Music to slit your wrists to

[annwfyn]

So, I'm listening to '90s indie music (of some description) tonight, and remembering what it was like to be seventeen again.* And I'm finding all kinds of songs which I loved when I was about seventeen, and so am sharing them with you lots.

Comments

[annwfyn]

Bah. I suck at labels. It was music that got you labelled an indie kid when I was ickle. I did love Blur as well, and even some early Oasis, although I stopped liking them after Wonderwall came out and I felt like I was drowning in that damn song.

The odd thing is that when I was younger, my tastes were very solidly rock/metal, and I really identified as a little metal chick. And then when I got older, I went back to that. But for this strange period in my life I listened to Britpop (or whatever you call it) a lot. I think it was because it was the music being played at the festivals and clubs and pubs I went to, which I think is where a lot of my good memories come from.

I have nothing by the Levellers up there. This makes me sad. How did I forget them?

[annwfyn]

It was totally my favourite song when it first came out. Like...bar none. I adored it. I think I still do.

I don't think that the Happy Mondays had hair that was any less silly! And they had Bez as well!

[lslaw]

I have no idea what I liked at seventeen. I have no idea when seventeen was, because my memory is a weird and highly fallible mishmash of events with moments of blinding, crystal clarity (mostly the humiliating ones). I certainly liked most of these songs... in fact, all but one (I don't know the Bluetone) are among my favourites of that era, which is not far off.

1994 I would have been seventeen. At that stage, it was probably ten-to-twenty year old guitar rock (a lot of Queen, Eric Clapton; basically my Dad's record collection, only not the newer stuff, which was way hipper than anything I listened to), the more accessible end of heavy metal (by way of the Friday Night Rock Show on Radio 1), the Beatles and Abba (Abba Gold, second CD I owned; the first was Tubular Bells 2). Also by way of the parents, a certain amount of folk rock, in particular Mary Black, Steeleye Span and the Rankin Family. The Levellers were also in there at some stage, although the folks weren't so into them.

[pmp]

I think my musical tastes at 17 was whatever was on Kerrang or Q at the time, as that was what was played in the 6th Form common room. From what I remember a mix of the RHCP, Blur, Oasis, Creed, Nickelback and a handful of others I've forgotten.

Only ones that have survived the test of time with me are RHCP, Creed and Nickelback. From your list I've only got Cranberries - Zombie, but that's entirely the fault of Singstar Rock.