what were you listening to at 12?

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1990 - I listened to They Might Be Giants, Dead Milkmen, Fishbone, whoever I could find with songs with funny titles I think.

The Smiths
Echo/Bunnymen
Joy Division/New Order
Big Country (!)
The Jam
The Kinks
The Clash
U2
Elvis Costello

INXS
The Cure
The Beastie Boys
Run DMC
Hendrix

Some cassettes I owned:

C+C Music Factory, Gonna Make You Sweat (I almost bought Mariah Carey's first album instead)
Boyz II Men, Cooleyhighharmony
Hi-Five, Hi-Five
Bell Biv Devoe, Poison
P.M. Dawn, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" single (I got a CD player on my 13th birthday and bought the album)

Here's my 1991 summer jamz (fourth one down).

Cyndi Lauper
Madonna
Wham!
Prince
Eurythmics
Depeche Mode
Corey Heart
Tears For Fears
Howard Jones

This was the year before I discovered college rock (or what we called "alternative" then...) like The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy and Joy Division.

Oh yeah dude "Just Another Day" was awesome. Summer of '92, I believe.

The Beatles, David Bowie, Cockney Rebel, Darts, Gary Glitter, Mott The Hoople, Mud, Suzi Quatro, Queen, Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Showaddywaddy, Slade, Status Quo, Sweet, Thin Lizzy, T-Rex, The Who, Wizard

LL Cool J
Doug E Fresh
Tears for Fears

The Cure
Depeche Mode
The The
The Smiths
Prince
Tears For Fears
Power Station
REM

Ramones
Sex Pistols
Pink Floyd
ZZ Top
Beach Boys
Kraftwerk

Skid Row - s/t
B-52's - Roam
Rod Stewart - Downtown Train on cassingle
Pearl Jam - Ten
Infectious Grooves - The Plague that Makes Your Booty Move

Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
Run DMC, Raising Hell
Power Station, Power Station
Peter Gabriel, So
Various Artists, Miami Vice Soundtrack
Prince, Around the World In a Day
and all the Beatles albums.

On a summer vacation to Florida, my step-brother had me listen to Master of Pupppets and after that, I drifted further away from the pop stuff.

(I've since drifted back.)

Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Guns n' Roses, Cinderella, Winger, Whitesnake, Ratt - (to) - Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Exodus, Flotsam & Jetsam, Anthrax, Sacred Reich - (to) -
Dead Kennedys, DRI, JFA, Suicidal Tendencies, Agent Orange, Dead Milkmen, Meatmen - (to) - The Cure, Depeche Mode, Love & Rockets, Echo/Bunnymen, PIL, New Order, The Mighty Lemondrops, Modern English - (to) - Public Enemy, NWA, Ice-T, The DOC, Slick Rick, Too Short

I think somehow this ended upon Nine Inch Nails. hmm..

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Just getting back into pop music after learning classical guitar.

Bolan, Ringo Starr, John Kongos, Blackfoot Sue.

Oh, and Alice Cooper, Schools Out, which re-started it for me.

Thriller was inescapable. I also had a perverse love for Billy Joel. I first discovered The Clash (and saw my first picture of the Sex Pistols) though I didn't really understand it yet.

And old Pink Floyd.

but me and my homie C-Money still got to be rappin it to pink floyd when we small gangstaz yo

Michael Jackson, the Pet Shop Boys, Rancid, Pennywise, Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, and mid-nineties Australian alt bands like Spiderbait, Regurgitator and Custard. Ho-hum.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
The Beatles Abbey Road Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour
Best of Cream
Grand Funk Live
Derek & the Dominoes Layla
CSNY Deja Vu

as far as I remember---

lots of pearl jam
possibly bush, if they were out around then
but mostly the radio.
collective soul, too, maybe?

How the hell do you guys remember this?

I was about to have a very serious falling out with music.

Queen II: Side 2, the Mercury side. Total obsession with The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, bridging into Nevermore. ("Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend, the nymph in yellow. What a quaere fellow.")

The art-schooly end of post-glam. First two Cockney Rebel Albums. ("Muriel the actor, she's rapping.") Sparks: Kimono My House, Propaganda. Mott The Hoople: The Hoople. (Which has a lame re-recorded version of Roll Away The Stone, boo chiz.)

Steeleye Span: Below The Salt, Now We Are Six. Cover version of To Know Him Is Love Him, with Bowie on sax, leading me (along with Wizzard and Waterloo) to a K-Tel Phil Spector compilation, atrociously badly pressed.

Yes: Close To The Edge, bought on spec because I liked the cover. A total revelation, right from the first listen. Closely followed by Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, and the full-on lunacy of Gong's Camembert Electrique (which sold for 50p).

The first year of serious album buying and music press reading (all five weekly inkies, most weeks), making my own discoveries, following my own paths, listening and learning and concentrating like never before.

Yeah, that's the one with Lynsey DePaul doing the talking bit instead!

Didn't really listen to much music apart from whatever was on BBC Radio 1. Had a couple of Madness records. Bought my first cassettes around this time which were all house music - Beatmasters, S'Express, Coldcut, Bomb the Bass etc. Also liked Queen and U2.

Echo & The Bunnymen
U2
The Alarm
The Teardrop Explodes
The Cure
Simple Minds
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Was that 83? Might have my years in a twist there)
I was 12 (or possibly 13) when I heard my first Sisters Of Mercy record as well (the start of a long love affair that has sadly gone a bit sour due to their inability to make a single fucking record in over a decade).

I wouldn't really start to take interest in music for another year or so. At 12 I own no music and no radio; I'm hearing the following:

courtesy of my parents:
Amy Grant, Carmen

courtesy of my older sister:
Michael Jackson

courtesy of my older brother:
Led Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd

courtesy of my friends:
Cypress Hill, Tupac, Warren G, Snoop, Onyx, C+C Music Factory, Vanilla Ice, Snow, Lucas

Beatles
Wings
Rush
Supertramp
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The Police

Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham!, Prince, Scritti Politti.