Bands you were into before you were cool?

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From grammar school up 'til about sixth grade my list looks like this:

Cyndi Lauper
Tiffany
Debbie Gibson
The Fat Boys
B-52s (although “Dead Beat Club” is still a pretty decent tune)
Weird Al Yankovic (I still like weird Al just haven’t bought a record of his on over 15 years)

Those are just the prominent ones off the top of my head I’m sure there are more.
Late,
grmpysmrf

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I was into shitty music and rap when in middle school. As a kid, I was raised into listening to a lot of music from the 60s (stones, beatles, zeppelin, etc.). Some Oingo Boingo and Devo. Very diverse list of music for a 4 year old, but that’s pretty much what it was from the day I was born to now. I ended up liking some of it.

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Yes (up until Relayer)
Steely Dan (first couple of discs only)
Genesis (Gabriel-era only)
Steppenwolf

And as a wee youngster, I remember having a fondness for Paul Revere and the Raiders. Oh, and the Monkees.

But once Punk broke in '76/'77 and mixed with my Eno/Roxy/Bowie/Pop leanings, I never looked back.

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Weird Al.

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I think it’s an actual trend that people who really dig Weird Al as preteens end up with the weirder, heavier tastes as adults. 'Cause at least they’re not the kids who took pop seriously.

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Raised with Yanni, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Michael Jackson. Still love all of them today. There’s no reason to be ashamed of your early music, if you break down your music tastes you can find it in your original introductory musicians.

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If you reply in this thread, and consider yourself to now be “cool”, you probably aren’t. Just a thought…

My list is:

Green Day
Adam Sandler and Jerky Boys prank albums
Wycelf Jean
Limp Bizkit
Sublime (but they were actually good)
Linkin Park
Korn
Everlast
all manner of hiphop/rap

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KISS
Poison
Faster Pussycat
and tons of other 80s hair metal

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I think it’s an actual trend that people who really dig Weird Al as preteens end up with the weirder, heavier tastes as adults. 'Cause at least they’re not the kids who took pop seriously.

Word on that bro! I used to bump Dare To Be Stupid religiously when I was about 10. Who knew that 6 years later I’d find Black Metal

As for embarressing bands I liked:

Limp Bizkit
Kid Rock
Creed
Cradle Of Filth
Mariah Carey
Nelson
Slipknot (only for a breif second)
Mushroomhead
Black Sabbath (after Dio)
No Doubt
Methods Of Mayhem
Crazy Town

If I list any more it’ll be the ones that are still guilty pleasures. For the record I hate to admit Crazy Town but that one album they put out was cool to me in middle school

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This was my favorite album when I was 14

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Cinderella! awesome. they are still a guilty pleasure!
Late,
grmpysmrf

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I remember being into P.O.D. and a buncha reggae crap… HA!!

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I was cool when I was listening to Michael Jackson, Billy Joel (6-8), Pearl Jam, White Zombie, NIN, Type O, RATM (9-12) but then when I found Ministry @ 13 I became terribly uncool. When I found this place it got even worse.

I had the advantage of an older brother so I could avoid listening to nonsense as a kid.

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I liked ‘cool’ bands during my long ago ('81 - '86) High School years - heaps of goth and indie rock/metal and industrial dance stuff but I do remember being rather fond of Howard Jones and The Pet Shop Boys for a year or so.

Oh yeah, at one point I had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik poster above my bed in 1987…and I did go to an Ultravox concert once.

Yeah, maybe I wasn’t as cool as I remember it. Actually I was considered weird for liking speed metal when it first became big in the mid 80’s. I remember buying Metallica’s ‘Garage Days Re-Revisited’ when it came out and the preppie guy behind the counter gave a look like he’d just sucked an entire lemon. But then, isn’t that ‘cool’ now? To like stuff that’s considered fringe and weird and not normal?

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I had older brothers who turned me onto great music young, so my music taste was probably snobbier/better in 6th grade than now. Listened to and loved Eno, Talking Heads, Devo, Laibach, Psychic TV and stuff like that. Now I still enjoy that stuff but also love Lady Gaga and tons of other pop on top of lots of other stuff you guys would probably classify as poop (even fucking Britney for God’s sake).

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Oh yeah, at one point I had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik poster above my bed in 1987…

Dude sigue, had at a rad hit even featured in ferris buellers day off. I believe that cd is pretty rare at this point if I remember right.
Late,
grmpysmrf

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twisted sister. (stay hungry)
a-ha. (high and low)

there are others…

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Yeah great tune…got exposed to that at college.

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Oh yeah, at one point I had a Sigue Sigue Sputnik poster above my bed in 1987…

Dude sigue, had at a rad hit even featured in ferris buellers day off. I believe that cd is pretty rare at this point if I remember right.
Late,
grmpysmrf[/reply]

I rocked that Sigue Sigue Sputnik tape for years. The song you are talking about is Shoot It Up and was pretty cool. That whole album was pretty decent, actually.[/reply]

The song is actually called “Love Missile F1-11”, Flaunt It was the album, which was re-issued about 6 years ago. I remember digging the fake commercial segues, but I listened to it recently, and let’s just say it hasn’t aged like a fine wine.

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Korn was the only shitty band for me.

But I still reckon the music on their first 3 albums is great. Fuck the singer’s shitty histrionics off, and the music is actually pretty good.

Aside from that, I had a good taste in music. Nabbed a Nirvana tape when I was 4. Asking for Smashing Pumpkins CDs at 8. Listening to Mr Bungle at 12. Trying crack at 16. Dealing crack at 20. Turning tricks for crack at 24. Overdosing on crack at 28. Recovering from crack addiction and counselling addicts at 32. Running for Parliament at 36.