I saw this posted on another site, and thought the topic was kind of fun....

Wheaton Central High School (IL)
1977-1980

Elvis Costello-"This Year's Model"
Fleetwood Mac- "Rumours"
Doobie Brothers- "Minute by Minute"
DEVO--"Are We Not Men?"
Elvis Costello "My Aim is True"
Pink Floyd "The Wall"
Blondie "Parrallel Lines"
Michael Jackson "Off The Wall" (prior to him turning psycho on us...)
The Cars "The Cars"
Saturday Night Fever "soundtrack"
The Clash "London Calling"
The Doobies "Living on the Faultline"
Police "Outlandos D'Amour"
Police "Regatta De Blanc"
Chicago XI
Roxy Music "Flesh & Blood"
Adam & the Ants "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
Kate Bush "The Kick Inside"
RUSH "2112"
ELO "A New World Record"

So what were some of your favorites?


So what were some of your favorites?

High school, huh? Those days are getting fainter and fainter in my memory. And I'm trying to resist the urge to edit my high school favorites to make myself look like I hung out with a cooler group of people. But from what I can remember, hopefully accurately, here's what I listened to in high school (1984-1988).

Prince - Sign o' the Times
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Peter Gabriel - So
Cars - Greatest Hits
Kool & the Gang - Emergency
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
Arcadia - So Red the Rose
Duran Duran - Notorious
Go West - Go West
Jon Astley - Everybody Loves the Pilot (Except the Crew)
Art of Noise - In Visible Silence
Thompson Twins - Here's to Future Days

The cooler kids were listening to Beastie Boys and the Cure's Head on the Door.

LXN

Okay. Since I'm obviously older than GOD, here is what I remember.

High School 1970 - 1975 (Ontario had 5 years of high school, ending at Grade 13).

Alice Cooper - Killer
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Jethro Tull - (it had a purple cover)
Iron Butterfly
Diana Ross and the Supremes - Love Child
Beatles - White Album
Paul McCartney - Give Ireland Back to the Irish
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
David Bowie - Live (sense a pattern??_
ELO - Live
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Guess Who - Share the Land
Big Sur Festival - One Hand Clapping

That's all I can remember, and yes, I still have the albums.

High school from 1989-1993:

The Bangles, Everything - which I loved so much that I had to buy three copies of the cassette, because it kept warping from repeated listenings (especially during "eternal flame"), and then I've since bought it on cd twice!

Mariah Carey, self-titled debut and Emotions - back in the days when she could really sing!

Janet Jackson, janet. - she released this a month or so before I graduated. I thought "If" was just about the coolest song ever.

I still listen to all of these artists today ... and the Bangles are still my favorite band!

1976-1980

Hotel California-Eagles
Mad Love-Linda Ronstadt
Running on Empty-Jackson Browne
Living in the USA-Linda Ronstadt
Aja-Steely Dan
JT-James Taylor
Damn the Torpedoes-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The River-Bruce Springsteen
My Aim is True-Elvis Costello
The Cars-The Cars
Candy-O-The Cars
Rumours-Fleetwood Mac
Excitable Boy-Warren Zevon
Wild Planet-The B-52s

Ah those formative high school years.For me it was 1970-73,and while some of these albums may have been older and purchased before I went to HS,I remember arriving in Bloomington in the fall of '73 with these,among others,in tow.

Everything solo and collective from CSN&Y,
including the Best of Buffalo Springfield,Stills Manassass,and a Neil Young bootleg of "Live in Boulder."
Joni Mitchell-Blue,For the Roses,Ladies of the Canyon
Jackson Browne-self-titled,For Everyman
Elton John-self-titled,11-17-70,and Tumbleweed Connection
Eagles-self-titled,Desparado,One of these Nights,
On the Border
POCO-self-titled,Deliverin,Pick Up the Pieces
Beatles-White Album,Abbey Road
Hendrix-Are You Experienced
Loggins and Messina-Sittin In,Your Mama Can't..
Carole King-Tapestry
JT-Sweet Baby James,Walkin Man,Mudslide Slim
Steely Dan-Can't Buy a Thrill,Countdown to Ecstacy
Rod Stewart-Every Picture
Woodstock 1 and 2
Stones-Let It Bleed
Bee Gees- 1st album and Holiday,neither of which I really listened to anymore
Mountain-Mississippi Queen
The Who-Tommy
Carly-No Secrets
Creedence-Born on the Bayou
Allman Bros-Eat A Peach

I discovered Bruce and Buffett in '75,along with adding Warren Z,Bowie and the whole Mott,Lou Reed dynamic to the list.A lot of earlier and subsequent albums from people I already owned plus some Traffic,Dylan/Band and Yes and it's basically the music I still listen to.And it reads like a who's who of Rock & Roll HOF royalty,so I'd say it's been a pretty good 40 or so years.

Lew Wallace HS, Gary, IN
1966-1970

Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Beatles White Album, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Santana Abraxas
Iron Butterfly Innagadadavida
Simon & Garfunkle Sounds of Silence
Jefferson Airplane, then Starship
Grateful Dead
Who Tommy
Cream Live

Tim, A lot of your favorites pre- Bloomington were mine in Crawfordsville!

1975-79.Mainly I remember the soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever.Donna Summer at the time was unstoppable and the Bee-Gees were flying high.The most fun band at the time was K.C. and the Sunshine Band.I saw them at a festival we have in Detroit called the Taste-Fest,this was about 10 years ago.I felt like a kid all over again."I'm Your Boogie-Man!"

My music interests weren't broad or 'sophisticated' 1968-72 -I'd yet to discover diversified FM radio- that changed quite a bit once I went to college and much of what I've seen here would be favorites from that era. What's Going On from 1970 though is one of my favorites and is listed as one of the top albums ever. Obviously, I was mostly into Motown and pop R&B:
The Supremes Sing Holland Dozier and Holland
African Trilogy by Neil Diamond (not sure if this was the name)
My Whole World Ended by David Ruffin
My Love/Sign of the Times by Petula Clark
I Know a Place by Petula Clark
You're So Vain by Carly Simon
Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers by BT&V
MPG by Marvin Gaye
The Guess Who's Greatest Hits
The Four Tops Greatest Hits
The Temptations Greatest Hits
Bill Withers ???
Soulful by Dionne Warwick
3 Dog Night's Greatest Hits
The Supremes Greatest Hits
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkle

[ January 27, 2006, 03:58 PM: Message edited by: WChip ]

Hmmm... I guess some of my favorite albums from high school would be:

Synchronicity, The Police
Touch, Eurythmics
Colour by Numbers, Culture Club
Into the Gap, Thompson Twins,
Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears
Sade, Diamond Life
Graceland, Paul Simon

[ January 28, 2006, 03:19 PM: Message edited by: canmark ]

From 84-88 the 2 albums I always had to have with me and over the years have kept buying this over and over from EP to Cassette to CD's I always lose them like in cars or boats or somewhere, maybe why Metallica is one of the best selling bands of all time, but I know Ive bought at least 5 copies of each over the years, thank God theyre backed up now. But Master Of Puppets and Ride The Lightning. Some of the other stuff off the top of my head is Black Flag, Billy Idol, Judas Priest some embarrassing stuff like Dokken and Bon Jovi. The girl I dated in High School was in love with George Michael, I was confused.

High School 1977 - 1981 aka "The Dark Ages"

Billy Joel
Blondie
Queen
Pat Benatar
the Evita cast album (and sadly Annie). One of my graduation gifts was Zenyatta Mondatta, for which I am enternally grateful. My radio station of choice was WNEW-FM 102.7.

I currenly have a love/hate relationship with Pat and Billy (radio killed the video star - the same songs are way too overplayed). I still buy whatever Debbie and the gang put out.

I was a total geek in high school (1981-1985), and totally caught up in the Top 40 world of the time - Mr. Mister, the Hooters, Duran Duran (I am ashamed to write this), not to mention the one-note pop/rock bands of that ear - Some college friends and I now refer to that time as the "ReoForeignLoverSpeedJourney" time (My sister - 2 years ahead of me - had her ticket stub from an early 80s REO Speedwagon concert on her wall until she graduated college). I remember driving to school in Billy Cardinal's customized Ford Torino (he had removed the seat belts because they weren't cool) listening to the same Loverboy tape every single morning.

Of course there was also a lot of Pat Benatar, Bruce Springsteen, the Police, Bob Sieger, John "Cougar" Mellencamp (he still had the Cougar then - sigh), not to mention Weird Al Yankovich. Then senior year of high school my friends discovered, and introduced me to, what we called "progressive rock" - mainly defined by REM, with a little Suzanne Vega rolled in.

I hope you two are still married.

U2'S "The Joshua Tree"

Horseheads(NY) HS 1985-1988
Home of the Blue Raiders....

Bon Jovi-Slippery When Wet
U2- Joshua Tree
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Run DMC - Raisin Hell
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

Yes, my tastes were all over the place.

Kelly High School (1983-1987) Beaumont, TX

My favorites released during that time (in no particular order):
Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Tears For Fears Songs From the Big Chair
Culture Club Colour by Numbers
U2 The Joshua Tree
The Style Council Internationalists
Simple Minds Once Upon a Time
Chicago Chicago 17
Ultravox The Collection
The Police Every Breath You Take - The Singles*
Spandau Ballet Parade
Genesis Genesis

* Note: The Police Synchronicity along with many other great albums I loved were released in 1982 and 1983, but right before I actually entered high school.

1. Madonna-Like a Virgin
2. Motley Crue-Shout at the Devil
3. Prince-Purple Rain
4. Bon Jovi-Slippery when wet
5. Def Leppard-Pyromania

High school years: 1999-2003

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Any Metallica Album

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

Radiohead - The Bends

Weezer - The Blue Album

I listened to just about everything on the radio, but these are the CDs I loved the most.

Who??????????? Oh you young whipper-snapper! wink wink wink

[ January 29, 2006, 12:52 PM: Message edited by: eddiecat ]

I wondered which one of you would say that first.

Hey, at least I'm familiar with most of the albums you old folk posted.

You need a good spanking,young man! eek!

Only if you talke pictures for us old folks!!

Well Grant,
He's not that far away from me.I don't know if he'd be willing to pose for the photo but it's worth a try.

Mount Lebanon Senior High School, 1982-1986

While it was during junior high that my musical appreciation and tastes really opened up, there are still just a slew of albums and tracks that pinpoint my turbulent (and sometimes wonderful) high school days. Here's what come to mind, in no real order.

Psychocandy - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Fire of Love - The Gun Club
The Queen is Dead, The Smiths, and Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
The Top, Boys Don't Cry, and The Head on the Door - The Cure
Avalon - Roxy Music
This is Boston Not L.A. - Various
Construction Time Again and Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
Manic Pop Thrill - That Petrol Emotion
The Wonderful and Frightening World of... and This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall
Music from the Motion Picture Purple Rain and Under the Cherry Moon - Prince and the Revolution
Cupid & Psyche '85 - Scritti Politti
Zen Arcade - Hüsker Dü
Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
Fables of the Reconstruction, Murmur, Reckoning - R.E.M.
Infected and Soul Mining - The The
Under the Big Black Sun - X
Tin Drum - Japan
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
Junk Culture and Architecture & Morality - Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark
English Settlement and The Big Express - XTC
Let it Be - The Replacements
The Arm of the Lord - Cabaret Voltaire
...from across the kitchen table - The Pale Fountains
Brewing Up with Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg
Power Corruption & Lies and Low-life - New Order
Closer and Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Imperial Bedroom, This Years Model, and Taking Liberties - Elvis Costello and the Attractions

"Erotic city," "Let's go crazy" (12" extended version), "New position" - Prince and the Revolution
"In between days" (12" extended version) - The Cure
"Jeane," "How soon is now," "Asleep" - The Smiths
"Sheep" - The Housemartins
"Safety net" and "Somewhere in China" - Shop Assistants
"She's in parties" - Bauhaus
"Good lovin'" - The Rascals
"Just like honey," "Some candy talking," and "Never understand" - The Jesus & Mary Chain
"Lose your love" - Blancmange
"Because I do" and "I must not think bad thoughts" - X
"Cruisers creek," "C.R.E.E.P.," "Spoilt Victorian child" - The Fall
"The word girl," "Wood beez," and "Hypnotize" - Scritti Politti
"Sensoria" - Cabaret Voltaire
"Shake the disease," "Blasphemous rumours," "Stripped" - Depeche Mode
"Love will tear us apart," "Isolation," "She's lost control," and "Decades" - Jot Division
"Cath" - The Bluebells
"Talking loud & clear" and "Bloc bloc bloc" - Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark
"Jean's not happening" and "...from across the kitchen table" - The Pale Fountains

[ January 29, 2006, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: ursaminorjim ]

You boys just keep on dreaming, only my boyfriend gets to touch my booty. wink

I hate to differ with Keith, but I went to school in the real dark ages of rock, 1972-77. When I was in high school the most popular albums were many of the same that others have mentioned, but they were in school about 4 years before I was. Everyone loved the Beatles, the Stones, CSRevival, The Who, The Guess Who, Beach Boys, Crosby et al., and James Taylor. But all the albums were from at least 3-4 years earlier. the years of 1973-75 were like a lull in the history of rock and roll. Then I heard someone who would move that history forward again, listening to am radio one night I heard "Born to Run". Wow. I bought the Springsteen album and played it until the grooves were worn out. Then came the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and others, and then disco started my first year in college. But I felt like "Born to Run" was my own discovery, I turned on all my friends to the album.

Ah, high school. Good times. I went to high school from 1994-1998.

No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom
Alanis Morrisette: Jagged Little Pill
Marcy's Playground
Cake
Madonna: Ray of Light
Natalie Imbruglia: "Torn"
Spice Girls: Spice World
Mary J. Blige: My Life
Tupac: "Me and my girlfriend"
Notorious B.I.G.: anything from him
Lil' Kim: Hardcore
Junior M.A.F.I.A.: Get Money
Usher

I'll post more. I just can't remember off the top of my head.

Wow -- did they have high school way back then?? wink

I forgot to mention my all time favorite album, that I bought when I was in grade 9. I bought it the day it was released.

Janis Joplin - Pearl.

I wore out 2 copies of the album, and now have it on CD.

Billy Joel's " The Stranger"

Rock was huge when I was graduating back in the early to mid 70's. The ones I recall wearing out where " Toys in the Attic", and "Physical Grafitti" by Led Zeppelin, along with just about anything and everything from the likes of Foreigner.

I was in high school from 1991 to 1995.

Green Day - Dookie
Janet Jackson - Janet
Tony Bennett - Unplugged
Madonna - BedTime Stories
Metallica - The Black Album
Real McCoy - Another Night
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On, Come On

Beg to differ, a lot. Some of my all-time favorite albums are from that era. Wow, where to begin. The New York Dolls' first album is easily a desert island disc. That album is over thiry years old, and it sounds as if were released yesterday. You've got all that Roxy Music, "Wish You Were Here," both by Pink Floyd and by Badfinger, and so many more.

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train...

Now I can't get that song out of my head! I agree LkSimcoe, Pearl was an excellent album, and in fact was the first album I ever purchased during my high school years in Ottawa, circa 1970, the same year Janis died (until then, I had only bought 45 rpm's). Besides "Me and Bobby McGee", other great tracks on Pearl were "Mercedes Benz", "Buried Alive in the Blues" and "Cry Baby".

Other favourite albums from my high school years, and I credit my older brother for introducing me to some of these (he had a much bigger record collection):

Love it to Death, Alice Cooper
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
So Long Bannatyne, The Guess Who
Close to You, The Carpenters
Golden Bisquits, Three Dog Night
Band on the Run, McCartney & Wings

How could I forget Mariah Carey's post-Tommy Mottola album "Butterfly"? I loved this CD. I played it until it scratched. From "Honey" to "Fourth of July" to "My All" it was one of her best.

What high school did you go to? I went to the following
1969 - 1970 St Patricks High School
1970 - 1974 Bell High School
1974 - 1975 Thomas More Senior Private School (for a second gr 13 diploma)

That means (if you were out) that you must have gone to the Lord Elgin, The Coral Reef, Sacs Bar/Disco, The St Henri, (cruising in Majors Hill Park was also fun).

Ottawa in the early '70's. Kind of fun

It seems so, and it took Rob 5 years to complete it too. wink

Maybe this belongs on the thread "you knew you were gay when....". All of these weren't necessarily released when I was in high school (late 70's) but these are the albums I remember playing over and over when I was in high school:

Playing Possum (Carly Simon)
Horizon, A Kind of Hush & Passage (Carpenters)
Live (Barry Manilow)
Grease (Soundtrack)
Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)
Let's Keep It That Way (Anne Murray)
Diana Ross, Baby It's Me & An Evening With (Diana Ross)
Come In From The Rain & Song of Joy (Captain & Tennille)

Morrison (IL) High School

1991-95

Paula Abdul - Spellbound
Ace of Base - The Sign
Bodyguard Soundtrack
Toni Braxton - Toni Braxton
En Vogue - Born To Sing, Funky Divas
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion (vol 1 & 2)
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Janet Jackson - janet
MTV Party To Go - Vol 1-4
Metallica - Black Album

I forgot about these!! I loved them too!!

Pretenders, Learning to Crawl
Kate Bush, The Dreaming
Be Yourself Tonight, Eurythmics
U2, The Unforgettable Fire

I attended Confederation High School (Woodroffe Ave) for grade 9 and then Sir Robert Borden HS (Greenbank Road in Nepean) for grades 10-13. I was always a year or two younger than my classmates, so when I graduated in 1973 at age 17, I think I was the only person in my class too young to legally drink, although that didn't stop me I recall Bell HS wasn't far from my neighbourhood, in fact my older brother went there for one year.

Oh yes, indeed I remember all those places in Ottawa and Hull that you mentioned, and recall an early encounter at Major's Hill Park in '76...but, well, let's not go there. wink The stately old Lord Elgin Hotel is still a major landmark of course, but I'm sure the Coral Reef, St (Chez?) Henri and Sacs are long gone. Ah, fond memories, eh LkSimcoe?

Two more albums I forgot to include in my list from that era were Déjà Vu by CSNY and Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.

One of my old bosses from down here went to that high school in the 80s...

SHA-BIM-SHA-BOOM-SHA-BIM-BOOM-BAH
MORRISON, MORRISON, RAH-RAH-RAH

Gosh you're old!

I'll add to your list:
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Pretenders - Pretenders
REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish
AC DC - Back in Black
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan

And everyone had the soundtracks for Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

[ February 03, 2006, 09:15 AM: Message edited by: DCBucky ]

Blondie-AutoAmerican
Pretenders-Pretenders
Pat Benatar-Crimes Of Passion
Prince-Purple Rain
Madonna-Like A Virgin