What did you listen to as a 15 yearold?

[albionism]

At 15, i was sharing a bedroom with an older brother who had control
of the record player for the most part, so i suffered Spandau Ballet,
George Michael, Phil Collins, Nick Kershaw and such shite. On the rare occasion I
was allowed to play my records, aged 15 it'd be Echo and The Bunnymen,
Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, plus lots of Ska and Reggae. I was shedding
the Skinhead and emerging a bit Goth.

 

[N_igma]

2001/2002 I was listening to Nirvana, Korn, Slipknot, Metallica all that sort of stuff as well as commercial trance and happy hardcore. Still listen to some of it the odd time but have moved on quite a bit since.

 

[albionism]

oh, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Icicle Works, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Woodentops, Cocteau Twins.

 

[Voley]

Stuff that was around at the time: Joy Division/New Order, The Fall, The Cramps, Cocteau Twins, The Pogues, The Cure, Jesus And Mary Chain. Older stuff: Punk of all descriptions and lots of 60's/70's stuff: The Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd and what-have-you. Was getting into the blues by then too so listened to a lot of Muddy Waters which led me off in many interesting directions. Started getting into dub about then, too. 'King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown' kicked it all off.

 

[Mr Moose]

Rollins band, sonic youth, public enemy, louis Armstrong hot seven, jelly roll morton red hot peppers, rev gary davis, rage against machine, new Kingdom, pavement, jesus lizard

Bloody hell what a racket. Still I expect you were at the Academy gig with RATM and Jesus Lizard and that was ace.

 

[hammerntongues]

in 1974 , Bowie , Dylan , Beatles and Lennon , with a bit of Gary Glitter thrown in . It could have been a lot worse , Mud and Showaddywaddy were at their height .

 

[Shirl]

At 15. Roy Orbison, The Kinks, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black The Everly Brothers, Gene Pitney, The Searchers, The Animals, The four seasons, The beach Boys and The Supremes.

 

[Mr Moose]

1978/79 so The Stranglers, The Clash, SLF, The Jam, The Pistols, New Wave, anything on the 'Festive Fifty' but still some metal and prog. And pop less discriminately. Reggae was always there, 2 Tone on its way, 'Disco' more than I thought at the time.

So probably just about anything that wasn't MOR. Now I look back I remember the Charts fondly.

 

[friedaweed]

The Waterboys, U2, The Smiths, Poison Electric Head, Bob Marley, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Simple Minds, Billy Bragg, The Icicle Works, HMHB

Pretty Much most of this list
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/07/01/best-albums-of-1984/

I was buying 2/3 albums a week in my mid teens. Mostly shite

 

[joustmaster]

1994-1995

Nirvana - In Utero.
Rage Against The Machine.
Radiohead - Pablo Honey.
Elastica.
Beck - Mellow Gold.
Some britpop like Suede, Sleeper, Gene, Echobelly.

 

[eatmorecheese]

1991. Public Enemy, Tone Loc, NWA, Beastie Boys, De La Soul. Cheesy rave. Beginning to explore the goth world (Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus et al).

 

[flypanam]

1989/1990 - U2, Simple minds, The Pixies, The Wonderstuff, Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen, Deacon Blue and The Wolfetones.

 

[DRINK?]

bit hazy on dates, though thinking about what I listened to in my room before I went to uni .....Nirvana, G&R, prodigy, leftfield,PWEI,Stone Roses,Ice-T, Rage against the machine, Pulp, Oasis, Radiohead, Chilli peppers, Ride, Cypress Hill, Counting Crows, and the wipeout album which I must have had on repeat for about 6 months.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Lots of 60s Beat/soul/R&B music, 2 Tone & ska, The Street Sounds Electro Albums, PIL Album, Housemartins, B.A.D, punk,Iggy Pop, Sigue Sigue Sputnik (lol), Ramones...was into soundtrack/film scores too, getting into some opera and classical too...oh, and Madonna, I loved Madonna.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Metal. Lots of metal.

 

[mwgdrwg]

1988, nothing but Hip Hop. I was obsessed with Boogie Down Productions, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Eric B & Rakim etc.

Just remembered it was the first time I got into House too, because I still have "The Greatest Hits of House 1988" on vinyl, with awesome stuff like Stakker Humanoid on it.

 

[Spandex]

The albums I remember playing most aged 15:

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
All About Eve - All About Eve
Bauhaus - 1979 - 1983
Metallica - And Justice for All
Now That's What I Call Music 11 (Especially the last side with Bomb the Bass, Coldcut, Krush, Jack'n'Chill, Beatmasters, Two Men, A Drum Machine and a Trumpet - I pretty much wore that tape out)

 

[gosub]

87-88 Prince, Cure, GnR, Smiths, Bowie, Waterboys, The The

 

[mr steev]

85/86 Lots of The Cure, Sisters, Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Was 94/95 so Metal, black and death metal and due to mix of friends a bit of Jungle too. By the time i was turning 16 was moving more toward HxC Punk and Punk.

 

[Sprocket.]

In 1972 I was listening to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by Bowie mostly.

 

[rutabowa]

Bloody hell what a racket. Still I expect you were at the Academy gig with RATM and Jesus Lizard and that was ace.

not at 15! i saw jesus lizard at the leadmill in Sheffield when i was 16 I think.... never saw rage against the machine live, i'd lost interest by the time I could have gone.

 

[Kaka Tim]

It was 1982.

Clash, Jam, Specials, beat, selector, Blondie, Siouxie and the Banshees, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, Bauhaus, Echo and the Bunnymen.
My mod phase had led me to classic 60s stuff - esp the who, but also small faces, the stones, sixties soul and R&B.
My brothers were more greebo - so I also seceretly like led zep, sabbath, motorhead and hendrix.

 

[trabuquera]

1988, nothing but Hip Hop. I was obsessed with Boogie Down Productions, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Eric B & Rakim etc.
Just remembered it was the first time I got into House too, because I still have "The Greatest Hits of House 1988" on vinyl, with awesome stuff like Stakker Humanoid on it.

Basically this but with an additional layer of ska, Two Tone, plus additional leftover early-early-adolescent prime sulking music like Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Clash, Cure etc etc and plenty of Studio One, dub, Latin and African stuff mixed in as well. At that time I treated pretty much any guitar-based rock music as the devil.

 

[marty21]

long time ago, 1980, so it was probably The Undertones, Human League, The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, Blondie, The Pretenders, Police, The Cars, Van Morrison, The Specials, X-Ray Spex, also some metal/rock - Pink Floyd, Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd,Saxon, and various metal,indie/post punk bands that I can't remember at the moment

 

[marty21]

At 15, i was sharing a bedroom with an older brother who had control
of the record player for the most part, so i suffered Spandau Ballet,
George Michael, Phil Collins, Nick Kershaw and such shite. On the rare occasion I
was allowed to play my records, aged 15 it'd be Echo and The Bunnymen,
Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, plus lots of Ska and Reggae. I was shedding
the Skinhead and emerging a bit Goth.

We are a similar vintage - and following on from my last post ,I would add Echo, Joy Division, The Cure, Ian Dury and probably many others that my aged memory has forgotten

I do remember seeing Ian McCulloch at Bath Bus Station when I was a teenager - not sure what he was doing there - he seemed to be just hanging about - but he looked so fucking cool with that hair, he was dressed in leather trousers and a long leather coat

 

[cozmikbrew]

Reggae,SKA,anarchopunk(saw FLUX,MOb,Antisect,Conflict,Zounds) an bits an bobs of stuff like Here and Now,INNErCityUNIT,Gong,Hawkwind etc as the mind expansion faze had begun an as much Dub i could get mi hands on

 

[fucthest8]

1982....mostly Ozzy, Motorhead, Maiden, Hawkwind and Jethro Tull, with a side order of Genesis.

You are me and I claim my five pounds. Older sibling by any chance? That was my excuse for the Genesis and I'm stocking to it.

 

[fucthest8]

long time ago, 1980, so it was probably The Undertones, Human League, The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, Blondie, The Pretenders, Police, The Cars, Van Morrison, The Specials, X-Ray Spex, also some metal/rock - Pink Floyd, Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd,Saxon, and various metal,indie/post punk bands that I can't remember at the moment

.. actually, I was '81 so very, very similar - but not the Human League, Gary Numan instead And then plus belboids list.

 

[fucthest8]

And Tom Petty for some reason - Damn the Torpedoes got me started on him I suspect