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Post by naterdawg on Feb 15, 2017 3:51:52 GMT
I started buying vinyl in 1970, and my musical tastes were really established back then. Groups I liked that come to mind include Three Dog Night (I had all their albums), Chicago, The Who, The Beatles (and individual Beatles, too), and The Spinners. It was the era of the "singer/songwriter," so I got into the music of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, John Denver, Carole King, Neil Young, Carly Simon, Cat Stevens, etc. If I liked one of their "singles," I usually sought out their album. And if I liked that particular album, it sold me on the rest of their catalog. As a result, I have multiple releases from the artists mentioned above. I even went through a Barry Manilow, Carpenters, and Olivia Newton-John phase!
All the albums I collected--and I was buying one to two a week--were all placed in vinyl covers and kept in specially-designed record boxes that looked like a pair of jeans (LOL). I still have all of them and still in the jean boxes!
Alas, as the years trundled by, the releases from my favorite singers and groups dwindled--some to the point where nothing has been released in years. I can't tell you when Carole King or Carly Simon produced new music. Three Dog Night long lost their commercial appeal, John Denver and Karen Carpenter died, and Cat Stevens, well, he just "changed."
Let's hear what music you loved as a teen!
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Post by Terrapin Station on Feb 15, 2017 13:41:35 GMT
My tastes haven't gone through any "polarity shifts." I still love all of the stuff I loved as a young music fan. I was obsessed with music already by the time I was 5 or 6. And a lot of that stuff is still high on my list of favorite artists. My tastes expanded over the years, and of course I came to love a lot of new artists, but most of the artists who are still high on my list of favorites were pretty well-cemented by the mid to late 70s for me, when I was in my later teens. I posted a long list of my favorite artists here: imdb2.freeforums.net/post/6031/thread
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 15:06:44 GMT
When I first started really getting into music, I was all about hard rock and metal. I loved Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, and Def Leppard.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 15:15:49 GMT
The first music I really got into was metal and hard rock, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Black Sabbath, Bon Jovi, Dokken, Metallica, Megadeth, Whitesnake, Kiss, Iron Maiden. That was in the 80's and I remained into that music in the 90's although I did explore Grunge, Punk and Hardcore as well then. Now I listen to all types of music except Rap, Techno/Hip Hop, to me that kind of stuff just doesn't sound like it is cared about even by the people who make it.
Anyway, the metal I grew up with still interests me a lot as well as new metal but grunge I really don't revisit very often at all.
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 15, 2017 22:21:22 GMT
Started buying vinyl in 1964 after the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I turned 10 at the time. Didn't buy much for a few years though, and many more 45s than albums. So ones I had more than 1 or 2 songs from: Beatles Temptations Four Tops
In about 1967, my vinyl buying started to explode Fifth Dimension Simon and Garfunkel Young Rascals Rolling Stones Cream The Who Jethro Tull Pink Floyd Allman Brothers The Doors Cat Stevens Yes Grateful Dead Moody Blues
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Feb 15, 2017 23:20:55 GMT
My love for music began at a very early age (around 6 or 7 yrs old), thanks in large part to my older siblings who had decent sized record collections. From my sisters' collections, I heard everything from The Beatles and John Lennon (solo) to Chicago and Billy Joel to Donna Summer and The Village People ... and yeah, Barry Manilow too. We also had more than a few K-Tel compilation albums hanging around the house featuring the Top 20 hits of the day (this was the late 70s, mind you). But my brother's record collection was much cooler and his tastes would leave a far greater impression on me. He had albums by Kiss, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Bob Seger, Steve Miller Band, The Who, AC/DC, et al. Basically, the big names of 70's rock.
At age 8, Kiss became my FIRST favorite band. I loved the band's gimmick and the catchy albeit simple rock music they played. I ended up buying all the Kiss albums that weren't already in my bro's collection. A few years later, I got tired of the clown makeup and mediocre tunes (really, Kiss's best days were already behind them by then) and I moved on to buying records by more "serious" bands (i.e., bands that didn't look like Barnum & Bailey rejects) like Aerosmith, AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Cheap Trick.
At around 11 years old, I started devouring rock magazines like Creem, Hit Parader and best of all Trouser Press. Trouser Press opened up my eyes (and ears) to the burgeoning sounds of new wave and punk. Sure, the magazine covered aging rockers like The Rolling Stones and The Who but it also featured interviews with newer bands like The Buzzcocks, Pretenders, Plasmatics, The Go-Go's and Black Flag...and best of all was the 'American Underground' record review section that reviewed hard to find independent releases by bands with names like Minor Threat, Misfits, Circle Jerks and T.S.O.L. Who were these weird bands? Where could I find their records? I just HAD to get a hold of them. The big chain record stores I was familiar with didn't carry THAT stuff. Eventually, through arduous searching I found places that did sell that stuff....and I found out that the local college radio stations (at the far left end of the radio dial) were playing these and other obscure bands on a daily basis.
At 13, punk (or 'hardcore punk', if you will) became my passion much to the chagrin of my parents and the local jocks. To go into all the bands I listened to and would discover over the years would take forever. Some of my favorite bands included local punk heroes SS Decontrol, Psycho, The F.U.'s, Mission of Burma and The Freeze as well as the bigger names in the national scene such as Black Flag, X, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys. But that's just scratching the surface. There were literally hundreds of great bands coming out of the underground scene in the 80s. Suffice to say, punk was the music of my adolescence and my love for it lasted well into my young adult years when I finally had to leave "the scene" behind and grow up.
At 47, I'm no longer a "punk" and hardly collect vinyl anymore (in fact, I've sold off much of my collection) but I still love the tunes...and I still dig all the classic rock I consumed as a youngster as well. Over my adult years, I've also grown to love classical, folk, country and even some jazz and Motown.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 16, 2017 6:34:10 GMT
Great stories, I love hearing them.
I wasn't so much interested in metal or rock and roll, though I did have an interesting experience in 1987. I was running a comic book shop in Maine back then and selling model kits through a newspaper called "The Comic Buyer's Guide." That was the Bible for comic book collectors and such and was national and international. Well, I was getting a lot of calls about my ad, and I fielded all kinds of accents--southern, deep southern, British, you name it. One day, a dude calls and asks where Maine is. "Is it anywhere near Rhode Island?" he wanted to know. I replied, yes, on the map it is. Then he says, "oh, cool. I'm in a band, and we were in Rhode Island not long ago." I figured it was some no name band, so I said, "oh, what's your band's name?"
"Metallica," he says. "I'm Kirk Hammett, lead guitar. Have you heard of us?"
Of course I'd heard of Metallica. That was 1987, and most of my customers were teenage guys who loved their group. I ended up chatting with Kirk several times, and we even did some business. Kirk is a BIG collector of Baby Boomer toys and memorabilia. At one point, they were doing the Monsters of Rock Tour (I think in 1989), and he called my store and said he'd be in Maine and would like to stop by. Did I have any GI Joe stuff?" When the kids heard that, they were beside themselves. Alas, Kirk didn't show, and that was the last I heard from him...until 2012.
That's the year I got an assignment from Fangoria magazine to interview Kirk, who'd written a book about his collection called "No More Horror Business." So, we ended up chatting again, and remarkably, he remembered our first conversations! That article saw print on Fango's website.
And that's my metal story!
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Feb 16, 2017 9:20:41 GMT
My big Bowie obsession started then. Of course I already loved him as a young kid after watching Labyrinth and I knew his 80's songs. But when I became a sci-fi nerd and watched The Man Who Fell to Earth and read an article about Bowies most underrated albums. I knew I needed to listen to more of his music, so I bought Low, 1. Outside and Diamond Dogs and I was hooked. Eventually I had about every album and later on searched for all these hidden gems on the internet (like The Leon Suites and Toy).
Also, I was a big Marilyn Manson fan. I bought so many bootlegs and old demo albums, I just wanted everything.
And black metal. Nuclear Blast always released these cheap double albums with songs of their singed bands, it was a great way to get to know new bands in that genre. And there was a magazine called Metal Hammer, it always came with a cd containing new metal songs. Again, a great way to get to know new bands.
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Post by misternick on Feb 16, 2017 18:21:39 GMT
My Teen Years: The Cure Bauhaus Siouxsie & The Banshees New Order Ultravox The Style Council The Jam The Clash
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Post by theshape25 on Feb 17, 2017 2:48:25 GMT
I was a teen during the whole Grunge era, so my favorites were Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice in Chains. I still like them till this day. My favorite band, however, is The Beatles. I've liked them for as long as I can remember. I'm also a huge Hendrix freak (he's the reason I play the guitar), as well as Led Zeppelin.
I've recently started getting vinyl. So far I have Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin I and II, Are You Experienced, and Axis Bold as Love.
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Post by mszanadu on Feb 19, 2017 20:39:29 GMT
Some of my top favorite artists back in the day was from the 1970's & 80's ( and still are ) : 1. Howard Jones 2. Tears For Fears 3. The B-52's 4. Joan Armatrading There are of course quite a few more but then the list would be a bit lengthy . Thanks naterdawg for your subject post .
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Post by blaque108 on Feb 20, 2017 13:54:22 GMT
Good question....
I was born in 1982 and its funny how I know music from the early 80s and music in my birth year. I remember as a kid I loved watching MTV, VH1, and BET and I was 4 or 5 in 1986/87 when I first started watching the music networks. I used to think Michael Jackson "thriller" came out in 1986 because I was still seeing music videos from "thriller" on the music networks.
My favorite artists in the 80s and most of them still are
Jody Watley Janet Jackson George Michael Madonna Michael Jackson Prince Genesis Paula Abdul Stevie Wonder Luther Vandross Anita Baker
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Post by Lucy on Feb 20, 2017 14:19:18 GMT
In the 90s, it would be mainly Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Madonna. I still consider to be my favorites. When I was in 3rd and 4th grade, I really did liked the Spice Girls. In my middle school years, I liked a lot of teen pop stars.
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Post by agentsparky on Mar 1, 2017 5:45:06 GMT
I was a teen during the whole Grunge era, so my favorites were Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice in Chains. I never considered Alice in Chains to be grunge. Sure, their music adapted well during the height of the grunge popularity and they're from Seattle but they're mostly a metal band..... with a unique sound and style like no other metal band.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 5:55:16 GMT
I have liked almost everything music-wise that i have heard except blatantly commercial stuff, & i am eclectic, listening to so many bands that its probably easier to name the genres than just pull out a list.
back in the day, my dad was into bands like pink floyd, the who, & frank zappa. i was into rock, metal, rap, industrial, jungle, D&B, classical, pretty much anything i could find at a thrift store.
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Post by theshape25 on Mar 1, 2017 6:35:57 GMT
I was a teen during the whole Grunge era, so my favorites were Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice in Chains. I never considered Alice in Chains to be grunge. Sure, their music adapted well during the height of the grunge popularity and they're from Seattle but they're mostly a metal band..... with a unique sound and style like no other metal band. Yeah, technically they were probably more metal than grunge. They seem to get lumped into the whole grunge scene because they were popular during the grunge era and came from Seattle. Looking back it's kinda funny how the whole scene was labeled grunge, yet none of them really shared the same sound.
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 1, 2017 15:45:27 GMT
Good question.... I was born in 1982 and its funny how I know music from the early 80s and music in my birth year. I remember as a kid I loved watching MTV, VH1, and BET and I was 4 or 5 in 1986/87 when I first started watching the music networks. I used to think Michael Jackson "thriller" came out in 1986 because I was still seeing music videos from "thriller" on the music networks. My favorite artists in the 80s and most of them still are Jody Watley Janet Jackson George Michael Madonna Michael Jackson Prince Genesis Paula Abdul Stevie Wonder Luther Vandross Anita Baker Excellent choices on your musical artist list there blaque108 those are all my favorites as well - especially Anita Baker .
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Post by sostie on Mar 1, 2017 16:35:34 GMT
The records I started buying (pre)teen were mostly 2-tone, The Jam and Toyah. In my teens I branched out to Simple Minds, The Smiths, New Order, Echo & The Bunnymen etc
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 15:47:32 GMT
Started out as a kid listening to classic rock, metal and new wave. Then was a bit into 90s house music and rap. Then stuff like Smashing Pumpkins. Then started exploring more music and got into post punk, punk, ebm, techno, trance. From there started exploring more of their sub genres and now really listen to a mix of everything (well almost). I dont know a lot about current mainstream music though as I never watch things like mtv (do they even play music anymore?) or listen to a radio. For about the past year or 2 I havent even been keeping up with new stuff by the bands I do listen to. I am more of a grab something random and give it a listen type of person.
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Post by rmcrae on Mar 4, 2017 5:26:11 GMT
Growing up I listened to a lot of R&B and pop music on the radio. First CD I ever bought was No Doubt's "Tragic Kingdom" and I loved listening to Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Alanis Morissette, Madonna, Fiona Apple, etc. I also grew up with old-school R&B, soul and funk music (Frankie Beverly and Maze, Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Cameo, etc.) my parents had in their record collection, but I didn't love it until I was around 14 or 15. I also got more into artists like Sade, Anita Baker, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and many more.
I don't listen to much current mainstream music either. When I was a kid and teen, I knew almost every song on the radio, but now I could barely hum the latest hits if my life depended on it.
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