# Favourite music in high school / favourite music today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335 "2006-01-17T07:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/1 "2006-01-17T07:17:54Z")
I was thinking about how my musical tastes haven’t changed much from my high school days. The bands have, but the genres really haven’t. How about you? 10-30 years later are you listening to the same bands or grooving on the latest pop tracks? So here’s some questions: 1. What was your favourite album in high school? 2. When was this? The year? 3. Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format? 4. When was the last time you listened to this album? 5. What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes) 6. Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to? ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/2 "2006-01-17T07:43:54Z")
1. What was your favourite album in high school? **Duran Duran - Seven & the Ragged Tiger** 1. When was this? The year? **1984** 1. Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format? **Yes.** 1. When was the last time you listened to this album? **Parts of it, within the past few weeks.** 1. What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes) **INXS - _Switch_** **Duran Duran - _Astronaut_** 1. Are these albums something high school you would have listened to? **They’re not quite as good as the high school stuff, but I would have listened to it.** ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/3 "2006-01-17T07:46:33Z")
1. Smashing Pumpkins - _Siamese Dream_ 2. 1994 3. The album has not been released in a newer format, but I have converted my old copy into mp3’s. 4. About a year ago. 5. Ash Ra Tempel _Shwingungen_, Prince - "Purple Rain Severe Storms Extended Forecast (bootleg compilation of alternate and extended versions of “Purple Rain”-era songs) 6. Are these albums something high school you would have listened to? Most likely, if I had known that they existed. I would have thought that the Ash Ra Tempel was “like the Doors or something,” and I was getting into electronic music and synthesizers enough that I probably would have found the extended “Purple Rain” mixes to be very fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/4 "2006-01-17T08:16:39Z")
Fav album in school - (tie) _Billion Dollar Babies/Killer_ both by Alice Cooper Year - mid Seventies Own 'em both on vinyl, tape and CD I’ve listened to them within this past week. Last two CD’s bought (both in December) _Welcome To My Nightmare and School’s Out_ also both Alice Cooper. (I finally got a CD player quite recently so I’m slowly filling in my collection as I find 'em. So far I’m up to thirteen.) Would I have listened to them in school? Uh, yes! ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/5 "2006-01-17T08:40:34Z")
I suppose I started this thread, I should play along. **1) What was your favourite album in high school?** Killing Joke - Killing Joke **2) When was this? The year?** Early 80’s. **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** I had the LP (still might someplace). I re-bought the tape in the late 80’s. I thought I had the CD of it but I don’t. Next week, I will. 🙂 **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** I heard some tracks off it about a month ago. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** CD: Leonard Cohen - The Truth CD Single: Naïve/Days of Swine & Roses - KMFDM, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult (a remix exchange) **6) Are these albums something high school you would have listened to?** I think I would have liked Cohen. I was into Tom Waits as well and some of Cohen isn’t far from that. I think I would have liked the KMFDM remix of TTK’s _The Days of Swine and Roses_ but I don’t think I would have liked the TTK’s remix of the KMFDM track. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/6 "2006-01-17T08:55:43Z")
\*\*1) What was your favourite album in high school? \*\* **Blur** _Parklife_ **2) When was this? The year?** 1994 **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Just bought a new copy of it before Christmas. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Couple days ago. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** **Gorillaz** _Demon Days \* and **Royksopp** _ The Understanding\* **6) Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to?** Possibly. Gorillaz might have been a little too much for me back then. Hell, when they first came out a few years ago, I barely paid attention to them. As a huge Blur fan, I was well aware of their existence. However, I’ve been a Graham Coxon fan for years, and when he left Blur, I stopped paying attention to them for a little while, and followed Graham on his solo endeavors. However, after hearing _Feel Good Inc_, and more recently, _Dare_, I fell back in love with the \*real \* reason I loved Blur from the start: Damon Albarn. It’s _his_ hooks and catches I adore. So, maybe. If I’d stopped being such an elitist for a moment and just _listened_, I might have. I probably wouldn’t have cared much for Royksopp in 1994. Liked them a little, maybe, but I grew into that sound. My appreciation for it at that time was severely underdeveloped. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/7 "2006-01-17T10:20:15Z")
\*\*1) What was your favourite album in high school? \*\* I listened to a lot of different kinds of music, but if I have to pick one I’ll say _Wish You Were Here_ by Pink Floyd **2) When was this? The year?** Graduated in '75 **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Yes and yes, many times. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** This year. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** \*Unfold The Future \* and \*Alive On Earth \* both by the Flower Kings (And before that it was _Meet The Flower Kings_ DVD. I tend to get obsessive, sometimes.) **6) Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to?** If they had existed. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/8 "2006-01-17T11:24:35Z")
1. What was your favourite album in high school? _The Best of the Easybeats_ - seminal Aussie rock band who were far better than most international acts but at the time it was hard to have an overseas career. Legendary figures nowadays here. 2. When was this? The year? 1969 3. Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format? CD boxed set of all their stuff 4. When was the last time you listened to this album? Some time last year - mid year-ish 5. What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes) _Noah’s Ark_ by CocoRosie, a New York band I heard first time on Sunday night _Catching Tales_ by Jamie Cullum 6. Are these albums something high school you would have listened to? CocoRosie couldn’t have existed in 1969, I’m surprised they exist in 2006. Jamie Cullum would probably have been too jazzy for me, although I really liked my parents Sinatra records when all I was buying was rock. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/9 "2006-01-17T12:31:15Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > 1. What was your favourite album in high school? > > 2. When was this? The year? > > 3. Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format? > > 4. When was the last time you listened to this album? > > 5. What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes) > > 6. Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to? 1. My favorite record in high school was a Richard Pryor album I found for like, two bucks at a second-hand store. Musically, though, probably STP’s Core or Ben Folds’ Five’s Whatever and Ever, Amen. 2. '98-'01 3. My mom threw out the Richard Pryor record. The other two I had originally on cassette, but I’ve since replaced them with CDs. 4. Both are now on mini-disc in my car, so I listen to them occasionally. 5. The last CD I bought was Duology, a pair of local guitarists who recorded in their living rooms. I can’t remember more exactly than that, but I know I’ve picked up some Theory of a Deadman, Mad Season and Tricky. I probably would’ve listened to all of it high school (since that wasn’t too long ago for me). ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/10 "2006-01-17T12:54:46Z")
**1) What was your favourite album in high school?** Whitesnake’s self-titled album. **2) When was this? The year?** 1. **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** I don’t have it anymore, just a few MP3 tracks from the album that I downloaded. I went through a brief “purge” period when a then-girlfriend convinced me that rock music was corrupting my mind. Dammit, I want my old CDs back now! **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** As an album (tack-by-track), I’d say 1990, before the year of the aforementioned purge. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** Shadows Fall “The War Within” and Skinlab “Bound, Gagged And Blindfolded”. **6) Are these albums something high school you would have listened to?** Absolutely. My tastes haven’t changed in 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/11 "2006-01-17T13:10:22Z")
\*\*1) What was your favourite album in high school? \*\* At the time I graduated, I probably would have said _Keep Moving_ by Madness **2) When was this? The year?** 1985 **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Yes **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Not sure exactly. I have enough CDs nowadays that quite a while can go by between listens of any particular one. But this album, and most of the albums I had in high school, I still own in some form or other and still listen to at least once in a while. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** Three simultaneously: _Out-of-State Plates_ by Fountains of Wayne; _The Magic Numbers_ by The Magic Numbers, and _Thanksgiving_ (EP) by Ray Davies **6) Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to?** Yes (especially considering I was already “into” the Kinks in high school). > [@](#): > > I was thinking about how my musical tastes haven’t changed much from my high school days. The bands have, but the genres really haven’t. I suspect this is true of many people, at least among those who had musical tastes of their own and didn’t just go along with what was hot at the time. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/12 "2006-01-17T14:07:03Z")
\*\*1) What was your favourite album in high school? \*\* How to choose? I was soaking up music like a sponge then. I already had hundreds of records. If I have to make one choice, I’d say “The Slider” by T Rex, but that sort of doesn’t even scratch the surface (pun intended). **2) When was this? The year?** 1972; I went to high school 1971-1975. **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** I still have the album, and four different editions of the CD remastered from different sources, with different bonus tracks. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** In December. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought?** Paul McCartney - “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard” and King Crimson - “In The Court Of The Crimson King” (2005 master tape edition) to complement the four other versions of it that I have. **6) Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to?** Yes. I am still acquiring all the music I ever knew growing up, on CDs. Now they sound better, and in many cases there is extra music on them. And I’m still catching up on music of the period that I missed while I was immersed in other music. My tastes are the same as they have always been. I lost interest in current popular musiic about 1987 and haven’t heard a single song that made me want to rush out and buy a copy since. But there is so much other music that appeals to me, that I’ll never be bored. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/13 "2006-01-17T17:49:19Z")
\*\*1) What was your favourite album in high school? \*\* Probably Leah Andreone’s _Veiled_ or Green Day’s _Dookie_. **2) When was this? The year?** This would’ve been '94-'98. **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Yes, I still have them both. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Both within the past year. Good stuff. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** Crowpath’s _Son of Sulphur_ and Ephel Duath’s _Pain Necessary to Know_. **6) Are these albums something high school you would have listened to?** Hell, I don’t know. Probably not. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/14 "2006-01-17T18:15:01Z")
\*\*1) What was your favourite album in high school? \*\* I’d say either Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration” or Nine Inch Nails’ “Downward Spiral”. **2) When was this? The year?** 1992 - 1995 **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Yep, have them both. Even bought the NIN one remastered and will buy the DM one remastered when it comes out next year. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** NIN about two weeks ago, DM just the other day. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** Neuroticfish “Gelb” and Dead Can Dance “Live in Chicago, 10/12/05” double cd. **6) Are these albums something high school you would have listened to?** I would have loved the Neuroticfish one, but I’m not sure I would have been as into the Dead Can Dance discs. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/15 "2006-01-17T18:37:55Z")
**1) What was your favourite album in high school?** The Lamb lies down on Broadway **2) When was this? The year?** Mid to late 70’s **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** I bought in on Cd sometimes in the late 80’s. I gave it away, and I think it’s too pretentious. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Circa 1990 **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** It’s been a couple of years but I played India Arie’s Acoustic Soul a lot when it was released **6) Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to?** Nope. I wasn’t into black music at all back then. I missed out on the whole Phillysould thing as it happened. I notice with the high school kids I teach that some music will really appeal to every new generation of teens that comes along. A girl was picking the intro to Stairway to Heaven earlier today and these are kids born in 88-89. They listen to the Doors, Beatles, Who, Deep Purple, LZ (of course). The Cure, Depeche and other 80’s band are being re-discovered. I think that there is some music that is best enjoyed when you _are_ in your late teens, but should be left alone when you’ve grown up. The Doors is among that music. As is Yes, Genesis and some other art rock projects. ---
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/16 "2006-01-17T18:38:08Z")
**1) What was your favourite album in high school?** Hmm. Aside from listening to the Beatles a lot, I would say the Talking Heads ‘best of’ album, “Sand in the Vaseline”. **2) When was this? The year?** 1995 (I had stopped listening to current popular music some time earlier, as I hated hated hated hair bands…I think I am the anti of the guy who wrote “Fargo Rock City”). **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Still own the same copy, but have also purchased most of their albums individually on CD, and moved all to MP3. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Parts of it in the last month or two, as they come up randomly. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** White Stripes-“Elephant” and whatever their newest one is. **6) Are these albums something _high school you_ would have listened to?** I’d like to think so. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/17 "2006-01-17T18:41:18Z")
Good question. 1. All 'n All by Earth, Wind & Fire. Me, a white kid from the suburbs, listened almost exclusively to soul and the soul stations in Milw. I still like 70’s soul. 2. 1977ish 3. I may own it, but my turntable is kaput so I haven’t heard it in a while. I wouldn’t mind having it on cd. 4. I did hear it on cd about 6 years ago. 5. Van Morrison’s latest one, “Magic Time”? “Be Good Tanya’s” - Blue Horse. 6. Morrison, probably not. “Be Good Tanya’s” definitely not. My tastes have grown, much wider now. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/18 "2006-01-17T18:47:14Z")
**1) What was your favourite album in high school?** Either 2112 or Diary of a Madman **2) When was this? The year?** 1984 **Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Yep **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Last night. **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** The Wall Decade **6) Are these albums something high school you would have listened to?** Yep ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/19 "2006-01-17T19:04:27Z")
1. Altered Images’ _Happy Birthday_ 2. 1982 3. I would if I could find it. 4. 15 years ago. I stopped using my turntable in the early 90’s. 5. The Killers’ _Hot Fuss_ + some single tracks by Morningwood 6. Yes. Particularly the Morningwood. It’s got an early 80’s bouncy pop beat. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335/20 "2006-01-17T20:07:45Z")
**1) What was your favourite album in high school?** Diary of a Madman. **2) When was this? The year?** 1984-1988 **3) Do you own a copy of that album today or have you re-bought this album in a newer format?** Yep. Got it on CD. **4) When was the last time you listened to this album?** Yesterday **5) What were the last two CD’s you bought (or tracks off someplace like iTunes)** Lyle Lovett’s Lyle Lovett & His Large Band and Dream Theater’s Octavarium. **6) Are these albums something high school you would have listened to?**’ Yep. I first bought Lyle’s Pontiac when it came out in 1988. I got Dream Theaters first around that time, though I think it was a year or so after I got out of school. Slee [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-music-in-high-school-favourite-music-today/340335.md?page=2)