what year was it when you were 17, and what were you listening to?

[tastebud]

I was 17 in 1993. Listened to a lot of grunge, like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc etc. And some stuff I still listen to now, like God Machine, Sonic Youth, Pixies...

me too.
'cept it was 1997 for me.
i think you were still listening to the same though.

->and monster magnet, kyuss, metallica, ice cube, nwa.

 

[lizardqueen]

1995 - At 6th Form having possibly the best time of my life so far, discovering clubbing, festivals, drugs and generally being naughty ...and listening to:

Velvet Underground
The Doors
Love
Bjork
The Stone Roses
The Charlatans
The Happy Mondays
Chumbawamba
The Levellers
The Chemical Brothers
Leftfield
The Prodigy
Moloko
Pulp
Tricky
Massive Attack
Prince
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rage Against the Machine

And loads of others

 

[Wintermute]

It was 1995 and I was listening to Techno Techno Techno.

I was compleatly off my tits.

1994. Ditto

 

[Belushi]

1989. Lots of metal, AC/DC, Slayer, Metallica, Maiden... A bit of Hip-Hop, Public Enemy, NWA etc.

 

[Termite Man]

1995 ( well 1996 really since I was born in december ) and I was mostly listening to The Ramones , The Cramps and other punk stuff , all the shite that I listened to then has been erased from my brain !

 

[Juice Terry]

1981, I was making the transition from teenage metal head to twentysomething stoner.

Blue Oyster Cult
AC/DC
Motorhead
Hanoi Rocks
The Damned
Velvet Underground
MC5
Patti Smith

Add in my first motorbike, copious quantites of acid and speed, stone henge and it all added up to a pretty fucking good year

 

[Termite Man]

I thought 17 was a great age - past teeny-bopper stuff, and deeply involved in discovering the rest. Old enough to start to understand, young enough that new music still made your soul go *twang*.

If you like you can break your response into two sections, the truth, and the *truth* that you think will make you sound cool.

I think about 23 is a better age , you still have thatn youthfull passion for music but your tastes start to broaden and you find different kinds of music that you enjoy !

 

[trashpony]

1983. It was the year I went to art college so I went from listening to Talking Heads and the B52s and Bill Nelson to 23 Skidoo and the Virgin Prunes. Oh - and Wham! of course!

 

[killer b]

'95. i was listening to the prodigy, plasticman, biosphere, the future sounds of london, the orb, some rather fey indie, and an awful lot of quite cheesy house music (first pill, may 1995...)

 

[Divisive Cotton]

1992! I was beginning to listen to a load of old Mod stuff back then... I think because everybody was into rave.... so I had to listen to what nobody else seemed to be listening to at the time.
It was also the period of change over from vinyl to cd so I could pick up loads of classic vinyl albums very cheaply.

 

[MysteryGuest]

1983. It was the year I went to art college so I went from listening to Talking Heads and the B52s and Bill Nelson to 23 Skidoo and the Virgin Prunes. Oh - and Wham! of course!

1983 here too.

Virgin Prunes here too, too. Plus Cabaret Voltaire and Nurse With Wound. tbh I think I needed to get out more. Which I did in 1984.

 

[Spandex]

1990: the year I made the transition from teeny-goth to pseudo-punk.

Bauhaus
Joy Division
Sisters of Mercy
Sonic Youth
Wedding Present
Buzzcocks
The Cramps
Chumbawamba
Dead Kennedys
Crass

*lies* Yeah man, I spent the weekends driving 'round the M25, going to raves. I was so cool, like. *lies*

 

[reallyoldhippy]

I was 17 for 50 weeks in 1968. Was there ever a better year for music? Well, perhaps 1967

The last album I listened to (last night) was a Jimi Hendrix one. Cream, John Mayall, The Who, Captain Beefheart are still among my most oft-played tracks.

Edit: How could I have missed out his Bobness?

 

[JE:5]

It was 1995 and I was listening to Gabber, Techno and stuff like Aphex Twin and Autechre, not much different to what I listen to now really. Although I had gone to my first free party in that year and started producing and joined a sound system so it is probably my favourite year overall.

 

[Flashman]

1988.

Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
U2
U2
U2
U2
Cohen
Donovan
The Cure
The Pogues
The Waterboys
The Smiths
Bob Marley
Run DMC
Public Enemy
Tangerine Dream
Jean Michel-Jarre
Duran Duran's Arena album ("The Chauffeur" mainly)
Iron Maiden
Queen
Thin Lizzy
Kate Bush

 

[past caring]

1980-81

Gang of 4
Wire
The Fall
The Mekons
Penetration
Girls at Our Best
Spizz Oil/Spizz Energy
The Au Pairs
Big Youth
Stockholm Monsters
Gun Club
The Cramps
The Passage
Delta 5
Wah! Heat/Wah!
Misty In Roots

lots of other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head....

 

[Maggot]

I was 17 in 1982 and 1983.

I rember listening to:

The Doors
The Velvets
Lou Reed
Pink Floyd
Echo and the Bunnymen
the Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Dead Kennedys
The B-52s
Theatre of Hate (and maybe Spear of Destiny)
Captain Beefheart
New Order
U2
Bowie (was only just getting into him as a latecomer)
Wah
Aztec camera
Red Guitars
Redskins
Cabaret Voltaire
The Cramps
Bauhaus
And loads of really uncool stuff which I've forgitten about.

Is there anyone who didn't listen to the Velvet Underground when they were 17?

 

[treefrog]

2000 and I was a metal/goth/electronica fan.

Portishead
Nine Inch Nails
System of a Down
Pink Floyd
Aphex Twin
Skinny Puppy
Rico (Glasgow Industrial band )
Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl jam
Massive Attack
Prodigy
Gary Numan (after he discovered black eyeliner and New Rock boots)
Queens of the Stone Age

hadn't quite found the techno yet....

 

[treefrog]

Is there anyone who didn't listen to the Velvet Underground when they were 17?

Me and I still don't. Should I?

 

[mr steev]

1987

The Cure
The Sisters of Mercy
The Mission
Bauhaus
Alien Sex Fiend
Gaye Bykers On Acid

 

[DrRingDing]

'94/'95

Bungle, D&B and general jungletastic bum tit bum tit.

'ardcore, I hated the emerging happy hardcore scene but still loved proper 'ardcore from a few years earlier.

Syd Barrett (..and pink floyd)

Portishead

Massive Attack

Beastie Boys

 

[Maggot]

'94/'95

Bungle, D&B and general jungletastic bum tit bum tit.

Yo!

 

[Major Tom]

It was 1984

Billy Bragg
Cocteau Twins
New Order
The Kinks
The Who
The Jam
Talking Heads
John Lennon
Jesus and Mary chain (Upside Down)
The Smiths
Tom Waits
James
David Bowie (though I was going off him a bit)
Style Council
Dexys Midnight Runners
Human League
Rolling Stones (early)
Pink Floyd (early)
Bob Dylan (early)
Beatles (White album/ Sgt Pepper/ Revolver)
Kate Bush
Elvis costello
Iggy Pop
Roxy Music (early)
The Doors
Gary Numan
anything that John Peel played.

 

[reallyoldhippy]

Me and I still don't. Should I?

Only if you think you're the most depressed person on the planet and want to be proved wrong.

 

[sunflower]

I was 17 in 1985 and if I can remember that far back I was listening to Crass, Subhumans, Chumbawamba, Poison Girls, The Mob, Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians, Sisters of Mercy, the Cult, Play Dead, Killing Joke, Alien Sex Fiend, Dead Kennedys and then more mellow stuff like Jonie Mitchell, Fairport Convention,Bob Dylan, Men they couldnt hang and Billy Bragg.

My tastes have developed over the years but I still listen to quite a lot of the same artists that i did at 17.

 

[Groucho]

1983. I was istening to Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps, Eddie Cochran, Bert Weadon, Pink Floyd, Motorhead, Black Sabbath.

Very little chart stuff. Hardly anything from 1983.

 

[treefrog]

Only if you think you're the most depressed person on the planet and want to be proved wrong.

I think I'll pass...

 

[Major Tom]

I forgot to mention the Pogues and Bauhaus.

 

[Sunspots]

Only if you think you're the most depressed person on the planet and want to be proved wrong.

Personally, I find The VU rather uplifting.

 

[oneflewover]

It was 1977 and, if my choice, almost exclusively Bowie.