Reply #9: High school: MC5, 13th Floor Elevators, Velvet Underground [View All]

[flamingyouth]

It was all a protest against stupid, plastic new wavey shit that permeated everything.

College - much of the same, add to the mix the Stooges, the Pixies, Radio Birdman, all the good Seattle bands from the late '80s and early '90s.

Post-college/early marriage - I was totally into proto-punk, like Rocket from the Tombs, Electric Eels, Styrenes, all that kick-ass Cleveland stuff, as well as the Pebbles/Nuggets comps, the Droogs, anything and everything off "Saturday Night Pogo," and '60s Northwest bands, the unknown stuff like the Bumps "Please Come Down."

Mid-marriage - Swedish shit like Soundtrack of Our Lives, Hellacopters, all eras of the Nomads.

Later marriage, I succumbed back into the music of my youth. I realized this lately about my musical tastes: I tend to really like songs where at some point (either early on or before the guitar solo), someone yells, "LOOK OUT!" (a la "Loose," by the Stooges).