Might as well as the question since I did the
Growing Up In Scotland in the 70s or 80s. thread.
What was it like growing up in England in the 70's,80's or even the early 90's? What bands did you listen to and how did you find out about music? What were the best record shops?
― Robbie j, Friday, 8 April 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)
Selectadisc in Nottingham, a couple of grotty places in Derby. Woolworths. Our Price.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)
indie shop on the bridge in Skipton (Yorkshire Dales) that placed made a mint out of me .. cant recall name .. but damn it was a slice of heaven.
he catered for all my Cab Voltaire/Shriekback/J&MC demands - the era when double pack 7" were all the rage ..
the guy has no idea how important that place was in my life when i was 16-18
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)
Between about 14 and 17 ... (83-87)
New music? : John Peel, my friend Daniel, erm ... John Sax in the afternoon (Capital Radio)
Shops : 101 Records in Croydon, Rough Trade in London, Woolworths, Our Price
Listened to Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, The The, Soft Cell, Erasure, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, some New Order, some Gary Numan, hated anything "with guitars" (except Cocteaus, obviously).
After I went to Uni : Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Clan of Xymox, more Matt Johnson (a lot 'cos I was misunderstood and miserable ;-), Stravisnky and Prokofiev, Barry Adamson ... then suddenly there was this thing called Acid House :-) and I started listening to Hip-hop too.
Thinking back, "Music Technology" magazine was probably a big influence on me. Particularly when it embraced house and techno and started interviewing Tim Simenon, Baby Ford, Mark Moore etc.
― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
late 80's The Chart Show (with the separate Indie, Dance, etc. charts) and Snub TV were great for hearing bands outside the SAW saturated mainstream.
and Our Price was a decent record shop back then.
― Bobby M (bobbym), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)
Formative years (late 70s/early 80s, Crawley):
Sources for new music: radio (mainly Radio 1 - Peel, Vance, and the daytime shows, plus Capital Radio for a time), Sounds, Record Mirror, occasionally the NME.
Record shops: first, WH Smith. The only independent shop in town of note was Cloake's (I think they also had a branch in Croydon), who were pretty good but eventually got squeezed out by Our Price.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
Cloake's!! How could I forget? Not only did I get my first ever album there (a cassette of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds chosen for my 8th birthday) I was buying stuff there until about 5 years ago.
It seems to have gone now :-(
― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)
This is insane. All you people grew up loving these critically acclaimed bands and then went off and liked more perfectly acceptable bands and that's it? Come on. My friends and I loved SHIT music when we were young, and there's no shame in it.
― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 8 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)