Didn't they all have a crap guitar break back then? Foreigner, REO Speedwagen, the lot. Just remember walking around my relatives neighbourhood in Toronto, red hot days and every street seemed to have its own rock band practicing. Then driving cross country to Vancouver and hearing that song countless times a day on countless FM stations
The Style Council while all around me at The Sixth Form College seemed to be Rainbow, Whitesnake and AC/DC.
98/2005. Supergrass for me. Very little in my preferred genre and it was a low period for me on a personal level. The X-Ray Album being the go to album in my abject low and Life on other Planets being my up turn album. I'd rather focus on happier times.
At high school from 77 to 82' you had rock ' punk' mod' new wave' brilliat time to be a teenager' really spoilt for choice...
1988 to 1994 for me so if I go down the middle and 1991, think of a song that typified my teenage angst, I naturally end up with this:
Great albums from my teenage years: Kid A - Radiohead Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA Funeral - Arcade Fire The Libertines - Up the Bracket The Streets - Original Pirate Material Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea The White Stripes - White Blood Cells/Elephant
First band I saw live ( Barnsley civic) Wish I’d seen these live. Might shock a few Slade fans this one.
I was 13 in 1995. Key albums I remember from the mid 90s were: Kula Shaker - K Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill Bush - 16 Stone Bon Jovi - These Days Green Day - Dookie Offspring - Smash As I moved into later teens I fell in with the more alternative scene. Deftones - Around The Fur System of a Down - System of a Down Rage Against the Machine - all of them They are all still in my regular rotation.
Key albums from my teens: REM - Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible, Everything Must Go Oasis - Definitely Maybe Pulp - His n Hers, Different Class The Levellers - Levelling the Land Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish EMF - Schubert Dip Carter USM - The Love Album Nirvana - everything from start to finish Suede - Suede, Dog Man Star Radiohead - The Bends Probably missed a few off there as well. What a great time to be a music fan. I also listened to a lot of Pixies, Stone Roses and early REM, even though they were released when I was much younger. And then I went off to university and discovered electronic music around 1998-99 which was also a pretty incredible time to be partying.