Chart your life by favourite acts

the musicians I listened to the most: 1973-1976: Elvis, The Beatles, Kiss, and the Beach Boys 1977-1980: The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Kiss, and The Rolling Stones 1981-1983: The Police, David Bowie, Talking Heads, and The Beatles 1984-1986: King Crimson (the 80's lineup only), Sting, Talking Heads, and Weather Report 1987-1990: Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell and Tracey Chapman 1991-1994: Sting, Live, Brian Eno and all things Robert Fripp (after having the privilege of meeting him and spending a few hours with him, I quickly stocked my collection with his work that I hadn't previously bothered to obtain), Joni Mitchell 1995-1997: Depressed Poets, Sting, Jonatha Brooke, and Tracey Chapman 1998-2001: David Sylvian/Robert Fripp, Sting, Duncan Sheik, and Tracey Chapman

Born 1976

1979-83: Muppet Show album/Mr Men album

1983: Rocky & Superman Soundtracks/Beatles/Small Faces (mod mother)

1984-86: Michael Jackson/Marving Gaye

1987-89: Bros/ Kylie Minougue/ New Kids on the Block (ok ok)

1989- 93:StoneRoses/Nirvana/PWEI/FNM/Posies/InspiralCarpets/Velvets/Radiohea d/808 State

1994-96: Smiths/Scott Walker/Big Star/Nick Drake/MBV

I think I'll stop there

Let's see now

1980 - Born
1990 - Adamski
1991 - KLF
1992 - The Prodigy
1993 - 2Unlimited (I was thirteen!)
1994 - Blur, Green Day
1995 - The Boo Radleys
1996 - Pearl Jam
1997 - Radiohead
1998 - Beastie Boys, Beatles
1999 - Pavement
2000 - Autechre, Lee Perry
2001 - Beach Boys
2002 - Boards of Canada, Roots Manuva, Man Parrish

Okay, I'm kindof happy with that I suppose. Some of it's a bit embarrasing but I was being honest. My fave bands of that year.

born 1979. 1982 - The beatles 1983 - michael jackson 1985 - madonna, tina turner 1986 - cyndi lauper 1987 - bananarama, def leppard, poison 1991 - new kids on the block, color me badd 1992 - the beatles, the monkees 1993 - 1996 - chart r+b and hiphop, especially jodeci and 2pac 1997 - bjork, blur 1998 - VU, pavement, pj harvey 1999 - sleater-kinney, the fall.

the dates are fairly approximate.

Born 1980
1988-90 - Paula Abdul & Janet Jackson
1991-93 - TLC, SWV, Jodeci, Silk, Shai, R Kelly, XScape
1993 - Snoop Doggy Dogg 1994-96 - Wu-Tang Clan 1996-98 - Roots, Common Sense 1999 - Barenaked Ladies [hee-hee...]
2000-01 - Belle & Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, Apples in Stereo 2001-02 - Boards of Canada

Apologies, as per, if it's an old one

Yup. Too lazy to find it, though. My answers are in there somewhere.

I can't confirm the accuracy of the information below... I'm just typing this as fast as I can and submitting it (can't pick one favorite band from the given times, as this fluctuated too often) --

early teens (late 80s): The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, The Sex Pistols, Killing Joke, the Jesus & Mary Chain, The Pixies & everything 4AD

late teens: The Smiths, Kitchens of Distinction, My Bloody Valentine, Killing Joke, Dead Can Dance & most 4AD (though the label was starting to go downhill)

early 20s: Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, u-ziq, The Buzzcocks, The Divine Comedy, Built to Spill, The Go-Betweens

now (mid 20s and yes, favorite artists don't mean what they once did; it's just music I enjoy now): Nick Cave, The Tindersticks, Talk Talk (though they are a bit too depressing for regular listening), The Pogues (early stuff), Orange Juice, The Go-Betweens, reissue Factory releases (all those bands)

You don't need to apologize for owning a Wings album, jeez.

Gah! What was I thinking - in between Madness and Cope should be The Jam. And i didn't apologise for Wings. In fact, I also had and loved Back to the Egg and Wings over America.

It's interesting, I would have thought the idea of having 'a favourite band' rather than a bunch of 'em, would have been quite common, at least in the pre-teen/teen zone, in the same way that I assume most of us as kids could have compiled an all-time top ten but now (I know, some of us are still kids) would find it impossible. But maybe it's just me. For the record, I can remember my all time top 3 being, for some considerable time (probably between the ages of about 12-14) 3. The Jam, Start; 2. Wings, Another Day; 1. John Miles, Music.

i seem to have done it in reverse - i never had a favourite band until i discovered the avalanches age 20. (i never had an absolute best friend until last year either... odd.)

1973-1976 Ramones
1976-1980 No Wave
1980-1985 John Cage and Abba
1985-1990 Boredoms
1990-1995 Popgroup - Shut Up & Dance
1995-2002 Nothing, I am taking a break

We did this in your cv as a music listener before. But I don't remember your answers, Ned.

1973-75 - Wizzard, Alvin Stardust, Suzi Quattro...Wombles
1975-80 - Beatles
1980-82 - Early Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, silicon Teens, Teardrop Explodes
1982-84 - Pigbag, Higsons, Weekend, G!st, Dislocation Dance etc.
1984-86 - Smiths /J Cope
1986-90 - Talulah Gosh, Shalala flexis...& other DIY indie (joined Groove Farm 1988), EL records!!
1990-93 - Loads of Blue Note reissues (a fiver each!), St Etienne
1993 onwards - bits of everything with the addition of a lort of 'soft pop' (Association, Spanky & Our Gang, etc. etc.)

Wow - Jez's soundtrack is remarkably close to mine. NB: the following does not signify "favourite" artists/genres, just what I was mainly listening to at the time. Chart pop can be taken as read as a perennial(sp?) feature.

1973-75 - Wizzard, Mud, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Stylistics ... Wombles
1975-78 - nothing much (had other concerns than pop), just the Top 20, my sister's 10cc records ... "Grease" OST
1979-80 - Elton John, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Peter Gabriel, New Wave (Stanglers, Undertones, etc.) ... Joy Division
1981-83 - YMG, Weekend, Scritti Politti, Grandmaster Flash, ACR, Pigbag, Rip Rig & Panic, 23 Skidoo, Dislocation Dance, etc ... Crass
1983-86 - Smiths, Cocteau Twins, ZTT label, Scritti Politti ... The Woodentops
1986-90 - Indie, Public Enemy, Coldcut ... the KLF
1990-93 - More indie, De La Soul, Saint Etienne, "old stuff".
1993-99 - Drum and Bass, Electronica, Stereolab, Björk, more and more hip hop, less and less indie. More "old stuff".
2000 onwards - anything and everything. Actually, that's the true (if dull) answer for all the above time periods too.

(p.s. I like "Wings Greatest" too)

1980-1985 - Classical music
1986 - The Pogues
1987 - Johnny hates Jazz (eek)
1988 - D-Mob
1989 - Suicidal Tendencies
1990 - The Doors
1991 - New Fast Automatic Daffodils
1992 - Orbital
1993 - Spiritualised
1994 - Shy FX
1995 - Green Velvet
1996 - Curtis Mayfield
1997 - Kerri Chandler
1998 - Ramsey and Fen
1999 - Wu-Tang (mostly GZA and Ghost)
2000 - MOP
2001 - Brand Nubian
2002 - Mobb Deep

born 1978

in the eighties : Allegri; Josquin Deprez, Benjamin Britten,etc. Don't ask ...

1990 : pet shop boys / guns 'n roses

1991 : megadeth / napalm death / massive attack

1992 : nirvana / R.E.M.

1993 : sonic youth

1994 : guided by voices / shellac / portishead

1995 : palace music / tortoise / june of 44

1996 : tortoise / ui / rex

1997 : jim o'rourke / aerial m / grandaddy / calexico

1998 : loftus / Tom Waits / Thingy / Captain Beefheart

1999 : Sam Prekop / Arto Lindsay / Joao Gilberto

2000 : Bob Dylan / Rioyi Ikeda / Rolling Stones / Ikue Mori

2001 : Gillian Welch / Otis Redding / circulartory system / Magnetic fields

2002 : Brainiac / Camper Van Beethoven and things to come

born 1979

1992: megadeth, the doors 1993: depeche mode, u2, jimi hendrix 1994: nirvana, soundgarden 1995: sonic youth 1996: sonic youth, sebadoh, wes montgomery, john coltrane, tool 1997: yo la tengo, gbv, sebadoh, mahavishnu orchestra 1998: miles davis, john coltrane, tom waits, sebadoh 1999: sebadoh, stereolab, tortoise, bjork, black sabbath 2000: jim o'rourke, new order, boards of canada, godspeed you black emperor 2001: mbv, mogwai,

Fuck, Olly is strangely going through the same things as I have. Only slightly skewed. No dEUS, which is a bonus. ;-)

But I don't remember your answers, Ned.

Then it must have been another thread! ;-) And having done it once, I feel no need to repeat -- besides, I might end up changing my story!

you should tell again Ned. the archives here are more daunting then ILE to me so I can't dig around. no one should be ashmaed of childhood wings associations. In that vein:

1973 - born 1976-79 or so, Beatles, Wings, Monkees, 60s garage comps 1981/82, The Runaways, Joan Jett 1984, Duran Duran, Prince 1985, Madonna, Beastie Boys 1986, Run DMC, LL Cool J, misc rap 1987, Sex Pistols, Bob Marley 1989, Paul's Boutique is released, only music i listen to throughout high school 1993 (?), riot grrl: bikini kill, huggy bear et al 1994, Blur, Pulp 1996 (?), Sleater-Kinney 1997, classic country enters my life, amen 1998-99 roots & rockabilly i'll stop naming bands at this point. too many in the last couple of years. but the newest band i'm into must be screamed from the rooftops: THE DISHES!! they rock the venerable casbah.

i forgot to poke the spice girls in there for 1996-1997, and i left gbv off 1998.

oh nathalie, dEUS was definitely there. I only didn't mention it for fear that it might get to Tom's head. ;-)

Harumph, don't worry, his head still has room left. Hey don't I know you? Didn't I drive you back from a Sebadoh gig years ago?

My teenage life has just ended. Here it is:

1995 - Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone temple Pilots, Soundgarden.

1996 - Wu-tang, 2pac, Busta Rhymes, Fugees, Redman, KRS-one.

1997 - H.O.T., Namie Amuro, L'arc en Ciel, Seotaiji, globe, Jinusean.

1998 - Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Goldie, DJ Krush, Cornelius, Orbital, Tricky.

1999 - Kool Keith, Aceyalone, The Living Legends, Anticon, Mos Def, Hieroglyphics.

2000 - Malice Mizer, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Amon Tobin, Shiina Ringo, NIN, )EIB(.

2001 - Too much stuff.

I thought you kids today only listen to that Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys stuff. You young hooligan.

no that wasn't me. only gig i remeber having been driven home from is guided by voices.

unless you're secretely a niece of mine and drove me to my first concert : Van Halen ! ;)

77: born
86: Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Huey Lewis & the News
89: Pixies, Violent Femmes
91: Lou Reed, Monkees, Sex Pistols
92: Morrissey, Velvet Underground
93: Mudhoney, Butthole Surfers, Fugazi
94-99: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Railroad Jerk, Bad Livers
00-onward: Morphine, White Hassle, Black Keys, Kinks, Chuck Prophet, ancient blues, Roland Kirk, Vandermark 5, ever expanding...

i'm doing it with albums

78: born
89: 'Three Feet High & Rising'
90: 'Pills Thrills & Bellyache'
91: 'Ex:El'
92: 'Experience'
93: 'Vs' (the only album here that i dont still love)
94: 'Music For The Jilted Generation'
95: 'Timeless'
96: 'Endtroducing'
97: 'Homework'
98: 'Hello Nasty'
99: 'Remedy'
00: 'Unreasonable Behaviour'
01: 'Since I Left You'
02: 'Original Pirate Material'

Born 1970

1970-77: Whatever was popular with kids - that is, songs from children's TV etc.
1978-79: Anything that had to do with Smurfs
1980-81: The Kids (Norwegian glam pop band singing about girls being in love with the teacher)
1981-82: A brief Kiss phase, resulting from something as original as loving "The Elder"
1982-83: Yazoo
1983-85: Culture Club
1985-87: Howard Jones
1987-94: Depeche Mode
1994-present: Genesis

1963 - 1972 Nothing
1973 - 1974 Gary Glitter
1975 - 1976 Nothing
1977 The Damned
1978 Buzzcocks (The Damned had spilt up!)
1979 - 1980 The Damned
1981 - 1983 Killing Joke
1984 - 1987 Aztec Camera / The Smiths
1988 Nothing
1989 - 1991 Pixies
1992 ? Pop Will Eat Itself ? WonderStuff?
1993 ? Boo Radleys ? Blur ? Lemonheads ?
1994 ? Chumbawamba ? Dodgy ?
1995 ? Supergrass ?
1996 ?
1997 - 2003 Captain Beefheart

U2, Nirvana, Smashing pumpkins, Stereolab, Tortoise, Slint, Palace, Aphex Twin, Bonnie Prince Billy.

I'm bad with actual years, but I can remember ages.

Born 1977.

Very Young: I had a tape of the Muppet Movie s/t, my favorite song was "the Rainbow Connection"

Some Time Later But Younger Than Ten: dad bought me a Mr. Mister tape because I was obsessed with the song "Broken Wings". I never had favorite groups but I liked any cheesy pompous stuff: Yes, Kansas, Heart, that I heard on the radio.

12 Or So: Madonna obsession, but also Sting

Sometime After Madonna: U2, REM, Stone Roses, The Cure, Sinead O'Connor

15-17: Belly, Radiohead, Suede, the Auteurs, PJ Harvey, Catherine Wheel

18-21: Pj Harvey, Geraldine Fibbers, Lida Husik, Magnetic Fields, Helium, TFUL 282, Pavement

Sometime Later: Belle and Sebastian, Edith Frost, Mary Timony

24 or so: Bjork obsession

25-current: Shannon Wright, Neko Case, Sigur Ros, Nina Nastasia

wow, that's very simplified. The horror of it all. I'll just leave it at that.

*cough*

I Don't Care How Old You Are AKA Plot Yr Life In 10 Songs

1982: Born??
1987: Danse Macabre (classical)
1988: Van Dyke Parks (themes for "Brave Little Toaster", my fave movie)
1990 - 1998: classical music (Handel, Bach, et al)
2000- GWAR, Green Jelly, ICP, Rob Zombie (the lowest you can sink)
2001- 2002: The Residents
2003-?: New York/Seattle Hardcore stuff and 70's European progressive rock (because I neither want to be totally pretentious nor completely idiotic)

1982: born
1987-1990: rem, prince, madonna, technotronic
1991-1994: nirvana, red hot chili peppers, breeders
1996: beck, foo fighters
1997-1999: radiohead, smashing pumpkins, nin, skinny puppy, front line assembly, the chemical brothers, cash money millionaires
2000-2001: talking heads
2002-2003: prince, wu-tang, outkast, basement jaxx, stone roses