soundtrack of your life

[jenn]

not just what you listen to now, but songs that when you hear them take you back to grade 7 and you still had braces and you loved that guy or girl.
you can list just songs or entire albums. don't leave stuff out just 'cause it's not cool now.

i'd start off with michael jackson thriller. the first album i owned. and mister mister, i loved that one song kyrie elasion(sp?) and also one song by big country, called big country. that would pretty much round up the top 3 of my elementary years. there are loads of 80's one hit wonders, but those would be at the top.
jr high, it would be the soundtrack to dirty dancing.
high school: pearl jam, sarah mclachlan,u2, achtung baby,paul simon concert in the park,specifically the obvious child, and a song called born to be alive, i'm unsure of the artist
university: still pearl jam still sarah and the song home for a rest by spirit of the west. also spin doctors and an intro to the pixies and frank black
japan: a band called chocolate and cheese, a brief affair with country, tribute album to bob dylan, eddie vedder's cover or master's of the war, tracy chapman's album new beginning, annie lennox medusa, alanis morrisette.
current. dave matthews, dave gray,gwen stefani (hahaha)
and throughout all this a healthy dose of east coast music as that is what my parents love.
i'm sure i'll edit and add more as i think of it.

 

[eliott]

Heh. Whenever my wife and I hear rock songs from the Fifties and early Sixties, we say, "They're playing our song," even though we're only 24. A theme party at college was where we first danced together. We couldn't dance, and still can't, but the music just seemed right. Now we get all nostalgic when we hear it. We're a couple of mushes.

For that reason, some of our favorite movies are American Graffiti, Animal House, Back to the Future, and like that.

 

[Sell Sword]

7th/8th grade - The Cars self- titled first album. It's a wonder I didn't bore a hole right thru the vinyl I played it so many times. The Knack, Boston, Aerosmith, Foghat

9th/10th grade - Led Zeppelin (any and all) - and yes, if you play Stairway to Heaven backwards there are indeed Satanic messages!
Pink Floyd The Wall - also about the time I began experimenting with drugs - go figure , The Who

Junior/Senior year (the Mullet years) - U2 - I was a card-carrying member of the U2 fan club, The Police, The Talking Heads,Pat Benatar,The Pretenders, Billy Idol INXS,Duran Duran, any 1-hit wonder flash-in-the-pan New Wave band (Flock of Seagulls, Men At Work, etc.)

College - REM,The Cure, the Cult, the Alarm, Pyschedelic Furs, the Hooters

Young Adult - XTC, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Gin Blossoms

Contemprorary - Weezer, Fountains of Wayne, Third Eye Blind, Dishwalla, Dada

 

[direstraits]

9th/10th grade - Led Zeppelin (any and all) - and yes, if you play Stairway to Heaven backwards there are indeed Satanic messages!

Ah, backmasking. Did you really try it? I've hear them, on a video once. Freaked me out.

I can't really remember what I used to listen to before, but (at the real risk of getting laughed at):
Preschool to secondary school: probably Michael Jackson, and anything that's was on radio.
Secondary school: Plenty of cantopop (Cantonese pop music). You may have heard of Jackie Cheung, and Sally Yeh, but probably not. Actually I don't understand a word of what they sang, but that didn't stop me from copying the lyrics down (phonetically) and mangling along with it when it played.
College: Michael Jackson's HIStory. Yeah well. Plus whatever that was on radio (at that time it was No Doubt's Don't Speak, Cardigans' Love Fool, etc)
Now: Alanis, John Mayer, U2, Sheryl Crow, and others.

As you can probably see, I'm pretty poor musically.

ds

 

[jenn]

well then you and i are poor together, aside from the cantopop we are similar. our current tastes run similar as well. i love jon mayer!!!!

 

[Stewart]

Ages 6 - 10: Michael Jackson and other assorted pop;
Ages 11 - 12: Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Poison, GWAR, etc.
Ages 13 - 15: Morbid Angel, Carcass, Sepultura, etc.
Ages 16 - 17: A mix of alternative rock, indie rock, female vocalists, and more (The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, The Auteurs, Radiohead, Blur, Tori Amos, Mariah Carey, etc.)
Ages 18 - 22: Ween, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten, Belle & Sebastian, dEUS, Morphine, Nine Inch Nails, Björk, Faith No More, Counting Crows, etc
Up to current day: Most of the music from 16 years onwards (excepting Mariah Carey ) bringing in others such as Leonard Cohen, White Stripes, Tindersticks, Rammstein, Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes.

My favourites, when I think about it, are Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, the incarnations of Luke Haines, Tori Amos, Aphex Twin, and Einstürzende Neubauten.

Others I've been impressed with recently are Bright Eyes, Patrick Wolf, Rufus Wainwright, Zita Swoon, KT Tunstall, and Natacha Atlas.

 

[jenn]

ween!!!!! the band was called ween and the album was chocolate and cheese!!! right.right. my girlfriend loved them so when i hear that album it reminds me of japan and karita.

 

[Slacker]

1-10 80's pop from one older sister, 80's country from another, 80's rock from older brother, country from father, early rock and roll and generally not to heavy rock from mother

10-14 Buttrock, some metal, fave band from this period had to be GNR whatever you might label them

14-18 Grunge and "Alternative becoming mainstream" but I also still held firm to my secret, uncool love for country, and some bluesy rock, roadhouse music.

18-20 The first and second J. (ex b/f) periods. New Wave and Club/Gothic. The Cure is most definitive band I can think of for this time.

21,22 My country revival, whatever country music was popular then

23,24 The A. period (ex fiancee). 70's rock and sensitive type music and old fashioned blues. We listened to a lot of Fleetwood Mac, REM, and Ella Fitzegerald. Also, my local music flirtation period.

25,26 The third and final J. (that bastard!) period. This time, it went punkish. Suicidal Tendencies, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Green Day, Puddle of Mud. I also turned him onto Classic Country then though. Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn etc.

27-Current time. All of the above now, very diverse, plus lately, Latin American music like reggaton and salsa.

 

[jenn]

oooh fleetwood mac rumours from uni and still current. love that album. good making out album. not that i ever ever EVER made out.

 

[mehastings]

(Childhood)Pretty much listened to Classic Rock (esp The Who, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, The Yardbirds or whatever else my dad was into at the time)

(High School) other rock, alternative, ska, etc (U2, Pulp, NIN, Blur, Ben Folds Five, Fugazi, Smashing Pumpkins, The Agents, Mighty Mighty Bostones)

(College) mostly the same stuff I listened to in HS (also MXPX, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, etc)

(Reality) I don't really have much exposure to good new music out here, so I'm mostly listening to stuff from high school and college. Most of my friends are into really trendy radio/MTV shit, so they aren't much of a help.