Forget about what music you are listening to now..

[enigmatic]

What were listening to when you were 13?

I was full throttle into a Beatles musical orgy that I came out of when I first heard a local Cleveland Band called Rocket From The Tombs; it changed my life. What were you listening to at that age?

[Nicole]

1. Carole King & James Taylor

were my favorites. Rod Stewart, Carly Simon, and Simon & Garfunkel were good too.

CCR,CSN&Y, Grass Roots, Chicago & Three Dog Night were the groups I liked.

Then I discovered Motown.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I am ashamed to admit, my dear enigmatic........

That I don't remember......:blush:

I didn't listen much to rock then........

I think!

Mostly I listened to classical........

I grew up with that.......

I wanted to get your thread going ........otherwise I wouldn't have responded......

Besides, you're my good friend, and I hate seeing my friends' threads not get any responses!

:hide:

:loveya:

[enigmatic]

5. Hey Peggy!

:hug:

[Broken_Hero]

3. 13...

junior high....2 Live Crew, Metallica, Marty Robbins, Air Supply...thats about it. I had to hide 2 Live Crew/Metallica, my mother hated those groups....

[enigmatic]

7. I love that list

That's a great mix..

[Broken_Hero]

8. thats when

I started picking/choosing my music. I was raised in a strict household, so I got the Marty Robbins taste, from my Dads music, Air Supply from my mother...Metallica was just so damn...tough, rough...and 2 Live Crew...I liked them cause the cussed a lot, and had some decent beats...:)

[ghostsofgiants]

4. At 13, Rage Against The Machine was probably my favourite band.

Plus a lot of random obscure alternative rock that I would hear on the radio at like 2am.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Awww...geez

I was listening to Cat Stevens "Tea For the Tillerman" and "Teaser and the Firecat", Chicago was still big then but I think they were still known as Chicago Transit Authority, Paul McCartney's solo stuff...Ram came out that year...Procol Harum, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Al Greene, and (guilty pleasure) I've always loved the Raspberries.., Curtis Mayfield, Gladys Knight...I was all over the place...oh and Don McClean and I never stopped listening to him

[enigmatic]

9. The Raspberries!

Cleveland Boys; "Overnight Sensation/Number 1 Hit Record" is a classic. Did anybody influence you towards listening to what you did, or was it from listening to the radio? I was talking to a friend about this tonight, and had alot of fun going back in time...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. I had an older brother and sister

but radio was just better then too! You had FM stations playing all the great album oriented rock and all the hits were still on AM stations, so you had lots to cull from. Dr Demento was on every Sunday night.. Within a couple years of that Wolfman Jack had his late night concerts on every friday night with awesome bands...hell back then Dr Hook and the Medicine Show were still a bit underground playing Shel Silverstein's stuff..HOffman's "Who is Harry Kellerman..." came out that year

[enigmatic]

14. Radio was so great back then

Between the freeform FM stations and the AM Top 40 stations that on a good night you could hear halfway across the country, it really was a golden age....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. It stayed that way even into the 80's

I remember getting a great oldies LA station all the way up to Oregon back then...

[conflictgirl]

10. Dead Milkmen, (early) Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure

I was WAY into The Cure for almost 10 years, starting around the "Head on the Door" era.

[Omphaloskepsis]

11. NOFX

This album actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26M_Airlines

And:

[mark414]

13. 13 was when i really started to dig through my dad's record collection

granted he had been playing bits and pieces from it in the years before that but this was about the age my musical curiousity blew up into a full on obsession...

a lot of sonny rollins, cannonball adderly, lovin spoonful, dylan, live at leeds (i'm surprised i didn't wear that record out), the concert for bangladesh and the moody blues

a cousin of mine gave me a firehose record...wow

and of course i had my wonderful older brother and all his hip friends who introduced me to stuff like david bowie that WASN'T on the radio (like Low), pavement, op ivy (and rancid), flaming lips, sebadoh...

on my own i listened to a lot of the alternative rock of the era - stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins, that whole lot, especially soundgarden

ahh memories...

[enigmatic]

15. I was really lucky

I had 2 brothers w/ diametrically different, but comprehensive record collections, so I got a education when I finally fell in love with music with a passion. I remember listening to both Tom Waits and Lou Reed/Velvet Underground around that same time, too thanks to both of them; "Live At Leeds", too. I played "My Generation" w/ the extended guitar workout by Pete Townshend as loud as I could...

[mark414]

17. word

there was no other way to play live at leeds though, besides as loud as you could...

my older brother's also responsible for my love of hip hop - he started out with records like doggystyle, the chronic, cypress hill and then started refining his tastes a little with records like illmatic and it takes a nation of millions...

by the time i was 14 i was working at my high school's radio station that had 10,000 records and 25,000 cds with a guy who had a 40 year radio career behind him - that's about when i absolutely lost my fucking mind, in a good way of course

[NMMNG]

18. Pink Floyd

Foreigner
Air Supply
Blondie
Abba
Bob Segar

[Ariana Celeste]

19. Pearl Jam

and Korn


Sigh.

[driver8]

20. Hey -- there is also a band called "Rocket from the Crypt." I always

thought that was one of the coolest names for a band.

When I was thirteen I was into:

KISS!! (Kiss Army member)
Aerosmith
Heart
Pink Floyd
Any other bands that were on my K-Tel records.

[Skittles]

21. Alvin Lee, Cream, Beatles, Stones

yes INDEED

[idgiehkt]

22. LOL

Journey
Blondie
Heart
that band with the drummer that lost his arm
Led Zeppelin
Pat Benatar
I can't remember any more

[enigmatic]

23. kick before I head into work

[bikebloke]

24. Duett Komplett by Spliff

Haven't the foggiest about back then.

[Taverner]

25. I had just discovered Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne and Led Zeppelin

I was in heaven

Going to a Fundie Jr. High, this was the REAL salvation I needed.

[MiniMandaRuth]

26. Exactly the kind of music I am now.

After all, I was only thirteen a year ago.