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[Smettingham Rutherford IV]

So ive had a few beers, finished a huge load of work, relaxing...and i decide to put on some old records.


Its weird that visceral rush you get, remembering the minute weird key changes in the guitar, every solo note and vibrato as if it never left your body.

So, I figure we havent had a thread like this in a while (unless i haven't been paying attention). What did you listen to as a naive teenager/pre-teen.



I was a grunger/alt-rocker through and through as a preteen and early teen. My fave band by far was the Smashing Pumpkins. Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie fucking blew my mind when I was a kid. Cheesy over emotional 9th grader lyrics backed by FUCKING. HARD. JAM MUSICS YESS....Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Swervedriver (a bit of the harder side of shoegazer), Alice in Chains to a lesser extent.


Also started to get into the Smiths, Bauhaus, the Cure (some of it)....and by 18 I was heavy into Minor Threat/Fugazi, Bad Religion, etc. etc.


I know a lot of you grew up loving the Smiths (im thinking about you McGriff, especially)....but Im also curious to see what the slightly younger age grew up listening to....were you an IDM kid? a goth kid? a punk kid? heavy metal? let loose! and post some clips of your favorite songs!!

lets try to keep this civil (no flaming how shitty another's musical tastes were, I guarantee we all liked at least one thing another would despise)

I guess Ill start with some o' my fave Pumpkin songs (don't pay attention to how much of a cock Corgan was/is, pay attention to how much fun the music was when it came out!!) Lets live in the past for a little bit!!!




I still fucking LOVE the tiny solo in this one:



I still loved Adore and Machina, but by then it wasn't as powerful as it once was...Ill still give those albums a play now and then...Adore had some great ballads/love songs.


my go to sad song when i was a depressed lovelorn teen:




and my fave Minor Threat track to top it all off:



cmon, what was everyone jamming out to?

[Cryptowen]

Circus Contraption
Devo
Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Ladytron
Nine Inch Nails
Oingo Boingo
Tom Waits
Yello

I still consider all of those good/decent music & listen to at least half of them on a semi-regular basis. But then again I'm 20 so I'm just barely out of the teenage woods.

[Capsaicin]

Also, Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana.

[usagi]

[Smettingham Rutherford IV]

Cryptowen, on 28 October 2011 - 04:30 PM, said:

Circus Contraption
Devo
Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Ladytron
Nine Inch Nails
Oingo Boingo
Tom Waits
Yello

I still consider all of those good/decent music & listen to at least half of them on a semi-regular basis. But then again I'm 20 so I'm just barely out of the teenage woods.

very interestin
g! did you get into Devo from parents, a friend, individually? i remember just knowing they were the band that did "Whip It" until I was far into the electronic scene..
I still remember my first impression of Oingo Boingo as the band playing in Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School movie.

[Cryptowen]

I think the way it went was:

Danny Elfman soundtracks -> Oingo Boingo -> Devo
Yello (heard that Oh Yeah song) -> interest in electronic music -> Ladytron -> Nine Inch Nails
Geinoh Yamashirogumi (watched Akira)
Circus Contraption (was looking up circus music for some reason) -> Tom Waits

[luke viia]

Smettingham Rutherford IV, on 28 October 2011 - 04:20 PM, said:

I know a lot of you grew up loving the Smiths (im thinking about you McGriff, especially)....but Im also curious to see what the slightly younger age grew up listening to....were you an IDM kid? a goth kid? a punk kid? heavy metal? let loose! and post some clips of your favorite songs!!

punk and idm ftw

i used to dig through planet mu's website discography and try to get my hands on whatever i could... fell in love with the albums 'dynamic obsolescence' by dykehouse and capitol k's "island row" ... also the track dirtwah from kid spatula's full sunken breaks made me incredibly happy for some reason, as did a lot of frog pocket songs. used to listen to lowfish & solvent all the time, even got myself a gf from a few towns over because she and i had similar taste in instrumental electro pop, lol@kids. loved the shit out of QOTSA when i was in highschool, too, and a bunch of rockabilly/garage rock stuff like the cramps, rocket from the crypt, the white stripes, the hives (and i loved the vines when i was in highschool, the strokes, however, didnt do much for me. saw the vines live, and as expected, they sucked and the singer basically ended the set as soon as he could. still had a good time). i remember going to see the rapture play at "sokol underground" in 2003 and having the most manic dancey time of my life (up to that point), and fell in love with that combo of dance/synth/rock/punk. that fascination hasn't really gone away since seeing them, say what you will about the band. once i turned 15 or so i lost most all interest in any music that seemed to "take itself too seriously," ie, soft-spoken, heartfelt indie rock or "dark electronic music" of any subgenre... since those days i have slowly been gravitating towards the funk, and my own musical output has followed the trend as well











edit: used to listen to a ton of beastie boys and the prodigy as well. good times

Edited by luke viia, 28 October 2011 - 05:05 PM.

[coax]

soundgarden - down on the upside
ice-t - home invasion
u96 - das boot
spice girls - spice
leftfield - leftism
the grid - evolver
frankie goes to hollywood - welcome to the pleasuredome

nope im not gay

[logakght]

[Smettingham Rutherford IV]

awesome posts everyone!


Luke: I was huge into Dykehouse...bought that album the same time I first heard Bjork's Homogenic....god that was a wonderful week.


The Vines, to their credit had some great songs: Homesick and Factory are the ones I really remember.

[Bob Dobalina]

[chenGOD]

Grade 5/6
-Dead Kennedys, Frankenchrist/Bedtime For Democracy - never got to see them live :(
-SNFU
-"Master of Puppets" came out when i was in grade 6.
-Grade 6 - M.A.R.R.S on the radio
-grade 5 - Oran "Juice" Jones,
-Duran Duran for cheese

[marf]

-phil collins
-phill collins
-phil collins

[sup]

- Gaysex Twin
- Gazebo

[joshuatx]

Smettingham Rutherford IV, on 28 October 2011 - 04:20 PM, said:

My fave band by far was the Smashing Pumpkins.

YES! They are up there for me too, first band I thought of when I read the title. I got into them in the early 2000s, via a compilation. Unlike many of my friends and peers I didn't listen to much new music or indie/underground stuff. Not until, with few exceptions, I went to college. It's interesting listening to the specific songs I played on repeat back then...triggers pure nostalgia.

[joshuatx]

logakght, on 28 October 2011 - 05:25 PM, said:

Actually never liked that particular song much, but I was a huge Chemical Brothers fan, huge part of leading me to electronic music. Started when I heard an instrumental version of this song on a MTV comp:



Besides what I posted: old U2, REM, Hendrix, B-52s (listened to them as a little kid), The Doors, Beatles, Nirvana, Rage, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, blah blah. My dad had a bunch of other alt rock CDs as well. The only "obscure" stuff I listened to in high school was The Rutles and some old British psychedelic comps I had randomly acquired. My collection and taste expanded greatly as my senior year was wrapping up.

Edited by joshuatxuk, 28 October 2011 - 07:45 PM.

[jules]

chenGOD, on 28 October 2011 - 06:04 PM, said:

-grade 5 - Oran "Juice" Jones,

that's right baby...everthang

watch that coat!


when I hit my teens public enemy was really hitting their stride. mj was huge. and I had a soft spot for weird al and queen's another one bites the dust. I listened to a ton of rap as a young teen before getting into the grateful dead. I'm still glad I got to see them as much as I did.

[data]

(teenager as in 13)

Edited by data, 28 October 2011 - 09:06 PM.

[modey]

I was never into cool indie music when I was growing up.

Up until the age of 12 or so my music taste was almost exactly the same as my dad's:





Then I was a huge nu-metal fan:


(Mudvayne's first album is actually still fucking excellent, shame they got lumped in with the 'nu-metal' crowd, i mean holy shit, the above song has fucking fretless bass in it)

A bit of more extreme metal:


Through nu-metal I got into industrial/electronic based rock/metal:


Man, I fucking LOVED rock/metal with electronics when I was a teenager.

Oh and 311.

But I still fucking love 311.

[asymmetrical head]

I'm gonna narrow it down to my later teen years (17-19) was more unbiased than the years previous.





SR4: on Morrissey... I went through a phase where I dressed like that and did my hair that way too. around my first year in the navy.

[jefferoo]

13 - Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, NIN, Janes Addiction, Faith No More, Danzig, Pink Floyd
14 - Misfits, type o negative, primus, frank black, velvet underground
15 - Pigface, Pixies, COC, fudge tunnel, korn, kmfdm, godflesh
16 - Aphex twin, moby, esquivel, Fear factory, coil, DEVO, daisy chainsaw,
17 - Bowie, prodigy, the orb, the smiths, spacestreakings, The make up
18 - Squarepusher, tortoise, Atari teenage riot, Jungle / Drum and Bass, weezer
19 - Fugazi, trans am, Wampscut, Neil Young, Morrissey, grabber / hardcore

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot. These were the major ones.

Edited by jefferoo, 29 October 2011 - 02:33 AM.

[soundwave]

geeky high school teens....

Jean Michel Jarre
Mike Oldfield
Jan Hammer
Yello
Vangelis
Tangerine Dream
Klaus Schultz

then later after getting in collage and smoking weed...

Prodigy
808 State
The Orb
FSOL
Orbital
William Orbit
Leftfield
Pink Floyd/Hendrix/Doors and loads of other typical stoner rock
and loads of cassette 'white label' techno mixtapes

[Npoess]

[kinski]

i was into weezer, afx, squarepusher at a very young age when i got into radiohead and got stuck with them for a few years.
aka my 'lost years'.
thank god it's over now.

[usagi]

modey, on 28 October 2011 - 10:49 PM, said:

Man, I fucking LOVED rock/metal with electronics when I was a teenager.

ditto. I thought the Spawn OST was the greatest thing ever.