your cv as a music listener

13 - Alice Cooper
14/15 - Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Skid Row, Poison
16 - Teenage Fanclub
17/18 - Dinosaur Jr, Lotion, Eric's Trip, Velocity Girl, Pavement
19 - Man or Astro-man? 20 and beyond, kept some old favourites, gained some new favourites...but have no specific favourites!

10-11 - weird al 12-13 - public enemy/guns and roses 14 - nirvana 15/16 - husker du 17/18 - the pixies/my bloody valentine 18/19 - a guy called gerald 20 - public image ltd. 21 - timbaland 22 - can 23 - ?

10-11: KLF

12: The Shamen

13-14: none in particular

15: Pulp

16-19: Momus

20: The Magnetic Fields

21: none outstanding

6-7: Abba*, Andrew Lloyd Webber
8-9: Madness*
10: Duran Duran*
11: Madonna*
12: Ultravox (I thought I was WELL DEEP)
13: David Bowie
14: Pink Floyd aargh
15-16: The Smiths*
17-18: The Pixies*
19: Talking Heads*, Julian Cope*, XTC*, The Orb*
20: Early BRITPOP i.e. Suede, Saint Etienne*, Auteurs
21: Here things start going mad - early POST-ROCK (eg Disco Inferno*) and cheapo 7" SINGLES from the 70s 80s and 90s(mostly *)
22: JUNGLE!!!!* Also Pulp*
23: JAPANESE PSYCH!!!* Mercury Rev* (still rate this bit of them) Magnetic Fields*
24: My summer of soul - Motown* and Stax and Philly*. Also Spiritualized.
25: bit of a dead zone.
26: BRITNEY! and radio pop* Magnetic Fields again! Position Normal*
27: Belle And Sebastian*. The Clientele*. Jay-Z* and other 'street rap'. 28: Daft Punk* - and here we are!

Addendum: my answer to the 'what's your favourite album?' question has varied a lot less. Started - when I could be bothered to care abt such things - with a Bowie album, probably 'Station To Station'. Then switched to 'The World Won't Listen' until 1991 when it became 'Trompe Le Monde' for several more years until in 1995/96 I settled on 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions...' which is my stock answer to this day.

12 - rick astely

13 - kylie minogue

14 - poison

15 - billy bragg

16- the cure

17 - jane's addiction

18 - nirvana

19 - joy division

20 - velvet underground

21 - patti smith

22 - nick cave

23 - prolapse

24 - jimmy webb

25 - astor piazzolla

26 - japanoise/lou reed

What strikes me as funny about this is that I still like pretty much everything on here except the stuff I was listening to from 18-21 (when I was a college kid listening to "college" music).

8. The Archies

9. The Jackson Five

10. Grand Funk Railroad

11. Black Sabbath

12. Alice Cooper

13. David Bowie

14. Patti Smith

15. The Sex Pistols

16. The Buzzcocks

17. Public Image, Ltd.

18. Roxy Music

19. The Kinks

20. The Cramps

21. Orange Juice

22. The Birthday Party

23. The Smiths

24. The Jesus and Mary Chain

25. Redd Kross

26. The Replacements

27. The Pixies

28. Dinosaur Jr.

29. Donna Summer

30. Nirvana

31. My Bloody Valentine

32. The Breeders

33. Guided by Voices

34. Magnetic Fields

35. Francoise Hardy

36. Pulp

37. Super Furry Animals

38. Turbonegro

39. Stereo Total

40. The White Stripes

I hesitate to use the R word, but jeez, my list is so white and predicably alt-rock canonical. Oh well, that's what I lurved at the time. And I still hold them all in very high esteem, though I doubt I'll listen to Dinosaur Jr. or Nirvana much in the future. It was very, very difficult to choose one band/artist per year, Alex. I wish I could have just put down "Ages 7-12: American Top 40 Radio, Everything".

5-8: Michael Jackson

9: Bon Jovi

10-14: Led Zeppelin

15-17: Sonic Youth

18: Joy Division

19: The Stooges

20: La Monte Young

I really don't know who to list for 21 and 22.

3-5 - Billy Idol

6-9 - (dry spell - we moved to the country, and I didn't have MTV anymore)

10 - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

11 - Spin Doctors (Jesus fucking Christ)

12/13 - REM

14/15 - Smashing Pumpkins

16/17 - Del tha Funkee Homosapien

18 - Rolling Stones

19 - Radiohead

20 - Chameleons

21 - Kraftwerk

God, I seem so bland! This boiling-it-down-to-one-per-year shit sucks.

7-12 ABBA, Blondie 12-14 The B**tl*s 14-16 Pink Floyd, Supertramp 16-18 Metallica, Anthrax 19 Pixies, Public Enemy 20 KLF, Primal Scream 22 - 24 Royal Trux, Aphex Twin 25 - 27 Jungle, Plastikman 25 - today Basic Channel, Daft Punk I dunno from 24 onwards it doesn't really compute anymore, single artists tended to get less important for me. You could even have meta- favourites that span a longer period, say 10-20 Talk Talk, 20-30 Miles Davis.

1 - 10 - classical music only, thanks. (rebelling against parents' mod tastes and boxes of Beatles and Kinks records)
11 - Billy Joel (oh, the shame)
12 - Duran Duran
13 - David Bowie and Philip Glass (don't ask)
14 - Various synthpop, New Order & New Romantics
15 - The Smiths. The Cure. Bits of hardcore and punk.
16-17 - Noisy, obscurer than thou indie. Sonic Youth, Jesus and Mary Chain, Shop Assistants, Velvet Underground
18 - Art School. Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus (except for those rare occasions I was listening to Love & Rockets, Tones On Tail or the Jazz Butcher). If it is not on 4AD, I will not listen to it. (Pixies and Throwing Muses sneak in undetected that way)
19 - Schitzophrenic year. Glam rock (T.Rex, Hanoi Rocks AND Guns N Roses) and psychedelia (new like The Church and Spacemen3 and old like The Byrds) feature heavily.
20 - one word: MADCHESTER. New Order and Happy Mondays to exclusion of all else.
21 - Discover shoegazing and Krautrock. Three words: My. Bloody. Valentine. (Also, Ride, Medicine, Lush)
22 - The world changes. Spiritualized and Stereolab enter my life.
23 - Britpop makes an impression. Blur and Suede appear.
24 - Forward into the Past! My parents Beatles and Kinks records aren't so bad after all!
25 - No music made after 1969 is good. At all. Rolling Stones, Ronettes and the Velvet Underground, I will hear nothing else. (Except, of course, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, and Stereolab)
26 - Blur drag me back into the present, but then the Dandy Warhols save my life.
27-28 - The Dandy Warhols wreck my life. Literally. Dronepop overdose
29 - Sloan and Godspeed. Canadians are great, eh?
30 and on - Oh, I've given up having obsessions. I know what I like and I like it, and I won't apologise for it.

12-14 Sgt. Peppers (sigh)

15-18 The Wall (double sigh)

19-22 Surfer Rosa

23-30 Bitches Brew, although it can change at times to Selected Ambient Works 85-92 or Radio Ethiopia.

14: Depeche Mode

15: Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

16: The Cure

17: Elvis Costello

18: New Order

19: Wire

20: James Brown

21: Sebadoh

22: Bikini Kill

23: Girly Sound

24: God Is My Co-Pilot

25: Sun City Girls

26: Fleetwood Mac

27: Belle & Sebastian

28: Boredoms

29: The Magnetic Fields

30: Radiohead

31: The Beatles

as for the best albums...

12-14 - fear of a black planet

15-18 - zen arcade

19-20 - metal box

21-Present - laughing stock

13 - Alice Cooper - Trash
14 - Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
15 - Megadeth - Rust in Peace
16 - Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
17 - Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
18 - Pond - The Practice of Joy Before Death
19 - Man or Astro-man? - Destroy All Astromen
20 - Polvo - Exploded Drawing
21 - Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
22 - Apples in Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
23 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
24 - Masters of the Hemisphere - I Am Not a Freemdoom
25 - Really don't know!

I'm impressed. I cringed when I had to recount *my* favourite band at 12 :).

Hearing "Revolution 9" by the Beatles when I was 14 was my real introduction to the avant-garde. By the time I was 16 I was taping Cage and Stockhausen off Radio 3. No wonder I didn't have a girlfriend at the time.

fave albums
12: Madonna, Like A Virgin
13: Depeche Mode, People Are People; Pink Floyd, The Wall; David Bowie, Fame and Fashion; The Best Of Blondie
14: the Ramones, Rocket to Russia
15: the Clash, London Calling
16-18: the Clash, Give 'em Enough Rope
19-24: the Waterboys, Fisherman's Blues
25-29: Bruce Springsteen, Born In The USA

Invisible Touch by Genesis, Licenced to Ill by the Beastie Boys, INXS Kick, all by Def Leppard, everything before Use your Illusion by Guns and Roses, whatever was in rotation on MTV and radio in Detroit in the 80's. Yo MTV Raps was a huge influence, although I never bought any of the music they played.

Also, The Scene(The New Dance Show), a local dance program broadcast out of WGPR tv62 in Detroit. It was a black dance program which features DJ Jesse The Body, it played a mix of old funk, booty, 80's rap, and early Chicago house and Detroit techno. Ask anybody my age (24) in Detroit and they will all rave about how this show brought the hood into their lilly white suburb everyday after school. When I was 11 or 12 this show was the craziest thing I had ever seen, The New Dance Show was awesome!

Anyways, Puberty hit and somehow I bought Disintegration by the Cure and it was all over.

Serious Cure fan from 13-14 Serious Joy Division Fan 15-17 Serious Bowie and Kraftwerk Fan 18-19

and then it shifts from specific artists to specific genres or regional styles:

Hard Detroit Techno/Tracky House 19-21 Purist Ambient/Minimal Dub 21-22 IDM 23-24 Classic Detroit Techno/Jazz 24

13-14 More shitty bubblegum metal-pop

15-- Slayer/King Diamond/Circle Jerks/Public Enemy

16-- NWA/Dag Nasty/Rush

17-- Front 242/Dag Nasty

18-- NIN/Dag Nasty/Nirvana

19-- Clash/Smiths/Dag Nasty

20-- Afghan Whigs/Smashing Pumpkins/Leonard Cohen

21-- Afghan Whigs/Damned/Dag Nasty

22-- Social Distortion/Big Boys/Urge Overkill

23-- Plastikman/James Brown/Afghan Whigs/Black Grape

24-- DJ Shadow/Barry Adamson/Dr. Octagon

25-- Air/Kruder & Dorfmeister/St. Etienne

26-- Sasha & Digweed/Curtis Mayfield/Sloan/Jeff Buckley

27-- The Make-Up/Sloan/Sea and Cake/White Stripes/St. Germain

28-- Sea and Cake/Sloan/The Hives/Big Star/Doves/Guided by Voices

The primary factor in why I never attempted to dance outside of my house.

9 - G'n'f'R! 10 - Jimi 11 - Pearl Jam 12-14 - Sonic Youth (and every year after), Meat Puppets 15 - Ben Folds Five, the Posies 16 - Soul Coughing, Jay-Z 17 - Elvis Costello, Sparklehorse 18-19 - the Posies (back with a vengeance), the Dismemberment Plan

with of course lots of other less gripping obsessions in between. odd looking list, though. funny what you just like and what you really really get

you're telling me you think weird al is better than the pixies tom? ;) (oh, keep in mind i was also listening to a lot of liscense to ill around then. boy, that explains a lot.)

it's a very rockist question, no? ;) but seriously, between 16-20, i was listening to as much jungle and hiphop (singles) as anything else, but very few of them would qualify as my "favorite artists" (which tends to signify albums, etc.) tom's the only one (shocking!) to answer this question in a pop-centric way.

16: Built To Spill

17: Sleater-Kinney

18: Velvet Underground

19: Lou Reed/Elvis Costello

20: Missy Elliot

21: Jodeci

21: Jodeci

i think this pretty effectively refutes tom's theory.

You and Ira Robbins. What the effff?

(ps i thought of a funnier band to be into when briefly not jett-centric = METABOLIST!!)

besides, as any fule also knos, you get paid to write about music = you are rockist. sorry. (and yes, goats and first born children count.)

c. sinkah, 2001. all rights stolen.

(Is cuprafen related to pentathol at all?)

(nb: the faust tapes is a poor subsitute for not being able to find a joan jett 7". i swear to god i owned one at one point.)