Okay, we now know what were you listening to at 15... Are you still listening to it?

From the thread what were you listening to at 15?:

In 1984 Van Halen was nice enough to name their album 1984:

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I didn't buy my first tape until the next year so I mainly listened to the classic rock and commercial metal at the time. The usual suspects: Zep, AC/DC, Ratt, Quiet Riot, Billy Squier.

Even if I don't actively listen to some of what I liked when I was 15, I am not embarassed by any of it and if any of it came on Pandora or something, I would still enjoy just about everything I liked when I was 15.

I don't subscribe to [url=The concept of "used to like"]The concept of "used to like"[/ur].

How about you?

I'll still listen to Nirvana and stuff, but admittedly I won't allow it to scrobble.

I have indie-cred to protect.

yeah, let that go

I still listen to a lot of that same stuff (Radiohead, Pearl Jam, dEUS, Dischord/DeSoto stuff, loads of UK guitar crap), though admittedly not the crap MOR Canadian radio rock I used to somehow enjoy.

I was 15 in 1989, and I still listen to almost everything now that I was listening to then. Pixies, New Order, Siouxsie, Smiths, Madonna, Prince, The Cure, Depeche Mode, etc. 1989 was a splendiferous year!

mainly skaterat punk & ska--

suicide machines
five iron frenzy
op ivy
bad religion
rage against the machine

etc

i still listen to some of that late 80/early 90s stuff for sure

I too was 15 in '89.. It was thrash metal from the bay area!! Still loving it!!! In fact there is stuff I had then, thatI wish I could still get my hads on...

I was 15 in 1982... my 80's punk/goth/industrial epiphany was still a year away. Cultural landscape was very different pre-MTV. I read Creem and Rolling Stone. I had HEARD groups like Black Flag and the Necros, but the records were hard to find so I wasn't actually listening to them.

I still listen to AC/DC, Yes, King Crimson, Beatles & Lennon, Black Sabbath, and the Sex Pistols. Iron Butterfly's later albums, not so much.

Blur am able to listen to them still but never rly make any effort to
Pulp as above more or less
Tricky still AOK by me, haven't enjoyed much new by him for years tho
Portishead think fondly of - never actually got round to hearing Third
Biohazard (gosh) lol @ "gosh" - I have no idea if I'd be able to listen to a whole Biohazard album now
Chili Peppers eh... no
RATM nah
Soundgarden yes!
Pearl Jam they seem to be talked about on ILM quite a lot of late? but even that hasn't moved me to go back tbh
Nirvana I enjoy the music of this band
Terrorvision lol
The Flying Medallions (a totally forgotten London band who effectively got me into punk rock, less through their own songs than by covering the Descendents on their album) I bought a record with them on the other week and their song was p bad

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Most of it.

There's a lot of things I was listening to when I was 30 (1990) that I would run screaming from now though.

I was heavily into GSL/Gravity, Rough Trade and Sonic Youth at the time iirc. So all things considered, I would probably listen to music with my old self. However, I don't think I could muster up the right amount of energy/angst/teen feelings to listen to the Locust ever again.

A lot of it and am more deeply into certain bands catalogues than I was at the time.
Not sure what of it I wouldn't listen to given the chance.
Was thinking of buying the Purple Hearts lp on cd at Xmas.
Found out a few years back that the guy behind Jumping Jacques was revered by mod etc djs, so would love to get hold of some more stuff by him.
Love 60s Brit, US garage, worldwide psych, funk, bits of punk.
Have Echo & The Bunnymen live coming up next.

So yeah, pretty much so

not "regularly" - that would be weird - but i enjoy it whenever i go back to it; there's very little music i ever liked that i cringe to think about now. 15-yr-old me had pretty great taste tbh, i'd shake his hand for it.

Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Tusk...check

Steve Martin standup comedy records...nope

Live at Fillmore East
Brothers and Sisters
Eat A Peach
Idelwild South Allman Brothers Band

I'm going to see the Allman Bros in NYC later this month, first time since the 70s

15 was when I really got into Ministry, Skinny Puppy, The Cure, Depeche Mode and Cabaret Voltaire, so um... yes?

I don't think I ever responded, but I was a huge fan of Howard Jones and Thompson Twins at the time, and I still listen to some of it. Thompson Twins' records have held up better than Jones' although "Hide & Seek" is still a classic. And Jones actually did a surprisingly good comeback album in 2005.

Still listen to the Modern Lovers, Ramones and early REM. It's a long time since I put on New Model Army, though.

Radiohead - The Bends / Pablo Honey
Yeah fine, I would listen to these, but I think I used to play the first three albums so much they just go over my head now. I'd rather listen to Kid A onwards. Still, both these albums got me through some of the longest darkest teatimes of my teenage soul.

Blur - The Great Escape
Another quite depressing album. Not bad, not their best. I will dig it out for nostalgia's sake.

Green Day - Dookie
Not really. It's a fun album, but yeah, no real reason to hear it again.

Offspring - Self Esteem
Basically a Smells Like Teen Spirit ripoff. I liked Offspring for this single alone. Thought the rest of their stuff was a bit namby pamby even at 15.

Faith No More - King For A Day
Great album, should really dig it out again.

The Boo Radleys - Wake Up / Giant Steps
Yes I still love both these albums. Boo Forever!

Nirvana - You weren't allowed in the gang unless you had all their albums
I'm having a bit of a Nirvana renaissance. Think I like them now for utterly different reasons to when I was 15.

Space - Spiders
Haha, no. They're widely regarded as a bit of a joke now, but I really loved "Neighbourhood" on first release. It had a cheeky sort of skank that had previously been done by the Specials and would later be picked up by the Streets. Shame Space just turned into a bunch of post-Britpop also rans.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Still have plenty of time for this when I can be bothered to put it on.

Tripping Daisy - I Am An Elastic Firecracker
This was the guy out of Polyphonic Spree. I really liked the album - full of TMBG-type dork rock. Still think it had a few moments but Tripping Daisy were too preposterous to be taken very easily.

dEUS - Worst Case Scenario / In A Bar Under The Sea
A great band who went really boring. Like Seandalai, I though IABUTS was amazing at 15. Hugely varied and great songwriting. After that album they went totally MOR and progressively worse with each album.

Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
Everyone had this album in my secondary school. We even had a bunch of guys we called Terrorvision Gang - all trenchcoats, long hair and Terrorvision t-shirts. For some reason this band were a gateway into heavy metal for throngs of people, but they weren't metal at all, more RHCP-inspired power-pop. Still really like Pretend Best Friend and always did.

Rage Against The Machine - RATM
Completely fatigued by this as it used to play on repeat for about 15 years at my local.

Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah!
This has aged surprisingly well. Lots of good tunes, but not something I'd really want to throw on on a regular basis.

1989 i was listening to a lot of hip hop...its basically the only hip hop I still listen to. Also into Smiths, REM, Buffalo Tom...etc. Still listen.

I liked Offspring for this single alone. Thought the rest of their stuff was a bit namby pamby even at 15.

u mad, this was their namby pamby song among the competent Bad Religion knockoffs that comprised the rest of their stuff at the time

apart from Come Out And Play which rules fuiud

I think what it was was, I discovered Self Esteem, thought "hey, this is a cool Nirvana-type song", bought the single and told my friends about it. They roundly ignored me.

A month later they were all over the SMASH album and I was all "but I found out about them first, that was ME you guys!"

But of course, no one cared about that. So yeah, I only ever liked that one song by them and hated it when people sang along with "Drivers are rude/Such attitudes/When I show my piece/Complaints cease/Something's odd/Feel like I'm God/You stupid dogshit goddamn motherfucker"... Even though I have to bite my tongue not to join in.

Later my friend submitted the lyrics to "Self Esteem" as his English GCSE project work. He got an A* and then in so much trouble.

dEUS - Worst Case Scenario / In A Bar Under The Sea
A great band who went really boring. Like Seandalai, I though IABUTS was amazing at 15. Hugely varied and great songwriting. After that album they went totally MOR and progressively worse with each album.

Have you heard The Ideal Crash? A stone-cold classic I think, but they completely lost it after that.

Yeah, it's okay - has one or two songs I think are great, but I don't like dEUS for being a good rock band, I like them for being a weird rock band.

Fair enough, I can see where you're coming from then. TIC is a huge departure from the first two (three if you count My Sister = My Clock, which most don't, but I do). Still paid off for me in the end, but I get that TIC brings you nothing.

Yeah, I still listen to everything I listened to when I was 15. Maybe not as frequently (my need to hear Anthrax is pretty minimal these days), and I listen to tons of stuff my 15-year-old self hated (salsa), but yeah, it's all still in the mix.

I'm not a big fan of The Ideal Crash - it has some good tunes and good ideas but I guess I just don't like the way it sounds. WCS and IABUTS are by far their best, see also the Moondog Jr. album and some Kiss My Jazz stuff.

I got into Ideal Crash very late, despite having been recommended it many times. I actually heard it after buying Pocket Revolution. Latter has a few good songs on - especially Nothing Really Ends.

pavement - yep. reunion tour refreshed my love of them as well
black sabbath - play "paranoid" (the album) every now and again.
sebadoh - still rate them but no wouldnet listen to them often
blues explosion - no. all on vinyl and i dont have a record player anymore tho
nirvana - listened to "nevermind" a lot last summer. still love nirvana but i guess im overfamiliar with them too.
beastie boys - no. last album was awful too.
sonic youth - yes still love them
the boo radleys - no. still would rate "giant steps" tho
smashing pumpkins - no
my bloody valentine - the odd occasion
husker du/sugar - nope
cypress hill - nope
the fall - yes. love them more now than i did back then
dinosaur jr - still would check out a new album if they had one out but im not mad into them anymore
flipper - YES
teenage fanclub - listened to the new album but i still think "bandwagonesque" is the buisness
babes in toyland - no
rollins band - god no
soundgarden - nahh.
mudhoney - i heard some of the new stuff and i wasnt too keen on it. they dont really do it for me anymore tbh

True. Also, Nothing Really Ends should have never been on that awful album. Given that it was written during the Ideal Crash era and was on the "greatest hits" album already, years before PR was released. It feels entirely tacked onto PR, also because nothing else on that record can touch Nothing Really Ends.

Agreeing with Seandalai on Moondog Jr. and Kiss my Jazz, but that could open up a whole can on the Belgian scene which this thread doesn't seem to intend :)

xp

i still like soundgarden (well all the bands on the list are ok cept for rollins band) but its been years since i felt the urge to put on one of their albums though

These were the ones I listed.

1968-9
in some approximate order - Beatles, Doors, Creedence, Stones, Kinks, Turtles, Who, Firesign Theatre, Cream, Hendrix, Donovan, Buckinghams, Moody Blues, Bee Gees

The Kinks would easily top today's list and the Turtles will never fall from grace. The rest - yeah, to an extent, particularly at unexpected moments - except the damned Bee Gees, which I really don't understand placing on the list in the first place.

re: dEUS (who knew they were so popular among 15 year olds?), I think TIC is their best, though I love the first two. The "comeback" records have a few worthwhile tracks ("Sun Ra," "Nothing Really Ends," "Include Me Out," "Slow") but are basically the work of a different band.

'97 was an exciting year for me. my new high school friends were getting me into a lot of older stuff by Television, A Tribe Called Quest, Fugazi, Velvet Underground, etc. my brother and I were delving into current hip hop like Jay-Z, Missy & Timbaland, etc. I was really hyped about albums released that year by Skeleton Key, the Geraldine Fibbers, Superchunk, Pavement and Spiritualized and exploring those bands' back catalogs, and I was still heavily into bands I had started listening to in the 2-3 years before that like Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants, Soul Coughing and Ben Folds Five.

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out of the stuff i mentioned in my post in the original thread about being 15, I'm still into pretty much everything, although I've kinda lost my taste for Pavement and don't think that Spiritualized album is so great anymore. have listened to plenty of Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Jay-Z, Timbaland, They Might Be Giants, and Television in recent memory but would definitely enjoy the other artists a lot if I put on any of their records righ tnow.

i was still listening to lots of mid/late 90s rap, mostly east coast stuff biggie, nas, wu-tang various wu-tang side projects but an older friend made me a mix cd w/ indie rap stuff on it 'what's up fatlip?', older tribe stuff, early def jux, blackilicious, louis logic, 'hip hop drunkies', jurrasic 5. i dont really listen to any of that stuff anymore. also started getting into ambient/idm/electro stuff via air, morcheeba, portishead, mouse on mars. david holmes 'bow down to the exit sign' was big, i think maybe i was 16 tho when that came out. also a bunch of mego/mille plateaux/warp stuff. also dont listen to a lot of that stuff anymore although i put on the fantastic plastic machine cd around xmas & it was p tite.

a lot of the folkier/indie shit i still dig - silver jews, will oldham, the first crooked fingers lp.

Oh wow, totally forgot about my rap phase. Yeah, it was pretty much Wu-Tang Clan for 2years straight... absolutely nuts.

I was 15 in 1989 and had just gotten into hip-hop so I was basically listening to Public Enemy, Eric B & Rakim, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Slick Rick, and so on. That plus the Misfits, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, and Ramones. I still love and listen to all these things for the most part, plus I'm now into a lots of other things that I thought sucked at that time - the Smiths, the Cure, and a bunch of other stuff that wasn't punk rock or rap and therefore sucked.

I went through a bunch of other, sometimes very regrettable, phases after this that I would be much more embarrassed about and never listen to anything from.

94-95

Led Zeppelin, REM, new U2, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Beatles, Doors, Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Yes, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Nirvana, Tori Amos, Pink Floyd, John Cage, Rush, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Ed Bickert, Lenny Breau, various blues and jazz programmes on the radio, the Carleton University station

I dislike much of the Zappa stuff I liked at this time but I like different things by him now. REM and U2 don't hold my interest as much as they did but I don't mind them at all, at least what they were doing up to this point. I can get tired of the Pumpkins but I still enjoy things by them. Otherwise, I still like these artists. Still actively listen to: Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins (sometimes), Beatles, Hendrix, Zappa, Yes, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, John Cage, Rush, Howlin' Wolf.

Ok, today's going to be a dEUS listening day. Thanks, thread!

I was 15 in 1994/95 (May birthday), and I was just getting into music seriously, starting to listen to stuff I'd chosen myself away from my circle of friends. Friends were listening to Pearl Jam, Levellers, Metallica, The Stone Roses, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins. I was getting into The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Björk.

I don't go anywhere near Levellers anymore and haven't in at least 15 years, I never really had time for Metallica, and Nirvana I've never been passionate about but enjoy on very sporadic, rare occasions. All the rest I either do still listen to with great pleasure or could imagine myself doing so, even if not necessarily to the same records as we/I listened to back then.

15? My top albums were something like: Closer, Queen Is Dead, Astral Weeks, Remain In Light, VU and Nico, Pet Sounds, There's A Riot Going On, What's Going On...

standard shit basically

Today, There's A Riot Going On is easily the coolest of the bunch. The Velvets are still great of course (and to a lesser extent Joy Divison). Remain In Light is awesome but I never listen to it. Still think Astral Weeks is beautiful although it's hard for me to "love" Van Morrison. Loved the Beach Boys then, today I can take it or leave it. Now I think of Marvin Gaye as a singles artist (apart from "Here, My Dear"). The Smiths suffered the most from my "maturity", although you can still catch me singing some of that miserable shit alone at night.

started listening to post-punk and alternative rock at this time. Pere Ubu's Modern Dance still the most valuable experience. around this time I also figured It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back is godlike and so is Prince. these views remain more or less the same although James Brown stole much of this enthusiasm few months later (still a god or a demon among men, if you ask me)

started loving music at 12 so I have some earlier favorites: Jamiroquay (don't have a problem with this) Leonard Cohen (never got really beyond "Songs of Love and Hate"), Linkin Park (can't believe I'm saying this), Eminem (believe he's great, don't want to listen and be proven otherwise), Justin Timberlake (still my man), Snoop Dogg (Doggystyle ruled my 13 year old world, love this man but I don't listen anymore), The Doors (always say I hate them but that recent Doors poll had me thinking, secretly enjoying this shit still), Pink Floyd (fuck that shit), Bob Dylan (still amazing, now slightly prefer Randy Newman though), Lou Reed solo (I learned a lot about bad art from this fucker), 50's rock and roll (amazing), Motown (great great great) and then the Velvets, Gaye, Division, Smiths, Brown bla bla bla...

I keep remembering important stuff from this period so should probably just stop. seriously drunk too

any band i have ever loved i don't think i could ever turn back on them & grow to hate or even not love it. i mean obv i might not actively or regularly listen because i must have overplayed it so much at the time & it's just saturated and eventually absorbed into my being. but renouncing it like that feels p dishonourable & is unthinkable. i am stuck loving all the corny shit i ever loved in my life its like a curse