Your current top 10 recordings you owned in 9th grade [non US people, use the equivilent]

But:
Roxy Music - Siren
Steely Dan - Aja
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Lou Reed - Rock & Roll Animal
Beatles - Revolver
Best of the Byrds
Cream - (Some German compilation)
The Who - Tommy
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Todd Rundgren - Hermit Of Mink Hollow

Bon Jovi - New Jersey
The Cure - Disintegration
Dokken - Back For the Attack
Soul Asylum - Hang Time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Depeche Mode - Music For the Masses
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Echo & the Bunnymen - s/t
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End

Favourite at 14 - something by Bowie probably.

Favourite at 15 - The World Won't Listen by The Smiths.

Pink Floyd The Wall
AC/DC - Back in Black
Devo - New Traditionalists
Adam & the Ants - Prince Charming
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Iron Maiden - Killers
Rush - Moving Pictures
Queen - The Game
Kiss - Unmasked
Ramones - Pleasant Dreams

* Squeeze: Argybargy
* Devo: Freedom of Choice
* Devo: Duty Now for The Future
* Talking Heads: Fear of Music
* The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
* Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
* Rush: Moving Pictures
* Ramones: Road To Ruin
* Ramones: End of the Century
* Elvis Costello: Get Happy!

I think I mostly just bought whatever spin reviewed and I was lucky enough to get the good stuff first and then be too broke to pick up Offspring records or whatever else.

The Clash, London Calling
The Clash, Sandinista!
Stevie Wonder, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta
Chuck Mangione, Children of Sanchez
The B-52's, The B-52's
David Bowie, Scary Monsters
Pete Townshend, Empty Glass
Yes, Tales from Topographic Oceans
Bruce Springsteen, The River

and a whole lot of radio.

Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Pixies, Bossanova
Dinosaur Jr., Bug
Sebadoh, III
Seam, Headsparks
Afghan Whigs, Ceremony
Crain, Speed
Slint, Spiderland
Camper Van Beethoven, Key Lime Pie
Swans, White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

Fishbone Reality of My Surroundings
Camper Van Beethoven Key Lime Pie*
They Might Be Giants Flood
De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising
Arrested Development Length of Time it Took to Make Album ;-)
Dead Milkmen Beelzebubba
Fishbone s/t
Faith No More The Real Thing
REM the one before Automatic for the People
Neil Young Harvest Moon

*Hey hstencil, you know they're playing together again, right?

ELO - _Out of the Blue_, _Face the Music_, _Time_, _New World Record_
CW McCall - Convoy (from my folks collection)
Soundtrack to _Star Wars_. Still got it. Double vinyl, baby!
Soundtrack to _Cosmos_. A marvelous entree into classical/electronic.
(I also might be off by a year or so for this one).

Yes i was a geek.

I don't think i even heard a real punk single/album until 1982, and that was probably the video to "Hungry Wolf" by X (and even that's debatable.)

First and foremost:
Quick Step & Side Kick - Thompson Twins (probably the only one that would make my current Top 100)

..and (in random order)...

Into The Gap - Thompson Twins
Upstairs At Eric's - Yazoo
You And Me Both - Yazoo
Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
Colour By Numbers - Culture Club
Dream Into Action - Howard Jones
Dare - Human League
Music From The Elder - Kiss
Hunting High & Low - a-ha

My parents owned "A Hard Day's Night", "Help!", "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper", but I guess that doesn't count?

Probably "10th grade" in the UK. Kids in the UK start school at 5, don't they?

(Easier here, because Norwegian kids start school at 6, just like American ones)

um...

nirvana, "nevermind"
right said friend, "up"
whatever deee-lite's second to last album was called
b-52s, "good stuff"

ouch. i can't think of anything else that i definitely was into that year, but i can say that belly, hole, polly jean harvey, pearl jam, the breeders, and all the other predictable 90s "alt-rock" was soon to follow.

public enemy - fear of a black planet
de la - 3 feet high
(i was starting to get reactionary about hip-hop at this point and by 94 i wouldnt buy another hip-hop record for two years, illmatic and enter the wutang were both late 93/early 94 i think, which means they were 10th grade)
husker du - zen arcade
the clash - s/t
pixies - doolittle
dinosaur jr - you're living all over me
minor threat - complete discography
new order - substance
joy div - one of the best ofs, prob
rave tapes!

Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked
Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
The Clash
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True / This Years Model
Damned Damned Damned
Ian Dury - New Boots & Panties
Heartbreakers - LAMF
Penetration - Moving Targets
Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
PiL - First Edition
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Scream
Magazine - Real Life
New York Dolls - 1st / Too Much Too Soon
Ramones - Ramones / Leave Home / Rocket To Russia
Talking Heads - '77
Vibrators - Pure Mania, V2
Wire - Pink Flag
XTC - White Music
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

I basically spent that year listening to stuff like:

Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Smiths - Louder than Bombs
REM - Document
Blur - Leisure
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
New Order - Brotherhood
10,000 Maniacs - Hope Chest
Morrissey - Viva Hate

subhumans - ep/lp, from the cradle to the grave
slayer - reign in blood
metallica - master of puppets
black flag - the first four years
voivod - dimension hatross, nothingface
dead kennedys - plastic surgery disasters
napalm death - scum
carcass - reek of putrefaction

that's 10 anyway. after this point the metal quotient faded into indie with the punk rock a constant still.

Cure - Disintegration
Pixies - Doolittle
Thowing Muses - Real Ramona
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Smiths - s/t
JAMC - Automatic
Sundays - WR&A
R.E.M. - Green
Stone Roses - s/t
Sonic Youth - Goo

You have to understand, there was (and still isn't) any outlet for anything other than AOR radio. It wasn't until my Junior year that I realised there were other forms of rock music than hard rock/classic/metal.

~ddb

Of what I had then, I would named Def Leppard's Pyromania and Duran Duran's Rio. That would be about it.

It would've been:

* Annihilator - Never, neverland
* Poison - Flesh and Blood
* Megadeth - Rust in Peace
* Skid Row - S/t
* Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
* Anthrax - Persistence of Time
* Xentrix - For Whose Advantage?
* Exodus - Impact is Imminent
* Kreator - Coma of Souls
* Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Jel's version of something a la Klosterman's Fargo Rock City is something I wanna read.

I think this is all I still own from 9th grade.

minor threat "out of step"
descendents "hallraker"
dead milkmen "beelzebubba"
rem "murmur" or any of those mid-80's albums...
the doors "best of" or something similar.
salt n pepa "hot cool and vicious"
def leppard "pyromania"
public enemy "it takes a million..."
faith no more "the real thing"
sir mix-a-lot "swass"

?
m.

nothing at all.

then again, I lived in a rural area, the nearest towns of any significant size about 20 minutes away -- which is a lot when you dont have access to buses or have a driver's license.

that was my situation as well... small beach town in florida... radio and mtv were the only sources of music exposure...

i think i was way more into skateboarding, dnd, and video games at the time.

m.

1. U2, "Achtung Baby"
2. Bob Dylan, "Greatest Hits, Vol. 1"
3. Nirvana, "Nevermind"
4. R.E.M, "Out of Time"
5. Indigo Girls, "Rites of Passage"

I can't remember much else I listened to, other than some tacky pop music and a little hair metal. I didn't really get into music until 10th grade.

The Alarm - Declaration
Big Country - Steeltown
> Up Labour!
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
> Both inescapable that year, and my dad primed me on Born To Run. But I think Rebel Yell holds up better.
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight
> Still great
Prince - Purple Rain
> pizwned 1984
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
> go on, get Tarzan, go on, get Jane... God I loved this album
REM - Chronic Town
> I still remember riding my bike home in the rain from Fantasy Records in Rochester, NY with Chronic Town balanced between the handlebars. That was seventh grade. By ninth grade Murmur and Reckoning were both out. But when push came to shove, it was still Chronic Town for me.
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
> I saw this dancer work Tina's Can't Stand The Rain at Jumbo's Clown Room in Hollywood. It was really, really hot.
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
> And suddenly, some of the cooler jocks were listening to U2. WTF? You could feel the wave building.

J.D. Considine's four-star review of the album in the '92 rolling stone album guide (which I got the christmas of that year - age 13) described the album as having the strone-drum "chink-chink-chink-chink" of the Velvets' "I'm Waiting For The Man," so when I found a used cassette of the album my freshman year of high school I snapped it up fast.

By and large, the records I liked best then I still like (although rarely listen to); I listened to them so much at the time.

The Grateful Dead -- Live/Dead
Workingman's Dead
The Band -- The Band
Quicksilver Messenger Service -- Happy Trails
Jimi Hendrix -- Electric Ladyland
Band of Gypsies
The Rolling Stones -- Beggar's Banquet
(not so much Sticky Fingers at the time)
Miles Davis -- Bitches Brew
The MC5 -- Kick Out The Jams
Bob Dylan -- Greatest Hits (Vol. 1)
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends -- On Tour With Eric Clapton

The following might have qualified to be in my top 10 then, but I lost the records somewhere along the way so they can't qualify now:

The Who -- Tommy
Cream -- Greatest Hits
The Rolling Stones -- Let It Bleed (definitely)

I can't remember exactly what I thought at the time about Steppenwolf and The Doors, both of whom I had loved to distraction a few years earlier. I had a bunch of Beatles records, but didn't listen to them much. Led Zeppelin II and Sweet Baby James were very popular, and I liked them, but I never owned either because everyone else did. All the girls were in love with Tapestry; Joni Mitchell's Blue really belongs to the next year.

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
2. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
*Note - both of the above were purchased on the same trip to the record store on a blind hunch. Sometimes you just get lucky.
3. New Order - Technique
4. Stone Roses - st
5. The Velvet Underground - Another View
6. Echo & the Bunnymen - st
7. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
8. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
9. Spacemen 3 - Recurring
10. The Wedding Present - Bizarro

Hmmm. Seems my musical taste has developed somewhat since I was 14 and a half years old. :)

Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Saxon - Crusader
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Fastway - Fastway
Riot - Restless Breed
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Metallica - Kill 'Em All

Hey! Geir! You didn't own that one in mid 1985! Not until later!

1) sonic youth - evol
2) pixies - surfer rosa
3) fugazi - 13 songs
4) husker du - zen arcade
5) neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
6) pixies - doolittle
7) bikini kill - pussy whipped
8) pj harvey - rid of me
9) guided by voices - alien lanes
10) flaming lips - the soft bulletin

(i only like about 3 or 4 of these now)

Def Leppard - Pyromania
U2 - The Unforgetable Fire
every Genesis album, obsessively (though Invisible Touch in 1986 cured me real quick)

but by the end of the school year it was:
-Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Backyard
-Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
-every album by The Police, obsessively

9th Grade = 87/88 Florida

LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
Dana Dane - DD with Fame
Ice T - Rhyme Pays
Gucci Crew II - So Def, So...
2 Live Crew - Move Somethin'
MC ADE - Just Somethin' to Do
MC Cool Rock & MC Chaszey Chess - Boot the Booty
M-4 Sers - I am a Star
Beach Boys - Endless Summer

"We got both kinds of music: Hip-Hop AND Miami Bass!"

During 9th grade, I heard MARRS's single, and right after, I heard PE's Rebel Without a Puse, and the world started to open up...

1 Violent Femmes
2 U2 - War
3 Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
4 Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
5 Rush - Grace Under Pressure
6 Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
7 Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
8 Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
9 The Fixx - Reach the Beach
10 ELO - Secret Messages

It was definitely a transition time. I'd been listening to KUNI, a great college station from University of Northern Iowa, transmitted throughout Iowa, and I was getting exposed to the likes of Run-DMC, R.E.M., the Replacements, Husker Du, Minutemen, X and Big Black, but I didn't have access to the albums. I was still getting Yes, Asia, ZZ Top and Styx through the record club, but didn't listen to them much. By the following summer I started getting dubbed tapes of the albums I really wanted.

Kill the Man Who Questions- Sugar Industry
Big Black- Songs About Fucking
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Murder Ballads
Radiohead- OK Computer
Black Star
Sonic Youth- Goo
The Sound of Failure EP
Spazz- (7"s, all of them)
Belle & Sebastian- Boy With the Arab Strap
Dylan's Greatest Hits

Don't really listen to most of these actively any longer. But I'd say Goo and Songs About Fucking are among my favorite records by those artists. And the only B & S album I can listen to is Boy w/ the Arab Strap. Also, lots more hardcore and grindcore, but my obsession with the stuff ended around then, too.

1. bob dylan - freewheelin' bob dylan
2. led zeppelin - 4
3. led zeppelin - houses of the holy
4. bob marley - exodus
5. dave matthews band - under the table and dreaming
6. ani difranco - living in clip
7. nine inch nails - the downward spiral
8. radiohead - the bends
9. bush - sixteen stone
10. tori amos - boys for pele

Stupidity - Dr. Feelgood (saw them that year)
Elite Hotel - Emmylou Harris
First Velvets
Sailin' Shoes
Countdown to Ecstacy
Ol Number 1 - Guy Clark
Liege and Lief - Fairports
Please to see the King - Steeleye Span

Contrary to the appearance virtually all of this list might give, I was in 9th grade from 1994 - 1995. And I am not the least bit ashamed of anything on this list.

Adam Ant - Friend or Foe
J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
J. Geils Band - Showtime!
J. Geils Band - Love Stinks
Police - Synchronicity
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Fleetwood Mac - the one with "Hold Me" on it
R.E.M. - Murmur
R.E.M. - Chronic Town
The Jam - The Gift

And I thought I was the shit because I didn't listen to emo or the Dave Matthews Band.

Le Tigre - Le Tigre
Radiohead - The Bends
Phish - Farmhouse
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming (and I still love it)
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Beastie Boys - Paul's Botique
Basement Jaxx - Rooty (but I never actually listened to the whole thing until...... well actually it was 12 hours ago, no joke)
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

I cannot BELIEVE I actually remember 10 CDs I had in ninth grade...

Must have seemed pretty weird in 1994-95 though. I mean, these days, those early 80s synthpop/new romantic styles are bach in fashion, but they hardly were in the mid 90s.

I was down with pretty much everything on Dog Latin's top 10 though. Oh, Select magazine :(

1. Sweet "Ballroom Blitz" (summer between 9th & 10th grade actually)
2. Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3. Labelle, "Lady Marmalade"
4. Zager and Evans, "In the Year 2525"
5. Bobby Russell, "Saturday Morning Confusion"
6. Sha Na Na, Hot Sox
7. Robert Klein, Child of the '50s
8. George Carlin, Class Clown
9. Cheech & Chong, Los Cachinos
10. Cheech & Chong, Big Bambu

I think I had only just started to pay attention to music at this point, unlike some of you bastards who were apparently born hipsters.

1. INXS - The Swing
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
4. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
5. Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
6. U2 - Achtung Baby
7. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers -Blood Sugar Sex Magik
9. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
10. I don't know, really. I guess Bleach or Listen Like Thieves or something

NB - though I bought Steady Diet of Nothing in ninth grade, I thought it was awful. I only realized how great it was in college.

Replacements: Let It Be
Replacements: Tim
The Jam: Snap
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones: Aftermath
Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run
REM: Murmur
REM: Reckoning
Velvet Underground & Nico
U2: The Unforgettable Fire

Pixies - Doolittle
Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
New Order - Substance
Depeche Mode - Violator
Curve - Blindfold EP
Madness - One Step Beyond
Stranglers - Greatest Hits
Talk Talk - Best of
Coldcut - What's That Noise

This was '90/1. Didn't really get into music til the next year though! I still have all of these apart from Coldcut which I sold along with most of my other old house tapes when I was about 16.

I was in ninth grade five years ago. I'm still such a baby!

Pearl Jam, Ten
Nirvana, Incesticide
Various Artists, Boomerang OST
Various Artists, Singles OST
Metallica, And Justice For All
Bjork, Debut
Das EFX, Straight Up Sewaside
Megadeth, Countdown to Extinction
Weird Al, Off the Deep End
Tears for Fears, The Seeds of Love

I cite this as a definition of my chilhood pre-Jr. high

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure - Standing On A Beach (the cassette with all the unavailable b-sides!)
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and The Cobra
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
Indochine - 7000 Danses
Les Rita Mitsouko - Marc & Robert
Guns & Roses - Appetite For Destruction

I'm a pretty weird gal. But yes, I was absolutely out of step with what most of my fellow contemporaries were listening to, though funnily enough the norm wasn't with any kind of "alternative" music but with '90s R&B/hiphop and rap. You were more likely to find Dr. Dre fans than Blur or Pearl Jam fans at my high school. The next most popular genre was American alternative or "grunge"-like music. And looking back at what I'd answered, I misspoke when I mentioned Vol. 13 of the Just Can't Get Enough series. I purchased that the summer between my HS freshman (9th grade) and sophomore (10th grade) years. I should've said Vol. 7 of that series, which I did indeed acquire in the middle of my 9th grade year, as a birthday present.

Oh, I should've remembered that one. I got that the summer between my 7th and 8th grades, and it was my introduction to The Cure. I think that one will go as my "honorable mention".

I haven't listed to "Storm Front" in well over a decade. I don't even know if I still have it (on tape, natch). BUT THE DOWNEASTER ALEXA!!!

Nirvana - Nevermind
Descendants - Milo Goes to College
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Beatles - White Album
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - III
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
AC/DC - High Voltage