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Aged 10 - 15 you listened to:

Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
De La Soul - 3ft High & Rising
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
?

This is quite hard to believe. At that age most teens listen to pop, dance music, hip hop, not this serious music.

Anyway, overall many great albums listed here. I like from your list Primal Scream, Massive Attack, Blur, Oasis, The Field, DJ Shadow, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The Stone Roses, and Death in Vegas.

Nirvana were the first band i was into in my second last year at school and i remember hearing odd tracks from the other stuff i mentioned so stick that in ya pipe and smoke it!

glad you approve of my other stuff though i should be able to sleep now

we are the same age and your list is almost identical to mine, except i grew up from 0-15 on rock & roll and michael jackson. i also have my black metal and noise awakening from 20-25

5

don't really remember. think i was into bon jovi, s club 7, steps. that kinda thing

10-14

discovered trance music through my dad. got heavily into uplifting trance of the late 90s and through that discovered all the early classic trance records. would say in these years my heavily worn cds prob were

sasha & digweed - northern exposure
cream ibiza classics
mr scruff - keep it unreal

15-16

got into serious electronic music after delving into it properly. discovered aphex, autechre, james holden and the the like. also discovered steve reich which was boss

dj shadow - endtroducing
james holden - balance 005
steve reich - music for 18 musicians

16-19

this is when i got seriously into music. find out most of this stuff through a critic called piero scaruffi and resident advisor. massive music binge for about 3 years. stopped listening to exclusively electronic shit

captain beefheart - trout mask replica
robert wyatt - rock bottom
charles mingus - black saint & sinner lady
ricardo villalobos - alcachofa
burial - untrue
faust - faust
my bloody valentine - loveless
nick drake - pink moon

20-now

went to uni, fall back in love with electronic music. end of story

rustie - glass swords
zomby - dedication
arthur russell - world of echo
john talabot - fun

I'm going to give it some thought and do a posting.

5-10
Prince, Bowie (apparently I really liked Low, tho I'm sure my mum is humouring me) and Motown ('Tears of a Clown' is still one of my songs), as it was mostly what my folks played in the car that I didn't hate.
Vaguely remember listening to the charts and buying fake Now compilations on the market when I was about 9.

10-15
Bought a Bobby Brown single, and had a phase of liking Boyz 2 Men and Jodeci.
I saw Reef on fistral beach at a free gig, and got really into Replenish.
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Ash - 1977 (on cassette, obvs!)
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
Got into bands like Pennywise, Nofx through bmx, skate and surf vids
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Bob Dylan - Highway 66 Revisted
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gents...
The Verve - Northern Soul
Pixies - Doolittle
...and brit-rock bands like Symposium, 'A' and Cable

15-20
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle / Figure 8 / xo / Either/Or
Deftones - Around the Fur
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Weezer - Pinkterton / Blue
Idlewild - Captain
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Arab Strap
At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
...Trail of Dead - Madonna
Queens of the Stoneage - Rated R
Muse - Showbiz
Napster

20-25
Deftones - White Pony
Postal Service - Give Up
Electrelane - Rock It to the Moon
Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Low - Trust
Cat Power - You Are Free
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow
Bright Eyes - Lifted...
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot in People
...and then put out Kaiser Chiefs, Bat for Lashes and Blood Red Shoes singles, and signed Martha Wainwright

25-30
Metric - Live it Out
St. Vincent - Actor
No Age - Weirdo Rippers
Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Justice - †
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath
The Antlers - Burst Apart

...probably quite a few more records after the past few years, but hard to tell how long they'll stay with me

...for a thread. well done. allows us to talk about ourselves even more.

5-10
Neil Diamond
Michael Jackson
Barry Manilow
Kylie Minogue
Jeff Wayne's 'War Of The Worlds'

10-15
(musical year zero-think i had just turned eleven, to be precise)
Guns N' Roses
Faith No More
Motley Crue
Skid Row
The Doors

(...quickly submerging like most kids of that age into...)

Sonic Youth
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Lemonheads
Pixies

15-20
(the broadening of the horizons)
Blur
Manics
DJ Shadow
Massive Attack
Bob Dylan
Lauryn Hill
Mercury Rev
Belle & Sebastian
Beck
Spiritualized

21-25
Tom Waits
Wilco
The Strokes
Augie March
The White Stripes
Four Tet
Jay-Z
GSY!BE
Cat Power
Radiohead (i was a late comer. didn't care till Kid A)

25-34
Ali Farka Toure
Toumani Diabete
St Vincent
Kanye West
Mulatu Astatqe
M.I.A
BLK JKS
Trojan Records
80's DC (Husker Du, Bad Brains etc)
Blondes/Actress/Dustin Wong and the like.

pretty standard evolution i would assume. amazing though when you begin recalling those long forgotten memories indelibly connected to all that music.

5 - 10
pretty much what my dad was listening to at the time (1989 - 1994):
Nirvana - Nevermind
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Goldblade?
Nas - Illmatic

10 - 15
about time i got my own CD player stereo. So, the first CDs i bought/was bought
Moby - Play
Radiohead - OK Computer/Kid A/Amnesiac
Travis - The Man Who (shudder)
Slowdive - (whichever album "Catch The Breeze" was on...i loved that song circa:13)
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticsm
Lots of Hospital Records compilations
Rage Against The Machine - S/T, Evil Empire
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Outkast - Stankonia
Limp Bizkit - every album....

15-20
Leaving school and college, getting into vinyl a bit towards the age of 18
Converge - Pretty much all of it
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Les Savy Fav
Jesus & Mary Chain
Tom Vek
Test Icicles
Klaxons
James Holden
Lightning Bolt
Boards of Canada/Aphex Twin/Autechre etc. etc.
Nathan Fake

then i got a job at a record distributor at 19 and then it all got pretty insane:
Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
The Cramps - Songs the lord taught us
Birds of Maya
The whole Woodsist label
Prurient
Sunn O
Dishammer and loads of black metal

20 - 23
the last few years...
Boards of Canada still
turkish psych
lots of noise (Whitehouse/prurient's tapes (jesus)/ hecker/ mark fell
godspeed (a band you really have to mature with. VERY rewarding, i've found)
all of the Nuggest stuff/Trash box
a bunch of ambient drone (thanks to Oneohtrix et al (Kyle Bobby Dunn, Steve Hauschildt to name a couple)
Wooden Shjips
d'eon's album (album of 2012 so far)
Pure X
Hype Williams

It is quite interesting to see how our tastes mature with age, albeit unsurprising i guess.

Though tbh I can't remember what I listened to before i was about 15 when my music was largely shaped by my older brothers

12-18
REM - Out of Time - Up era
Radiohead - OK Computer but mainly the bends which I remember air guitaring too in my bedroom quite a bit
Loads of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen my brothers played loads of
Echo and the Bunnymen
Loads of Bowie
Flaming Lips

So quite hip, but I never had all that much to do with it and since I've gone on to resent Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I was very snobby about anything on radio 1 and anything anyone else liked at school. I have grown out of this.

18 - 21

The Killers
Arcade Fire
Gorillaz
Franz Ferdinand

Uni years, at first wasn't really that interested in music (hence the killers) and so basically played the hell out of a small selection, and anything that I could sing along to. Of these only Gorillaz and Franz Ferdinand have really survived into long term loves.

22-25

Friend pushing me into listening to Kid A again and going to see Radiohead live rewired my brain a bit, I had kinda pushed them to the side and trotted out Karma Police a few times. Kid A started to obsess me and then went through the albums (think In Rainbows came out at around this period which didn't help) and getting obsessed with b-sides.

Then when I had too much free time on my hands and being too obsessed I went through rapid phases and haven't really stopped. I have gone through listening to all electronica especially Flying Lotus to obsessed by The Smiths and REM. The National and Modest Mouse probably the two biggest new obsessions though. I have recently been through a post-punk phase and am now getting obsessed by gentle melancholia like Tindersticks stuff and I am Kloot. Also Two-step.

5-10
Had next to no interest in music, but became oddly infatuated with the soundtracks to some of the terrible moves I used to love, as well as a string of novelty pop hits.

Flubber OST
B*Witched - B*Witched
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
The Cartoons - Toonage
Space Jam OST
Tomb Raider OST

10-15
My dad (in a blaze of extremely questionable parenting) bought me Slipknot's debut album and I instantly became obsessed with music. I couldn't comprehend the ridiculous angst-laden rage that was emanating from my speakers at the time, but I adored it regardless.

Slipknot - Slipknot
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio
Korn - Follow The Leader
Ill Niño - Revolution Revolución
Soulfly - Primitive

15-16

My furious metal elitist phase. Anything that wasn't metal simply wasn't worth my time, and anybody that enjoyed anything non-metal was distinctly lacking in taste. I was a bit of a prick as a kid, clearly. I also got into some truly heinous prog metal wank.

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part II: Scenes From A Memory
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Nightwish - Once
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Carcass - Choice Cuts
Dir En Grey - Withering To Death

17-19

I eventually dropped my whole 'only metal is real' shtick and realised that I was taking music for granted. I managed to find merit in all kinds of music and finally learnt to appreciate things that I didn't necessarily enjoy personally.

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Daft Punk - Discovery
Deftones - White Pony
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby (Oddly, this is the album that blew my mind wide open and roused me from my metal-only funk)

20-present

Musically, a mess. All over the place. There are no correlating patterns or themes within my musical choices anymore, but that's fine. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Prince - Purple Rain
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
Little Dragon - Ritual Union
Botch - We Are The Romans
Rihanna - Loud

up till i was 10

stuff i got into cos of my parents:

Led Zep IV
The Beatles
ABBA

stuff i got into from listening to the radio:

New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Travis - The Man Who
Aqua - Aquarium

11 - 15

Linkin Park
Sum 41
The Darkness
RHCP
AC/DC
Einaudi
British Sea Power
Interpol
The Thermals
Kerrang CDs

16 - 18

Thursday
Beach Boys
Oceansize
System Of A Down
The Rapture
Oasis
Ok Computer
Arcade Fire
Manic Street Preachers
The Libertines

19 - 20

The Streets
Million Dead
The Pogues
Hot Chip
Efterlang
The Black Parade (MCR)
Refused
Meet Me In St Louis
Olafur Arnalds

21 onwards

Low
Wisp
In Rainbows
Three Trapped Tigers
UK Garage
Laura Marling
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Total Life Forever

I've always listened to or played classical music. But it has been fairly recently that I've started to actually listen to lots of it in my own time.

also, I always seem to get into albums ages after they've been released - i'm currently 23, an example would be getting in to In Rainbows 3 years after it came out.

I did a Spotify playlist a while ago, this was on it:

5: 'Tonight' - New Kids on the Block
Step By Step was the first non-compilation album I ever owned, bought for me on cassette by one of my parents I guess. I must have been four, coming on five when I got this, and I remember listening to it every time we were in the car going anywhere. This track always stuck out for me as being particularly dramatic, and 'tonight' has always been my favourite word, even then it seems.

10: 'All That She Wants' - Ace of Base
I think Ace of Base were the first band I had a really strong concept of being a fan of, just before Texas and the Spice Girls came along. Happy Nation still sounds great to me, and to be honest I'd have picked Young and Proud from that era, but this was the one (and The Sign obvs) that were thumping out of the radio and making me feel a bit funny for reasons I couldn't fathom.

15: 'Stay Beautiful' - Manic Street Preachers
More than a band, more than the music, blah blah blah.

20: 'What I'm Trying To Say' - Stars
I guess this was the time I started digging around and finding stuff that no one else I knew liked, and being like, PROPER INDIE and shit, while still being a sucker for a dramatic love song.

25: 'We're an American Band' - Yo La Tengo
Not much to say about this, other than that Yo La Tengo almost single-handedly (almost: Wild Beasts and Interpol) soundtracked that time in my life when I spent long coach journeys listening to slow-paced, slow-burning indie rock records, out of the city and into the country, out of the daytime and into the night.

5 - 9

R.E.M.
Robbie Williams
Ricky Martin
Pink Floyd
New Radicals
The Beatles
Billy Idol
Massive Attack
David Bowie

10 - 13

Linkin Park
Guns N Roses
Gorillaz
Coldplay
U2
INXS
Led Zeppelin
Muse

14 - 15 (Typical angst teen stuff)

Rage Against the Machine
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Pixies
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Verve
Smashing Pumpkins
Arcade Fire
Joy Division
Nine Inch Nails
Echo & the Bunnymen
Portishead
Blur
Public Enemy

16 - 18 (Discovered Aphex Twin, searched for more electronic music and that's where it all kinda started. I think it was that that made me more open minded and patient with music)

Aphex Twin
Autechre
Radiohead
My Bloody Valentine
DJ Shadow
Pavement
Kanye West
Curve
Manic Street Preachers
The Smiths
Four Tet
Ride
The Flaming Lips
Slint
LCD SS
Animal Collective
The Avalanches
Philip Glass

19 - Now

Nick Drake
The Horrors
John Maus
The Antlers
M83
Ariel Pink
Slowdive
Matthew Dear
Toro Y Moi
SBTRKT
Throbbing Gristle

5
I turned 5 in 1973 at the height of glam rock & whilst I'd like to claim I was into Bowie & T-Rex, a look through my old 7" singles reveals it was more Mud & The Sweet. I can recall Tiger Feet being a particular favourite & my mum says I used to pretend to be Les Gray whenever Mud were on TOTP - apparently I did this by putting my dressing gown on backwards & standing on a biscuit tin.

10
Queen. My dad was a massive fan and, whilst I publicly said I didn't like them just to piss my dad off, I used to play his Queen records when he was out. And of course the Jazz album had that gatefold sleeve with naked women on bikes, manna from heaven to a 10-yr old boy.

15
Depeche Mode
OMD
Soft Cell
Kraftwerk

20
New Order
Smiths
Cure
Go-Betweens
Nick Cave
Hip-hop (which clicked with me in 1986 when Raising Hell came out)

25
See above, plus MBV, Suede, Boo Radleys & Tom Waits

30
Tindersticks and very little else

35
Sigur Ros
British Sea Power

40
Full circle to when I was 15 & getting right back into electronic stuff, in particular Autechre, Four Tet & Aphex Twin

5
As far as I can remember, this was the first record I owned - http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5396887551_e35f8fc544_b.jpg
Remember having the Thunderbirds theme tune on a flexi disc that you had to cut off a packet of Frosties, not even kidding.
Then up until the age of 10 I listened to nothing but Michael Jackson (Black or White was out when I was 6)

10
Saw Wayne's World, bought Queen's greatest hits. I'm happy to say that Wayne's World has left a lasting impression on me, Queen have not.
Liked a bit of Britpop that was going about at the time but grew to loath Oasis

15
Went to high school and learned to play guitar, got into lots of guitar bands from the early 90's which I'd kinda been too young for at the time. My mate Jehovah John made me loads of mixtapes with Green Day and Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Blink 182 songs on it. Got heavy into Smashing Pumpkins and listened to Mellon Collie and Siamese Dream a lot! Also around the time Ash released Free All Angels, Hell Is For Heroes Neon Handshake, ATD-I's Relationship of Command, Lift Your Skinny Fists and Muse put out Origin of Symmetry - good times!

20
Went to college to study Sound Engineering, met a lot of guys who convinced me that Dance music wasn't evil. I'd only heard the gatecrasher type stuff which I thought was nonsense but through them I got into Aphex Twin, Orbital, Chemical Brothers and stuff like that. Started going to a lot of gigs with a gig buddy, must have seen Franz Ferdinand 6 times in a year, saw the Rapture and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and other great bands. Obsession for LDC Soundsystem and Bright Eyes started around this time. Biffy Clyro's first 3 albums were my life for a while.

25
I'm 27 now so for the past couple of years I've just been listening to everything and anything. I love coming to these boards and seeing what people are recommending. Not ashamed to admit I check Pitchfork for their recommendations as well. I still claim to know absolutely nothing about Hip Hop but I'm starting to listen to much more of it these days, been listening to nothing but Danny Brown, EL-P and Killer Mike for the past few weeks. A$AP Rocky's gig at Arches a month or so ago was one of the best gigs I've been to in years. Have a heavy love for Post Rock, got to see Godspeed after a 10 year wait, think that Twilight Sad are one of the best and most underrated bands in the UK today. Can't wait to see Animal Collective in November, expecting good things from the Flying Lotus album and I'm trying to acquire the entire Low discography.

Happy that even at this age I'm still trying to find new stuff. I've started setting aside an hour every night to listen to an album start to finish if I don't have anything on as opposed to watching crap telly. I have a lot of mates I grew up with that had similar tastes but now buy Adele CD's from Asda. I'm glad that's not me.

5
Was longing for something that rocked, was anthemic and yet thoughtful and reflected my inner complexity. Wham just didn't do it for me.
10
Well excited about this band called Radiohead.
15
Radiohead, come on!!!!
20
I love Radiohead!
25
Who are all these other people on this Radiohead album. And who the hell are UNKLE anyway?
30
Dabbled in Thom Yorke, didn't like it.
35
Kings Of The World more like!

Who needs anything else?

5-10

Livin' Joy & other 90s dance stuff
Oasis
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
5ive
Darude, ATB and all that
Curtis Mayfield / Stevie Wonder
Linkin Park
Foo Fighters
Daft Punk

10-15

The Strokes
The Hives
Queens of the Stone Age
Outkast
Green Day
Interpol
Kanye West
Kaiser Chiefs, Maxïmo Park, Franz Ferdinand, Art Brut et al
Weezer
Justice, Crystal Castles
Rave/electro music with a touch of Venetian Snares, Shitmat & some techno

15-20

Radiohead
A lot of bassline, early emerging dubstep then funky (DJ Q, Benga, Crazy Cousinz etc)
Sigur Ros
stacks of odds 'n sods blog music - RCRD LBL was so crucial for bypassing boarding school firewall restrictions and discovering No Age, Titus Andronicus, Les Savy Fav and that lot
My Bloody Valentine / Pixies / Pavement
Hyperdub & Night Slugs
Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, CFCF
Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear et al
Neutral Milk Hotel
Wu-Tang Clan / A Tribe Called Quest / Kool Keith material
Caribou, Four Tet, Washed Out
Wavves & Smith Westerns

20 -

a LOT of house & techno: classics (Model 500, MK, Omar-S, Theo Parrish); new (Bashmore, Huxley, Blawan, Terje) and minimal (Kompakt compilations etc)
Sebadoh
The Replacements
floaty revision music: Clams Casino, Boards of Canada, Oneohtrix Point Never, Fripp & Eno / Cluster & Eno

5 Nobody remembers what they listened to aged 5.
5-10 My dad used to play Neil Young's 'Freedom' and REM 'Out of Time' and 'Green' ad nauseum, I'm sure.

10-15 (1993-1998) big transitions. At 10 I was definitely recording shit off the Mark Goodier chart show. First single was Pato Banton 'Baby Got Back'. Sister bought Now 27,28,29,30,31 and I definitely loved eurodance. First album was Different Class in 95. Went to see Spacehog and Supergrass for my 15th birthday. My favourite albums from 96,97,98 include Idlewild - Captain, Mogwai - Young Team, Bentley Rhythm Ace - S/T and Ash - 1977.

15-20 1998-2003. First 2 1/2 years listened to more or less anything NME told me to (favourites from this time = F#AOO, 69 Love Songs, 1000 Hurts, Todays Empires, Tomorrows Ashes). Stopped doing that when I went to university and realized I hated almost every band NME were telling me to like. my favourite band from 2002-2005 were The Black Heart Procession. First festival (Reading 2000)

20-25 (2002-2007) Got totally into Bruce Springsteen and The Hold Stead were back-to-back favourites in 2005 and 2006. My favourite band from 2004-2006 were The Decemberists. I think this was the era I seemed to connect likeable lyrics that told stories as opposed to just any old shit, judging by these three and my contnuing love of the black heart procession (which ended sometime in 2007). Went to my last festival in 2006 (ATP).

25-29 (2008-)
I can list the exact albums I've bought during this time. Titus Andronicus (The Monitor) Studio (Yearbook 2) Frightened Rabbit (Midnight Organ Fight) The Tallest Man on Earth (The Wild Hunt) The Hold Steady - whatever their last one was called, the rubbish one. I made a CD-R in 2011 of some Mark Mcguire Mp3s I downloaded, but this is literally the only CD I've listened to in 2 years. I don't think my love for music is waning, but I've certainly come to realise there are better ways to spend my time and money.

0-5: Apparently I really really loved Extreme's get the funk out, and Ebeneezer Good...

5-10: Now CD's and the like. Nothing to see here...

10-15: I came into properly liking music stupidly, stupidly late. I remember having a Foo Fighters album, and getting given Hail to the Thief by my aunt (who apparently had bought it for my uncle who had already got it on release date)- Remember thinking "what?!". It was really weird, as my parents have always loved music, but I guess it never rubbed off on me in those years.

Went to my first gig aged 14 for a band called the Sawdoctors. They were, and are still, very enjoyable live.

Began to own a few more albums- Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Franz Ferdinand...

15-20: After spending 6 months solidly listening to Franz Ferdinand's debut, made a Conscious decision to "get into" music. I can genuinely state that this started when I went to HMV and bought the Kaiser Chief's debut and System of A Down's Mesmerize. This started an 18 month obsession with SOAD, by this way I got heavily into Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, Nirvana (GUITARS(Deftones is the only band i still listen to...)).

Had a conversation with a girl I fancied about Radiohead (OH GOD... DIS BEDWETTER ALERT). Realised I had an album of theirs. Got obsessively into them for a 2-3 year period. Whilst I still listen once in a blue moon, I find this pretty embarassing now...

Headed to Uni at 18 and investigated the fringes of Electronic music. Also started to head to Festivals. Made friend with a weird guy who lent me hundred of CDs got into Wu-tang, of montreal, Why?, Godspeed, Mogwai, Explosions in the sky.

20-23: first 18 months of this is soundtracked by the need to do essays. lots of ambient stuff, BoC, Aphex etcetc.

Left uni. Currently into: The Antlers, Future of the Left/mclusky, battles, bon iver, Death grips, deftones, Los Campesinos, Jonny Foreigner.

Clearly still love a mixture between raw/abrasive stuff and emotional gubbins...

Don't feel like ive scratched the surface.

Allows you to examine your life through music tastes, and spy on other peoples' lives as well..

0-5: I have no idea. My dad loved Baroque music as he was a singer, so lots of that. Probably a bit of Genesis from my mum.

5-10: I think I mainly listened to Radio 1. I remember some kid I got a lift to school with playing me a bootleg tape of the uncut Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood and it blowing my mind. Then the 2 step remix. (which I've only truly appreciated since starting to DJ at uni). I think here I was still only into singles I hear on the radio, and classical music as I'd taken up the piano.

10-15: Still classical, I started singing in a church choir, big fan of William Byrd. Age 12 I bought Kerrang 2: The album which introduced me to music which I hadn't really heard on the radio.
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Relient K - Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right...
Less Than Jake - Anthem (all summer 05)
Rage Against The Machine - Live from the Olympic Stadium
Capdown
Captain Everything!
King Blues
Adequate 7
Mad Caddies
Five Iron Frenzy
Skindred

[then a girl I fancied showed my Retreat! Retreat! and everything changed]

65daysofstatic - Fall of Math
Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness [live album]
Sufjan Stevens
Sigur Ros - Takk
Maybeshewill - Japanese Spy Transcript
Circle Takes The Square
Fear Before The March Of Flames

15-20 [present]
A teacher showed me Mogwai, Godspeed! and My Bloody Valentine and then I went to uni and started getting into more dance and hip hop.

Future of the Left
Fuck Buttons
Frank Turner
Youthmovies
Cats & Cats & Cats
Los Campesinos
Johnny Foreigner
Tubelord
Neutral Milk Hotel
Reuben
Bear vs. Shark
Slow Club
MF Doom

That's a brief overview, I'm not sure if it's balanced.. This year I've been super into Team Me, Cloud Nothings, Japandroids and Grouplove.

5-9 Abba, The Beatles, The Boomtown Rats ('Diamond Smiles' was the first record I bought, shortly after my 9th birthday)
10-14 Madness, Thomas Dolby, Big Country, Echo & The Bunnymen, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
15-19 The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground, New Order, Joy Division, The Stooges, The Smiths, The Fall, Public Enemy, Shriekback, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Mudhoney
20-24 American Music Club, Pavement, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits
25-29 Wu Tang Clan (more the solo albums than the group), Gravediggaz, Silver Jews, Smog
30-34 Lambchop, Wilco, Four Tet
35-39 Walkmen, Wolf Parade, Women, Liars, Jim O'Rourke
40+ The Go Betweens

5-10 :

Pretty much just what my Dad would play in the car, so:
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Paul Simon - Graceland

following on from that, I got into the Police and Bon Jovi

11-15 :

Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Metallica - Black Album
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head / Ill Communication
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
PWEI - The Looks or the Lifestyle?

16-20 :

Deftones - Around the Fur / White Pony
Quicksand - Slip
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Souls Of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity
Gravediggaz - Niggamortis
Ride - Nowhere
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out
Helmet - Meantime
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy / Dear You
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Rival Schools - United By Fate
The Smiths - All of it

21-25 :

The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
The Replacements - Let it Be
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
Cave In - Jupiter
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
The Bronx - The Bronx (first album)
Converge - Jane Doe
Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
Isis - Panopticon

26-31 :

Garrison - Be A Criminal
Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty / Hot Damn!
Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead / Broadcasting
These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers/ Easter
Bruce Springsteen - All of it
Hey Mercedes - Every Night Fireworks
Defeater - Travels
Title Fight - Shed

0-5 (1975-1980)
Mum did a lot of home taping from the radio, particularly chart friendly stuff, so I was into whatever she played, typically the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the car and whatever disco-y stuff was about.
Key records: Mum's C90's.
5-10 (1980-1985)
Started home taping some time in this period. Again, from Radio 1's chart rundown on a Sunday night. Loved all the classics, but particularly liked Synthpop (Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, etc).
Key record: Still Mum's C90's.
10-15 (1985-1990)
Bought my first albums, Depeche Mode's Singles 81-85 (played to death) and The Mission's Children.
God moderately into Goth (including The Cure), more into Depeche Mode and into industrial via NIN's Pretty Hate Machine. Quite narrow interest in this period.
Key records: as above.
15-20 (1990-1995)
My interests diversified massively as I had money to spend at last and school and uni mates into music. I got heavily into electronica (via Warp and Aphex Twin), hip hop (New Kingdom, Wu Tang, Beastie Boys), the heavier side of guitar music (US 'altrock' and shoegaze) but tended away from the NME trends (Stone Roses, Smiths, Suede, anything 'too' popular) which I guess was a teen based inverse snobbery. That said, revisiting the classics after all these years, I still don't see what the fuss was about.
Sonic Youth's Dirty and MBV's Loveless were probably gateway records for me in terms of my current tastes, as I'd never have ended up with Drone if it weren't for them.
Key records: MBV - Loveless, Curve - Pubic Fruit, Sonic Youth - Dirty, Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs, Black Dog - Bytes, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
20-25 (1995-2000)
Spent a long time at Uni (seven years) during which downloading became a route into loads of music I simply couldn't afford to buy as a student. My tastes diversified further and mo-wax / ninja tune seemed to account for a lot of my listening, along with continued interests in electronica and newfound interest in jazz and blues. Did most of my gigging in this period.
Key records: DJ Shadow - Entroducing, DJ Krush - Meiso, Biosphere - Patashnik (released in '94, but late to it)
25-30 (2000-2005)
Got married, moved jobs a few time, worked bloody hard, kept up my interests but I'd say nothing new was happening at this time. I think I missed the boat a lot of the time and picked up indie classics a few years after they were released. Listened to a lot of jazz and blues classics with the wife.
Key records: 'round Midnight (jazz compilation)
30-35 (2005-2010)
More of the same, but latterly got into drone, which is by some way i) my most listened to music now, and ii) the biggest shift in my listening habits for years. Simultaneously lost interest in hip hop and the clutter of beats/vocals which I just found irritating. Also found bands with routine song structures a bit dull and always found I needed something more.
Key records: TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain, Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People, Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet, Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
35+ (2010 onwards)
Far more interested in textures/sounds now, and so I still listen to the more interesting end of 'indie' (whatever that is), a lot of drone and some electronica.
Key records: haven't decided yet...

15-28 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones