Do you remember your favourite bands from back then?
I nearly wore out my copy of Grammatrain's Lonely House. I also listened to a lot of Five Iron Frenzy and some other ska bands. Then I got a copy of Dave Matthew's Live and Luther College and Before These Crowded Streets. I also remember really being into some pretty crazy metal back then too.
Jacob
Edit: I almost forgot The Colour and the Shape! Foo is good.
If it was a hard rock/metal (and some hair) band I was into it. My tape collection included:
Iron Maiden, Metallica, the Cult, Whitesnake, White Lion, Rush, Scorpions, Motley Crew, Def Leppard, LA Guns, Great White, and a hundred others. The only band that had staying power for me is Rush. The rest of that crap I cannot stand now. I saw most of those bands in concert, too.
AC/DC, Judas Priest, Rush, Scorpions, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Doors, The Police, Aerosmith, Yngwie, ZZ Top, Violent Femmes, The Tubes. The usual suspects, really.
I did like some other different stuff like The English Beat and material from Windham Hills (namely Alex De Grassi) that my friends thought I was weird for listening to.
The Cars, The Boomtown Rats, The Police, all of the "THE" bands.
Skankin' Pickle, Hepcat, Checkmate, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Elvis Costello, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and lots and lots and lots of Bob Marley
metal and shrapnel records shred stuff. tons of rush. whatever band was flavor of the month back then. lots of metallica and slayer.
unwritten law, weezer, metallica, mxpx, rancid, sublime, radio head, nurf hearder
Kansas, Aerosmith, Nugent, ZZ Top, Styx, Keaggy, Petra
Also, loads of Satriani and Vai. I was really into those guys. Not anymore, though :)
Quote from: timbo_93631 on August 27, 2011, 02:31:19 PMNirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog
Quote from: oldhousescott on August 27, 2011, 03:12:33 PMKeaggy, Petra
See those guys were more late Elementary school and Jr. High for me. The Soundgarden/Pearl Jam/AinC/Stone Temple Pilots scene was Jr. High for me. I still listen to that stuff regularly, including Keaggy...
Jacob
Quote from: madbean on August 27, 2011, 08:57:57 AM
The only band that had staying power for me is Rush. The rest of that crap I cannot stand now.
I know the feeling. Alot of those bands I used to love drive me crazy now. Also, I hated country in high school too. It was the 90's and country was pretty weak at the time, but the country stuff coming out nowadays can be pretty compelling and I like alot of it. Funny how tastes change. Still love that john Lee Hooker though.
Pavement, Built to Spill/The Halo Benders, David Bowie's Ziggy, Tuscadero, Tullycraft, Superchunk/Portastatic, lots of stuff on Merge Records and Blue Note
That was about 20 years ago for me. Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Anthrax, Satch, Vai, Pink Floyd, Zepplin, Queen, Van Halen. So pretty much typical stuff from back then.
stone roses, echo and the bunnymen, happy mondays, faith no more, hendrix, xtc
AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Foreigner, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Hendrix, Stones, Van Halen, Rush, Bowie, Clapton, Tull, Zep and much more that escapes me ATM
Phil Keaggy - Love it! He is my hometown hero. I was listening to Dokken, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Poison, Iron Maiden, Sabbath, Ozzy, Priest, Warrant; basically anything now considered hair bands. Hendrix, Holdsworth, Vai, Satriani, Stryper, TNT... I still listen to the same stuff and admire the playing skills, originality and musicality of players like George Lynch (love his Furious George album) and Ronni LeTekro (love the My Religion and All the Way to the Sun albums). I'm liking the recent stuff by Neil Zaza and Andy Timmons. Also like alot of CCM, like Hillsong, Chris Tomlin, Lincoln Brewster. I think you get it.
Quote from: cjkbug on August 27, 2011, 02:35:40 PM
metal and shrapnel records shred stuff.
Yes Paul Gilbert and Jason Becker!!!
I mostly listened to US hardcore punk; Black Flag, Bad Brains, MDC, Minutemen and the whole bunch..Which turned into Stoner Metal/Doom plus lots of Rock and Roll/Pysch/Heavy Metal...I'm still trying to figure out how that happened??
Ha, funny, I did sort of the reverse. Lots of metal; Accept, Ozzy, AC/DC, Quiet Riot, etc. Then I discovered punk--Black Flag, Descendents, MX-80 Sound, etc. I guess I found punk more worldly, more shocking to the religious values of my little hometown. Kids, right? Who knows.
AC/DC, Kiss, Rainbow, Black Sabbath were the main ones. Still like all that stuff. Don't think I ever got out of the 70's ;)
Nevermind dropped when I was a freshman in high school. I HATED hair metal, so before that all I listened to was pretty much just ZZ Top and Aerosmith. Growing up in the rural mountains of N.C., Nevermind clued me in that there were bands still making great music, just under the radar a bit.
Blind Melon wasn't under the radar, but it was the only cassette I had to buy three times because I played it so much the tape stretched and I was getting slower, detuned Blind Melon.
Kraftwerk, Devo, Talking Heads, The Clash, The Police, Duran Duran. That's pretty much it. It wasn't until 10 years later I started listening to other stuff like Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Cream, etc. I listened to a lot of crappy 80's stuff back then. I'm much better now.