Boards

i reckon for me it'd probably be:

5 - Oasis - what's the story morning glory
tbh at this point i can only really remember liking individual songs such as van morrison - brown eyed girl and probably just stuff on the radio. I do remember my mum having this in the car and i loved roll with it in particular, so i'll go with Oasis.

10 - Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
I fucking loved this album and listened to it all the time. Pretty much everyone at school had this and liked Linkin Park.

15 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Probably the album where i began to listen to stuff by my own choice not just stuff everyone at school was into. Wasn't especially interested in music up to this age, was more of a football kid, and didn't actively seek out music. I think i only got into bloc party because i saw them on mtv2. However after enjoying this i got into music more i suppose.

Between 15 and 20 i pretty much listened to indie and pop punk then got into hardcore and punk. Stuff like descendents, jawbreaker, brand new, black flag, titus andronicus.
I'm 21 now so it's not too hard to pick an album from last year...

left for dead - splitting heads

it's a discography compilation really but it's only 16 songs /18 mins so i'm counting it. Pretty much my favourite hardcore album of all time. It's my go to when i'm not sure what else to listen to. It's hard to describe why i like it so much, i think it's just because it's the angriest thing i've ever heard. I hate it when hardcore bands have listened to one celtic frost album and go all shitty metal so i think it's great that it's pretty much the heaviest thing ever whilst still being very much punk.

25 - who knows. I think my taste has expanded considerably in the past year or so, i've been listening to more electronic stuff as well as indie and punk so i look forward to finding out.

As while I'd say my music taste has broadened over time, my favourite stuff has basically stayed the same. So I could probably get away with saying Absolution and The Vertigo Of Bliss from 10 onwards. But to actually try...

5- Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens. Basically the first album I remember listening to around 97/98ish, along with Whats The Story Morning Glory and The Best Of James. Though I'm pretty sure I remember connecting with Robbie more as a 5 year old, and properly got into the other two about 4 or 5 years later.

10 - Lostprophets - Start Something. This makes me incredibly sad, because this was the album that basically got me into music, and now obviously the lead singer is a paedophile. I didn't actually get this on CD until my 11th birthday in May 2004 but my friend had it and I pretty much knew all the songs before then anyway. Not really my kind of thing these days, and regardless of what I think about it, its difficult to say anything about it now without bringing to mind the horrid circumstances around the band now. I just feel sorry for the rest of the band.

15 - Foals - Antidotes. I'm gonna go with this because while it wasn't necessarily my favourite album at the time, it was pretty representative of the type of stuff I was into at the time, and the difference in my music taste between 10 & 15 really. I really liked it, but I don't really visit this much that often and kinda find it a bit meh when I do.

20 - Deftones - Koi No Yokan. I'm not 20 for another 4 months, but this is pretty much the thing I've been listening to mostly recently. Great album.

5 - I honestly didn't like music as a child, I even remember saying to my mum at one point that I hate music. I guess this age I was probably hearing a lot of Shania Twain and Robbie Williams, via my mum and Bruce Springsteen's The River via my dad. Only really rediscovered Springsteen in the past 3 years. The other two didn't stick with me.

10 - Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
I got this and Hybrid Theory for my 10th birthday and they were the first cds that were mine. I loved Hybrid Theory but AKNF was always my favourite. I can remember spinning round in the playground pretending I was Cone, the Sum 41 bassist. Weird. I still know all the words to all the songs.

15 - The Libertines - The Libertines
Around the age of 15 was when I started to discover music that wasn't Nickelback and Green Day. Stuff that sounds more like stuff I'd listen to now. I was obssessed with the Libertines and Pete Doherty in particular. I also fuckin loved "landfill indie".

20 - The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
I turned 20 last February, when this album had just come out. It was my favourite album from last year. I still can't stop listening to it. In fact, I'm gonna go and play it right now.

5: bryan adams - everything i do
i thought this was INCREDIBLE. one of the most boring guitar solos of all time but i definitely remember loving music for the first time with this song.

10: that breakfast at tiffany's song
just made me feel happy, it's all bouncy and shit. i still probably think it's good, what's not to like?

15: radiohead - the bends
listened to this album all the time while studying for my GCSEs and it made me feel lots of melodramatic feels that had previously gone unfelt. it's almost unlistenable to me now but i def still recognize it as the most important album i ever bought.

20: the divine comedy - a short album about love/clipse - hell hath no fury
i'm allowed two, right? properly obsessed with the divine comedy during this time and a short album about love caught me in my bedwetting prime, some of my sheets from this era are still drying off. i still reckon it's one of the most romantic albums of all time. then on the other end of '06, i heard this clipse album because my then-gf was into it and i thought it was so fresh and interesting, but not in a chin strokey way, just a really compelling listen from top to bottom.

25: the mountain goats - all hail west texas
25 is too recent a memory for me to be sure i'm picking the most important album, i think. but after feeling a bit despondent about singer-songwriter indie for a few years, it was cool to find an album that was emotional but not cheesy and clever but not pompous, with some passion thrown into the mix too. but i'm picking it as the defining music of 25 because it feels like it struck a chord with me as a mid twenties guy in a way it wouldn't have when i was 18.

5: Mud-Tiger Feet
I'd like to claim I was into the cooler Roxy/T-Rex/Bowie end of glam rock but no, it was all Mud, The Sweet and Gary Glitter. Mum tells me that whenever Mud were on TOTP I'd pretend to be Les Gray by putting my dressing gown on backwards & standing on a biscuit tin. 'Cos that's what Les Gray did obviously.

10: Perrey & Kingsley - The In Sound from Way Out
My dad was really into electronic music & used to come back from Coventry record library with all manner of weird & wonderful stuff. A lot of it I didn't get at the time but this album was perfect for a 10-yr old & it was the basis of everything I listened to during my teenage years.

15: Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again
This was the moment DM moved away from their old analogue synths & embraced sampling & a harder sound. Much of it sounds very dated now but at the time I loved Everything Counts in particular and it opened my ears to more abrasive artists. OMD's Dazzle Ships was another big favourite at this time.

20: Happy Mondays - Bummed
The Smiths, Cure & New Order had all helped convert me to guitar music by this point, and Bummed blew my mind. I'd never heard anything like it & still haven't - it's an amazingly dense stew of a record & I must have listened to it at least once a week since it came out. They never sounded like this again, must've been some amazing alchemy (and drugs) going on between them & Hannett in the studio.

25: Tindersticks - Tindersticks
The all too frequent soundtrack to long dark nights of the soul in my mid-20s, when I was drinking & smoking too much & really not having a clue what I wanted to do with my life. Nearly 20 years later I still don't know but have happily accepted that I never will and enjoy the accidents, mostly happy ones, that have led me to where I am now. And Tindersticks are still making great music.

5 - Miles Davis - A Kind Of Blue. As a small child, my Governess would often place me under the kitchen table, scotch-tape a pair of headphones over my ears and play this. On repeat. For hours. I truly believe it led to complications in later life.

10 - G.G Allin - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies. I've always been a late developer and at this particular stage, was still quite unable to ride a pedal bike without stabilizers owing to a severe lack of equilibrium*. The subsequent beatings led to much mental stress on my part. I needed to vent. Even if I couldn't quite relate specifically to all the topics in question, I keenly felt the rage on offer.

*= I'm convinced this is down to the damage my ears suffered on account of Miles' raging trumpet. To those infantile auditory canals, it was like having a fucking alien wasp on helium buzzing about in there. Or was that more Charlie Parker?

15 - Natasha Bedingfield. I forget the name of the particular record in question, but over the following years I had mellowed somewhat, discovering the sublime delights of Adidas footwear, football hooliganism and the upper reaches of UK chart pop music.

20 - G.G. Allin - Murder Junkies. It all started to go wrong again in my late teens. Having been sent deep into the jungles of Peru for my eighteenth birthday, I finally returned home aged 19 and something to Muswell Hill and the discovery of a third nipple. My family had also disappeared. I began to eat a lot of Mars bars around this time.

25 - Pink Floyd - The Wall. I hate Pink Floyd. And I hate their Wall. But it's all I'm permitted to listen to these days. After the Mars bars and third nipple and everything, I got caught up in an internet scam which led me straight to an orange jumpsuit inside Gitmo. They say Roger Waters will make me talk. I dare say it might work. He's so bloody pretentious.

5: Michael Jackson - Dangerous. Pretty self explanatory, such a massive star that his music would have had an affect on everyone at some point in their life. Must have worn out the grooves in my parents Thriller LP. Dangerous was released when I was 5 and Black or White is still a tune.

10: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. Was starting to learn guitar at school and discovered I hated the dance music that kids at school listened to (mostly bonkers and happy hardcore). Dug this out of my dad's very limited music collection. Still put it on every now and again.

15: Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. There were a good few folk playing in bands at high school. Already liked Nirvana and Green Day, some of the guys in the year above me started recommend bands like Pixies, Deftones and the Pumpkins. Was pretty much in awe if it. Still one of my favourite records of all time.

20: Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. Was at college and had a part time job, I wasn't into going out every other night spending money in the pub so had some cash to spend on CD's a lot. Bought this from Fopp off the back of a reviewer saying he'd made the new OK Computer. Must have listened to it 7 or 8 times on the day I bought it and went straight out to buy I'm Wide Awake.. the day after.

25: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Was put off by his antics for so long and had convinced myself I'd never enjoy his music because he was a massive cunt. Even when the reviews for this rolled in, I couldn't understand why he was so revered for being such an Asshole. Even when the cover art was revealed I thought 'Christ, here we go again!' I don't know what made my change my mind and decide to listen to it, I guess I decided I really shouldn't have such a low opinion of an album I'd never listened to and my mate Dave swore by it. First time I heard it the penny dropped and that was that. The man is a hero!

30: Who knows... maybe MBV or Daft Punk will have actually released something?

5 - Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell

I wasn't particularly interested in music as a kid, and my family wasn't especially musical either. We had a few tapes on rotation in the car, mainly Queen and Meatloaf, so it was a toss up between those two. I chose this because I remember enjoying the theatricality of it, being frankly scared by some of it (I don't remember if it was a Stratocaster or a Telecaster, but I held it above my father's head!), and singing along to the choruses. Happy times.

10. Spice Girls - Spice

I remember seeing them on a Saturday morning repeat of TOTP and watching Mel C do a backflip and thinking COOL! My brothers and I pestered our parents to buy it. I was a bit embarrassed when Naked came on. I guess this got me into pop music and music generally, but to be honest, most of it was inspired entirely by a not quite understood hormonal interest in Geri Haliwell's boobs and lips (I think I had a postcard of her in the Union Jack dress which I hid in a book). Which is healthy, I'm sure.

15. Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning

After the Spice Girls and a bit of pop, by the time I got to buying music a few influential friends had led me to nu-metal (Limp Bizkit followed by Linkin Park) which was swiftly followed by pop punk, primarily Offspring and Green Day but Alkaline Trio will always have a special place to me. I liked the fact it was a bit 'heavy', and the funny, witty lyrics, but most importantly, my mates loved it and it would the soundtrack to any sort of socialising. I can still sing along to it.

20. The Libertines - Up The Bracket

At uni, probably a bit too old to really fall for the whole Libs romance, but I did, and I was indie to the core. I think reading the NME to learn more about Pete's exploits directly led me to taking a deeper interest in music and its workings, and no doubt led me to DiS and what I listen to now.

25. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972

I think now my tastes are broader than they ever were, and I complement everything I used to listen to with new artists, and indeed, genres, all the time. I've started to get into drone, neo-classical, electronica, and things which as an 'indie-kid' I would have sworn to be the enemy of - R&B and hip hop etc. It's all good.

5. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA. My earliest music memory is standing on my Dad's feet dancing round the living room to Dancing in the Dark and Glory Days.

10. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms. My folks brought me up on a diet of classic rock, folk and, bizarrely, Jean Michel Jarre. Dire Straits were my favourite which I think had something to do with the steel resonator on the Brothers in Arms cover which I thought was the coolest guitar in the world. The 'Money for Nothing' best of was the first CD I ever bought with my own money but it's my Mum's original vinyl that I used to listen to whenever I had the chance and was the first one I put on when I bought a record player 3 years ago.

15. Oasis - Definitely Maybe. It's a bit of a clichè. but this record is the one that properly got me into music. Before it I only really listened to stuff that my folks liked or the more mature stuff that was in the charts which meant I was a bit of an outsider in school where the "cool" kids were all listening to Cypress Hill, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Pantera or anything else that was on Beavis and Butthead. Oasis changed that as soon as I heard them do Live Forever on the Glastonbury highlights. I had some music to call my own, that I could play on my guitar and form a band with and play obscure b-sides with like minded kids from school. That was the start of an obsession that's got worse since.

20. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty. University was an eye opener for a lot of reasons but the biggest thing for me was accepting that hip hop could actually be quite good and not just about money, guns, bitches and Puff Daddy falling off a motorbike. Intergalactic was the first rap tune that I knew all the lyrics to and it opened me up to the likes of J5, Blackalicious, Public Enemy and De La Soul.

25. The Libertines - everything. A slight regression in taste as I went back to Uni at 23 so was hanging round with 18-19 year olds who were into the piss poor post britpop acoustic indie thing like Travis, Starsailor and Stereophonics. I went to uni with my head full of Herbaliser, Aim and Dilated Peoples records but could never get to listen to them as my room was the "party" room where everyone came to listen to my Idlewild, Coldplay and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club albums. Anyway, I bought Up the Bracket as a companion to Mr Scruff's 'Trouser Jazz' in HMV's 2 for £22 just because I'd heard a tune (Time For Heroes) that I quite liked. It was late 2002 and whilst I thought it was ok it wasn't until the next summer that the record really started to grip me. Whether it was the soap opera that surrounded it or the fact that the tunes were absolutely the best thing to listen to whilst blind drunk (especially the glorious chant of Carl Barat's "fuck 'em" in I Get Along), I can't remember. All I know is that for the next few years, the Libs pretty much dominated my stereo and it seemed like every day there was a new song uploaded to a forum or a new drug addled session posted by Pete as he struggled with his turmoils. For me the Libs started off online social networking and broke the barriers between band and fans. Great days.

30. Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike. 2008 was when my housemates moved out so I could buy my house and start renovating it to a suitable standard that my Mrs would move in to, so i spent a lot of time on my own searching for new music. As a big Be Your Own Pet fan I went on a mission looking for similar stuff and came across this little known band from Leeds. Where once my collection featured probably 99% male vocalists, this was the record that fuelled a 3 year long obsession with female fronted bands that's still going strong. I just wish they'd hurry up and record their 3rd album!!

5: The only album I remember hearing at that age was a Cat Stevens one I had on cassette. I don't know which. Who the fuck remembers things from when you're 5?

10: 1985? Bloody hell. No idea, but I obviously remember Brothers in Arms was fucking EVERYWHERE.

15: Some Dire Straits album. Think I liked Making Movies best

20: Parklife. I reckon. Uni during Brit Pop, innit.

25: You know I think I was just obsessed with OK Computer, still? Dunno, I looked back of my albums from 2000 but most of them I got into years later.

30: Yeah, look, I actually don't remember now. There are so many albums. I don't remember anything particular from 2005

35: 2010 is the same as 2005. Sorry.

5 - the only tape my mum had in the car was Roger whittaker, my brother fed me a lot of Pink Floyd (particularly wish you were her and the wall, he then went all yngrie malmstein and steve vai and i had to ignore him)

11 - de la soul.

15 - wedding present - seamonsters / new kingdom - heavy load (can't split these 2 - they're like the stalwarts of my early teenage years) A remix of a new fast automatic track (big baka) let me open my mind to more than just guitar music.

20 - probably pavement - brighten the corners, closely followed by built to spill - perfect from now on, modest mouse - lonesome crowded west and gybe - F? A? ? - early uni days there was alot of ninja tunes around as well.

25 - again 2 albums that i couldnt split - Notwist - neon golden and pedro the lion - control - just moved to london, these 2 got me through some long tube journeys

31 - son lux - at war with walls and mazes - orchestral /break beat - made orchestral music interesting to me - my mother was a piano teacher and i'd always run away from it.

35 - ? this year, lots of stuff looks good, proabably something that mixes a few genres together quite big on modern classical/electronica. A whisper in the noise - to forget - was pretty great from last year

5 - Space Jam soundtrack
10 - Slipknot
15 - Daft Punk
20 - Swans

5 - Tom Jones. It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat? ... still great.

10 - Kiss: Alive. First concert. Cheap Trick opened. Not too shabby.

15 - David Bowie RCA Years. I guess I'd have to say ChangesOne, my first. It got so warped the needle would fly off the disc.

20 - Echo & the Bunnymen first 3 records. Ocean Rain isn't really a fav of mine (still great) but I took the name for DiS cos AmputeePorn was already taken.

25 - College Alternative (early 90s)-no one in particular. Until this point I was pretty much a Anglophile (Brits owned MTV new wave, eh)... but about this time Pixies, Dino Jr etc. (Now, it's almost the exact opposite: Oh, a Brit band...probably not any good. Ha!)

Even had to hack into my Last.FM to remember what I really dug when I was 25. Also 1994 (10) seemed to be a kind of non-year for me musically, I was mostly influenced by what my dad was listening to.

5: Abba - Live
10: REM - Automatic for the People
15: Nirvana - Incesticide
20: Melt Banana - Cellscape
25: Tarwater - Dwellers On The Threshold

5: Henry Hall and his Orchestra - Teddybear's Picnic

Used to play the record on my nan and grandad's huge table sized turntable/stereo combo... and then dance around the room. In between playing sword fights with rolled up newspaper, obviously

10: Michael Jackson - Bad

First cassette I ever bought.... played it to death, inspired my dancing, playground games based on the Moonwalker film. Liberian Girl opened my eyes to sexuality in music, and Dirty Diana to heavy metal, or heavy metal guitar's...

15: Muse - Origin of Symmetry

Matt Bellamy was god when I was 15, not too into their more recent records. I was a nu-metal kid and apart from a few exceptions (Deftones, System of a Down) I wasn't used to rock music with depth and variation. Origin of Symmetry was that eye-opener for me. Particularly Citizen Erased, which whilst being an awesome tune, I can now see as being quite derivative of Paranoid Android. Still, that tune and the record as a whole had a massive influence on the things I look for in music today.

20: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

I was tempted to cheat here and put in Hope of the States - undoubtedly the most important band in my life - but strictly speaking that was when I was 17/18/19.
I'm going for a 70-minute record, and the best travel book-on-tape never made... My first exposure to the magnificent Sufjan Stevens. It manages to blend faith, whimsy, terminal illness, super-heroes, families, serial killers, geography, industry, trade unions and a million and one other things in one of the most perfectly formed albums i've have ever heard.
That it has nearly as many instruments as it does ideas, and that most of them were played by Sufjan himself is something very special indeed.

25: Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me

3 discs!? A magnificent achievement which, while not completely devoid of duds, has more jaw-on-the-floor incredible tracks and moments than most other artists will achieve in their entire careers. And the fact that it also provided a very supportive arm round my shoulders during a really difficult time for me just raises it even higher in my opinion.
Beautiful girl too.
"You can take my hand in the darkness darling, like a length of rope."

30: Absolutely no idea. I think the only really big genre discoveries I have left in me are Jazz/Blues/Classical... so possibly a bit of Rachmaninoff idk.

5 - Jean Michel Jarre (Oxygene), in 1980 a lot of my listening was in Mum and Dad's car and was either my Mum's home tapes of things she enjoyed on the Sunday night charts (I Feel Love was a favourite, great FX) but also a lot of the cheese that prick Steve Wright plays on Sunday Morning Love Songs. Anyway, one of the few albums they played was a tape from vinyl of Oxygene, and I loved it.

10 - Depeche Mode (Singles 81-85) did a lot of home taping (like my Mum) but bought Depeche Mode's Singles 81-85 in 1985 after becoming obsessed with People Are People (great FX). I couldn't stop playing it - classics like Shake The Disease, New Life and Blasphemous Rumours (which I think harboured hardline atheism in me at an earlier age - I've mellowed since). DM were a top 5 band of mine right up until Ultra (went off them a bit at that point)

15 - The Cure (Mixed Up), I really tried to find my own music whilst a teenager at school, not least because some of the indier-than-thou guys were twats. Having got into The Mission through Tower Of Strength (awesome), I found The Cure through Mixed Up. Not a massive stylistic leap from DM to Mixed Up, but it is probably still my favourite Cure LP. Played it endlessly and loved the artwork. Then Loveless came out in 1991 and is the one album I'd take to the grave (but that's at 16, so tough).

20 - Verve (A Northern Soul), well ensconced in Uni at this point, and I was obsessed with shoegaze. (The) 5 - Jean Michel Jarre (Oxygene), in 1980 a lot of my listening was in Mum and Dad's car and was either my Mum's home tapes of things she enjoyed on the Sunday night charts (I Feel Love was a favourite, great FX) but also a lot of the cheese that prick Steve Wright plays on Sunday Morning Love Songs. Anyway, one of the few albums they played was a tape from vinyl of Oxygene, and I loved it.

10 - Depeche Mode (Singles 81-85) did a lot of home taping (like my Mum) but bought Depeche Mode's Singles 81-85 in 1985 after becoming obsessed with People Are People (great FX). I couldn't stop playing it - classics like Shake The Disease, New Life and Blasphemous Rumours (which I think harboured hardline atheism in me at an earlier age - I've mellowed since). DM were a top 5 band of mine right up until Ultra (went off them a bit at that point)

15 - The Cure (Mixed Up), I really tried to find my own music whilst a teenager at school, not least because some of the indier-than-thou guys were twats. Having got into The Mission through Tower Of Strength (awesome), I found The Cure through Mixed Up. Not a massive stylistic leap from DM to Mixed Up, but it is probably still my favourite Cure LP. Played it endlessly and loved the artwork. Then Loveless came out in 1991 and is the one album I'd take to the grave (but that's at 16, so tough).

20 - Verve (A Northern Soul), I was well set at Uni and very much a shoegazer by this point. A Storm In Heaven was an all time favourite, but A Northern Soul was released in 1995 and I followed its b-sides into the full Verve discography to pick up Gravity Grave, She's A Superstar and Feel - epic space rock classics. I was also getting heavily into IDM, Mo-wax and Pete Namlook at the time.

25 - Primal Scream (XTMNTR), enjoyed all the previous Primals (Give Out But Don't Give Up excepted), but this was a killer - MBV Arkestra another all time favourite tune. I was still at Uni in 2000 (ahem) and was downloading a lot of stuff for free on the Uni servers, so my tastes broadened rapidly. Saw Radiohead tour Kid A in Oxford in drenching rain. Amazing.

30 - Coldplay (X&Y), though it sort of shames me to say it. Mainly because of a classic Crystal Palace gig with Interpol touring Antics - I'll never forget both platforms of early leavers (had to catch train from London) exchanging verses of their encore while we listened to them outside, while lightning clattered through the sky. Great night.

35 - Drone a go go - I went mental for drone around 2009/2010 and was buying a lot of Tim Hecker and Fennesz from that point on (maybe a bit earlier). Sort of lost interest in indie a bit, but I have to say that last year was a good year.

I've seen a lot of my Uni friends lose touch with music, and I have to say now, I don't understand why. I hope I can still do this in 60 years time...

5 - Queen - Greatest Hits I & II. Mainly played in my parents car on cassette. Fun to sing along to.

10 - Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction. Was obsessed with GnR as a kid. They seemed so badass and had songs with swearing in.

15 - The Wildhearts - Fishing for Luckies. Had another massive obsession with these boys. Perfect band to be a fanboy of as a teenager because they were heavy, catchy and had good lyrics. Complete misfits in the britpop era.

20 - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds. Despite loving the Beach Boys as a youngster, I properly got into them at this point. Looking back I was into them to a degree that bordered on the mental.

25 - Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, Islands, etc. Like so many mid-twenties alt types past and present I bummed pitchfork and was listening to all the big hitters of the time. Shit got pretentious for a short while.

10 - Now That's What I Call Music Volume 1
15 - Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
20 - Yo La Tengo - Painful
25 - The Delgados - Peloton
30 - My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
35 - Deerhunter - Microcastle

5 – Bart Simpson – Do the Bartman
10 – Pulp – Different Class
15 – Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
20 – The National – Alligator
25 – Wild Beasts - Smother

All of which I still fucking love

5 - Abba: The Album. My dad lost his stero and most of his records in the cyclone, so my music listening was limited to the car radio. (Mum listened to news programs at breakfast and tea time). Growing up in the 70s in Australia Abba were unavoidable. I heard once that they were more successful in Australia than anywhere else on earth, including Sweden. Their mockumentary film was set around their Australian tour (starring accused paedophile Robert Hughes http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/hey-dad-star-robert-hughes-in-court/story-e6frg6nf-1226564059056). Australian tribute band Bjorn Again are possibly the most successful cover band ever, having made a fortune through their parody.

Anyway this is the album that was released in the year I turned 5, but in addition to Take a chance on me, Thank you for the music, The name of the game, songs like Waterloo, SOS, Mama Mia and Fernando were all on heavy rotation on AM radio (interspersed with Boney M and The Village People). By the age of 10 I'd had Abba up to the eyeballs but no-one can deny Benny and Bjorn's ability to write a solid gold pop tune.

10 - Thru The Roof '83. It would still be another year until my dad bought a new stereo and I could indulge my passion for the Pointer Sisters. In the mean time we had upgraded to a car with a stereo and this compilation of my sister's was on heavy rotation.

Songs I hated: Karma Chameleon, Red Red Wine (UB40 version), Wherever I Lay My Hat (Paul Young), I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues.

Songs I loved: Shake A Tail Feather (Ray Charles), Give It Up (KC and the Sunshine Band), She Works Hard For the Money (Donna Summer), Wanna Be Startin' Something (Michael Jackson), Rain (Dragon)

15: Best of Bon - AC/DC (a mixtape me and my mate made). Holidays and me and my friends would get together and play cards, drink beer and swim in the pool. We didn't really listen to anything current, it was all Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Supertramp, Kate Bush, JJ Cale and of course Bon Scott era AC/DC. We accepted Back in Black as a good album because we all agreed that Bon Scott must have been involved in the writing process, but anything else Brian Johnson related was dismissed as utter shit. So we made this mix tape and trying to think now of the songs on it:
Dirty Deeds, Highway to Hell, High Voltage (Live), Ride On, Bad Boy Boogie, Whole Lotta Rosie, Live Wire, If You Want Blood, Problem Child, Jail Break, Let There Be Rock, Dog Eat Dog, Riff Raff, Walk All Over You, Shot Down in Flames.

I still fucking love those songs and Ride On, Walk All Over You and Shot Down in Flames in particular are bloody ace songs that get little attention.

20 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger. Man, I flogged this CD to death. At the same time I was listening to Doolittle and Nevermind a lot as well, but this particular album just really grabbed me at the time. Was listening to a lot of other stuff too from Dizzy Gillespie to Cocteau Twins, so it's hard to pinpoint something entirely representative, but Soundgarden probably got played the most.

25 - I'm not really sure. Mezzanine came out that year and I listened to that a lot. I travelled a lot in Asia that year so I heard a frigging shitload of Bob Marley.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4272736

I was so interested reading about the soundtracks of your meaningful lives,
here are mine:
0- bubbling pussy juice
5- sounds of slaps on my face, sounds of me being pushed down stairs (quite a rumble effect on those steps)
10 - slaps on my siblings' faces; mom being beaten by dad, cries through the wall and epochal forgiveness speech at end
15 - neighbor girl groans during awkward sex on squeaky bed, sounds of muffled excitement through her mangled-tooth town whore mandible. For many guys on my block she was the only one who'd put out
20 - Sublime and swoosh of hacky sacking during my free time, shuffling of State checks received to support my child and my meth habit - peace

5 - Little Richard
10 - Beatles/Stones
15 - Cream/Hendrix
20 - Bowie/Dolls/Slade/Roxy
25 - Television/Clash/Ramones