Who were you most obsessed with as a teen?

[cathal marcs]

The Smiths, Joy Division and The Pixies still am though suppose I was only 22 so still it may just be a teen hangover

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

The Smiths, Joy Division and The Pixies still am though suppose I was only 22 so still it may just be a teen hangover

I always thought you took your name from the bloke in Microdisney?

 

[starfish]

Big Country probably in my early/mid teens then The Smiths, The Cure etc. in later teens.

 

[cathal marcs]

No its a gaelicisation of Karl Marx.

 

[Major Tom]

In order from age 11 onwards:

Blondie
Gary Numan
Human League
Adam and The Ants
David Bowie
Jam/ Style Council
New Order
Wedding Present
Lou Reed

I didn;t get into the The Smiths till I was 19

 

[editor]

An utterly obscure band called Jackson Heights, and then the Who, Bowie and Thin Lizzy.
A few years later and it was the Pistols, Clash, Smiths and The Jam

 

[LDR]

I didn;t get into the The Smiths till I was 19

I didn't get into The Smiths until I was about 24/25.

 

[Poi E]

Bauhaus, Cure, The Smiths, J&MC etc.
German electronica Kraftwerk, TD, Can, other euro bleepers incl. J-M Jarre
Nina Hagen gggrowll.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

I didn't get into The Smiths until I was about 24/25.

I'm still not into them

 

[Santino]

Stone Roses. Me and a friend typed out all the lyrics to both albums (before teh intarweb was invented).

 

[billy_bob]

In order, summing up the different phases, Transvision Vamp, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Ministry, Mudhoney, Smiths, Killing Joke, Virgin Prunes.

Not all at once, that would just be weird.

 

[Dr. Furface]

T.Rex / Bolan
The Clash
Gang of Four
A Certain Ratio
Joy Division

 

[Firky]

KLF
Prodigy
Pink Floyd
MC5
Hawkwind
Soft Machine
Darkstar
Radiohead (still am)
Van Morrison (still am)
808 state
Stone Roses
Resurrection, and happy hardcore in general

 

[ICB]

Bowie

 

[easy g]

Steve Albini

 

[LDR]

I'm still not into them

Lucky you! You've got something to look forward to.

 

[Bomber]

Alice Cooper circa Love it to death , Killer & Schools Out

 

[Rodders]

808 state, the klf, depeche mode, rob hubbard, martin galway, and me mates mam.

 

[marty21]

undertones, blondie, kate bush, the pretenders, stiff little fingers, u2, the police,
human league, uk subs, stranglers,...it was a long long time ago

 

[kalidarkone]

The Cure, siouxsie and the banshees, alien sex fiend, flexipop (a mag) Turkey bones and the wild dogs, werewolves, alister crowly..... I was a teen goth init?

 

[butchersapron]

Glyn and Ian snodin. And John Sheridan.

edit: oops mucis froum, um, Mark E. Smith, Nigel Blackwell, Mekons - same as now really

 

[marty21]

i saw the cure at glastonbury in 86, great gig, it was raining, i spent most of the gig in the tent, listening to the cure, and the rain...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[butchersapron]

That explains so much JC.

 

[butchersapron]

Captain Beyond?

 

[Red Faction]

oasis
i was MAD about them for ages!! about '95-6

edit: just realised AS A TEEN
hmm,

thin lizzy,

britney spears (not for the music tho )

eminem

outkast

rage against the machine

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Captain Beyond?

Bugger off.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

So I was a proto-headbanger. What the fuck is it to ya?

 

[fishfingerer]

SST record label.

 

[cogg]

Slade. Especially in their early skinhead days when I was about 10...