What was the "coolest" music at your school?

[King Biscuit Time]

I remember a massive kick-off between the 'Surfers' who all liked Reef and the Fucking Red hot chilli peppers and all that shit, and the 'Ravers' who used to swan about in NASA coats one lunchtime (probably about 1994).

There was a definite class distinction too, with the 'Surfers' tending to be better off (you needed to be to have a surfboard and wetsuit and a return fare to Croyde).

As for who was the 'coolest', I couldn't say, but I know if I had a choice between a Fantazia tape pack and a Reef album, I'd be cracking into the tapes before you could say 'Hardcore will never die'.

 

[Pieface]

Indie - and a bit of hip hop - Beastie Boys etc.

I was, of course, devastatingly cool.

 

[foo]

oh leave it alone i'm not a racist. i just have a sense for the absurd.

er...ok.




wierdo.

 

[meme1908]

creep.

 

[foo]

go fuck yourself. seriously.

 

[meme1908]

ok ok.

 

[tarannau]

Echoed. I may have been charitable on you, but I'd leave it now. Coloured just aint a funny term.

 

[meme1908]

i said absurd not funny.

back to the thread!

 

[revol68]

Echoed. I may have been charitable on you, but I'd leave it now. Coloured just aint a funny term.

to be fair I thought he was mocking the parochial whiteness of his own school.

it's funny though a lot of old folk think use coloured because they think using black is racist, like wise negro.

 

[foo]

aaaaaaanyway.

can anyone remember a band called Hawkwind?

i seem to remember them being popular at our school. i think they were longhaired headbangers weren't they? on the rare occasion i actually went to a school disco it was full of boys with long greasy hair, and hands on hips - headbanging.

not attractive to my 15 year old self.

 

[Reno]

They weren't, you know

Yup, they were in 1975.

 

[ViolentPanda]

What do you mean by "coolest"?
Do you mean "what was the trendiest music?" (in which case it would have been Hard Rock and Northern Soul), or "which was the most 'outsider' music, which was 'cool' because only a few people had heard it/heard of it?" (in which case it was reggae, dub reggae and [a little bit later] punk).

 

[ViolentPanda]

Killing Joke...

FTW!

The The...

FTW!

Big Audio Dynamite

WORLD OF FAIL!!!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Me too. When I went to school Supertramp were considered cool.

Who by? That is the question!

 

[dodgepot]

to be fair I thought he was mocking the parochial whiteness of his own school.

yeah, i think the same. still, when you're pretty new to the boards and no-one yet knows your personality, it's a bit of a daft thing to say (at least without explaining why...)

cool at my school... dunno. i thought i was cool cos i listened to indie and was one of the school "freaks". lots of people who took the piss out of me were going to rave's with their older brothers and taking loads of drugs and staying out all night and getting into music that i know think is pretty damn good. so *hmm*

 

[El Jefe]

Yup, they were in 1975.

They weren't, you know

 

[El Jefe]

aaaaaaanyway.

can anyone remember a band called Hawkwind?

I still have a soft spot for Hawkwind.

Sort of.

 

[killer b]

i don't remember there being many 'cool' kids at school... the main music the kids listened to was rave though (or a chart aproximation of rave anyway).

at 6th form everyone was into britpop and handbag house music. the aloof kids liked pink floyd, and various ambient type stuff...

 

[foo]

yeah, i think the same. still, when you're pretty new to the boards and no-one yet knows your personality, it's a bit of a daft thing to say (at least without explaining why...)

yeh, fair enough.


dodge - you have been all your life. you just didn't know it.

 

[foo]

I still have a soft spot for Hawkwind.

Sort of.

were you one of *those* headbanger boys then?

 

[killer b]

i listened mainly to queen.

i think my coolness was relatively late forming though...

 

[El Jefe]

were you one of *those* headbanger boys then?

Well I was a bit young, but yeh, when I was 12-13 it was all Hawkwind, Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy for me

 

[Pavlik]

at our school discos we used to wait patiently for the one or two punk records they'd play at the end.
this was '77-'79 ish

i remember very fondly putting the ian dury album on in the common room, with 'assholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks' bellowing out to an unsuspecting gathering.
i think they banned all future 5th years having a record player after that

 

[Structaural]

Ska and Madness in Peterborough then a rapid move to Electro/Hip-hop when I moved to Brixton in '82 after that then it was all about rare-grooves, ragga and rare dub/reggae.

 

[foo]

Well I was a bit young, but yeh, when I was 12-13 it was all Hawkwind, Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy for me

i'm with you when it comes to Thin Lizzy. they had a unique sound imo.

oh well, if you'd been at my school, you would've been spared any foo molestations the lot at my secondary school belonged to 'chapters' . (which as far as i was aware meant that they all met in a field and looked at each others big motorbikes and leather jackets with those dangly bits).

i was such a snob/bigot when i think back - my friends all had boyfriends out of that lot but i wouldn't even mix with them.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It appeared to be wanky acid jazz like galliano and stuff. I was definitely in a minority being into stuff like nirvana.

 

[Sweet FA]

The scenes at the start of 'This is England' could have been my school playground (apart from the Strawberry Switchblade girls). Not sure which was the coolest but it spanned that time when the mods (parkas over boating jackets, sta-prest, Pringle, loafers) were splitting into 2Tone (black suits, white shirts/socks, loafers) and skins (DMs, Fred Perry, braces, flying jackets). These were by far the biggest tribes (all white, all Essex) and listened to everything from 'original' mod; Tamla, Northern Soul, Small Faces through the revival stuff including The Jam but also The Lambrettas, Secret Affair, Squire etc. Everybody listened to Madness, Selecter, Specials. The Skins listened to white power bands like Skrewdriver and Combat 84 but also Oi bands like The Oppressed, The Business, Cocksparrer, Last Resort. I remember everyone being into terrible second or third wave punk like Peter and the Test Tube Babies too.

*drifts off into nostalgic reverie*

 

[Boycey]

you didn't have any coloured what?

no colours at all. everyone knows the world was monochrome pre 1960

the last (of many) schools i went to had the predictable separation between indie kids, rap kids. no uniform so you could tell what they listened to from the other side of the playground. as 6th form started the wankers seemed to have less to do with either side and mutual tastes were found in the form of drum and bass and ecstasy. i got quickly bored of that, especially bad MCs, especially especially bad 17 year old MCs. discovered techno/trance, universally shunned

 

[QueenOfGoths]

aaaaaaanyway.

can anyone remember a band called Hawkwind?

i seem to remember them being popular at our school. i think they were longhaired headbangers weren't they? on the rare occasion i actually went to a school disco it was full of boys with long greasy hair, and hands on hips - headbanging.

not attractive to my 15 year old self.

There was quite a bit of that at the disco's I went to. Also there was a fad for such headbangers to sew (or more probably have their Mum sew!) a beer towel on the back of their denim jacket.

Not attractive to my younger self either! I like to imagine that they are all middle managers now suffering from hair loss but still with Hawkwind and Motorhead on their MP3 players

 

[rikwakefield]

Anything from the Hacienda was considered cool at my school.