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

[Herbert Read]

17 in 1996 loving techno (too many drugs)

also into the sisters of mercy
stranglers
clash
levellers
oasis
pantera
paradise lost
type o negative
Public enemy

mixed bag really

 

[Epico]

2001: A townie odyssey.

Lots & lots of hard-house, hard trance type stuff - a lot of which I can't believe I even liked let alone brought.

Started to get more into techno/electro stuff that I prefer now.

And lots of 80s electro-pop bands like blue monday.

And stuff like Grandmaster Flash, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, De la Soul.

But mainly hard-house

 

[starfish]

1987.
Big Country
Simple Minds
U2
Lloyd Cole
Depeche Mode
The Smiths
The The
Pet Shop Boys
Erasure
SLF
The Clash
New Order
& a few others.
Shocked that it was 18 years ago.

 

[FreddyB]

I was 17 in 1992. I'd started college the year before and made new friends and ended up going to Dance Planet '91 at the Villa. I'd been into metal before that and a bit of hip hop (NWA & PE mainly).

By '92 everything was rave and rave was everything. Got a car, sussed that I really liked driving while I was speeding my tits off ( ) and you can easily (perhaps not easily) manage to get 5 mates in a Mk1 Fiesta.

Great days, met Mrs Fred the year after and sussed you could get a 6 mates in Fiesta if one of them was only small and didn't mind riding in the boot

 

[Signal 11]

88/89: I was mostly listening to Hendrix, Cream, Hawkwind, Roy Harper, Bob Marley and Rush.

 

[Top Dog]

Who were rdf?

radical dance faction... already been mentioned here i think

 

[sunflower]

september 1985.

the smiths
crass
the cure
thin lizzy
zounds
pink floyd
the mob
deep purple
bob dylan
lots and lots of van morrison
siouxsie
sisters of mercy

so a kind of hippy/punk with vague goth leanings

We must have been music twins in 1985