Was born in 1987. Kind of a grey area between a 80's and a 90's kid.
So I remember almost nothing from the 80's but I remember hating all the new music in the 90's. And 00's. I still remember the day my sister got the first Spice Girls album. I wanted to rip my ears of and burn them. But there were some who caught my attention. Fatboy Slim was really good.
Now it is more interesting to look back on the 90s when I see the historical aspect of it. And see how some of my current favorite artists (like Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre) influenced much of the music that were new in the 90s
My parents played a lot of Bruce Springsteen, Gary Moore, ZZ Top, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Paladins and various guitar based music from the 70's and 80's. So this is the music that I got to hear the most.
I remember being very surprised when I started going to school that none of the other kids in my class knew who Billy Gibbons was. And when I told them that he played guitar in ZZ Top they still didn't know. Neither did they know about Springsteen (which was probably the first music I ever heard) or any other old guy with a guitar or keyboard. After a while I actually thought there was something wrong with me so I stopped listening to music for quite some time.
One of my personal favorites was Deep Purple. I was really impressed by the sounds that Jon Lord made with his Hammond organ, and all the amazing riffs and solos that the guitarist Ritchie Blackmore played. I once tried to draw Jon Lord in arts and crafts at school when I was 8-9 years old, but nobody understood who it was.
The real genuine interest for music really kicked in again right before I turned 14 when I discovered AC/DC (which is still my number 1 favorite). Then I rediscovered Deep Purple, Rainbow, Dio and Judas Priest and all of the other good old guys. Still nobody else in my age group had heard of any of them. Trance/techno or hip hop were the most popular genres at my school. And the other kids seemed to choose just one and kept to it.
Here's a few albums we played a lot:
Manfred Manns Earth band - Watch
ZZ Top's Greatest hits
Gary More - Wild Frontier
Bruce springsteen - Born in the USA
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
AC/DC - Live
