What period of your life are you most nostalgic about, and what music did you listen then?

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― robotchant (sine), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday was pretty nice - I was listening to the Delfonics.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

This fall's going to be great. I'll be in Memphis among other places so I'm sure I'll have a lot of Sun stuff playing.

― chester (synkro), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

four or five years ago, and Big Beat.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Summer of 1999, and "Utopia Parkway" on continous reload.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

summer of 2000: lots of dmx and garage

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Childhood, so 1965, which can be cut away, due to no real memory of my first few years, to about 1970, until about 1978. Mostly listened to 70's AM pop radio. (Adolescence is its own distinctive category.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

'98 / '99: Aphex Twin, Prodigy, Armand van Helden, my first self-earned money, big-eyed girls with camping hats, and insane amounts of E and Moroccan hashish.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

1981. I loved Rush's Moving Pictures, Journey's Escape, and Foreigner 4. I was 10.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i walked out on nostalgia back in '93. when i woke up i was here.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I try not to be nostalgiac, but hell...2001. Fugazi.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Rocket From The Crypt too. Saw them twice that year.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Most nostalgiac about in general...I dunno. That's a good question, I'm nostalgiac musically for the early nineties if only because I was seeing so many shows, first really got into talking and writing about music as much as was playing and listening (and broadcasting) it, etc. But I don't know if I'm more specifically nostalgiac about that period more than any other one. Whatever personal ups and downs and all arounds aside, I'm quite content to think on the present and future most of all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Gr 6 (1989-1990). Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were becoming a little bit less central but were still players. Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Rush, and most of what was on the playlists of the Power Hour and classic and hard rock radio were growing dominant. Old REM too actually. I remember the "So Central Rain" video making a colossal impact. He looked so tragic and forlorn apologizing to no one in the rain in black and white. I also thought the Cure and to some extent the Banshees and Mary Chain were really cool and dark and esoteric (going by whatever video hits they had). This was also when I first saw a Sonic Youth video. I remember liking hits by Public Enemy, Run DMC, DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, the Fat Boys, Dream Warriors, and Ice T. I liked what I knew of classical music. I really hated 50s music (I remember especially having it in for the Beach Boys), reggae, Lou Reed, country, and dance/synthpop.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 6 June 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

19-24, which I'm sorta reliving now that I'm in Minneapolis for a visit. listened to shitloads of music then as now, past and present; when I was 19, though, I got heavily into doo-wop, disco, and 'hardcore/jungle (this is '94).

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 6 June 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

discovering the live You Am I experience at O Night Melbourne Uni, the summer of 95. a good time for australian indie music in general.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 6 June 2003 06:42 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was in high school, that's 1995-98 (Finnish high school is equivalent to senior high, I think). Oh, those days of worryless freedom and fun, when you didn't have to think about your studies, your future career, or even the future at all. What was I listening? Wu-Tang, µ-ziq, Omni Trio, Juno Reactor, Chumbawamba, lots of German techno and trance.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

1997/8 - second year at university. Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Radiohead, Pulp. Friendships made and lost during drama productions, magazine publishing, and whiskey. Bittersweet sex and late-night arguments about poetry.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Even though I don't think it was by any means the best period of my life per say, I'll go for the summer of 1997. Long hot summer, lots of time away, driving through France with mates, about to go to university - general feeling of possibility. Listening to lots of the mainstreamish stuff of the day - Radiohead, Prodigy, Spiritualized, Massive Attack, Orbital, Shadow etc.

This hit home at about 3am on Saturday night actually, when one of my neighbours had control of the stereo and was putting on a load of mid-90s stuff (Little Fluffy Clouds, Portishead, Pulp, Leftfield springs to mind). I remember thinking "this sounds like the background music to This Life" and then feeling this massive wash of refractive nostalgia coming over me - like being nostalgic for a vision of the future you once had while realising it was actually happening, then, now.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

High school 1988-1993. Listened to a lot of Smiths, Cure, Lemonheads, Trash Can Sinatra's, Ocean Blue, KOD, MBV, Ride, Slowdive. Ahh, those were the days.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll go with Matt for Summer '97 - somehow an exciting time despite being miserable most of the time. the alternative (and probably superior) would be '91/'92 and the combined peak of rave culture and indie/shoegaze/drone stuff - both genres enjoying some real success and exposure in a refreshing way - and somewhat more innocent times basically (i was still a miserable git tho)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm nostalgic for half an hour ago, when I was playing Spontaneous music ensemble's 'Karyobin'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that it was a fabulous time as I had crazy mood swings, but I'm gonna go with 94-95, my last year of high school. I was listening to the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins (thought I was the biggest SP fan in the entire world), Veruca Salt, and the Smiths to name a few. Oh, and lots of party stuff like They Might be Giants and Violent Femmes. But I was mostly obsessed with the SPs.

― Sarah MclUsky (coco), Friday, 6 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(Actually, I was also listening to FM radio at some point around 1976, at least--plus my brother's records the whole time period I mentioned. They say it's not good to have a happy childhood because then the rest of your life tends to be a dud.)

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 6 June 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, second year university 97/98, Ben Folds Five and Belle and Sebastian..check...um.....lots of late-night arguments about poetry check, bittersweet sex...check....magazine publishing and drama productions and friendships being made and broken ...check....Crikey.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 June 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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