Boombats wrote:Used to think Rollins was awesome...

me too.

Boombats wrote:Rollins will read and respond to anyone's letter, it's no big deal.

then he owes me a letter.

Ace wrote:Primus

also guilty.


also, soul coughing.

dork.

Jawbreaker.

I finished high school in 1986. I listened to mostly shit music.

I liked crap such as:

INXS
The Cult
Van Halen
Charlie Sexton
Ratt

I liked some stuff that I still consider good music, like AC/DC and Zeppelin. But for the most part, I had no taste whatsoever. I started getting into music the summer after I got out of school.

I think I didn't listen to crap during highschool! I listened to some bands which might be considered crap by some, but I still like them/listen to them.

I did like Oasis as a kid. Yeah I know they suck.

Primus keeps coming up. I think that's an experience shared by many of us of a certain age (I graduated high school in 1994).
Smashing Pumpkins (1st two records)
Indigo Girls
Guadalcanal Diary
Latter-day PiL
Pet Shop Boys
Body Count
Operation Ivy
RHCP
Poi Dog Pondering

ERawk wrote:By the time I was a senior, I was getting tired of the radio and MTV. I started buying albums strictly from some of the "fringe" articles in RS and started reading websites like Addicted to Noise, Perfect Sound Forever, etc.. Say what you will about Rolling Stone, but once in a while they will give a positive nod to a good band (or did in the 90s. I haven't read it in years). I started buying albums by Fugazi, Pixies, Dead Kennedys, Velvets, Coltrane, Miles, etc., without listening to the album first and it became mostly stuff that I still enjoy to this day.

Shit music magazines could offer little hints and tunnels to better records, particularly if you were cheap/broke and really pored over the contents of a particular issue. Even publications like the Sam Goody store magazine, or Tower Pulse, that you could pick up for free would do whole issues on "new music" or other random things (I was intrigued by a description of Heiner Goebbels' "The Man in the Elevator" and baffled my parents by asking for some of his stuff for Christmas once -- they were suspicious that I wanted a record by someone named "Goebbels"), and thus give the curious kid a reason to pick up a Negativland or Eugene Chadbourne record.

They'd also offer glimpses into the dim recesses of shit. I picked up a copy of Spin when I was 13 that failed to pique my interest in the Enuff Z'Nuff and Great White records that they reviewed as Serious Works.

ERawk wrote:I was a victim of the 90s alterna-boom. Some of the crap I listened to :oops: :
Beause it was what one heard on Modern Rock Radio
Green Day
Hole
Offspring
Stone Temple Pilots
311

jesus christ. 311.

i was a pearl jam fan when i was 14-16. then i saw sonic youth live when i was 16 and everything changed.

tommydski wrote:Jawbreaker.

I still throw on "Dear You" and "24 Hour Revenge Therapy" from time to time.


As for bands that didn't really keep up as I grew up:

NOFX
Silverchair
311 (fuck that shit's lame. Whenever someone puts on the song "Down" I can't help but laugh at how dumb and annoying the lyrics and vocals are).


That's all I can think of right now.

During the early years of high school (1981-85) I listened almost exclusively to a bunch of 70's rock that my sister had to leave behind when she went off to bible college. Jethro Tull, Kansas, Rush, Who, Zeppelin, Elton John, Doobie Brothers, Thin Lizzy, Bad Company, Yes, Steely Dan, Queen, Aerosmith, etc. Quite a lot of shit (except for some of the Zep, Who or Rush), but any one still better than the radio that was then blasting Cindy Lauper, Michael Jackson, Air Supply, Journey and John Cougar.

Fortunately in my junior year I got a part-time job where these post-college guys turned me on to punk and 60's garage rock. Almost immediately I was given tapes of the Nuggets compilations and the Stranglers, who made me want to play bass.

I can remember writing the following band names on my Pee-Chee folder at one time or other. Additionally, I turned the baton into a lit stick of dynamite in the hand of the guy running relays, and made one of the basketball players plunge a knife into his opponent's chest. I also drew bricks on my Pee-Chee, and wrote the names of all of the songs off The Wall, in order and from memory. No, I did not get laid in high school.

Pink Floyd
Queen
Aerosmith
Triumph
Led Zeppelin
Genesis
Scorpions
Marillion
The Who

I have tons of stuff on tape that I recorded from the radio circa 96/97, when I started to get into "real rock" music, I was a fan of a radio show called "Modern Rock Tracks Top 40" Utter shit. names? Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, Live, Weezer, 311, The Eels, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Bush and all that jazz. Gimme a break, I was just 11!

The firsts CDs that I bought on my own will (meaning, I asked my dad to buy me those) was Use Your Illusion II by GnR and Joyride by Roxette. That was around 94/95. I remember putting Shotgun Blues on my 10th birthday party and my friends couldn't understand it. Then we went to play a football (soccer for pussies) match. oh memories!