I think my first musical addiction was the Beatles. An older cousin introduced me to them when I was 10 years old. It felt like my little world just opened up! I wanted to know everything about them. I think my parents thought I was going through an early puberty. Looking back I think they were concerned…lol.
When I was 12 or 13 I discovered The Police. I begged my parents to see them at Shea Stadium. Plastered my room from floor to ceiling (even a couple on the ceiling) with posters and pictures. Mom and dad looked worred…Yes, I did have the hots for Sting, but that Stewart Copeland wasn’t too shabby either.
Then I heard The Smiths and that became a wonderful sickness. Ah, I remember it well. The Smiths day in and day out. Parents thought I was morbidly depressed… The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen coming in a very close second.
Now that I’m (and I use this term loosely) an adult it’s Interpol. I’ve been listening to them for months now and I’m still not tired of them!! My husband does not share my enthusiasm however, so I try to listen to them when he’s not around. Or very softly when I’m cooking or working. Before this I went through a Belle and Sebasian phase, a Radiohead phase, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Portishead…and it goes on, but I won’t bore you.
Anyway, who are you musically obsessed with? What does that involve for you? Of course, being in my early 30s I’m certainly not going to plaster my walls with posters anymore…but I do check out bands on their websites and try to find lyrics so I don’t just sing “la la la la umm laaa”. Do you all get addicted to certain artists and can’t stop listening to them for long periods of time? Or are you more of a “little bit of this, little bit of that” type?? Just wondering! Thanks.
Steely Dan, as of three years ago this summer. Never before have I listened to a group whose entire recorded output I celebrate and will know that I will like it even before hearing it (as is the case with Everything Must Go).
Nope. I do get to the point where I leave an album in the CD player for a couple of weeks, but I’m all over the map usually. Right now, I’m big into The Decemberists, Damien Rice, Clem Snide, and I just got handed a CD by The Ether Family that’s growing on me.
There’s too much good music out there to get stuck on one band for long.
I suppose I could include Radiohead on that list as well (most recent entry), but that doesn’t indicate I’m done with the Allmans, since I never will be.
Well, I first became obsessed with Sabbath (some 8-9 years ago), then I turned to Jethro Tull (which I still love), then around 2000 I started taking in a lot of “new rock” (rock that’s not 30 years old :D) , and I had brief spells of obsession with James, Belle & Sebastian. After that I really started to dig The Beatles, and lately I’m on to english folk, and stuff like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span.
Interpol delivered us a great debut, too. Coral did the same also (love these guys). But right now I think I’m gonna buy that new Led Zep live album.
As a teen (mid 80s) I was really into Black Sabbath. I had all their albums and I had memorized all the song titles in order on each album. I could play many of their songs by ear on the guitar. Though not quite as fervent, I also listened to Led Zeppelin a lot and tried playing a few of their songs on the guitar as well. This was also the era of the Hair Bands and, in addition to records and tapes, I had several posters and T-shirts of Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, the Scorpions, etc.
20 years later I still like these bands (though some have lost their appeal with me, such as Poison, Bon Jovi). I still listen to a wide variety of current hard rock acts, but I don’t have any particular devotion to one particular band.
