What was the "coolest" music at your school?

[chico enrico]

as with the world at large, the 'cool' music to be into when i started at secondary school was killing Joke (wardance and first LP had just come out) and PIL (ditto metal box). a few folk were into crass. everyone used to have those canvas army bags with the shoulder strap to carry their books in so you could see what bands folk were into from what logos they'd drawn on the side.

later on at my school there was - bizarrely enough - great rivalry between fans of Big Country (tended to wear checked or plaid style shirts) and fans of Simple Minds (wore a lot of burgundy). Think this might have just been a mid-80s Scottish thing.

the cult were also very popular (she sells sanctuary era)

the cool girls who were good at art and smoked were into Bowie, Japan/David Sylvian, Cocteau Twins and Bauhaus.

though invariably the girls in the year below who you'd usually end up getting off with were into madonna/cindi lauper and kinda dressed like that. which was ok.

the nutters and bullies were always into two tone/ska.

the farmers were into saxon, nazareth and general lumpen-metal.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

as with the world at large, the 'cool' music to be into when i started at secondary school was killing Joke (wardance and first LP had just come out) and PIL (ditto metal box). a few folk were into crass. everyone used to have those canvas army bags with the shoulder strap to carry their books in so you could see what bands folk were into from what logos they'd drawn on the side.

later on at my school there was - bizarrely enough - great rivalry between fans of Big Country (tended to wear checked or plaid style shirts) and fans of Simple Minds (wore a lot of burgundy). Think this might have just been a mid-80s Scottish thing.

the cult were also very popular (she sells sanctuary era)

the cool girls who were good at art and smoked were into Bowie, Japan/David Sylvian, Cocteau Twins and Bauhaus.

though invariably the girls in the year below who you'd usually end up getting off with were into madonna/cindi lauper and kinda dressed like that. which was ok.

the nutters and bullies were always into two tone/ska.

the farmers were into saxon, nazareth and general lumpen-metal.

I think I know some of them!

Young Farmers disco's - I shudder just thinking about them

I was into Bowie and Japan/David Sylvian - but rather than being a cool girl I just looked like a nerd

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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

Wow, you must be feeling it much more than I am. Brrr.

 

[Pavlik]

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

There's a few of them types whostill walk around these parts with hawkwind and motorhead patches on the back of their leathers

oh and 'punks not dead'

*but i think you'll find it is mate*

 

[dilute micro]

Everything off the The Breakfast Club. And Van Halen, and Def Leppard.

 

[art of fact]

drum n bass and garage.

 

[albionism]

a small group of us were into 2Tone, then electro and dub. Most of the kids were into 5 Star or Spandau fucking Ballet.

 

[heinous seamus]

Sterephonics lol

 

[seeformiles]

When I started secondary school the "cool kids" were into Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, etc.
I was well into the 2-Tone thing (esp. Specials) but also loved Beatles, Led Zep, The Who and Pink Floyd - not the hippest kid in my year by any stretch!

 

[Cloo]

When they first stopped having uniform in the 6th form 'Fraggle' was quite in. Lots of Neds t-shirts and the like.

By the time we got there, Britpop was quite in, although that was maybe just among my mates and we weren't seen as cool by anyone, I'd imagine. The crowd thought of as 'cool' (and thus disliked by everyone) didn't really have any musical affiliations.

 

[Annierak]

Specials, Kraftwerk, Adam And The Ants, Madness when i was in 1st year then later on The Smiths, The Cure.

The school disco always had to feature 2 particular tracks, "Planet Earth" by Duran Duran and "Enola Gay" by OMD, they always played those two.

 

[Fictionist]

Mmmm, most people at my school had fairly mainstream tastes so they tended to listen to whatever was in the charts. There were a few who listened to the stuff termed 'Indie' - and then there was a small (predominatly black group) which listened to Hip Hop, Soul, Rare Groove and Reggae. So I was 'indoctinated' from an early age.

 

[N_igma]

Mostly dance, few stoners who liked good rock music as well as those trendies who liked bland indie shite. I think there was one or two people who liked rap, wasn't big in our school.

 

[pk]

Hip hop when it was good, the Streetsounds comps circa '84 and whatever you could tape off Mike Allen.
I was doing more music piracy then than I do now!

 

[half_eaten_arm]

'happy harcore' if i remember correctly........ i liked pulp

 

[Stevil]

There were two camps when I was in the sixth form in the early 70s. Those who liked progressive or hard rock, Soft Machine, Yes, Led Zep, Deep Purple etc. and those (the minority) who were into more 'trashy' rock. Bowie, Velvets, Reed, Mott The Hoople, New York Dolls, Iggy & the Stooges, Alice Cooper etc. I like to think we were the cooler group and having met some of the former over the years I think we were.

 

[monsterbunny]

In my school it was Northern Soul, but that was also back in the early seventies.

 

[Dillinger4]

Punk between me and my friends.

And weirdly, we were the cool kids. I think its because we sold everyone all their drugs and that.

 

[Fictionist]

Hip hop when it was good, the Streetsounds comps circa '84 and whatever you could tape off Mike Allen.
I was doing more music piracy then than I do now!

You and me both mate!

 

[mwgdrwg]

Beastie Boys, RUN DMC, Public Enemy...must've been about 1986. I was 13, we were cool, everyone else was listening to The Joshua Tree.

 

[Delia]

the coolest music at school was always and for me still is The Cure!

 

[Superdupastupor]

on one side, linkin park, limp bizkit and papa roach et al, on the other, eminem, fiddy cent and all that lot

there was probly some other stuff like ragga, boggle, death metal and belgian house but i wasnt paying attention most of the time

also went to a nice middle class suburban school, with a grand total of about three or four non-white kids out of a thousand

you are me
I would like to claim my £5.

 

[Fictionist]

Beastie Boys, RUN DMC, Public Enemy...must've been about 1986. I was 13, we were cool, everyone else was listening to The Joshua Tree.

There was a guy at my school who claimed to listen to that album without fail every night after returning home from school. I never understood that!

 

[krow]

Electro 1-10.

Enjoy 10 minutes of 1985:

 

[moose]

Very mixed at my school. Most listened to whatever was on TOTP every week, like Rod Stewart and Meatloaf. The ones who were good at science liked Van Der Graaf Generater and Tangerine Dream. We arty types listened to Buzzcocks, The Clash and everything else new we could get our hands on. My mate Paula struck out on her own with a lifelong passion for funk of the Parliament variety.