Favorite band growing up

[Fatty FatBastard]

I thought I would try this question to see what y'all enjoyed as "the" band growing up.

Just post what band you enjoyed the most.

And no "geez, there were so many..." posts. Pick your pony and stick with it.

EDIT: Well, damn. I was going to do a poll. Oh well.

My favorite was AC/DC. I can recite any song they did, word for word.

[The Real Shady]

Depeche Mode

[meggoleggo]

The Beatles.

Yes, I am only 22 and I'm way too young to have been around for them in full swing. But when I was growing up (until I was 14, which was summer 1994) I wasn't allowed to listen to anything but KUHT and KLDE.

[Rocketman95]

U2 (I love that my much older siblings turned me on to them at such a young age)
Neil Diamond

[SamCassell]

Originally posted by meggoleggo
Yes, I am only 22.

I was 14, which was summer 1994
Wouldn't that make you 24 or 25 now?

[JuanValdez]

Midnight Oil.

[Jeff]

KISS and Van Halen.

[Plowman]

Rush

[RocketMan Tex]

Beatles, then the Stones and the Who.

But, then again, when I was in 12th grade, I was listening to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records while my classmates were all listening to Boston and Foreigner.

[mc mark]

Heart!

A young man's dream! Two beautiful, rock and roll women!

[Austin70]

Van Halen without a doubt.

[3814]

for a few years it was raffi...then it moved to BTO...and later to Incubus with AC/DC mixed in there somewhere along the line.

[oomp]

Grew up with AC/DC

but like RMT I was listening to Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and BB King by 12th Grade.

[Harrisment]

Nine Inch Nails

They are still pretty much my favorite band though, and finally coming out with some new material in a few months.

[swilkins]

Pink Floyd in the 70's. My dad had all the albums. It was the most appealing and most accessable. In the 80's it changed radically into Ozzy.

[VooDooPope]

KISS then Rush.

[MR. MEOWGI]

KISS, then Van Halen, then Billy Idol...

[Manny Ramirez]

I wish I could say Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin here, but that wouldn't be truthful.

This is a tough question as I was more of a fan of songs than bands and it was all pop music/top 40.

Billy Joel was probably my favorite artist as was Michael Jackson (that ended after "Bad"), but bandwise, I will say the Bee Gees. I still have almost every album they ever did (the exception is the out of print "Living Eyes").

[coma]

Guns N' Roses

ARGH.

[Rashmon]

The Beatles

[MoBalls]

KISS and my mom had a big library of her favorite Motown artist.

[droxford]

Rush.... then Pink Floyd... then Nine Inch Nails

still a big fan of all three

-- droxford

[swilkins]

Originally posted by Manny Ramirez
I wish I could say Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin here, but that wouldn't be truthful.

This is a tough question as I was more of a fan of songs than bands and it was all pop music/top 40.

Billy Joel was probably my favorite artist as was Michael Jackson (that ended after "Bad"), but bandwise, I will say the Bee Gees. I still have almost every album they ever did (the exception is the out of print "Living Eyes").

I liked the BeeGees even before the disco music came out.

Do you have "The Best of the Bee Gees"? It's a yellow album that has their youthful pictures on the cover. It has some really nice songs.

I forgot about them, but I was less than 10 when the parents put those albums on.

[Surfguy]

Rush, VH, Judas Priest(pre-gay ;) ), Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, etc. etc. etc. . I never liked KISS. I always considered them posers because of their costumes. I think I liked that amusement park movie they made back when I was 6 or whatever. lol

I saw them all in concert usually more than once but, overall, do I even have to answer that. Nah.

[the futants]

DEVO!

[moestavern19]

Creed and Limp Bizkit :mad:

Oh it was a foolish 15th year of life.

[basso]

Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Gifted, and Black

Chicago, the first three albums, early Poco, through Crazy Eyes and Seven...

[Faos]

What age is considered "growing up"?

Teen age?

[Fatty FatBastard]

Originally posted by Faos
What age is considered "growing up"?

Teen age?

Grade school.

[Faos]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
Grade school.

In that case:

The Jackson Five
The Osmonds
The Archies (don't say nuthin' bitches!)

[ROCKSS]

Tough Call

1 RUSH
1a Pink Floyd

[arkoe]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication came out around the time I turned 16, played it in my car every day.

[plcmts17]

The Police
U2
Elvis Costello

[Fatty FatBastard]

Originally posted by arkoe
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication came out around the time I turned 16, played it in my car every day.

You really need to get Uplife Mofo Party Plan, Freaky Styley, and Mother's Milk. All are great Albums.

[NBAHOU713]

311-cypress hill- pharcyde- Tribe Called Quest

[coma]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
You really need to get Uplife Mofo Party Plan, Freaky Styley, and Mother's Milk. All are great Albums.

Don't forget Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

[gwayneco]

The Beatles

Later - U2, Def Leppard, and Led Zeppelin

[TheFreak]

Mötley Crüe since the 3rd grade and I've never looked back.

[Fatty FatBastard]

Originally posted by TheFreak
Mötley Crüe since the 3rd grade and I've never looked back.

Shouldn't being a fan of Motley Crue have you always looking back?

[aeroman10]

Hanson









j/k :D

Aerosmith

[Manny Ramirez]

Originally posted by swilkins
I liked the BeeGees even before the disco music came out.

Do you have "The Best of the Bee Gees"? It's a yellow album that has their youthful pictures on the cover. It has some really nice songs.

I forgot about them, but I was less than 10 when the parents put those albums on.

Sadly, I actually know the album you speak of, but I do not have it. I do have a 4 disc set called "Tales of the Brother Gibb" and it has all those songs on there such as:

"New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen my Wife, Mr. Jones?)"
"Massachusetts"
"To Love Somebody"
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
"I Started a Joke"
"Holiday"
"Words"

and many others...

[lost_elephant]

Alice in Chains
Smashing Pumpkins
Stabbing Westward

[arno_ed]

Lionell richie,(ok not really a band)
Roxette
Queen
And some dutch band/singers(do not hink you all know them)
Two Unlimited(ok so they are dutch and i think you do know them:D)

[candycane]

New Kids on the Block
Matchbox 20
Dave Mathews Band

I am still growing up by the way.

[cwebbster]

Pink Floyd
Weezer
Nine Inch Nails

[Oski2005]

U2, no surprise. I was like 13 I believe when I really got into them. Had heard their stuff before, but the song from the Batman Forever soundtrack made me a fan and got me interested in listening to all of their stuff again.

Honorable mention goes to REM and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Monster and Wildflowers were the first 2 CDs I bought and they are still 2 of my favorite albums of all time.

[Batman Jones]

Grade school (in this order):

50's rock and roll (Splish Splash, Get a Job, Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown, etc.)
Elvis
Elton John
Rod Stewart
Michael Jackson (Off the Wall)
The popular disco of the day (Bad Girls, We Are Family, etc.)
Sugarhill Gang
Beatles
KISS

Junior High:

Journey, Foreigner, Rush, AC/DC, etc.

High School:

A ton of stuff, but mostly The Who then mostly Dylan.

[Isabel]

Originally posted by JuanValdez
Midnight Oil.

me too! That was more in high school/ early college, though.

Elementary school: just listened to the radio, which seemed to play mostly adult contemporary. I remember liking Survivor (the band, not the show). :o

Junior high: kind of enjoyed the 80's hair metal but wouldn't buy it because I came from a strict moral background and thought it might be sinful to buy tapes/CDs of it. (It probably isn't ideal, but oh well... we compromise a lot. We all go to movies that have the same things in them.) Anyway, don't laugh - it's the way I was raised. So, while I could listen to it or tape it off the radio, otherwise it was Debbie Gibson and the New Kids.

High school: the B-52's were my favorite for a long time. I liked their energy and weirdness.

[DarkHorse]

Van Halen for me.

[bejezuz]

Originally posted by coma
Guns N' Roses

ARGH.

Amen!

I think you caught me in a coma...

[Dubious]

When I was in grade school music hadn't been invented yet.

Really before 1964 music was crap. Then in 1964 the Beatles hit NY, so by 12 or 13 I was a full tilt Beatlemaniac. I grew my crewcut out into bangs and took a lot of ridicule from my parents and teachers. But it was worth it cause the chicks thought I was cool.

I was in High school when the local top 40 radio station organized a Beatle bonfire to burn Beatle records when John said the Beatles were more famous than Jesus. I didn't care though, by then I had moved on to Jimi, Zep and Cream.

[bamaslammer]

Van Halen
The Big Three: Doors, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd

[pasox2]

X
The Clash
Elvis Costello
The Jam
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols

[Win]

Mott The Hoople - Probably STILL my Favourite band some 30years later.

[firecat]

I was really into the New Wave stuff like New Order, the Cure, Depeche Mode, etc...

But by far my favorite was Erasure. That's so gay (not that there's anything wrong with that), but I was so into electronic keyboard stuff and I loved everything Erasure came out with. They're no longer my favorite, but I will always be happy when I hear an Erasure song.

[Rockets2K]

grade school???

ah man....I listened to some weird stuff back then

Im gonna go with what I liked in the latter years of grade school(early to mid 70s)

Elton John
Peter Frampton
Ohio Players
Commodores

and was just getting into Rush, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath as I moved on to jr high....in jr high....I was really in to ACDC, Kiss and the ones mentioned above.

as I got into high school....I got into more and more heavy metal bands...Priest, Maiden...was also a huge fan of VanHalen from the very first album in 79-80

[TheFreak]

Originally posted by Win
Mott The Hoople - Probably STILL my Favourite band some 30years later.

Wow, so you like Mott the Hoople AND the SWEET - pretty cool. I was just listening to Mott this morning actually.

[basso]

Originally posted by Manny Ramirez
Sadly, I actually know the album you speak of, but I do not have it. I do have a 4 disc set called "Tales of the Brother Gibb" and it has all those songs on there such as:

"New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen my Wife, Mr. Jones?)"
"Massachusetts"
"To Love Somebody"
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
"I Started a Joke"
"Holiday"
"Words"

and many others...

i got in a big arguement w/ my girlfriend at the time about the words prior to the chorus of "to love somebody." does barry sing "Ba-Beh, You Don't know what it's lahahke..." or Hey BaBeh, you don't know....?"

[MadMax]

The Police

oh, and I liked Duran Duran a lot when I was in 4th or 5th grade. :)

[KellyDwyer]

Originally posted by meggoleggo
The Beatles.

Yes, I am only 22 and I'm way too young to have been around for them in full swing. But when I was growing up (until I was 14, which was summer 1994) I wasn't allowed to listen to anything but KUHT and KLDE.

I was 14 during the summer of 1994, and I'm 24 now. What's your secret?

[Major Malcontent]

Didn't listen to much music pre JHS...remember listening to some Top 40 stuff....

JHS I became a big Iron Maiden fan.

[Deuce]

KISS of course. :)

You know your man is working hard......he's worth a.... :)

[ArtV]

I really didn't have a favorite band until high school. Unfortunately that would be Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, Styx and Foreigner. Bleeeh.

[subtomic]

I really didn't listen to music in grade school - we didn't get MTV until I was 9 and I didn't even have a radio until I was 11. So I basically only knew about top 40 radio.

The first band that I really got into was Iron Maiden when I was 13. A friend of mine dubbed me a mix tape that had bits of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son on it. Being an art freak, I also really liked Iron Maiden's album covers. It wasn't long before I owned all of Maiden's albums and had their posters all over my walls. I still have some of them somewhere.

Not long after that, I heard Masters of Puppets by Metallica and I immediately liked them just as much as Iron Maiden. Given how lame their music and image is now, it's hard for people who grew up after the Black album to understand how important Metallica was back in the day. They were a band that made intense, challenging music that skipped all the image-consciousness and pussy-pandering of bands like Poison and Night Ranger, yet they were still immensely popular. It gave all of us hope that the butt-metal era would end eventually, and sure enough, it did. Metallica became one of the biggest bands of the world, although at a musical cost. Still, they deserve credit for being a band that made the market cater to them, not the other way around.

[Fatty FatBastard]

Originally posted by subtomic
I really didn't listen to music in grade school - we didn't get MTV until I was 9 and I didn't even have a radio until I was 11. So I basically only knew about top 40 radio.

The first band that I really got into was Iron Maiden when I was 13. A friend of mine dubbed me a mix tape that had bits of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son on it. Being an art freak, I also really liked Iron Maiden's album covers. It wasn't long before I owned all of Maiden's albums and had their posters all over my walls. I still have some of them somewhere.

Not long after that, I heard Masters of Puppets by Metallica and I immediately liked them just as much as Iron Maiden. Given how lame their music and image is now, it's hard for people who grew up after the Black album to understand how important Metallica was back in the day. They were a band that made intense, challenging music that skipped all the image-consciousness and pussy-pandering of bands like Poison and Night Ranger, yet they were still immensely popular. It gave all of us hope that the butt-metal era would end eventually, and sure enough, it did. Metallica became one of the biggest bands of the world, although at a musical cost. Still, they deserve credit for being a band that made the market cater to them, not the other way around.

Don't ever berate Night Ranger. Best band of 1983 by far.

Metallica=Megadeth+pop

[subtomic]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
Don't ever berate Night Ranger. Best band of 1983 by far.

Where's your smiley? If I didn't know better, I'd thnk you were serious here.

[Fatty FatBastard]

Originally posted by subtomic
Where's your smiley? If I didn't know better, I'd thnk you were serious here.

I am serious. Night Ranger rocked.

Rumours in the Air
You can Still Rock in America
When you Close your Eyes

All classics.

[Colt45]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
I am serious. Night Ranger rocked.

Rumours in the Air
You can Still Rock in America
When you Close your Eyes

All classics.

What, no "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"?!

And Brad Gillis' work on "Speak of the Devil" is marvelous.

[Win]

Originally posted by TheFreak
Wow, so you like Mott the Hoople AND the SWEET - pretty cool. I was just listening to Mott this morning actually.

Hey, Freak....... 'Tis great to see another Mott the Hoople fan out there. Am surprised you remembered my fondness for the Sweet. I had forgotten I had mentioned that here.

Anyway, tragically, I never did get to see Mott the Hoople live. I did however get to see the remnants of the band (then, just Mott) who put out a couple decent albulms after Ian Hunter left. They were backing up Kiss at the old Houston colliseum (76-77?).

[r-fan-since-81]

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[gifford1967]

Led Zeppelin

then

U2

[swilkins]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
Don't ever berate Night Ranger. Best band of 1983 by far.

Metallica=Megadeth+pop

Metallica did go pop eventually, but the first few albums in the 80's weren't.

F-n 90's

[peleincubus]

i liked many genres of music and still do.

but pink floyd tops them all. there is no band in my opinion that can top them in your youth for making you understand the feelings you have a little better.

those are some smart chaps.

all hail syd, roger, david...

[JJ]

Public Enemy (still best rap group ever)
NWA
The Chronic Album (cruised to that for about 2 years!)
Too Short

[Manny Ramirez]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
Don't ever berate Night Ranger. Best band of 1983 by far.



Let me guess...

You were "motoring" alot to them back in '83, weren't ya?:p

[Saint Louis]

Rush, Metallica and ZZ Top

[Rockets2K]

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
I am serious. Night Ranger rocked.

Rumours in the Air
You can Still Rock in America
When you Close your Eyes

All classics.

I really liked NR back in the day....but there is a drastic dropoff in the quality of the songs from the first album to the third album...

They did the same thing that happened to Journey...Journey started off rocking early on...and as time went by...they started playing more to the poprock side....once they put out Escape....it was a downward slide...

a couple of other bands I forgot to mention that I liked in my jr high years....Styx, REO and Journey

[Stack24]

The first band i can openly remember when i was about 5 or 6 would have to be Men at Work and the song "i come from a land down under" that song i remember when i was a kid and fell in love with it and even to this day if i hear it on the radio i have to listen to it all the way.

[DCkid]

Motley Crue

[Roxfan73]

The Cars
Van Halen
Billy Idol

[BMoney]

Pre-puberty I really liked The Beatles, the music my parents listened to like Peter Gabriel era Genesis, Supertramp and that sort of thing and a smattering of Hank Williams, Elvis and stuff at my Granny's house. Oh, and can't forget Kiss, though they were almost like cartoons to me, rather than music. I just loved how they looked.

With puberty came an intense love of AC/DC (the band..haha), Rush, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, Accept, Led Zeppelin...all of that stuff. I also really loved the Cars and Devo during this period.

Around 15-16 I got into U2 and REM and reintroduced myself to the Beatles (I never had heard the White Album, or Revolver) until then. Late teens saw me get into The Who, The Rolling Stones, Dylan, Elvis Costello, David Bowie and XTC.

I didn't get out of classic rock jail until my 20's. I got into singer-songwriters like Warren Zevon, Van Morrison and Richard Thompson and then worked my way back to punk and new wave through Britpop and early 90's grunge stuff. Ecstacy got me into dance music, unsurprisingly ; ).

I like most of the bands I ever liked, but some bands wax and wane depending on my mood. I love 50's rock and roll, 60's soul and 70's funk a lot right now.

[across110thstreet]

it was and has always been Led Zeppelin...


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