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Here's where you list your favorite bands according to your grade in school. Analysis is encouraged.

― Ernest P., Monday, 28 October 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

First Grade = probably the Partridge Family or something.
Second Grade through Fifth Grade = Unequivocably, KISS.
Sixth Grade = Pink Floyd
Seventh Grade = Adam & the Antz
Eigth Grade = Sex Pistols

Freshman year of High School = Motley Crue,Venom,DK's,Circle Jerks
Sophomore year = Motorhead, Lords of the New Church, Clash
Junior year = KILLING JOKE, KILLING JOKE, KILLING JOKE
Senior year = KILLING JOKE, KILLING JOKE, KILLING JOKE

Freshman year of college = KILLING JOKE, Stooges, Sisters of Mercy,Jesus & Mary Chain
Sophomore year = KILLING JOKE, the Mission (sorry), KILLING JOKE
Junior year = KILLING JOKE, Skinny Puppy
Senior year = KILLING JOKE, Ministry, Jane's Addiction

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

3rd, 4th, 5th grade: Duran Duran
6th: Scritti Politti
7th: Genesis
8th: New Order
9th: Pink Floyd
10th: Joy Division
11th: Kate Bush
12th: Laurie Anderson
College 1st year: XTC
2nd year: His Name Is Alive
3rd year: Unrest
4th year (to present): The Magnetic Fields

So...started out loving pop, moved to prog, moved to punk, then ended up loving pop again. Talking with some friends, there seemed to be two camps for music fandom in elementary school in the 80s: pop and metal. Now, add hip-hop.

Remember the article from the now defunct Suck website about Your Favorite Band? Their example was some guy who decided that Slint was his cool semi-obscure favorite band, and he asked a record store guy why they didn't have more Slint records. "Uh, maybe because they broke up 5 years ago?!"

― Ernest P., Monday, 28 October 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

might as well go by year really, but it might be interesting to see how tastes were acquired and developed based on the influence of peers at school...

primary school
84 = Duran Duran
85 = Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Madness
86 = Pet Shop Boys
87 = Pet Shop Boys
88 = Pet Shop Boys
89 = N.W.A. / Happy Mondays

secondary school
90 = 808 State / De La Soul / Public Enemy
91 = 808 State
92 = The Prodigy
93 = The Prodigy
94 = The Prodigy

6th form/a-levels
95 = Goldie / Metalheadz
96 = Oasis

university
97 = Daft Punk / Chemical Brothers
98 = Beastie Boys / Air
99 = Underworld / Basement Jaxx / Chemical Brothers

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavy Rotation:
First & Second Grades - no recollection - (and no record collection) I think I liked the Mutual of Omaha theme that was played during "Wild Kingdom" breaks. Maybe the Monkees and the New Seekers too.
Third Grade - The Beatles - Revolver. My only record.
Fourth & Fifth Grade - The Wings (Venus & Mars) - Sad, that I went backwards..
Sixth Grade - Queen - Night at the Opera, Steely Dan - Aja
Seventh - Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes, Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same
Eighth - Neil Young - Comes a Time, Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum.
Ninth - 12th - Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die, followed by every other Traffic record, Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere & After the Gold Rush, Weather Report, The Who.

Freshman - King Crimson - Discipline/Beat/3 of a.., followed by the entire catalogue of Crimson... Neil Young still, Joy Division
Sophmore - Minutemen, Replacements
Junior - Fall, Smiths, Red Hots, fIrehose
Senior - Da Stooches, fIrehose, Pere Ubu

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 28 October 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no way I can list only one band for each year.

First grade: Prince, Rush
Second grade: Prince, Michael Jackson, Rush, Pink Floyd
Third grade: Men Without Hats, Prince
Fourth grade: Prince, Toto Coelo, B-52's, Devo, Adam and the Ants, The Suburbs
Fifth grade: Prince, Devo, Depeche Mode, Madonna
Sixth grade: Prince, Depeche Mode, Madonna, Art of Noise
Seventh grade: Prince, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mr. Mister, Pet Shop Boys, a-ha
Eighth grade: New Order, INXS, Prince, The Psychedelic Furs, OMD, Pet Shop Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Ninth grade: The Cure, Prince, Depeche Mode, New Order, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Cabaret Voltaire, Shriekback
Tenth grade: The Cure, Prince, Nitzer Ebb, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Severed Heads, Queen Latifah, Eazy-E, Bobby Brown, Sisters Of Mercy, Sinead O'Connor
Eleventh Grade: Prince, The Cure, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Skinny Puppy, Deee-Lite, Severed Heads, Ministry, Technotronic, Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated, Public Enemy
Twelfth Grade: The Cure, Prince, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, 808 State, Living Colour, Severed Heads, C+C Music Factory, LL Cool J, Black Box, Meat Beat Manifesto, De La Soul
Freshman year: Prince, The Cure, Orbital, The Prodigy, Lords of Acid, Meat Beat Manifesto, 808 State, A Tribe Called Quest, Shut Up and Dance, The Shamen, Walt Mink, Jane's Addiction
Sophomore year: Prince, The Cure, Orbital, Meat Beat Manifesto, Severed Heads, Depeche Mode, The Prodigy, The House Crew, Yolk, Acen, Project X, Savage Aural Hotbed
Junior Year: Prince, The Cure, The Prodigy, Orbital, Meat Beat Manifesto, Severed Heads, Portishead, Ruby
Senior year: The Cure, Prince, Meat Beat Manifesto, Orbital, The Prodigy, Portishead, Omni Trio, Ruby, A Tribe Called Quest, Severed Heads

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm sure we could all list about 12 bands for each year but what would be the point? everyone here has varied tastes, if you didnt have a standout favourite tho then fair enough

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

If I only did standout favorite, it would be Prince until grade 9, after which it would be Prince and The Cure, and that would be boring and fairly inaccurate as to what I was actually listening to at those time periods (ie, in college Prince and The Cure were still my favorite acts, but outside of them I was listening almost exclusively to rave/breakbeat/trip-hop/jungle/UK dance music).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it's difficult to pick, but preferably one band per grade. Your first answer when someone asked you "What's your favorite band?". The one whose band logo you'd doodle most on your homework assignments or shoes (I must have doodled about a million of those circular face Bauhaus symbols on schoolwork). The one represented by the most posters in your room. The one for which you'd save up your lunch money to buy every last single, EP, etc.

― Ernest P., Monday, 28 October 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Hah, then my answer still stands! In high school, I had logos from everyone I listed distributed evenly across all of my stuff (although I only bought Cure posters).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 October 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Completely true about narrowing it down to one or two bands per year. I left out a ton of bands that were absolutely essential to my ears during various stages (Devo springs immediately to mind). Also, I graduated from college in `89, and there have been scads of bands since that point on that have factored into my taste.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 October 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

it seems that the whole notion of having a favourite band evaporates as you get older because your knowledge expands and your tastes should as well. so i never really had a favourite band after 1996 when i turned 18 and went to university because i felt i was old enough by then to not really require in any way musical 'idols' in the traditional sense

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

1981 - Bucks Fizz (I was 8, and they'd just won eurovision, ok ?)
1982 - Japan
1983 - New Order... for a while...
1987 - Wedding Present... until...
1989 - Field Mice
1990 - Brighter

after that, went to university and became messier but much more eclectic. usually involved hood. but i agree that until then, i always had ONE band who seemed "THE" band... this thread therefore a really good call

― kieron, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

amazing ppl can remmember this.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 28 October 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

There has never been a time in my life when I've only taked about one or two bands. I've always had at least five in circulation (I left the "West Side Story" and Berstein/NY Philharmonic doing Mahler 2 off of my list from first grade because those aren't bands).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 October 2002 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

there's never been a time where i only talked about one or two bands either but that doesnt mean i didnt have a favourite

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

but you DO remember, because those are the song lyrics you wrote on the school desk, the bands you got detention for listening to on yr walkman, the songs you listened to when you shuold have been doing your homework, the vinyl you brought into school and forced your friends to borrow and pretend they liked... i find it frightening they're so vivid and easy to remember whereas the last 10 years i'd be stretched to remember my tastes at any one time... but i guess that was the point of the thread...

― kieron, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

1st: barry manilow
2nd: willie nelson
3rd: slick rick
4th: def leppard
5th: van halen
6th: def leppard again
7th: gnr/metallica
8th: r.e.m.
9th: r.e.m./pixies/smiths (the 3 favorite groups of everone who ever went on to form a REALLY SHITTY BAND, but i can't help it)
10th: nirvana/throwing muses/smiths
11th: dino jr/sonic youth/muses/mondays/blah blah
12th: oh more of the same
frosh: pavement bettie serveert liz phair
soph: stereolab pavement sebadoh
junior: pavement built to spill palace
...and flat broke ever since then so my tastes have been stuck where they were a few years ago.

what a dork i am.

― Aaron A., Monday, 28 October 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

this is an american thing, right? my only grade in skool was B-

― zebedee, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

1st through 4th - Didnt like music, preferred action figures
5th - First music I ever bought: Green Day - Dookie, and Coolio - Gangstas paradise
6th - Chumbawumba - later that week my braces were being worked on and my orthodontists made fun of them, I almost cried.
7th - Rap,rap,rap
8th - Rage Against the Machine
9th - Velvet Underground, Pixies, Sonic Youth
10th - Pixies/Pavement
11th - Pixies/Velvet Underground
12th - Pixies/Velvet Underground

I always have liked more, but those are the bands I listened to consistantly.

― David Allen, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

We've done something pretty similar before but not sticking specifically to bands

Gr 2-3: Michael Jackson
Gr 4-5: Bon Jovi
Gr 6-10: Led Zeppelin
Gr 11-13: Sonic Youth
1st yr: Joy Division
2nd year: The Stooges, Glenn Branca, Steve Reich
3rd year: La Monte Young, The Smiths
4th year: Sonic Youth, Ryoji Ikeda
year off: Rush, Led Zeppelin
Master's 1(so far): Fred Frith, Andrew WK

Can you tell which years were happier? The funny thing is that this makes my year off look like my most conservative but it was probably the year where I discovered and really appreciated the most avant-garde music.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 28 October 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

pre high school - I didn't really own music, but always had various faves from the radio and a few from my mom's LPs
9th grade - Beatles, B-52s
10th grade - Rush, Living Colour, Fishbone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin
11th grade - Beastie Boys, XTC, Queen, Yes, Jane's Addiction, Funkadelic
12th grade - Mr. Bungle, Primus
College 1 - King Crimson, Danny Elfman, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Police
College 2 - C.Debussy, Abba, Can
College 3 - Jon Spencer, Elastica, John Zorn, O.Messiaen
College 4 - Ruins, Boredoms, Magma

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 28 October 2002 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

We've done something pretty similar before but not sticking specifically to bands

stuck very specifically to bands actually, just skipped the grades:

your cv as a music listener

― N. should be doing this, y'know, Monday, 28 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

the bands you got detention for listening to on yr walkman

Not me, my friend. Then again, I had no walkman. ;-)

I can name about half my school grades where I had no favorite band at all, but I had favorite records -- which I think is actually a more accurate take. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

your cv as a music listener

Cool...thanks for finding the link. I thought that a similar thread probably happened in the past, but putting in "favorite band" in the search engine was not descriptive enough to find it.

― Ernest P., Monday, 28 October 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

1: Billy Joel (1982-1983)
2: Michael Jackson
3: Van Halen
4: Metallica
5: Beastie Boys
6: Metallica
7: EPMD
8: Metallica
9: Rush
10: Nirvana
11: Nirvana
12: The Clash
college 1: The Clash
college 2: Pavement
college 3: Yo La Tengo
college 4: Cecil Taylor
college 5: Hellacopters
college 6: Black Sabbath
grad 1: Hellacopters
grad 2: Black Sabbath
now: Andrew WK, Turbonegro, Ornette Coleman, Mott the Hoople

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 28 October 2002 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually meant that I wasn't sticking specifically to bands in my list.

Bon Jovi probably ruled most of Gr 6 too.

I've heard one Turbonegro song. It was quite good.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 28 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

surprised how easy this was - sorry don't have time for analysis
pretty obvious though I expect:

grade c. band(s)

(3rd) 71-72 Beatles
(4th) 1973 Beatles
(5th) 1974 Carpenters
1st form 1975 Beatles
2nd form 1976 Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin
3rd form 1977 Roxy Music (!)
4th fm/9th 77-78 Sex Pistols
10th 1979 Blue Oyster Cult/The Cars
11th 1980 King Crimson/Pink Floyd/Soft Machine/Bartok
12th 1981 Brian Eno (et al)/Can/Faust

1st year 81-82 Wire/Magazine/Joy Division/Cabaret Voltaire
2nd year 1983 Dome
3rd year 1984 Cocteau Twins
4th year 1985 Cocteau Twins/The Impressions

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 28 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Kindergarten - 6th -- Guess Who, Blood Sweat & Tears, BTO, KISS.
7th - 10th -- Triumph, Genesis, Rush, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Aldo Nova, Gary Myrick.
11th - 12th -- Tears for Fears, Duran², the FIXX.
College: Years 1-5 -- REM, The Cure, Love and Rockets, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pixies, Violent Femmes, Dexter Gordon.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 28 October 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Primary 1: Adam Ant / Shaking Stevens
Primary 2: Billy Joel
Primary 3: Billy Joel
Primary 4: A-Ha
Primary 5: Madonna
Primary 6: Madonna
Primary 7: Madonna

First Year(secondary school): Pet Shop Boys
Second Year: Pet Shop Boys
Third Year: Depeche Mode
Fourth Year: The Stone Roses
Fifth Year: Ride
Sixth Year: Suede

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 28 October 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

1st Grade: Peter, Paul & Mary
2nd Grade: Three Dog Night
3rd Grade: Elton John
4th Grade: Bee Gees
5th Grade: Lips, Inc.
6th Grade: Styx
7th Grade: Sammy Hagar
8th Grade: The Clash
9th Grade: Van Halen
10 Grade: Led Zeppelin
11 Grade: Bruce Springsteen
12 Grade: Bruce Springsteen

(Some years one good song was enough to make a group my "favorite band" [see 5th grade]; I didn't start buying records until 10th grade.)

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 28 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

It's time the tale were told ...

primary (early): Slade
primary (late) : any punk that was in the top 30 (otherwise I obviously wouldn't have heard it !)

first year: Chic, ELO
second year: Specials, Dexy's, Madness, the Beat, UB40
third year: ADAM AND THE ANTZ !, Bowie, Police
fourth year: Adam, ABC/Dollar, Simple Minds
fifth year: New Order, A (gulp) Flock of (*duck*) Seagulls, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera
lower sixth: THE SMITHS, Everything but the Girl, Scritti Politti
upper sixth: Smiths, New Order, Pet Shop Boys

uni first year: the Sisters, Marc Almond
second year: * oh god * That Petrol Emotion, the House of Love
third year: * even more oh god * Birdland, the Sundays, Postcard label

and then I left uni and all of a sudden pop got all baggy and good !

― Darren, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

3rd: The Offspring
4th: Green Day
5th - 7th: Rage Against The Machine
8th: Tool/The Prodigy
9th: Drum n Bass like Ed Rush and Dillinja
10th: Autechre Kid 606
11th: Boredoms, Butthole Surfers, Cannibal Ox

― ejad, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

First to Third Grade: All of the Doctor Demento-approved 'novelty' acts, especially the Frantics, Barnes and Barnes and Weird Al.
Fourth to Sixth: Prince, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper.
Sixth: Sex Pistols, Funkadelic.
Seventh through Graduation: Cure, U2, PiL, Police, Springsteen, Sinead O'Connor, Bob Dylan, Motown, Enya.
Community College in the Late 80s: Sarah MacLachlan, Metallica, Stax/Volt Soul.
Early 90s: Shoegazer music, Grunge, Gangsta Rap, Celtic Folk Music.
Mid 90s: Blues, Folk and Jazz. (I left the pop culture rat race in disgust for four years)
Now: All of the above, plus Techno and anything random I pull off a Napsterclone.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

grades 0-12: twisted sister

i roxx u r all gay

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

christ i can't believe i said that can was my favorite band at 22 on that other thread. i mean, i listened to them a lot that year, but eesh.

1st/2nd grade - beastie boys
3rd-5th grade - weird al
6th grade - (i can't remember. it was a really weird transition year between both the 80s and the 90s and my not really caring about music and REALLY caring about music. i guess maybe de la soul or even new order. [they got a lot of play on philly's "modern rock" station.])
7th grade - public enemy
8th grade - nirvana (like the rest of my peer group)/"the chronic" (it was inescapable, even for someone who had basically stopped listening to hiphop)
9th grade - husker du/the smiths/the pixies
10th grade - husker du/the pixies/but also a lot of RAVE MUSIK (esp jungle!) heard mostly @ raves and not on wax
11th grade - pixiea/mbv/buy my first jungle mixes on tape this year/hiphop begins to creep back into view via dancing
12th grade - the fall (i listened to almost nothing else; it was a particularly bleak year. also a lot of wu-tang. ditto joy division.)
1st year college (96/97) - guy called gerald (professors [!] give me copy of black secret technology) and disco inferno (ditto)
2nd year college (97/98) - more jungle/speed garage/
1998 - mercury rev (sndtrk to a particularly bad breakup)/PIL/lots of radio hiphop
1999 - POP MUSIK/timbaland/2-step garage/r&b
2000 - coil/my brief flirtation with idm/can/more garage/more pop
2001 - daft punk/clientele/neptunes
2002 - kompakt & related

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

ejad, are you 14 yrs old?

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 28 October 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

― ejad, Monday, 28 October 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

1st - Elton John
2nd - the Eagles
3rd - Poco, Kraftwerk
4th - Billy Joel, Billy Squire
5th - Kiss
6th - Styx
7th - AC/DC, Van Halen, the Cars
8th - Def Leppard, Rick Springfield
9th - Prince
10th - Violent Femmes
11th - Hendrix, the Beatles
12th - REM, U2
Undergrad1 - the Cure, Pete Townshend
Undergrad2 - the Replacements
Undergrad3 - Bob Mould
Undergrad4 - Uncle Tupelo/Jane's Addiction
Grad1-Pavement
Grad2-Radiohead

― Don Weiner, Monday, 28 October 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

1st to 3rd: stuff i heard on the radio.
4th and 5th: roxette, air supply.
6th and 7th: creedence clearwater revival, carpenters, stuff from my parents' 45' collection.
8th: bonnie tyler, carly simon, queen.
9th: yes, the who, the small faces.
10th: u2, vdgg, rush, jethro tull.
11th: the smiths, peter hammill.
12th: go-betweens, aztec camera.
college: a combination of all of the above, i'd say.

― cecilia, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

5th Grade: Heart
6th Grade: Heart
7th Grade: Heart
8th Grade: Heart
9th Grade, 1st Semester: Genesis
9th Grade, 2nd Semester: Lou Reed
10th Grade: Lou Reed
11th Grade: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
12th Grade: either Nick Cave or the Sisters of Mercy
2002: Heart

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

quit flaunting your educations...

1st-7th: had my head in a vaccuum
8th: slayer
9th-12th: polvo, residents, magnetic fields, mountain goats (no joke)

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

uhh vacuum :/

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"grades", what do americans think, the whole rest of the world models their education system on theirs?
anyway :
primary school - nothing
1st couple yrs of high school - nothing
when i was 15 - the who
when i was 16 - the stooges
after that - non specific (have you heard them, they're great)

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Nursery School
1st - Soundtrack to Walt Disney's Bambi
2nd - Barry Ryan: Eloise

Primary School
1st - Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene
2nd - Jeff Wayne: The War of the Worlds
3rd - Adam and the Ants
4th - Eurythmics
5th - Iron Maiden
6th - Iron Maiden

Elementary School
1st - Iron Maiden/Venom
2nd - Iron Maiden/Venom
3rd - Celtic Frost/Slayer/
4th - Celtic Frost/Slayer/Voivod

Pre-University
1st - Slayer/Voivod/Death
2nd - Carnivore/Napalm Death/Death
3rd - King's X/Meat Beat Manifesto/Swans
4th - Swans/The Residents/Legendary Pink Dots/Coil

University
1st - Legendary Pink Dots/Coil/Philip Glass
2nd - Legendary Pink Dots/Current 93
3rd - Current 93/Autechre/Arabian Music
4th - Current 93/Autechre/Persian Music/Atari Teenage Riot

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

so you started in first grade with venom and then softened as you aged?

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it'd help if we posted our age during each grade, since it varies from region to region

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

6th- Foo Fighters, Nirvana

7th- (not over yet, but I don't think it'll change that much if it'll change at all) Foo Fighters, Killing Joke

I didn't really like anything before 6th grade. I'd like a song and not know the name or which band it was by.

A lot can change in a short time!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

kindergarten - 2nd grade: The Monkees
3rd grade: The Beatles
4th grade - Freshman year of college: REM
Sophomore year of college-most of Junior year: Sleater-Kinney
tail of end Junior Year-senior year on: Rocket From The Crypt

and then sometime in 2003 it became '70s AC/DC.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

9th: Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Sloan, Eric's Trip
10th: Radiohead , Kraftwerk
11th: Joy Division and New Order
12th: Devo, Bjork, Brian Eno

Undergrad1: Underworld, The Orb, Air, Eno (starting caring more about girls than music)
Undergrad2: Beck, Eno (continued the horrible trend)
Undergrad3: The Clash, The Pixies, Stooges, Joy Division, Eno
Undergrad4: Sonic Youth, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Talking Heads
2002: Television, Mission of Burma, Yo La Tengo
2003: Shellac, Pere Ubu, Beach Boys, Bowie, Meat Puppets
Now: The Kinks, MBV, Oblivions, Talking Heads

But yeah. My taste has been consistently random, yet boring. I'm rarely hip to the times, because I think half the fun is getting into the bands back catalogue. Mostly I like anything that gives me the cools chills down my spine or anything with screeching guitars and a good climactic scream. I'm a simple man, really.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Sunday, 22 February 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Grade School.
1st, 2nd grades: Disney soundtracks.
3rd: New Kids on the Block. TOTALLY.
4th: MC Hammer.
5th-6th: Top 40 Radio.

Middle school.
7th: Green Day.
8th: Nirvana.
9th: Nirvana/Sex Pistols/Dead Kennedy's
10th: Nirvana/The Cure/Dinosaur Jr.
11th: The Cure/Joy Division
12th: Radiohead/Modest Mouse

College:
2000: Quasi/The Magnetic Fields/Belle & Sebastian (OOPS!)
2001: Will Oldham et al./Leonard Cohen/Smog.
2002: Hank Williams/The Mountain Goats/Oldham/
2003: The Carter Family/Oldham/the Mountain Goats

all I really have listened to this year is that new Jason Molina record and New Skin for the Old Ceremony and some alan lomax collections.

― Clay Smith (cws), Sunday, 22 February 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Elementary school - um, Phil Collins+whatever was on the radio
7th Grade - Dead Kennedys
8th Grade - Dead Kennedys
9th Grade - Descendents
10th Grade - Descendents
11th Grade - the Clash
12th Grade - the Clash

And after that I've never had one favorite band

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 22 February 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

so you started in first grade with venom and then softened as you aged?

You can say that again. Although I still love metal, old and new. Nile, Burst, Burnt by the Sun, Cephalic Carnage, Khanate, they're awesome, just like the first albums by Maiden, Priest, Kiss, Venom, etc. But yes, nowadays I listen to bands/artists that in first grade I was sure I genuinly hated and would never like. Only yesterday I watched a rerun of the Muppet Show that featured Elton John as gueststar, and found myself thinking a couple a times: that music actually sounds pretty good...

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What stands out for me here is how many people's tastes got worse as they got older.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 22 February 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

kindergarten - queen
1st grade - lipps, inc.
2nd grade - eddie murphy
3rd grade - prince & the revolution
4th grade - madonna
5th grade - falco
6th grade - joy division
7th grade - public enemy
8th grade - de la soul
9th grade - happy mondays
10th grade - the klf
11th grade - miles davis
12th grade - the rolling stones

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 22 February 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe everyone remembers their favorite bands that easily in a year-by-year breakdown, and had so many favorite bands in grammar school (I don't think I even owned a tape of my own until Donnie Osmond's album from 1989-90ish).

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 22 February 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That is maybe a matter of surroundings? My parents were music lovers at big, buying records all the time. The Beatles, David Bowie, Queen, the Who, Alice Cooper... You can't escape that as a kid. I couldn't. I already owned a record player at age of four.

Come to think of it: maybe I should sue? ;-)

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

1st-3rd--Offspring, STP, Nirvana
4th/5th--Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins
6th/7th--Everclear
8th--Led Zeppelin
9th/10th--The Beatles
11th/12th--New Order

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You were the offspring of music lovers, which must have turned you into a radio head, though you could only really sue if it turned you into a pumpkin head. In a sense you were like a Zeppelin being led by the ears. But we grow up and reach are own nirvana, establishing a new order of preferences. No more acne; skin for ever clear.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i heart cinniblount in the fifth grade!!

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

9th grade - REM.. Queen..
10th grade - REM, Juliana Hatfield Three, Soundgarden
11th grade - NIN, PJ Harvey, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins
12th grade - NIN, PJ Harvey, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag
--
Freshman - Afghan Whigs, PJ Harvey, Hole, Ministry
Sophomore - Helium, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Low, Palace
Junior - Birthday Party, Big Black, Six Finger Satellite
Senior - Smog, Palace, Radiohead, Pavement, Birthday Party, Big Black
--
99-00 - Palace, Radiohead, Pavement, Low
00-01 - Luna, Sleater-Kinney, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Fall
01-02 - Saint Etienne, Sleater-Kinney, the Fall, Sonic Youth
02-03 - Pavement, Saint Etienne, Luna, Daft Punk, Pixies
03-04 - Depeche Mode, Saint Etienne, Pavement, ARE Weapons (sorry, it's true)

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm...

1st - 3rd grade: weird al and michael jackson (i stole a copy of 'off the wall' on vinyl from the library)
4th - 5th grade: madonnna, the beastie boys
6th grade:
7th grade:
8th grade: the cure

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i accidentally hit send. i think 7th grade was probably depeche mode

9th grade: new order, fugazi
10th grade: the smiths, suede
11th grade: the clash, sonic youth
12th grade: pavement, sebadoh

freshman year: pavement, the undertones, the fall
sophmore year: can, the talking heads
junior year: the beach boys, tom waits
senior year: pussy galore, flying burrito brothers, frankie lymon & the teenagers

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha geeta my falco love is tainted!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

haha not one of my finest moments either

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

no regrets for our youth

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i only regret my mid-20s

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1st-3rd - only owned two tapes, Michael Jackson and Madonna, that I had received as gifts
4th - Smashing Pumpkins
5th - Cranberries
6th - Smashing Pumpkins
7th - Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles
8th - Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles
9th - Radiohead
10th - Pixies
11th - Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Boredoms
12th (current) - Xiu Xiu, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats

― Kareem Estefan (Kareem Estefan), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

ok, no fronting:

1st grade - "the space age alphabet singers"
2nd grade - the carpenters
3rd grade - shaun cassidy
4th grade - tom lehrer
5th grade - beatles, disc one of the red album
6th grade - beatles, disc two of the red album, + sgt p
7th grade - black sabbath
8th grade - devo
9th grade - dead kennedys
10th grade - talking heads
10th grade again, except in england - soft cell
11th grade - velvet underground
12th grade - new order

wow, i haven't thought about this timeline in a long ass time! but i was INTO all these bands in an epic, obsessive, yet age appropriate kind of way, each and every one of them (ie. as a first grader i just played that frikkin space age alphabet album backwards and forwards, at 33, 45 and 78 rpm, till the grooves collapsed. as a 7th grader i did the same thing to my 45 of whip it, the first record i ever bought with my own money, but i also was thrilled to discover q: are we not men, and equally thrilled to realize it was a completely different thing from whip it, wonder who that brian eno guy was and what a producer actually did, etc etc)

― messiahwannabe, Monday, 22 August 2011 07:39 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

bump.

― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 9 June 2012 17:07 (fourteen years ago)

eight years pass...

No idea why I am thinking about this but it's probably something like

1st (1977-78): John Denver
2nd (78-79): Beatles
3rd (79-80): Beach Boys
4th (80-81): Men at Work
5th (81-82): Michael Jackson
6th (82-83): Cyndi Lauper
7th (83-84): Duran Duran
8th (84-85): Elvis Costello
9th (85-86): Talking Heads
10th (86-87): U2
11th (87-88): The Cure
12th (88-89): REM

― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:40 (five years ago)

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