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Tell us more about that Peter, Paul, and Mary album that molded you into the man you are today

 

 

I know pot messes with peoples memory Ry-o but Puff the Magic Dragon is a little bit more up your alley, no?

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You know how most people think that the music was so much better back in the old days than all the new music is? Well, I just took a look at the list of top 10 albums from my high school freshman year (1971-72) and realized that it may have been one of the best years ever for solid, quality, pop music.

 

10) Yes - Close to the Edge

9) ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

8) Elton John - Honky Chateau

7) Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds

6) Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach

5) Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

4) Alice Cooper - School's Out

3) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

2) Deep Purple - Machine Head

1) The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

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I was a freshman 83-84. I listened to pretty much everything then.

 

Michael Jackson - Thriller

The Police - Syncronicity

Quiet Riot - Metal Health

Van Halen - 1984

Prince - Purple Rain

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These are albums I bought as a freshman in High School.

 

Are you Experienced .. Hendrix

Sgt. Peppers ................. The Beatles

Best of Beach Boys vol 2. Beach Boys

Ode to Billy Joe..... .. ... Bobby Gentry (45 rpm single)

The Who Sell out............. The Who

The Doors .................... The Doors.

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OK I don't want to answer for Greggy but I will anyway.

 

Although he was a little late, his actual Freshman year started in the fall of 1994, about 14 years late. The upside was he set and still holds his school's Frosh record for back hair.

 

He liked Green Day's Dookie Album and something by a band named Weezer.

 

Ok to make it easy for Greggy let's just go with the year you turned 14.

You know how most people think that the music was so much better back in the old days than all the new music is?

 

You know why most people think that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BECAUSE IT'S !@#$ING TRUE!!! :devil:

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1983 was a fairly ****ty year for music- I wish it was freshman year college- 1988 was much superior IMO

Murmur-REM

Hootenanny-The Replacements

Out of Step-Minor Threat

Speaking in Tongues-Talking Heads

Texas Flood-Stevie Ray Vaughn

Suicidal Tendencies

Kill Em All-Metallica

Queensryche EP

Bent Out of Shape-Rainbow

The Waterboys

The Minutemen-

Shout At the Devil-Motley Crue

Show No Mercy-Slayer

 

I am sure that I am forgetting some obvious ones. I have most of those listed on vinyl

 

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1983 was a fairly ****ty year for music- I wish it was freshman year college- 1988 was much superior IMO

Murmur-REM

Hootenanny-The Replacements

Out of Step-Minor Threat

Speaking in Tongues-Talking Heads

Texas Flood-Stevie Ray Vaughn

Suicidal Tendencies

Kill Em All-Metallica

Queensryche EP

Bent Out of Shape-Rainbow

The Waterboys

The Minutemen-

Shout At the Devil-Motley Crue

Show No Mercy-Slayer

 

I am sure that I am forgetting some obvious ones. I have most of those listed on vinyl

 

 

I was '82-'83 and I went back to look at what came out then. What a musical desert. I now know why I can't answer this question. I would ride my bike to Record Exchange and buy albums that were already 4-10 years old. Ramones, Clash, The Jam. The newest thing I owned in "82 was Tattoo You.

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Umphreys McGee Baby. That is one current band kicking ass!!

 

I don't get out to many concerts anymore. I mainly listen to classical music nowadays - not so much the mellow stuff, but mainly composers like Mussorgsky, Paganini, Bach, etc. Most of the bands that I love are either long gone, too old to tour, or have only one or two remaining original members. The only two bands that I can think of that I'll go see every single time they're in town are King Diamond and Ghost (still love me some of that dark music).

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I don't get out to many concerts anymore. I mainly listen to classical music nowadays - not so much the mellow stuff, but mainly composers like Mussorgsky, Paganini, Bach, etc. Most of the bands that I love are either long gone, too old to tour, or have only one or two remaining original members. The only two bands that I can think of that I'll go see every single time they're in town are King Diamond and Ghost (still love me some of that dark music).

 

Music is my happy place and that list has had me spending a few hours each night listening to the albums on my list. It's crazy how well I remember that music. I do love classical music and the wife and I are going to a series in Berkeley the next three Saturdays. I like the mellow stuff as well. We got our annual invites to the Baroque Music Festival in SoCal just yesterday.

 

I go to about 6 shows a year and it's usually the same groups when the come through town.

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Book by David Hepworth. "Never a Dull Moment --1971 the Year Rock Exploded"

 

That being said, my freshman year in college. I did not buy all of these and the guys in the dorm would share with one another. We wore out the needles of the stereos.

 

Led Zeppelin 4

Who's Next

LA Woman... the Doors

Fragile...Yes

Tapestry... Carole King

Aqualung .. Jethro Tull

The yes Album...Yes
Every Picture tells a Story... Rod Stewart

Tarkus... ELP

Killer....Alice Cooper

Straight up... Badfinger

Low Spark of High Heel Boys .. Traffic

Hot Rocks..1964--1971 Rolling Stones

American Pie.. Don McLean

Pictures at an Exhibition... ELP

Every good Boy Deserves Favour... Moody Blues

4 Way Street... C S N Y

A Space in Time.. 10 Years After

Cry of Love... Hendrix

Concert 4 Bangladesh ,, George Harrison

Best of the Guess Who.

 

Technically the following were released in 1970, but they were favorites on the turn table.

 

Paranoid... Black Sabbath

Layla and other Assorted Love Songs... Derek and the Dominoes

 

1971 was a great year for music. And I am old/young enough to remember most of it.

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For me the year was 1985.

 

My favorite album that year definitely would not have been anything current at the time.

 

It was probably something by the Doors as that is when I was going through my Doors phase as I recall.

 

LOL

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For me the year was 1985.

 

My favorite album that year definitely would not have been anything current at the time.

 

It was probably something by the Doors as that is when I was going through my Doors phase as I recall.

 

LOL

 

You could do an awful lots worse in 1985 than The Doors. :beer:

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For me the year was 1985.

 

My favorite album that year definitely would not have been anything current at the time.

 

It was probably something by the Doors as that is when I was going through my Doors phase as I recall.

 

LOL

1985 was a classic year. I have this old 1985 Billboard CD, and every song on it is awesome. We built this city! Lover boy! Power of love by Huey Lewis! I think madonna's best album was from that year too.

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The year was 1986. These are the albums I was listening to:

 

Peter Gabriel - So

Smithereens - Especially For You

Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile

Van Halen - 5150

Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life

Paul Simon - Graceland

Beastie Boys - License to Ill

Boston - Third Stage

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Ozzy Osbourne - Ultimate Sin

Pretenders - Get Close

David Lee Roth - Eat 'Em and Smile

 

EDIT - I forgot to list my favorite out of all of these. It's between So and 5150. I'm leaning toward So.

I have pretty much the same list as Gug, but add:

 

Public Image Ltd. - Album

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Prince and the Revolution - Parade

AC/DC - Who Made Who

Run DMC - Raising Hell

Talking Heads - True Stories

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Liverpool (the one without Relax and Two Tribes)

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It's interesting to see a couple different bands with multiple albums within that year or two. That never seems to work out too well for the quality of the music anymore (and by anymore, I mean within the last 15 years or so).

 

I just scanned through a list from 1996 when I started high school. I guess I tend to associate bands with single songs most of the time because there's only one album on the entire list that stuck out to me at all, Pearl Jam's No Code. I've listened to them pretty much non-stop from day 1. From the list, I'm guessing that the biggest seller was the stupid Spice Girl debut, which just makes me angry.

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Motorhead: 1916

REM: Out of Time

Pearl Jam: Ten

Ozzy: No More Tears

Guns n' Roses: Use Your Illusion I

Guns n' Roses: Use Your Illusion II

 

One of Toms all time favorites, Tom Petty: Into the Great Wide Open :lol:

 

Two all time classics: :worthy:

Metallica: Metallica (aka The Black Album)

Nirvana: Nevermind

 

 

A few others, but those two

 

 

Same year I graduated. I wasn't a fan of Guns N' Roses, Tom Petter or R.E.M. but was listening to the others.

 

 

 

Pearl Jam: Ten

Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger

Metallica: Black Album (though admittedly, this was the beginning of the end)

Nirvana: Nevermind

Ozzy: No More Tears

Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Pixies: Tompe Le Monde

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo

Anthrax: Attack of the Killer B's

Temple of the Dog: Self Titled

Mr. Bungle: Self Titled

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind

Billy Bragg: Don't Try This at Home

Rush: Roll the Bones

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