In the sixth form, there were 3 distinct groups of musical taste. You had the ravers, quiet grunge types & separate metal heads. The metal heads looked down on everyone else. Anyone who didn't know where they belonged followed the crowd & was a raver.
I kind of fitted between the grunge types & the metal heads. I was into American bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains while also listening to the likes of Iron Maiden, Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica & Megadeth.
I managed to avoid the clothing trends & was a relatively 'normal' teenager - tie dye, leather or deliberately ripped denim in my wardrobe.
The main two albums that I listened to excessively were Nevermind - Nirvana and the Black album by Metallica. Its only really now, 20 years on, that I can appreciate that Nirvana were doing something truly special and exposed my generation to a new world opening up loads of new influences.
The Black album is still regarded by many as a classic now. The production and quality of engineering on that album are superb & still stand the test of time today.
New bands and albums will be compared to these for decades to come.
From time to time, I do go back and listen to some of these old classics. Hearing them after years on new, modern earphones brings them back to life. While some of the old familiarity remains - in many cases it is much like hearing them again for the first time.
The quality of modern audio equipment is so much higher than it was in the nineties. Even just listening to them via a streaming service on your smartphone with earphones sounds 100's of times better that the crappy cassettes and Philips earphones that we had back then!
I kind of fitted between the grunge types & the metal heads. I was into American bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains while also listening to the likes of Iron Maiden, Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica & Megadeth.
I managed to avoid the clothing trends & was a relatively 'normal' teenager - tie dye, leather or deliberately ripped denim in my wardrobe.
The main two albums that I listened to excessively were Nevermind - Nirvana and the Black album by Metallica. Its only really now, 20 years on, that I can appreciate that Nirvana were doing something truly special and exposed my generation to a new world opening up loads of new influences.
The Black album is still regarded by many as a classic now. The production and quality of engineering on that album are superb & still stand the test of time today.
New bands and albums will be compared to these for decades to come.
From time to time, I do go back and listen to some of these old classics. Hearing them after years on new, modern earphones brings them back to life. While some of the old familiarity remains - in many cases it is much like hearing them again for the first time.
The quality of modern audio equipment is so much higher than it was in the nineties. Even just listening to them via a streaming service on your smartphone with earphones sounds 100's of times better that the crappy cassettes and Philips earphones that we had back then!