Super Furry Animals. Brilliant melodies attached to interesting production experiments and an outsider sense of humour created some of the greatest pop, especially when edging back to their pre-band techno oddness in 1999. Yeah, I'm a wanker I know.
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196 of the story’s 509 posts, best first: one per person. We leave out exact copies and posts from people whose settings keep them off pages like this one, and in the biggest stories everything after the best 300. Page 1 of 4. The title is the name people mention most, or the opening line of the best post.
He's a bit controversial now, but then...probably Bryan Adams. This was the #1 song when I was 18, from the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - which Mel Brooks spoofed with Robin Hood: Men in Tights a couple of years later. The original was good, despite Kevin Costner. youtu.be/Y0pdQU87dc8?...
Pixies. Their pre-reunion albums are incredible. Was sad when they broke up my freshman year of college. I’m happy they can still tour and make money but I’ve never seen them without Kim in the lineup. It ain’t the same.
My easy answer is Yellowcard. The more complicated one is that was the year I found Brand New. Since I picked up Deja Entendu at the university bookstore my freshman year, they became my all-time favorite band. 15 years later, it was revealed singer Jesse Lacey groomed and abused his teenage fans.
I did not have a favorite band at 18. However, a couple months before I turned 19, I discovered Taking Back Sunday. I saw them live at Warped Tour a few weeks after my 19th birthday, and they’ve been my favorite band ever since.
I suck at favorites, but I was probably drifting around between these three in my personal pantheon at 18, as I hadn't quite found my way to The Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, and Tori Amos quite yet.
At 18, I was deep into the Butthole Surfers (for the first time), Wynton Marsalis (for the second time), and Joni Mitchell (for the second time). That was also the first time I saw The Cure in concert.
This was the first song I heard from Nickel Creek, thanks to my dad, who made sure I listened to it. I was in love by the end of the video. 24 years later, I’ve seen them 10+ times, hung out w/them on their tour bus…and this song is more meaningful than ever now. youtu.be/ARIr6S_0lAQ?...
The Moody Blues - at the time, they hadn't released an album in 5 years, but they still were my favorite band
After spending my last two years of HS *way* up in Northern California in a rural mountain town, I turned 18 my first year at Cal. This is where I was really exposed to new wave/alternative music, so I'll go with The Human League. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPud...
At 18 I had just gotten out of homeschool hell after nearly two decades of extreme sheltering, so I bought the family's first home internet connection, learned about prog and weirdo metal stuff, and immediately became obsessed with Mr Bungle, Dream Theater, King's X and whatever else I could find...
Disturbed. Despite being a huge classic rock fan, and growing up being a bit of a hippie, by 18 I had seen Disturbed live and secretly developed a crush on David Draiman. Of course, I was still 12 years out from figuring myself out, so back then even *I* didn't know I had a crush on him. But I did.
OK, I was a huge Alice Cooper fan; and before you judge me for that, hear me out: He was the only goth/alt artist I was allowed to listen to in my very religiously conservative environment. He was for wannabe-goth Christian white boys what Kanye West became for Christian hip-hop fans.
I discovered Fiona Apple when I was 17, a few years after the release of When The Pawn. That album drowned me for a solid year and a half. My closeted little queer heart adored her, and still does.
The Decemberists. Saw them on tour when they released The Crane Wife album. They all got eaten by a giant whale at the end of the show.
I made this as A Funny Bit when the stupid website didn't have my actual picks and nobody reached to it, so either nobody is looking at these, or this is conceivably my taste in music which is a terrifying abject failure on my part.
A tricky year for a kid with my questionable teenage tastes. Marillion were between singers and Simple Minds released Street Fighting Years, which no-one really liked. But The Cure came good with Disintegration. So I'm going to say The Cure 🕸
Green Day, specifically the album “American Idiot,” which felt so transgressive as a teen in suburban South Texas.
There's inevitably two parts to this. Loved them forever, favorite band from about birth: The Moody Blues. The music where listening to it is rapidly becoming part of your personality: Bob Mould
Well, I turned 18 in 1997. So obviously, my favourite band was The Beatles.
Got to go with these guys. "The Miracle" came out in 1989 while I was 18.
So there are two different answers here. Before moving out to go to uni, it would've been Kraftwerk. Afterwards, Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention for a little while. Yes, even in 2004, my finger was very firmly on the pulse.
Sheer Terror were a pummeling nightmare of a hardcore band from New York. They looked like meatheads but for such a brutal, violent band they had some truly poetic lyrics.
It's a stereotype for this (formerly) angsty young white dude, but... Tool That Ænima album was something else
Tori Amos. Discovered her in 1992 when I was twelve. Had no idea that fairies existed.
it feels weird to post a cover, but this was a medley done when Motion City Soundtrack had announced they were breaking up and it’s very good. youtu.be/cFCBL1TqwbA
Name your fav band/artist when you were 18. Nine Inch Nails. The first of 3 bands/musicians that would dominate the 90s for me. Discovered Pretty Hate Machine at the end of high school and was hooked. (The other two were Tori Amos and Stabbing Westward.)
Actually can't remember. Metallica had gone downhill and I spent many years cycling between Tool, Radiohead, Nirvana...got reprimanded for playing Nine Inch Nails too loud my first day at college This post makes guessing my age pretty easy
At that point... probably either Def Leppard or R.E.M. I know, strange dichotomy, but I am legion; I contain multitudes. Oh, also Big Country, which, for you younger folks, was not a country band.
It was Cradle of Filth. But with all of the drama and lineup changes on every album cycle. They’ve definitely lost some of that initial shine.
The Grateful Dead, Slayer, NOFX, Nirvana, and Jane's Addiction. Still the same, except add Van Halen, Misfits, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and Boston for my all-time top 10.
I kinda lost my taste in music around 1999 and I had to work to rebuild it. I was a big Nirvana kid and Weezer's Blue Album was the first album I bought with my own money. 18? I think that times out just right for American Idiot so Green Day may end up redeeming me here.
I did the thing. Talk to me about my embarrassing music taste I would listen to literally any of these, in full, on loop, any day. easy
I genuinely cannot remember. It was a reggae band. Oh! Oh! Third World! I basically ditched reggae entirely when I discovered how violently homophobic the scene was/is. Most my favorite artists had singles like Kill Da Batty Bois (Nah For Real Do It At This Party Tonight This Isn't Hyperbole).
I saw this tour a few months later. Still have the notebook where I scribbled down the setlist
I remember a commercial for this album coming on The CW, and I was entranced.
Saw an interview with Alan Durband in FB, and it’s easy to see how he would’ve inspired the young Paul McCartney. Made me think of my first really inspiring English teacher — Miss Barnes, with whom we studied the lyrics to “She’s Leaving Home” and “When I’m 64”.
I don't think I could decide between The Clash and Pulp. And strangely enough, I've enjoyed very few English bands since! (British is cool. Mclusky and Frightened Rabbit are among my absolute favorites, but English? Nah.)
Nightwish. (Goddammit autocorrect, stop separating the band's name like that...)
I listened to a broad range of music, but it’s possible that my most listened to was Afro Celt Sound System. As you can tell, I was a normal child.
Vangelis. Still a favorite.
The Levellers. Haven't listened to them for a while though, might have to put them back in my CD player. I still have a lot of CDs from Dolly, to Sepultura youtu.be/e1-oI3ECI1Q?...
Name your fav band/artist when you were 18. The Alan Parsons Project. BTW, he's still my favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOl...
I wasn't actively following music or too many bands back then in any conscious way, but I'd imagine it would have been Metallica, with Iron Maiden coming in second. May have been aware of Nightwish and Stratovarius as well at the time.
i didn’t have a favorite at 18, my taste was just too broad. but at 20? i definitely would have said Dashboard Confessional
I was still catching up on years of "secular" music at the time. Cursive and Ani Difranco were probably my favorite
The Sirens (original)
Mudhoney. Nobody personified the genre like Mark Arm.
Name your fav band/artist when you were 18. The Beatles since forever but REM was indisputably my favorite band in 1992 when I turned 18. Automatic for the People came out that year and I listened to that album from beginning to end SO many times.
Name your fav band/artist when you were 18. I was a gothy/grungy kid. I honestly don't listen to much Nirvana these days, and I'm not 100% sure why. I do hear them from time to time on the radio, but they're not in my rotations. FWIW One band that "stuck with me" later into life is Garbage.
