If you went to high school between, say, 1985-1991, what was your music?
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And still nobody has mentioned....
Adam Ant? Flock of Seagulls? Dexy's Midnight Runners? (Come on Eileen..) Eurhthymics? Men without Hats (Safety Dance?) a-ha? Frankie goes to Hollywood? The Human League? Men at Work? Peter Gabriel? Billy Idol? Ah, good times. 
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My 6 yr DS loves the English Beat's "Mirror in the Bathroom"--he can (much to my DH's disgust) sing all the lyrics:
Mirror in the bathroom please talk free The door is locked just you and me. Can I take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables You can watch yourself while you are eating. Mirror in the bathroom I just can't stop it, Every Saturday you see me window shopping. Find no interest in the racks and shelves Just a thousand reflections of my own sweet self, self, self... Mirror in the bathroom You're my mirror in the bathroom You're my mirror in the bathroom You're my mirror in the bathroom |
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So Alive by Love and Rockets - Love that song! I need to add it to my iTunes, i haven't thought of it in years. Thanks |
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This makes me laugh. I had a friend who would literally jump out of the shower to listen to whatever that one hit wonder he had if it came on her bedroom radio. |
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I remember three distict types of music all tied to different social typre groups. If you were "neutral" and able to be friends with all without adopting the complete persona you could listen to all types. If you really needed to be 100% in one group, you stuck with that group's music.
Music that was cool for the kids from Europe: Depeche Mode, Cure, Smiths, Alphaville, Yaz Music that was cool for the kids from NE: James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Carly Simon, Big Chill soundtrack, Bruce Springsten Music that kids liked but would not admit to liking because it was too public school: Madonna, Sting, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran, Prince A fourth type was music that you had at home on records: Bee Gees, Olivia Newton John, Saturday Night Live, Abba and soundtracks to musicals. This was never played within earshot of anyone else. |
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LEd Zeppelin
Ac/Dc The Pogues The Dead Kennedys The Dead Milkmen The Ramones Guns-n-Roses Iron Maiden Blue Oyster Cult The Cult Queensryche Rush The Misfits Violent Femmes (Can't beleive they sold out) Funny thing is I head a Martha Quinn show on XM called "Songs you loved that now you won't let your kids listen to. and I agreed with all of them. Stuff like Toni Basil's "Mickey" |
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Yeah, you can't say you love a song if you can't ID the artist. |
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Ah, the last gasp of hard rock before the scourge of grunge descended on the land. And one of the great hard rock albums of all time. Too bad Axel Was (is) . . . well, insane. |
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This was my first thought, too. Rush was always a guy band. |
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Graduated in 87 and this could have been my list, too. During my senior year, I also fell in love with The Doors and Jimi Hendrix. I still love all these groups and listen to them frequently. |
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Do high school kids still segregate themselves by the music they listen to?
In the early part of high school (87 grad), I liked whatever was popular. In 9th grade it was Michael Jackson, 10th grade Bruce Springsteen. In Junior & Senior year I became a "new waver," as we were called back then, which meant I discovered the Cure, REM, INXS, Siouxie, and well basically everything they played on WHFS. In college I got into what's now called alternative, but then was what everyone in college listened to. And then I became proto-goth before there was anything called goth -- Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, NIN, etc. |
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You need a music lesson. Goth emerged in the late 70's and took off in the early 80's. |
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Anything that played on WLIR and later WDRE.
Now I listen to First Wave on XM radio in the car, it's like I never grew up! |