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Post by marty on Jan 28, 2022 22:03:15 GMT
Very proud to say that my high school years were Tyranny and Mvtation to Agents of Fortune.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 29, 2022 12:35:36 GMT
My high school years were 2000-2004, but the music that defined me really was so eclectic in era and genre that it's hard to say how much of an impact it had. At the time my favorite bands were Blue Öyster Cult, Pearl Jam, and Garbage. As time has gone on I've "collected" more favorites, gotten into older bands and newer bands, and generally never stopped looking for new music to get into. I have a voracious appetite for music.
As for streaming, I tend to listen to music I already know during the day when I'm working. I save my commute time for new music if I'm in the mood, but as much as I consume new music, most of my listening time IS spent listening and relistening to the stuff I already know and love.
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Post by mcamp on Jan 31, 2022 11:29:42 GMT
A recent study shows that the music we heard in our high-school years define who we are. I've expanded my pallet 10 fold since those years....there is much music from my youth that I find unlistenable these days, and just as much music I have discovered since I graduated from high school (1982).
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Post by Cat on Jan 31, 2022 13:08:30 GMT
Though I listen to some new music (most today IMO is absolute crap), I agree that what we grow up with in our teens and 20's will always be foremost what makes us up and will always be dear to us.
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 1, 2022 18:32:14 GMT
Very proud to say that my high school years were Tyranny and Mvtation to Agents of Fortune. Mine were Hey Jude,Sugar Sugar,Let It Be '68-'70 Truthfully I don't listen to what I listened to in my teenage years as much as other periods(tho I still love it) I mostly listen to stuff from my 20's on and stuff from the 50's-60's Group harmony/R&B vocal groups and everything thru the early 60's.
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Post by Buck on Feb 1, 2022 20:34:20 GMT
My high school years were defined by Top 40 chart makers, and dominated by Beatles, Stones, Searchers, DC5, Jerry/Pacemakers, Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Gene Pitney and others too numerous to mention.
As a high school guitar player, it was Ventures, Surfaris, Chantays, and Link Wray.
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Post by robreich on Feb 2, 2022 3:11:33 GMT
Fire of Unknown Origin in 1981 was what hooked me on BOC, so I was a sophomore in high school. Had almost the entire catalog within a few months - Agents and Secret Treaties were next after Fire. Interestingly, I could not find Spectres anywhere in Europe (lived outside Frankfurt). Got it the day after I got off the plane back in the States in 83.
BOC was the in band at my high school, so when Flat Out came out everyone was stoked, but it wasn't readily available at our normal music stores. I finally found it at a small shop in downtown Frankfurt. Quickly recorded it on to tape for my Walkman - which had two headphone capability, so my buds and I could do dual listening. We were cool. :-)
My other favorites were Queen, Rush, Styx, Rainbow, Foreigner...although I never lost my love for my first ever favorite band - The Commodores. First album I ever bought was Commodores Live when I was 11.
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Post by eastmark on Feb 2, 2022 11:20:59 GMT
My high school years were defined by Top 40 chart makers, and dominated by Beatles, Stones, Searchers, DC5, Jerry/Pacemakers, Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Gene Pitney and others too numerous to mention. As a high school guitar player, it was Ventures, Surfaris, Chantays, and Link Wray. I have to admit complete ignorance on Link Wray. The only Linc I knew was on Mod Squad. Anyways pretty cool.
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Post by marty on Feb 2, 2022 15:26:23 GMT
The biggest influence on me, growing up, was my older brothers musical tastes, and with 3 brothers, it varied, widely. From my oldest brothers love for late 60’s psych, the next oldest loving Motown and blue-eyed soul, then the closest in age loving guitar rock and southern rock, and all of us loving top 40 radio, I’m fairly widespread, but I’ve never caught on to country or hip hop. So, for me, anyway, it wasn’t really just my high school years, but my brothers, too. My younger sister loves Earth, Wind and Fire and The Commodores and Luther Vandross, so, who knows, really.
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 3, 2022 1:18:30 GMT
Fire of Unknown Origin in 1981 was what hooked me on BOC, so I was a sophomore in high school. Had almost the entire catalog within a few months - Agents and Secret Treaties were next after Fire. Interestingly, I could not find Spectres anywhere in Europe (lived outside Frankfurt). Got it the day after I got off the plane back in the States in 83. BOC was the in band at my high school, so when Flat Out came out everyone was stoked, but it wasn't readily available at our normal music stores. I finally found it at a small shop in downtown Frankfurt. Quickly recorded it on to tape for my Walkman - which had two headphone capability, so my buds and I could do dual listening. We were cool. :-) My other favorites were Queen, Rush, Styx, Rainbow, Foreigner...although I never lost my love for my first ever favorite band - The Commodores. First album I ever bought was Commodores Live when I was 11. The Commodores Night Shift is still one of my favorite tunes.
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Post by Aggie87 on Feb 3, 2022 16:58:42 GMT
Fire of Unknown Origin in 1981 was what hooked me on BOC, so I was a sophomore in high school. Had almost the entire catalog within a few months - Agents and Secret Treaties were next after Fire. Interestingly, I could not find Spectres anywhere in Europe (lived outside Frankfurt). Got it the day after I got off the plane back in the States in 83. BOC was the in band at my high school, so when Flat Out came out everyone was stoked, but it wasn't readily available at our normal music stores. I finally found it at a small shop in downtown Frankfurt. Quickly recorded it on to tape for my Walkman - which had two headphone capability, so my buds and I could do dual listening. We were cool. :-) My other favorites were Queen, Rush, Styx, Rainbow, Foreigner...although I never lost my love for my first ever favorite band - The Commodores. First album I ever bought was Commodores Live when I was 11. I went to high school not too far down the road from you, in Wiesbaden (and also graduated and returned to the U.S. in 1983). Loved it there! My first time seeing BOC was in 1981 in Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt.
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Post by robreich on Feb 4, 2022 1:49:11 GMT
Fire of Unknown Origin in 1981 was what hooked me on BOC, so I was a sophomore in high school. Had almost the entire catalog within a few months - Agents and Secret Treaties were next after Fire. Interestingly, I could not find Spectres anywhere in Europe (lived outside Frankfurt). Got it the day after I got off the plane back in the States in 83. BOC was the in band at my high school, so when Flat Out came out everyone was stoked, but it wasn't readily available at our normal music stores. I finally found it at a small shop in downtown Frankfurt. Quickly recorded it on to tape for my Walkman - which had two headphone capability, so my buds and I could do dual listening. We were cool. :-) My other favorites were Queen, Rush, Styx, Rainbow, Foreigner...although I never lost my love for my first ever favorite band - The Commodores. First album I ever bought was Commodores Live when I was 11. I went to high school not too far down the road from you, in Wiesbaden (and also graduated and returned to the U.S. in 1983). Loved it there! My first time seeing BOC was in 1981 in Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt. Oh man, I discovered the guys weeks after that Darmstadt show. Sickens me that I wasn't there. I had tickets to the cancelled tour in 82 with Hatchet and ended up not seeing the band live until 1986. I've made up for that since. :-) I graduated in 1984 in Newport RI. But I did play Wiesbaden in football - any chance we met on the gridiron?
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Post by Aggie87 on Feb 4, 2022 17:09:53 GMT
I went to high school not too far down the road from you, in Wiesbaden (and also graduated and returned to the U.S. in 1983). Loved it there! My first time seeing BOC was in 1981 in Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt. Oh man, I discovered the guys weeks after that Darmstadt show. Sickens me that I wasn't there. I had tickets to the cancelled tour in 82 with Hatchet and ended up not seeing the band live until 1986. I've made up for that since. :-) I graduated in 1984 in Newport RI. But I did play Wiesbaden in football - any chance we met on the gridiron? I was a band geek my first two years of high school in Wiesbaden, so I went to the games but wasn't a football player. Growing up I played baseball but when we moved to Germany I discovered that baseball wasn't a sport at the high schools there, so that was the end of my athletic efforts. And discovering I liked German bier, pubs, concerts, etc, moved me down a different path too lol. My first concert in Germany was KISS with Iron Maiden (with the original singer Paul Di'Anno) opening for them, 1980 in Frankfurt. Maiden was by far the better band that night. Maiden was also on the bill with BOC in Darmstadt in 1981.
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Post by storminator on Feb 11, 2022 3:25:01 GMT
It's not so surprising, since today streaming is basically all there is to the music "market", when people access the streaming services, they generally listen to music they already know. It's the reason why hit music has become an attractive investment vehicle. For me the great thing about streaming is finding things adjacent to my old favorites. I've been a Parliment/Funkadelic fan for decades, but I just learned about Brides of Funkenstein. A few minutes on spotify and I found all the various acts swirling around Funkadelic. Can't imagine trying to find all that in record stores
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Post by Buck on Feb 11, 2022 23:57:00 GMT
Yes, I find some virtue in the streaming services' curation functions.
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