Favourite bands at the age of 10

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Mine were A-Ha and Duran Duran (giving away my age here).

― leigh, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Madness and Duran Duran. I didnt really have favourite bands but I remember always thinking "Oh great" when a DJ said "This is the new Madness single" and thinking the Wings of a Dove video was awesome on Saturday Superstore.

― Tom, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ramones, Yes, and the Buzzcocks. A weird kid fortunate enough to be around good radio.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Slade. Talk about giving your age away.

― Graham C, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1981-1982 - Soft Cell, Human League and Cool For Cats by Squeeze were favourites, but around that time i was mainly listening to records stolen from my mother, the ones I liked best were the 45's by the Walker Brothers, PJ Proby, Sonny and Cher and the Pretty Things...

Strangely, I hated my dads collection of Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan (and the dislike remains to this day.......)

― Baxter Wingnut, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't own any records, but favorites by what I heard were:

Bee Gees (easily my favorite)
Led Zeppelin
Kiss
Elton John
Styx
Bob Seger

This makes my attraction to Boards of Canada's "Childhood Nostalgia" hard to figure out!

― Mark, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I reached a bit of a crossroads at the age of 10 - some older friends introduced me to Aladdin Sane era Bowie, and unfortuately Simple Minds - the next year i discovered the Velvets and the Bunnymen and once i ditched Simple Minds at 13 there was no stopping me

― Leigh, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What I still listen to:
The Wings, Queen, Steely Dan and Neil Young.

And what I'm ashamed of:
The Doobie Brothers, the Eagles, Skynyrd (not ashamed so much as don't like anymore), + some Top 40 radio (Boston, Bee Gees, Frampton,. ..)

― Dave225, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1990. Bel Biv Devoe. Prince Batman Sntrck. Mc Hammer.

― chaki, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1984, vAN HALEN

― Poops McGee, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1990: Michael Jackson hurrah!

― DG, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Poison and Guns N Roses. And Michael Jackson. Bizarrely.

― Nick Southall, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Madness. Only Madness.

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Abba! That'd be the Voulez Vous album at the time. No other bands made such a dent, though I probably heard an awful lot of stuff like "Afternoon Delight" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" on the radio.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Green Day... I remember liking a lot of music before that though.

― Keiko, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't really like any bands or singers when i was 10.

― j>e>l, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear. Bananarama. Paula Abdul (intrigued by sexy cat video). The Dirty Dancing soundtrack.

― Anna, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Men Without Hats, Devo, Prince, Pink Floyd, Toto Coelo, Human League, and JUICE NEWTON.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Awww, Dan, were you the ANGEL of the MORNING?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was certainly playing with the Queen of Hearts.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rolling Stones, Beatles, Beach Boys, Kinks, Stax, Motown, Ska. Not precocious good taste: an uncle owned a couple of record shops and was happy to make up tapes for me - as long as he chose what went on them.

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine were Asia and Heart. Dramatically overproduced rock appealed to my 10 year old ears.

― paul, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

funny thing, my grandfather had me listening to Hank Williams Jr and Johnny Cash when I was 10. Not bad...

― Poops McGee, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Shoe thrown at me by the mean old man, get my dinner from the garbage can.... mmrrraowwww..." Does that tell you anything?

― Andy, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I felt kind of sorry when I was 10 for the kids who didnt listen to what was in the charts - I reckoned they were missing out on things. You would always get kids on Blue Peter who would utter the dread phrase "I only really listen to classical music". I mean you've got the whole rest of your life to listen to classical music.

― Tom, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mind you look what's happened to me.

― Tom, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kraftwerk... I bought Computer World after a dj played Numbers at my neighbor's party.

― marcos, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Duran Duran, Footloose soundtrack, Ghostbusters soundtrack, Beatles, and Toto.

― dleone, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Janis Joplin, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, and...Chicago! They had the best packaging. And Leon Russell and the Shelter People. I thought I was very ma-too-wah.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bee gees, divynils, the hooters (did they sing all you zombies?) and the greatest mullet band of all time, the Uncanny XMen

― Queen G, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't really have favourite bands back then (in any case, with a couple of notable exceptions, i've always preferred records to bands). A quick look at the relevant charts however indicates that singles by Abba, Mud, Showaddywaddy and the Stylistics were probably rockin' my world the most at around that time.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lordy! Most of you are so damn young.

At age ten: (1977), my favorites were: Kiss, Queen, the Beatles and -- because of my older sister's constant airing of MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION and THE CLONES OF Dr.FUNKENSTEIN -- Parliament.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1967: I don't think I had a favorite band, but songs from that era I remember liking are Bee Gees - Gotta Get A Message To You, Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine, Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me, Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup (I loved that this was revived in the movie Something About Mary), and I thought Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida was the most mind-blowing thing that ever happened to music. Note: Some of this stuff may be from when I was 11.

― nickn, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they might be giants' brand new album flood

― tyler, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vanilla Ice

― Honda, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Must have been The Sweet or something. Fox on the Run ohoho.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

soul asylum and nirvana

― kevin enas, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Green Day, Offspring, and Nirvana

― ejad, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I may have been a dork, but at 10 I was into Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and Philip Glass. It wasn't till I dicovered VU in 7th grade, then I got really into popular music. (but at 5 I liked Micheal Jackson and Def Leppard)

― A Nairn, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn,when I was 10? U2 all the way! I can't belive no one else has mentioned that.

― dyson, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1981...hm. God, I have no idea. I didn't have favorite bands, just Top 40 love.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fleetwood mac! blondie!

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Ned, no favorite bands, it was just songs. "Let's Hear it For the Boy" was a big favorite. Oh wait, I think I liked the Police. Mainly because they looked cool and kind of romantically pained.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1987 - Status Quo, Wings, Rod Stewart, Steeleye Span, Beatles, UB40, Europe.

Gulp.

― Ben Squircle, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

michael jackson, eurythmics, matt bianco!, fine young cannibals, the bangles and u2.

― minna, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At 10, mine were Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, Oxygene by Jean Michelle Jarre (i record that i am not ashamed to admit that i still love) and Harry Nilsson esp. the Point. These were all records in my mum and dad's collection that i pinched to listen to. After that my tastes took a turn for the worse. The first album i bought for myself was Fore by Heuy Lewis and the News, when i was about 11. He was big at the time cos of Back to the Future. He was always in Look In!!!! I also had a couple of Bryan Adams records (did you know he released a couple of records before Reckless?).

― Alex G, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wasn't interested in pop music when I was 10. Kinda sad now that I think about it, but I was a little snob and didn't think anything my peers liked could be any good. Traces of that attitude still survive in my irrational but absolute loathing of any and all Dave Matthews fans.

― Justyn Dillingham, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Green Day, Nirvana, and I was in love with Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." I hated rap.

― danny, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Björk, Sonic Youth, Massive Attack, The Beatles, Tori Amos, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg (pre-atonal)

― Melissa W, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mellon Collie" came out when you were ten?! Wow, now I feel old!

When I was ten I really dug REM.

― geeta, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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Duran Duran, Talking Heads, Police, Weird Al Yankovic.

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kylie I think. No that was circa 5 or 6 maybe.

Don't know what I liked back in 93.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Goodies.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tragically, I grew up in a household with no interest in music, and I didn't start to develop mine until I started at secondary school (age 11, for non-Brits). My first faves were T.Rex and Slade. I've not grown out of either yet, thirty years on...

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was 10 in 1992. I liked: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, The Beatles, Talking Heads, David Bowie, U2, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Prince, etc.

― lou, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've remembered! The Who, The Police, and Talking Heads(these last been on my list for 4 or 5 years.)

― Anna Rose, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Abba, Blondie, Magazine and David Bowie. Last two were result of brainwashing by older brother. Abba were my true love though - only started to go off them after the soppy "Chiquitita" early in '79.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

The Beatles (they still existed. talk about giving away your age!)
the Monkees
Herman's Hermits
Royal Guardsmen

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I owned albums by two bands when I was 10: They Might Be Giants & Fishbone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Shop Boys
S Express
Bon Jovi
Michael Jackson
INXS

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Milli Vanilli. Weird Al. Michael Jackson. (1989)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird Al. And that's about it.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince, The Time, Madonna, Van Halen

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably the Beatles, as I'd decided that Take That were shite a year or so before (they released 'everything changes' and my ardour swiftly waned.) and was feeling a bit neutral about most music that wasn't my parents' record collection, although I did have a soft spot for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ugly Kid Joe and Eric Clapton. The last is blameable upon my brother; for the other two I have no excuse. If it weren't for Britpop, lord knows what I'd be like now.

Can you post to this thread and *not* give away your age?

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1986: I owned three albums
Run DMC Raising Hell
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet
Top Gun Soundtrack

― ano ano (ano ano), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam and the Ants

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Guns'n'Roses, because I knew them from the radio.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

You would always get kids on Blue Peter who would utter the dread phrase "I only really listen to classical music". I mean you've got the whole rest of your life to listen to classical music.

Waaaahhh, well, that's me then. I was particularly fond of Beethoven, Sibelius and Wagner.

I mean, come on, the Top 40 was dominated by crap like Bette Davis Eyes and Hall & Oates. What would you pick?

― kate, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird Al & the Beastie Boys.

ahh, life in 1986/87.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Shakespears Sister, also random lady singers in the Kylie'n'Dannii/Martika/Lisa Stansfield vein. I also owned a Jive Bunny album I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I was wrong about Kim Carnes, that was the next year. But I was right about Hall & Oates and bloody Air Supply! (Though the number one song for the year was Call Me by Blondie, and I have to admit I did like that, though I liked The Tide Is High better)

― kate, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, come on, the Top 40 was dominated by crap like Bette Davis Eyes and Hall & Oates. What would you pick?

But that was great stuff!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

darn tootin

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Depeche Mode and The Cure.

― Jrvision (visionjr), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sacrosanctum Trinity of my taste in Music:

Yes - Genesis - Mike Oldfield

Also lots of Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull and some Status Quo.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

1972. Hmm, I don't think I had started listening to the radio much at that point, so it was probably whatever my parents had around the house. Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, Stan Freberg and the Beatles.

― pauls00, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Men at Work (which I listened to recently, and held up better than I expected, decent pub rock)
Joan Jett (I love rock n' rol was first record I ever bought)
Creedence Clearwater Revival (loved my parent's Chronicle)
Rolling Stones (ditto for Hot Rocks double greatest hits album)

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i had incredibly limited experience as far as pop music goes by the time i was 10---probably my favourite things at the time were directly influenced by my aunt's record collection. so Lita Ford, Heart, and Pat Benatar all had key roles at that age. i didn't really listen to things independently till probably around 11 or 12. which may explain how i turned out all rabid and music-obsessive. :)

― janni (janni), Thursday, 29 May 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

tie between Huey Lewis & the News and Run DMC.
At 10 I didn't find this incongruous at all. And maybe I don't now.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 May 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was 10, in the year 1990: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, AC/DC, and basically anything else that gets played on a regular basis on your everyday average classic rock radio station.

I still like the above. Ever loyal me.

When I was 11, "Flashback MTV" brought me into the '80s. I haven't been the same since.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 30 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

Beach Boys, CCR, and...Five Man Electrical Band!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

1990: Public Enemy, BDP, Guns N Roses, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Skid Row, other assorted Old-School Rap and Hair Metal, the influence of my two step-brothers' tastes in music.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't listen to music at ten years old. Didn't really listen to anything till I was about 13.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

nirvana & pearl jam.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

good god... the ramones? janis joplin? nirvana? public enemy at ten?

i was into WHAM! and boney bloody M (my mum and dad had their greatest hits. i loved it then, and listening to it again recently i love it now - despite a while spent pretending i didn't).

were some of you NEVER into cheesy pop? i thought it was a necessary stage of childhood..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beat and the Police for me.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Falco.

Crivens, how embarrassing.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen (1980). I think The Game was the first album I bought after getting my first turntable.

― rainman (rainman), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1974. ABBA, The Sweet and Euro stuff like Luv and Bacarra and Vicky Leandros, though think some of these were a bit later. I also loved some of my mum's old vinyl: The Zombies, The Searchers, The Honeycombs, Dave Dee etc. I later began my Queen worship, and then along came Blondie...

― davidsim (davidsim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

bon jovi, and alvin & the chipmunks

― whoever (whoever), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Police, Michael Jackson, "The Wave" radio station, MTV bands

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sex Pistols, Blondie, Queen, The Barron Knights, The Smurfs

― holojames (holojames), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1972. Beatles, Deep Purple, the Coasters, plus anything from K-Tel's "22 Explosive Hits" the first and possibly still greatest album I ever bought:

Chi-Lites - "(For God's Sake) Power to the People"
Hot Butter - "Popcorn"
Derek & the Dominos - "Layla" (awesome two-minute edit)
Flash - "Small Beginnings" (ditto)
Detroit Emeralds - "Baby Let Me Take You"
Osmonds - "One Bad Apple"
April Wine - "Could Have Been a Lady"
James Brown - "Honky Tonk Pt. 1"
Sammy Davis Jr. - "The Candy Man"
Giorgio - "Son of My Father"
Millie Jackson - "My Man A Sweet Man"
Fortunes - "Rainy Day Feeling"
Daddy Dewdrop - "Chick-a-boom"

Plus nine other songs that I must not have loved as much.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Culture Club, Eurythmics, B-52's, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson.

― Seb (Seb), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Osmonds - "One Bad Apple"

I thought that was the Jackson 5. I'll be.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Jacksons vs. Osmonds was a rivalry on the order of Ali vs. Frazier in '72, baby.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I was around, but I guess I wasn't aware of that. By the time I was 10, they were both bands it was UNCOOL to like. Fortunately, I've gotten past that one.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Jacksons bio-film was on VH1 just last nite, complete with scene of Joe admonishing the li'l brats: "The Osmonds rehearse ALL THE TIME -- that's why their songs are ALWAYS on the radio. ALWAYS!"

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Milkmen and Guns N' Roses!

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bands I was into, April '90 - April '91: Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, any music from the Woodstock movie, New Kids On The Block, Def Leppard, INXS, Elton John, B-52's, Billy Joel

Songs I was into April '90 - April '91: "U Can't Touch This," "The Humpty Dance," "Janie's Got A Gun," "Poison" by Bel Biv Devoe

With the exception of Billy Joel, my taste at age 10 isn't quite as bad as I remember it.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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