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**Beatle Simon** · 06-08-2019, 17:04

1982 (12 going on 13 in July)
Single; The reissue of Love Me Do
LP; Sergeant Pepper (a birthday present, and my first Beatles album) Rio and Rubber Soul (Xmas presents)
Movie; I can't remember any from '82

1983 (13 going on 14)

Single; 'The First Picture Of Summer' - The Lotus Eaters
LP; Probably the same as '82
Movie; Return Of The Jedi

1984 (14 going on 15)

Single; 'Love Is A Wonderful Colour' - The Icicle Works & 'Nobody Told Me' - John Lennon
LP; Revolver - The Beatles (I bought it in a second-hand record shop)
Movie; I can't remember any from '84

1985 (15 going on 16)

Single; 'Wall Come Tumbling Down - Style Council
LP; Our Favourite Shop - Style Council
Movie; A View To A Kill

1986 (16 going on 17)

Single; 'Absolute Beginners' - David Bowie
LP; Standing On A Beach - The Cure & Sound Affects -The Jam (bought in the same shop as Revolver)
Movie; I can't remember any from '86

1987 (17 going on 18)

Single; 'Just Like Heaven' - The Cure
LP; Sign Of The Times - Prince
Movie; The Living Daylights

1988 (18 going on 19)

Single; 'Suedehead' - Morrissey
LP; Viva Hate - Morrissey
Movie - I think I first saw Barbarella this year, which has remained my favourite film ever since.

1989 (19 going on 20)

Single; 'Fools Gold' - Stone Roses
LP; Like A Prayer - Madonna & Disintegration - The Cure
Movie; Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade

**Wouter D** · 06-08-2019, 18:26

In my early teens I barely watched contemporary movies, so I'll leave out that category.

1997 (12 going on 13 in December)
Single: Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
LP: Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape

1998 (13 going on 14)
Single: Air - All I Need
LP: Air - Moon Safari

1999 (14 going 15)
Single: Blink-182 - All The Small Things
LP: Blink-182 - Enema Of The State

2000 (15 going 16)
Single: Foo Fighters - Breakout
LP: Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

2001 (16 going 17)
Single: Supermen Lovers - Starlight
LP: Daft Punk - Discovery

2002 (17 going 18)
Single: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
LP: Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

2003 (18 going 19)
Single: Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
LP: The Strokes - Room On Fire

2004 (19 going on 20)
Single: Air - Cherry Blossom Girl
LP: Faithless - No Roots

I am definitely of that age where you had to explain to the kids that Dave Grohl had been in a band before the Foo Fighters.

**Simon G** · 06-08-2019, 19:30

I am 4 months older than you Wouter, so thanks for typing out all the years an enabling me to copy and paste - the songs will be different though:

1997 (12 going on 13 in August)
Single: Your Woman - White Town
LP: Oasis - Be Here Now
Film: Face/Off

1998 (13 going on 14)
Single: Usher - You Make Me Wanna
LP: Manic Street Preachers - This is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Film: The Faculty

1999 (14 going 15)
Single: Blink-182 - What's My Age Again
LP: Blink-182 - Enema Of The State
Film: American Pie

2000 (15 going 16)
Single: Coldplay - Trouble
LP: Wheatus - Wheatus
Film: Gladiator

2001 (16 going 17)
Single: Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics
LP: Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Film: Shrek

2002 (17 going 18)
Single: Coldplay - The Scientist
LP: Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Film: The Bourne Identity

2003 (18 going 19)
Single: Athlete - Westside
LP: Meteora - Linkin Park
Film: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2004 (19 going on 20)
Single: The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
LP: McFly - Room on the 3rd Floor
Film: The Incredibles

**3 Colours Red** · 06-08-2019, 20:49

I can only really go on singles, I'm afraid:

1995 (12 going on 13 in August)
On A Rope - Rocket From The Crypt

1996 (13 going on 14)
In The Meantime - Spacehog

1997 (14 going on 15)
Richard III - Supergrass

1998 (15 going on 16)
Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

1999 (16 going on 17)
Sexx Laws - Beck

2000 (17 going on 18)
Ms. Jackson - Outkast

2001 (18 going on 19)
Party Hard - Andrew W.K.

2002 (19 going on 20)
No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age

**Walt Flanagans Dog** · 06-08-2019, 20:52

One of the few plus points of my birthday is that it is almost in sync with years so makes stuff like this easier to work out.

1985 (13):
Album - U2, The Unforgettable Fire
Single - Madonna, Into The Groove
Film - Back to the Future

1986 (14):
Album - Housemartins, London 0 Hull 4
Single - Cameo, Word Up
Film - dunno

1987 (15):
Album - The Cult, Electric
Single - Beastie Boys, Fight for Your Right
Film - dunno

1988 (16):
Album - The Waterboys, Fisherman's Blues
Single - Def Con One, PWEI
Film - Good Morning Vietnam

1989 (17):
Album - The Stone Roses, eponymous
Single - The Wedding Present, Kennedy
Film - Heathers (in retrospect, They Live)

1990 (18):
Album - The La's, eponymous
Single - Ride, Like a Daydream
Film - Goodfellas

1991 (19):
Album - The Wedding Present, Seamonsters
Single - Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit
Film - Terminator 2

**Amor de Cosmos** · 06-08-2019, 22:22

1960 (11 going on 12 in June)
Single: Gary 'US' Bonds - New Orleans
LP: N/A

1961 (12 going on 13)
Single: Dion - Runaround Sue
LP: N/A

1962 (13 going on 14)
Single: The Isley Brothers - Twist & Shout
LP: N/A

1963 (14 going on 15)
Single: Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
LP: Mary Wells - Two Lovers

1964(15 going on 16)
Single: The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
LP: Thomas Dorsey et al - Georgia Tom & Friends

1965 (16 going on 17)
Single: The Who - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
LP: Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

1966 (17 going on 18)
Single: The Byrds - Eight Miles High
LP: Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan

1967 (18 going on 19)
Single: Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
LP: Forever Changes - Love

1968 (19 going on 20)
Single: The Universal - The Small Faces
LP: Music From Big Pink - The Band

**Jah Womble** · 07-08-2019, 09:09

Nice idea. Something like:

1974 (12 going on 13 in November)
Single: Judy Teen - Cockney Rebel / Ire Feelings - Rupie Edwards (tie)
LP: Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
Movie: Some kid nonsense, probably

1975 (13 going on 14)
Single: Once Bitten Twice Shy - Ian Hunter
LP: The Original Soundtrack - 10cc
Movie: Monty Python & The Holy Grail

1976 (14 going on 15)
Single: Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan
LP: The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Movie: Marathon Man

1977 (15 going on 16)
Single: Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
LP: Low - David Bowie
Movie: Network (released US 1976)

1978 (16 going on 17)
Single: White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
LP: Love Bites - Buzzcocks
Movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (released US 1977)

1979 (17 going on 18)
Single: Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello
LP: Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Movie: The Deer Hunter (released US 1978)

1980 (18 going on 19)
Single: Independence Day - Comsat Angels
LP: Closer - Joy Division
Movie: Airplane!

1981 (19 going on 20)
Single: O Superman - Laurie Anderson
LP: Fire of Love - The Gun Club
Movie: Gregory's Girl

**Stumpy Pepys** · 07-08-2019, 11:01

There's a real danger of false memory on this thread, where I conflate what I did buy with what I should have bought (and probably own now). Anyway, my favourites from memory.

1984 (13)
LP: Billy Bragg, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
Film: Beverly Hills Cop
Single: The Smiths, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

1985 (14)
LP: J&MC, Psychocandy
Film: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Single: Prince, Let's Go Crazy/Take Me With U

1986 (15)
LP: The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Film: The Fly
Single: The Housemartins, Happy Hour

1987 (16)
LP: The Wedding Present, George Best
Film: Robocop
Single: The Smiths, Sheila Take a Bow

1988 (17)
LP: Pixies, Surfer Rosa
Film: A Fish Called Wanda
Single: S-Express, Theme from S-Express

1989 (18)
LP: Spacemen 3, Playing with Fire
Film: When Harry Met Sally
Single: Inspiral Carpets, Joe

1990 (19)
LP: Happy Mondays, Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyache
Film: Goodfellas
Single: KLF, What Time is Love?

**MonkeyHarris** · 07-08-2019, 15:54

Checking lists from each year makes it hard not to put something cooler in each category but I've stayed true to what I was into at the time. I regret getting into trip-hop a few years afterwards as the first Portishead and Tricky albums still get played occasionally.

Also, I find much of the music I dismissed as fashion without merit like say jungle or drum n bass is more important and stands up better than the pub/dad rock shit I thought was so meaningful as a teen. Oasis and all that Britpop I was such a snob about. Of course there were some great records but most of that genre had been done decades before and didn't really add anything to the genre, other than great memories, which I suppose is one of the points of this thread.

1991: (12 going on 13)
Single: Set Adrift on Memory Bliss – PM Dawn
LP: Move to This – Cathy Dennis
Film: The Last Boy Scout

1992: (13 going on 14)
Single: Creep – Radiohead
LP: 3 Years, 5 months and 2 Days in the Life of – Arrested Development
Film: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

1993: (14 going on 15)
Single: That’s the Way Love Goes – Janet Jackson
LP: Symphony or Damn – Terence Trent D’Arby
Film: Falling Down

1994: (15 going on 16)
Single: Linger – The Cranberries
LP: Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can’t We? – The Cranberries
Film: The Professional

1995: (16 going on 17)
Single: Missing – Everything But the Girl
LP: The Bends – Radiohead
Film: 12 Monkeys

1996: (17 going on 18)
Single: Slight Return – The Bluetones
LP: From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah – Nirvana
Film: Trainspotting

1997: (18 going on 19)
Single: Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
LP: Urban Hymns – The Verve
Film: Jackie Brown

1998: (19 going on 20)
Single: Brimful of Asha – Cornershop
LP: Mezzanine – Massive Attack
Film: Croupier

**Gert from the Well** · 07-08-2019, 18:15

Originally posted by Wouter D View Post

I am definitely of that age where you had to explain to the kids that Dave Grohl had been in a band before the Foo Fighters.

I of the age (13 in 1982) that explains to the kids that Grohl was in two bands before Foo Fighters

**Gert from the Well** · 07-08-2019, 18:44

Always preferred LPs to singles and never really got into films till I was in my 20s. So hear goes my public humiliation:

1982 (12 going on 13 in March)

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

1983 (13 going on 14)

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

1984 (14 going on 15)

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

1985 (15 going on 16)

Slayer- Hell Awaits

1986 (16 going on 17)

Concrete Sox - Your Turn Next

1987 (17 going on 18)

Dag Nasty - Wig out at Denko's

1988 (18 going on 19)

Fugazi - E/P (not technically an LP)

Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions to hold us back

1989 (19 going on 20)

Snuff - Snuff said

**Amor de Cosmos** · 07-08-2019, 18:57

Originally posted by MonkeyHarris View Post

Checking lists from each year makes it hard not to put something cooler in each category but I've stayed true to what I was into at the time.

Yeah, it's hard not to project backwards (re-ject?) I stuck with stuff I knew I bought and played to death. Some years were particularly hard. 1962 was a bastard, at least half a dozen singles could easily fit.

**G-Man** · 07-08-2019, 20:31

I have a hunch that for most people, the years when they were 13-14 are like that. Old enough to like the grown-up music (here I mean more older brothers rather than moms & dads), young enough to still have fun with stuff aimed at teenagers. Plus the nostalgia of all kinds of awakenings.

**Duncan Gardner** · 08-08-2019, 07:19

I start a little earlier to fit in a thread-appropriate classic

1974 (turning 12) Teenage Rampage, Kimono my House
1975 Only You Can, Night at the Opera
1976 Arms of Mary, Hotel California
1977 Magic Fly, Rumours
1978 It's raining, Parallel Lines
1979 Up the Junction, Breakfast in America
1980 Food for Thought, Black Sea
1981 Ghost Town, Dare

**Beatle Simon** · 08-08-2019, 11:00

Originally posted by Wouter D View Post

1998 (13 going on 14)
Single: Air - All I Need
LP: Air - Moon Safari

I would've been 28 going on 29 in '98, but I would've chosen them also, along with Cafe Del Mar v.5, and Gran Turismo by The Cardigans.

**Wouter D** · 08-08-2019, 15:02

Originally posted by Serge Gainsbourg View Post

I would've been 28 going on 29 in '98, but I would've chosen them also, along with Cafe Del Mar v.5, and Gran Turismo by The Cardigans.

Nowadays, I'd favor La Femme d'Argent over All I Need, but the video for the latter was all over MTV in 1998, and thoroughly fascinated me.

**Wouter D** · 08-08-2019, 15:03

Originally posted by Simon G View Post

2000 (15 going 16)
LP: Wheatus - Wheatus

I'm still quite fond of that album.

**brian potter** · 14-08-2019, 06:14

It looks like sometime around 14 that I shifted away from Radio 1 and chart music, having said that my LP choices weren't particularly mainstream pop. The Crossing was only the third LP I owned, so I played it to death.

1983 (12 going on 13 in July)
Single – Mad World, Tears For Fears
LP – The Crossing, Big Country

1984 (13 going on 14)

Single – Two Tribes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood
LP – Some Great Reward, Depeche Mode

1985 (14 going on 15)

Single – Bring On The Dancing Horses, Echo & The Bunnymen
LP – The Head On The Door, The Cure

1986 (15 going on 16)

Single – Happy Hour, The Housemartins
LP – The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths

1987 (16 going on 17)

Single – Ask Johnny Dee, The Chesterfields
LP – George Best, The Wedding Present

1988 (17 going on 18)

Single – What For, James
LP – Green, REM

1989 (18 going on 19)

Single – Can’t Be Sure, The Sundays
LP – Bizarro, The Wedding Present

1990 (19 going on 20)

Single – Pictures Of You, The Cure
LP – Life, Inspiral Carpets

**Jah Womble** · 14-08-2019, 08:53

Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post

1978 It's raining

The Darts' tune?

**Kevin S** · 14-08-2019, 09:36

1995 (12 into 13)
Single: Wonderwall - Oasis
Album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
Film: GoldenEye

1996
Single: Goldfinger - Ash
Album: Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
Film: Independence Day

1997
Single: Block Rockin' Beats - Chemical Brothers
Album: OK Computer - Radiohead
Film: Men In Black

1998
Single: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
Album: Without You I’m Nothing - Placebo
Film: Tomorrow Never Dies

1999
Single: Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim
Album: Performance and Cocktails - Stereophonics
Film: Austin Powers - The Spy Who Sh*gged Me

2000
Single: Yellow - Coldplay (sorry not sorry)
Album: Kid A - Radiohead
Film: X-Men

2001 (18 into 19)
Single: Plug In Baby - Muse
Album: Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002
Single: All My Life - Foo Fighters
Album: Shootenanny! - Eels
Film: The Bourne Identity

**Duncan Gardner** · 14-08-2019, 09:45

Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post

The Darts' tune?

Indeed. Great tune, great band

PS Jah and I would have been in the same first year at big school (73/74). It was probably the dominance of unlistenable prog that made me stick to 'safer' pop

**Jah Womble** · 14-08-2019, 11:20

Indeed - when I was 12-13, that stuff was for my older sister's boyfriends as far as I was concerned. I used to read Music Scene magazine at that point, so I was au fait with a lot of the prog names, if not their music. Although I liked a lot of stuff I'd still listen to now (Bowie/Cockney Rebel/Mott The Hoople/T Rex, etc) I was strictly 'Top 30' in the early/mid-seventies: punk/new wave came along and changed all that.

To be honest, I was never that much of a fan of the 'revival' stuff, but the odd tune resonated. I liked Shotgun by The Darts. (They were massive in 1978, with three consecutive #2 hits - also outselling everyone else in terms of ticket sales. [So their publicity claims, at any rate.])

**Simon G** · 14-08-2019, 12:00

Originally posted by Kevin S View Post

Single: Plug In Baby - Muse
Album: Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The first album I ever bought on release day - I was so excited about it having heard Plug In Baby and New Born. I bloody loved it.

**Kevin S** · 14-08-2019, 13:06

I think I got Origin on release day too. It was in between finishing A Levels and starting uni and was something of a soundtrack for that first term away. That would have been the second album I bought on release day after Be Here Now in 1997, which kind of had to be done as the release date was part of the cover artwork.

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