that I don't so much anymore = Ben Folds Five, Cake, Rusted Root, Das EFX, EPMD, Enya, Neil Young.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

REM. And I still listen to them.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

1987: had discovered Faust the previous year. I've memorized ever last millisecond so don't actually need to play them that often anymore but I still do and they still impress me just as much. I'm not sure I'll ever have a 'favorite band' again but if I do it's probably still them.

― (Jon L), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i know dyson has to mean me. Robyn Hitchcock feels like Weird Al doing A Mighty Wind now.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

At 17, my favourite band would have been U2. An older friend had given me some dubbed copies of their War and Boy a year or two before, and I had since picked up the actual albums. This was the year the Joshua Tree was released, so the band was inescapable.
I eventually lost interest in the band, probably during the Zooropa/Pop phase, which coincided with my involvement in college radio.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm... 1994. Stones (esp. '68-'77) and Pavement. I'm thinking these two still see the most action on my player.

― Will (will), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Robyn's stuff meant a lot to me when I was in high school as well actually. Back then I recorded and performed music with a friend, he liked the Scorpions, Y & T, AC/DC, Rainbow, I liked the Residents, Negativland, Art Bears, Faust. The only two things we could agree on were Peter Gabriel and Robyn Hitchcock.

uh and Jean-Michel Jarre. this was a very long time ago now.

― (Jon L), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

1991...smiths, stone roses, wedding present, sonic youth, de la soul.

occasionally listen to the smiths to sing along, and still listen to the wedding present quite a lot, but not the others...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Paradise Lost. I still worship those first three albums, the less said about their further career the better though.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

no, badgerminor, i think hitchcock is slightly more "hip" than sound bloody garden. in hindsight. at least it wasn't u2, he he.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"At 17" makes it '77-'78. Um. The two greatest faves were Queen and Jethro Tull (though Zep was close). The Queen infatuation was about to abate; J'Tull were to remain a fave for a bit more.
It's very rarely that I've listened to either of them in the past ...fifteen years or so.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I was a huge PSB and Smiths fan back then. Don't listen to either of those bands THAT much these days, but I still think they're great bands.

― schwantz, Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

They Might Be Giants lives on!!!!!!!!!!!

ACtually, I understand them a lot better now.

Boy, some great lyrics were wasted on a 15-year-old.

Shit, when did my cousin first give me that tape, anyway?

I wud just delighted by the new universe o' goof.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

PWEI, Wonder Stuff, Living Colour, U2, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More, Fishbone, Happy Mondays, Pixies, Screaming Trees. Still like all these bands, but rarely listen to them.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 23 October 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the spice girls. yes i still love them

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 23 October 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Soundgarden, and, yes, they still are my favorite band.

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 23 October 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

um, 1999... underworld, front 242 and radiohead. i still listen to each on occasion, but not nearly as much as i used to

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 23 October 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Slayer. yes. every bit as much/more as/than I always have.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 24 October 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana, and yes, I do still listen to them occasionally, but there's more nostalgia involved than was ever the point, I am sure.

― Damian (Damian), Friday, 24 October 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i was hardcore getting into indiepop (mostly local bands) at 17 so yeah. although i was massively into Nirvana back then and now if i heard anything from "Nevermind" on the radio i'd change the station.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 24 October 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(more thru overexposure than anything else)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 24 October 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

christ um...95? probably husker du. though i was more interested in going to raves. i haven't listened to them in ages, though i note they were among the handful of cd's i brought cross-country with me.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 October 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

1994.

Low by David Bowie, which I don't really listen to much anymore. I think it is a great album and I enjoyed it when I broke it out the other week. It is good, but when you live in an album for a long section of your life(years) you don't need to hear it all the time. It is still in my collection and I enjoy it, but life moves on.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Friday, 24 October 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm... 1989-90:

The Smiths was my absolute fave then, plus Joy Division, The Cure, New Order, R.E.M., Roxy Music, U2, The Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel, Ultravox...

I still listen to most of these fairly often - excepting U2 & Peter Gabriel. The Ultravox which gets played is usually the John Foxx era & Vienna.

I certainly listen to early New Order and the first five Roxy Music LPs more than ever.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Friday, 24 October 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement and yes.

― GPX (GPX), Friday, 24 October 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

1989 - faves were Prince, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Metallica, Public Enemy, NWA, Beastie Boys, Talk Talk, Guns N' Roses, Led Zep, Rolling Stones.

Those I have not listened to in the last couple months are Metallica, NWA, Beasties and GNR. But I still like the music they made during that time period, and still count Prince, Zep, Stones, and Talk Talk amongst my all-time favorite musicians.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 24 October 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1995 - My favorite band was Funkadelic. I was also really into Velvet Underground and Elvis Costello.

I still love all three, but I can't say I listen to them all that much.

― Debito (Debito), Friday, 24 October 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

'87. It'd have been the Cure. Recent output not so much, but a few months ago I pulled out the "Standing on a Beach" tape and thought "oh man, this stuff is GREAT!"

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 24 October 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

whoah

hey, its funny you should ask that, I just turned 17 less than two months ago (11 September, oh yea)..

and the flavour of the month is currently (of a revival of last year's core fanaticism of Can and Neu!) all Krautrock - yea!

Early Kraftwerk (Kraftwerk 1 & 2), Faust (Faust, ..Tapes, IV) Ash Ra Tempel (first four albums), Holger Czukay solo albums (Canaxis, Movies), Agitation Free (Malesch), Cluster & Eno, Harmonia (both albums), Tangerine Dream

i didn't realise most people here are so old, how do you feel about that Sarah? I feel frightened, confused......ahhh!

― Rob McD (Keith McD), Friday, 24 October 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

17 years old, that would be 1996. My favourite artists then: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, µ-ziq, Yello, Banco de Gaia, Mouse on Mars, Air Liquide, lots of German trance and techno (Low Spirit records, Harthouse etc.), Juno Reactor and some other psych trance...

I rarely listen to those German trance records from 1992 to 1996 anymore, but I still kinda dig them, if only for nostalgic reasons. Psych trance, that's one genre I've pretty much grown to hate. The other artists mentioned there I still listen to and like.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 24 October 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

1996. probably Pulp/smiths/joy division and Oasis. I do still like 'definetely maybe' 'different class' and the best of smiths and joy division's records but I can't remember the last time i played any of their records though i will probably do so one day.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 24 October 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I had just discovered Depeche Mode at that age, and I still love them. Although there are a couple acts who are now ranked higher among my fave bands.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 24 October 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh, 1995... I was into Nirvana, and just discovered the Smashing Pumpkins. Offspring and Green Day were favourites as well. I still love (and would listen to) the first two (especially SP), the latter two not so much.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 24 October 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

1997, preparing for lengthy prison sentence, life soundtracked by Spiritualized and The Verve. Listen to them now? Fuck no.

― Ian SPACK, Friday, 24 October 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

you listen the the verve while preparing for prison life¿

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw They Might Be Giants and Soul Coughing at the same show when I was 17. I still listen to both of these bands.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I always say my favourite band is the Velvet Underground - and I always have from when I first heard them, which is when I was about 13 or 14. Of course it wasn't just hearing them that made them my favourite band - it was all the garbled myths surrounding them, the photo of Lou Reed on the inner sleeve of "The Velvet Underground & Nico", John Cale's haircut, Andy Warhol, bananas, the Factory, silver balloons, whips, New York, S&M, heroin etc - all the things that impress on impressionable adolescent minds. Now I don't really know if the Velvet Underground are still my favourite band (if they ever were) but I can't think of anyone else who fits the bill.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

... oh yes and I've been listening to them all week - all except "The Velvet Underground & Nico", an album I've not really been able to listen to for years, for some strange reason (wasn't there a thread about this phenomenon recently?)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Fugazi. Yes.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smiths. And yes (at 30), still.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Halen or maybe the Beastie Boys. I still like them. Don't listen so much.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

super furry animals as well
i don't listen to them as much now,but,rings around the world apart,i still love them,and mwng is still my favourite album
(looking foreward to seeing that interview person zero)

― robin (robin), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sparks, ELO, Hawkwind, Bowie

nothing's changed much

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd. Still like them, I suppose, but almost never listen to them.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clash, Ramones, X, Prince, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin. Still listen to all of them, though only the Ramones very often ('cos they are now my fave all-time band and have been for many years).

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 24 October 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1983 was the year, sorry.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 24 October 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Midnight Oil had just released "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1", and it sounded so interesting and new and odd (like Jean Michel Jarre and Kraftwerk had sounded in 1976), and it was a very likeable record musically despite and perhaps because of its bittersweat harmonies, up-front political agenda and slo-mo-explosion "modern" special effects. It still sounded good at "parties".
I wish Midnight Oil hadn't become so musically straight-forward just a little later, even though they did "reach" many more listeners as a result of that policy. At this stage I was in my last year of high school and this record seemed like the sound of the future. Kraftwerk and Can and Jarre sounded like they had used up their novel sounds/ideas with two or three records in each case. Midnight Oil sounded like they had just begun beaming in the future of "new" music.

― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 24 October 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Little did you know that "Beds Are Burning" was waiting around the corner to mug you!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 October 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, that's a bit like what it felt like. That thing that groups of teenagers do, of adopting some pop group as their special secret & elite cult group, that was thoroughly blown for my friends and i.
Well, perhaps that was a good thing to happen here, as the artistic irony of this has been that Midnight Oil were always themselves seriously committed to exploding that myth we have here in both Australia and New Zealand that Australasia is such an egalitarian place to begin with (because for many years the Australian govt. has just seemed bloody aryan).
So I suppose that the success of those "Beds are Burning" type songs ensured that Midnight Oil were the sort of sorry act that qualifies for Olympic status in 2000 (even if the rub in all this has been that as '90s live acts Midnight Oil were as interesting as Sonic Youth).

― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 24 October 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division, yes, but not as often or obsessively.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 24 October 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

NIN, PJ Harvey, Hole, Bad Religion.
Very rarely, sometimes, often, and often. er, when I'm not listening to NPR. More of a politics junkie than a music junkie these days.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

1990. Favourite bands Stone Roses, Aztec Camera and Jesus & Mary Chain. Still listen to all of them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 October 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

er...MISSION OF BURMA...

http://missionofburma.com/photos/2003/northampton/pearlstreet/024_22500.jpg

...duh!

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 25 October 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

muddy waters band (as recorded in the late '50s). And heck yeah I still listen to them!

― bflaska, Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'm 17 now... T. Rex, Joy Division, Teenage Fanclub, Will Oldham in
all his incarnations, the Velvet Underground, Tim Buckley, the Smiths, Television, Talking Heads, and Big Star probably represent my 10 favorite
groups/artists. Hopefully I'll grow out of some of the angst, but I'm sure getting
my kicks as is.

― Stephen Morris, Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Wyatt-era Soft Machine, Pink Floyd (Ummagumma and A Nice Pair especially) and King Crimson
(replacing Blue Oyster Cult)

all soon nuked by Eno, Wire, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Magazine

still like Barrett & Wyatt, though

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 25 October 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

bflaska- which Lps by muddy waters band would you recommend? could you tell me a bit abt that.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 October 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

two months ago. the magnetic fields. ..yes.

― thom west (thom w), Saturday, 25 October 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose it would be asking too much of ILM for at least one answer on this thread to be "The answer to both questions is 'Yes'."

Anyway: 92-93; Pavement, Pixies, and Polvo; yes, yes, and not so much anymore.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Saturday, 25 October 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Clash and Blondie and yes i still listen--timeless!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 25 October 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio, his first lp on Chess The Best of Muddy Waters is one of the best records ever. I think that is the one to start with. It teaches anyone to listen to what makes for fine blues; and he had some of the best players with him -- the best blues drumming ever is Fred Below on that record -- and some of the best harp playing. You just keep going deeper and hearing more of what they're doing rhythmically, and always (even after years of familiarity with the record) you can hear something new in the connection they're making with each other. These songs are really his best, the heart and soul of his material that he drew from for the rest of his long career.

I'd recommend sticking with his earlier work. Actually I agree with most of the way his records have been rated on Allmusic. Except for Country Blues on Catfish, which has a phenomenal version of "I Feel Like Going Home" -- a very young Muddy, his electric walking slide guitar style fully developed but with with him singing differently -- he's got a powerful voice but one that is not quite recognizable yet as being Muddy's. So that record I would rate highly just for that one song, a very different sort of blues before it picked up the additional rhythms in Chicago, and I'd say it would be worth getting just to hear that one song.

― bflaska, Sunday, 26 October 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

At 17, it was the big 3 (plus Ween), Black Flag, Misfits, and FEAR. Yep, still listen to all of them pretty regularly, even though TRBNGR takes up most of my listening time.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 26 October 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

bflaska- thanks :-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 26 October 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Julio was a Britpop boy!

No surprises here. 1996. Sonic Youth all the way although I heard Glenn Branca for the first time later on in the year and he started to become a rival. I still play and like Sonic Youth, not nearly as much as before but that was inevitable. I actually never listen to Glenn Branca. I liked tons of different things but it was all secondary to Sonic Youth.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

sundar everyone has to start somewhere :-)

but yeah the best of that stuff is still good fun (though i've been getting my fun from elsewhere these last few years).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Age 17 = the last bits of 1996 & almost all of 1997.

Duran Duran? Like, duh.

Japan? Ditto.

David Bowie? I still adore him.

Depeche Mode? The Cure? I haven't listened to them as much as I should've in the past three or four months, but I still love them.

The Human League? Ultravox? I'm still a fan.

Hm. I think the only artist I was listening to when I was 17 that I no longer listen to is Jewel, and I don't think I'm getting back on that bandwagon anytime soon.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 27 October 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I think mine was probably Aphex Twin. I don't dislike him now, but I don't think I've listened to an Aphex Twin song in at least a few months.

― Dan I., Monday, 27 October 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, that was, umm... 1999?

― Dan I., Monday, 27 October 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

1989 - beatles, pixies, stone roses, REM
i don't listen to any of them very often nowadays, though i still love them all.

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I was 17 in 1993 and by then I'd graduated from Guns n' Roses via their live cover of Wild Horses to the Rolling Stones and then other classics like Dylan and from his guitar/harmonica syrup to that whiner, Neil Young. I was rooted in the past at this time, smoking way too much ganja, and absorbing any sixties/seventies era band i thought might have done the same. Hendrix, the Who, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton all got play time.

Today I occasionally listen to early Stones, love it just as much, and play Keith riffs gleefully in my covers band. G n' R can just about fuck right off. Even Appetite sounds empty and substandard.

Bob Dylan, I find, has the most lasting appeal.

― mick hall (mick hall), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

1997-8

Spiritualized, 'Big Beat', 'Pet Sounds', Wu-Tang, -- never listen to any of it.
MBV -- still going strong.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Nov. 86- Nov. 87

The Smiths, James Brown's In the Jungle Groove, Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, Fishbone live, Sonic Youth live, Prince, Run-DMC, Professor motherfucking Longhair, Robert Cray live, and John Lee Hooker live were what I remember most.

I had already soured on U2, Talking Heads, and Husker Du (previous favorite bands). If I had to, I probably would have said Minutemen, the Clash, and the Beatles, but I stopped listening to them much that year. I think I had stopped thinking in terms of favorites.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and I put on all those records at least once this year...

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Just about two years ago; I was really into Portraits of Past, Arab on Radar and Neutral Milk Hotel. I still really like the latter two and sometimes get into the first.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Mission of Burma, and yes.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(i) stooges (ii) yes i do

― dooRAG, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Senseless Things, and no, not as a matter of course, but I get a big nostalgia lump if I hear any of my old favourites.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm... age 17. That year I was listening to bands like the Smiths, Midnight Oil, REM, the Cure, Love and Rockets, Morrissey, the Beatles. I can't remember exactly which was my favorite band. Of those, I still might occasionally listen to any of them, though I'd be most likely to listen to the Beatles, followed by REM (their older stuff) and the Smiths.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot Talking Heads. I was listening to them that year too.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis.

I'm 20 now.

― ddrake, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Psychic TV, and yes, I do still like and listen to them, though I'm a little more selective when my son's home! Still rabid about Test Dept, and play them loud as often as I can. 17 years later!

― Rob Wosley (Rob Wosley), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

As I mentioned, I think I was still labouring under the reign of Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue (though even then I knew how abjectly ridiculous it was, but it's still a great record), which sat uncomfortably next to Devo on my list of favourites. Still, later that year, I'd hear "Eighties" by Killing Joke for the first time and become instantly ashamed to have wasted time listening to the Crue. (trivial footnote: Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx is himself a huge fan of Killing Joke, apparently, even going so far as to admitting to nicking the intro to "Dr.Feelgood" from the middle-eight of the Joke's "Love Like Blood").

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Pearl Jam, and I saw them last week at this big Bridge School benefit concert in Mountainview, CA. I was shocked at how much I loved watching them. So I guess, well, yes. I am not ashamed, damn it!

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 31 October 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cure, yes.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 31 October 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

As I mentioned, I think I was still labouring under the reign of Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue (though even then I knew how abjectly ridiculous it was, but it's still a great record), which sat uncomfortably next to Devo on my list of favourites. Still, later that year, I'd hear "Eighties" by Killing Joke for the first time and become instantly ashamed to have wasted time listening to the Crue. (trivial footnote: Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx is himself a huge fan of Killing Joke, apparently, even going so far as to admitting to nicking the intro to "Dr.Feelgood" from the middle-eight of the Joke's "Love Like Blood").
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), October 30th, 2003.

Hmmm, I've never listened to Killing Joke. Yesss. I KNOW I'm missing out. Gimme some time!

Oh, and I'd like to add the Bad Brains to my list, although I do listen to them still on the rare occasion, like today.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

94 - almost strictly hip hop, pretty much everything but with emphasis on 'conscious'/semi-'conscious' MCs: The Coup, Digable Planets, Ras Kass, Tribe, X Clan also checking any and all Death Row releases, my budding black nationalist phase too tender and tenuous to resist. I still listen to all of it, even pulling out old tapes on occasion.
To answer directly, my favorite favorite band at the time would probably be WC and the MAAD Circle, whose gospel I still spread when the opportunity presents itself.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 30 January 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

91/92 - Nirvana, Primus, Velvet Underground, U2, Soundgarden, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Frank Zappa, Faith No More, Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young, Jane's Addiction, Led Zeppelin, Pixies, Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Black Flag, A Tribe Called Quest, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Parliament, Mudhoney, Firehose, Pink Floyd, etc.

I still own and listen to records by all of those bands, some are still in my top 20 favorite bands list, except Pink Floyd who I suddenly started to hate for some reason. There were some also-ran second rate alternative rock bands and oddball 90's hip-hop groups that I also got out of but these where the regulars.

― joygoat (joygoat), Sunday, 30 January 2005 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx is himself a huge fan of Killing Joke, apparently, even going so far as to admitting to nicking the intro to "Dr.Feelgood" from the middle-eight of the Joke's "Love Like Blood"

Wow -- the resemblance is *so obvious* once you see this in print.

1991 ... that would have been a big Nine Inch Nails year for me. I don't listen to them much today, and when I do, it's "Pretty Hate Machine" or "Closer". I was one of a handful of people at my school who liked NIN, among a sea of Zeppelin and GnR freaks (I liked those bands too, but most of the school this was suburban classic rock purism at its finest). I might as well have told people "I worship the devil" instead of "I like NIN" because the freaked-out stares couldn't have gotten any more, um, freaked-out.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 30 January 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

17 in 1998. David Bowie - still listen to all the time. The Doors - Still like them, but have been peer-pressured out of listening to them. Hey...

No one else listed the Doors? I thought that every adolescent male (at least American male) was required to go through a Doors phase? Yeah, Morrison was a dipshit, but they were good.

― Heidy-Ho (Heidy-Ho), Sunday, 30 January 2005 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

17 in 2001.

Catatonia, Oasis, Travis.

― sibsi (sibsi), Sunday, 30 January 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pixies probably, in 1991/92. Not sure I actually need to listen to them again.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 30 January 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Guided by Voices, though the release of Mag Earwhig! had already caused them to behing slipping off my top spot. I was able to see them on the Under the Bushes tour in 96 in the classic lineup (with Matt from Chavez on bass), and for that I am eternally grateful. I still listen to them in small doses.

My favorite CD around that time was actually Mercury Rev "See You On the Other Side".

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Sunday, 30 January 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(97-98)

― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Sunday, 30 January 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to post the Stone Roses, Aztec Camera, Pink Floyd, Jesus and Mary Chain and Trash Can Sinatras (still listen to all of them) then realised that I already posted three-fifths of that upthread. Oh well.

I probably hesitated to say the Trash Can Sinatras earlier because they only had one album and a couple of EPs, so wouldn't have been up there with the more prolific bands, but since I included the Stone Roses I guess they should count. Though I think with them, it was more like Cake was one of my favourite albums rather than them being one of my favourite bands.

1990 was also the year I got to go to Glasgow record shopping for the first time from the frozen north, made straight for Byres Road and searched out Orchids and Field Mice stuff. So I guess they would be in there too.

Still listen to them too, though not as often as I used to.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 January 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

1990/1991, Ride, occasionally but not often

(also Pixies, Wedding Present, Pale Saints, My Bloody Valentine, etc. of all of these probably only listen to MBV more than once in a blue moon)

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 30 January 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1975: Mott the Hoople, Aerosmith, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Allman Bros. Still like em all, still listen to everything but the Allmans.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 30 January 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen. No.

― davidsim (davidsim), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice T - OG and Prince - Diamonds & Pearls.
I don't think I ever focussed on one band/artist in particular.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

1984. JD, NO, Cocteaus, The Cure, Killing Joke. Still listen to them all occasionally.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 30 January 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall.... Yes, I'm still 17

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Late '80, most of '81: Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa. Yes and yes.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Age 17 (1983-1984) was all about Aztec Camera, _Murmur_, Let's Active and the Shoes for me. I still enjoy them all (though I haven't listened to the Shoes in years).

― mike a, Sunday, 30 January 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Magazine. They're not my favourite band any more but they're one of them.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor. Yes, all the time.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Just kidding. Dylan, Stones. Occasionally.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, everybody listened to decent bands! I used to be a big Roxette fan back then.

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to mostly jazz at 17. I still listen to a lot, but much less than I used to. Otherwise, my favorite was probably Zeppelin or DJ Shadow, both of whom I still like, but the former of which I find a bit annoying sometimes now.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

violent femmes and yes, still like em

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the manic street preachers. don't really listen to them anymore.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck was my favorite and I still like him a lot. I also listened to Bjork, DJ Shadow, Chemical Brothers, Public Enemy, lots of "golden era" hip-hop and the Beatles. I like all that stuff still, but then again, I'm not very old (22).

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Im 22 as well!

At age 17 (1999-2000) I listened to stuff like NIN, Misfits, Black Flag, Tool, Deftones, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Metallica, Nirvana, Radiohead, KMFDM, Ministry, Pantera, Slayer, White Zombie, Atari Teenage Riot, Refused, the Sex Pistols, Ramones, and The Clash. I still listen to all of those bands at least occasionally.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I forgot Fear Factory and Sepultura! Mosh-metal stuff. Not quite nu-metal but the stuff that came before it. I got into death/black metal the following year, along with IDM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Such a nerd!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

T. Rex, Joy Division, Teenage Fanclub, Will Oldham in
all his incarnations, the Velvet Underground, Tim Buckley, the Smiths, Television, Talking Heads, and Big Star probably represent my 10 favorite

haha, about a year and a half on and, while I still gots much love for most of them, I haven't listened to any of these in months.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

1996: smashing pumpkins (not really, though i dont mind them), pavement (yes) and the clean (of course)

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolute favorite at 17? Really can't say, I had a slew I was listening to a heck of a lot -- Def Leppard, Zep, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Depeche Mode. These days I'll stick with the eighties and after bands. ;-) No bad memories or the like in terms of a mental headspace I'm trying to reject -- it's just good music I still dearly love, in a couple of cases more than ever.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), October 23rd, 2003.
ditto
born 1970 -1987 was the best year in music
if i was in uk i'd be seeing these 80's band s on tour every week
we have a show called countdown that aired beetween 1975 and 1987 on repeats
my aussie bands in 1987 are : wa wa nee , kids in the kitchen , machinations,inxs,iceouse,mental as anything,

― mediaboy, Monday, 31 January 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1993, The height of my PJ obsession (91-96ish, just before DMB took over my brain). I saw my first Pearl Jam concert that year, crushed in people and almost suffocating on the floor with my high school sweetie. This experience led me to sell my floor tickets to a 1995 Las Cruces show and keep my seats comfortably just above the floor on the side, being 9 months pregnant. Kids have to ruin all the fun!

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and I don't listen to them often anymore, but really they are my first music "true love"; adored always.

RVM, baby!

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

1998 - radiohead and yeah i still listen to them... but not nearly as often.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, everybody listened to decent bands! I used to be a big Roxette fan back then.

It's called selective memory. (I was just out of my Wet Wet Wet/Bros stage by then.)

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

1987 - Husker Du and Dinosaur Jr

Can barely listen to much Husker Du at all now. Though I don't dislike them, remembering the intense emotional connection that the who-I-was felt to some of their records makes me feel quite giddy now. Dinosaur Jr I have no problems with.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, that's historically inaccurate. They were plain old Dinosaur at the time. I am old and my mind is creaky.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

1992 - Nirvana.

Although I had liked a lot of music before this (C64 game-music, then chart music, then House, then Amiga ‘mods’) It wasn’t until I caught Nirvana peforming ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ on The Word that I became obsessive over any one band.

Do I still listen to them? Occasionally - I downloaded a bootleg DVD of the unedited MTV Unplugged performance and watched that about a month ago.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

1993... the Pixies, Nirvana, Ride, Carter USM, Ned's Atomic Dusbin, Sultans of Ping, Lemonheads, Suede etc. The Pixies definitely my favourite band then. Still like pretty much all of them although some have dated worse than others. Don't listen to any of them that often, but I've been putting Ride songs on mixes lately and really liking them.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone has to answer this thread.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Halen - still like the old stuff but don't listen to it much
Queen - Like it a lot, don't listen to it much
Living Colour - like it a lot, don't listen to it much

― blawa (blawa), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(ha where's Curtis?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1986-7, and boy is it embarassing to list the ones I was into (keep in mind I was in Alaska at the time, had been for years, and this is pre-interwhoozit) Waterboys (no), Rainmakers (no), REM (very seldom, and only older stuff.)

When I got to texas to go to college, the world and my ears opened up.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked a lot of music then, but Univers Zero, Cosmic Overdose, Grauzone, Genesis (w/Steve Hackett), The Fall, Zoviet-France, The Cravats / Very Things / DCL Locomotive / Baby Men, Nick Cave, Blurt and Steeleye Span were my favourite ten groups when I was 17. I haven't listened to my Zoviet-France things in a while (and should), and haven't kept up with Nick Cave since "Let Love In", but other than Nick Cave, where I'm not sure what I feel about his work these days, I love all of them.

― Pangolino again, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Some groups / artists I listened to then that I don't much any more: Husker Du, The Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Soft Boys, Peter Gabriel, Test Dept..

― Pangolino again, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, yeah - Spear of Destiny, also!

― Pangolino again, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

When I got to texas to go to college, the world and my ears opened up.

I think this is sort've a universal truth. Once I got to college, I discovered the Velvet Underground, the Minutemen, the Stooges, King Crimson and the Cocteau Twins, among others.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yeah, but the difference between Anchorage and Austin ca. 1987 is probably wider than the gap most people dealt with. Or maybe it's not.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

They Might Be Giants, yes.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I had seperate epiphanies at ages 8 and 13 thanks to my older brothers!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cocteau Twins and yes? Pavement and yes? Either the Trash Can Sinatras or the Candyskins and not so much on the latter? I heard a lot of new things when I was 17; for the first time since I heard the Smiths I no longer had a "favorite."

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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