When I was 16?

Ryan Ruiz said:🙏 God bless you, my friend!

Back when I was sixteen 😁 : I was listening to Sisters, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Paradise Lost, and Dead Can Dance... though, since I fall on the younger side of this group, I suppose I should clarify those were the bands I discovered around age eleven or thirteen.

I appreciate the sentiment, truly, but out of that entire list, they are the only ones who haven't quite stood the test of time, wouldn't you agree?😢

ruggedjackal46 said:You can't just judge an entire band based on one single track. That's just how it works.

Yeah, I get it. I can't do that either, but some people? They just can. They hear two songs and suddenly they're telling everyone it's their favorite band ever. Maybe it's superficial, sure, but hey, those people aren't idiots. To them, that "favorite band" label might actually mean more than it does to some hardcore fanatic who’s spent years obsessively dissecting every single B-side and deep cut. It's a real thing. And look, not everyone has high-speed internet to go hunting down a band's entire discography in twenty minutes. Some people stumble onto a hit on YouTube and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. If they catch a video on MTV, they feel like they've hit the jackpot. You know? Not everyone is obsessed with music or has the means to dive that deep.
And man, this whole disturbed vibe looks way better than your first post.

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Around here, most middle schoolers are basically just into punk-metal (rarely nu-metal) at this point...

yawn!

Honestly, this is just beating a dead horse. If you could track down some decent albums back in the late eighties, you can definitely find them now in 2003...

ironcanyon4 said:Thanks, but honestly, they’re the only ones on that list who haven't really stood the test of time.😢

😁 😁 😁 Time just moved right past them.😁

Are you seriously bragging right now or what...🙄
Look, maybe that wasn't an issue back in Chicago. But out here in this middle-of-nowhere wasteland? It’s a whole different story.
Not everyone's playing on the same level.
Linda Rodriguez6, maybe you were lucky enough to have an older brother showing you the ropes, but not everyone has that kind of backup.

errr.. I don't actually live in Chicago, I'm out in Seattle.

And yeah, you could pretty much get most of that stuff back in the day; you just had to put in a little extra effort.

p.s. can't really blame me for living way out in the middle of nowhere 😉

Linda Rodriguez6 said:p.s. can't really blame you for living out in the middle of nowhere... 😉

😢 🙂 🙂 😢 👋

Nowadays we have the internet, where you spend half your life, and high-speed file sharing that lets you grab whatever you want whenever you want it...
Back in the eighties, you only had maybe four people—guys like Mike and Steve in Chicago, plus a couple of contacts in New York and maybe someone in LA—who actually owned decent records and would sit there dubbing them onto cassettes for you...
Then, the second one package arrives, you’re already ordering the next one. Just try to imagine how hard it was to actually find information back then. You can't. It's impossible to wrap your head around it...

ironcanyon4 said:Look, girl, don't get all worked up—try not to take everything so personally right out of the gate...😎
But hey, it's just an internet forum, isn't it? 😉

Yeah, yeah, I know, I knooooow... 🙂

Rachel Jones11 said:Back in the eighties, you basically had a handful of people—maybe four at most—who actually owned great records and spent their time taping them onto cassettes...
And the second one package arrived in the mail, you were already ordering the next one... just try to imagine how hard it was to track down any kind of information back then... seriously, you can't even wrap your head around it...

That’s exactly why we used to rely on places like Trieste😉
You could find some truly incredible albums there, and honestly, the people were way more plugged into the music than anyone here at home...

Edward Robinson6 said:Look, for some people, that one band can mean way more than it does for your typical fan—you know, the type who’s spent countless hours obsessively listening to every single track, overanalyzing every lyric, and basically living and breathing their discography. It’s just a fact.

Like... NOOOOOT!!!!
Do you even know what a "fact" actually is?!?!? It’s an action—hard, cold reality, truth, actual existence... (if you bother looking at a dictionary).

man, that disturbed mess looks a hell of a lot better than your first post.

WRITE MY NAME IN ALL CAPS!!!!🙂
How could this possibly be any better? Seriously—do I really have to explain this three different times just to get the point across?!?!?
There isn't a third one—but honestly? This looks way better like this...
🙂

Heh...
Whenever I look back on those days spent waiting by the mailbox for my packages to arrive...
Man, those were the days...
I used to get as excited as a little kid on Christmas morning.

Linda Rodriguez6...
Are you living out in Riverside now?
Give me a shout if you ever find yourself passing through San Diego... the beer is on me.

Trieste....
Club 33

Andrew Martinez11 is right about one thing. How much you dig a band is totally subjective. I’d take someone who knows just a few tracks but actually feels them over those posers who act like they're writing a thesis when you ask what they listen to... it's exhausting. It reminds me of this kid listening to Blink-182 and laughing at how they were trying to be hip, only to have some hardcore punk elitist stomp over and start lecturing him... "you don't get it, it's too commercial, have you even heard their underground stuff?" blah blah blah...

It’s way worse now because kids only listen to stuff because it’s "cool" to be seen with it, whereas we listened to it—and still do—just because we actually liked the music.
It’s a total disaster. You see some kid in a System of a Down shirt, ask him his favorite track, and he just shouts "Chop Suey!" like a robot... then you ask him about anything on the first album and he just stares at you blankly, looking like he's wondering if they even released anything besides Chop Suey?!?!

I mean, seriously... it's pure idiocy...

That was your first post, so watch out with calling everything a "disaster." And stop with that interrogation vibe, like we're being processed at a precinct. Those kids probably think you're some weirdo and laugh behind your back when you walk by. But imagine if they actually knew the previous album and could name a song? You’d probably just scoff and go, "Oh yeah? Well, have you heard *this* band or *that* one?" And when they say no, you'd judge them for not knowing the whole discography. You really are disturbed...
But hey, that's just what's "in" these days.

Larry Gonzalez11 said:Trieste....
Discoteca 33

Yeah, they were actually good back then. By the mid-90s, though, they had totally lost their edge.
By the way, my absolute favorite record store in Trieste was Sgt. Pepper, but unfortunately, they closed up shop just a few months ago...😢

Larry Gonzalez11 said:Heh...
whenever I think back to those days of waiting by the mailbox for my packages to arrive...
man, those were the days...
I used to get as excited as a little kid on Christmas morning.

...you'd get these beautifully printed things, maybe even some extra tracks from a similar artist if there was enough room left on the cassette tape. We're talking AMC, Hüsker Dü, Souled American, Thin White Rope, Galaxie 500 (though, granted, I wasn't quite sixteen when I discovered all of them)
I honestly can't for the life of me remember the name of that one local shop in Chicago I used to order everything from... though later on, I ended up with those absolutely dreadful bootleg copies from overseas—ugh, do you remember how much those cheap tapes used to smell?😁

Back in Chicago, you had Damir Tiljak and that whole garage band scene revolving around Dražen Valentic... damn, I can't even recall what their "outfits" were actually called...

Man, when I was sixteen... god, where did the time go? It feels like a lifetime ago...
I was obsessed with listening to
-new wave icons like Devo
(think Blondie, The B-52's, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, and all those synth-pop legends)

-and then there was Nick Drake

Talk about a wild mix of sounds...

trucidare said:Back when I was sixteen... god, how long ago has that been?
I used to listen to
-new wave stuff
(think artists like Devo, The Cars, Blondie, Talking Heads, or even some early synth-pop icons)

-Nick Drake

What an eclectic mix, wouldn't you agree?...

Give me a break, I was listening to that stuff at ten years old just to fit in. I was born in Bavaria!!!!😁 😁 😁

Andrew Martinez11 said:WRITE MY NAME IN ALL CAPS!!!!

Look, that isn't even your real name, it's just a screen name, and besides, how am I supposed to type it in all caps when you went ahead and wrote the whole thing in lowercase yourself? 😲 👎 🙂