You know, the ones you had on cassette (ask your dad kids) when you first got a ghetto blaster, maybe even a tape to tape recorder 🙂 (ditto), when your music tastes were, shall we say, ‘developing’

Thanks to the wonders of Spotify I’m currently listening, for probably the first time in nearly 30 years to Whitesnake ‘1987’ 🙂

I might dig out some Huey Lewis and the News next 🙂

U2 – Under A Blood Red Sky

Genesis – Duke

Others may be too embarrassing to mention.

Others may be too embarrassing to mention.

Hey, I’ve already outed myself as Whitesnake and Huey Lewis fan, spill…

Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord. Psychedelic and still excellent.

On my first Aiwa ‘walkman’

EDIT: Ooh, that’s weird seeing it again after all these years.

Wishbone Ash – Argus

I listened to Big Country The Crossing last night and it hadn’t aged well at all 🙁 also it was remixed that made it sound really awful, couldn’t find the original.

Comsat Angels.
My cassette pet, bow wow wow.
Spring to mind.
Probably loads more!

Ooh, I had an Aiwa walkman 🙂 Auto reverse too, get me.

I listened to Big Country The Crossing last night and it hadn’t aged well at all

I disagree. I think Big Country are fantastic, and listen to them on Spotify quite often. If by ‘age well’ you mean that the production quality of the time shows, then sure; but if you mean that the music isn’t as good as you thought it was, then I’ll have to fight you on that one.

Hey, I’ve already outed myself as Whitesnake and Huey Lewis fan, spill…

Cyndi Lauper may be involved. 😳

Def Leppard Hysteria. I loved that album, partly because of the lass that introduced me to it…..

I’ll see your Cyndi Lauper and raise you

Oxygene’s a bit cool innit?!

I admit it: the Top Gun soundtrack 😛

This

at the moment.

Off to see them at The Underworld in April too 😀

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Flaunt It

I still enjoy a bit of Love Missile F1-11

Others may be too embarrassing to mention.

Whoa, I though the idea was to go straight for the most emabarrassing 😳

Adam and the Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier

I admit it: the Top Gun soundtrack

That’s still in my actual music collection, nevermind my Spotify nostalgia fest 😳

Woah there you crazy Canuck, read what I said about the remix 😆 Adamson could do little wrong in my eyes

Pied will be an interesting show, not the same with out Pepsi

and I had a Tenpole Tudor LP. Swords of a Thousand Men is a classic I tell you

hmm:

Run DMC: Walk this Way.
Beastie Boys: Licenced to Ill

I suspect I will find both of these quite sh*t now but I loved them at the time.

+1 for Def Leppard – Hysteria. However, this is definitely a quality album and so is pyromania
Whitesnake 1987 – tosh – even thought that at the time.
Metallica: Master of Puppets. Truly great album

1986 seems to be a quality music year.

I admit it: the Top Gun soundtrack

That’s still in my actual music collection, nevermind my Spotify nostalgia fest

Well that’s taken my breath away 🙂

I have a Spotify playlist of all the cassettes I had when I was younger. Hit Shuffle and party like it’s 1987.

Though I did buy this not so long ago.

1986 seems to be a quality music year.

Hysteria was ’87, was it not?

Yegads, I could probably spend the rest of the day listing these, and still not finish. Great thread as an antidote to all the ones we usually get where we can show off our amzingly cool, credible and obscure taste, so a few that jump to mind:

Every Queen album up to Innuendo (including Greatest Hits and the two live ones)

Wham – Fantastic

Adam Ant – Strip (also the “and the Ants” ones but they’e cool, Strip is pretty rubbish)

Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and Arena (never owned Rio though…)

The Barron Knights – the one with “Mr Rubik” on it

Salt n Pepa – A Salt with a Deadly Pepa

Def Leppard – Hysteria

Bon Jovi – New Jersey

INXS – Kick

Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation 1817

Extreme – Extreme II (Pornograffiti) and what is almost certainly the worst album ever – Extreme III Sides To Every Story (you see what they did there with the title? Terrible though it is, it’s still the best thing about that album imho)

Recently been rediscovering

Smashing Pumpkins – Gish
Underworld – Dubnobass

probably won’t hunt out Mel n Kim, hangs head in shame….

Ah, that reminds me

Oh yeah, that Poison one – taped by a mate onto a C90, iirc the other side was Bon Jovi.

First “real” gig too – 1977 Odeon Edinburgh

The first tape I remeber owning were Vanilla Ice ‘To the extreme’ and round about the same time ‘The Simpsons Sing the blues,’ I’m not convinced either of those are worth listening to again.

I then got a bit more rocky and had various Gun’s n Roses tapes, Metallica and Pearl Jam. Still listen to Pearl Jam now and again, and I have a feeling Metallic might accompany my afternoons work.

Got given a best of Oasis type compilation for christmas – ah the memories!

The Song Remains The Same by Led Zeppelin so excited to get it for Christmas 1976 so utterly ashamed of it by Christmas 78. 🙂
These days I like early Zeppelin but not keen on that album

Ultravox from “Hiroshima Mon Amour” era through to “Reap the Wild Wind”,
The Specials
The Clash
Kate Bush
Ian Dury
Billy Joel
Bruce Springsteen
The Pale Fountains
Prefab Sprout
Elvis Costello
Housemartins

love spotify

I’ve just had a bit of a clear out and found loads of old vinyl.
“Manic pop thrill” & “Babble” by That Petrol Emotion were among the highlights.
I also have every Big Country 12 ” single from the Crossing through to The Seer,If Saxonrider is interested 😉

Plus loads of (southern death & death) Cult 12″s too…. 😀

Made in Japan – Deep Purple

Lost and happily found:
Argus
Lamb Lies Down
Yes Album
Made in Japan
Live in the Air Age;
Lost and i’m not looking:
Boston

Quite a lot of hair metal already listed above.

Guilty as charged…..Whitesnake, Poison, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard…..

Run DMC: Walk this Way.
Beastie Boys: Licenced to Ill
I suspect I will find both of these quite sh*t now but I loved them at the time.

Found both of these in the loft recently on tape. No way to play them now but spotofied and still rock withthe volume up.

Electro 8, 9, etc not so much.

Prince Sign of the times is still great too.

And going to see Adam and the Ants in Portsmouth in May 😀

Well my oh my..

Last night whilst watching D’land 83 it reminded me of that era, and it’s music. I switched on the Mac and loaded iTunes and for some mad random reason this came as a recommendation via the “for you”..

I have vague memories of travelling to a Rock Pub out in the sticks near Alsager/Stoke on Trent where we would all gather. A random place, a quiet county pub form the outside but had a hall/room and stage with a balcony running around the edge of it.. damn if I can’t remember its name (but sure someone on here can)

This tune, along with sooooooo many of the era formed a part of my late teens/twenties..

Accept: Balls to the Wall

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I can’t really think of embarrassing ones as being a poor improverished ‘yout’ I only had a handful of albums and most of them I either still have or have on cd! So this stopped me buying Gary Numan, UK Subs, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney Rejects I suppose (saw all bar Numan live though).

I suppose I’ve not heard Grubby Stories – Patrik Fitzgerald for knocking on 30 years.

I bought Feeding of the 5,000 and Stations of the Crass on cd mainly after getting Jeffrey Wotizmane’s 12 Crass Songs. Crass shaped my life (I was 14, 15).

I had Moving Targets by Penetration (on luminous vinyl, which is pretty much its only merit) I suppose. Nothing could induce me to listen to that record nowadays.

One of these days I’m going to get Licenced to Ill on cd, but I have at least 5 Beasties cd’s already as it is.

In my days it was singles, I’ve probably got a fair few more monstrosities there (I think there’s even a 5 Star one in there somewhere 😳 )!