When you were a sophomore...What were you rocking on cassette, 8-track, CD, or *gasp* iPod?*

My sophomore year was September 1975 to June 1976. I was just starting to get into music seriously so my vinyl collection at the time was minimal. Off the top of my head some of the bands/artists/titles I was spinning were...

BTO - Four Wheel Drive
Three Dog Night - Their Greatest Hits
Elton John - Greatest Hits
Ambrosia - Ambrosia
Led Zeppelin - IV
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
KISS - Alive
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Grand Funk - All Of The Girls In The World Beware
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?

 

After so many years of my Monthly Mix group I've created a mix for just about every theme I can think of including this very one.

 

1985. I was buying LPs and dubbing them to cassettes to play on my Walkman.

 

We didn't do sophomore in the UK. However in 1968 I was listening to:

The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Cream - Wheels On fire
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Various - British Motown Chartbusters Vol 2

 

The Beatles

 

1990-91/TDK SA90, usually

Pump
Dr. Feelgood
Seasons In The Abyss
Time's Up
Presto
Doors S/T
Ride The Lightening
And Justice For All
Yessongs

 

That would be around 1992 for me. On a mix of vinyl and tape it would have been:

The Wedding Present - They released a single every month in 1992.
Morrissey and The Smiths
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Cure
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
The Velvet Underground
Blur
Primal Scream
Ride - I loved Going Blank Again
Teenage Fanclub

I was very much the indie student and a bit of cliche, but I still love all these bands and albums.

 

Van Halen -5150
Winwood - Back in the high life
Springsteen- Live 1975 to 86
Dire straits - Brothers in Arms
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Peter Gabriel - So
Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is

 

All vinyl back then. 1972-73
Elton John
Cat Stevens
Yes
George Harrison
Stevie Wonder
Moody Blues

among others

 

I bought two of those on the same trip to Woolworth's.

 

1980-81....I was rocking out to:

LZ - In Through The Out Door
Queen - The Game
Cheap Trick- Dream Police
Romantics
Rush - Moving Pictures
Ozzy
Billy Squier
Cars
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

 

I bought the Winwood and the Hornsby at the same trip to Target. On cassette.

 

AM radio, 45's Lp's and 4 track cartridge tapes. 8 tracks came out a couple of years later.
The Beatles, Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones followed by an assortment of British invasion bands.

 

I'm old. 1967/68. I worked in radio at the time PT nights/weekends like I work now.
45's/LPs all on those big Gates monster turntables.
AM radio, we went AM/FM in 1969.

 

1997-98. Live at Leeds. ‘94 reissue cd. Rarely left my player.

 

Elvis, Dead, Stones.

I used to do drugs at that time. I still do drugs, but I used to too.

 

So what were you rocking on cassette?

 

It was 1977 into 1978. All about Steely Dan on vinyl.

 

The usual suspects on 8-track in my older friend's hippie vans and muscle cars.
I didn't get my own license until I finished sophomore year in the Spring of 1970.
At home it was invariably all vinyl all the time.

 

In Through The Out Door, The Wall, Sheik Yerbouti, Highway To Hell, Bebe Le Strange & the White Album - all on vinyl.

 

Grand Funk
Chicago
Santana
Led Zep
Blind Faith
Mountain
Stones
The Doors
Moody Blues
CSNY
Grateful Dead
Elton
Allmans
Derek & Dominos
Steve Miller
The Who

...a couple dozen more. Good year.

 

Mostly CD with handful of casettes....it was 93 so I was holding onto 80s rock and metal as much a I could....while starting to get into AIC and Soundgarden

Van Halen
Aerosmith
Motley Crue
Skid Row
Metallica
Megadeth
Queensryche
Fates Warning
Savatage
Of course Ozzy and Sabbath

Just getting into Dream Theater and the above mentioned "grunge" bands

 

1989 - 1990

Glass Houses - Billy Joel
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Classics - Triumph
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Ram It Down - Judas Priest
Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath
Live Alive - Stevie Ray Vaughan

 

Around 1996 (second year of university).

Blur
Teenage Fanclub.
Supergrass
Otis Redding
Jimi Hendrix
Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Dusty Springfield
Motown / Stax / Atlantic soul
Beatles
The Kinks
Neil Young
Bowie
Led Zeppelin
The Smiths
The Velvet Underground
Beastie Boys
Free
The Jam / Paul Weller

on whatever format I could get or afford. Vinyl, CD & cassettes - pre recorded as well as taped from friends. The likes of Queen, Iron Maiden, Stone Roses, The Wedding Present & AC/DC were bands I'd been massively into previously and am now, but at that time I wasn't playing them much.

 

2004-05

The Beatles were always there on my CD and record player but then I was mostly listening to Pink Floyd albums, which I just discovered at that time.
Same with Queen, Coldplay and the Rolling Stones probably. The only recent/new records I bought were:

- Coldplay - X&Y
- Green Day - American Idiot
- Green Day - Bullet In A Bible