remember what you were listening to 20 years ago?

[rennie]

probably madonna and michael jackson.

 

[tg75]

Public Enemy, Run DMC, The Beastie Boys.

I was such a B-Boy at school.

yeah mate!!!

 

[dynamicbaddog]

The Smiths, Fine Young Cannibals, Depeche Mode,It's Immaterial, Bronski Beat, Wah!, Janet Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, New Order

 

[zaphod22]

I used to listen to Bob Jovi - Slippery When Wet on my way to school football matches on the coach. I was 10/11 at the time.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Age of Chance and a lot of the other C86 bands also Was (Not Was), The Brilliant Corners, Erasure (!), Cabaret Voltaire, Talulah Gosh, The Groove Farm.

Ah the days of jangly guitars and funky electronic stuff

 

[Andy the Don]

Anyone going to admit to listening to Curiosity Killed the Cat twenty years ago..??

Nope.. didn't think so..

 

[saucisson]

similar to many people already posted, I was just about to go to uni and emerging from the blinkers of a rock and metal only teenage diet into indie/alt/older rock and reggae...I also started smoking too much.

smiths
cure
Rush
doors
nick drake
LKJ
Bob Marley
Tackhead
JAMC
New model army
sisters of mercy
REM
dead kennedys
Subhumans

 

[Termite Man]

I was 8 and if I remember I had a starship tape and a Status Quo tape !

 

[Lea]

Madonna, Duran Duran, Boy George, Spandau Ballet, Pet Shop Boys etc

 

[Relahni]

dead kennedys, conflict, peter and the test tube babies, GBH, Sex Pistols, Subhumans, Toy Dolls,

 

[Lazy Llama]

Re Curiosity Killed The Cat, went to see them (at ULU, I think) back in those days.
They weren't up to much.

Saw Simply Red in 1985 when they were almost trendy, also at ULU, and The Blow Monkeys, Fairground Attraction, Sandie Shaw, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Mark Stewart, Tackhead, The Pogues and the much under-rated Win all around '85-87.

Hmm.. who else? James, Senseless Things, Voice of the Beehive, Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, Head, The Shamen, 23 Skidoo, Head of David, Das Psycho Rangers.

 

[Reg in slippers]

let's see

jamc
microdisney
trouble funk
half man half biscuit
sugarcubes
that petrol emotion
woodentops
new order
elvis costello
courtney pine
weather prophets
green on red
new order
gaye bikers
husker du
poppies
fuzzbox
billy bragg
run dmc


and

samantha fox

 

[rorymac]

Billy Joel .. he aint all that
Dolly x I'm waitin for ya Ms Parton ! It's cottonpickin crazy but I am .. Jolene Jplene etc

Wishbone Ash .. There's the rub : - |

Jpan Baez :|

Fuckin Joan joan joan .. sort it put Urban ! :0/

 

[feyr]

melanie safka, bob dylan, joan baez and joni mitchell. because thats what my mum listened to, i was 3 and didnt have much say in the matter . however 3 of those are still my favourite artists

 

[kalidarkone]

Crass, Blythe power, The zounds, moving hearts,

 

[A Dashing Blade]

. . .
Sonic Youth

Which album (curious - on the basis that there's always one Sonic Youth album . . . . )?

 

[N_igma]

I was listening to the sounds my mum's womb made.

 

[Blagsta]

New Order
U2
Simple Minds
Dire Straits
Kraftwerk
Echo & The Bunnymen
Depeche Mode
Joy Division
Visage
Ultravox
Human League
Pink Floyd

 

[weepiper]

I was 8 or 9 and nicking my dad's Lynyrd Skynyrd albums to listen to upstairs. I remember taping Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere off the radio so I could listen to that over and over. The first album I actually bought myself was when I was 11 or 12 - Motorhead, 1916.

 

[Sunspots]

Pretty much the same crap I listen to nowadays...

On-U Sound (esp. Mark Stewart)
Lots of dub
Velvet Underground
Sonic Youth
Black Flag
Butthole Surfers
The Fall
Bogshed
Big Flame
Nuggets
Happy Mondays
Culturecide
Eric B & Rakim
Beastie Boys
Swans
The Pogues
Dead Kennedys
Lee Morgan
John Fahey
The Woodentops
Spacemen 3
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Cocteau Twins
Julian Cope
Run DMC
The Lime Spiders
Falco

This helped to jog my memory:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1986/

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I don't remember there being any music in the 80's it is all a blank.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Buddy Holly and Simple Minds mostly I'd imagine, not having much choice in the matter when I wasn't even 3

 

[radiohead]

i was in the womb 20 years ago

so probably led zepellin and shit

 

[skunkboy69]

This is quite a good site for doing birthday compilations

http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/top/1972.htm

 

[Dj TAB]

Mostly chart stuff recorded off the radio as per any early teenager of the time, however this week 20 years ago saw the release of Spitting Image's "Chicken Song" to which I still remember most of the lyrics.......

 

[keefor]

c86 stuff including the June Brides

student stuff like Microdisney & the Three Johns

also stuff like Marc Almond, Smiths, the Fall and The The.

 

[Reno]

Blondie
Mary Margaret O'Hara
The The
Cocteau Twins
New Order
Pet Shop Boys
Madness
Everything But The Girl
Special AKA
The Band of Holy Joy
Fun Boy Three
Kate Bush
This Mortal Coil