What were you REALLY listening to...

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:10 pm

...when you were in High School?

I don't mean what was popular, or what you now think was good from back then, but what were you actually purchasing and playing on your record player (for the old farts), 8 track, CD player, Walkman, iPod, or whatever?

For example, Led Zeppelin was really popular and I liked hearing their stuff on the radio but I never bought any of their albums until later.

So, here goes...not in any particular order:

The Beatles
Santana (sort of a local band at the time)
Tower of Power (another local band)
The Dead (discovered in my senior year when Europe '72 came out)
Eric Clapton (Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes...his first solo album is an all time classic)
Chicago
BS&T
The Who
CCR
The Steve Miller Band
ABB
Boz Scaggs
Van Morrison
CSN&Y
Jefferson Airplane
The Crusaders
Simon and Garfunkel
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Moody Blues (about the only one of these that I have a hard time listening to anymore)

That's about all I can remember for now.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:21 pm

Mikey wrote:ABB

You misspelled ABBA.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:25 pm

High school?

Hard to rememer, but LZ, Sabbath, and Ozzie were staples of the casette deck.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:37 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Mikey wrote:ABB
You misspelled ABBA.

Sorry Dancing Queen, I'll be sure to get it right next time.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:40 pm

Dinsdale wrote:High school?

Hard to rememer, but LZ, Sabbath, and Ozzie were staples of the casette deck.

At my age sometimes the only pleasure you can get comes from living in the past, no matter how foggy the memories may be.

Oh yeah, I forgot Jethro Tull.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:49 pm

The first album i can remember buying from the record store was Toys In The Attic, though I had bought a Beatles 4 album "best of" collection thru the mail before that.

some others would include:

ELO
Skynyrd
Foghat
ELP
Yes

and of course Led Zep

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:51 pm

Mikey wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
Mikey wrote:ABB
You misspelled ABBA.
Sorry Dancing Queen, I'll be sure to get it right next time.

No big deal. It's not as if you met your Waterloo.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:54 pm

Mikey wrote: For example, Led Zeppelin was really popular and I liked hearing their stuff on the radio but I never bought any of their albums until later.

btw, I had every one of their albums wore slick by graduation.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:56 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Mikey wrote: Sorry Dancing Queen, I'll be sure to get it right next time.
No big deal. It's not as if you met your Waterloo.

But maybe Fernando.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed May 11, 2011 8:27 pm

War Wagon wrote:The first album i can remember buying from the record store was Toys In The Attic, though I had bought a Beatles 4 album "best of" collection thru the mail before that.

some others would include:

ELO
Skynyrd
Foghat
ELP
Yes

and of course Led Zep

I forgot about Yes. Fragile got me started in '72.

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Wed May 11, 2011 10:08 pm

Most of the bands listed above, on LP and 8-Track, natch. But I paid homage to my favorite band by sporting this lid during my mid-teens:

And no, ucantdoitbieberSTyle_TRN2, it wasn't in support of your faggot Red Sox, either. Eat a dick, you fuckin' chowd.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed May 11, 2011 11:20 pm

You pimped the gear of a sports franchise you don't even like to pay homage to a rock band? How Kansas Citian of you.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed May 11, 2011 11:35 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:You pimped the gear of a sports franchise you don't even like to pay homage to a rock band? How Kansas Citian of you.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed May 11, 2011 11:40 pm

Mikey wrote:I forgot about Yes. Fragile got me started in '72.

I woulda' been 10 in 1972 and too young to know shit from shinola about music (kinda' like Screw at 27) but my 7 years older brother was into bands like Yes and ELP at the time. He'd bring these albums home and make me listen to them. It eventually sunk in that they were pretty good. Save your 10cc jokes Goobs, I ain't reading them.

Speaking of 8-tracks, has there ever been a worse recording device? I had a 1970 Skylark that had no radio but did have an 8-track player added on. I had a handful of 8-tracks that I can remember. Heart, BTO, Eddie Money, a few others. It was great when they would jump from track to track right in the middle of a song.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed May 11, 2011 11:46 pm

As a little kid I pretty much listened to pop top 40 which, believe it or not kiddies, was on AM. FM "album rock was for older dope smoking hippies. First actual album I remember my parents buying that I thought was cool was saturday night fever soundtrack. Yeah, I know, disco sucks, but that was the creme de la creme of disco.

Within a few year I had moved on to Kiss, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, VH.

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Wed May 11, 2011 11:59 pm

I bought ALOT of cassette tapes during the high school years. I still have them in my garage, somewhere. :blush

Some of my favorites were:

Depeche Mode
OMD
The Fixx
The Ramones
Oingo Boingo
The Smiths
The Cult
10,000 Maniacs
The Cure
Public Image Limited
Berlin
New Order
R.E.M.
Siouxie and the Banshees

Plenty more, but these threads get old quick. Super bored.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu May 12, 2011 12:16 am

High School? There are a few of the biggies in my old vinyl/8-track collection.

REO Speedwagon, Styx, ACDC, Queen, The Who, Beatles, ELO, Molly Hatchet, Skynerd, Zeppelin, Ozzy, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, Judas Priest, Rush, Floyd (discovered Dark Side my senior year)

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu May 12, 2011 12:20 am

Ana Ng wrote:I bought ALOT of cassette tapes during the high school years.

I never bought many cassettes as I was so pissed they were trying to make my vinyl obsolete. Next thing you know, CD's were making cassettes obsolete. Cassette tapes sucked slightly less than 8-tracks but not by much. And try packing the cover of LZ III on anything other than a 33rpm LP. You could trip out on that cover almost as much as the music. Album covers back inna' day had style.

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Thu May 12, 2011 12:21 am

Mikey wrote:Fragile

Must be Italian.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Thu May 12, 2011 12:24 am

Beatles
Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
James Taylor
Woodstock 8 tracks
Elvis
Mamas and Papas
Beach Boys
Jan and Dean

A lot of others that I'm too old to remember.

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Thu May 12, 2011 12:57 am

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:You pimped the gear of a sports franchise you don't even like to pay homage to a rock band? How Kansas Citian of you.

"Boston" concert tees were as rare as a literate Screw_thepoochagain post.

Spencers was still selling black lights, lava lamps, and Keep on Truckin' posters, and Walmart was still landlocked in Arkansas. And it ain't like we had an Internet with a band's Website lyin' around somewhere back in 1978 - Your Climate Saviour had yet to invent it.

Dickweed. How old are you? 12?

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Thu May 12, 2011 1:03 am

Where in my post did I say, or even so much as imply, that you should've purchased a Boston t-shirt, dimrod?

R-Jack · Post by **R-Jack** » Thu May 12, 2011 1:05 am

So you sported a Red Sox lid because you were too lazy to seek out a band's T-shirt? Yeah it may have been a different time, but the only thing that sounds stupider than doing that is actually defending it.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu May 12, 2011 1:52 am

Like many of you tards, I listened to a lot of classic rock when I was in high school. Floyd, Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, GNR, Neil Young, etc.

Then I discovered good, relevant music and stopped listening to that garbage.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:08 am

Sabbathh
Priest
Hendrix
Maiden
U2
Chuck Brown and Soul Searchers
Trouble Funk
EU
Doug E Fresh
Eric B and Rakim
LL Cool J
Percy Faith, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, big band era stuff
The Who
The Cure
New Order
Jefferson Airplane
Old Floyd (Saucerful of Secrets, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother)
Syd Barrett
The Guess Who
Yes
Temptations
Robert Johnson
John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
Run DMC
Nucealr Assault
Anthrax
Slayer
Metallica

Is that Freedom Rock man ?

My senior year a dude on my football was very concerned about my musical tastes, specifically because I had some DMC, and Go Go on a tape I made. He introduced me to the Grateful Dead.

Probably one of the best quotes I ever heard regarding the Dead goes like.

"Isn't the first day of finding a band that you feel you have known your whole life the greatest?"

I can't explain it. I think was a live tape with Stella Blue, The Wheel, Not Fade Away and it grabbed me. I was hooked. Sure I heard "Truckin'" "Casey Jones", and all but that live tape - sealed the deal.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:11 am

pixies
fugazi
buffalo tom
sonic youth
nirvana
mudhoney
my bloody valentine
rem
smiths
misfits
cure
uncle tupelo
beastie boys
public enemy
de la soul
tribe called quest

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:13 am

Fear
Circle Jerks
Black Flag
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Iggy Pop and w/Stooges
David Bowie
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Neil Young
Violent Femmes
Bach
Mozart
Vivaldi
Bob Marley
Burning Spear
James Brown
Parliament/Funkadelic
War
Santana
Ray Barretto
Pink Floyd

Pretty much anything that sounded good with a head full of weed or shrooms.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:18 am

mvscal wrote:Ray Barretto

HA! I was listening to Ray Baretto, as well, but only because some rap outfit named Urban Dance Squad rapped over Deeper Shade of Soul in '90.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:20 am

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:34 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:
mvscal wrote:Ray Barretto
some rap outfit named Urban Dance Squad rapped over Deeper Shade of Soul in '90.

Glad I missed it.

Acid and Hard Hands are still in heavy rotation all these years later. Some of the best boogaloo of all time.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:41 am

no incredible bongo band?

rap music is an excellent source of good funk and soul. learned a lot from it.

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:48 am

Toto

Boz Scaggs

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:54 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:no incredible bongo band?

rap music is an excellent source of good funk and soul. learned a lot from it.

How could I forget the Junkyard Band and Afrikaa Bambatta. Tribal drums of any sort were great to gear up for a football game.

Roots, rock, raggae. Another team-mate of mine was concerned I was listening to "black music" (LL Cool J, GoGo) so he informed me of how great Eric Clapton was. :?

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:55 am

Drug use and warriors go way back. Didn't the Vikings used to take some hallucinatory fungus to go on their raids ?

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu May 12, 2011 3:01 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:no incredible bongo band?

Not in high school anyway. I didn't hear them until college. Bongo Rock is another another one of my favorite albums.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu May 12, 2011 3:02 am

Tom In VA wrote:How could I forget the Junkyard Band and Afrikaa Bambatta. Tribal drums of any sort were great to gear up for a football game. Roots, rock, raggae. Another team-mate of mine was concerned I was listening to "black music" (LL Cool J, GoGo) so he informed me of how great Eric Clapton was. :?

The irony meter never did recover from that?

I've got a Freddie King show where Freddie introduces "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" by saying "A lot of people think Eric Clapton recorded this song first. That's bullshit. He was five years late."

Tom In VA wrote:
KC Scott wrote:The visual of a shroomed MVS does not compute
Drug use and warriors go way back. Didn't the Vikings used to take some hallucinatory fungus to go on their raids ?

Yea, but their cooks?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu May 12, 2011 4:22 am

Papa Willie wrote:
Carson wrote:Toto
Boz Scaggs

Dude - have you ever listened to early Boz? I mean way before Lowdown and that stuff?

Check this out.

Yep, great album. Before that he was in Steve Miller's band.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Thu May 12, 2011 7:02 am

KC Scott wrote:
Tom In VA wrote:Drug use and warriors go way back. Didn't the Vikings used to take some hallucinatory fungus to go on their raids ?

You're thinking of the Viet cong and Apaches

common mistake

No I was thinking of stories I had about Viking Berserkers and "fly agarcic".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

Berserker ?

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Thu May 12, 2011 7:04 am

Slayer
Metallica
Megadeth
Anthrax
Kreator
Possessed
Exodus
Destruction
Death Angel
Testament
Overkill
Flotsam and Jetsam
S.O.D.
M.O.D.
Fates Warning
Trouble
King Diamond
Celtic Frost
Godflesh
Morbid Angel
Napalm Death
Obituary
Death
Bolt Thrower
N.W.A
Eazy-E
Ice Cube
Above the Law
The D.O.C.
The Geto Boys
Public Enemy
Poor Righteous Teachers
Beastie Boys
A Tribe Called Quest
Das EFX
Compton's Most Wanted
DJ Quik
Cypress Hill
Ice-T
Kool G Rap
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden
Jane's Addiction

Terry in Crapchester · Fri May 13, 2011 3:40 pm

I'll rack the eclectic tastes of a number of posters here. At my high school, you would've been risking your life, or at least your social life, if you admitted to liking anything other than rock.