Soundtrack of your High School days

[hutter]

[quote][i]Originally posted by New Wave Dave[/i]
Van Halen played a lunch time concert at our high school in 1976 so technically I could add them to that list but they just really sucked then.
[/quote]
As opposed to 1986?

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h197/troylowe/206662593_2befeb1ca2_o.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> Mick Foley likes David Lee Roth! Sammy...not so much.

[DougMash]

Me and some friends led a grassroots effort to get "Dancing With Myself" elected as our prom song in 1985. It won, but the preppies running the prom committee shot it down.

We ended up with "One More Night" by Phil Collins ;P

[New Wave Dave]

[quote][i]Originally posted by hutter[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by New Wave Dave[/i]
Van Halen played a lunch time concert at our high school in 1976 so technically I could add them to that list but they just really sucked then.
[/quote]
As opposed to 1986?[/quote]
Another Sammy-hater... I love it! [:D] 78-84, my man! \ m /

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[KYYX4ever]

HS for me was 1982-86.
I was playing all the great obscure New Wave back then on my [b]own[/b] stereo (didn't have a car, though).
Think of KYYX's or KJET's playlists, and that would have been the personal HS soundtrack for me and my friends.

However, on the whole, what my actual high school listened to would have been the typical "Top 40 New Wave and Pop":

Prince
Madonna
Michael Jackson
etc.

along with what passed for suburban, preppie rock:
Def Leppard
Ratt
Quiet Riot
etc.

Pretty normal, I'd say.

[suttonrecords]

I actually still have my high school tapes from Manila, just songs I recorded from XB-102:

"Harborcoat" - R.E.M.
"Absolute Reality" - the Alarm
"Happy Hour" - the Housemartins
"Tears" - the Chameleons
"The Windmills of Your Mind" - the Colourfield
"Enveloped Ideas" - the Dawn
"State of Art" - Friends Again
"Sacraments of Love" - Annabelle Lamb
"Two Rivers" - the Adventures
"Love Vigilantes" - New Order
"Still on Fire" - Aztec Camera
"Backwards and Forwards" - Aztec Camera


Michael Sutton
CEO/Sutton Records
http://www.suttonrecords.com

[Moparmark]

Nobody I knew had cassette tapes in highschool(very fuzzy in the brain from that era,74/77)but I do remember alot of Pink Floyd and Steve Miller lp,s being carried around.As for me Stones,Bowie and Golden Earring was all I wanted to hear.

[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Moparmark[/i]
<br>Nobody I knew had cassette tapes in highschool[/quote]

Maybe because everyone had 8-Track Tapes? Remember those pieces of shit... [;)]

[Dave]

Hi All,

A lot of those cassettes got baked in my car, dammit! Here's a sampling of the cassettes and LPs that I was into during my HSYs... and still listening to them for tha matter, albeit diff media

Squeeze - ArgyBargy
XTC - Black Seas
Rush - Moving Pictures
Clash - London Calling
U2 - October
Peter Gabriel - 3 (Games Without Frontiers)
Cars - Candy-O
ELO - Out of the Blue
Split Enz - True Colours

[Moparmark]

Mr Glockstadt is dead on.I did not get into cassettes until 1980.I quit buying 8-tracks after the deck in my 70 camaro ate my Golden Earring live tape soon after I bought it in 1977/78.Then it was AM radio for a while.

[Surly]

I didn't own a car until after high school, but I had a Walkman with me at all times during that time period. Some cassette gems I owned:

Echo & The Bunnymen - self-titled EP
Human League - [i]Fascination![/i] EP
Simple Minds - [i]Sparkle In The Rain[/i], [i]New Gold Dream[/i], [i]Once Upon A Time[/i] (they're my favorite band; I bought everything on both LP and cassette, and eventually on CD)
R.E.M. - [i]Murmur[/i]
Thompson Twins - [i]Into The Gap[/i], [i]Here's To Future Days[/i]
A Flock Of Seagulls - [i]Listen[/i]
Art Of Noise - [i]Into Battle[/i] and [i]Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?[/i]
The Church - [i]Heyday[/i]
Kaja(googoo) - [i]White Feathers[/i], [i]Extra Play[/i] and [i]Crazy People's Right To Speak[/i]
Tears For Fears - [i]The Hurting[/i]

I bought a lot more records than cassettes and would just make compilation tapes.


And the various artists [i]SR-1A Sound Rations[/i] sampler that came in a tin can, where I first discovered The Smiths and Scritti Politti!

"Words like conviction can turn into a sentence"

[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Moparmark[/i]
<br>Mr Glockstadt is dead on.I did not get into cassettes until 1980. I quit buying 8-tracks after the deck in my '70 camaro ate my Golden Earring live tape soon after I bought it in 1977/78.Then it was AM radio for a while.
[/quote]

I know, my deck ate those 8-Tracks all the time before putting in a Concord cassette tape deck in my car. And to boot, right in the middle of your song, the track switched, so blank air-time and then it continued playing the song! Ugh!!! [:(] [8]

And AM radio, don't even get me started... Total dead zone for New Wave, unless you listened to KROQ's sister station at 1240 (or 1200?) AM for some good tunes (if you lived in LA, that is [;)]).

So Moparmark, may all your and mine 8-Tracks R.I.P.! [xx(] Good Riddence... [^]

[teenageradiostar]

space oddity - david bowie
maggie may, you wear it well - rod stewart
get it on, hot love, jeepster, t.rex
coz i luv u - slade
fox on the run - sweet
boppin the blues - blackfeather
gypsy queen - country radio
i remember when i was young - matt taylor
also lots of joni mitchell, neil young, steely dan, rolling stones, pink floyd.

[MichaelCool]

In High School I made the transition from Heavy Metal to Modern Rock/New Wave, with Hardcore Punk as my transitional force.

The Soundtrack of my High School days:

The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion, Lucretia, Dominion
The Cult - She Sell Sanctuary, Rain, Brother Wolf Sister Moon
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On, Blues from a gun
The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
New Order - Blue Monday, True Faith
Joy Division - Transmission, Love Will Tear Us Apart
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
Lotus Eaters - First Picture of You
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peekaboo, The Passenger, Happy House

and then it went further....

[dcappe]

I was in High School from 82-85. Here are the albums that defined my time.
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth, Folk Of The 80s (Part III)
Spoons - Arias and Symphonies, Talk Back
Blue Peter - Radio Silence, Falling
Human League - Dare, Hysteria
Alphaville - Forever Young
Icicle Works - ST
Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire, World of Wonders
China Crisis - Working With Fire and Steel, Flaunt the Imperfection, What Price Paradise
Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell through Black Celebration
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
New Music - From A To B
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream, Sons and Fascination, Sparkle in the Rain, Once Upon A Time
Thomas Dolby - Wireless, The Flat Earth
Thompson Twins - Into The Gap and Side Kicks
U2 - Boy, War, Unforgettable Fire
Japan - Assemblage
Duran Duran - ST, Rio
Blanc Mange - Mange Tout, Happy Families
Billy Idol - ST, Rebel Yell
Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
Howard Jones - Human's Lib, Dream Into Action

Oh also...
Script for a Jester's Tear, Fugazi and Misplaced Childhood by Marillion, all Peter Gabriel albums, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin and Genesis up to 1975.


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"This is where the loose ends tie together"

[buffalochipz]

High school for me was 1985-1988. Had no choice but to listen to mainstream Top 40 radio but managed to discover better stuff through magazines (believe it or not Spin was a great read when it first came out) a bit from MTV and my musical saviour--the first Trouser Press Record Guide.
I found these dozen cassettes in my old bedroom last time I was at mom and dad's. Sadly, I ended up throwing them away. I don't own a cassette deck and own the important ones on CD.

Slammin Watusis
Nik Kershaw - Human Racing & The Riddle
Tubes - Completion Backwards Theory
Restless Variations compilation
Enigma Variations compilation
Homestead Records compilation
Strange Advance - 2wo
Rubber Rodeo - Scenic Views
Kate Bush - The Whole Story
World Class Punk compilation [“27 Bands 25 Countries!”]
Agent Orange - This Is The Voice
Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis