Hehe, i got to ask this arguable question. I guess many of us have their "special" points in our personal music-and-taste-developing era, maybe even black ones.

So, what was your favourite band then? Your favourite style of music? Your first CD ever bought/owned?

Now, I'm going to open Round One.
I'm 23 years by now, but I guess I look older

Favourite band: has to be Megadeth (well, I still like them still occasionally)
First CD: Countdown To Extinction, bought in later 1993, of course by Megadeth. My sisters and brothers went mad.

Other faves: Metallica, Napalm Death, Sepultura... ET CETERA... so I guess I was a kind of metalhead. During that time, I never cared too much for Nirvana (one of my favourite bands NOW). My formula: the harder, the better, the cooler!

Hair-dyed? YES. Black in the later years.
Clothes: green jeans (!), chequered shirts.
Trivia: I thought I could impress the girls with the heaviest music. But I tell you: it did not work. They did not like me much these days.

Timeline:ca. 1993-1996

well I was 15 - 18 at that time and that's what I listened to.


Chaos A.D motherfucker

Cheesey pop
ala Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls
and R&B pop


God Im glad I've grown!

Prince and michael jackson/jacksons

the sound of middle school teachers nagging..

thekidsgirl said:

Me too! But... don't be too hard on yourself... at least I think we can forgive you... AS LONG as you DID NOT listen to --- tam tam --- CAUGHT IN THE ACT! I had a friend back in those days - a male friend - who had a cita poster over his bed... Good god, that's inexcusable, isn't it?!?! I believe they were the most terrible boyband ever crawling out of a dusty, dark and wet teen-music-konsumprodukt, but that is not my field of science. I preferred Dave Mustaines red hair so much more.

@weepingwall: ah, teachers are nagging very often... sometimes they even bite, it happened to me 2times. I guess "Low" is one of your faves? It's my fave Bowie, and one of my all-time faves. Excellent choice, if so!!!

lilgish said:

You are welcome! Chaos AD was, as I think, their best effort. Did not like "Roots" a lot; Arise was fine, too. My nephew once borrowed me one of their first albums (I think it had the devil sitting on the cover, in a way). Pretty wild, best SATAN-ROCK FROM HELL! hehe. Not recommended to catholic girls, as long as they did not learn to blow.

SenseOfDoubt said:

Roots was a good album, especially the drum breakdown on the title song. Dave Mustaine is a legend. Rust in Peace

Coundown, Youthnasia

I still love metal and megadeth.
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lilgish said:

Yeah, sometimes theres a need to put some of the old faves into. I do enjoy (the early) Rammstein still a lot. That was the last "metalish" band I discovered, back in 97. (just a little after that I heard that they were in the charts, what a toxic shock!)
Countdown was/is my favourite MD album, followed by Rust in Peace. Especially the omnious organ at the beginning of the first song of "Killing...", hey, I tried to imitate that on a RAPEMAN. well those were the days...

And, of course, Ride the Lightning, MoP, and Justice... by metallica. Simply good memories, simply killer music.

SenseOfDoubt said:

best metallica album, imo.

my coming of age was from 95'-01' so here go my soundtrack.....

sign o the times/the gold exp-prince
stankonia-outkast
anotha day anotha balla-south circle
no more glory-mjg
hard to hit-big mike
thug mentality-krayzie bone
heaven'z movie/the gift-bizzy bone
my homies-scarface
its dark & hell is hot-dmx
still standing-goodie mob
hard to earn/moment of truth-gangstarr
2pacalypse now/me against the world/strictly 4 my n.i.g.g.a.z.-2pac

duran duran 'come undone'
alanis 'jagged little pill'
tori amos 'crucify ep'
des'ree
hole
garbage
madonna 'bedtime stories'
seal
annie lennox 'diva'

and i somehow turned out straight.

badujunkie said:

hehe, you wouldn't believe it, but inspite of exscessive use of electric guitar-medicine, mixed up with long heired chemicals and leather-jacket-acid, i turned out being "normal". satan never gave me a visit (though i would have liked to play some poker or watch britney videos). funny, btw, i just have to think of the PMRC. I think of the "signs" they mentioned a "strange" kid (that maybe was under the influence of the devil) would depict, was the WEARING OF GYM SHOES.

well considering I grew up in the middle of nowhere with about 4 radio stations that played anything other than country--my exposure was both limited and varied. Here were my faves in HS (89-93):

The Steve Miller Band (for drinking to)
The Eagles (for drinking to)
Pearl Jam: 10 (for drinking to)
Metallica: The Black Album (for being rowdy & drinking to)
AC/DC (for football games)
George Michael (since the 3rd grade!!)
MC Hammer (2 Legit Yo!)
JJ Fad
Bell Biv Devoe
En Vogue
Boyz II Men
TLC
Milli Vanilli

I proudly NEVER liked New Kids on the Block, and thankfully have outgrown my penchant for heavy metal and goofy white bands from the 70s.


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T.E.V.I.N-Tevin Campbell
I'm Ready-Tevin Campbell
Back to the World-Tevin Campbell
II-Boyz II Men

EPMD
UTFO
Whodini
Eric B and Rakim
Full Force
Force Mds
New Edition
Madonna
Prince

Basically, all the R&B and rap of the mid to late 80s

badujunkie said:

Let's see... well for the first year or so anyway...


Prince - "My Name Is Prince" b/w "Sexy Mutha"
Dream Warriors - And The Legacy Begins
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
U2 - Achtung Baby
Boyz II Men - Motownphilly
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Music For The People
Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit
PM Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
Salt N Pepa - Blitz of Hits Remixed
Naughty By Nature - "O.P.P."
KLF - What Time Is Love
Alanis - Alanis (1991)
En Vogue "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"
Kris Kross - Totally Krossed Out
TLC - Ooooohhh On The TLC Tip




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weepingwall said:

CinisterCee said:

whoa you knew who alanis was pre-95?

Alanis was HUGE in Canada before Jagged Little Pill. Most Canadians know "Too Hot" from `91.

"Let's Talk About Sex"

Del The Funke Homosapien "Dr. Bombay"

here's some mo Canadian ish:
Organized Rhyme "Check The O.R." (this was Tom Green's rap group)
Kish "She's A Flirt (Let's Do It)"
Maestro Fresh Wes "Conductin' Thangs"

Here I am reminiscin.. I guess the timeline is different for everyone else so I'll just chill now

Prince, Prince, and more Prince. I learned about sex through Prince. I would hear songs like "Head" and "Jack U Off" and didn't know what they meant. When I used to sneak and find my uncle's dirty magazines, I would read the forums in Penthouse and see the words in the stories and that's how I learned what they meant.

Prince ,Slayer , Metallica , AC/DC (played drums in a band that played AC/C songs), lots more

SenseOfDoubt said:

thank you..low is such a wonderful masterpiece and the weepingwall happends to be my favorite track from the album.

For fun: The Beatles, Earth Wind & Fire, Commadores, ad infinitum
For my studies: Telemann, Shostakovich, Bach, ad infinitum
At home with my parents: Anything Jazz or Swing

2pac
naughty by nature
black sheep
pharcyde
stone temple pilots
smashing pumkins
r.e.m.
bell biv devo
tlc
nirvana
nice and smooth
peete rock and cl smooth


This was the stuff that I went out and bought on my own.