Tuesday, August 01, 2006

What Were You Listening To When You Were In High School?


Mr. Poop's List:
1-The Clash "London Calling" released Dec 1979.
2-AC/DC "Highway To Hell" played on both Q104 AND PYX 106
3-Stiff Little Fingers "At The Edge" 45 rpm took the bus into Albany to buy this at the old Worlds Records
4-Dead Kennedy's "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables"
5-Ry Cooder "Bop Til You Drop" - "Down In Hollywood" was a Q104 staple
6-Jim Carroll Band "Catholic Boy"
7- The Clash "Sandinista" took me years to build up the courage/patience to listen to side 6
8-Nick Lowe "Labour Of Lust"
9- X "Under The Big Black Sun"
10-Marshall Crenshaw "S/T" I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for "Maryanne", it was a high school thing

No Name's List:
10. Counting Crows - August & Everything After
9. JGB - Welcome To Our World
8. Bob Marley/Wailers - Babylon By Bus
7. Grateful Dead - American Beauty/Dozin' At The Nick
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex
4. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks
2. Phish - Slip Stich & Pass, Tape of the 2nd night at Nassau April 98
1. Mix Tapes (incl. mix tape 4)

Shrimp Cracker's List:
10. NOFX - PUNK IN DRUBLIC ("The Brews")
9. Grateful Dead - WORKINGMAN'S DEAD
8. Less Than Jake - LOSING STREAK / PEZCORE
7. Bob Marley - NATURAL MYSTIC
6. Beck - MUTATIONS
5. Operation Ivy - ENERGY ("Sound System")
4. The Doors - THE DOORS ("Alabama Song")
3. The Beatles - REVOLVER thru ABBEY ROAD
2. Radiohead - THE BENDS
1. Radiohead - OK COMPUTER

Honorable Mention: V/A - Survival Of The Fattest

Disco Stu's List:
The Mr. T Experience - Love is Dead
The Queers - Love Songs for the Retarted
The Ramones - Ramones
The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Rodgers and Hart Songbook
The Beach Boys - Today!
The Beatles - Revolver
The Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy

Break Me Off A Piece Of That Kit Kat Bar's List:
1. Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
2. Soundgarden- Superunknown
3. Rancid- . . .And Out Come the Wolves
4. Jeff Buckley- Grace
5. The Queers- Love Songs for the Retarded
6. Bed Religion- Recipe for Hate
7. Bouncing Souls- Maniacal Laughter
8. Hole- Live Through This
9. Madonna- Like a Virgin
10. Bloodhound Gang- One Fierce Beer Coaster

Johnny Utah's List:
10. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
9. Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
8. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
7. Ben Lee - Grandpa Would
6. Rancid - Out Come the Wolves
5. Operation Ivy - Energy
4. Braid - Frame and Canvas
3. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers
2. Belle and Sebasitan - If You're Feeling Sinister
1. They Might Be Giants - Lincoln

Bonanza Jellybean's List:
1. Pearl Jam- Ten
2. Greenday- Dookie
3. Nirvana- Nevermind
4. Nirvana- Unplugged
5. Blood Sugar Sex Magic- Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Weezer
7. Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger
8. "Singles" Soundtrack
9. Sheryl Crow
10. Alanis Morrisette- Jagged Little Pill

Hendo's List:
The Ramones - Ramones Mania (this was the first ramones cd i ever purchased, so....)
The Queers - Love Songs For The Retarded
The Queers - Don't Back Down
Operation Ivy - Energy
Rancid - Lets Go
Nofx - Punk In Drublic
The Bouncing Souls - Maniacal Laughter, and s/t
The Supersuckers - Mustve Been High
Screeching Weasel - Kill The Musicians, and anthem for a new tomorrow, and wiggle, and my brain hurts...
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
Honorable Mention - every ramones album, reverend horton heat - liquor in the front, the stooges, and black flag - damaged

Jeffrey Beaumont's List:
10. Phish, 7.9.97 set II - Lyon, France (You Enjoy Myself, Bela Fleck & Co., dudes!)
9. My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
8. Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
7. Phish, 5.7.94, set II - The Bomb Factory!!! (Tweezer, dudes!)
6. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
5. Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
4. Nirvana, In Utero
3. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Phish, A Live One
1. Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West

Honorable mention goes to Wilco Being There and Built to Spill, There's NWL and Perfect from Now On. Also Phish 12.31.95, 3.22.93 (Gamehendge!), 6.6.96 (shitty but sentimental), 12.2.95 (INSANE Tweezer), all Halloween shows plus 11.2.98 Dark Side (merging of worlds!!!). Also Radiohead The Bends, Smashing Pumpkins Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, and everything Pink Floyd up until Animals (never dug The Wall. I never listened to Pavement until I got to college.

Ezruh Selloff's List:
Top ten albums from high school:
1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. Weezer - Blue album
3. Soundgarden - Superunknown
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Alice in Chains - Unplugged
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. Soul Coughing - El Oso
8. Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
9. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
10. Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers

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