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

I was riding around with a buddy, and we were listening to "Heaven Tonight" by Cheap Trick and "Straight Shooter" by Bad Company on 8 Track . I never owned an 8 track player myself.

 

I remember lots of Who and Pink Floyd, among many others.

 

1969 was all lp's:
The Flock
Zappa
Cream
Hendrix
Leslie West
Beatles
Byrds
Buffalo Springfield
Moby Grape
Spirit
BS&T

 

Oh, HIGH SCHOOL? Thought you meant College. I don't know that I can remember so far back, but Doug Kerhsaw figured in there somehow.

 

I had the same problem - see post #30.

The OP could have made it easier by asking "when you were 15"

 

1967-68 for me, so it was 45s, LPs & AM radio for me. I was just telling a friend last night about buying The Doors' "The Unknown Soldier" single in the spring of '68.

 

76-77. Current. - YES Going For The One, Floyd Animals,

Bowie, Genesis, Yes, Zep, stones, beatles,who, neil, todd, crim

 

That would've been '88-'89 for me, so I was listening to a bunch of this stuff, all on cassette or vinyl (didn't buy my first CD till 1993):
fIREHOSE
Soul Asylum
Husker Du
Replacements
U2
7 Seconds (which was going through its U2-wannabes phase)
REM
Descendents/ALL
Sonic Youth
The Cure
The Jam
Sex Pistols
Wire
Public Image Limited
Dead Milkmen
a little bit of Ride, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Charlatans UK, etc.
a bunch of Dischord Records artists that a friend told me about after he moved from our hometown of Tampa to D.C.

And then in 1990 I first heard Pavement and the Wedding Present, which had a huge influence on my musical taste.

 

1985-85 so...

Licensed to Ill
Brothers in Arms
Emerson Lake Powell
Listen Like Thieves
Somewhere In Time
Scarecrow
So
Power Windows
Once Upon A Time
The Queen Is Dead
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Skylarking

Plus lots of other "Classic" and "Alternative" artists.

 

My sophomore year was 1989-90. My primary obsession was The Beatles/solo on any and all formats (and nothing has changed, from the time I was 4 years old to now, at 43 years old). I was also starting to build other collections - i.e. Elvis Costello, The Moody Blues, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones...

I skipped lunch for weeks to save enough money to buy Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends on CD.

Again, this was in 1990. I felt a bit out of step with the Vanilla Ice or Guns N' Roses loving masses. Fortunately, a new wave of British pop (starting with The La's) would soon come along that would re-ignite my love of modern music, including a lot of the great music I missed out on during my early high school years!

 

Fall 1978-Spring 1979. I had something similar to this. I only had records, the only cassettes I had were ones I made myself. I got my drivers' license in the summer of 1979.

I was listening to punk/new wave, r&b and hard rock. I started listening to jazz in 79.

 

Holdovers from '69 for my '70-'71 sophomore year...but darn good holdovers. BS&T was my first LP purchase. CTA was second. 1969 was a great year for music.

 

everything but the CD...

 

An 8-track of The Rolling Stones' 1973 European tour recorded off the King Biscuit Flower Hour. I could put that on today and tell you exactly where the "clicks" were.

 

1973 - 1974 for me. I was still listening to Top 40 radio, while just beginning to get into (and bought):

Yes (TYA, Fragile, CTTE, Topographic, Relayer)
Deep Purple (Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are)
Stones (Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goat's Head Soup, IORNR)
Black Oak Arkansas
Grass Roots
The Hollies
Grand Funk RR
Edgar Winter
Alice Cooper
Procol Harum
The Eagles
BTO
Styx
Brownsville Station
Three Dog Night
America
... and many others

 

Metallica
Anthrax
Iron Maiden
Exodus
Scorpions

This was at the height of my metal head phase in 1988-89. Around the spring of 1989, there was a left turn, when a friend turned me onto “Fragile” by Yes. Almost overnight, I went from metalhead to proghead.

 

All ell pees and lots of home taping.
The Who. Loved 'em. I was a fanatic.

 

That was 1995-1996 for me, and the lineup was as follows (forgive me if I can't remember exactly what time of year titles were released, and I know some came out earlier than '95):

Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the...36 Chambers
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
The Beatles Anthology 1, 2, & 3

 

Lots of U2 and Queen. Interest in the former has diminished to a point where Rattle And Hum is the only album that gets regular spins. Just not really on my radar these days...

 

Ah, the days...

Grabbing a favourite album from your older brother's collection, taping it and putting it back exactly the way it was so he won't notice...

I had dozens of those!

 

I was an EDM head at the time and would always have my earphones in listening to the music in full blast.

Skylar Grey
Martin Solveig
David Guetta
Zedd
Calvin Harris
Sia
Nero
Avicii

I honestly do not care for a lot of these artists now and don't care for EDM much at all either but when I was 15/16 it was 80% of what I listened to.

 

'73 - Hmm, let's see... Zeppelin, Humble Pie, T-Rex, Stones, Allman Bros., Bowie, Traffic.

 

1991-1992

Megadeth
The Cure
R.E.M.
Sinhead O'Conner
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Slayer
Pantera
Guns N Roses
Morbid Angel
King Diamond
Mercyful Fate
AC/DC
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Carcass
Napalm Death
Iron Maiden
Alice In Chains
Motley Crue
LA Guns
Faster Pussycat
Danzig
U2
Elton John
Billy Joel

There are too many to name. I was listening to so much music at that time it was hard to keep up with. All of it was a mix of CDs and cassettes.

 

Pretty much this. Haha, I still listen to this stuff to this day.

 

1996-1997

Smashing Pumpkins
Stone Temple Pilots
Green Day
Offspring
Garbage
311

I lost interest in some of those (such as Green Day and Offspring) my Junior year when my tates broadened.