I'm drinking iced tea and listening to Will Oldham

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My 15yr old self would kick my 30yr old ass if he could. And that's without knowing about Saint Etienne.

What were you listening to at half your current age?

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Probably the Blues Brothers soundtrack.

― Orange, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Tom Petty and Pearl Jam/Nirvana. I'd probably be into my 26 year old self.

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I am listening to Scion "Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks" - my 16.5 year old pixies and sugarcubes listening self would be utterly bemused but not kick my ass. I think yr 15 year old self is right about St Etienne though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

tea with milk, one sugar. at 16.5 i took 2 sugars.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

my fifteen year old self was even more of a douchebag than my 30 year old self, so screw him....I'm listening to Will Oldham too! Superwolf is awesome. I'm drinking mountaint dew, though, but ice tea sounds good.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm drinking iced coffee and listening to the Fall. My eleven year old self is listening to Nirvana. He would be mystified but curious if we met.

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Exactly thirteen years ago, I was listening to hip-hop/R&B on the radio, like Mint Condition and Jodeci and Kris Kross. I didn't fancy myself much of a bad-ass, though. I don't know what he'd make of me now. I'm currently drinking a decaf chai tea, though!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

My 13 year-old-self loved The Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen, Love & Rockets, Nine Inch Nails, The Clash, The Stone Roses, New Order, The Replacements & The Smiths. The fact that I've listened to records by all of those bands within the last month certifies that he would approve of my musical taste, but he'd probably be more excited to hear that I'm an artist with a hot girlfriend.

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

At 15.75 years old, I considered myself a genius for figuring out that Motley Crue's "Slice of Your Pie" sounded like "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" at the end. I promptly told my metal friends that HA! THE BEATLES WERE INFLUENTIAL.

I usually drank either Cherry Coke or Coors Lite.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Ini Kamoze

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Similar to Yngwie, but I was 18. Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Replacements, Smiths, Robyn Hitchcock, Jesus and mary Chain. Oh and Christian Death, lots of that...

My 18 year old self would be glad that I never got rid of those records and still listen to them from time to time. As for what he'd think of the rest of my life - Who is he to judge? That fucker had no vision or plan for the future, man...

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

my 13.5 year old self was listening to Kwame, Young Black Teenagers, and a touch of Vanilla Ice. Geto Boys, too. 27-y-o self is drinking coffee from a conde nast-owned kitchen, and just reviewed the Annie and Billy Corgan records cuz bills have to be paid. even though the 27-y-o self is doing kinda what the 13.5-y-o self wanted, the 13.5-y-o self probably wouldn't approve.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I was just reading Terry Eagleton and listening to Miles Davis. My 15 year old self would be mighty impressed, given how I was prone back then to read David Eddings and listen to Rush. My 19 to 25 year old indie snob self would consider me a pseudo-intellectual boozhie sellout poseur though. Go figure.

― phallagocentricismitis, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I think you and the kid should kick that indie snob's ass.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

My ten year old self was listening to Revolver (the only album I owned at the time) and my dad's Hearts of Space CDs. We're both drinking far too much tea.

― Telephonething, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

dear god, 11 year old me..... spin doctors maybe? denis leary? anything with cussing in the lyrics. though i probably wasnt far off the pennywise/bad religion/sprung monkey surf punk stage.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Two albums and little else.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Aerosmith - Get a Grip

Hendrix would be a couple months away.

― Roadkill Bingo (Roadkill Bingo), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

In 1990, I was listening to mostly a collection of tapes I'd accummulated, I didn't have CDs yet. Lots of dad rock like Winwood and Sting, metal, lots of rap and pop, and U2.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

my 11 1/2 year old self was listening to a mix of 2pac, dre, nwa, naughty by nature, ice cube, eazy e, kriss kross, nirvana, pearl jam, u2, hendrix and the beatles. i was the little g who subscribed to rolling stone. as for what he'd think of me now? he'd probably think that i was kinda gay and could lose a few pounds and would never in a million years understand how i came to dislike so much of the music that he listens to.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

At 17 and a half was listing to classic rock. Stones, Zep, Who, Springsteen, Floyd, also a little REM, Smiths, OMD, and Kate Bush.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

12 yr old self: Mountain Dew and Nirvana and REM.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

8 year old self: Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, Guns 'N' Roses

― Michael Copeland, Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

16, my god!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

10.5 year old self playing "Earthworm Jim" and "Link to the Past," the only tapes I had were Weird Al, Nirvana Unplugged in New York, Offspring's Smash, and a bunch of other WEIRD tapes I found this winter in a box in my closet:

Meatloaf, "I would do anything for love"
Guns and Roses single with spaghetti on the cover
"Christmas Time in the Hollis Queens"
Green Jelly
"Shoop!"
"Whoomp there it is"
Metallica's Black album

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

For me, that was c.1990: The Pixies, R.E.M., Pet Shop Boys, Dinosaur Jr, New Order and Public Enemy, with dubious doses of shoegazing on the horizon...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

at 10?...i dunno, 10,000 maniacs or something.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

At age 14, I was listening to Madonna, Skid Row, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Faith No More...and god knows what else.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW 1989 was the number.

Another summer.

(I got down.)

To the sound of a funky drummer.

Yes, at 15 I was in full-on Public Enemy mode. I had a Malcolm X hat that I got at the flea market. I had a copied VHS of "Do the Right Thing" which I watched over and over. And I cried every time they killed Radio Raheem.

I also had cut the front cover off the CD carton of "Fear of a Black Planet" and stapled it on my bedroom wall.

And, as I have stated before on here, I thought something was wrong with my new CD player when it would cut off at the end of the disc as Chuck D said "The future of Public Enemy got a..."

I even called my mom in to listen because I thought maybe the CD player I had bought wasn't good enought to play the whole CD.

What a little dork I was.

― Justin, Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

Luckily, the Cure and R.E.M. were right around the corner.

― Justin, Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Meatloaf & Wagner. (I was 12.5!)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Meatloaf & Wagner - they opened for Hall & Oates, right?

― Justin, Thursday, 14 April 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm.. Today I was listening to Sonic Youth, Dirty, some Afghan Whigs b-sides, M.I.A., Low, and Depeche Mode.

At half my age, it would have been R.E.M., some musicals (my friends in the marching band liked them), and whatever was on the radio and MTV. . To be frank my 13.5 year old self would probably think much of what I listen to now is horrible sounding, downright evil, or both.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 14 April 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Blessid Union of Souls.
The Real Macoy.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 14 April 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

I also had cut the front cover off the CD carton of "Fear of a Black Planet" and stapled it on my bedroom wall.

(It's nice to know that I wasn't the only one cutting up my CD cartons and sticking them on the wall. I had quite the cardboard menagerie going at one point...)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 April 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

at 14: Depeche Mode's "Violator," Kino, REM's "Out of Time". I'd like to think my 14-year-old self would be pretty happy that I (he) actually started playing music (I took up guitar at 15). But he'd be mystified by the Magnetic Fields-type stuff, mostly because his English sucks.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 14 April 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

the thread title sounds like an Anal Cunt song waiting to happen

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Thursday, 14 April 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Bitch Magnet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 April 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I was listening to AC today as well. Er, I don't have any of their records, but I had on a mix tape which happened to have some AC song on it, or two or three, I'm not really sure - taped it off the radio. Followed by a clip of the two French deejays explaining how, si vous voulez apprendre l'anglais, c'est Anal, et puis Cunt, et.. ben voila !

Hstencil, I just flashed on Beavis & Butt-head saying, uh huh huh huh, this band is called BITCH magnet.

For the rest of my life I'm going to have the sense of humor of an idiot 15 year old metalhead.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 14 April 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Ahh Justin just told the story of my youth. And I thought I was unique...

1991, I'm 14 y.o. and memorizing lines from 'Straight Outta Compton' or Above the Law. I am wearing a leather rainbow-Africa necklace thing. However, I am already obsessed with the Cure and Siouxsie and realize that I'm gonna have to choose. Hip Hop will have to go...
In 2005, my 14 y.o self would probably that I've 'sold out', gone 'commercial' and tell me that I'm just not serious about music anymore.

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

the 18 year old me was listening to husker du. now i play the baby song to my daughter as an excuse to keep listening to husker du.

― bg, Thursday, 14 April 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

Exactly 17.5 today and Husker Du for me too, but I mostly dance to James Brown with my little 'un these days.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 14 April 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

When I was half my age music was as terrible as it is now.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 April 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

In 1990 I was 14.5 and I was listening to a ton of guitar hero stuff like Joe Satriani, Yngwie, Clapton, Steve Vai, Jeff Beck. It really was, and still is, all about the shredding.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

My 12.5 year old self would be listening to Guns n' roses, AC/DC, Metallica, the friday rawk show and taping RAW when it was on at half 3 in the morning. He would be horrified to learn that I listen to music with keyboards/drum machines and dressing like duran duran.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

today: coffee & listening to Call Me

when I was 17: Dr. Pepper & Srgnt Pepper
(also "The Wall" & "Sign 'o' the Times")

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

It was when I was 17, I had a shaved head with peroxide in the remaining hair, and I was listening to the Minutmen double nickels LP every goddamn day. Also on the playlist was Metallica, Clown Alley, Christ on Parade, Verbal Abuse, and other harcore bands of the day. I was pretty set in my ways. Most embarassing detail was my Creepers. Today I've got Tangerine Dream "white eagle" LP on the turntable.

― mike sperry (ghost nuts), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

17-year-old me wouldn't be too surprised by the music I'm listening to but would be dumbfounded that I'm using *a computer* to do it.

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Boring answer, but: when I was almost 20 I was listening to a pretty wide variety of things, even if a lot of what I was buying was post-punkish sort of stuff. I think I would have approved of and even liked some of the Arabic music. I would have been more surprised by salsa, since I found it depressing when I was that age.

― RS, Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Bolero and bossa nova (and probably a lot of Fairouz) would probably have seemed too corny though.

― RS, Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

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