ZombieKitten said:

ugh

I was in my final year of high school, and thanks to the guy I was crushing on, was into Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (who toured here that year)

I still have my Frank Zappa pangs of nostalgia though. After a couple :b:

I was probably also listening to Clannad.

Mostly Prince though

For some reason this song comes to mind. Maybe it has something to do with that other thread.

I was a senior in high school in 1988 and was all about classic rock. I think GNR was the only modern music I listened to at the time, probably because I saw them open for Aerosmith that year and they blew me away. Otherwise it was Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, Johnny Winter, Pink Floyd, etc...

[Edited 10/2/10 14:44pm]

I was 3. But contrary to my age, I can remember listening to Janet Jackson a LOT in the car with my dad. He played the crap outta Control as a whole. That's probably why I have such fond memories attatched to that time in music. Same for Luther. Any Love and Give Me The Reason...two albums that literally had a spot in the car's tape deck shelf. Although my dad love Sade, I can't really recall hearing lots of her. The ONE album my dad would keep in the car, in the house, and pretty much everywhere we went, was this really odd instrumental white-noise kind of music. It's hard to define it. He and I had an inside joke about it. We called it the "throop throop" music, because there was one track that had nothing but musical dropping water. But just like most tape players, eventually the thing ate most of our beloved tapes.

Which sucked.

But lucky for papa bear, he has a kiddo who loves him dearly. So I've been breaking my butt trying to compile all these songs and cds and his iPod with things from our past. The Fall of '88 was actually sort of a hard one for us both. With mama gone, it seemed like daddy and I bonded over all that good music.

rmartin70 said:

ZombieKitten said:

ugh

I was in my final year of high school, and thanks to the guy I was crushing on, was into Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (who toured here that year)

I still have my Frank Zappa pangs of nostalgia though. After a couple :b:

I was probably also listening to Clannad.

Mostly Prince though

For some reason this song comes to mind. Maybe it has something to do with that other thread.

I was a senior in high school in 1988 and was all about classic rock. I think GNR was the only modern music I listened to at the time, probably because I saw them open for Aerosmith that year and they blew me away. Otherwise it was Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, Johnny Winter, Pink Floyd, etc...

[Edited 10/2/10 14:44pm]

titties and beer - that was my night last night!!!

same for me, and I lived out in a country town, so if it wasn't big rock, you must be gay or "weird"

I was probably listening to lovesexy again...and again....and again, oh, and i bought the "i wish u heaven" cd single

sextonseven said:

damosuzuki said:

I think I had pretty generic 80s-era alterna-rock tastes back then. For bands from that era, I remember listening to a lot of:

The Replacements

Jesus & Mary Chain

The Waterboys - I used to really love Fisherman's Blues. Haven't listened to it in years. That's one album I'd like to revisit just to see how it holds up.

Prefab Sprout

The Fall

Front 242

Skinny Puppy

I was very much into Roxy Music & Bowie back then as well.

[Edited 9/28/10 16:18pm]

1988 was the year before my tastes turned upside down so I was still mostly in sync with the other black students on campus at the time. In 1989 however, I left all that mainstream R&B stuff behind. Never looked back really.

Same here, except for me it was 1990. I loved a lot of stuff on black radio in 1989 but in 1990, I hated the majority of stuff on black radio and started listening to and buying only the house/dance type stuff that was being played in the black gay clubs (the majority of which was not being played on black radio).