I was 16 in 1986, the year The The released Infected, an LP I listened to over and over again. Other than that, Talk Talk's Colour of Spring and Pet Shop Boys' first sping to mind, as well as Black Celebration by Depeche Mode, incidentaially the last record by them I bothered with.
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1992
I was a little slow on the uptake, so it was 17-18 when I started discovering music on my own (or via my brother who has been a consistent source of new music).
At sixteen REM were my favourite band, having started with Losing My Religion and then working rapidly through the back catalogue, with Life's Rich Pageant being the most played.
I was listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains, though this was a brief phase, and only Nirvana were still being played when I got to uni in 94.
And I was still listening to my dad's collection a lot - Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Randy Newman. Could have been a lot worse.
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Listening to REM in reverse order with no previous knowledge would be a revelation. My guess is the lyrics gradually get more obscure and the mumbling of the lyrics gets more in the way, although the first album has that great debut charm, like the innocence of just saying what you want to say without any calculations of record sales. But it's light and fluff student radio indie-pop compared to same era Fall or Smiths and subsequently Pixies and Nirvana.
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June 78 - June 79, the year I started full time work in the Tax Office so all my wages went on vinyl as I looked too young to get served in pubs .
Thanks to Wiki for the list below
The Cars 1st album/Candy O
Some Girls - Stones
Tonic For The Troops - Boomtown Rats
Bloody Tourists - 10cc
Kick Inside/Lionheart - Kate Bush
Watch - Manfred Mann's Earthband
Parallel Lines - Blondie
52nd Street - Billy Joel
Toto - Toto
Outlandos - Police
Give Em Enough Rope - Clash
Blondes Have More Fun - Rod Stewart
Live (Xcert) - Stranglers
At The Budokan - Cheap Trick
Breakfast In America - Supertramp
Life For The Taking - Eddie Money
Feel No Fret - AWB
Replicas - Tubeway Army
Lodger - Bowie
I also spent a fortune on singles
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Originally posted by Belhaven View PostI was 16 in 1986, the year The The released Infected, an LP I listened to over and over again. Other than that, Talk Talk's Colour of Spring and Pet Shop Boys' first sping to mind, as well as Black Celebration by Depeche Mode, incidentaially the last record by them I bothered with.
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June 1973-74, my first full year of record buying. Largely Gentle Giant and Gong if I remember correctly. My full time NME reading didn't start until the end of this year, round about the time that I discovered The Sensational Alex Harvey Band...
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostI was just on about Infected this morning to a car share colleague, it was a huge album for me and some friends when I was 14/15, and it still holds up. I'm going to see The The in September.
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Originally posted by Belhaven View PostI had no idea Matt Johnson still did concerts. He never seemed to enjoy live performances and to my knowledge hasn't released a proper album this side of the millennium. I am curious what songs he'll play.
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Ah! Sixteen! Still at school in Nottingham. Listening to a lot of Motown and Stax. Prog was in the air so I listened to a lot of that (King Crimson etc.) The blues was hip, of course, but also, in the solitude of my room, I listened to Webb Pierce, George Jones, Kitty Wells. If I had admitted this at the time I would have been submitted to merciless ridicule.
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