pop music is IMPORTANT

[substitute]

via miss_geek, this pass-it-on-thing-not-meme: the ten bands that got me through high school. which were, roughly, those below. Please note that I'm not convinced I actually got through high school

Comments

[skepticle]

HAHAHHA!
Big hands I know you're the one!

[eris_devotee]

more like

9 9 9 for a lost God
and 10 10 Everything Everything...

[obnoxicant]

Funny, I'm about a quarter of a century younger than you and yet your list is almost identical to mine (although I'm still working on the whole getting through high school bit).

[frobisher]

Ironically, substitute and I are about the same age, and my list would look nothing like that.

Not that it's a bad list, but my big life rafts in high school were Quadrophenia and The Wall...

[kennfusion]

8 is the only one we share in common....but X, Devo, PIL, The Clash and Joy Division would probably be in my next 10. But I was still stuck in heavy 70's influence like Bowie and Zeppelin, but I also listened to a lot of The Police, Pretenders, Motels, etc. around 9th and 10th grade.

You know, I don't think I know a single Pere Ubu song.

[miss_geek]

clearly i have forgotten what 8 was for as well, because i left them off of my list and they were one of my favorite bands in high school. and the descendents too.

[gordonzola]

not a bad list at all. Personally mine would be:

1. The Clash

2. The Ramones

3. Gang of Four

4. Minutemen

5. Husker Du

6. Devo

7. X

9.Dead Kenendys

10. MDC

and definitely #8, maybe even mostly. The Descendents probably should be on there too, though I find it embarrassing now, but I don't know who I'd knock off. Actually, probably Gang of Four who, like Joy Division, I listened to, but didn't understand fully, until a couple of years later.