Who were you most obsessed with as a teen?

[Fisher_Gate]

I went through two phases, from about 12-14, and from 14 onwards.

1969-71 Led Zeppelin, four incredible albums, it sounds passe now but words can't describe what an impact they had on the kids of my generation, especially as I lived in Robert Plant's home town of West Bromwich and he was a local hero; Cream - sadly defunct by then, but still worshipped, helped by a steady trickle of 'new' albums especially Goodbye, Live Cream vols 1 and 2; Pink Floyd - Piper, Saucerful and Ummagumma (live sides only!); Santana Abraxas; Deep Purple In Rock - still a monster. Black Sabbath's Paranoid seemed to sum up working class life in the Black Country.

1971-75 Golden era of Prog Rock - Yes Fragile and Close to the Edge, ELP Tarkus and Pictures, Pink Floyd Relics, Meddle and Dark Side, Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells and for some reason Miles Davies In a Silent Way which I couldn't stop playing though it was five years or so old. Also obscure and strange, but the Rodrigo Guitar Concerto was something I fell in love with and have never stopped listening to, the only score I've ever bought to follow the music.

 

[rennie]

nirvana, pearl jam, smashing pumpkins, soungarden, syone temple pilot...

 

[\\-(*o*)-//]

The Cardigans, especially their Life album and the Smashing Pumpkins

 

[JTG]

Bristol Rovers FC and Iron Maiden. That's it.

 

[designerbaby]

Paul Weller, Terry Hall, my weight and vodka

 

[kained&able]

guns n roses
nirvana
bush
silverchair

were probbaley the most importent bands of my early teens but there are so so many.


dave

 

[KellyDJ]

East17 *hangs her head in shame*

 

[brokenyolk]

totally obsessed by morrissey, for all of my teenage years until i realised he was a trifle gauche, or a gauche trifle - one way or another

then it was daniel johnston - which continued beyond my teenage years, until i spent a day with him........

 

[Groucho]

Dracula and I liked Boom Town Rats (not obsessed though)

Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran & Dracula (Pretty obsessed with Gene Vincent)

Siouxsie Sioux and Dracula (Fuck, yes! Siouxsie Sioux and Dracula. Now there's a couple made in.....er hell?.....I guess?)

Didn't get obsessed with Bjork/Sugarcubes until 1988 by which time I was in my twenties.

 

[Groucho]

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

I loved Slade, The Sweet and T-Rex when I was about 10. Glam era.