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What did you listen to when you were about 16 sitting in your room in your parent's house

mug_mug_mug [Edit] [Delete] 102 replies 22:04 December 23rd, 2012

I am back for Christmas and already I am sitting back up there. In my defence they need to watch Homeland and I have no clue what's going on. I will go and hang with them again when Peepshow comes on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5gKIv2n8YY
I listened to an mp3 of this song a lot and it still sounds good to me now! I did also listen to a lot of ska punk but i'm not going to revisit that.

PPPPLLLEASE post if you think the stuff you listen to was in fact rubbish as well. I think Clutch were definitely good then.

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This, but it's still great, sorry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxYAfyoiKU

Icarus-Smicarus | 23 Dec '12, 22:24 | X | ^ This | Reply

Kitchmo and badmanreturns this'd this
- Listening to this right now, for the same reason as the OP
  
  :D
  
  Kitchmo @Icarus-Smicarus | 24 Dec '12, 00:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
i listened to mainly

embrace, placebo, and kula shaker

__Low | 23 Dec '12, 23:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I also lisened to Embrace
  
  for some reason now I associate them with xmas?
  
  wonton @__Low | 23 Dec '12, 23:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Same here. Plus Manics.
  
  I will always maintain that K is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant record.
  
  sparkysdream @__Low | 2 Jan '13, 13:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
just DiS style indie really. slow club and los camp and the dirty projectors. maybe that was the time when i became obsessed with jazz punk, i can't remember

fuckyeahdubstep | 23 Dec '12, 23:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Slow Club...
  
  are you still 16?
  
  wonton @fuckyeahdubstep | 23 Dec '12, 23:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - nah, 15 now.
    
    fuckyeahdubstep @wonton | 23 Dec '12, 23:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
Moby - Play

well from about the ages 12-16 whilst playing ISS/ISS2 in the dark.

wonton | 23 Dec '12, 23:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Honeycrack, Kerbdog and Baby Chaos

Alex-in-Ciderland | 23 Dec '12, 23:37 | X | ^ This | Reply

the_amwel this'd this
- honeycrack eh
  
  are their singles worth lots of money? there are loads knocking around here cos it's Wildhearts country.
  
  mug_mug_mug @Alex-in-Ciderland | 24 Dec '12, 00:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I don't think their singles go for all that much
    
    and the second album demo disc doesn't go for much either now because they reissued it with the recent Jackdaw4 PledgeMusic album.
    
    I love Honeycrack. And Jackdaw4. And everything Willie Dowling puts his name to.
    
    Damian @mug_mug_mug | 24 Dec '12, 23:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
manic street preachers

almost exclusively

guntrip | 23 Dec '12, 23:41 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oh_Shangri-La, automatik, Oissin_, and bokonon this'd this
- this
  
  spent stupid amounts of money picking up their early cd singles too
  
  Oh_Shangri-La @guntrip | 23 Dec '12, 23:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - it was the only way to get Motown Junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    guntrip @Oh_Shangri-La | 24 Dec '12, 00:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - I had a mixtape (like an actual cassette) of super-rarities that someone made me
      
      I mean really obscure stuff like Razorblade Beat, pre-New Art Riot homemade demos and shit, as well as things like Suicide Alley and all the early b-sides. Mint!
      
      automatik @guntrip | 24 Dec '12, 00:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - surely you could have downloaded it
      
      we're not _that_ old are we?
      
      I mean that song in the OP is a bonus track
      
      mug_mug_mug @guntrip | 24 Dec '12, 00:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - when i was proper getting into them it was kind of just whilst i discovered napster and kazaa
        
        kind of respected the cd more then, plus was probably too scared to download anything on my dial up
        
        Oh_Shangri-La @mug_mug_mug | 24 Dec '12, 00:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        automatik this'd this
        
        I remember staybeautiful.net had a load of rare singles and b-sides for download
        
        this was pre-iTunes, so around 1999/2000 i guess. but we only had a 3GB harddrive and I needed that for Civ2 modpacks, dang it.
        
        guntrip @Oh_Shangri-La | 24 Dec '12, 09:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - My mate spent £25 on the New Art Riot EP
    
    I love the Manics as much as he does, but that seemed a bit silly to me at the time.
    
    sparkysdream @Oh_Shangri-La | 2 Jan '13, 13:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
16- probably a mixture of Linkin Park, Papa Roach and Marylin Manson

mixed with a small bit of Incubus, Jimmy Eat World and Brand New.

justanothersheeldz | 23 Dec '12, 23:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Nirvana, REM, Pixies

During my "music just isn't as good as it used to be" phase. Grew out of that obviously when I discovered how to use the internet properly.

Antelope | 24 Dec '12, 00:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
can't even think what I would've been listening to at 16

at that age in particular, I think I was in between loving grunge (and grunge-relevant stuff like Sonic Youth and Pixies) to loving IDM and trip-hop. I think.

My teenage years seem to have rolled together.

mute-branches | 24 Dec '12, 00:13 | X | ^ This | Reply

Antelope this'd this
- thinking about it a bit more
  
  there was probably an absolute ton of Broken Social Scene being listened to as well. As well as the odd bit of shoegaze and post-rock.
  
  Vibrant times.
  
  mute-branches @mute-branches | 24 Dec '12, 11:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  TheFatBloke this'd this
Lots of Rage Against The Machine.

Anything angry and angsty really.

Currently visiting my Dad's and just tested out Cancer 4 Cure on his nice Hi-Fi system... very tasty.

nowheresnigh | 24 Dec '12, 00:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
- fuck, just properly read OP.
  
  Can't believe I keep missing the Peep show. Was having some bollocks circular argument with his new girlfriend about homeopathy. Foolish.
  
  nowheresnigh @nowheresnigh | 24 Dec '12, 00:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - it's nowhere near as good as it was
    
    still many laughs though.
    
    I had a bit of RATM also. But I saw Clutch in a small venue at the time and I liked them a lot better
    
    mug_mug_mug @nowheresnigh | 24 Dec '12, 00:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

I remember listening to that alot at the time

furio | 24 Dec '12, 00:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Lest we forget
  
  with all the abuse that Kings of Leon attract these days, that remains a fantastic album.
  
  Damian @furio | 24 Dec '12, 23:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  furio, emmettcruddas, Blackjack_Bauer, and spiritofjazz this'd this
when i was 16 I went through about a four month period

...i'm sorry puff but if this chick was my own mother...

beautiful_balloon | 24 Dec '12, 00:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
- DiS ate my post there
  
  four month period of listening to marshall mathers lp on headphones every night - still get lyrics stuck in my head on loop like an unwanted scrolling marquee
  
  beautiful_balloon @beautiful_balloon | 24 Dec '12, 00:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I'm glad you corrected that...
    
    Having a four month period would have been worrying.
    
    John_Ho @beautiful_balloon | 24 Dec '12, 19:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    furio and munx this'd this
Radiohead, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Fall, Manic Street Preachers, At The Drive-In and Wire

Oissin_ | 24 Dec '12, 00:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
- All still great, of course.
  
  Oissin_ @Oissin_ | 24 Dec '12, 19:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Brand New

Descendents
The Smiths

gonad | 24 Dec '12, 02:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Libertines an all
  
  gonad @gonad | 24 Dec '12, 02:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
libertines, oasis, blur, radiohead

i was a plebasaurus rex

CrispinAlexander | 24 Dec '12, 02:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
Radiohead... lots of

Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
Manic Street Preachers
Nirvana
Sonic Youth
Rage against The Machine
The Cure
The Smiths
Pavement
Sebadoh
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Babes in Toyland
Mother Love Bone
Hole

excuse me jabbering on endlessly

MadameChaos | 24 Dec '12, 02:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
- you NEED to check out Temple of the Dog
  
  mug_mug_mug @MadameChaos | 24 Dec '12, 21:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  TheGrudge this'd this
The Libertines

Babyshambles, Oasis, THE ENEMY, Glasvegas, Little Man Tate etc

Horrible. LADROCK with PROPER HAIR CUTS and REAL GUITARS or something.

kubrahhh | 24 Dec '12, 03:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
Whatever it was, it definitely wasn't Lostprophets.

Never even heard of them before. Stop accusing me.

DanielKelly | 24 Dec '12, 09:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ and Kettledrum this'd this
The Smiths

The Cure, The The, just starting to listen to mainstream punk (The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers). Bowie, the Velvets. Springsteen. Roses and Mondays.

Infinite_Jest | 24 Dec '12, 09:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
- certainly most of these
  
  which shows your age really :/
  
  riverlodge @Infinite_Jest | 2 Jan '13, 16:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
Radiohead, Morrissey, The Shins, The Postal Service, Frank Zappa

and Bloc Party. 16 was when I first started buying albums again after getting a new PC. Those bands were definitely the ones I loved that year.

yuggy | 24 Dec '12, 09:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
Therapy?

I always preferred Infernal Love to Troublegum though.

keith | 24 Dec '12, 10:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Brand New

Million Dead
Reuben
Refused
mclusky
At the Drive-In

All still good!

poptimusgrime | 24 Dec '12, 10:09 | X | ^ This | Reply

Kettledrum and badmanreturns this'd this
- Pretty much the same as mine
  
  Alongside The Blood Brothers who are still ace in a very-specific-aesthetic way
  
  blobcow @poptimusgrime | 24 Dec '12, 14:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
It was good year for bedroom-sitting

Think these were my three most-played:

Suede - Suede
Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Manic Street Preachers - Gold against the Soul

Things I'd taped from my Dad's LPs - Neil Young - Harvest, Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother to Animals

Things I'd discovered on Sounds of the 70s - early Talking Heads, Joy Division Substance

sidrrrs | 24 Dec '12, 10:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Beatles/Nirvana/Manics on headphones...

...and Sonic Youth's Washing Machine thru the speakers when i wanted to upset everybody.

sunstroke_house | 24 Dec '12, 10:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
Fatboy Slim and Prodigy.

shucks | 24 Dec '12, 11:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
I remember asking for Strawberry Jam by AnCo for xmas

having never heard much of their work at all other than a bit of Grass, complete blind faith purchase. Remember sitting in the corner of the room and putting it in my walkman and being quietly mindfucked by Peacebone in my headphones whilst everyone else was watching whatever Disney film the BBC had picked.

navajo | 24 Dec '12, 11:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
- you showed them!
  
  wrightylew @navajo | 26 Dec '12, 13:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
..and so that became one of my staple 16 in the bedroom albums

navajo | 24 Dec '12, 11:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mainly the voices in my head

and a shitload of lemonheads and Teenage Fanclub.
Life was good in 93.

bj72 | 24 Dec '12, 11:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oh yeah...Ray/Lovey/...Feel on repeats
  
  sunstroke_house @bj72 | 24 Dec '12, 15:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  bj72 this'd this
i was listening to less and less Metallica and more and from the Smiths, Blur and Lou reed's Berlin.

Alos remember slightly obsessing about the groundhogs' "Thank christ for the bomb" which i found in my dad's record collection. I think i just liked the cover art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wfoMKd_M4

bones_howe | 24 Dec '12, 13:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
16 in 1992

So would've been a ton of grunge stuff
Nirvana,
Mudhoney
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Also a combination of these as well
NIN
Sonic Youth
Dinosaur Jr
Ride
Carter USM
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Spacemen 3
R.E.M.
The Damned
Gary Numan
Anthrax
Slayer
Metallica

sadballadman | 24 Dec '12, 14:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Very impressive list!
  
  I hope Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion was amongst it too!!!
  
  TheGrudge @sadballadman | 27 Dec '12, 14:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
Biggie

nas, outkast, def jux. i havent changed

shy_retirer | 24 Dec '12, 15:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Lots of Muse, Radiohead and Bloc Party

and anything with heavy guitars and super-earnest lyrics...

John_Ho | 24 Dec '12, 19:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
lots of interpol

i was obsessed (and i still like them)

oldfamenewfame | 24 Dec '12, 20:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
Blink 182 and rhcp

Whilst playing crazy taxi

sharp_yet_blunt | 24 Dec '12, 20:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
- crazy taxi I can still get behind
  
  mug_mug_mug @sharp_yet_blunt | 24 Dec '12, 21:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  juicegermer this'd this
16 in 2006 and I was listening to:

Billy Talent, Portugal. The Man, The Fall Of Troy and other angsty North American bands.

sweetverbs | 24 Dec '12, 21:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Also Radiohead, Bloc Party, The Smiths, The Clash
  
  and other things mentioned by others above.
  
  sweetverbs @sweetverbs | 24 Dec '12, 21:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
2pac, Biggy, Outkast, Nas, Snoop, Spice-1, E-40, Puff, Wyclef

R Kelly, Usher, 112, Tone Tony Toni, Ginuwine

Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Tool, Fiona, Beck

Blink 182, The Offspring, Pennywise, AC DC, Bad Religion, NOFX,

Sublime, 311, Dave Matthews (hopefully no one read this far down)

theShipment | 24 Dec '12, 22:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
Well...

It was basically things like A, Ash, Idlewild, Silver Sun, Midget, Dustball etc.
Then I moved on to the likes of Rancid/NOFX and Deftones/Incubus...that was like 97/98...loads of stuff from them years that I've gone on to get into but this is what I was ploughing into my ears at the time.

spaffy | 24 Dec '12, 23:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Dizzy
  
  heights
  
  spaffy @spaffy | 24 Dec '12, 23:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
carter the unstoppable sex machine

WhiteCollarBoy | 24 Dec '12, 23:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
Radiohead...

And then more radiohead. Really obsessed back in the day.

hzakya | 25 Dec '12, 01:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
Only 5 years ago

Probably arctic monkeys and anything else I could play on guitar...interpOl, strokes, bloc party etc

MIDDLEMAN | 25 Dec '12, 01:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
Husker Du-Candy Apple Grey

7 Seconds-Walk Together, Rock Together

DaddyorChips | 25 Dec '12, 05:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
19 now

i've checked my last.fm, the most prevalent artists are foals, the drums, vampire weekend, arctic monkeys, animal collective, the strokes and arcade fire. although i've no idea why i've got so many scrobbles for the drums as i thought their album was pretty disappointing.
nothing that i wouldn't still enjoy now tbh

BarryShitpeas | 25 Dec '12, 15:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
buying a fake leather jacket, a fake strat

listening to Is This It? and pretending to be Albert Hammond Jr. just because he was the only one of the The Strokes who had this big "kind-of" afro. It's was (and i guess it's still is) tough being a 16-years-old boy with curly hair and dreaming to be a rockstar at the same time

GabrielGuerra | 25 Dec '12, 17:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
I think that was the Xmas my mum got me

Minimum maximum and silent shout.
Nice one mum

lobotomypop | 25 Dec '12, 21:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
Brand New

Radiohead
Biffy Clyro
Placebo
Bloc Party
Editors
Manic Street Preachers
Frank Turner
Death Cab For Cutie
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Lostprophets - 2009 was a simpler time :(

aactv | 25 Dec '12, 22:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
That would've been 1969, so ...

Spooky Tooth/Spooky Two, MC5/Kick Out The Jams, Stooges 1st, Canned Heat/Hallelujah, NRBQ 1st, Pharoah Sanders/Karma, Savoy Brown/Blue Matter, Procol Harum/A Salty Dog, Velvet Underground/same, Little Richard/Original Grooviest 17 Hits (Specialty), Chuck Berry/Golden Decade, Stones/Beggars Banquet, and a bunch of rediscovered 50's r&b singles thanks to John Sinclair sitting in on Jerry Lubin's WABX Saturday afternoon show.

theintl | 26 Dec '12, 07:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
- you win
  
  shy_retirer @theintl | 26 Dec '12, 15:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Alex-in-Ciderland this'd this
  - ...at being old
    
    theShipment @shy_retirer | 27 Dec '12, 16:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
the long blondes

wrightylew | 26 Dec '12, 13:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
Was 16 in 2003

So would’ve been when I was heavily getting into 80s/90s alt rock (I didn’t really listen to much newer music then).

Stuff like My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Eels, Blur, Radiohead.

Stringly | 26 Dec '12, 14:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
pretty much what I listen to now

Mehodor | 26 Dec '12, 14:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
This, pretty much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd0CrlrdJNY

Lucien | 26 Dec '12, 18:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Pixies, The Smiths, Prince, The Sex Pistols, The Sugar Cubes, The The

All the 'the's'.

LOLpop | 27 Dec '12, 08:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
I listened to loads of ska punk back then

I like revisiting some of it. Much of it was shite, granted, but I am glad I liked uplifting stuff back then when I was in my youthful prime. Now listening to perky stuff by NOFX or Shootin Goon almost brings a tear to my eye as I embark upon my dull life as a 30 something.

steinbolt | 27 Dec '12, 10:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
16 in 1984

Big Country, The Cult, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Iron Maiden, Marillion, The Scorpions, Simple Minds, U2, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Dio, Adam & The Ants/Adam Ant, INXS

TheGrudge | 27 Dec '12, 14:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
- it was 1998
  
  joy division, new order, the cure, depeche mode, bauhaus, wire, the smiths, belle & sebastian, beck, pulp, placebo, radiohead, spiritualized, primal scream, sonic youth, pavement, underworld, the chemical brothers, daft punk, aphex twin, brian eno, david bowie, etc...
  
  blicky @TheGrudge | 27 Dec '12, 15:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
Still have a list of my top 5 tunes of that year

Wouldn't be the same now, but still listen to all this stuff now:

De La Soul ft. MF DOOM – Rock Co.Kane Flow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5t-bI8ZdoU

Masta Ace - Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSng6nnjrqQ

Kanye West - Jesus Walks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-3gXet-ljs

Fabolous - Breathe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zRiaLOkfc

Murs - Bad Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUhwuedIgU

Had also started getting into indie-friendly stuff. Had an imported copy of Funeral, Go! Team, MIA & Sung Tongs burnt on my MP£... Wasn't really into electronic or rock that much yet beyond the stuff that got played on Radio 1 (QOTSA, White Stripea) or stuff me dad liked.

littlebirds | 27 Dec '12, 16:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Rock Co.Kane Flow <3
  
  Breathe is the winner though. OHHHHH WOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOO 1 and to the 2 BREEEEAAAATHE OOOOOH 2 and to the 3 3 and to the 4 OHH THEN YOU GOTTA BREEEEEATHE UGGGGGGH UGGGGGGGGHHH *beat drop*
  
  That beat is still awesome, so many memorable lines, I'm always a sucker for a sample finishing bars too.
  
  theShipment @littlebirds | 27 Dec '12, 16:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Yeeah boi, Breathe would be my pick of the bunch now too...
    
    Just Blaze's best? That was the year after Pump it Up which got some serious spins too.
    
    littlebirds @theShipment | 27 Dec '12, 17:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Pump It Up is top 25 songs for me ever I think
      
      Breathe would make the top 100-150.
      
      theShipment @littlebirds | 27 Dec '12, 17:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mostly

The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis and Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder

Pale-eyedBadger | 27 Dec '12, 16:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Mainly APC 1st album & White Pony & QOTSA Rated R
  
  Whilst playing THPS2 (After being bored of the soundtrack)
  
  I also listened to a compilation album called Family Values Tour which had all the big nu-metal acts at that time.
  
  It has the cheesy live versions of outside by Staind but had a belter rendition of My Name Is Mud by Primus. It came in a bright pink cd case and cost me loads on import
  at HMV
  
  Knightboat @Pale-eyedBadger | 27 Dec '12, 17:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Origin of Symmetry

pichaelmarker | 27 Dec '12, 22:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
16 in 1989...

The House of Love
the Wedding Present
The Fall
Stone Roses
Happy Mondays
Inspiral Carpets
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Carter USM
The Wonderstuff
The Brilliant Corners

There was also some godawful Glasgow bands that I tried to get into because of a mate: Deacon Blue/Del Amitri/River Detectives. And I think I remember getting a Fine Young Cannibals album at that point.

Also:
Peter Gabriel
Kate Bush

suedeheadscot | 27 Dec '12, 23:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
16 was the cut off point

between listening almost exclusively to Eminem, Wu Tang Clan, Guns n' Roses and Radiohead (I was a mixed up teen) to:
Deftones, At The Drive-In, Glassjaw, Cave In, Planes Mistaken For Stars (and a bunch of Deep Elm bands), Small Brown Bike, Hundred Reasons, Biffy Clyro, Juno, Drowningman, Thursday, Candiria, Soulfly, Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit (yep, went to see them in concert), Incubus, Alkaline Trio, Taproot, Kids Near Water, Alien Ant Farm...
I'd say that covers most of 16-17. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence and Full Collapse probably got the most replay; Full Collapse was pretty much the official soundtrack to my Sega Dreamcast.

ThierryEnnui | 28 Dec '12, 14:33 | X | ^ This | Reply

spaffy this'd this
1995

It would have been whatever I'd bought on my Christmas shopping trips or whatever I'd asked for for Christmas. Being a memory geek I know this to be...

Cast - All Change
Pulp - Different Class
Manics - Everything Must Go
McAlmont and Butler - The Sound of...
Charlatans - Charlatans
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Paul Weller - Stanley Road
Stone Roses - Second Coming
R.E.M. - Green

(What's the Story) Morning Glory was also on heavy rotation as it was *that* time (I think I'd grown bored of the Great Escape already and it had only been out for 3 months) and there was also a free CD with Q which had tunes by Suede, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Tricky, Goldie and Leftfield which I've associated with Christmas ever since.

withakay | 28 Dec '12, 15:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Wall

mostly.

shadyadie | 28 Dec '12, 15:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

riverlodge this'd this
Manics, Mansun, Blur, Suede, etc.

Even though they were all in decline by 1999.

This was just before I discovered Idlewild, Seafood, My Vitriol, etc, and everything improved significantly.

bokonon | 2 Jan '13, 14:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Beatles

endlessly

subjective | 2 Jan '13, 20:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

I was so hopelessly in love with that band.

When I got my first car (close to turning 17 and I say 'first' car but I still have it!), I didn't have any sort of iPod hookup so the albums that got a lot of rotation were And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's Worlds Apart and Kings of Leon's A-ha Shake Heartbreak (as someone said above, they were once a tolerable band).

cherrycola | 2 Jan '13, 20:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are

This was, you recall, when they went mainstream and changed from 20 to Twenty.
I started my music listening career at 15 yrs old with Top 40 radio and knew absolutely nothing.
Then, as fate would have it, a new family computer with iTunes included a random selection of pre-installed music. One track was (incredibly enough) rockabilly punk gem 'Prisoner of Society' by The Living End. That, and an ironically found-on-the-roadside copy of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'One More From the Road' live album got me going on the good stuff. So I ended up torn between classic rock and garage punk.

Stone_Wick | 2 Jan '13, 21:24 | X | ^ This | Reply

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