Talkin' bout YOUR generation...


Hello.

A lightweight thread here, folks. Just want to see where we are all coming from - YOUR generation, that is.

We all had a defining band growing up. In your formative years, who was that band??? The only rules are that you have to pick a band from the time when you were somewhere between the ages of 11 and 17, and they have had to be current at the time - still together and vibrant. For example, at age 34, I can't pick The Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, or The Who, even though I may have listened to them a great deal. As such, I doubt any of us will be able to choose Haydn or Vivaldi...

It would be that if CDs were in cars at the time, that would be blaring when you picked up your friends. It doesn't mean you have to still be listening to them today. Heck, you may even hate them now.

I think it will provide a little insight into our backgrounds and a special time of our lives. OK, so let's have some fun with this!

MY choice in my time period(1980 - 1986) would have to be Van Halen, and I don't even listen to them anymore
trelja
I was 11 in 1980. As far as I am concerned there are no defining bands from the 80s, and most albums recorded during that decade make my ears bleed.
But growing up in England in the 1970s for me Queen was the defining band.

Sometimes I wish I had been born 10 years earlier and lived through the 70s as a teenager.
I'm just going to have to propose a new "The Three B's":
Buddy Holly
The Byrds
Buffalo Springfield

and 3a: Bimi Hendrix