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I still like the majority of what I liked as a kid....

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These were some of the first albums I owned.

Saw Styx on the Grand Illusion tour. i was 12 or 13.

STP

Found my old copy of Purple last month and have been rockin it every other day since.

I don't dislike or regret any music I've ever liked, but I definitely grew.

Between 12 and 15:
Prince, New Order, Madonna, The Doors, Nirvana, Depeche Mode, The Cure, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, EMF, the KLF, Massive Attack, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix.

I was doing pretty good for my age.

I thought the song itself was horrible, but I must've watched the video a few hundred times just for the dancing animation 4:17 in. 25 years later it's still fucking hilarious. And terrible.

Mum?!

The Chronic

was really the epoch of my adolescent listening habits, rarely ventured outside of these artists.

pre teens ('89-'91): Jethro Tull, Depeche Mode (JT from dad, DM from listening to the radio and it being the only thing i liked. that's seriously the only music i knew about till i was 12)
early teens ('92-93): Metallica, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Tool, mainstream metal and grunge in general
mid teens ('93-'96): Slayer, Sepultura, Megadeth, Pantera, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Clutch, Helmet, Ministry, Godflesh, more mainstream metal, doom/sludge rock and industrial
late teens ('96-'99): Death, Carcass, Napalm Death, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Opeth, Meshuggah, Florida/Swedish/UK Melodic DM, Grind, etc.

what happened in my 20s and early 30s, i dont remember. except my favorite bands of the past decade were Agalloch and Porcupine Tree. but that's not the thread topic anyway.

monsterod wrote:STP

Found my old copy of Purple last month and have been rockin it every other day since.

1st music albums...I think I was 10 or so, and I just about wore them out.



I find it interesting that while I was forbidden to listen to Kiss (or just about and rock/pop/whatever newer than about 1965), I could listen to songs about boozing and women sung by a guy with a $2500 a day coke habit AND I remember a lecture by my pops while sitting in a diner with the old style mini-jukebox controllers on the table. We played YMCA, In The Navy (and my sister who was like 6 insisted on "Happy Birthday Baby, because she thought it was the birthday song) while my dad uttered these words: "It's rare now when most of the groups are singing about sex, drugs, and Satan, for there to be clean songs about good things like the Navy and the YMCA." Should I tell him this afternoon they were super gay and every song is about going places where there are a lot of men?

My next obsession was Billy Idol and Def Leppard, then Twisted Sister and Iron Maiden (with a constant current of the Doors, Hendrix, and Alice Cooper flowing underneath the new music) and then one day I heard Master Of Puppets...

My dad tells me that when I was 3 (1986), my "favorite bands" were Accept, Slayer and Michael Jackson. That was the general trend until I started middle school - combination of thrash (Slayer, Sepultura, Megadeth), cock-rock (Bon Jovi, Def Leppard) and a bit of pop, which gradually got phased out. Then, when I was about 12, I started listening to shitty dance music instead. Like this:



That single was the first CD I owned. This is one of the only two phases of my musical history that has been discontinued. Over the next few years, I moved from this into drum 'n' bass and hip-hop (both styles I still listen to a lot). Then, when I was about 15/16, got into shitty nu-metal (the other phase that I've almost entirely dropped). Moved from that back into proper metal, then into grind and hardcore/punk.