What posters have you had on your wall throughout your life?

My memory is awful, so I can only remember a few of the dozens I had from childhood through college, but I'm a lot of people can remember every single one. I'm posting pictures when I can find them, but otherwise I suppose a description would be fine (btw, in case more than 2 people respond to this, try to use tinypic.com so that all the links don't disappear in a year. Also, everyone remember to support your local tinypic.com LLC so that it never goes out of business and millions of image links go dead in 2017 or something).

I went through a long period of radiohead obsession in high school that resulted in these five guys staring at me in the dark all the time as I went to sleep:
http://i40.tinypic.com/dfy8t4.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2zppgf6.jpg

college!
http://i39.tinypic.com/2u6moux.jpg

I almost didn't post this because on second thought the concept is kind of dumb and I'm having trouble locating the pictures of the few posters I can remember, and I know I'm forgetting the vast majority of the others, but I'm made a personal pledge to stop stopping myself before I post things so much. Maybe ILX will come through and make this kind of neat.

kelly kapowski above my bed in high school and kurt cobain in college

one day soon I will unhook dom's collar from this here clothespeg

When I lived in Chicago a metro map fell out of it's slot in the train above the door, and I rolled up it up and took it with me, and actually I still have it hanging up by one of our bookshelves. I remember telling someone about how happy I was to get it at work and getting made fun of a lot because it was something a dormjock would do, apparently.

I had that same Radiohead poster! Of course I had tons and tons of posters throughout college, most of which I'm embarrassed about now. But I think only the Radiohead one and the Trainspotting one I actually purchased, the rest were given to me. Kind of a running joke with my friends, so they'd buy me the worst posters they could find. I wallpapered my walls with Beck, Oasis, Green Day, Nirvana, two Spice Girls ones, Britney Spears, among many others.

Middle school- 2 Escher prints, Alexander Calder.

High School- Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division (Ian Curtis "Here Are the Young Men" poster, cue "is that some gay thing" questions from family), Brazil

College- Roger Corman's The Raven, Metropolis, Aguirre

Now- the Brazil poster, Hot Chip, Chris Ware "Tales of Tomorrow" print, The Man Who Fell to Earth poster (Japanese version)

My mom always wanted to be an interior decorator. When I turned 13 I got super obsessed with The Beatles & I wanted to put up posters of them. I could not get her to compromise for months (no holes in the wall of the house she & my dad built by themselves). When I did, it was because she came up with the idea of a "Beatles wall," one wall where I was allowed to have Beatles posters, but only if they had the color green in them. That means they would "coordinate" with the green frosted glass flower pot my (comparitively) wealthy Sunday School church leader had given me for my birthday. It became the centerpiece item because, although it was only 4" (10 cm) tall, it "came from a nice store."

tinypicwon't let me upload :/

http://www.xioskrant.be/wordpress/wp-content/2009/10/hepburn-audrey-audrey-hepburn-1219755.jpg

http://img.allposters.com/6/LRG/21/2190/W2GAD00Z.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/38/MPW-19021

When I first moved in with the guy who is now my husband, this was behind his bed's headboard. Eventually I took it down bcz one time I did a half ounce of mushrooms (too many) and got "trapped" in this poster. And had way too many emotional associations with it to ever look at it again.

I share lame but true things about myself here.

audrey in the house!

When I was 20 I had a poster of Dream from The Sandman, and I cannot find an image of it online. Someone stole it from me when they moved out of the house.

i would put all of you on my wall if I could tbh

last year of college we bought 100 surplus michael jackson posters and we wallpapered the hallway to our suite with it. this was the result

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/n700711581_803868_9897.jpg

(I airbrushed my friend out)

nice

A+ dyao

I had these b/w high school & college (& a few others, but these were my favorites). I don't remember consciously seeking such things out, but band posters featuring pretty ladies seems to have been a strong theme for me back then:

http://www.posters57.com/images/My-Bloody-Valentine-You-Made-Me-Realise.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5471/mercuryrev.jpg

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad225/Colin_in_Mexico/Spiritualized/Jason/2428182118_9c8d09dec1_b.jpg

^ this one was one of those gigantic subway-size joints

I had a framed silk-screen of this, acquired from a Detroit-area record store in the mid-90s. There was a stack of them around at the time, leftover in some basement somewhere for a tour that was canceled at the zero hour. I took it separately to Spiritualized & Spectrum gigs to get it signed by both dudes. lol Sonic was actually kind of prickly about it b/c it already had J's signature. This was one of my prized possessions until it later went missing in a move. I've since seen them traded online, but they generally go for absurd prices (naturally).

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LvQY1V97idk/S2ojg64-YzI/AAAAAAAAAmk/dLXcojjmBIY/s400/Cancelled+US+TourPoster.jpg

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Easy_Rider_Motorbikes-_L.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/02/11/1234403719_1839/539w.jpg

http://www.thesequencers.us/DarkSide/images/recordposterdarkside.jpg

http://www.thesequencers.us/DarkSide/images/recordposterpinkfloyd.jpg

^^ age 12-16

This poster, of the Shinro Ohtake artwork for the Throwing Muses House Tornado, has had the longest lifetime of anything on my walls:

http://eyesore.no/tfdi/4ad-pics/ThrowingMuses.HouseTornado.ep.jpg

The US release had horrid artwork, by comparison.

I had a the Anton Corbijn Closer poster, and geeky Escher print phases as well. Now, what isn't covered in shelving is generally reserved for carved items I pick up.

teenage years:
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/allposters/09/1800055909p.jpg
http://www.thoburnillustrations.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/manhattan.jpg
now:
http://www.huabianxia.com/attachments/forumid_12/1241407911_5GtA.jpg
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-35012723407042_2102_3874105

The.most important one which you.must know about was my.Fishbone poster. I loved the hell out of Truth and Soul and really.wanted a poster of that album cover, but.there were none to be had at the monthly antiques and collectibles show at the mall, which.is where I did most.of my poster shopping. However, they had one of those GIANT posters that took up like a fifth of my wall space. It was of a naked and sweaty Angelo Moore gritting his teeth into a microphone with a strategically placed saxophone. If I remember correctly, the background colors were like, cantaloupe, coral, and teal.

I really liked Fishbone. They didn't have the poster I wanted. I bought a poster that probably caused everyone who entered my room to question my sexuality. I didn't though. I just thought of him as Nutty Old Angelo.

Can't find a picture, but when I was 6 I had several Star Trek:TMP posters which (like a lot of things I had as a kid and subsequently threw away) turn out to be worth a bit of money today. Or at least more money than your average 30 year old bit of paper.

The Smiths' Salford Lads Club poster was one

http://www.leninimports.com/housemsheeppost1.jpg

ha

http://www.designer-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/barbarella-poster.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff120/xrebeliousxone/nirvana.jpg

http://movie-shop.us/pictures/New_Jack_City.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/80/MPW-40414

Okay, so I haven't tracked down the actual poster yet, but here's a picture disk that is definitely from the same photoshoot/graphic designer!

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/3220.jpg

Shared a room with my sister. It was not difficult to find the Maginot line marking the personal space border. While her wall was mostly blank or had a fuzzy-kitty 'hang in there' poster, mine was pretty much wallpapered in Smiths/JAMC circa early singles and Psychocandy posters. Where there were no posters, there were pix ripped from '60s magazines of British kitchen sink actors or Peter O'Toole, fashion stuff from British style mags and Warhol people being exhibitionist. When I went to college, my mom cussed me out on the phone for about 30 mins because of all the staples she had to pull out of my walls once the posters were down.

Oh, my mom definitely made me do that. And there were so many because every time I changed them over the years, I'd just rip them down and leave the old staples up. Plus, a lot of what I hung on the wall was very tiny, like the album cover icons for record reviews from Spin or what have you. I'm certain my fingers bled.

http://www.jrcigarblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jenny_mccarthy.jpg

friend had this poster over the top bunk of his bunkbed and everytime I slept over I would get to be under it ooohhhh

Wow I also had the same Easy Rider and Pink Floyd posters, age 12-16!

xpost to m coleman

Plus something very similar to this :

http://www.videposters.co.uk/static/images/510x510-34941/-MUSIC-LED-ZEPPELIN-collage.jpg

staples

In a way, blu-tak is worse, because it leaves a big greasy stain on the wallpaper. When my bedroom was redecorated age 15 I was for-bid-den to put up posters again.

pritt tak was much better

There's a blob of it stuck on this door. Looks nasty, like used chewing gum.

Blu-Tac greasebombs any painted or papered surface it touches. My mom had the wall professionally painted when I left home, so nobody would dare to put up anything else, ever again.

Basically during my era of teenagerhood, most people I liked hanging out with all went to see Ferris Bueller, came back, and judged our walls to be superior for LOL at rich kid with Cabaret Voltaire and Skinny Puppy posters-type reasons.

I also had imported Cocteau Twins/23 Envelope posters and this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Uwq2Mgsfu4s/RyH7wvrzZHI/AAAAAAAACn4/_qEIT0DhzhI/s400/echo.jpg

I have to say there is a great deal to be said for making friends with people who ran a record store and music imports company - will probably frame some of the Rough Trade-issue Smiths singles posters because I still have them.

Also, knowing people who work in a video rental store. The house where I was living while at university was covered in movie posters and cardboard cut-outs.

the only posters i've got on my wall these days are dom, jw, ethan, and canky

I have half a dozen postcards near the door and that's it.

Now the only thing I have Blu-Tac'ed on any of my walls is an A3 colour photocopy of objects by W0lfgang Tillm4ns, with scrawled invite to a studio party he threw last year. I <3 artist ephemera and in this case it is probably presented as its creator would hang other work.

I had no Nirvana posters. No Nirvana posters at all.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2221332050_e3e2bdcfb0.jpg

In high school I had the inside of my closet door totally covered with Michael Jackson posters (this was in the mid 90s teenygrunge days so I was wayyy against the grain with that one). Michael pretty much dominated my room in high school.

I also covered one entire wall of my room with Leonardo DiCaprio posters in 1994. For about a year he was my boyfriend of dreams.

Others I remember were Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Kurt/Courtney/Nirvana, the standard Jim Morrison one, KoRn album covers (ugh), South Park, that CKone ad with the couples making out, which my mother HATED and took down more than once, a giant poster of a baby fur seal that I got for Christmas one year, and various 'quirky' images from fashion magazines and the like. I was a pretty lame teenager.

In university I had a big japanese woodcut print whose artist I forget. I also got a big poster of Zippy from Rainbow that said "Hello Everybody!" and I thought it was hilarious.

Now I have no posters up because we've just moved house and are planning to paint. Our walls have been bare for months.

the standard Jim Morrison one
http://potnawak.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/jim_morrison_narrowweb__300.jpg
Knew which one you meant instantly...

I had about 6000 posters of big cats.

When I was 12 I had a Shamen poster, when I was 14 I had an REM poster, and when I was 16 I had a Pavement poster. I think I had a Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey poster for a while after that came out too (I had a half-hearted phase of loving Alex Winter, possibly only because everyone else loved Keanu Reeves and I had to be different). But mainly tigers, cheetahs, snow leopards everywhere.

Actually I still have a couple of cat pictures. But they're "art". Um.

And a Stars of the Lid poster which is hidden in my wardrobe because I've been too lazy to do anything with it and I have a vague suspicion that people may find band posters inappropriate decor for adults.

hahah I had a poster of a white tiger xp

awful low budget film posters like this...
http://cdn3.ioffer.com/img/item/141/777/045/E5NcBjEtLJJaUVr.jpg
new the woman in the video shop and she'd give me all the crap ones

then music ones like these...
http://www.panicposters.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/f63dc5ec28f3175f8a7f615bd217eb71/p/g/pgp1390-stone-roses.jpg
http://static.blogstorage.hi-pi.com/photos/next.musicblog.fr/images/gd/1221663203/House-of-Love-the-complete-Peel-Sessions.jpg

i had a gigantic poster version of this for a very long time:
http://991.com/newgallery/Nine-Inch-Nails-Closer-131436.jpg

and since the album came out i've had a small vertical version of this:
http://www.toocooltodie.com/images/uploads/947-haha-sound.jpg

along side a Kid Koala concert poster not unlike this guy:
http://www.kidkoala.com/wp-content/uploads/small.jpg

I don't think I owned a single actual poster until college? I remember as a little kid I used to cut stuff outta Thrasher magazines. Mostly it was stuff I drew on my walls. I remember when I was like 12/13 sitting around listening to Eazy-E and Dre tapes and drawing pot leaves and putting them on my door. My mom let this slide for some reason. (!) Probably had something baseball related at one point. Later in high school I switched to cutting stuff outta Wizard magazine.

IIRC in college I had something like:
http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Robert-Johnson---King-of-The-Delta-Blues-Poster-C10002427.jpeg
Man I just got nerdier and nerdier.

I think I also had:
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/81/MPW-40870
and
http://diskunion.net/images/jacket/0412RK987.jpg
but with crazier colors.

God, tons of stuff, I can't remember most of it.

the standard Jim Morrison one

Knew which one you meant instantly...

― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Friday, April 30, 2010 12:58 PM (2 hours ago)

Yep. It actually belonged to my best friend but we used to swap posters all the time* and I ended up keeping it.

*like, meet up with all our posters and painstakingly negotiate who could have what that week. Can you imagine caring enough to do that now? Or having enough time on your hands? Being 15 was alternately terrible and great.

@13

https://www.specialistauctions.com/makethumb.php?pic=http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/5/1/4/0/6/1/webimg/68837125_tp.jpg&w=500&sq=Y

i havent had posters on my wall since i was a teenager but i would love a poster of that broadcast album cover

I mostly had pages from Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding on my wall, a bootleg poster that I bought in the parking lot of the first Lollapalooza (my first concert), a James Brown Star Time one, and this 4' x 4' banner that I ended up with for some reason:

http://skateandannoy.com/features/ebay/2008/ebay065/images-big/banner285.JPG

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=290311233511

my friend gave bought and laminated this poster for me, was my most prized possession through highschool and my first year of uni, and then it got lost during a house move ;_;

often think about repurchasing it, but at this point in time my love for SP is purely nostalgic and the poster really wouldn't fit in with any of the artwork we have on our walls.

http://www.posterplanet.net/music/images/smash1979.jpg

After I took down 100+ football posters my room was covered in the standard issue SELECT mag stuff, and I had a huge version of this (without the CD text)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NK3NwhcAKOY/SZxKf4haFyI/AAAAAAAABoM/0kxg36LsCtA/s320/Kenickie+-+Punka+1.JPG

^ one of my top-tier posters imo

oh and this one haha
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/30/024_AA518~Pulp-Jarvis-Cocker-Posters.jpg

holy cow i never realized how awesome the superfuzz bigmuff cover is!

http://skateandannoy.com/features/ebay/2008/ebay065/images-big/banner285.JPG

omg yes I wanted a Santa Cruz skateboard with the screaming hand so bad when I was like 10 or w/e

Walter Payton. Heather Thomas.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_h3rluedCKrw/SXakUKTSOGI/AAAAAAAAA7o/bGBuia5aOwA/s1600-h/md+poster.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/190931.1020.A.jpg

i used to have a couple of lucha libre posters like this, from the same time period, featuring rey mysterio & mil mascaras. i snagged 'em from tijuana telephone poles (after the match), folded them up, and smuggled them across the border in my pockets. they were really cool, i don't know what happened to them.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5940/popposterlucha03.jpg

Had the longbox of this on my wall for years:

http://www.vasiliska.com/uploads/posts/1186905637_allcdcovers_blur.jpg

First one I ever had, about age 10, bought with my allowance money at the mall boutique/headshop:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4180PZPGE3L._AA280_.jpg

Late 70s SNL posters (Coneheads, Samurai), Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, a view of SF from the Bay Bridge...the usual "BIG POSTER SALE!!!! FRIDAY-SATURDAY AT THE STUDENT UNION!!!" college stuff. Haven't had many posters up in the last 15 years, but I did frame and put up a bunch of my wife's photographs last year, and she gave me a signed limited-edition print from Christo's The Gates installation.

about a year ago i mounted something similar to this over my couch:

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/1961%20Munro%20Electric%20Canadian%20Hockey%20table%20top%20gamejpg.jpg

early 80's Leafs vs Habs.

This one in my college apartment:

http://images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/features/kachur/kachur7-21-05-8.jpg

When I first moved in with the guy who is now my husband, this was behind his bed's headboard. Eventually I took it down bcz one time I did a half ounce of mushrooms (too many) and got "trapped" in this poster. And had way too many emotional associations with it to ever look at it again.

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Friday, 30 April 2010 05:38 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Actually I recognise that Bjork poster - one of my old housemates has a copy and I remember a long discussion about whether or not that was Bjork's tongue, or if it was something in her mouth.

I have had these since college, 20-25 years:

http://www.mobiusgallery.net/poster004.jpg

http://www.globalgallery.com/prod_images/600/sw-322.jpg

also a great poster for The Ex's album TUMULT but there is no online image, basically the album cover with black-on-red text at the bottom. the thing is big, 2x4 maybe.

http://www.theex.nl/img/covers/150x150/tumult150.jpg

and a poster version of this:

http://www.planetmellotron.com/images/tinylights-hazel.jpg

No-one had Joy Division?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/392372/Ian+Curtis.jpg

I think this came out of the Sounds/NME the week after he died and immediately went up on just painted blood red wall in my bedroom, I was one intense teenager.

Freddy Kruger
Pinhead from Hellraiser
Frankenstein
1,000,000 REM posters

Before that, Rick Springfield, 1,000,000 Def Leppard posters

XP I had that JD one Ned

And this

http://www.yesterphobia.com/gemm/052.jpg

http://www.yesterphobia.com/gemm/052.jpg

Dammit

And this

http://pe.elmstreet-online.com/shop1/catalog/images/LP0990-480px.jpg

my parents wouldn't let me put up any posters. "d'know how much that wallpaper cost us?". it was ugly too.

I've had this on my wall for at least ten years now:
http://agitreader.com/img/perfect/grifters.jpg

I had this nailed to the front of my bedroom door for a few years

http://i42.tinypic.com/15yytkl.jpg

Shit, I even wrote a review of it for my household zine, issue 1 of 1

Cover of Charlie Daniels Band's "Saddle Tramp" is a Subtle Masterpiece

by Chance Reynolds

Take a look at the photo of a photo of a painting to your lower right. Then take a nap and try to think about it as you doze off. Then you'd better take another look, because this is a revolution. This is four-dimensional art, and the fourth dimension is incredibly powerful.

In the solemn gaze of Charlie Daniels we can see the true spirit of the American West. The next time we eat eggs, grits and bacon, we will think of him.

"...I am immune to attacks from floating enemies."

This is not art to hang on a wall. This is art to carry around with you downtown. All of us lose certain magical powers when we leave 1610. But when I carry this piece of art with me, I am immune to attacks from floating enemies.

A close look at the background reveals that Charlie Daniels inhabits a region of the universe unknown to mortals.

In this universe, the colors red and black are considered holy and complete. A polite traveler, Daniels respects local traditions by wearing his best red shirt and black vest combo.

You may say to yourself, "It looks like he's smirking at something - or about to smirk." I agree, and then offer you a word of advice: look at his hat very, very closely.

If nothing else you can hang this picture on your bedroom door. Then, every night you can say, "Goodnight, Charlie Daniels, I'll see you tomorrow."

For some reason no one who wasn't stoned and living at my house with me thought the zine was funny at ALL

Meg, that Joy Division poster is ace

Z_S! That is great. And it reminds me of the silly "zine" I used to make for my family (sadly, they thought it was cooler than my future stoned roomies did).

My gf had that same Bjork poster hanging up in her room when I first met her! I remember mentioning to her that I had the same picture of Bjork, and she was like "what do you mean you have the same picture...like a poster?" and I had to admit that I "had" the same picture in a folder on my computer, along with like a million others, because I had a big crush on Bjork at the time.

http://images.art.com/images/-/The-Smiths---Salford-Club-Poster-C10026936.jpeg

http://thereelworld.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/blue-velvet-poster-c10080070.jpeg

Cant find a GIS of it, but I had a poster of the Cocteau Twins Royal Albert Hall gig from 1984 (?) for many years over my bed. Always meant to frame it (its rare)... never did. Came home one day to find my cat had shredded it :(

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/193707.1020.A.jpg

(drat)http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/193707.1020.A.jpg

the highlight of the poster collection in my sophomore year dorm room was definitely:

http://img.allposters.com/6/LRG/8/887/VKLJ000Z.jpg

That is magnificent!

I can believe that there's someone else hidden underneath that foam.

Off the top of my head.

A really giant version of this, but tinted like the opening credits of Cheers, really kind of a shame:
http://deadlinescotland.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/82535061_82e9867ee4.jpg

This one, about 5' x 4', so big it was pretty much wallpaper:
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/38/MPW-19022

This one, inside the closet door for obvious reasons:
http://www.markallencam.com/MadonnaNudePoster.jpeg

This one talked to me once when I was on a bit too much acid:
http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/nct01lg.jpg

Not this exact poster, but a poster with this exact image (of which there must be hundreds):
http://www.posters57.com/images/categories/born-in-usa.jpg

This was in the bedroom for a long time to prove I was totally down with the arty-sexy combo:
http://media.kunst-fuer-alle.de/img/32/g/32_2218~_gustav-klimt_danae.jpg

That Barbarella poster is fucking sweet. I want one.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/hendrix_zps9db0fc16.jpg

I had this on my wall in high school. Found this image on ebay. The seller is asking $100 despite a 4" tear. The drawing is lamer than I remembered it, but the colors looked great under the black light.