I was 20 and coming off of a big Afghan Whigs kick (and an engagement - yerg). Southern Records was a big thing for me at the time. I listened to a lot of David Byrne, Palace stuff, Rachel's, Mule and Velvet Underground. I still like all of the above, but my current tastes were probably set a few years later.

What about the possibility that we're all of different ages?

Yes, see my post above. 20 years ago was "garbage time" for me, not 10.

At 17 I was really big on:

Urge Overkill
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
CCR
Uncle Tupelo
Tom Waits
Ry Cooder
NoMeansNo
Fugazi
Palace (just)
- a bunch of great local bands nobody outside Edmonton's heard of (the smalls, Imagineers, Naked and the Dead/Old Reliable, etc)

But I was also obsessed with a bunch of pre-WWII blues stuff (I distinctly remember reading a public library hardcopy of Alan Lomax's The Land Where Blues Began. I think this was the year I first heard Charlie Patton via a guitar teacher who introduced me to:

John Fahey
and
Leo Kottke)

I think grade 12 was also the first year I really started listening to jazz. I bought the 4-disc Verve boxset, and then worked my through a lot of bebop and hard-bop.

I also dipped my ears into 20th Century classical and "new music" about 12th grade.

It wasn't 'till I was about 20 that I found my way fully into "postrock" territory - fell in love with the s/t Tortoise album, Don Cab, Slint, Shellac, etc.

It wasn't until last year that I heard Bedhead thanks to this very online forum (easily one of my favourite bands of all time, I suspect).

Andrew L. wrote:
But I was also obsessed with a bunch of pre-WWII blues stuff (I distinctly remember reading a public library hardcopy of Alan Lomax's The Land Where Blues Began.

I too was introduced to the recordings of Alan Lomax at 16, through a radiodocumentary. Together with my discovery of punk one or two years earlier, I regard this as one of my more important formative experiences, relating to a much broader field than just music.

At 19, I had aggregated enough money to buy a plane ticket for New York City, and a bus ticket for New Orleans, to go chase beautiful ghosts in the American south. I regard this as one of my more important rite-de-passage experiences.

So much for introspection in my clumsy English.

Salut, Andrew.

June of 44
China Pig
Talk Talk
Tortoise
The Cure
King Crimson
Codeine

It's hard to remember, but I still really like all of these bands... a lot.

sunlore wrote:
At 19, I had aggregated enough money to buy a plane ticket for New York City, and a bus ticket for New Orleans, to go chase beautiful ghosts in the American south. I regard this as one of my more important rite-de-passage experiences.

So much for introspection in my clumsy English.

At 19 I jumped in my VW Fox and drove to New Orleans, spending a week in Mississippi along the way before dipping into Mexico and coming back through the southwest and up the coast. Mostly slept in my car.

Salut, Sunlore. You English is much better than mine generally is.

Ten years ago I was listening to a lot of the bands that are still my staples...Nick Cave, the Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex, the Big Boys and Stiff Little Fingers. Favorites and in heavy rotation.

15 years ago though? Fuck. I had a new friend over this weekend who went through my records while I made cocktails. He discovered my past love of 80's Dischord and Revelation crap and I now cannot speak to this person without getting Dag Nasty and Embrace quotes.

How old was I? About 26. I took Amtrak from Tucson to Columbia, SC., with long detours in New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, etc.

It was ostensibly for a job interview that I had scheduled in Columbia, which I ended up not even attending.

Andrew/Sunlore: We're really worldly guys. Let's all smoke some crack, read some Eggers, and talk about our incredible experiences sometime.

Angus Jung wrote:
Andrew/Sunlore: We're really worldly guys. Let's all smoke some crack, read some Eggers, and talk about our incredible experiences sometime.

Okay, according to my maps, if we meet at an equidistant point that'll put us about here. I'll bring the eggs.

Flaming Lips
Sonic youth
Polvo
Pavement
Mr. Bungle
Hum
Mercury Rev
Built to Spill
Archers of Loaf
Shudder to Think
Frank Black
the Amps
Beck
Dinosaur Jr.
Vic Chesnutt

all put out records that I bought new in either 1994 or 1995 and played the hell out of, so I'd say, yeah I still like these bands to some degree or the other and have listened to any of these bands at least once in the past month.

NC


Faiz